Film year 1960
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Film year 1960 | |
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The Oscar -Preisträgerin Joanne Woodward is the first star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame honored. | |
Events
- February 9 : With a star for Joanne Woodward is Hollywood Walk of Fame founded.
- June 16 : World premiere of Psycho . This important classic of American cinema is regarded as one of Alfred Hitchcock's central works. The scene in which the main female character is stabbed in the shower is one of the best known and most cited scenes in film history, both visually and musically.
- The winners of the BRAVO Otto readers' choice 1960:
- Category - male movie stars: Gold OW Fischer , Silver Hardy Krüger , Bronze Christian Wolff
- Category - female film stars: Gold Sabine Sinjen , Silver Ruth Leuwerik , Bronze Liselotte Pulver
Film awards
Golden Globe Award
The Golden Globe will be presented on March 10th at the Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles.
- Best Drama: Ben Hur by William Wyler
- Best musical: Porgy and Bess by Otto Preminger
- Best Comedy: Some Like It Hot by Billy Wilder
- Best Actor (Drama): Anthony Franciosa in Career
- Best Actress (Drama): Elizabeth Taylor in Suddenly, last summer
- Best Actor (Musical / Comedy): Jack Lemmon in Some Like It Hot
- Best Actress (Musical / Comedy): Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot
- Best Supporting Actor: Stephen Boyd in Ben Hur
- Best Supporting Actress: Susan Kohner in As Long As There Are People
- Cecil B. DeMille Award : Bing Crosby
Academy Awards
The Academy Awards will be held on April 4th at the RKO Pantages Theater in Los Angeles . The moderator is Bob Hope .
- Best Film: Ben Hur by William Wyler
- Best Actor: Charlton Heston in Ben Hur
- Best leading actress: Simone Signoret in Room at the Top
- Best Director: William Wyler for Ben Hur
- Best Supporting Actor: Hugh Griffith in Ben Hur
- Best Supporting Actress: Shelley Winters in The Diary of Anne Frank
- Best color camera: Robert Surtees for Ben Hur
- Best music: Miklós Rózsa for Ben Hur
- Best foreign language film: Orfeu Negro by Marcel Camus
- Honorary Oscar for his life's work: Buster Keaton
Complete list of award winners
Cannes International Film Festival 1960
The festival takes place from May 4th to May 20th. The jury under President Georges Simenon selects the following winners:
- Golden Palm : The Sweet Life of Federico Fellini
- Best actress: Jeanne Moreau in hours of tenderness and Melina Mercouri in Sundays… never!
Berlin International Film Festival 1960
The festival takes place from June 24th to July 5th. The jury under President Harold Lloyd selects the following winners:
- Golden Bear : El Lazarillo de Tormes by César Fernández Ardavín
- Best Actor: Fredric March in Who Sows the Wind
- Best actress: Juliette Mayniel in fun fair
- Best Director: Jean-Luc Godard for Out of Breath
Venice Film Festival
The festival takes place from August 24th to September 7th. The jury selects the following winners:
- Golden Lion : Le Passage du Rhin by André Cayatte
- Best Actor: John Mills in Tunes of Glory
- Best Actress: Shirley MacLaine in The Apartment
German film award
- Best film: The Bridge
- Best director: Bernhard Wicki for Die Brücke
- Best leading actress: Nadja Tiller for Labyrinth of Passions
- Best Actor: Walter Giller for Rosen for the Public Prosecutor
- Best supporting actress: Edith Schultze-Westrum for Die Brücke
- Best supporting actor: Hanns Lothar for Buddenbrooks
British Film Academy Award
- Best Film: Ben Hur by William Wyler
- Best British Actor: Peter Sellers for Young Man from a Good House
- Best Foreign Actor: Jack Lemmon for Some Like It Hot
- Best British Actress: Audrey Hepburn for A Nun's Story
- Best Foreign Actress: Shirley MacLaine for Getting the darn Women
Étoile de Cristal
- Best film: With his head against the walls by Georges Franju
- Best Actor: Charles Aznavour in Head Against the Walls
- Best actress: Emmanuelle Riva in Hiroshima, mon amour
- Best Foreign Film: The Invention of Doom by Karel Zeman
- Best foreign actor: Hannes Messemer in The False General
- Best foreign actress: Ewa Krzyżewska in ashes and diamonds
New York Film Critics Circle Award
- Best Picture: Sons and Lovers of Jack Cardiff
- Best directed by Jack Cardiff for Sons and Lovers and Billy Wilder for Das Appartement
- Best Actor: Burt Lancaster in Elmer Gantry
- Best Actress: Deborah Kerr in The Endless Horizon
- Best foreign film: Hiroshima, mon amour by Alain Resnais
National Board of Review
- Best Picture: Sons and Lovers of Jack Cardiff
- Best Director: Jack Cardiff for Sons and Lovers
- Best Actor: Robert Mitchum in The Endless Horizon and The Legacy of Blood
- Best Actress: Greer Garson in Sunrise at Campobello
- Best Supporting Actor: George Peppard in The Legacy of Blood
- Best Supporting Actress: Shirley Jones in Elmer Gantry
- Best foreign language film: Apu's way into life: Apu's world by Satyajit Ray
Laurel Award
- Best Action Drama: The Invisible Third by Alfred Hitchcock
- Best Action Actor: Gary Cooper in You Came To Cordura
- Best drama: Anatomy of a murder by Otto Preminger
- Best Actor in Drama: James Stewart in Anatomy of a Murder
- Best Dramatic Actress: Elizabeth Taylor in Suddenly Last Summer
- Best Comedy: Bettgeflüster by Michael Gordon
- Best Comedic Actor: Cary Grant in Company Petticoat
- Best comedic actress: Doris Day in Bettgeflüster
- Best musical: Can-Can by Walter Lang
- Best Musical Performer: Frank Sinatra in Can-Can
- Best Actress in a Musical: Shirley MacLaine in Can-Can
- Best entertainment film The Shaggy Dog by Charles Barton
Further film prizes and awards
- Astor de Oro : The bridge of Bernhard Wicki
- Directors Guild of America Award : William Wyler for Ben Hur , George Stevens (Lifetime Achievement)
- Ernst Lubitsch Prize : Ladislao Vajda for directing Ein Mann goes durch die Wand
- Louis Delluc Prize : Even after years and years of Henri Colpi
- Nastro d'Argento : The False General by Roberto Rossellini and Wilde Strawberries by Ingmar Bergman
- German Film Critics' Prize : The Bridge by Bernhard Wicki
- Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia-San Sebastián : Romeo, Juliet and the Darkness by Jiří Weiss (Golden Shell)
- Writers Guild of America Award : Five Pennies (Best Musical), The Diary of Anne Frank (Best Drama), Some Like It Hot (Best Comedy), Norman Krasna (Lifetime Achievement)
Birthdays
January to March
January
- Adriana Altaras , German actress January 1st:
- January 10: Gurinder Chadha , British director
- January 10: Jay Russell , American director
- January 11: Stanley Tucci , American actor
- January 12: Oliver Platt , Canadian actor
- January 13: Kevin Anderson , American actor
- January 18: Mark Rylance , British-American actor
February
- Jenette Goldstein , American actress February 4:
- Megan Gallagher , American actress February 6:
- Klaus J. Behrendt , German actor February 7th:
- James Spader , American actor February 7:
- February 14th: Meg Tilly , American actress
- February 18: Greta Scacchi , Italian actress
- February 26th: Hannes Jaenicke , German actor
March
- March 11: Robert Glenister , British actor
- March 12: Jason Beghe , American actor
- March 12: Cheick Fantamady Camara , Guinean director and documentary filmmaker († 2017)
- March 12: Courtney B. Vance , American actor
- March 13: John Greyson , Canadian director
- March 14th: Petter Næss , Norwegian actor and director
- March 15: Chris Sanders , American film animator
- March 17: Arye Gross , American actor
- March 17th: Pietro Scalia , Italian film editor
- March 18: Steven Kloves , American screenwriter and director
- March 18: Max Tidof , German actor
- March 19: Stefanie Mühle , German actress († 2011)
- March 22nd: Nicole Holofcener , American director and screenwriter
- March 24: Kelly LeBrock , American actress
- March 25: Brenda Strong , American actress
- March 26: Jennifer Gray , American actress
- March 26th: Katharina Meinecke , German actress
- March 26th: Axel Prahl , German actor
- March 27: Sabine Arnhold , German dubbing and radio play speaker
- March 29: Annabella Sciorra , American actress
- March 30th: Antonia Franceschi , American actress and ballet dancer
April to June
April
- Lorraine Toussaint , American actress April 4:
- Hugo Weaving , Australian actor April 4:
- April 10: Olivia Brown , American actress
- April 14: Brad Garrett , American actor
- April 15th: Susanne Bier , Danish director
- April 19: Nicoletta Braschi , Italian actress
- April 23: Valerie Bertinelli , American actress
- April 23: Craig Sheffer , American actor
- April 26th: Markus Hering , German actor
- April 29th: Audrey Wells , American screenwriter and director († 2018)
May
- Anne Parillaud , French actress May 6:
- May 13: Benjamin Völz , German actor and voice actor
- May 15: Rob S. Bowman , American director and producer
- May 17: Fiona Hutchison , British-American actress
- May 20: John Billingsley , American actor
- May 20: Tony Goldwyn , American actor
- May 22nd: Hideaki Anno , Japanese director
- May 24: Doug Jones , American actor
- May 24th: Kristin Scott Thomas , British actress
- May 26: Doug Hutchison , American actor
- May 31: Chris Elliott , American actor
June
- June 17: Thomas Haden Church , American actor
- June 18: Barbara Broccoli , American producer
- June 24th: Isshin Inudō , Japanese director and screenwriter
- June 24th: Erik Poppe , Norwegian director
July to September
July
- Mikael Håfström , Swedish director July 1st:
- Terry Rossio , American screenwriter July 2:
- Pruitt Taylor Vince , American actor July 5:
- July 11: Jafar Panahi , Iranian director
- July 18: Anne-Marie Johnson , American actress
- July 19: Atom Egoyan , Canadian director
- July 19: Caterina Vertova , Italian actress
- July 30: Richard Linklater , American director
August
- Bernard Rose , British director August 4th:
- David Duchovny , American actor August 7:
- August 10: Antonio Banderas , Spanish actor
- August 16: Timothy Hutton , American actor
- August 17: Sean Penn , American actor
- August 24th: Takashi Miike , Japanese director
September
- Victoria Trauttmansdorff , Austrian actress September 8:
- Hugh Grant , British actor September 9:
- September 10: Colin Firth , British actor
- September 10: Harald Krassnitzer , Austrian actor
- September 10: Leland Orser , American actor
- September 12: Robert John Burke , American actor
- September 14th: Melissa Leo , American actress
- September 14: Christian Petzold , German director
- September 21: Mary Mara , American actress
- September 23: Jason Carter , British actor
- September 26: Claudia Jakobshagen , German actress and speaker
- September 27th: Jean-Marc Barr , French actor, director and screenwriter
October to December
October
- Elizabeth Dennehy , American actress October 1:
- Hubert Taczanowski , Polish cameraman October 1st:
- Heike Thiem-Schneider , German actress October 2nd:
- Daniel Baldwin , American actor October 5:
- Lena Lessing , German actress and director October 5th:
- Kristiane Kupfer , German actress October 6:
- Shun Medoruma , Japanese writer and screenwriter October 6:
- Rano Karno , Indonesian actor October 8:
- Udo Rein , German film artist October 9:
- October 10: Carla Signoris , Italian actress
- October 10: Vadivelu , Indian actor and comedian
- October 10: David Vostell , German-Spanish composer and director
- October 12: Hiroyuki Sanada , Japanese actor
- October 13: Pe Werner , German singer and actress
- October 14: François Levantal , French actor
- October 15th: Lolita Morena , Swiss actress, model and presenter
- October 15: Slavko Štimac , Serbian actor
- October 16: Johannes Schild , German composer
- October 17: Guy Henry , British actor
- October 17: Rob Marshall , American director
- October 18: Jean-Claude Van Damme , Belgian actor
- October 18: Erin Moran , American actress († 2017)
- October 18: John Schwartzman , American cameraman
- October 19: Beate Eriksen , Norwegian actress and director
- October 24th: Hermann Killmeyer , Austrian actor
- October 24: Christoph Schlingensief , German director, screenwriter and actor († 2010)
- October 24: Bradley Darryl Wong , American actor
- October 31: Arnaud Desplechin , French director
November
- William Monahan , American screenwriter November 3:
- Kathy Griffin , American actress November 4th:
- Tilda Swinton , British actress November 5th:
- Michael Cerveris , American actor November 6:
- Elizabeth Avellan , American producer November 8:
- Oleg Menshikov , Russian actor November 8:
- Mikael Nyqvist , Swedish actor († 2017) November 8:
- November 11th: Katja Flint , German actress
- November 13: Neil Flynn , American actor
- November 13th: Wolfgang Murnberger , Austrian director
- November 15th: Franziska Buch , German director and screenwriter
- November 15: Susanne Lothar , German actress († 2012)
- November 18: Elizabeth Perkins , American actress
- November 18: Yeşim Ustaoğlu , Turkish director
- November 21: Brian McNamara , American actor
- November 22nd: Leos Carax , French director
- November 29: Cathy Moriarty , American actress
- November 30th: Hiam Abbass , Israeli actress
December
- Justus von Dohnányi , German actor December 2:
- Daryl Hannah , American actress December 3:
- Julianne Moore , American actress December 3:
- Abdellatif Kechiche , French director, screenwriter and actor December 7th:
- Stefen Fangmeier , American special effects artist December 9th:
- December 10: Kenneth Branagh , Irish actor and director
- December 11th: Rachel Portman , British composer
- December 14th: Don Franklin , American actor
- December 17th: Jürgen Tarrach , German actor
- December 20: Kim Ki-duk , Korean director
- December 25: Hong Sang-soo , Korean director
- December 27th: Maryam d'Abo , British actress
Day unknown
- Eric Fellner , British producer
deceased
January to March
- Curt Oertel , German cameraman and director (* 1890) January 1st:
- Margaret Sullavan , American actress (* 1909) January 1:
- Victor Sjöström , Swedish director (* 1879) January 3:
- Dudley Nichols , American screenwriter (* 1895) January 4th:
- January 17th: Sid Cassel , British actor (* 1897)
- January 18: Julius von Borsody , Austrian film architect and production designer (* 1892)
- January 20: Eddie Parker , American actor (* 1900)
- February 21: Jacques Becker , French director (* 1906)
- March 11th: Roman Mann , Polish film architect (* 1911)
- March 26: Ian Keith , American actor (* 1899)
April to June
- April 25: Hope Emerson , American actress (* 1897)
- May 23: Sol Polito , American cameraman (* 1892)
- May 27: George Zucco , American actor (* 1886)
- June 28: Victor Janson , German actor and director (* 1884)
- June 30: Jakob Tiedtke , German actor (* 1875)
July to September
- July 12: Buddy Adler , American producer and screenwriter (* 1906)
- July 24th: Hans Albers , German actor (* 1891)
- July 26: Cedric Gibbons , American production designer (* 1893)
- July 27: Liesl Karlstadt , German actress (* 1892)
- Richard Cramer , American actor (* 1889) August 9:
- August 10: Frank Lloyd , American director (* 1886)
- August 23: Oscar Hammerstein II , American songwriter (* 1895)
- August 29: Vicki Baum , Austrian writer (* 1888)
- August 29: Dary Holm , German actress (* 1897)
- Alfred E. Green , American director (* 1889) September 4:
- September 12: Curt Goetz , German writer and actor (* 1888)
- September 18: BB Kahane , American producer (* 1891)
- September 24th: Harald Braun , German director (* 1901)
October to December
- Hans Balzer , German screenwriter (* 1891) October 6th:
- October 10: Basil Ruysdael , American actor (* 1888)
- October 13: Guglielmo Giannini , Italian screenwriter and director (* 1891)
- October 15: Henny Porten , German actress (* 1890)
- October 19: George Stevenson Wallace , Australian comedian and actor (* 1895)
- October 23: Gisela von Collande , German actress (* 1915)
- Hugo Döblin , German actor (* 1876) November 4th:
- Ward Bond , American actor (born 1903) November 5:
- Mack Sennett , American producer (* 1880) November 5:
- November 16: Clark Gable , American actor (born 1901)
- Heinrich Jonen , German producer (* 1901) December 1:
- December 14: Gregory Ratoff , Russian-American director and actor (* 1897)
- December 15: Véra Clouzot , French-Brazilian actress (* 1913)
- December 28: Otto Hunte , German film architect (* 1881)