Film year 1963

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Film year 1963
The Kino International opens in East Berlin on November 15, 1963 with the Soviet film Optimistic Tragedy . It will be the premiere cinema of the GDR .

Events

February 1: The Deutsche Kinemathek is founded in Berlin as a registered association. The first director is Gerhard Lamprecht .
June 12: World premiere of Cleopatra (in the title role: Elizabeth Taylor ). With a production cost of US $ 44 million - adjusted for inflation, US $ 286 million (2005) - this production is considered the most expensive feature film of all time. These immense costs, which could not be offset by income in the following years, drove the production company 20th Century Fox to the brink of financial ruin.

September 23: World premiere of Das Schweigen . This film, directed by Ingmar Bergman , sparked massive protests from conservative circles after its German premiere the following year. The focus of the criticism was on the one hand several revealing scenes, but also the fact that the voluntary self-regulation of the film industry had given this production the title “particularly valuable”.

The Swedish Film Institute is founded.

Winner of the BRAVO Otto readers' choice 1963:

Category - Male Movie Star: Gold Rock Hudson , Silver OW Fischer , Bronze Anthony Perkins
Category - female film star: gold Sophia Loren , silver Ruth Leuwerik , bronze Liselotte powder

Top 10 most successful films

In Germany

The ten most successful films at the German box office by attendance (as of November 25, 2018):

space	Movie title	Visitors
1.	Winnetou 1st part	10,000,000
2.	James Bond - 007 is chasing Dr. No	7,000,000
3.	The girl Irma la Douce	6,000,000
4th	the Nibelungen	3,500,000
5.	Cleopatra	3,050,000
6th	Homesickness for St. Pauli	3,000,000
7th	The house in Montevideo	3,000,000
8th.	The zinc man	2,900,000
9.	The black abbot	2,700,000
10.	Charade	2,500,000

Film awards

Golden Globe Award

The Golden Globe Awards will take place on March 5th at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

Best Drama: The Chapman Report by George Cukor and Lawrence of Arabia by David Lean
Best musical: Music Man by Morton DaCosta
Best camera (in color): Freddie Young for Lawrence of Arabia
Best Comedy: A Touch of Mink by Delbert Mann
Best Actor (Drama): Gregory Peck in Who Disturbs the Nightingale
Best Actress (Drama): Geraldine Page in Süßer Vogel Jugend
Best Actor (Musical / Comedy): Marcello Mastroianni in divorce in Italian
Best Actress (Musical / Comedy): Rosalind Russell in Gypsy Queen of the Night
Best Supporting Actor: Omar Sharif in Lawrence of Arabia
Best Supporting Actress: Angela Lansbury in Ambassadors of Fear
Best Director: David Lean for Lawrence of Arabia
Cecil B. DeMille Award : Bob Hope

Academy Awards

The Academy Awards will take place on April 8th at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica . Frank Sinatra is the moderator .

Best Film: Lawrence of Arabia by David Lean
Best Actor: Gregory Peck in Who Disturbs the Nightingale
Best Actress: Anne Bancroft in Licht im Dunkel
Best Director: David Lean for Lawrence of Arabia
Best Supporting Actor: Ed Begley in Sweet Bird Youth
Best Supporting Actress: Patty Duke in Licht im Dunkel
Best song: Days of Wine and Roses by Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer
Best music: Maurice Jarre for Lawrence of Arabia
Best foreign language film: Les Dimanches de Ville d'Avray by Serge Bourguignon

Complete list of award winners

Cannes International Film Festival 1963

The festival takes place from May 9th to May 23rd. The jury selects the following winners:

Golden Palm : The Leopard by Luchino Visconti
Best Actor: Richard Harris in Alluring Laurels
Best Actress: Marina Vlady in The Queen Bee

Berlin International Film Festival 1963

The festival takes place from June 21st to July 2nd. The jury selects the following winners:

Golden Bear : Bushido - oath of obedience by Tadashi Imai and Il Diavolo by Gian Luigi Polidoro
Best Actor: Sidney Poitier in Lilies in the Field
Best actress: Bibi Andersson in Älskarinnan
Best director: Nikos Koundouros for Mikres Aphrodites

Venice Film Festival

The festival takes place from August 24th to September 7th. The jury selects the following winners:

Golden Lion : Hands Over the City by Francesco Rosi
Best Actor: Albert Finney in Tom Jones - Between Bed and Gallows
Best actress: Delphine Seyrig in Muriel or The Time of Return

German film award

Best film: The Endless Night and The Lightship
Best leading actress: Elisabeth Bergner for The Happy Years of the Thorwalds
Best supporting actress: Elfriede Kuzmany for The black-white-red four-poster bed

British Film Academy Award

Best Film: Lawrence of Arabia by David Lean
Best British Actor: Peter O'Toole for Lawrence of Arabia
Best Foreign Actor: Burt Lancaster for The Prisoner of Alcatraz
Best British Actress: Leslie Caron for The Indiscreet Room
Best Foreign Actress: Anne Bancroft for Licht im Dunkel

Étoile de Cristal

Best film: The Abysses of Nikos Papatakis
Best Actor: Serge Reggiani in The Devil in the White Vest
Best Actress: Anna Karina in The Story of Nana S.
Best Foreign Film: The Bandits of Orgosolo by Vittorio De Seta
Best Foreign Actor: Terence Stamp in The Damned of the Seas
Best foreign actress: Romy Schneider in The Trial

New York Film Critics Circle Award

Best Film: Tom Jones - Between Bed and Gallows by Tony Richardson
Best directed by Tony Richardson for Tom Jones - Between Bed and Gallows
Best Actor: Albert Finney in Tom Jones - Between Bed and Gallows
Best Actress: Patricia Neal in The Wildest Among Thousand
Best foreign film: 8½ by Federico Fellini

National Board of Review

Best Film: Tom Jones - Between Bed and Gallows by Tony Richardson
Best directed by Tony Richardson for Tom Jones - Between Bed and Gallows
Best Actor: Rex Harrison in Cleopatra
Best Actress: Patricia Neal in The Wildest Among Thousand
Best Supporting Actor: Melvyn Douglas in The Wildest Among A Thousand
Best Supporting Actress: Margaret Rutherford in Hotel International
Best foreign language film: 8½ by Federico Fellini

Laurel Award

Best Action Drama: The Longest Day by Ken Annakin , Andrew Marton and Bernhard Wicki

Best Actor: John Wayne in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Best Drama: The Days of Wine and Roses by Blake Edwards

Best Actor in a Drama: Jack Lemmon in The Days of Wine and Roses
Best Dramatic Actress: Lee Remick in The Days of Wine and Roses

Best Comedy: A Touch of Mink by Delbert Mann

Best Comedian: Cary Grant in A Touch of Mink
Best Comedy Actress: Doris Day in A Touch of Mink

Best musical: Music Man by Morton DaCosta

Best Actor in a Musical: Robert Preston in Music Man
Best Musical Actress: Ann-Margret in Texas Show

Best entertainment film: Who disturbs the nightingale by Robert Mulligan

Further film prizes and awards

German Critics' Prize : Franz Peter Wirth
Directors Guild of America Award : David Lean for Lawrence of Arabia
Ernst Lubitsch Prize : Thomas Fritsch for the black-white-red four-poster bed
Louis Delluc Prize : The Umbrellas of Cherbourg by Jacques Demy
Nastro d'Argento : The Four Days of Naples by Nanni Loy , Who Shot Salvatore G.? by Francesco Rosi and Jules and Jim by François Truffaut
Photoplay Award : That Was The Wild West by John Ford , Henry Hathaway , George Marshall and Richard Thorpe (Best Picture), Richard Chamberlain (Most Popular Male Star), Connie Stevens (Most Popular Female Star)
German Film Critics' Prize : The Endless Night by Will Tremper
Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia-San Sebastián : Mafioso by Alberto Lattuada (Golden Shell)
Writers Guild of America Award : Music Man (Best Musical), Who Disrupts the Nightingale (Best Drama), A Touch of Mink (Best Comedy), Joseph L. Mankiewicz (Lifetime Achievement)

Birthdays

January to March

Steven Soderbergh (born January 14)

Quentin Tarantino (born March 27th)

January

0January 4th: Christian Carion , French director and screenwriter
0January 4th: Susannah Grant , American screenwriter
January 11th: Jason Connery , British actor and son of Sean Connery
January 14: Anna Samochina , Russian actress († 2010)
January 14th: Steven Soderbergh , American director
January 18: Wojciech Smarzowski , Polish director
January 20: James Denton , American actor
January 23: Gail O'Grady , American actress
January 24th: Bernhard Schir , Austrian actor

February

0February 5: Steven Shainberg , American director
0February 8: Toby Emmerich , American producer and screenwriter
February 12: Claudio Amendola , Italian actor and producer
February 12: John Michael Higgins , American actor and voice actor
February 17: Larry the Cable Guy , American comedian, actor, screenwriter, and voice actor
February 19: Steffi Kühnert , German actress

March

0March 1: Russell Wong , American actor
0March 4: Daniel Roebuck , American actor, director, screenwriter and producer
March 11: Davis Guggenheim , American director and producer
March 12: Julia Campbell , American actress
March 18: Vanessa Lynn Williams , American actress
March 19: Neil LaBute , American director and writer
March 19: Geoffrey Lower , American actor
March 20: Kathy Ireland , American actress
March 20: David Thewlis , British actor
March 21: Jill Schoelen , American actress
March 22: Francesco Quinn , American actor († 2011)
March 27: Quentin Tarantino , American director, actor, producer and screenwriter.

April to June

Michel Gondry (born May 8)

Jason Isaacs (born June 6)

Johnny Depp (born June 9)

April

April 10: Peter Morgan , British screenwriter
April 11: Peter Landesman , American producer and screenwriter
April 21: Lisa Darr , American actress
April 21: Roy Dupuis , Canadian actor
April 21: John Cameron Mitchell , American actor and director
April 29: Bruce Harwood , Canadian actor

May

0May 8: Michel Gondry , French director
May 11: Natasha Richardson , British actress († 2009)
May 12: Gavin Hood , South African director
May 15: Brenda Bakke , American actress
May 15: Jamie Harris , British actor
May 15: Grant Heslov , American actor and screenwriter
May 16: Mercedes Echerer , Austrian actress
May 25: Anne Consigny , French actress
May 25: George Hickenlooper , American director, producer and screenwriter († 2010)
May 25: Mike Myers , Canadian actor
May 26th: Marcus Nispel , German director
May 27: Laura Dean , American dancer, actress, and voice actress

June

0June 3: Anica Dobra , German-Serbian actress
0June 6: Jason Isaacs , British actor
0June 8: Anthony Cistaro , American actor
0June 8: Frank Grillo , American actor
0June 9: Johnny Depp , American actor
0June 9: David Koepp , American screenwriter and director
June 10: Jeanne Tripplehorn , American actress
June 12: Tim DeKay , American actor
June 15: Helen Hunt , American actress
June 15th: Blanca Portillo , Spanish actress
June 15: Karen Sillas , American actress
June 17: Greg Kinnear , American actor
June 17th: Schaukje Könning , German actress and voice actress
June 21: Alexandra Masterson , American actress
June 30: Rupert Graves , British actor

July to September

Phoebe Cates (born July 16)

Lisa Kudrow (born July 30)

July

0July 2nd: Jens Riewa , German presenter and news anchor
0July 4th: Ute Lemper , German actress
0July 5: Edie Falco , American actress
0July 8: Michael Cuesta , American director and screenwriter
July 11: Lisa Rinna , American actress
July 15: Brigitte Nielsen , Danish actress
July 16: Phoebe Cates , American actress
July 16: Nina Petri , German actress
July 20: Adoni Maropis , American actor
July 20: Frank Whaley , American actor
July 22: Rob Estes , American actor
July 22nd: Joanna Going , American actress
July 29: Alexandra Paul , American actress
July 30th: Lisa Kudrow , American actress

August

0August 1: John Carroll Lynch , American actor
0August 3: Lisa Ann Walter , American actress
0August 3: Isaiah Washington , American actor
0August 7: Ramon Estevez , American actor
0August 7: Harold Perrineau Jr. , American actor
0August 8: Jon Turteltaub , American director
0August 9: Whitney Houston , American singer and actress
August 14: David Aaron Baker , American actor
August 14: Emmanuelle Béart , French actress
August 15: Alejandro González Iñárritu , Mexican director
August 16: Andreas Dresen , German director
August 17th: Andrzej Jakimowski , Polish director
August 18: Heino Ferch , German actor
August 19: John Stamos , American actor
August 23: Park Chan-wook , Korean director
August 28: Jennifer Coolidge , American actress
August 29: Karl Markovics , Austrian actor
August 30: Michael Chiklis , American actor

September

0September 6: Betsy Russell , American actress
0September 8: Brad Silberling , American director and screenwriter
September 17: William Shockley , American actor
September 19: Spencer Garrett , American actor
September 19: Alessandra Martines , Italian actress
September 20: Robert LaSardo , American actor
September 21: Oliver Mink , German actor and voice actor
September 25: Tate Donovan , American actor
September 26: Lysette Anthony , British actress

October to December

Katja Riemann (born November 1)

Brad Pitt (born December 18)

Til Schweiger (born December 19)

October

0October 6: Elisabeth Shue , American actress
October 12: Satoshi Kon Japanese director and screenwriter († 2010)
October 13: Donna Williams , Australian writer and screenwriter († 2017)
October 14: Lori Petty , American actress
October 16: Pamela Bach , American actress
October 17: Norm MacDonald , Canadian actor
October 23: Eva Billisich , Austrian actress
October 25: Tracy Nelson , American actress
October 26th: Ted Demme , American director († 2002)
October 28: Lauren Holly , American actress
October 30: Michael Beach , American actor
October 31: Roland Düringer , Austrian cabaret artist and actor
October 31: Dermot Mulroney , American actor
October 31: Rob Schneider , American actor

November

0November 1st: Katja Riemann , German actress
0November 5: Tatum O'Neal , American actress
November 10: Hugh Bonneville , British actor
November 10: Tommy Davidson , American actor
November 12: Sam Lloyd , American actor († 2020)
November 14th: Anno Saul , German director and screenwriter
November 15: Kevin J. O'Connor , American actor
November 16: Heike Bittner , German screenwriter, director and film producer
November 16: René Steinke , German actor
November 17: Dylan Walsh , American actor
November 19: Terry Farrell , American actress
November 21: Moisés Kaufman , Venezuelan director
November 21: Nicollette Sheridan , American actress
November 22nd: Brian Robbins , American director and producer
November 23: Andreas Schmidt , German actor († 2017)
November 26th: Felix von Muralt , Swiss director and cameraman
November 27: Vladimir Mashkov , Russian actor and director
November 27: Fisher Stevens , American actor and producer
November 30th: Kirk Jones , British director

December

0December 6th: Ulrich Thomsen , Danish actor
December 14: Cynthia Gibb , American actress
December 15: Mirosław Baka , Polish actor
December 15: Ellie Cornell , American actress
December 15: Helen Slater , American actress
December 16: Benjamin Bratt , American actor
December 18: Brad Pitt , American actor
December 19: Jennifer Beals , American actress
December 19: Cristina Marcos , Spanish actress
December 19: Bettina Redlich , Austrian actress
December 19: Til Schweiger , German actor
December 20: Joel Gretsch , American actor
December 24th: Well Marie Aidt , Danish screenwriter
December 27th: Gaspar Noé , French director and screenwriter

Day unknown

Vana Barba , Greek actress
Alessandro Camon , Italian producer and screenwriter