Film year 1974

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Film year 1974
Jack Lemmon received the second Oscar of his career for his performance in Save the Tiger .

Events

Earthquake is the first film to be produced using the Sensurround process (multi-channel magnetone process for reproducing particularly low tones) in cinemas.

Technicolor discontinues its famous dye transfer process .

Robert Redford manages to make it into the American top ten with 3 films, the last time Bing Crosby succeeded in doing this in 1949 .

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.	The highlight	6,525,000
2.	Robin Hood	6,048,000
3.	The exorcist	5,291,000
4th	James Bond 007 - The Man with the Golden Gun	4,500,000
5.	Two like bad luck and brimstone	4,200,000
6th	Emanuela	4,000,000
7th	A man sees red	3,600,000
8th.	They called him Flatfoot (Buddy only catches big fish)	2,634,000
9.	Chinatown	2,300,000
10.	The pubic louse	1,750,000

Film awards

Golden Globe Award

The Golden Globe Awards will take place on January 28th at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.

Best Drama: The Exorcist by William Friedkin
Best Musical / Comedy: American Graffiti by George Lucas
Best Actor (Drama): Al Pacino in Serpico
Best Actress (Drama): Marsha Mason in Zapfenstreich
Best Actor (Musical / Comedy): George Segal in Man, You're Great!
Best Actress (Musical / Comedy): Glenda Jackson in Man Are You Class!
Best Supporting Actor: John Houseman in Trials
Best Supporting Actress: Linda Blair in The Exorcist
Best Director: William Friedkin for The Exorcist
Best music: Neil Diamond for The Seagull Jonathan
Cecil B. DeMille Award : Bette Davis

Academy Awards

The Academy Awards will be held on April 2nd at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles.

Best Picture: The highlight of George Roy Hill
Best Actor: Jack Lemmon in Save the Tiger
Best Actress: Glenda Jackson in Man Are You Great!
Best Director: George Roy Hill for The Clou
Best Supporting Actor: John Houseman in Trials
Best Supporting Actress: Tatum O'Neal in Paper Moon
Best camera: Sven Nykvist for screams and whispers
Best costumes: Edith Head for Der Clou
Best song and best music: Marvin Hamlisch for Just like we were
Best Foreign Language Film: The American Night by François Truffaut
Honorary Oscar: Henri Langlois and Groucho Marx

Complete list of award winners

International Cannes Film Festival 1974

The festival starts on May 9th and ends on May 24th. The jury under President René Clair awards the following prizes:

Golden Palm : The Dialogue by Francis Ford Coppola
Best Actor: Jack Nicholson in The Last Command
Best Actress: Marie-José Nat in The Violins of the Ball

Berlin International Film Festival 1974

The festival starts on June 21st and ends on July 2nd. The jury awards the following prizes:

Golden Bear : The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Ted Kotcheff
Jury Special Prize: L'Horloger de Saint-Paul by Bertrand Tavernier

German film award

Best film: The Pedestrian by Maximilian Schell
Best director: Roland Klick for supermarket
Best leading actress: Brigitte Mira for fear eats the soul
Best Actor: Walter Kohut for Supermarket and Gustav Rudolf Sellner for Der Fußgänger

Society of Film and Television Arts Awards

Best film: The American Night by François Truffaut
Best director: François Truffaut for American Night
Best Actor: Walter Matthau for Peter and Tillie and The Great Coup
Best Actress: Stéphane Audran for The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and Before Nightfall
Best Supporting Actor: Arthur Lowe for The Successful
Best Supporting Actress: Valentina Cortese for The American Night

Étoile de Cristal

Best Film: Liberation from the Marriage of Yannick Bellon
Best Actor: Philippe Noiret in The Watchmaker of St. Paul
Best Actress: Juliet Berto and Dominique Labourier in Celine and Julie go boating
Best foreign film: Akira Kurosawa for his complete works
Best Foreign Actor: Paul Newman and Robert Redford in The Clou
Best foreign actress: Olimpia Carlisi in Le milieu du monde

New York Film Critics Circle Award

Best film: Amarcord by Federico Fellini
Best director: Federico Fellini for Amarcord
Best Actor: Jack Nicholson in Chinatown and The Last Command
Best leading actress: Liv Ullmann in scenes from a marriage
Best Supporting Actor: Charles Boyer in Stavisky
Best Supporting Actress: Valerie Perrine in Lenny

National Board of Review

Best Film: The Dialogue by Francis Ford Coppola
Best director: Francis Ford Coppola for Der Dialog
Best Actor: Gene Hackman in Dialogue
Best Actress: Gena Rowlands in A Woman Under Influence
Best supporting actor: Holger Löwenadler in Lacombe, Lucien
Best Supporting Actress: Valerie Perrine in Lenny
Best foreign language film: Amarcord by Federico Fellini

BRAVO Otto readers' choice

Category - male movie stars: gold Jan-Michael Vincent , silver Roger Moore , bronze Terence Hill
Category - Female Movie Stars: Gold Uschi Glas , Silver Jane Seymour , Bronze Ali MacGraw

Further film prizes and awards

AFI Life Achievement Award : James Cagney
David di Donatello : Amarcord , Bread and Chocolate (Best Italian Film) and Jesus Christ Superstar (Best Foreign Film)
German Critics' Prize : Ottokar Runze
Directors Guild of America Award : George Roy Hill for The Clou , Charles Chaplin (Lifetime Achievement)
Ernst Lubitsch Prize : Mario Adorf and Edgar Reitz for a trip to Vienna
Evening Standard British Film Award : Ryan's Daughter of David Lean
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival : Romance for Lovers by Andrei Konchalowski
Louis Delluc Prize : The slap of Claude Pinoteau
Nastro d'Argento : Amarcord by Federico Fellini and Screams and Whispers by Ingmar Bergman
National Society of Film Critics Award : The American Night by François Truffaut
German Film Critics' Prize : Tschetan, the Indian boy by Hark Bohm
Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia-San Sebastián : Badlands - Shattered Dreams by Terrence Malick (Golden Shell)
Writers Guild of America Award : Save the Tiger (Best Original Screenplay-Drama) Man, you are great! (Best Original Screenplay-Comedy), Serpico (Best Adapted Screenplay-Drama), Paper Moon (Best Adapted Screenplay-Comedy), Paddy Chayefsky (Lifetime Achievement)

Birthdays

January to March

Nina Proll (born January 12th)

Ed Helms (born January 24th)

Christian Bale (born January 30)

Eva Mendes (born March 5)

January

0January 4th: Flora Montgomery , Irish actress
0January 4th: Sonja Richter , Danish actress
0January 6: Lee Sang-il , Japanese director
0January 7th: Swetlana Metkina , Russian actress
0January 9th: Pia Baresch , Austrian actress
0January 9: Farhan Akhtar , Indian director
January 10: Hrithik Roshan , Indian actor
January 12th: Nina Proll , Austrian actress
January 18: Maulik Pancholy , American actor
January 21: Vincent Laresca , American actor
January 23: Tiffani-Amber Thiessen , American actress
January 24th: Ed Helms , American actor
January 28: Ty Olsson , Canadian actor
January 30th: Christian Bale , British actor
January 30th: Maren Eggert , German actress
January 31: Andrew Lockington , Canadian composer
January 31: Anna Silk , Canadian actress

February

0February 2: Oz Perkins , American actor
0February 8: Seth Green , American actor
0February 8: Susan May Pratt , American actress
0February 9: Amber Valletta , American actress
February 10: Elizabeth Banks , American actress
February 12: Lisa Brenner , American actress
February 16: Mahershala Ali , American actor and Oscar winner
February 17: Jerry O'Connell , American actor
February 18: Mari Morrow , American actress
February 24: Bonnie Somerville , American actress
February 25: Laurie Fortier , American actress

March

0March 1: Mark-Paul Gosselaar , American actor
0March 5: Eva Mendes , American actress
0March 5: Jill Ritchie , American actress
0March 7th: Jenna Fischer , American actress
0March 7: Darryl Stephens , American actor
0March 8: Christiane Paul , German actress
March 14: Grace Park , Canadian actress
March 16: Johan Widerberg , Swedish actor
March 17: Marisa Coughlan , American actress
March 18: Jaschka Lämmert , Austrian theater and film actress
March 20: Paula Garcés , American actress
March 21: Laura Allen , American actress
March 24th: Alyson Hannigan , American actress
March 25: Xenia Rappoport , Russian actress

April to June

Ursula Strauss (born April 25)

Penélope Cruz (born April 28)

April

0April 1: China Chow , British actress
0April 8: Sofia Ledarp , Swedish actress
April 11: Tricia Helfer , Canadian actress
April 11th: Natacha Régnier , Belgian actress
April 12th: Marley Shelton , American actress
April 14th: Laura Tonke , German actress
April 15: Danny Pino , American actor
April 16: Valarie Rae Miller , American actress
April 24: Derek Luke , American actor
April 23: Barry Watson , American actor
April 25: Ursula Strauss , Austrian actress
April 28th: Penélope Cruz , Spanish actress
April 29: Barbora Bobuľová , Slovak actress

May

0May 7: Breckin Meyer , American actor
May 10: Séverine Caneele , French actress
May 11: Benoît Magimel , French actor
May 13: Brian Geraghty , American actor
May 15: Jay Rodan , South African actor
May 17: Sendhil Ramamurthy , American actor
May 21: Fairuza Balk , American actress
May 22: Allison Joy Langer , American actress
May 24: Dash Mihok , American actor
May 28: Romain Duris , French actor

June

0June 6: Danny Strong , American actor
0June 9: Benjamin Heisenberg , German director
June 12: Jason Mewes , American actor
June 19: Bumper Robinson , American actor
June 22nd: Donald Faison , American actor
June 22: Alicia Goranson , American actress
June 25: Karisma Kapoor , Indian actress
June 27: Christian Kane , American actor

July to September

Franka Potente (born July 22nd)

Hilary Swank (born July 30)

Amy Adams (born August 20)

Ryan Phillippe (born September 10)

July

0July 2: Moon So-ri , South Korean actress
0July 2nd: Robert Thalheim , German director
July 10: Chiwetel Ejiofor , British actor
July 12: Hayley DuMond , American actress
July 16: Chris Pontius , American actor
July 21: Maggie Siff , American actress
July 22nd: Franka Potente , German actress
July 23: Kathryn Hahn , American actress
July 23: Stephanie March , American actress
July 25: Jay R. Ferguson , American actor
July 29: Josh Radnor , American actor
July 30th: Hilary Swank , American actress
July 31: Emilia Fox , British actress

August

0August 8: Kohl Sudduth , American actor
0August 9: Miriam Lahnstein , German actress
August 11: Chris Messina , American actor
August 14: Christopher Gorham , American actor
August 19: Caroline Vasicek , Austrian actress
August 20: Amy Adams , American actress
August 22nd: Jenna Leigh Green , American actress
August 23: Ray Park , British actor
August 24: Jennifer Lien , American actress
August 24: Daniel Zawadzki , Polish actor and voice actor
August 25: Eric Millegan , American actor
August 28: Adrián Biniez , Argentine director and screenwriter

September

0September 1st: Burn Gorman , British musician and actor
0September 3: Clare Kramer , American actress
0September 4th: Nona Gaye , American actress
0September 6: Justin Whalin , American actor
September 10: Sarah Danielle Madison , American actress
September 10: Ryan Phillippe , American actor
September 17th: Raphaël Fejtö , French actor and director
September 17: Stacy Kamano , American actress
September 18: Travis Schuldt , American actor
September 19: Jimmy Fallon , American actor
September 28: Geoff Zanelli , American composer
September 29: Alexis Cruz , American actor

October to December

Joaquin Phoenix (born October 28)

Leonardo DiCaprio (born November 11th)

October

0October 2: Michelle Krusiec , American actress
0October 6: Jeremy Sisto , American actor
October 11: Mehmet Emin Toprak , Turkish actor
October 17: Matthew Macfadyen , British actor
October 24: Joakim Nätterqvist , Swedish actor
October 26: Rosemarie DeWitt , American actress
October 28: Jake Kasdan , American director
October 28: Joaquin Phoenix , American actor
October 30th: Marie Bierstedt , German actress

November

0November 2: Karin Anna Cheung , American actress and singer
0November 6: Zoe McLellan , American actress
0November 7th: Simone Heher , Austrian actress
0November 9th: Giovanna Mezzogiorno , Italian actress
November 11: Leonardo DiCaprio , American actor
November 12th: Lourdes Benedicto , American actress
November 12th: Tamala Jones , American actress
November 14: David Moscow , American actor
November 16: Brooke Elliott , American actress and singer
November 17: Leslie Bibb , American actress
November 18: Chloë Sevigny , American actress
November 25: Kenneth Mitchell , Canadian actor
November 27: Jennifer O'Dell , American actress

December

0December 4th: Ryan Kavanaugh , American producer
December 16: Frida Hallgren , Swedish actress
December 17: Sarah Paulson , American actress
December 17: Giovanni Ribisi , American actor
December 17th: Marissa Ribisi , American actress
December 19: Jasmila Žbanić , Bosnian director
December 22nd: Heather Donahue , American actress
December 26: Joshua John Miller , American actor
December 29: Mekhi Phifer , American actor
December 29: Ryan Shore , Canadian composer