Film year 1947
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Events
- April 16 - British Academy of Film and Television Arts founded
- October - Elia Kazan , Cheryl Crawford and Robert Lewis found the Actors Studio in New York .
Film awards
Golden Globe Award
On February 26th the Golden Globes were awarded at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel:
- Best Drama: The Best Years Of Our Lives, Director William Wyler
- Best Actor: Gregory Peck in The Wilderness Calls
- Best Actress: Rosalind Russell in Sister Kenny
- Best Supporting Actor: Clifton Webb in Razor's Edge
- Best Supporting Actress: Anne Baxter in Razor's Edge
- Best director: Frank Capra for Isn't life beautiful?
Academy Awards
The Academy Awards took place on March 13th at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles . Jack Benny was the moderator .
- Best Picture: The Best Years of Our Lives by Director William Wyler
- Best Actor: Fredric March in The Best Years Of Our Lives
- Best Actress: Olivia de Havilland in Mutterherz
- Best Director: William Wyler for The Best Years Of Our Lives
- Best Supporting Actor: Harold Russell in The Best Years Of Our Lives
- Best Supporting Actress: Anne Baxter in Razor's Edge
Complete list of award winners
Venice Film Festival
The festival took place from August 23rd to September 15th. The jury selected the following winners:
- Golden Lion: Siréna by the director Karel Steklý
- Best Actor: Pierre Fresnay for Monsieur Vincent
- Best Actress: Anna Magnani for L'Onorevole Angelina
- Best Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot for Under False Suspicion
Cannes International Film Festival
The Cannes festival took place from September 12th to September 25th. The jury selected the following winners:
- Best musical comedy: Ziegfeld Follies by the director Roy Del Ruth
- Best socially critical film: Crossfire by director Edward Dmytryk
- Best crime film: Les Maudits by director René Clément
New York Film Critics Circle Award
- Best film: Taboo of the Righteous by director Elia Kazan
- Best director: Elia Kazan for Boomerang and Taboo of the Righteous
- Best Actor: William Powell in Our Lives With Fathers and The Senator Was Indiscreet
- Best Actress: Deborah Kerr in The Black Narcissus and I See a Dark Stranger
- Best foreign film: Living in Peace by director Luigi Zampa
Further film prizes and awards
- Louis Delluc Prize : Paris 1900 by the director Nicole Vedrès
- National Board of Review : Monsieur Verdoux - The Woman Killer of Paris by Charles Chaplin (best film), Elia Kazan for Boomerang and Taboo of the Righteous (best director), Michael Redgrave in Mourning Becomes Electra (best leading actor), Celia Johnson in Wonderful Times ( Best main actress)
- Photoplay Award : The Jazz Singer by Alfred E. Green (Best Film), Bing Crosby (populärster male star), Ingrid Bergman (populärster female star)
Birthdays
January to March
January
- January 6th: Andréa Ferréol , French actress
- January 15: Andrea Martin , American actress
- January 17: Jim Cash , American screenwriter and university professor († 2000)
- January 17: Jane Elliot , American actress
- January 18: Takeshi Kitano , Japanese actor and director
- January 19: Elena Nathanael , Greek actress († 2008)
- January 21: Jill Eikenberry , American actress
- January 26: Patrick Dewaere , French actor († 1982)
- January 30th: Małgorzata Braunek , Polish actress († 2014)
- January 31: Jonathan Banks , American actor
February
- February 2: Farrah Fawcett , American actress († 2009)
- February 3: Stephen McHattie , Canadian actor
- February 3: Tonea Stewart , American actress
- February 5: Jenny Gröllmann , German actress († 2006)
- February 9: Dwight H. Little , American director
- February 18: José Luis Cuerda , Spanish director and screenwriter
- February 20: Henry Hübchen , German actor
- February 20: Peter Strauss , American actor
- February 24: Edward James Olmos , American actor
- February 26: Irina Gărdescu , Romanian actress
- February 27: Alan Fudge , American actor († 2011)
- February 28: Stephanie Beacham , British actress
March
- March 1: Hans-Christoph Blumenberg , German director and critic
- March 2nd: Søren Kragh-Jacobsen , Danish director
- March 4: Gunnar Hansen , Icelandic-American actor († 2015)
- March 6: Rob Reiner , American director
- March 7: Richard Lawson , American actor
- March 12: Ini Assmann , German actress († 2015)
- March 14: Billy Crystal , American actor
- March 14: Per Källberg , Swedish cameraman († 2014)
- March 18: Dieter Thomas , German cabaret artist and actor († 2016)
- March 19: Glenn Close , American actress
- March 21: Bernd Rumpf , German actor and voice actor († 2019)
- March 24th: Swetlana Toma , Moldovan-Russian actress
April to June
April
- April 3: Pat Proft , American screenwriter
- April 4: Luke Halpin , American actor
- April 6: John Ratzenberger , American actor
- April 8: Hou Hsiao-Hsien , Taiwanese director
- April 11: Uli Edel , German director
- April 11: Peter Riegert , American actor
- April 11: Meshach Taylor , American actor († 2014)
- April 12: Dan Lauria , American actor
- April 12: Wayne Northrop , American actor
- April 15: Lois Chiles , American actress
- April 18: Cindy Pickett , American actress
- April 18: Jerzy Stuhr , Polish actor and director
- April 18: James Woods , American actor
- April 19: Sandro Petraglia , Italian screenwriter
- April 23: Reinhard Schwabenitzky , Austrian director and screenwriter
- April 25: Jeffrey DeMunn , American actor
- April 26: Warren Clarke , British actor († 2014)
May
- May 2: Prashanta Nanda , Indian actor and director
- May 4: Richard Jenkins , American actor
- May 10: Marion Ramsey , American actress and singer
- May 14: Anne Wiazemsky , French actress († 2017)
- May 16: Bill Smitrovich , American actor
- May 18: Gail Strickland , American actress
- May 20: Sky du Mont , German actor
- May 21: Jonathan Hyde , British actor
- May 29: Anthony Geary , American actor
June
- June 1: Jonathan Pryce , British actor
- June 3rd: John Dykstra , American special effects artist
- June 5: David Hare , British playwright and screenwriter
- June 6: Robert Englund , American actor
- June 15: Lee Purcell , American actress
- June 16: Günther Kaufmann , German actor
- June 17: George S. Clinton , American composer
- June 18: Bernard Giraudeau , French actor
- June 18: Hanns Zischler , German actor
- June 20: Candy Clark , American actress
- June 21: Meredith Baxter , American actress
- June 21: Marie-Hélène Breillat , French actress
- June 21: Michael Gross , American actor
- June 23: Bryan Brown , Australian actor
- June 24: Peter Weller , American actor
- June 28th: Anny Duperey , French actress
- June 29: Richard Lewis , American actor and comedian
July to September
July
- July 3: Betty Buckley , American actress
- July 8: Kim Darby , American actress
- July 10: Dagmar Heller , German actress and voice actress († 2015)
- July 13: Martin Ferrero , American actor
- July 18: Helke Misselwitz , German director
- July 20: Camille Keaton , American actress
- July 22: Albert Brooks , American actor and screenwriter
- July 23: Mohan Agashe , Indian actor
- July 23: David Bordwell , American film scholar
- July 23: Larry Manetti , American actor
- July 24: Robert Hays , American actor
- July 30: William Atherton , American actor
- July 30th: Arnold Schwarzenegger , Austrian-American actor
- July 31: Richard Griffiths , British actor
August
- August 3: Francisco José Lombardi , Peruvian director
- August 5th: Angry Anderson , Australian rock singer and actor
- August 7: Jess Ingerslev , Danish actor, voice actor and musician († 2014)
- August 8: Nicolás Echevarría , Mexican director
- August 8: Lutz Riedel , German actor and voice actor
- August 8: Ben Sombogaart , Dutch director
- August 8: Larry Wilcox , American actor
- August 11: Stuart Gordon , American director and screenwriter († 2020)
- August 19: Gerald McRaney , American actor
- August 20: Ray Wise , American actor
- August 22: Cindy Williams , American actress
- August 25: Anne Archer , American actress
- August 25th: Filip Bajon , Polish director
- August 25: TS Cook , American screenwriter and producer († 2013)
- August 27: Barbara Bach , American actress
- August 27: Harry Reems , American porn actor († 2013)
- August 28: Alice Playten , American actress and singer († 2011)
- August 28: Debra Mooney , American actress
- August 29: Steffen Kuchenreuther , German producer († 2013)
September
- September 6: Jane Curtin , American actress
- September 14th: Sam Neill , Irish actor
- September 19: Janusz Zaorski , Polish director and screenwriter
- September 21: Stephen King , American writer
- September 23: Mary Kay Place , American actress
- September 25: Liz Torres , American actress
- September 27: Harry Baer , German actor
- September 27: Denis Lawson , American actor
October to December
October
- October 2: Dieter Pfaff , German actor († 2013)
- October 3: Cornelia Sharpe , American actress
- October 12: Michael Maien , German actor, pop singer, screenwriter and writer
- October 14: Lukas Resetarits , Austrian actor
- October 15: Jan Niklas , German actor
- October 16: David Zucker , American director
- October 17: Michael McKean , American actor
- October 18: Joe Morton , American actor
- October 19: Ildikó Bánsági , Hungarian actress
- October 24: Kevin Kline , American actor
- October 26: Jaclyn Smith , American actress
- October 29: Richard Dreyfuss , American actor
- October 29th: Coline Serreau , French director
- October 30: Herschel Weingrod , American screenwriter and producer
- October 31: John Cothran Jr. , American actor
November
- November 6: Edward Yang , Taiwanese director († 2007)
- November 9: Robert David Hall , American actor
- November 12th: Patrice Leconte , French director
- November 13: Joe Mantegna , American actor
- November 17: Steven E. de Souza , American screenwriter
- November 18: Jameson Parker , American actor
- November 24: Dwight Schultz , American actor
- November 25: Jonathan Kaplan , American director
- November 25: John Larroquette , American actor
- November 25: Tracey Walter , American actor
- November 30: Stuart Baird , American film editor and director
- November 30th: Jude Ciccolella , American actor
- November 30th: David Mamet , American screenwriter and director
December
- December 7th: James Keach , American actor and director
- December 8: Gregg Allman , American musician and actor († 2017)
- December 8: Francis Huster , French actor
- December 8: Memè Perlini , Italian actor, director and screenwriter († 2017)
- December 8: David Schmoeller , American director
- December 11th: Teri Garr , American actress
- December 12th: Wings Hauser , American actor
- December 13: Darlene Cates , American actress († 2017)
- December 16: Ben Cross , British actor († 2020)
- December 17th: Marilyn Hassett , American actress
- December 17: Wes Studi , American actor
- December 29th: Ted Danson , American actor
- December 30th: Sarah Kernochan , American screenwriter and director
- December 31: Tim Matheson , American actor
Day unknown
- Rolf Basedow , German screenwriter
deceased
January to June
- January 10: August Blom , Danish director (* 1869)
- January 26: Grace Moore , American singer and actress (* 1898)
- February 6: Max Gülstorff , German actor
- February 9: Jacques Montéran , French cameraman (* 1882)
- March 6: Ferdinand Zecca , French director (* 1864)
- March 7th: Ossi Oswalda , German actress (* 1898)
- March 8: Victor Potel , American actor (* 1889)
- May 31: Adrienne Ames , American actress (* 1907)
- June 24: Bartolomeo Pagano , Italian actor (* 1878)
July to December
- July 13: Carl Hoffmann , German cameraman and director (* 1885)
- July 15: Brandon Hurst , British actor (* 1866)
- September 21: Harry Carey senior , American actor (* 1878)
- October 1: Rotraut Richter , German actress (* 1915)
- October 6: Samuel Hoffenstein , American poet and screenwriter (* 1890)
- October 20: Leonard Smith , American cameraman (* 1894)
- November 30th: Ernst Lubitsch , German-American director (* 1892)
- December 12th: Harry Frank , German actor (* 1896)
- December 26: Urban Gad , Danish director (* 1879)
Day unknown
- Werner Scheff , German writer and screenwriter (* 1888)
See also
Web links
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