Film year 1929

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Film year 1929
The first Academy Awards will take place in Los Angeles on May 16 .

Events

The Selenophon Licht- und Tonbildgesellschaft is founded in Vienna and starts manufacturing sound film devices based on an optical sound system.
On January 17th, in the Tauentzienpalast in Berlin , a short audio recording will be performed for the first time in Germany in the film I kiss your hand, Madame , in which Harry Liedtke, previously known as a silent film star, will play the theme song. However, the singing reproduced synchronously with the film image comes from Richard Tauber . Marlene Dietrich appears in one of her early leading roles in the film.

August 23 : The first Austrian sound film, Stories from Styria , by director Hans Otto Löwenstein , whose sound film process (Ottoton) was also used, premieres in Graz .

Academy Awards

May 16 : The first Academy Award ceremony takes place.

The first Oscars are presented at a banquet at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles .

Best film: Sunrise - Song of Two People by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau and Wings by William A. Wellman
Best Actor: Emil Jannings for his performance in The Way of All Meat and His Last Command
Best Actress: Janet Gaynor in Luck in the Attic
Best director: Lewis Milestone for Two Arabian Nights and Frank Borzage for Das Glück in der Mansarde
Best Original Screenplay: Ben Hecht for Underworld
Honorary Oscar: Charlie Chaplin for The Circus and Warner Bros. for the realization of the first sound film, The Jazzsinger

Complete list of award winners

Further film prizes and awards

Photoplay Award : Disraeli by Alfred E. Green

Birthdays

Sergio Leone (born January 3)

Pierre Brice (born February 6)

Jerry Goldsmith (born February 10)

Richard Dysart (born March 30th)

Audrey Hepburn (born May 4th)

Harald Juhnke (born June 10th)

Eva Pflug (born June 12)

Bob Newhart (born September 5)

Liselotte Pulver (born October 11th)

Norbert Gastell (born October 14)

Grace Kelly (born November 12)

Ed Asner (born November 15)

Christopher Plummer (born December 13th)

January to March

January

0January 3: Sergio Leone , Italian director († 1989)
0January 5: Keith Hefner , American actor († 2016)
0January 7th: Terry Moore , American actress
0January 8: Saeed Jaffrey , Indian actor († 2015)
0January 9: Ulu Grosbard , American director († 2012)
January 14: Aleksandar Petrović , Yugoslav director († 1994)
January 21: Radley Metzger , American director, producer, screenwriter and distributor († 2017)
January 22nd: Max Peter Ammann , Swiss director
January 29: Elio Petri , Italian director († 1982)
January 31: Jean Simmons , British-American actress († 2010)

February

0February 2: Věra Chytilová , Czech director and screenwriter († 2014)
0February 6: Pierre Brice , French actor († 2015)
0February 8: Christian Marin , French actor († 2012)
0February 8: Claude Rich , French actor († 2017)
0February 9: Ursula Lingen , German-Austrian actress († 2014)
February 10: Jerry Goldsmith , American composer († 2004)
February 16: Kazimierz Kutz , Polish director († 2018)
February 17th: Patricia Routledge , British actress
February 20: Erich Hallhuber senior , German actor († 2015)
February 22: James Hong , American actor

March

0March 2: Jean-Marie Drot , French film editor and director († 2015)
0March 3: Hilton A. Green , American producer († 2013)
March 10: Alice Hirson , American actress
March 13: Peter Breck , American actor († 2012)
March 16: Nadja Tiller , Austrian actress
March 30th: Richard Dysart , American actor († 2015)

April to June

April

0April 1: Michael O'Herlihy , Irish director and producer († 1997)
0April 1: Jane Powell , American actress
0April 5: Nigel Hawthorne , British actor († 2001)
April 10: Hanns Lothar , German actor († 1967)
April 10: Liz Sheridan , American actress
April 11: Jack Betts , American actor
April 11th: Henri Garcin , French actor
April 14: Gerry Anderson , British director and producer († 2012)
April 17: Michael Forest , American actor
April 17th: Lissy Tempelhof , German actress († 2017)
April 28: Kurt Böwe , German actor († 2000)
April 30: Oliver Storz , German screenwriter, director and producer († 2011)
April 30: Klausjürgen Wussow , German actor († 2007)

May

0May 4th: Audrey Hepburn , British actress († 1993)
0May 5: John S. Ragin , American actor († 2013)
May 10: George Coe , American actor and producer († 2015)
May 13: Nicola Badalucco , Italian screenwriter († 2015)
May 23: Marvin J. Chomsky , American director
May 25: Ann Robinson , American actress
May 28: Werner Achmann , German production designer and film set designer († 2001)
May 28: Horst Frank , German actor († 1999)
May 31: Menahem Golan , Israeli director and producer († 2014)

June

0June 3: Billy Williams , British cameraman
0June 4: Günter Strack , German actor († 1999)
June 10: Harald Juhnke , German actor († 2005)
June 11: Josef Anton Riedl , German composer († 2016)
June 12: Alberto De Martino , Italian director and screenwriter († 2015)
June 12: Eva Pflug , German actress († 2008)
June 14th: Tonino Cervi , Italian director, producer and screenwriter († 2002)
June 15: Herschell Gordon Lewis , American filmmaker († 2016)
June 22nd: Rudolf Melichar , Austrian actor
June 23: Claude Goretta , Swiss director († 2019)
June 25: Luigi Bazzoni , Italian director and screenwriter († 2012)

July to September

July

0July 5: Katherine Helmond , American actress († 2019)
0July 8: Norma Eberhardt , American actress († 2011)
July 10: George Clayton Johnson , American screenwriter and actor († 2015)
July 11: David Kelly , Irish actor († 2012)
July 15: Günther Wedekind , German cameraman
July 16: Charles H. Joffe , American producer († 2008)
July 21: Anthony Steffen , Brazilian actor († 2004)
July 24th: Peter Yates , British director and producer († 2011)
July 31: Don Murray , American actor
July 31: Gilles Carle , Canadian filmmaker († 2009)

August

0August 2: Bernard L. Kowalski , American director († 2007)
0August 8: José Luis Borau , Spanish director († 2012)
August 10: Vincent McEveety , American director († 2018)
August 23: Vera Miles , American actress
August 31: Germaine Damar , Luxembourgish actress

September

0September 1: Anne Ramsey , American actress († 1988)
0September 2: Hal Ashby , American director († 1988)
0September 5: Bob Newhart , American actor
September 14: Hans Clarin , German actor († 2005)
September 19: Heiner Carow , German director († 1997)
September 20: Hans von Borsody , German actor († 2013)
September 20: Anne Meara , American actress († 2015)
September 25th: Wolfgang Glück , Austrian director
September 27: Sada Thompson , American actress († 2011)

October to December

October

0October 2: Moses Gunn , American actor († 1993)
0October 2: Robin Hardy , British director, screenwriter and novelist († 2016)
0October 4: Scotty Beckett , American actor († 1968)
0October 6: Bruno Cremer , French actor († 2010)
0October 9: Donn Cambern , American film editor
October 11: Liselotte Pulver , Swiss actress
October 14: Norbert Gastell , German actor and voice actor († 2015)
October 15: Witold Sobociński , Polish cameraman († 2018)
October 16: Fernanda Montenegro , Brazilian actress
October 20: Dieter Wieland , German actor († 1983)
October 21: Walter Hugo Khouri , Brazilian director, screenwriter and producer († 2003)
October 22: Giorgio Gaslini , Italian composer († 2014)
October 28: Joan Plowright , British actress
October 31: Bud Spencer , Italian actor († 2016)

November

0November 6: June Squibb , American actress
0November 7: Ruggero Mastroianni , Italian film editor († 1996)
November 12: Grace Kelly , American actress († 1982)
November 15: Edward Asner , American actor
November 21: Niall Tóibín , Irish actor († 2019)
November 26th: Slavko Avsenik , Slovenian composer († 2015)
November 27th: Peter Lilienthal , German director

December

0December 6th: Alain Tanner , Swiss director
0December 8: Klara Rumjanowa , Russian actress († 2004)
0December 9: John Cassavetes , American actor and director († 1989)
December 12: Zaharira Harifai , Israeli actress († 2013)
December 13: Christopher Plummer , Canadian actor
December 25th: Jerzy Antczak , Polish director
December 26th: Kathleen Crowley , American actress († 2017)
December 30th: Barbara Nichols , American actress († 1976)

deceased

0May 2: Segundo de Chomón , Spanish film pioneer (* 1871)
0June 8: Vladimir Vogel , Russian actor (* 1902)
0July 4th: Hans Werckmeister , German director (* 1879)
0September 2: Paul Leni , German director (* 1885)
0October 3: Jeanne Eagels , American actress (* 1890)
December 17: Ted Wilde , American director (* 1889)

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