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Film year 1962
The publication of the Oberhausen Manifesto marked the birth of “ Young German Films ” and thus also the beginning of the socio-political trend reversal in West German film culture after the Second World War .

Events

February 28: The publication of the Oberhausen Manifesto marks the birth of the “ Young German Film ” and thus also the beginning of the socio-political trend reversal in German film culture after the Second World War.
The first James Bond film Dr. No starts in English cinemas on October 5 and in German cinemas on January 25, 1963.
On June 8th, Marilyn Monroe will be released from the production of Something's Got to Give without notice.
With Der Schatz im Silbersee , the first Karl May film produced by Rialto Film will hit cinemas on December 12th . The music for this film by the German composer Martin Böttcher was formative for the other Karl May films.

Winner of the BRAVO Otto readers' choice 1962:

Category - Male Movie Star: Gold OW Fischer , Silver Rock Hudson , Bronze Anthony Perkins
Category - female film star: Gold Ruth Leuwerik , Silver Christine Kaufmann , Bronze Sophia Loren

Film awards

Golden Globe Award

The Golden Globe Awards will take place on March 5th at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

Best Drama: The Guns of Navarone by J. Lee Thompson
Best Musical: West Side Story by Robert Wise
Best Comedy: A Majority of One by Mervyn LeRoy
Best actor (drama): Maximilian Schell in The Judgment of Nuremberg
Best Actress (Drama): Geraldine Page in Summer and Smoke
Best Actor (Musical / Comedy): Glenn Ford in The Lower Ten Thousand
Best Actress (Musical / Comedy): Rosalind Russell in A Majority of One
Best Supporting Actor: George Chakiris in West Side Story
Best Supporting Actress: Rita Moreno in West Side Story
Best director: Stanley Kramer for The Judgment of Nuremberg
Cecil B. DeMille Award : Judy Garland

Academy Awards

The Academy Awards will be held on April 9th at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica . The moderator is Bob Hope .

Best Film: West Side Story by Robert Wise
Best Actor: Maximilian Schell in The Judgment of Nuremberg
Best Actress: Sophia Loren in And Yet They Live
Best Director: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins for West Side Story
Best Supporting Actor: George Chakiris in West Side Story
Best Supporting Actress: Rita Moreno in West Side Story
Best Song: Henry Mancini for Moon River in Breakfast at Tiffany's
Best music: Henry Mancini for breakfast at Tiffany's
Best foreign language film: As in a mirror by Ingmar Bergman
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award : Stanley Kramer

Complete list of award winners

Cannes International Film Festival 1962

The Cannes festival runs from May 7th to May 23rd.

Golden Palm : Fifty Steps to Justice by Anselmo Duarte
Best Actor: Dean Stockwell , Jason Robards, and Ralph Richardson in Long Day's Journey Into Night, and Murray Melvin in Bitter Honey
Best Actress: Katharine Hepburn in Long Day's Journey Into Night and Rita Tushingham in Bitter Honey

Berlin International Film Festival 1962

The festival in Berlin takes place from June 22nd to July 3rd. The jury under President King Vidor selects the following winners:

Golden Bear : Just a Touch of Bliss from John Schlesinger
Best Actor: James Stewart in Mr. Hobbs Vacation
Best Actress: Rita Gam and Viveca Lindfors in No Exit
Best Supporting Actor: Pierre Brice in Los Atracadores
Best director: Francesco Rosi for Who shot Salvatore G.?

Venice Film Festival

The Venice Festival runs from August 25th to September 8th.

Golden Lion : Diary of a Sinner by Valerio Zurlini and Ivan's Childhood by Andrej Tarkowski
Best Actor: Burt Lancaster in The Prisoner of Alcatraz
Best actress: Emmanuelle Riva in Thérèse Desqueyroux

German film award

Best film: The bread of the early years
Best leading actress: Vera Chekhova for The Bread of the Early Years
Best Actor: Richard Münch for The Miracle of Malachias
Best supporting actor: Walter Giller for two in a million

Laurel Award

Best Action Drama: El Cid by Anthony Mann

Best Actor: John Wayne in The Comancheros

Best Drama: The Guns of Navarone by J. Lee Thompson

Best Actor in a Drama : Paul Newman in Sharks of the City

Best Dramatic Actress: Shirley MacLaine in Infam

Best Comedy: Pajamas for Two by Delbert Mann

Best Actor in a Comedy: Bob Hope in Bachelor in Paradise
Best Comedian Actress: Doris Day in Pajamas for Two

Best Musical: West Side Story by Robert Wise

Best Entertainment Film: Her Parents' Wedding Announce by David Swift

Further film prizes and awards

Astor de Oro : I Giorni Contati by Elio Petri
Directors Guild of America Award : Robert Wise for West Side Story
Ernst Lubitsch Prize : Gustav Knuth for The Liar
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival : Nine Days of a Year by Mikhail Romm
Louis Delluc Prize : Immortals by Alain Robbe-Grillet and On Free Feet by Pierre Étaix
Nastro d'Argento : The Night by Michelangelo Antonioni and The Judgment of Nuremberg by Stanley Kramer
Photoplay Award : Light in the Dark by Arthur Penn , Richard Chamberlain (most popular male star), Bette Davis (most popular female star)
Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia-San Sebastián : Island of Forbidden Love by Damiano Damiani (Golden Shell)
Writers Guild of America Award : West Side Story (Best Musical), Haie der Großstadt (Best Drama), Breakfast at Tiffany's (Best Comedy), Philip Dunne (Lifetime Achievement)

Birthdays

January to March

Jim Carrey (born January 17th)

Jennifer Jason Leigh (born February 5)

Josef Hader (born February 14)

Matthew Broderick (born March 21)

January

0January 1: Carlos Gómez , American actor
0January 5th: Suzy Amis , American actress
January 15: Margherita Buy , Italian actress
January 17: Jim Carrey , Canadian actor
January 19: Conrad Goode , American actor
January 21: Peter Lohmeyer , German actor
January 21: Marie Trintignant , French actress
January 22nd: Choi Min-sik , Korean actor
January 22nd: Eric Schaeffer , American actor and director
January 23: David Arnold , British composer
January 23: Richard Roxburgh , Australian actor
January 24th: Edward Atterton , British actor
January 24th: Uwe Bohm , German actor
January 25: Don Mancini , American screenwriter
January 28: Tyra Ferrell , American actress
January 30th: Michou Friesz , Austrian actress

February

0February 5: Jennifer Jason Leigh , American actress
February 13: Heikko Deutschmann , Austrian actor
February 14th: Angela Schanelec , German director
February 14th: Josef Hader , Austrian cabaret artist, actor, author and film director
February 15: Kurt McKinney , American actor
February 16: Alexa Kenin , American actress
February 17: Lou Diamond Phillips , American actor
February 18: Julie Strain , American actress
February 22: Ethan Wayne , American actor
February 24th: Outi Mänenpää , Finnish actress
February 27: Adam Baldwin , American actor
February 27: Grant Show , American actor

March

0March 4th: Miriam Díaz Aroca , Spanish actress
0March 5th: Simon Abkarian , French actor
0March 8: Leon Robinson , American actor
March 11: Jeffrey Nordling , American actor
March 17: Mark Pellington , American director
March 20: Stephen Sommers , American director and screenwriter
March 21: Matthew Broderick , American actor
March 21: Rosie O'Donnell , American actress
March 22nd: Katarzyna Figura , Polish actress
March 23: Günther Paal , Austrian actor
March 25: Marcia Cross , American actress
March 26th: Marion von Stengel , German actress and voice actress

April to June

Tony Leung Chiu Wai (born June 27)

April

0April 3: Jennifer Rubin , American actress
0April 9th: Isabel Coixet , Spanish director and screenwriter
April 10: Mark Livolsi , American film editor († 2018)
April 11: Karen Friesicke , German actress († 2015)
April 11: Vincent Gallo , American actor and director
April 15: Alex Veadov , American actor
April 23: John Hannah , British actor
April 27: James LeGros , American actor

May

0May 1st: Maia Morgenstern , Romanian actress
0May 2: Elizabeth Berridge , American actress
0May 2: Tamara Jenkins , American director and screenwriter
0May 7th: Dominik Moll , French director
May 10: David Fincher , American director
May 12: Emilio Estevez , American actor
May 12: April Grace , American actress
May 15: Rod Lurie , American director
May 18: Nathaniel Parker , British actor
May 18: Karel Roden , Czech actor
May 25: Jacob Thuesen , Danish film editor and director
May 27: Steven Brill , American director and actor
May 28: Andrei Panin , Russian actor and director († 2013)
May 31: Sebastian Koch , German actor

June

0June 6: Alex Datcher , American actress
June 10: Gina Gershon , American actress
June 10: Carolyn Hennesy , American actress
June 10: Tzi Ma , American actor
June 10: Chris Penn , American actor († 2006)
June 10: Vincent Perez , Swiss actor and director
June 10: Harald Siepermann , German animation animator († 2013)
June 13: Cezary Pazura , Polish actor
June 13: Ally Sheedy , American actress
June 14: Kim Lankford , American actress
June 16: Arnold Vosloo , South African-American actor
June 22nd: Stephen Chow , Chinese director and actor
June 22: Nicholas Lea , Canadian actor
June 22nd: Joie Lee , American actress
June 23: Kevin Yagher , American special effects artist
June 26: Ismaël Ferroukhi , French-Moroccan director
June 27: Tony Leung Chiu Wai , Chinese actor
June 28: Luc Feit , Luxembourg actor
June 29: Amanda Donohoe , British actress

July to September

Tom Cruise (born July 3)

Wesley Snipes (born July 31)

Michelle Yeoh (born August 6)

July

0July 1: Andre Braugher , American actor
0July 3: Tom Cruise , American actor
0July 3: Thomas Gibson , American actor
0July 6: Peter Hedges , American screenwriter
0July 7: Akiva Goldsman , American screenwriter
0July 8: Rocky Carroll , American actor
July 17: Bill Sage , American actor
July 18: Lee Arenberg , American actor
July 19: Anthony Edwards , American actor
July 23: Eriq La Salle , American actor
July 31: Wesley Snipes , American actor

August

0August 6: Michelle Yeoh , Malaysian actress
0August 7th: Johan Kling , Swedish director and screenwriter
August 13: John Slattery , American actor
August 15: David Zayas , American actor
August 16: Steve Carell , American actor
August 18: Stephen Endelman , British composer
August 18: Claudio Maniscalco , German singer and actor
August 18: Adam Storke , American actor
August 18: Irina von Bentheim , German actress and voice actress
August 19: Valérie Kaprisky , French actress
August 20: Ravil Isyanov , Russian actor
August 20: James Marsters , American actor
August 25: Victor Löw , Dutch actor
August 27: Dean Devlin , American producer
August 28: David Fincher , American director and producer
August 29: Rebecca De Mornay , American actress

September

0September 7th: Cliff Simon , South African actor
0September 8th: Thomas Kretschmann , German actor
September 11: Kristy McNichol , American actress
September 12th: Mary Kay Adams , American actress
September 12: Michel Qissi , American actor
September 12: Amy Yasbeck , American actress
September 15: Rebecca Miller , American director and writer
September 17: Paul Feig , American actor and director
September 17th: Baz Luhrmann , Australian director
September 17: Dustin Nguyen , American actor
September 21: Rob Morrow , American actor
September 24: Nia Vardalos , Canadian actress
September 25: Beth Toussaint , American actress
September 25: Aida Turturro , American actress
September 26: Melissa Sue Anderson , Canadian-American actress
September 28th: Sam Miller , British director

October to December

Jodie Foster (born November 19)

Ralph Fiennes (born December 22)

October

October 11: Joan Cusack , American actress
October 13: Kelly Preston , American actress
October 14: Michael Althen , German film critic († 2011)
October 18: Vincent Spano , American actor and film director
October 20: David M. Evans , American screenwriter and director
October 26: Cary Elwes , British actor
October 28: Daphne Zuniga , American actress

November

0November 7th: Dirk Shafer , American actor, director and screenwriter († 2015)
0November 9: Teryl Rothery , Canadian actress
November 11: Demi Moore , American actress
November 14th: Laura San Giacomo , American actress
November 18: Tim Guinee , American actor
November 19: Jodie Foster , American actress
November 29: Andrew McCarthy , American actor
November 30th: Daniel Myrick , American director and screenwriter
November 30th: Daniel Waters , American screenwriter and director

December

0December 1st: Detlev Buck , German director
0December 2nd: Filip Peeters , Belgian actor
0December 6th: Janine Turner , American actress
0December 9: Felicity Huffman , American actress
December 10: Charles Matthau , American actor and director
December 16: Maruschka Detmers , Dutch actress
December 20: Thomas Engel , German actor
December 22nd: Ralph Fiennes , British actor

Day unknown

Pedro Hestnes , Portuguese actor († 2011)
Johnny Klimek , Australian musician and composer
Helmfried Kober , German cameraman
Sırrı Süreyya Önder , Turkish director and actor

deceased

Xenia Desni († June 27)

Erna Morena († July 20)

Marilyn Monroe († August 5)

Charles Laughton († December 15)

January to June

0January 5: Kurt Schröder , German conductor and composer (* 1888)
0January 6th: Robert Herlth , German production designer (* 1893)
January 12th: Alfred Stöger , Austrian actor, director and producer (* 1900)
January 13: Ernie Kovacs , American actor (* 1919)
January 19: Snub Pollard , Australian actor (* 1889)
January 20: Ekkehard Kyrath , German cameraman (* 1909)

0February 1: Carey Wilson , American screenwriter and film producer (* 1889)
February 10: John J. Mescall , American cameraman (* 1899)
February 28: Chic Johnson , American actor (* 1891)

March 10: William Wauer , German director (* 1866)
March 27: James Basevi , American production designer and film technician (* 1890)

April 11th: Michael Curtiz , Hungarian-American director (* 1888)
April 17: Louise Fazenda , American actress (* 1895)

May 12: Walter Scherau , German folk actor (* 1903)

June 17: Conrad Salinger , American composer and arranger (* 1901)
June 19: Frank Borzage , American director (* 1893)
June 24: Lucile Watson , American actress (* 1879)
June 27: Xenia Desni , Russian actress (* 1897)

July to December

0July 6: William Faulkner , American writer (* 1897)
July 20: Erna Morena , German actress (* 1885)

0August 5: Marilyn Monroe , American actress (* 1926)
August 10: Willy Schaeffers , German actor (* 1884)
August 10: Franz Weber , German actor (* 1888)
August 18: Axel Monjé , German actor and voice actor (* 1910)
August 19: Robert Bürkner , German actor, director and author (* 1887)

0September 1: Florence Lee , American actress (* 1888)

October 18: Iván Petrovich , Serbian-German actor (* 1894)

0November 8: Willis O'Brien , American trick technician (* 1886)
November 15: Ralph Dawson , American film editor (* 1897)
November 18: Georg C. Klaren , Austrian screenwriter and director (* 1900)

0December 7th: Ernst Werndl , Austrian film technology pioneer (* 1886)
December 14th: Tito Vuolo , American actor (* 1893)
December 15: Charles Laughton , British actor (* 1899)
December 17: Robert M. Haas , American film architect (* 1889)
December 17: Thomas Mitchell , American actor (* 1892)

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