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Film year 1958
American actor Tyrone Power died on November 15, 1958 .

Events

The world premiere of Claude Chabrol's The Disappointed takes place on the occasion of the Locarno International Film Festival . This film is considered to be the first work of the Nouvelle Vague .

For the second time, the youth magazine BRAVO carries out the readers' poll for the BRAVO Otto . Among the male film stars, Horst Buchholz wins the gold Otto , silver goes to OW Fischer and bronze goes to Rock Hudson . The most popular female film stars of the year were Romy Schneider, ahead of last year's winner Maria Schell and Ruth Leuwerik .

Film awards

Golden Globe Award

The Golden Globe will be presented on February 22nd at Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles.

Best Drama: The Bridge on the Kwai by David Lean
Best Musical: The Girls by George Cukor
Best Actor (Drama): Alec Guinness in The Bridge on the Kwai
Best Actress (Drama): Joanne Woodward in Eva with the Three Faces
Best Actor (Musical / Comedy): Frank Sinatra in Pal Joey
Best Actress (Musical / Comedy): Kay Kendall and Taina Elg in Die Girls
Best Supporting Actor: Red Buttons in Sayonara
Best Supporting Actress: Elsa Lanchester in Witness for the Prosecution
Best Director: David Lean for The Bridge on the Kwai
Cecil B. DeMille Award : Buddy Adler

Complete list of award winners

Academy Awards

The Academy Awards will be held on March 26th at the RKO Pantages Theater in Los Angeles . Presenters are: James Stewart , David Niven , Jack Lemmon , Rosalind Russell and Bob Hope .

Best film: The Bridge on the Kwai by David Lean
Best Actor: Alec Guinness in The Bridge on the Kwai
Best Actress: Joanne Woodward in Eva with the Three Faces
Best Director: David Lean for The Bridge on the Kwai
Best Supporting Actor: Red Buttons in Sayonara
Best Supporting Actress: Miyoshi Umeki in Sayonara
Best music: Malcolm Arnold for Die Brücke am Kwai
Best Foreign Language Film: The Nights of Cabiria by Federico Fellini

Complete list of award winners

Cannes International Film Festival 1958

The Cannes festival takes place from May 2nd to 18th M Italic Text ai. The jury selects the following winners:

Golden Palm : The cranes move from Mikhail Kalatosow
Best Actor: Paul Newman in The Long Hot Summer
Best actress: the female acting ensemble from near life
Best director: Ingmar Bergman for Nahe dem Leben
Special Jury Prize: My Uncle by Jacques Tati

Berlin International Film Festival 1958

The festival in Berlin takes place from June 27th to July 8th. The jury under President Frank Capra selects the following winners:

Golden Bear : Wild strawberries from Ingmar Bergman
Best Actor: Sidney Poitier in Escape In Chains
Best Actress: Anna Magnani in Wild is the Wind
Best Director: Tadashi Imai for Mitsuko - Story of a Young Love

Venice Film Festival

The Venice Festival runs from August 24th to September 7th. The jury selects the following winners:

Golden Lion : Muhomatsu no issho by Hiroshi Inagaki
Best Actor: Alec Guinness in The Bottleneck
Best actress: Sophia Loren in The Black Orchid

German film award

Best film: At night when the devil came
Best director: Robert Siodmak for The Night When the Devil Came
Best leading actress: Liselotte Pulver for Das Wirtshaus im Spessart
Best leading actor: Hannes Messemer for the night when the devil came
Best supporting actress: Annemarie Düringer for the night when the devil came
Best supporting actor: Werner Peters for the night when the devil came

British Film Academy Award

Best film: The Bridge on the Kwai by David Lean
Best British Actor: Alec Guinness for Die Brück am Kwai
Best Foreign Actor: Henry Fonda for The Twelve Jurors
Best British Actress: Heather Sears for Esther Costello
Best Foreign Actress: Simone Signoret for The Witches of Salem ( witch hunt )

Étoile de Cristal

Best Film: The Man Who Must Die by Jules Dassin
Best Actor: Pierre Brasseur in Die Mausefalle
Best Actress: Mylène Demongeot in The Witches of Salem ( Witch Hunt )
Best Foreign Film: Twelve Angry Men by Sidney Lumet
Best foreign actor: Åke Grönberg in Evening of Jugglers
Best Foreign Actress: Marilyn Monroe in The Prince and the Dancer

New York Film Critics Circle Award

Best Film: Escape in Chains by Stanley Kramer
Best director: Stanley Kramer for Escape in Chains
Best Actor: David Niven in Separate from Table and Bed
Best Actress: Susan Hayward in Let Me Live
Best Foreign Film: My Uncle by Jacques Tati

National Board of Review

Best Picture: The Old Man and the Sea by John Sturges
Best Director: John Ford for The Last Hurray
Best Actor: Spencer Tracy in The Old Man and the Sea and The Last Hurray
Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman in The Hostel for 6th Bliss
Best Supporting Actor: Albert Salmi in Bravados and The Karamazov Brothers
Best Supporting Actress: Kay Walsh in The Bottom Line
Best foreign language film: Apu's way into life: On the street by Satyajit Ray

Laurel Award

Best action drama: Two pay off from John Sturges
- Best Action Actor: Burt Lancaster in Two Settle
Best Drama: Embers Under the Ashes by Mark Robson
- Best Actor in a Drama: Marlon Brando in The Young Lions
- Best Dramatic Actress: Elizabeth Taylor in The Land of the Rain Tree
Best Comedy: Ariane - Love in the Afternoon by Billy Wilder
- Best Actor in a Comedy: Glenn Ford in Don't Get Close To The Water
- Best Comedian Actress: Audrey Hepburn in Ariane Afternoon Love
Best musical: Pal Joey by George Sidney
- Best Musical Actor: Frank Sinatra in Pal Joey
- Best Actress in a Musical: Mitzi Gaynor in Les Girls
Best Entertainment Film: His Friend Jello by Robert Stevenson

Further film prizes and awards

Directors Guild of America Award : David Lean for The Bridge on the River Kwai
Ernst Lubitsch Prize : Kurt Hoffmann , Liselotte Pulver and Wolfgang Neuss for Das Wirtshaus im Spessart
Louis Delluc Prize : Me, a Negro by Jean Rouch
Nastro d'Argento : The Nights of Cabiria by Federico Fellini and The Twelve Jurors by Sidney Lumet
Photoplay Award : Gigi von Vincente Minnelli (Best Picture), Tony Curtis (Most Popular Male Star), Debbie Reynolds (Most Popular Female Star)
German Film Critics' Prize : The Girl Rosemarie by Rolf Thiele
Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia-San Sebastián : Eva wants to sleep by Tadeusz Chmielewski (Golden Shell)
Writers Guild of America Award : Les Girls (Best Musical), The Twelve Jurors (Best Drama), Ariane - Liebe am Afternoon (Best Comedy), John Lee Mahin (Lifetime Achievement)

Birthdays

January to March

Holly Hunter (born March 20)

January

0January 3rd: Bettina Janis , German screenwriter

0January 4: Matt Frewer , American actor

0January 4th: Julian Sands , British actor

0January 7th: Linda Kozlowski , American actress

0January 9th: Thomas Jauch , German director

January 11th: Hitomi Kamanaka , Japanese documentary writer and director

January 11: Alyson Reed , American actress and dancer

January 21: Michael Wincott , American actor

January 25: Paulus Manker , Austrian actor

January 25: Dinah Manoff , American actress

January 26: Ellen DeGeneres , American actress

January 29th: Judy Norton-Taylor , American actress

February

0February 3: Piotr Sobociński , Polish cameraman († 2001)
0February 9: Tony Craig , actor from Trinidad and Tobago
February 18: Massimo Gaudioso , Italian director
February 19: Martin Hewitt , American actor
February 20: James Wilby , British actor
February 21: Jack Coleman , American actor
February 24: Mark Moses , American actor

March

0March 3: Miranda Richardson , British actress
0March 4th: Patricia Heaton , American actress
0March 7: Rik Mayall , British actor († 2014)
0March 9: Birgit Doll , Austrian actress († 2015)
0March 9: Linda Fiorentino , American actress
March 10: Reza Bagher , Swedish director
March 13: Guillermo Arriaga , Mexican screenwriter
March 17: Christian Clemenson , American actor
March 20: Holly Hunter , American actress
March 21: Sabrina Le Beauf , American actress
March 21: Gary Oldman , British actor
March 31: Tony Cox , American actor
March 31: Sylvester Groth , German actor

April to June

Michelle Pfeiffer (born April 29)

Annette Bening (born May 29)

Prince (born June 7th)

April

0April 1: Robert Missler , German voice actor and actor
0April 3: Alec Baldwin , American actor
0April 4: Mary-Margaret Humes , American actress
April 14th: Peter Capaldi , British actor and film and television director
April 21: Andie MacDowell , American actress
April 22nd: Ken Olandt , American actor and producer
April 23: Radu Mihăileanu , Romanian director
April 26: Giancarlo Esposito , American actor
April 29: Michelle Pfeiffer , American actress
April 30th: Charles Berling , French actor

May

0May 1: Cecilia Peck , American actress
0May 3: Kevin Kilner , American actor
0May 5th: Aurélien Recoing , French actor
May 12: Kim Greist , American actress
May 20: Matt McCoy , American actor
May 29: Annette Bening , American actress
May 29: Juliano Mer-Khamis , Israeli actor and director († 2011)
May 30: Ted McGinley , American actor
May 31: Roma Maffia , American actress

June

0June 7th: Prince , American singer, actor, director and composer († 2016)
June 17: Bobby Farrelly , American director and screenwriter
June 22: Bruce Campbell , American actor
June 25th: Harald Sicherheitsitz , Austrian screenwriter and director
June 26th: Paweł Edelman , Polish cameraman
June 27th: August Schmölzer , Austrian actor

July to September

Madonna Louise Ciccone (born August 16)

Tim Burton (born August 25)

Michael Jackson (born August 29)

July

0July 5: Peter Tolan , American screenwriter
0July 8: Kevin Bacon , American actor
July 10: Fiona Shaw , Irish actress
July 11th: Mark Lester , British actor
July 14: Scott Rudin , American producer
July 17th: Wong Kar-Wai , Chinese director
July 27: Barbara Rudnik , German actress († 2009)
July 30: Richard Burgi , American actor

August

0August 2nd: Damian Harris , British director
0August 5: Yuri Dumchev , Russian actor († 2016)
0August 8: Cecilia Roth , Argentine-Spanish actress
0August 9: Amanda Bearse , American actress
August 10: Don Swayze , American actor
August 16: Angela Bassett , American actress
August 16: Madonna , American singer and actress
August 18: Madeleine Stowe , American actress
August 19: Klaus Graf , Austrian producer
August 22nd: Colm Feore , Canadian actor
August 24: Steve Guttenberg , American actor
August 25: Tim Burton , American director
August 29: Michael Jackson , American singer, actor and entertainer († 2009)

September

0September 6: Arsinée Khanjian , Armenian-Canadian actress
0September 6: Michael Winslow , American actor
September 10: Chris Columbus , American director
September 11th: Roxann Dawson , American actress
September 11th: Scott Patterson , American actor
September 12th: Franco Amurri , Italian director
September 16: Jennifer Tilly , American actress
September 17th: Andrea Eckert , Austrian actress
September 20: Charlie Kaufman , American screenwriter
September 20: Ghassan Massoud , Syrian actor
September 21: André Hennicke , German actor
September 22: Kerstin Gänke , German actress († 2017)
September 24: Kevin Sorbo , American actor
September 29: Karen Young , American actress

October to December

Tim Robbins (born October 16)

Viggo Mortensen (born October 20)

October

0October 7th: Sunnyi Melles , German actress
0October 9: Michael Paré , American actor
October 16: Tim Robbins , American actor
October 19: Alexander Held , German actor
October 20: Viggo Mortensen , American actor
October 21: Julio Médem , Spanish director
October 24th: Margit Geissler-Rothemund , German actress († 2016)
October 26: Pascale Ogier , French actress
October 30: Kristina van Eyck , German actress

November

0November 1: Rachel Ticotin , American actress
0November 2nd: Kai Maertens , German actor
0November 5: Robert Patrick , American actor
0November 8: Phil Fondacaro , American actor
November 10: Stephen Herek , American director
November 12: Megan Mullally , American actress
November 16: Marg Helgenberger , American actress
November 17: Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio , American actress
November 19: Scott McGinnis , American actor
November 21: David Reivers , American actor
November 22: Jamie Lee Curtis , American actress
November 24th: Alain Chabat , French actor and director
November 24th: Andrei Smolyakov , Russian actor
November 25th: Josef Rusnak , German director and screenwriter
November 29: Kim Delaney , American actress

December

0December 1: Charlene Tilton , American actress
0December 6: Alexander Baluyev , Russian actor
0December 6th: Nick Park , British animator
0December 9: Raja Gosnell , American film editor and director
0December 9th: Despina Pajanou , German-Greek actress
December 11th: Dominic Raacke , German actor
December 12th: Sheree J. Wilson , American actress
December 13th: Lynn-Holly Johnson , American actress
December 13: Clark Brandon , American actor, director, and screenwriter
December 13th: Johannes Silberschneider , Austrian actor
December 23: Joan Severance , American actress
December 31: Bebe Neuwirth , American actress

Day unknown

Tim Bevan , New Zealand producer
Corinna Duhr , German actress