Film year 1970

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Film year 1970
Michael Verhoeven (left) in 1971 at a reception given by German Chancellor Willy Brandt . In 1970 his film ok caused the biggest scandal in the history of the Berlinale , which ultimately led to the festival being abandoned.

Events

March 5: With Airport , the first of a series of disaster films from the 1970s comes to the cinemas, which is also characterized by a large selection of well-known film actors.
October 18th: Broadcasting of the television film Das Millionenspiel on ARD . This pseudo-documentary production about a manhunt show is used by some viewers as an opportunity to register by telephone as a candidate in the role of the hunted or as a hunter.
The IMAX cinema system is presented for the first time at EXPO 1970 in Osaka , Japan .
The winners of the BRAVO Otto readers' choice 1970:
- Category - male film star: gold Pierre Brice , silver Joachim Fuchsberger , bronze Hansi Kraus
- Category - female film star: Gold Uschi Glas , silver Gila von Weitershausen , bronze Marie Versini
The most successful West German film productions and co-productions in 1970:
- Schoolgirl Report: What parents don't think is possible (approx. 7 million viewers)
- Oswalt Kolle: Your husband, the unknown being (approx.3.5 million viewers)
- When the great aunts come (approx. 3 million viewers)
- We knock the drummers in the pan ( Die Lümmel from the first bank 5th part) (approx. 2.5 million viewers)
- Dr. Fummel and his playmates
- Hurray, our parents are not there
- Josefine Mutzenbacher
- Love technique for advanced learners
- Music, music - the pen shakes
- Neighbors are there to be annoying
- Don't fumble, darling
- Our timpanists go up in the air
- Prohibited sexuality

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.	Schoolgirl Report: What Parents Don't Think Is Possible	7,000,000
2.	Asterix and Cleopatra	3,868,635
3.	Your man, the unknown being	3,500,000
4th	Flesh	3,000,000
5.	The nun from Monza	3,000,000
6th	When the great aunts come	3,000,000
7th	We beat the timpani in the pan	2,500,000
8th.	Love market in Denmark	2,500,000
9.	Don't fumble, darling	2,000,000
10.	Our timpanists go up in the air	2,000,000

Film awards

Golden Globe Award

The Golden Globe Awards will take place on February 2nd at Coconut Grove.

Best Drama: Queen for a Thousand Days by Charles Jarrott
Best Musical / Comedy: The Secret of Santa Vittoria by Stanley Kramer
Best Actor (Drama): John Wayne in The Marshal
Best Actress (Drama): Geneviève Bujold in Queen for a Thousand Days
Best Actor (Musical / Comedy): Peter O'Toole in Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Best Actress (Musical / Comedy): Patty Duke in Me, Natalie
Best Supporting Actor: Gig Young in Only Horses are given the coup de grace
Best Supporting Actress: Goldie Hawn in The Cactus Blossom
Best Director: Charles Jarrott for Queen for a Thousand Days
Best music: Burt Bacharach for two bandits
Cecil B. DeMille Award : Joan Crawford

Academy Awards

The Academy Awards will be held on April 7th at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles .

Best film: Asphalt-Cowboy by John Schlesinger
Best Actor: John Wayne in The Marshal
Best Actress: Maggie Smith in Miss Jean Brodie's Prime Years
Best director: John Schlesinger for Asphalt-Cowboy
Best Supporting Actor: Gig Young in Only Horses are given the coup de grace
Best Supporting Actress: Goldie Hawn in The Cactus Blossom
Best Cinematography: Conrad L. Hall for Two Bandits
Best music and best song: Burt Bacharach for Two Bandits ; Song: Raindrops keep falling on my head
Best foreign language film: Z by Constantin Costa-Gavras
Honorary Oscar: Cary Grant

Complete list of award winners

Cannes International Film Festival 1970

The festival starts on May 2nd and ends on May 16th. The jury under President Miguel Angel Asturias selects the following winners:

Golden Palm : MASH by Robert Altman
Best Actor: Marcello Mastroianni in Jealousy in Italian
Best actress: Ottavia Piccolo in Metello
Best Director: John Boorman for Leo the Last

Berlin International Film Festival 1970

The festival starts on June 26th and ends on July 7th. The competition entry ok by Michael Verhoeven , of the Vietnam War as its theme, solves the biggest scandal in the history of the festival. The American jury president George Stevens speaks out against the film, which is brought to the public by other jury members. There is a dispute between the festival management and the jury. The jury resigns on July 5th and the festival is canceled. No prizes will be awarded by the jury.

German film award

Best film: Katzelmacher by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Malatesta by Peter Lilienthal
Best leading actress: The female ensemble of the antiteater for the films: Gods of the Plague , Katzelmacher and love is colder than death
Best leading actor: Klaus Löwitsch for girls with violence

Society of Film and Television Arts Awards

Best film: Asphalt-Cowboy by John Schlesinger
Best director: John Schlesinger for Asphalt-Cowboy
Best Actor: Dustin Hoffman for Asphalt Cowboy and John and Mary
Best Actress: Maggie Smith for Miss Jean Brodie's Best Years
Best Supporting Actor: Laurence Olivier for Oh! What a lovely war
Best Supporting Actress: Celia Johnson for Miss Jean Brodie's Best Years

Étoile de Cristal

Best Picture: Sudden Desire from Bernard Paul
Best Actor: Lino Ventura in Army in the Shadow
Best Actress: Marina Vlady in Sudden Desire
Best Foreign Film: Two bandits of George Roy Hill
Best Foreign Actor: Dennis Hopper in Easy Rider
Best foreign actress: Irma Rausch in Andrej Rublev

New York Film Critics Circle Award

Best Film: Five Easy Pieces - A Man Seeks Himself by Bob Rafelson
Best director: Bob Rafelson for Five Easy Pieces - A man seeks himself
Best Actor: George C. Scott in Patton - Rebel in Uniform
Best Actress: Glenda Jackson in Loving Women
Best Supporting Actor: Dan George in Little Big Man
Best Supporting Actress: Karen Black in Five Easy Pieces

National Board of Review

Best film: Patton - Rebel in Uniform by Franklin J. Schaffner
Best director: François Truffaut for The Wolf Boy
Best Actor: George C. Scott in Patton - Rebel in Uniform
Best Actress: Glenda Jackson in Loving Women
Best Supporting Actor: Frank Langella in Adultery Diary and Twelve Chairs
Best Supporting Actress: Karen Black in Five Easy Pieces
Best foreign language film: Schande von Ingmar Bergman

Laurel Award

Best Action Drama: Two Bandits by George Roy Hill
- Best Action Representation: John Wayne in The Marshal
Best drama: Asphalt-Cowboy by John Schlesinger
- Best Actor in Drama : Dustin Hoffman in Asphalt Cowboy

Best Comedy: To hell with the innocence of Larry Peerce

Best Actor in a Comedy: Jack Lemmon in A Frog in Manhattan
Best Comedic Actress: Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl

Best musical: Oliver! by Carol Reed

Best Entertainment Film: The Marshal by Henry Hathaway

Further film prizes and awards

David di Donatello : Investigations against a citizen who is above suspicion , Metello (best Italian film) and The Lion in Winter (best foreign film)

German Critic Award : Eberhard Fechner

Directors Guild of America Award : John Schlesinger for Asphalt Cowboy , Fred Zinnemann (life's work)

Ernst Lubitsch Prize : Werner Enke and May Spils for Don't fumble, darling

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival : Kes by Ken Loach

Louis Delluc Prize : Claire's knee by Eric Rohmer

National Society of Film Critics Award : Z by Costa-Gavras

Nastro d'Argento : The Damned by Luchino Visconti and Asphalt Cowboy by John Schlesinger

Writers Guild of America Award : Two Bandits (Best Original Screenplay-Drama), Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Best Original Screenplay-Comedy), Asphalt-Cowboy (Best Adapted Screenplay-Drama), The Devil With Innocence ( Best Adapted Screenplay Comedy), Dalton Trumbo (Lifetime Achievement)

Birthdays

January to March

Heather Graham (born January 29)

January

0January 2nd: Inna Gomes , Russian actress
0January 2: Heather Juergensen , American actress
0January 3: Matt Ross , American actor and director
0January 7: Doug E. Doug , American actor
January 20: Branka Katić , Serbian actress
January 20: Kerri Kenney-Silver , American actress
January 20: Skeet Ulrich , American actor
January 21: Ken Leung , American actor
January 23: Tracey Cherelle Jones , American actress
January 24: Matthew Lillard , American actor
January 26th: Tracy Middendorf , American actress
January 29th: Heather Graham , American actress
January 31: Minnie Driver , British actress

February

0February 3: Warwick Davis , British actor
0February 4th: Gabrielle Anwar , British actress
February 10: Marco Girnth , German actor
February 12: Nicolai Albrecht , German director and screenwriter
February 14: Simon Pegg , British comedian, actor and screenwriter
February 17: Dominic Purcell , Australian actor
February 18: Laure Marsac , French actress
February 19: Bellamy Young , American actress
February 23: Marie-Josée Croze , Canadian actress
February 26: Meeno Peluce , American actor
February 27: Matthias Lechner , German art director and animation filmmaker

March

0March 3: Julie Bowen , American actress
0March 5: Lisa Robin Kelly , American actress († 2013)
0March 9: Yoon Je-moon , South Korean actor
March 13: Tim Story , American director
March 14th: Meredith Salenger , American actress
March 18: Queen Latifah , American singer and actress
March 20: Michael Rapaport , American actor
March 22nd: Anja Kling , German actress
March 24: Lara Flynn Boyle , American actress
March 25th: Elke Winkens , German actress
March 27: Elizabeth Mitchell , American actress
March 28: Vince Vaughn , American actor

April to June

Uma Thurman (born April 29)

Joseph Fiennes (born May 27)

Paul Thomas Anderson (born June 26)

April

0April 1: Sung Hi Lee , American actress
0April 4: Barry Pepper , Canadian actor
0April 5: Valérie Bonneton , French actress
April 10: Christophe Honoré , French director and screenwriter
April 11: Johnny Messner , American actor
April 13: Ricky Schroder , American actor
April 16: Daniel Lapaine , Australian actor
April 20: Gerhard Liebmann , Austrian actor
April 21: Jeff Anderson , American actor
April 23: Scott Bairstow , American actor
April 25: Jason Wiles , American actor
April 29th: Uma Thurman , American actress
April 29th: Johannes Zeiler , Austrian actor

May

0May 3: Bobby Cannavale , American actor
0May 3: Stanisław Mucha , Polish director
0May 4th: Will Arnett , Canadian actor
May 10: Gina Philips , American actress
May 11: Nicky Katt , American actor
May 12: Samantha Mathis , American actress
May 19: Alison Elliott , American actress
May 25: Jamie Kennedy , American actor
May 25: Neil Marshall , British director
May 25: Octavia Spencer , American actress and Oscar and Golden Globe winner
May 27: Joseph Fiennes , British actor
May 30th: Alexander Jagsch , Austrian actor
May 31: Paolo Sorrentino , Italian director and screenwriter

June

0June 4th: Izabella Scorupco , Polish-Swedish actress
0June 6: JC Adams , American director
0June 7th: Sybil Temtchine , American actress
June 11: Jane Goldman , British screenwriter, producer and presenter
June 15: Leah Remini , American actress
June 22: Michael Trucco , American actor
June 23: Yann Tiersen , French composer
June 24th: Daniel Sánchez Arévalo , Spanish director
June 26: Paul Thomas Anderson , American director, screenwriter, and producer
June 26: Chris O'Donnell , American actor
June 26: Sean Hayes , American actor

July to September

Christopher Nolan (born July 30)

Matt Damon (born October 8)

July

0July 1: Henry Simmons , American actor
0July 2: Yancy Butler , American actress
0July 3: Shawnee Smith , American actress
0July 7th: Robia LaMorte , American actress
0July 8: Gerald Votava , Austrian actor, musician, author and cabaret artist
July 10: John Simm , British actor
July 11: Justin Chambers , American actor
July 13: Shonda Rhimes , American screenwriter
July 14th: Nina Siemaszko , American actress
July 23: Rya Kihlstedt , American actress
July 30: Christopher Nolan , British-American director
July 31: Ben Chaplin , British actor

August

0August 1: Jennifer Gareis , American actress
0August 2: Kevin Smith , American director and actor
0August 4th: John August , American screenwriter
0August 5: James Gunn , American director and screenwriter
0August 6: M. Night Shyamalan , Indian director
0August 9: Thomas Lennon , American actor
August 13: Seana Kofoed , American actress
August 14: Leah Purcell , Australian actress
August 15: Anthony Anderson , American actor
August 18: Malcolm-Jamal Warner , American actor
August 23: River Phoenix , American actor († 1993)
August 23: Jay Mohr , American actor
August 26: Melissa McCarthy , American actress

September

0September 7: Tom Everett Scott , American actor
September 11th: Taraji P. Henson , American actress
September 12: Josh Hopkins , American actor
September 14: Robert Ben Garant , American actor
September 14: Elon Gold , American actor and screenwriter
September 18: Aisha Tyler , American actress
September 19: Victor Williams , American actor
September 20: N'Bushe Wright , American actress
September 21: Julia Beerhold , German actress
September 21: James Lesure , American actor
September 21: Bridget Moynahan , American actress
September 22nd: Scot Armstrong , American screenwriter and producer
September 22nd: Rupert Penry-Jones , British actor
September 29: Natasha Gregson Wagner , American actress
September 30: Tony Hale , American actor

October to December

Ethan Hawke (born November 6)

Jennifer Connelly (born December 12)

Amaury Nolasco (born December 24th)

October

0October 1st: Michael Wilkinson , Australian costume designer
0October 2nd: Maribel Verdú , Spanish actress
0October 7: Nicole Ari Parker , American actress
0October 8: Matt Damon , American actor
0October 8: Anne-Marie Duff , British actress
0October 9: Steve Jablonsky , American composer
October 10: Bai Ling , Chinese actress
October 12: Kirk Cameron , American actor
October 14: Jon Seda , American actor
October 19: Chris Kattan , American actor
October 22: Amy Redford , American actress
October 25: Adam Goldberg , American actor
October 26: Dian Bachar , American actor
October 26: Lisa Ryder , Canadian actress
October 29: Christopher Wiehl , American actor
October 30: Nia Long , American actress

November

0November 4: Anthony Ruivivar , American actor
0November 6: Ethan Hawke , American actor
0November 7th: Morgan Spurlock , American documentary filmmaker
November 10: Vince Vieluf , American actor
November 11th: Cariddi Nardulli , Italian actress
November 12th: Craig Parker , New Zealand actor
November 16: Martha Plimpton , American actress
November 18: Mike Epps , American actor
November 20: Sabrina Lloyd , American actress
November 23: Danny Hoch , American actor
November 27: Brooke Langton , American actress

December

0December 1: Golden Brooks , American actress
0December 1: Julie Condra , American actress
0December 2: Luca Venantini , American actor
0December 4th: Kevin Sussman , American actor
0December 5: Tim Hetherington , British war correspondent and documentary filmmaker († 2011)
December 10: Sabra Malkinson , American actress
December 12th: Girl Amick , American actress
December 12th: Jennifer Connelly , American actress
December 12th: Regina Hall , American actress
December 15: Karl Makinen , American actor
December 15: Michael Shanks , Canadian actor
December 17: Sean Patrick Thomas , American actor
December 19: Ursina Lardi , Swiss actress
December 24th: Amaury Nolasco , Puerto Rican actor
December 20: Todd Phillips , American director, producer and screenwriter
December 28: Elaine Hendrix , American actress
December 30th: Jan Henrik Stahlberg , German actor, director and screenwriter