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Film year 1978
Woody Allen received an Oscar for best director and best original screenplay this year for his film Der Stadtneurotiker .

Events

October 25: World premiere of Halloween - The Night of Horror (Director: John Carpenter ). This film is considered to be the pioneer of the slasher film subgenre .
The first Sundance Film Festival takes place, under the name "Utah / US Film Festival" , held
Charles Chaplin's coffin is stolen 3 months after his funeral.
The US Supreme Court publishes a list of words that should not be said in films.
After differences with the parent company Transamerica Corporation , the managers Arthur Krim , Robert Benjamin and Eric Pleskow left the film company United Artists and founded the Orion Pictures Corporation .
January - The winners of the BRAVO Otto readers' choice are presented:
- Category - Male Movie Stars: Gold Pierre Brice , Silver Leif Garrett , Bronze Terence Hill
- Category - female film stars: gold Nastassja Kinski , silver Uschi Glas , bronze Romy Schneider

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.	war of stars	8,021,000
2.	Two cannot be stopped	4,900,000
3.	Grease	5,300,000
4th	They called him mosquito	4,450,000
5.	Saturday night only	4,300,000
6th	The wild geese are coming	3,900,000
7th	Convoy	3,600,000
8th.	Close encounter of the third kind	3,300,000
9.	Flat feet in Africa	3,150,000
10.	The cross head	3,100,000

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: At the turning point by Herbert Ross
Best Musical / Comedy: The Goodbye by Herbert Ross
Best Actor (Drama): Richard Burton in Equus
Best Actress (Drama): Jane Fonda in Julia
Best actor (musical / comedy): Richard Dreyfuss in Der Unterermieter
Best Actress (Musical / Comedy): Diane Keaton in Der Stadtneurotiker and Marsha Mason in Der Untertenieter
Best Supporting Actor: Peter Firth in Equus - Blind Horses
Best Supporting Actress: Vanessa Redgrave in Julia
Best director: Herbert Ross for Am Wendpunkt
Cecil B. DeMille Award : Red Skelton

Academy Awards

The Oscars will be held on April 3rd at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles .

Best film: The Urban Neurotic by Charles H. Joffe
Best Actor: Richard Dreyfuss in The Subtenant
Best Actress: Diane Keaton in Der Stadtneurotiker
Best Director: Woody Allen for Der Stadtneurotiker
Best Supporting Actor: Jason Robards in Julia
Best Supporting Actress: Vanessa Redgrave in Julia
Best camera: Vilmos Zsigmond for Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Best Production Design: Jonathan Barry , Norman Reynolds , Leslie Dilley , Roger Christian for Star Wars - Star Wars
Best Score: John Williams for Star Wars
Best foreign language film: Madame Rosa by Moshé Mizrahi ( France )
Honorary Oscar: Margaret Booth

Complete list of award winners

Cannes International Film Festival 1978

The festival starts on May 16 and ends on May 30. The jury under President Alan J. Pakula awards the following prizes:

Golden Palm : The Tree of Wooden Clogs by Ermanno Olmi
Best Actor: Jon Voight in Coming Home
Best Actress: Jill Clayburgh in An Unmarried Woman and Isabelle Huppert in Violette Nozière
Best director: Nagisa Ōshima for In the Realm of Passion

Berlin International Film Festival 1978

The festival starts on February 22nd and ends on March 5th. The jury under President Patricia Highsmith awards the following prizes:

Golden Bear : Las Truchas by José Luis García Sánchez
Best Actor: Craig Russell in Freaked Out
Best Actress: Gena Rowlands in Opening Night
Best director: Georgi Djulgerov for The Advantage

German film award

Best film: The Glass Cell by Hans W. Geißendörfer
Best director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder for Despair - A Journey into the Light and Wim Wenders for The American Friend
Best Actress: Tina Engel for The Second Awakening of Christa Klages
Best Actor: Peter Kern for Flammende Herzen and Hitler, a film from Germany and Rio Reiser for Johnny West

César

Best film: Providence by Alain Resnais
Best Director: Alain Resnais for Providence
Best Actor: Jean Rochefort for Der Haudegen
Best leading actress: Simone Signoret for Madame Rosa
Best Supporting Actor: Jacques Dufilho for Der Haudegen
Best Supporting Actress: Marie Dubois for Giant Wages
Best Foreign Film: A Special Day by Ettore Scola

British Academy Film Award

Best Picture: The city € sufferers of Woody Allen
Best director: Woody Allen for Der Stadtneurotiker
Best Actor: Peter Finch for Network
Best Actress: Diane Keaton for Der Stadtneurotiker
Best Supporting Actor: Edward Fox for The Arnhem Bridge
Best Supporting Actress: Geraldine Chaplin for Welcome to Los Angeles

New York Film Critics Circle Award

Best Film: Those Going Through Hell by Michael Cimino
Best director: Terrence Malick for In der Glut des Südens
Best Actor: Jon Voight in Coming Home
Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman in Herbstsonate
Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Walken in Going Through Hell
Best Supporting Actress: Maureen Stapleton in Inner Life
Best foreign film: Bread and Chocolate by Franco Brusati

National Board of Review

Best Picture: In the Embers of the South by Terrence Malick
Best director: Ingmar Bergman for Herbstsonate
Best Actor: Laurence Olivier in The Boys from Brazil and Jon Voight in Coming Home
Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman in Herbstsonate
Best Supporting Actor: Richard Farnsworth in A Farm in Montana
Best Supporting Actress: Angela Lansbury in Death on the Nile
Best foreign language film: Autumn Sonata by Ingmar Bergman

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

Best Picture: Coming Home - return home of Hal Ashby
Best director: Michael Cimino for Those Going Through Hell
Best Actor: Jon Voight in Coming Home
Best Actress: Jane Fonda in Coming Home and A Farm in Montana
Best Supporting Actor: Robert Morley in Die Schlemmer Orgy
Best Supporting Actress: Maureen Stapleton in Inner Life and Mona Washbourne in Stevie
Best foreign language film: Madame Rosa by Moshé Mizrahi
Life's work: Orson Welles

Further film prizes and awards

AFI Life Achievement Award : Henry Fonda
David di Donatello : In nome del papa re , A Man of Iron and Steel (Best Italian Film) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Best Foreign Film)
German critic award : Josef Rödl
Directors Guild of America Award : Woody Allen for Der Stadtneurotiker , David Butler (Lifetime Achievement)
Evening Standard British Film Award : The Arnhem Bridge by Richard Attenborough
Gilde-Filmpreis : Der Stadtneurotiker by Woody Allen (best foreign film) and Der Mädchenkrieg by Alf Brustellin and Bernhard Sinkel (best German film)
Louis Delluc Prize : The Others' Money by Christian de Chalonge
Nastro d'Argento : Padre Padrone - My father, my lord from Paolo and Vittorio Taviani and Julia from Fred Zinnemann
National Society of Film Critics Award : The Urban Neurotic by Woody Allen
People's Choice Award : Star Wars by George Lucas (Most Popular Film), John Wayne (Most Popular Actor), Barbra Streisand (Most Popular Actress)
Polish Film Festival Gdynia : Pasja by Stanisław Różewicz and Without anesthesia by Andrzej Wajda
German Film Critics' Prize : The Little Godard by Hellmuth Costard
Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia-San Sebastián : Alambrista by Robert M. Young
Toronto International Film Festival : Girlfriends by Claudia Weill (Audience Award)
Writers Guild of America Award: Am Wendpunkt (Best Original Screenplay, Drama), Der Stadtneurotiker (Best Original Screenplay, Comedy), Julia (Best Adapted Screenplay, Drama), Oh, Gott (Best Adapted Screenplay, Comedy)

Birthdays

January to March

January Jones (born January 5th)

Ashton Kutcher (born February 7)

Matthew Goode (born April 3)

James Franco (born April 19)

Malin Åkerman (born May 12)

Jason Biggs (born May 12)

Daniel Brühl (born June 16)

Zoë Saldaña (born June 19)

Topher Grace (born July 12)

Michele Rodriguez (born July 12)

Josh Hartnett (born July 21)

Malin Crépin (born August 22nd)

Shannyn Sossamon (born October 3)

Jodi Lyn O'Keefe (born October 10)

Alexandra Maria Lara (born November 12th)

Delphine Chanéac (born November 14th)

Rachel McAdams (born November 17)

Lauren German (born November 29)

Gael García Bernal (born November 30)

Katie Holmes (born December 18)

January

0January 1st: Vidya Balan , Indian actress
0January 5th: January Jones , American actress
0January 5th: America Olivo , American actress
January 14th: Kuno Becker , Mexican actor
January 14th: Sage Brocklebank , Canadian actor
January 15: Eddie Cahill , American actor
January 20: Omar Sy , French actor and comedian
January 24: Kristen Schaal , American actress, writer, and comedian
January 24th: Mark Hildreth , Canadian actor and musician
January 26: Kelly Stables , American actress

February

0February 2: Rich Sommer , American actor
0February 2: Bárbara Mori , Uruguayan-Mexican actress
0February 3: Eliza Schneider , American actress and voice actress
0February 7: Ashton Kutcher , American actor and show presenter
February 10: Suzanne Davis , American actress
February 11: Lymari Nadal , Puerto Rican actress
February 20: Lauren Ambrose , American actress
February 20: Jay Hernández , American actor
February 20: Julia Jentsch , German actress
February 24: Nicole Lyn , Canadian actress
February 28: Geoffrey Arend , American actor

March

0March 1: Jensen Ackles , American actor
0March 1st: Sarah Jung , Austrian actress
0March 3: Aarti Mann , American actress
0March 3rd: Magdalena Mielcarz , Polish actress
0March 8: Nick Zano , American actor and model
March 16: Brooke Burns , American actress
March 19: Virginia Williams , American actress
March 21: Rani Mukerji , Indian actress
March 23: Anastasia Griffith , British actress
March 23: Nicholle Tom , American actress
March 28: Bernd Faerber , German actor
March 31: Daniel Mays , British actor

April to June

April

0April 1st: Anamaria Marinca , Romanian actress
0April 1: JJ Feild , British-American actor
0April 2: Jaime Ray Newman , American actress
0April 3: Matthew Goode , British actor
0April 8: Rachel Roberts , Canadian model and actress
0April 9: Verena Mundhenke , German actress, director and model
April 11: Brett Claywell , American actor
April 12: Riley Smith , American actor
April 13: Gerti Drassl , South Tyrolean film and theater actress
April 13: Kyle Howard , American actor
April 16: Nikki Griffin , American actress
April 19: James Franco , American actor
April 21: Glen Berry , British actor
April 22nd: Manu Intiraymi , American actor
April 26: Stana Katić , Canadian actress
April 26: Anna Mouglalis , French actress and model
April 26: Tyler Labine , Canadian actor
April 28: Nate Richert , American actor
April 29th: Gernot Haas , Austrian actor

May

0May 1: James Badge Dale , American actor
0May 5th: Bárbara Elorrieta , Spanish actress
0May 5th: Santiago Cabrera , Chilean actor
0May 8: Matthew Davis , American actor
0May 8: Josie Maran , American model and actress
0May 9: Daniel Franzese , American actor
May 10: Corri English , American actress
May 10: Kenan Thompson , American actor and comedian
May 11th: Laetitia Casta , French model and actress
May 11: Warren Brown , British actor
May 12: Malin Åkerman , Swedish-Canadian actress
May 12: Jason Biggs , American actor
May 15: Caroline Dhavernas , Canadian actress
May 15: David Krumholtz , American actor
May 16: Jim Sturgess , British actor
May 17: Kat Foster , American actress
May 21: Briana Banks , American porn actress
May 22: Ginnifer Goodwin , American actress
May 23: Jesse Heiman , American actor
May 24: Bryan Greenberg , American actor
May 26: Benji Gregory , American actor

June

0June 2nd: Dominic Cooper , British actor
0June 2: Nikki Cox , American actress
0June 2: Justin Long , American actor
0June 6: Judith Barsi , American child actress († 1988)
0June 7: Bill Hader , American actor
0June 7th: Mini Andes , Swedish supermodel and actress
0June 8: Maria Menounos , American actress
0June 9: Michaela Conlin , American actress
June 10: DJ Qualls , American actor
June 10: Shane West , American actor and musician
June 11: Joshua Jackson , Canadian actor
June 13: Hilde Dalik , Austrian actress
June 13: Ethan Embry , American actor
June 14: Diablo Cody , American screenwriter
June 16: Daniel Brühl , German actor
June 18: Emma Heming , British actress and model
June 19: Mía Maestro , Argentine actress
June 19: Zoë Saldaña , American actress
June 20: Quinton Jackson , American mixed martial arts fighter and actor
June 21: Luke Kirby , Canadian actor
June 21: Erica Durance , Canadian actress
June 23: Isabella Leong , Chinese actress and musician
June 28: Camille Guaty , American actress
June 29: Nicole Scherzinger , American dancer, actress and singer

July to September

July

0July 2nd: Owain Yeoman , British-Welsh actor
0July 3: Ian Anthony Dale , American actor
0July 4th: Becki Newton , American actress
0July 8: Eve Myles , Welsh actress
0July 9: Linda Park , American actress
July 12: Topher Grace , American actor
July 12: Michelle Rodríguez , American actress
July 13: Tatiana Čecháková-Vilhelmová , Czech actress
July 17: Katharine Towne , American actress
July 20: Charlie Korsmo , American actor
July 21: Justin Bartha , American actor
July 21: Josh Hartnett , American actor
July 22: AJ Cook , Canadian actress
July 23: Sheila Mello , Brazilian dancer, actress and model

August

0August 3rd: Suzana Alves , Brazilian actress, singer and dancer
0August 7: Cirroc Lofton , American actor and rapper
0August 9: Daniela Denby-Ashe , British actress
August 10: Leo Fitzpatrick , American actor
August 17: Ebon Moss-Bachrach , American actor
August 18: Andy Samberg , American actor and comedian
August 19: Michelle Borth , American actress
August 20: Noah Bean , American actor
August 21: Marinko Madžgalj , Serbian actor and screenwriter († 2016)
August 22nd: Malin Crépin , Swedish actress
August 24: Beth Riesgraf , American actress
August 26: Amanda Schull , American actress
August 28: Kelly Overton , American actress, screenwriter, and producer

September

0September 3: Nick Wechsler , American actor
0September 4th: Wes Bentley , American actor
0September 5: Yu Nan , Chinese actress
0September 5: Laura Bertram , Canadian actress
0September 7: Devon Sawa , Canadian actor
September 12: Sverrir Gudnason , Swedish actor
September 12: Benjamin McKenzie , American actor
September 13: Megan Henning , American actress
September 16: Michael Mosley , American actor
September 21: Paulo Costanzo , Canadian actor
September 22: Daniella Alonso , American actress
September 23: Keri Lynn Pratt , American actress
September 25: Rossif Sutherland , Canadian actor

October to December

October

0October 3rd: Christian Coulson , British actor
0October 3: Shannyn Sossamon , American actress
0October 4th: Mark Day , British film editor
0October 7: Omar Benson Miller , American actor
October 10: Jodi Lyn O'Keefe , American actress
October 11: Trevor Donovan , American actor
October 14: Usher Raymond , American R&B singer and actor
October 17th: Erin Karpluk , Canadian actress
October 21: Will Estes , American actor
October 21: Michael McMillian , American actor
October 25: Zachary Knighton , American actor
October 27: David Walton , American actor
October 28: Marta Etura , Spanish actress
October 30: Matthew Morrison , American musical performer and actor

November

0November 1: Mary Kate Schellhardt , American actress
0November 2: Whit Hertford , American actor
0November 6: Taryn Manning , American actress
0November 8: Keir O'Donnell , American actor
November 10: Eve , American rapper and actress
November 12th: Ashley Williams , American actress
November 12: Alexandra Maria Lara , German-Romanian actress
November 14th: Delphine Chanéac , French actress
November 17: Rachel McAdams , Canadian actress
November 17: Tom Ellis , Welsh actor
November 17th: Zoë Bell , New Zealand stunt woman and actress
November 20: Nadine Velazquez , Puerto Rican-American actress and model
November 22nd: Leo Gregory , British actor
November 24th: Katherine Heigl , American actress
November 27th: Unax Ugalde , Spanish actor
November 28: Aimee Garcia , American actress
November 29: Lauren German , American actress
November 30th: Gael García Bernal , Mexican actor

December

0December 6: Karen Denise Aubert , American actress
0December 7th: Shiri Appleby , American actress
0December 7th: Jeff Nichols , American screenwriter and director
0December 8: Ian Somerhalder , American actor
0December 9: Jesse Metcalfe , American actor
December 10th: Summer Phoenix , American actress
December 16: Joe Absolom , British actor
December 18: Katie Holmes , American actress
December 20: Amanda Swisten , American actress
December 23: Estella Warren , Canadian actress
December 25: Jeremy Strong , American actor
December 27: Lisa Jakub , Canadian actress
December 29th: Ali Hillis , American actress
December 30th: Tyrese Gibson , African-American R&B singer, rapper, actor, and model