Film year 1949
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Events
- April 13th - The German Film Institute is founded.
- September 3 - World premiere of The Third Man (directed by Carol Reed ). In a vote by the British Film Institute in 1999, this production emerged as the best British film of the 20th century.
Film awards
Golden Globe Award
The Golden Globe will be awarded on March 16 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel:
- Best Drama: Silent Lips by Jean Negulesco and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre by John Huston
- Best Actor: Laurence Olivier in Hamlet
- Best Actress: Jane Wyman in Silent Lips
- Best Supporting Actor: Walter Huston in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- Best Supporting Actress: Ellen Corby in Mother's Secret
- Best Director: John Huston for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- Best Foreign Film: Hamlet by Laurence Olivier
Academy Awards
This year's Academy Awards will take place on March 24th at the AMPAS Theater in Los Angeles. The moderator is the actor Robert Montgomery .
- Best film: Hamlet by Laurence Olivier
- Best Actor: Laurence Olivier in Hamlet
- Best Actress: Jane Wyman in Silent Lips
- Best Director: John Huston for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- Best Supporting Actor: Walter Huston in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- Best Supporting Actress: Claire Trevor in Gangsters in Key Largo
- Best Screenplay: John Huston for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Complete list of award winners
Venice Film Festival
The Venice Festival takes place from August 11th to September 1st. The jury selects the following winners:
- Golden Lion : Manon by Henri-Georges Clouzot
- Best Actor: Joseph Cotten in Jenny - The Portrait of a Love
- Best Actress: Olivia de Havilland in The Snake Pit
Cannes International Film Festival 1949
The Cannes Festival runs from September 2nd to September 17th. The jury selects the following winners:
- Grand Prix of the festival: The Third Man by Carol Reed
- Best Actor: Edward G. Robinson in Enmity
- Best actress: Isa Miranda in Au-delà des grilles
- Best director: René Clément for Au-delà des grilles
New York Film Critics Circle Award
- Best film: The man who wanted to rule by Robert Rossen
- Best director: Carol Reed for Little Heart in Need
- Best Actor: Broderick Crawford in The Man Who Ruled
- Best Actress: Olivia de Havilland in The Heiress
- Best foreign film: Bicycle thieves by Vittorio De Sica
National Board of Review
- Best film: Bicycle thieves by Vittorio De Sica
- Best director: Vittorio De Sica for bicycle thieves
- Best Actor: Ralph Richardson in The Heiress and Little Heart in Need
- Best Actress: Prize not awarded this year
Further film prizes and awards
- Directors Guild of America Award : Joseph L. Mankiewicz for A Letter to Three Women , Rex Ingram (Lifetime Achievement)
- British Film Academy Award : Hamlet by Laurence Olivier
- Louis Delluc Prize : Young People Today by Jacques Becker
- Photoplay Award : The Stratton Story by Sam Wood (Best Picture), James Stewart (Most Popular Male Star), Jane Wyman (Most Popular Female Star)
- Writers Guild of America Award : Easter Walk (Best Musical), The Snake Pit (Best Drama), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Best Western), Belvedere Tidies Up (Best Comedy)
Birthdays
January to March
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January:
- January 6th: Rudolf van den Berg , Dutch director and screenwriter
- January 7th: Steven Williams , American actor
- January 12: Wayne Wang , American director
- January 14: Lawrence Kasdan , American director
- January 15: Götz Kauffmann , Austrian actor († 2010)
- January 24: John Belushi , American actor († 1982)
- January 25: Rainer Frieb , German actor († 2017)
- January 26: David Strathairn , American actor
- January 28th: Jean-Pierre Sinapi , French director
February:
- February 1: Peter Millowitsch , German actor
- February 2: Brent Spiner , American actor
- February 4: Michael Beck , American actor
- February 5th: Heidi Handorf , German film editor
- February 6: Jim Sheridan , Irish director
- February 8: Brooke Adams , American actress
- February 8: Niels Arestrup , French actor
- February 8: Irina Muravyova , Russian actress
- February 9: Judith Light , American actress
- February 13: Peter Kern , Austrian actor, director, producer, screenwriter and documentary filmmaker († 2015)
March:
- March 2: Gates McFadden , American actress
- March 12: Rob Cohen , American director
- March 12: Charles Levin , American actor († 2019)
- March 15: John Duttine , British actor
- March 16: Michael Aichhorn , Austrian actor († 2008)
- March 16: Erik Estrada , American actor
- March 16: Victor Garber , Canadian actor
- March 16: Joseph Pilato , American actor († 2019)
- March 17: Patrick Duffy , American actor
- March 18: John Garman Hertzler , American actor
- March 22nd: Fanny Ardant , French actress
April to June
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April:
- April 2: Pamela Reed , American actress
- April 5: Larry J. Franco , American producer and director
- April 8: John Madden , British director
- April 9: Rainer Klausmann , Swiss cameraman
- April 10: Gregory Nava , American film director, screenwriter, and film producer
- April 11: Bernd Eichinger , German producer, screenwriter and director († 2011)
- April 11: Carl Franklin , American actor and director
- April 14: John Shea , American actor
- April 20: Veronica Cartwright , British actress
- April 20: Jessica Lange , American actress
- April 21: Patti LuPone , American actress
- April 26: Dominic Sena , American director
- April 28: Paul Guilfoyle , American actor
- April 28: Bruno Kirby , American actor († 2006)
May:
- May 10: Paca Gabaldón , Spanish actress
- May 16: Karlheinz Hackl , Austrian actor († 2014)
- May 24th: Jim Broadbent , British actor
- May 24th: Roger Deakins , British cameraman
- May 26: Pam Grier , American actress
- May 26: Philip Michael Thomas , American actor
- May 30th: Peter Kahane , German director
- May 31: Tom Berenger , American actor
June:
- June 10: Frankie Faison , American actor
- June 13: Simon Callow , British actor
- June 14: Papa Wemba , Congolese actor and composer († 2016)
- June 15: Rick Rosenthal , American director
- June 16: Geoffrey Pierson , American actor
- June 19: John Duigan , Australian director
- June 22: Meryl Streep , American actress
- June 22nd: Lindsay Wagner , American actress
July to September
July:
- July 2nd: Hanno Pöschl , Austrian actor
- July 4th: Ed O'Ross , American actor
- July 7th: Shelley Duvall , American actress
- July 12: Pawel Lungin , Russian screenwriter and director
- July 21: Jon Davison , American producer
- July 27: Maury Chaykin , American-Canadian actor
- July 28: Randall Wallace , American screenwriter and director
- July 29: Leslie Easterbrook , American actress
August:
- August 6: Heinz Drewniok , German actor and director († 2011)
- August 8: Keith Carradine , American actor
- August 20: Patrick Kilpatrick , American actor
- August 21: Loretta Devine , American actress
- August 23: Shelley Long , American actress
- August 23: Jacques Weber , French actor
- August 24th: Pia Degermark , Swedish actress
- August 24: Joe Regalbuto , American actor
- August 25: John Savage , American actor
- August 25: Linde Prelog , Austrian actress
- August 27: Miles Goodman , American composer
- August 31: Richard Gere , American actor
September:
- September 3: Gilles Béhat , French director
- September 6: Rakesh Roshan , Indian director
- September 6: Tommy Lee Wallace , American director
- September 16: Ed Begley junior , American actor
- September 18: Beth Grant , American actress
- September 19: Sally Potter , British director
- September 19: Ernie Sabella , American actor
- September 20: Sabine Azéma , French actress
- September 20: Anthony John Denison , American actor
- September 25: Pedro Almodóvar , Spanish director and screenwriter
- September 27: Helmut Berger , Austrian actor
- September 30th: Ellen Parker , American actress
October to December
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October:
- October 3: Alexander Rogoschkin , Russian director
- October 4th: Armand Assante , American actor
- October 4: Stephen Gyllenhaal , American director and screenwriter
- October 5: Michael Brennicke , German actor and dialogue book author († 2019)
- October 7: Lawrence Lasker , American screenwriter and producer
- October 7: Gabriel Yared , Lebanese composer
- October 8: Sigourney Weaver , American actress
- October 9: Ottavia Piccolo , Italian actress
- October 10: Jessica Harper , American actress
- October 12: Richard Price , American screenwriter
- October 20: Craig R. Baxley , American director
- October 25: Brian Kerwin , American actor
- October 28: Aviva Joel , Israeli actress
November:
- November 1st: Jeannie Berlin , American actress and screenwriter
- November 5th: Armin Shimerman , American actor
- November 17: Jon Avnet , American director
- November 19: Nigel Bennett , Canadian-British actor
- November 28: Karen Montgomery , American actress and producer († 2015)
- November 29: Garry Shandling , American actor, producer and screenwriter († 2016)
December:
- December 4th: Jeff Bridges , American actor
- December 7th: Tom Waits , American musician and actor
- December 8: Nancy Meyers , American screenwriter and director
- December 11th: Teri Garr , American actress
- December 11: Boris Shcherbakov , Russian actor
- December 12th: Bill Nighy , British actor
- December 14: Lloyd Phillips , New Zealand producer († 2013)
- December 14th: Dee Wallace-Stone , American actress
- December 15: Don Johnson , American actor
- December 23: Shimon Dotan , Israeli director
- December 24: Ray Colcord , American composer († 2016)
- December 24th: Barbie Steinhaus , German actress
- December 25th: Sissy Spacek , American actress
- December 26th: Karola Hattop , German film and television director
- December 26th: Ira Newborn , American composer
Day unknown
- Robert Beavers , American filmmaker and director
deceased
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January to June
- January 6: Victor Fleming , American director (* 1889)
- January 20: Nora Gregor , Austrian actress (* 1901)
- February 1: Herbert Stothart , American composer (* 1885)
- February 11: Teddy Bill , Austrian actor (* 1900)
- March 10: Harry E. Edington , American producer (* 1888)
- March 10: Gherardo Gherardi , Italian screenwriter (* 1891)
- March 17: Felix Bressart , German actor (* 1892)
- March 30th: James Searle Dawley , American director (* 1877)
- April 15: Wallace Beery , American actor (* 1885)
- April 18: Will Hay , British actor (* 1888)
- April 22: Charles Middleton , American actor (* 1874)
- May: Carlo Alberto Felice , Italian journalist and director (* 1886)
- May 5: SO Schoening , German actor (* 1888)
- May 17: Béla Balázs , Hungarian screenwriter and film critic (* 1884)
- June 20: Fyodor Ozep , Russian director and screenwriter (* 1895)
July to December
- July 6th: Hans H. Zerlett , German director and screenwriter (* 1892)
- July 30th: Henrik Galeen , German director and screenwriter (* 1881)
- August 9: Harry Davenport , American actor (* 1866)
- August 12: Al Shean , German-American actor (* 1868)
- August 16: Margaret Mitchell , author of Gone With the Wind (1900)
- August 18: Reimar Kuntze , German cameraman (* 1902)
- September 8th: Anton Pointner , Austrian actor (* 1894)
- September 18: Frank Morgan , American actor (* 1890)
- September 20: Richard Dix , American actor (* 1893)
- September 22nd: Sam Wood , American director (* 1883)
- September 24th: Enrico Guazzoni , Italian director (* 1876)
- November 3: Olaf Fønss , Danish actor (* 1882)
- November 25: Bill Robinson , American tap dancer (* 1877)
- December 16: Sidney Olcott , American director (* 1873)
- December 25th: Leon Schlesinger , American producer (* 1884)
See also
Web links
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