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Film year 1953
Lilli Palmer was named best actress at the Venice Film Festival in 1953. Photograph by Toni Frissell , 1950

Film awards

Golden Globe Award

The Golden Globe will be presented on February 26 at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles .

• Best drama: The greatest show in the world by Cecil B. DeMille
• Best musical: With a song in the heart of Walter Lang
• Best Actor (Drama): Gary Cooper at twelve noon
• Best Actress (Drama): Shirley Booth in Come Back Little Sheba
• Best Actor (Musical / Comedy): Donald O'Connor in Singin 'in the Rain
• Best Actress (Musical / Comedy): Susan Hayward in With a Song in My Heart
• Best Supporting Actor: Millard Mitchell in My Six Convicts
• Best Supporting Actress: Katy Jurado at twelve noon
• Best Director: Cecil B. DeMille for The World's Greatest Show
• Cecil B. DeMille Award : Walt Disney

Academy Awards

The Oscars will be held on March 19 at the RKO Pantages Theater in Los Angeles. The moderator is Bob Hope .

• Best film: The greatest show in the world by Cecil B. DeMille
• Best Actor: Gary Cooper at twelve noon
• Best Actress: Shirley Booth in Come Back Little Sheba
• Best Director: John Ford for The Winner
• Best Supporting Actor: Anthony Quinn in Viva Zapata!
• Best Supporting Actress: Gloria Grahame in City of Illusions
• Best black and white camera: Robert Surtees for City of Illusions
• Best song: Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington for Do not forsake me, oh my darling from twelve noon
• Best music: Dimitri Tiomkin for twelve noon
• Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award : Cecil B. DeMille

Complete list of award winners

Venice Film Festival

The festival takes place from August 20th to September 4th. The jury does not award a Golden Lion and the following prizes:

• Best Actor: Henri Vilbert in Le bon Dieu sans confession
• Best Actress: Lilli Palmer in The Four Poster Bed

Cannes International Film Festival 1953

The Cannes festival runs from April 15th to April 29th. Jean Cocteau is the President of the Jury, which awards the following prizes:

• Grand Jury Prize: Reward for Fear by Henri-Georges Clouzot
• Best drama: Come back, little Sheba by Daniel Mann
• Best adventure film: O Cangaceiro by Lima Barreto
• Best entertainment film: Lili by Charles Walters

German film award

• Best film: On the streets at night
• Best director: Rudolf Jugert (At night on the streets)

British Film Academy Award

• Best Picture: The unknown enemy of David Lean
• British Actor: Ralph Richardson for The Unknown Enemy
• Best Foreign Actor: Marlon Brando for Viva Zapata!
• Best British Actress: Vivien Leigh for Endstation Sehnsucht
• Best foreign actress: Simone Signoret for Goldhelm

New York Film Critics Circle Award

• Best film: Damned in all eternity by Fred Zinnemann
• Best director: Fred Zinnemann for Damn in All Eternity
• Best Actor: Burt Lancaster in Forever Forever
• Best Actress: Audrey Hepburn in A Heart and a Crown
• Best Foreign Film: Circuit Court of André Cayatte

National Board of Review

• Best film: Julius Caesar by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
• Best Director: George Stevens for My Great Friend Shane
• Best Actor: James Mason in Julius Caesar , The Desert Rats , Dangerous Vacation and Face to Face
• Best Actress: Jean Simmons in The Robe , Theater Fever and The Heir apparent
• Best Foreign Film: A Queen is crowned by the Castleton Knight

Further film prizes and awards

• Directors Guild of America Award : John Ford for The Winner , Cecil B. DeMille (Lifetime Achievement)
• Louis Delluc Prize : The Holidays of Monsieur Hulot by Jacques Tati
• Photoplay Award : Damn in All Eternity by Fred Zinnemann (Best Film), Alan Ladd (Most Popular Male Star), Marilyn Monroe (Most Popular Female Star)
• Writers Guild of America Award : Singin 'in the Rain (Best Musical), Twelve Noon (Best Drama), Der Sieger (Best Comedy)

Birthdays

January to March

Mary Steenburgen (born February 8)

Ciarán Hinds (born February 9)

Paul Haggis (born March 10th)

Isabelle Huppert (born March 16)

January

• 0January 1: Roland Mesmer , German producer († 2015)
• 0January 1: Mary Sweeney , American film editor and producer
• January 12th: Mary Harron , American director
• January 14th: Wolfgang Böck , Austrian actor
• January 22nd: Jim Jarmusch , American director
• January 28: Richard Anconina , French actor
• January 30th: Steven Zaillian , American screenwriter and director

February

• 0February 4th: Udayan Prasad , British director
• 0February 8: Mary Steenburgen , American actress
• 0February 9: Ciarán Hinds , Irish actor
• February 12: Jan Kidawa-Błoński , Polish director and producer
• February 17th: Alar Kivilo , Canadian cameraman
• February 21: Christine Ebersole , American actress
• February 21: William Petersen , American actor
• February 22nd: Gary Chang , American composer
• February 24: rosalie , German costume and production designer († 2017)
• February 27: Yolande Moreau , Belgian comedian and actress

March

• 0March 2nd: Lucio Gaudino , Italian director and screenwriter
• 0March 4th: Kay Lenz , American actress
• 0March 5th: Marcelo Piñeyro , Argentine director, screenwriter and producer
• 0March 9: Anna Henkel-Grönemeyer , German actress († 1998)
• March 10: Paul Haggis , Canadian director, screenwriter, and producer
• March 13: Deborah Raffin , American actress († 2012)
• March 16: Isabelle Huppert , French actress
• March 25: Mary Gross , American actress

April to June

Pierce Brosnan (born May 16)

Ulrich Mühe (born June 20)

April

• 0April 1: Barry Sonnenfeld , American director and producer
• 0April 2: Krzysztof Krauze , Polish director and screenwriter († 2014)
• April 10: Heiner Lauterbach , German actor
• April 11: Udo Schenk , German actor and voice actor
• April 11th: Amy Van Nostrand , American actress
• April 18: Rick Moranis , Canadian actor
• April 23: James Russo , American actor
• April 24: Eric Bogosian , American actor
• April 27: Arielle Dombasle , French actress
• April 29: Jan AP Kaczmarek , Polish composer

May

• 0May 1st: Joanna Szczepkowska , Polish actress
• 0May 5: Don E. FauntLeRoy , American cinematographer and director
• 0May 6: Lynn Whitfield , American actress
• 0May 7: Joshua Sinclair , American director
• May 11th: Kiti Manver , Spanish actress
• May 15: Cleavant Derricks , American actor
• May 16: Pierce Brosnan , Irish actor
• May 17th: Gérard Krawczyk , French director
• May 24th: Alfred Molina , British actor
• May 30th: Colm Meaney , Irish actor

June

• 0June 1: Joseph Merhi , director and producer
• 0June 3: John Moulder-Brown , British actor
• 0June 5: Kathleen Kennedy , American producer
• 0June 7th: Colleen Camp , American actress
• June 13: Tim Allen , American actor
• June 14th: Hanna Laslo , Israeli cabaret artist, comedian and actress
• June 16: Valerie Mahaffey , American actress
• June 19: Ken Davitian , American actor
• June 20: Ulrich Mühe , German actor († 2007)
• June 23: Russell Mulcahy , Australian director
• June 25: Udo Samel , German actor
• June 26: Robert Davi , American actor

July to September

Nanni Moretti (born August 19)

July

• 0July 1: David Gulpilil , Australian actor
• 0July 1st: Peter Faerber , Austrian actor and voice actor
• 0July 8: Zachi Noy , Israeli actor
• July 22: Sylvia Chang , Taiwanese actress and director
• July 23: Gavin Bocquet , British production designer
• July 23: Michael Kind , German actor
• July 29th: Ken Burns , American documentary filmmaker
• July 31: Trond Brænne , Norwegian actor († 2013)
• July 31: James Read , American actor

August

• 0August 2: Butch Patrick , American actor
• August 14: Tom DiCillo , American cameraman and director
• August 14: James Horner , American composer
• August 16: Kathie Lee Gifford , American actress and presenter
• August 18: Sergio Castellitto , Italian actor and director
• August 19: Nanni Moretti , Italian director, producer and actor
• August 20: Peter Horton , American actor
• August 27: Peter Stormare , Swedish actor

September

• 0September 3: Jean-Pierre Jeunet , French director
• 0September 6: Anne Lockhart , American actress
• September 10: Amy Irving , American actress
• September 11th: Jenny Gago , American actress
• September 13: Taryn Power , American actress († 2020)
• September 16: Kurt Fuller , American actor
• September 18: Anna Levine , American actress
• September 19: Grażyna Szapołowska , Polish actress
• September 22nd: Eckhard Heise , German actor
• September 29: Jean-Claude Lauzon , Canadian director († 1997)

October to December

Kim Basinger (born December 8th)

John Malkovich (born December 9)

October

• 0October 4th: Tchéky Karyo , French actor
• 0October 9: Tony Shalhoub , American actor
• October 11: David Morse , American actor
• October 14: Greg Evigan , American actor
• October 15: Larry Miller , American actor
• October 20: Bill Nunn , American actor
• October 21: Eleonora Giorgi , Italian actress
• October 26: Maureen Teefy , American actress
• October 27: Peter Firth , British actor
• October 27: Robert Picardo , American actor
• October 29: Chris Lebenzon , American film editor
• October 30: Charles Martin Smith , American actor

November

• 0November 3: Kate Capshaw , American actress
• 0November 3: Rebecca Gilling , Australian actress
• 0November 3: Dennis Miller , American actor
• 0November 6: Ron Underwood , American director
• 0November 8: John Musker , American cartoon director
• November 13: Frances Conroy , American actress
• November 13: Tracy Scoggins , American actress
• November 14th: Ludwig Dornauer , Austrian actor
• November 18: Kevin Nealon , American actor
• November 19: Robert Beltran , American actor
• November 23: Waldemar Krzystek , Polish director and screenwriter
• November 24: Glenn Withrow , American actor
• November 25: James Hayden , American actor († 1983)
• November 26th: Giuliana Gamba , Italian director
• November 26: Julien Temple , British director
• November 27th: Karl Ferdinand Kratzl , Austrian actor
• November 29: Christine Pascal , French actress († 1996)
• November 30th: Steve James , American director

December

• 0December 3: Robert Guédiguian , French director
• 0December 6th: Gina Hecht , American actress
• 0December 6: Tom Hulce , American actor
• 0December 8: Kim Basinger , American actress
• 0December 9: John Malkovich , American actor
• December 11th: Bess Armstrong , American actress
• December 17th: Sally Menke , American film editor († 2010)
• December 17: Bill Pullman , American actor
• December 22nd: Gregor Fisher , British actor
• December 24th: Timothy Carhart , American actor
• December 28: James Foley , American director
• December 31: Jane Badler , American actress
• December 31: James Remar , American actor

deceased

Alice Prin († April 29)

January to June

• January 11: Gordon Jennings , American cameraman (* 1896)
• January 30th: Lionel Belmore , British actor

• 0February 2: Alan Curtis , American actor (* 1909)
• 0February 9: Cecil Hepworth , British director (* 1874)
• February 12: Carl Froelich , German director (* 1875)

• 0March 5: Herman J. Mankiewicz , American screenwriter (* 1897)
• March 30th: Bert Bailey , Australian actor and writer (* 1868)

• 0April 2: Jean Epstein , Polish-French director (* 1897)
• 0April 2: Frederik Fuglsang , Danish cameraman (* 1887)
• April 29: Alice Prin , French singer, actress and model (* 1901)

• May 11: Margarete Kupfer , German actress (* 1881)
• May 30th: George Barnes , American cameraman (* 1892)
• May 30: Dooley Wilson , American actor (* 1886)

• 0June 4th: Hans Martin Cremer , German writer, composer, songwriter and screenwriter (* 1890)
• 0June 5: Roland Young , American actor (* 1887)
• June 11: Marcel Herrand , French actor (* 1897)
• June 27: Chris-Pin Martin , American actor (* 1893)
• June 30: Vsevolod Pudovkin , Russian director (* 1893)

July to December

• 0July 3: Irving Reis , American film director and screenwriter (* 1906)
• July 26: Clyde De Vinna , American cameraman (* 1890)
• July 28th: Mime Misu , Romanian actor, screenwriter and director (* 1888)

• August 13: Paul Kemp , German actor (* 1896)

• 0September 5: Francis Ford , American screenwriter and actor (* 1881)
• September 12: Lewis Stone , American actor (* 1879)
• September 19: Jacob Fleck , Austrian screenwriter, director and producer (* 1881)
• September 24: Berthold Viertel , Austrian director (* 1885)
• September 25: Ernő Metzner , Hungarian production designer and director (* 1892)

• 0October 6: Porter Hall , American actor (* 1888)
• 0October 8: Nigel Bruce , British actor (* 1895)
• 0October 9: James Finlayson , British-American actor (* 1887)
• October 14th: Arthur Wimperis , British screenwriter (* 1874)
• October 25: Robert G. Vignola , American actor, screenwriter and director (* 1882)

• November 12th: Gregor Rabinowitsch , Ukrainian producer (* 1887)
• November 24: George K. Spoor , American film pioneer (* 1872)
• November 27: Eugene O'Neill , American playwright (* 1888)
• November 29th: Alphons Fryland , Austrian actor (* 1888)
• November 29: Sam De Grasse , Canadian actor (* 1875)

• 0December 2: Willi Kaiser-Heyl , German actor (* 1876)
• 0December 5: Jorge Negrete , Mexican singer and actor (* 1911)
• December 30th: Heinrich Haas , Austrian producer (* 1890)

See also

Portal: Film  - Overview of Wikipedia content on film

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