Film year 1969
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Events
- Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas found the American Zoetrope film production company .
- The winners of the 1969 BRAVO Otto readers' choice:
- Category - Male Film Star: Gold Pierre Brice , Silver Robert Hoffmann , Bronze George Nader
- Category - female film star: Gold Uschi Glas , Silver Marie Versini , Bronze Senta Berger
- The most successful West German film productions and co-productions in 1969:
- Hurray, the school is on fire! ( The louts from the first bank , part 4) (approx. 4 million viewers)
- Oswalt Kolle: Your wife, the unknown being (approx.3.5 million viewers)
- Oswalt Kolle: For example adultery (approx.3.5 million viewers)
- Heintje - A heart goes on a journey (approx.3.5 million viewers)
- Pepe, der Paukerschreck (Die Lümmel from the first bank 3rd part) (approx. 2.5 million viewers)
- Help, i love twins! (approx. 2.5 million viewers)
- Class wedges (approx. 2.5 million viewers)
- I am an elephant, madame
- Our doctor is the best
Top 10 most successful films
In Germany
The ten most successful films at the German box office according to attendance (as of November 24, 2018):
| space | Movie title | Visitors |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Once Upon a Time in the West | 13,000,000 |
| 2. | A great beetle | 7,415,000 |
| 3. | Easy rider | 5,000,000 |
| 4th | Pippi Longstocking | 4,456,000 |
| 5. | James Bond 007 - On Her Majesty's Secret Service | 4,000,000 |
| 6th | Hurray, the school is on fire! | 4,000,000 |
| 7th | Your wife, the unknown being | 3,500,000 |
| 8th. | For example: adultery | 3,500,000 |
| 9. | Heintje - A heart travels | 3,500,000 |
| 10. | Our timpanists go up in the air | 2,500,000 |
Film awards
Golden Globe Award
The Golden Globe ceremony will take place on February 24th at Coconut Grove.
- Best Drama: The Lion in Winter by Anthony Harvey
- Best Musical / Comedy: Oliver by Carol Reed
- Best Actor (Drama): Peter O'Toole in Winter Lion
- Best Actress (Drama): Joanne Woodward in The Love of a Summer
- Best Actor (Musical / Comedy): Ron Moody in Oliver
- Best Actress (Musical / Comedy): Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl
- Best Supporting Actor: Daniel Massey in Star!
- Best Supporting Actress: Ruth Gordon in Rosemary's Baby
- Best Director: Paul Newman for The Love of a Summer
- Best music: Alex North for In the Fisherman's Shoes
- Cecil B. DeMille Award : Gregory Peck
Academy Awards
The Academy Awards will be held on April 14th at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles.
- Best film: Oliver by Carol Reed
- Best Actor: Cliff Robertson in Charly
- Best Actress: Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl and Katharine Hepburn in The Lion in Winter
- Best Director: Carol Reed for Oliver
- Best Supporting Actor: Jack Albertson in The Subject War Roses
- Best Supporting Actress: Ruth Gordon in Rosemary's Baby
- Best music: John Barry for The Lion in Winter
- Best Foreign Language Film: War and Peace by Sergei Bondarchuk
Complete list of award winners
Cannes International Film Festival 1969
The festival starts on May 8th and ends on May 23rd. The jury under President Luchino Visconti selects the following winners:
- Golden Palm : If ... by Lindsay Anderson
- Best actor: Jean-Louis Trintignant in Z
- Best Actress: Vanessa Redgrave in Isadora
- Best director: Glauber Rocha for Antonio das Mortes and Vojtěch Jasný for All Good Compatriots
Berlin International Film Festival 1969
The festival starts on June 25th and ends on July 6th. The jury under President Johannes Schaaf selects the following winners:
- Golden Bear : Early Works by Želimir Žilnik
- Silver bears for: Greetings by Brian De Palma , I am an elephant, Madame by Peter Zadek and Made in Sweden by Johan Bergenstråhle
German film award
- Best film: The artists in the big top: at a loss
- Best director: Peter Zadek for I am an elephant, Madame
- Best Actor: Walter Buschhoff for Scarabea - How Much Earth Do People Need? and Michael Strixner for hunting scenes from Lower Bavaria
Society of Film and Television Arts Awards
- Best Film: The Graduate by Mike Nichols
- Best Director: Mike Nichols for The Graduation
- Best Actor: Spencer Tracy for advice on who's going to eat
- Best Actress: Katharine Hepburn for advice on who comes to eat
- Best Supporting Actor: Ian Holm for events while guarding the Bofors cannon
- Best Supporting Actress: Billie Whitelaw for A Successful Dud and Vicious Circle Y.
Étoile de Cristal
- Best film: Z by Costa-Gavras
- Best Actor: Jean-Pierre Léaud in Stolen Kisses
- Best actress: Françoise Rosay for her complete works
- Best Foreign Film: The Woman From Nowhere by Joseph Losey
- Best Foreign Actor: Dustin Hoffman in The Graduation Exam
- Best Foreign Actress: Mia Farrow and Elizabeth Taylor in The Woman From Nowhere
New York Film Critics Circle Award
- Best film: Z by Costa-Gavras
- Best director: Costa-Gavras for Z
- Best Actor: Jon Voight in Asphalt Cowboy
- Best Actress: Jane Fonda in Only Horses Are Given the Gunshot
- Best Supporting Actor: Jack Nicholson in Easy Rider
- Best Supporting Actress: Dyan Cannon in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
National Board of Review
- Best film: only horses are given the coup de grace by Sydney Pollack
- Best director: Alfred Hitchcock for Topas
- Best Actor: Peter O'Toole in Goodbye, Mr. Chips
- Best Actress: Geraldine Page in Trilogy
- Best Supporting Actor: Philippe Noiret in Topas
- Best Supporting Actress: Pamela Franklin in Miss Jean Broadie's Best Years
- Best Foreign Language Film: War and Peace by Sergei Bondarchuk
Further film prizes and awards
- David di Donatello : You don't catch men with pistols , Play Me a Song of Death (Best Italian Film) and 2001: A Space Odyssey (Best Foreign Film)
- German Critic Award : Curt Linda
- Directors Guild of America Award : Anthony Harvey for The Lion in Winter
- Ernst Lubitsch Prize : Jacob Sisters and Insterburg & Co. for quartet in bed by Ulrich Schamoni
- Louis Delluc Prize : The Things in Life by Claude Sautet
- Nastro d'Argento : Romeo and Juliet by Franco Zeffirelli , Marat / Sade by Peter Brook and Mouchette by Robert Bresson
- National Society of Film Critics Award : Shame of Ingmar Bergman
- German Film Critics' Prize : Katzelmacher by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and The Oppression of Women can be recognized primarily by the behavior of women themselves by Hellmuth Costard
- Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia-San Sebastián : Never Love a Stranger by Francis Ford Coppola (Golden Shell)
- Writers Guild of America Award : Spring for Hitler (Best Original Screenplay), Funny Girl (Best Musical), The Lion in Winter (Best Drama), A Strange Couple (Best Comedy)
Birthdays
January to March
January
- January 1: Morris Chestnut , American actor
- January 1: Sarah Parish , British actress
- January 1st: Yvonne Sciò , Italian actress
- January 1: Verne Troyer , American actor († 2018)
- January 2: Tommy Morrison , American boxer and actor († 2013)
- January 3: Benjamin Reding , German director, screenwriter and producer
- January 5: Chuck Campbell , Canadian actor
- January 5: Heather Paige Kent , American actress
- January 6: Vincenzo Natali , American director
- January 6: Norman Reedus , American actor
- January 14th: Jason Bateman , American actor
- January 15: Meret Becker , German actress
- January 17th: Naveen Andrews , British actor
- January 17th: Lukas Moodysson , Swedish director
- January 18: Jesse L. Martin , American actor
- January 21: John Ducey , American actor
- January 21: Karina Lombard , American actress
- January 22nd: Olivia d'Abo , British actress
- January 23: Ariadna Gil , Spanish actress
- January 24th: Hilmir Snær Guðnason , Icelandic actor
- January 26: George Tillman Jr. , American director
- January 28: Kathryn Morris , American actress
- January 29: Thomas Jane , American actor
February
- February 1: Bahman Ghobadi , Kurdish-Iranian director
- February 1: Brian Krause , American actor
- February 3: Elisabeth Scharang , Austrian director and radio presenter
- February 4th: Brandy Ledford , American actress
- February 5th: Michael Sheen , Welsh actor
- February 6: Daniel Lind Lagerlöf , Swedish director († 2011)
- February 8: Mary McCormack , American actress
- February 9: Neil Cross , British screenwriter
- February 11: Jennifer Aniston , American actress
- February 12: Darren Aronofsky , American director
- February 13: Andrew Bryniarski , American actor
- February 17: Stephen Mirrione , American film editor
- February 20: Danis Tanović , Bosnian director
- February 21: Aunjanue Ellis , American actress
- February 28: Robert Sean Leonard , American actor
March
- March 5: Raimund Wallisch , Austrian actor
- March 6: Amy Pietz , American actress
- March 10: Paget Brewster , American actress
- March 10: Dave Sheridan , American actor
- March 11: Terrence Howard , American actor
- March 13: Rossie Harris , American actor
- March 15: Kim Raver , American actress
- March 16: Judah Friedlander , American actor and comedian
- March 18: Kerstin Hansson , Swedish actress
- March 19: Connor Trinneer , American actor
- March 24: Lisa Arrindell Anderson , American actress
- March 27: Kevin Corrigan , American actor
- March 27: Mickey Hardt , Luxembourg actor
- March 27: Pauley Perrette , American actress
- March 28: Brett Ratner , American director
- March 29: Cornelius Obonya , Austrian actor
April to June
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April
- April 3: Ben Mendelsohn , Australian actor
- April 4: Erich Altenkopf , Austrian actor
- April 6: Paul Rudd , American actor
- April 10: Danny Comden , American actor
- April 13: Lars Jessen , German director
- April 24th: Melinda Clarke , American actress
- April 25: Gina Torres , American actress
- April 25: Renée Zellweger , American actress
May
- May 1: Wes Anderson , American director
- May 1st: Javier Bardem , Spanish actor
- May 7th: Marie Bäumer , German actress
- May 9: Joe Carnahan , American director and screenwriter
- May 9: Hudson Leick , American actress
- May 14: Cate Blanchett , Australian actress
- May 19: Thomas Vinterberg , Danish director
- May 22: Michael Kelly , American actor
- May 25: Anne Heche , American actress
- May 28: Justin Kirk , American actor
- May 30th: Naomi Kawase , Japanese director
June
- June 1: Teri Polo , American actress
- June 4th: Horatio Sanz , American actor and comedian
- June 4th: Nicole Beutler , Austrian actress
- June 7th: Kim Rhodes , American actress
- June 8: David Sutcliffe , Canadian actor
- June 9: Josh Hamilton , American actor
- June 11: Peter Dinklage , American actor
- June 15: Ken Jeong , American comedian and actor
- June 20: Peter Paige , American actor
- June 23: David Dobkin , American director and producer
- June 28: Ayelet Zurer , Israeli actress
July to September
July
- July 3: Gedeon Burkhard , German actor
- July 6: Brian Van Holt , American actor
- July 7th: Clemens Haipl , Austrian actor
- July 7: Robin Weigert , American actress
- July 10: Gale Harold , American actor
- July 10: Alexandra Hedison , American actress
- July 12: Lisa Nicole Carson , American actress
- July 16: Karina Arroyave , American actress
- July 17: F. Gary Gray , American director
- July 20: Josh Holloway , American actor
- July 24th: Jennifer Lopez , American actress and singer
- July 25: DB Woodside , American actor
- July 27: Bryan Fuller , American screenwriter
- July 28: Alexis Arquette , American actress
- July 29: Timothy Omundson , American actor
- July 30th: Simon Baker , Australian actor
- July 31: Loren Dean , American actor
August
- August 4th: Michael DeLuise , American actor
- August 8: Nir Bergman , Israeli director
- August 11th: Ashley Jensen , Danish-Scottish actress
- August 16: Andy Milder , American actor
- August 18: Christian Slater , American actor
- August 19: Paula Jai Parker , American actress
- August 19: Matthew Langford Perry , American actor
- August 19: Torkel Petersson , Swedish actor
- August 19: Randall Slavin , American actor
- August 24th: Mark Bremer , German speaker and actor
- August 27: Chandra Wilson , American actress
- August 28: Jack Black , American actor
- August 28: Philipp Brammer , German actor and voice actor († 2014)
- August 28: Jason Priestley , American actor
- August 30th: Michael Steiner , Swiss filmmaker
September
- September 3: Noah Baumbach , American director
- September 4th: Kristen Wilson , American actress
- September 7th: Angie Everhart , American actress
- September 10: Johnathon Schaech , American actor
- September 10: David Trueba , Spanish director and screenwriter
- September 17: Matthew Settle , American actor
- September 20: Victoria Dillard , American actress
- September 24th: Goya Toledo , Spanish actress
- September 24th: Megan Ward , American actress
- September 25: Catherine Zeta-Jones , British actress
- September 29: Erika Eleniak , American actress
October to December
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October
- October 1: Zach Galifianakis , American actor
- October 3: Janel Moloney , American actress
- October 4: Abraham Benrubi , American actor
- October 8: Jeremy Davies , American actor
- October 8th: Marcus Mittermeier , German director
- October 10: Manu Bennett , New Zealand actor
- October 15: Vanessa Marcil , American actress
- October 15: Dominic West , British actor
- October 22nd: Spike Jonze , American director
November
- November 1: Morag Siller , British actress († 2016)
- November 4: Matthew McConaughey , American actor
- November 7: Michelle Clunie , American actress
- November 8: Roxana Zal , American actress
- November 10: Ellen Pompeo , American actress
- November 13: Gerard Butler , British actor
- November 17: Michael Andrews , American composer
- November 20: Callie Thorne , American actress
- November 23: Jade Leung , Chinese actress
- November 30th: Marc Forster , Swiss director
- November 30th: Amy Ryan , American actress
December
- December 5: Eric Etebari , American actor and director
- December 5: Morgan J. Freeman , American director and screenwriter
- December 9th: Herbert Graedtke , German actor and director
- December 11th: Max Martini , American actor
- December 13: Tony Curran , British actor
- December 16: Florencia Lozano , American actress
- December 19: Kristy Swanson , American actress
- December 20: Brian O'Halloran , American actor
- December 21: Julie Delpy , French actress
- December 21: Jack Noseworthy , American actor
- December 24th: Pernille Fischer Christensen , Danish director
- December 29th: Jennifer Ehle , British-American actress
Day unknown
- Kathryn Stockett , American writer
deceased
January to March
January
- January 1: Barton MacLane , American actor (born 1902)
- January 6th: Ákos von Ráthonyi , Hungarian director (* 1909)
- January 7th: Susanne Cramer , German actress (* 1936)
- January 13: Helmut Weiss , German director (* 1907)
February
- February 2: Boris Karloff , British actor (* 1887)
- February 4: Thelma Ritter , American actress (* 1902)
- February 21: Lewis Martin , American actor (* 1894)
- February 27: John Boles , American actor (* 1895)
March
- March 4: Nicholas Schenck , American film pioneer (* 1881)
- March 9: Charles Brackett , American screenwriter (* 1892)
- March 15: Miles Malleson , British actor and screenwriter (* 1888)
- March 22nd: Ernst Deutsch , German actor (* 1890)
- March 25: Alan Mowbray , British actor (* 1896)
- March 27: Walter Tuch , Austrian cameraman (* 1913)
April to June
April
- April 5: Alberto Bonucci , Italian actor (* 1918)
- April 23: Krzysztof Komeda , Polish composer (* 1931)
- April 25: Margarita Xirgu , Spanish actress (* 1888)
May
- May 2: Oscar Sabo , Austrian actor (* 1881)
- May 3: Karl Freund , German cameraman (* 1890)
- May 18: Ludwig Berger , German director (* 1892)
- May 22: Erich Kestin , German actor (* 1895)
- May 27: Jeffrey Hunter , American actor (born 1926)
- May 31: Hilde Körber , Austrian actress (* 1906)
June
- June 9: Robert Taylor , American actor (born 1911)
- June 10: Frank Lawton , British actor (born 1904)
- June 11: Józef Tykociński-Tykociner , Polish film technology pioneer (* 1877)
- June 19: Natalie Talmadge , American actress (* 1896)
- June 22nd: Judy Garland , American actress (born 1922)
- June 24th: Oskar Sima , Austrian actor (* 1896)
- June 27th: Ralph Habib , French screenwriter and film director (* 1912)
July to September
July
- July 5: Ben Alexander , American actor (born 1911)
- July 5: Viktor Gertler , Hungarian film editor and director (* 1901)
- July 5: Leo McCarey , American director (* 1898)
- July 10: Bogumił Kobiela , Polish actor (* 1931)
- July 15: Peter van Eyck , German actor (* 1913)
- July 28: Frank Loesser , American composer (* 1910)
August
- August 5th: Charlotte Ander , German actress (* 1902)
- August 7th: Joseph Kosma , Hungarian-French composer (* 1905)
- August 9: Sharon Tate , American actress (born 1943)
- August 10: Maurine Dallas Watkins , American screenwriter (* 1896)
- August 18: Ferdinand Onno , Austrian actor (* 1881)
- August 27: Marga Lindt , German actress (* 1888)
September
- September 17th: Arno Paulsen , German actor (* 1900)
- September 19: Rex Ingram , American actor (* 1895)
- September 23: Hans Deppe , German director (* 1897)
October to December
October
- October 12: Sonja Henie , Norwegian figure skater and actress (* 1912)
- October 28: Constance Dowling , American actress (* 1920)
November
- November 13: Axel Graatkjær , Danish cameraman (* 1885)
- November 15: Anna Exl , Austrian actress (* 1882)
- November 24: Howard Marion-Crawford , British actor (born 1914)
December
- December 3: Mathias Wieman , German actor (* 1902)
- December 10: Leigh Harline , American composer (* 1907)
- December 21: Ilse Steppat , German actress (* 1917)
- December 22nd: Josef von Sternberg , Austrian-American director (* 1894)
- December 30: Jiří Trnka , Czech cartoon director (* 1912)
Day unknown
- Kurt Zehe , German catcher and actor (* 1913)
See also
Web links
Commons : 1969 film year - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ The most successful German films since 1968 on insidekino.com
- ↑ Joachim Kramp : The louts are on the loose! in the Lümmel blog Reloaded
- ^ The most successful films in Germany in 1969. In: InsideKino. February 17, 2007, accessed November 24, 2018 .