Film year 1979

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Film year 1979
The American actor John Wayne died on June 11, 1979 at the age of 72 after a long period of cancer .

Top 10 most successful films

In Germany

The ten most successful films at the German box office according to attendance (as of November 21, 2018):

space	Movie title	Visitors
1.	Louis' eerie encounter with the aliens	5,600,000
2.	The crocodile and his hippo	5,350,000
3.	James Bond 007 - Moonraker - Top Secret	5,300,000
4th	Superman	4,153,000
5.	The Tin Drum	3,918,901
6th	Apocalypse Now	3,366,675
7th	zombie	3,150,000
8th.	The big one with his extraterrestrial little one	3,100,000
9.	The greyhound	3,000,000
10.	A cage full of fools	2,650,000

Events

May 3rd: World premiere of Die Blechtrommel (Direction: Volker Schlöndorff ). The work, created as an international co-production, is the first German film to be awarded an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film

May 25: World premiere of Alien - The uncanny creature from a strange world (Director: Ridley Scott ). With Sigourney Weaver as Ripley , a woman made her breakthrough in the action genre for the first time .

The brothers Harvey Weinstein and Bob Weinstein found the film production company Miramax Films .

George Harrison founds the film production company HandMade Films to take over the film production of The Life of Brian .

The first Star Trek movie, Star Trek: The Movie , launches December 7th in the US

January - The winners of the BRAVO Otto readers' choice 1978 are presented:

Category - Male Movie Stars: Gold John Travolta , Silver Bud Spencer , Bronze Pierre Brice
Category - female film stars: gold Nastassja Kinski , silver Olivia Pascal , bronze Karen Lynn Corney

December - The winners of the BRAVO Otto readers' choice 1979 are presented:

Category - Male Movie Stars: Gold John Travolta, Silver Bud Spencer, Bronze Roger Moore
Category - female film stars: gold Olivia Pascal, silver Nastassja Kinski, bronze Elizabeth Taylor

Film awards

Golden Globe Award

The Golden Globe Awards will take place on January 27 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.

Best Drama: Midnight Express by Alan Parker
Best Musical / Comedy: Heaven Should Wait by Warren Beatty
Best Actor (Drama): Jon Voight in Coming Home
Best Actress (Drama): Jane Fonda in Coming Home
Best Actor (Musical / Comedy): Warren Beatty in Heaven Shall Wait
Best Actress (Musical / Comedy): Maggie Smith in California Suite and Ellen Burstyn in Same Time, Next Year
Best Supporting Actor: John Hurt in Midnight Express
Best Supporting Actress: Dyan Cannon in Heaven Should Wait
Best Director: Michael Cimino for Those Going Through Hell
Best music: Giorgio Moroder for Midnight Express
Cecil B. DeMille Award : Lucille Ball

Academy Awards

The Oscars will be held on April 9th at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles .

Best Picture: Those Going Through Hell by Barry Spikings ; Michael Deeley ; Michael Cimino ; John Peverall
Best Actor: Jon Voight in Coming Home
Best Actress: Jane Fonda in Coming Home
Best Director: Michael Cimino for Those Going Through Hell
Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Walken in Going Through Hell
Best Supporting Actress: Maggie Smith in The Mad California Hotel
Best camera: Néstor Almendros for In der Glut des Südens
Best production design: Paul Sylbert ; Edwin O'Donovan ; George Gaines for Heaven Should Wait
Best score: Giorgio Moroder for 12 noon - Midnight Express
Best foreign language film: Wife to be given away by Bertrand Blier ( France )
Honorary Oscar: Museum of Modern Art , Laurence Olivier , Walter Lantz , King Vidor

Complete list of award winners

International Cannes Film Festival 1979

The festival starts on May 10th and ends on May 24th. The jury under President Françoise Sagan awards the following prizes:

Golden Palm : The Tin Drum by Volker Schlöndorff and the Apocalypse Now by Francis Ford Coppola, which was still unfinished at the time

Best Actor: Jack Lemmon in The China Syndrome

Best Actress: Sally Field in Norma Rae - A woman looks after her husband

Best director: Terrence Malick for In der Glut des Südens

Berlin International Film Festival 1979

The festival starts on February 20th and ends on March 3rd. The jury under President Julie Christie awards the following prizes:

Golden Bear : David by Peter Lilienthal
Best Actor: Michele Placido in Ernesto
Best actress: Hanna Schygulla in Maria Braun's marriage
Best director: Astrid Henning-Jensen for winter children

German film award

Best film: The Tin Drum by Volker Schlöndorff
Best director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder for the marriage of Maria Braun and Werner Schroeter for Neapolitan stories
Best leading actress: Hanna Schygulla and Gisela Uhlen for The Marriage of Maria Braun
Best Actor: Klaus Kinski for Nosferatu - Phantom of the Night and Walter Taub for David

César

Best Film: The Others' Money by Christian de Chalonge
Best director: Christian de Chalonge for The Money of Others
Best Actor: Michel Serrault for A Cage Full of Fools
Best Actress: Romy Schneider for A Simple Story
Best Supporting Actor: Jacques Villeret for A Man Seeks a Woman
Best supporting actress: Stéphane Audran for Violette Nozière
Best Foreign Film: The Tree of Wooden Clogs by Ermanno Olmi

British Academy Film Award

Best film: Julia by Fred Zinnemann
Best Director: Alan Parker for 12 PM - Midnight Express
Best Actor: Richard Dreyfuss for The Subtenant
Best Actress: Jane Fonda for Julia
Best Supporting Actor: John Hurt for 12 PM - Midnight Express
Best Supporting Actress: Geraldine Page for Inner Life

New York Film Critics Circle Award

Best film: Kramer versus Kramer by Robert Benton
Best director: Woody Allen for Manhattan
Best Actor: Dustin Hoffman in Kramer vs. Kramer
Best Actress: Sally Field in Norma Rae - A woman looks after her husband
Best Supporting Actor: Melvyn Douglas in Welcome Mr. Chance
Best Supporting Actress: Meryl Streep in Kramer vs. Kramer and The Seduction of Joe Tynan
Best Foreign Film: The Tree of Wooden Clogs by Ermanno Olmi

National Board of Review

Best Picture: Manhattan by Woody Allen
Best director: John Schlesinger for Yanks - Yesterday we were still strangers
Best Actor: Peter Sellers in Welcome Mr. Chance
Best Actress: Sally Field in Norma Rae - A woman looks after her husband
Best Supporting Actor: Paul Dooley in Four Crazy Types - We Can All, Nobody Can
Best Supporting Actress: Meryl Streep in Kramer versus Kramer , Manhattan and The Seduction of Joe Tynan
Best Foreign Language Film: A Cage Full of Fools by Édouard Molinaro

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

Best film: Kramer versus Kramer by Robert Benton
Best director: Robert Benton for Kramer versus Kramer
Best Actor: Dustin Hoffman in Kramer vs. Kramer
Best Actress: Sally Field in Norma Rae - A woman looks after her husband
Best Supporting Actor: Melvyn Douglas in Welcome Mr. Chance and The Seduction of Joe Tynan
Best Supporting Actress: Meryl Streep in Kramer versus Kramer , Manhattan and The Seduction of Joe Tynan
Best Foreign Language Film: The Soldier of Orange by Paul Verhoeven
Life's work: John Huston

Further film prizes and awards

AFI Life Achievement Award : Alfred Hitchcock
Bodil : Honeymoon by Bille August
David di Donatello : Christ only came to Eboli , The Wooden Shoe Tree , Forget Venice (Best Italian Film) and Tree of Desires (Best Foreign Film)

German Critics' Prize : Frank Beyer

Directors Guild of America Award : Michael Cimino for Those Who Go Through Hell

Ernst Lubitsch Prize : Michael Günther and Elisabeth Bergner for The Whitsun excursion

Evening Standard British Film Award : Star Wars by George Lucas

Gilde Film Prize : Coming Home - You are returning home from Hal Ashby (gold foreign film), The lace maker from Claude Goretta (silver foreign film), Die lefthand Frau von Peter Handke (gold German film), knife in the head by Reinhard Hauff (silver German film)

Louis Delluc Prize : The King and the Bird by Paul Grimault

Nastro d'Argento : The wooden shoe tree by Ermanno Olmi and Herbstsonate by Ingmar Bergman

National Society of Film Critics Award : Wife to be given away by Bertrand Blier

People's Choice Award : Grease by Randal Kleiser (most popular musical film), I believe a horse kicks me by John Landis (most popular film), Burt Reynolds (most popular leading actor), Olivia Newton-John (most popular leading actress), Jerry Reed ( Most Popular Supporting Actor), Stockard Channing (Most Popular Supporting Actress)

German Film Critics' Prize : The End of the Rainbow by Uwe Friessner

Toronto International Film Festival : Best Boy by Ira Wohl (Audience Award)

World Film Festival : 1 + 1 = 3 by Heidi Genée (Grand Prix of the Americas)

Writers Guild of America Award : Coming Home (Best Original Screenplay, Drama), Movie Movie (Best Original Screenplay, Comedy), 12:00 PM - Midnight Express (Best Adapted Screenplay, Drama), Heaven Shall Wait (Best Adapted Screenplay , Comedy), Neil Simon (life's work)

Birthdays

Rachelle Lefèvre (born February 1)

Zhang Ziyi (born February 9)

Jennifer Love Hewitt (born February 21)

Manuel Rubey (born March 26)

January to March

January

0January 8: Sarah Polley , Canadian actress
0January 9: Joshua Harto , American actor
0January 9: Christopher Schärf , Austrian actor
January 10: Maximilian Brückner , German actor
January 18: David Lago , American actor
January 25: Christine Lakin , American actress
January 27: Rosamund Pike , British actress
January 28: Angelique Cabral , American actress
January 29: Andrew Keegan , American actor
January 29th: Francesco D'Macho , Italian porn actor

February

0February 1: Ana Alexander , Serbian-American actress and model
0February 1: Rachelle Lefèvre , Canadian actress
0February 2: Angelika Niedetzky , Austrian actress
0February 7: Cerina Vincent , American actress
0February 9: Zhang Ziyi , Chinese actress
February 11: Brandy Norwood , American actress and singer
February 13: Mena Suvari , American actress
February 14: Jocelyn Quivrin , French actor († 2009)
February 19: Caroline Chikezie , British actress
February 21: Jennifer Love Hewitt , American actress
February 21: Tobias Müller , German voice actor
February 27: Alba Rohrwacher , Italian actress

March

0March 5: Riki Lindhome , American actress
0March 8: Nick Zano , American actor
March 10: Bianca Lawson , American actress
March 14: Chris Klein , American actor
March 15: Pollyanna McIntosh , British actress
March 18: Danneel Harris , American actress
March 19: Christoph Kornschober , Austrian actor
March 20: Freema Agyeman , British actress
March 24: Lake Bell , American actress
March 25: Lee Pace , American actor
March 26: Manuel Rubey , Austrian actor
March 30: Jose Pablo Cantillo , American actor

April to June

Heath Ledger (born April 4)

Kate Hudson (born April 19)

Morena Baccarin (born June 2)

April

0April 2: Lindy Booth , Canadian actress
0April 4: Heath Ledger , Australian actor († 2008)
0April 4: Natasha Lyonne , American actress
0April 9: Ben Silverstone , British actor
April 12: Claire Danes , American actress
April 12: Jennifer Morrison , American actress
April 17th: Ken Duken , German actor
April 18: Peter Hümmeler , German director
April 19: Kate Hudson , American actress
April 21: James McAvoy , British actor
April 23: Jaime King , American actress
April 25: Giuseppe Andrews , American actor
April 26: Sara Downing , American actress

May

0May 5: Vincent Kartheiser , American actor
0May 9: Rosario Dawson , American actress
May 12: Aaron Yoo , American actor
May 14: Jamie Draven , British actor
May 20: Jana Pallaske , German actress
May 22: Maggie Q , American actress
May 23: Stacey Cadman , British actress
May 25: Corbin Allred , American actor
May 26: Elisabeth Harnois , American actress
May 28: Jesse Bradford , American actor
May 28: Monica Keena , American actress
May 30: Jenny Mollen , American actress

June

0June 1: Lynn Collins , American actress
0June 2nd: Morena Baccarin , Brazilian actress
0June 2: James Ransone , American actor
0June 7: Anna Torv , Australian actress
June 21: Chris Pratt , American actor
June 25th: Busy Philipps , American actress
June 27th: Antonio Wannek , German actor
June 28: Felicia Day , American actress
June 30: Rick Gonzalez , American actor

July to September

Ludivine Sagnier (born July 3)

Madeleine West (born July 26th)

Evangeline Lilly (born August 3)

July

0July 3: Elizabeth Hendrickson , American actress
0July 3rd: Ludivine Sagnier , French actress
0July 7th: Patricia Aulitzky , Austrian actress
July 14th: Rose Byrne , Australian actress
July 14th: Scott Porter , American actor
July 15: Laura Benanti , American actress
July 16: Jayma Mays , American actress
July 17: Mike Vogel , American actor
July 18: Zrinka Cvitešić , Croatian actress
July 24th: Moritz Grenzebach , German producer
July 26: Mageina Tovah , American actress
July 26: Madeleine West , Australian actress

August

0August 1: Jason Momoa , American actor
0August 2nd: Susanne Bormann , German actress
0August 3: Evangeline Lilly , Canadian actress
August 10: Joanna García , American actress
August 14: Sandra McCoy , American actress
August 23: Ben Braun , German actor
August 23: Friederike Kempter , German actress

September

0September 9: Nikki Deloach , American actress
September 11: Ariana Richards , American actress
September 11th: Cameron Richardson , American actress
September 15: Dave Annable , American actor
September 15: Amy Davidson , American actress
September 18: Alison Lohman , American actress
September 26: Mark Famiglietti , American actor
September 26: Susanne Wuest , Austrian actress

October to December

Marc Elliott (born October 19)

Olga Kurylenko (born November 14)

Jennifer Carpenter (born December 7th)

Noomi Rapace (born December 28)

October

0October 4th: Rachael Leigh Cook , American actress
0October 7th: Tang Wei , Chinese actress
0October 8: Kristanna Loken , American actress
0October 9: Brandon Routh , American actor
October 19: Marc Elliott , British actor
October 20: Nargis Fakhri , American actress and model
October 20: John Krasinski , American actor
October 20: Katharina Schüttler , German actress
October 25: Sarah Thompson , American actress
October 29th: Max Tsui , German cameraman
October 31: Lilian Klebow , German actress and singer

November

0November 5th: Heike Warmuth , German actress
November 12: Coté de Pablo , Chilean-American actress
November 14th: Mavie Hörbiger , German actress
November 14: Olga Kurylenko , Ukrainian actress
November 18: Nate Parker , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
November 23: Kelly Brook , British actress
November 23: Jonathan Sadowski , American actor
November 25: Jerry Ferrara , American actor
November 30th: Stephen Campbell Moore , British actor

December

0December 5: Nick Stahl , American actor
0December 7th: Jennifer Carpenter , American actress
December 11th: Rider Strong , American actor
December 15: Alex Solowitz , American actor
December 19: Kelly Adams , British actress
December 21: Colombe Jacobsen-Derstine , American actress
December 21: Tuva Novotny , Swedish actress
December 23: Ina Paule Klink , German actress
December 24th: Julia Stoepel , German actress and voice actress
December 28th: Noomi Rapace , Swedish actress
December 29th: Diego Luna , Mexican actor
December 30th: Kirill Pletnyov , Russian actor
December 31st: Elaine Cassidy , Irish actress
December 31: Agnieszka Grochowska , Polish actress