Film year 1981

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Film year 1981
On September 17, 1981, the film has the boat by Wolfgang Petersen premiere. The U96 submarine was recreated for the film in Bavaria Filmstadt .

Events

September 17th: World premiere of Das Boot (director: Wolfgang Petersen ). This film, cut in different versions, has also proven to be very successful internationally in its cinema and television broadcasts. With almost 6 million moviegoers, it is one of the ten most successful German productions in Germany. In the USA it ranks second among the most successful German productions.
MGM buys the troubled competitor United Artists from its parent company Transamerica Corporation . UA had previously made massive losses with the film Heaven's Gate .
The Austrian Film Institute is founded.
Tom Cruise made his debut in the film Endless Love
The winners of the BRAVO Otto readers' choice 1981:
- Category - Male Movie Stars: Gold Roger Moore , Silver Matt Dillon , Bronze Christopher Atkins
- Category - Female Movie Stars: Gold Farrah Fawcett , Silver Kristy McNichol , Bronze Brooke Shields
The Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) and the Austrian Film Institute (ÖFI) decide on the film / television agreement on October 12th .

Top 10 most successful films

In Germany

The ten most successful films at the German box office according to attendance (as of November 18, 2018):

space	Movie title	Visitors
1.	Cap and Capper - two friends on eight paws	5,011,443
2.	James Bond 007 - On a Deadly Mission	4,845,496
3.	All hell breaks loose on the highway	4,838,000
4th	Christiane F. - We children from Bahnhof Zoo	4,699,090
5.	The boat	3,845,596
6th	the rattlesnake	2,602,998
7th	Hunter of the lost treasure	2,498,639
8th.	Two aces come up trumps	2,229,193
9.	A fist goes west	1,953,000
10.	Popsicle 3 - love affairs	1,757,426

Film awards

Golden Globe Award

The Golden Globe Awards will take place on January 31st at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.

Best drama: A normal family of Robert Redford
Best Musical / Comedy: Nashville Lady by Michael Apted
Best Actor (Drama): Robert De Niro in Like a Wild Bull
Best Actress (Drama): Mary Tyler Moore in An Ordinary Family
Best Actor (Musical / Comedy): Ray Sharkey in The Idolmaker
Best Actress (Musical / Comedy): Sissy Spacek in Nashville Lady
Best Supporting Actor: Timothy Hutton in An Ordinary Family
Best Supporting Actress: Mary Steenburgen in Melvin and Howard
Best Director: Robert Redford for An Ordinary Family
Cecil B. DeMille Award : Gene Kelly

Academy Awards

The Academy Awards will be held on March 31st at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. The moderator is Johnny Carson .

Best Picture: Ordinary People by Robert Redford
Best Actor: Robert De Niro in Like a Wild Bull
Best Actress: Sissy Spacek in Nashville Lady
Best Director: Robert Redford for An Ordinary Family
Best Supporting Actor: Timothy Hutton in A Just Ordinary Family
Best Supporting Actress: Mary Steenburgen in Melvin and Howard
Best music and best song: Michael Gore for Fame - The Path to Fame
Best foreign language film: Moscow does not believe the tears of Vladimir Menshov
Honorary Oscar: Henry Fonda

Complete list of award winners

International Cannes Film Festival 1981

The festival starts on May 13th and ends on May 27th. The jury under President Jacques Deray awards the following prizes:

Golden Palm : The Iron Man by Andrzej Wajda
Best Actor: Ugo Tognazzi in The Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man
Best actress: Isabelle Adjani in quartet and possession
Grand Jury Prize: light years away from Alain Tanner

Berlin International Film Festival 1981

The festival starts on February 13th and ends on February 24th. The jury under President Jutta Brückner awards the following prizes:

Golden Bear : Come on, speed! by Carlos Saura
Best Actor: Anatoly Solonitsyn in 26 Days from Dostoevsky's Life and Jack Lemmon in A Summer in Manhattan
Best Actress: Barbara Grabowska in Fever

Venice Film Festival

The festival starts on September 2nd and ends on September 11th. The jury under President Italo Calvino awards the following prizes:

Golden Lion : The leaden time of Margarethe von Trotta
Special Jury Prize: Golden Dreams by Nanni Moretti and Ohne Schlips und Kragen by Leon Hirszman

German film award

Best film: Lots of money from Adolf Winkelmann
Best directors: Walter Bockmayer and Rolf Bührmann for Looping
Best leading actress: Ingrid Caven for Looping and Ilse Pagé for Engel aus Eisen
Best leading actor: Sigfrit Steiner for The moon is just a naked ball and Rolf Zacher for Endstation Freiheit

César

Best Film: The Last Metro by François Truffaut
Best director: François Truffaut for The Last Metro
Best Actor: Gérard Depardieu for The Last Metro
Best Actress: Catherine Deneuve for The Last Metro
Best Supporting Actor: Jacques Dufilho for The Unrated Son
Best Supporting Actress: Nathalie Baye for Save Yourself, Who Can (Life)
Best Foreign Film: Kagemusha - The Shadow of the Warrior by Akira Kurosawa

British Academy Film Award

Best Film: The Elephant Man by David Lynch
Best Director: Akira Kurosawa for Kagemusha - The Warrior's Shadow
Best Actor: John Hurt for The Elephant Man
Best Actress: Judy Davis for My Brilliant Career

New York Film Critics Circle Award

Best Picture: Reds by Warren Beatty
Best Director: Sidney Lumet for Prince of the City
Best Actor: Burt Lancaster in Atlantic City, USA
Best Actress: Glenda Jackson in Stevie
Best Supporting Actor: John Gielgud in Arthur - No Child of Sadness
Best Supporting Actress: Mona Washbourne in Stevie
Best Cinematography: David Watkin for The Hour of the Winner
Best foreign film: Asphalt Sharks by Héctor Babenco

National Board of Review

Best Picture: Reds by Warren Beatty and The Hour of the Victorious by Hugh Hudson
Best Director: Warren Beatty for Reds
Best Actor: Henry Fonda in The Golden Lake
Best Actress: Glenda Jackson in Stevie
Best Supporting Actor: Jack Nicholson in Reds
Best Supporting Actress: Mona Washbourne in Stevie
Best Foreign Language Film: Days from the Life of Ilya Oblomov by Nikita Michalkow

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

Best film: Atlantic City, USA by Louis Malle
Best Director: Warren Beatty for Reds
Best Actor: Burt Lancaster in Atlantic City, USA
Best Actress: Meryl Streep in The French Lieutenant's Beloved
Best Supporting Actor: John Gielgud in Arthur - No Child of Sadness
Best Supporting Actress: Maureen Stapleton in Reds
Best foreign language film: Asphalt-Haie by Héctor Babenco
Life's work: Barbara Stanwyck

Further film prizes and awards

AFI Life Achievement Award : Fred Astaire
Australian Film Institute Award : Gallipoli by Peter Weir
David di Donatello : Ricomincio da tre (Best Italian Film)
German critic award : Margarethe von Trotta
Directors Guild of America Award : Robert Redford for a completely normal family , George Cukor and Joseph L. Mankiewicz (awards for their life's work)
Ernst Lubitsch Prize : Marius Müller-Westernhagen for Theo against the rest of the world
Evening Standard British Film Award : Yanks - Yesterday we were strangers from John Schlesinger
Gilde Film Prize : Fame - The Path to Glory by Alan Parker (Gold Foreign Film), Kleine Fluchten von Yves Yersin (Silver Foreign Film), Lena Rais by Christian Rischert (Gold German Film), The Wonderful Years by Reiner Kunze (Silver German Movie)
Golden Leopard : The Wheel of Fortune by Rabindra Dharmaraj
Guldbagge : Children's Island by Kay Pollak
Louis Delluc Prize : A Strange Career for Pierre Granier-Deferre
Max Ophüls Prize : Taxi to the Toilet by Frank Ripploh
Nastro d'Argento : Three Brothers of Francesco Rosi and Kagemusha - The Shadow of the Warrior by Akira Kurosawa
National Society of Film Critics Award : Melvin and Howard by Jonathan Demme
People's Choice Award : The Empire Strikes Back by Irvin Kershner (Most Popular Film), Clint Eastwood (Most Popular Actor), Jane Fonda (Most Popular Actress)
German Film Critics' Prize : The Last Hole by Herbert Achternbusch
Toronto International Film Festival : The Victor's Hour by Hugh Hudson (Audience Award)
Writers Guild of America Award : Melvin and Howard (Best Original Screenplay, Drama), Sagittarius Benjamin (Best Original Screenplay, Comedy), An Ordinary Family (Best Adapted Screenplay, Drama), The Incredible Journey On A Crazy Plane (Best Adapted Screenplay, Comedy ), Ben Hecht (posthumously for his life's work)
Young Artist Award : Touched by Love by Gus Trikonis (Best Film), Justin Henry in Kramer versus Kramer (Best Actor), Diane Lane in Touched by Love (Best Actress)

Birthdays

January to March

Antje Traue (born January 18)

Matthias Schweighöfer (born March 11th)

Julia Stiles (born March 28)

January

0January 6: Rinko Kikuchi , Japanese actress
0January 6th: Jérémie Renier , Belgian actor
January 17: Scott Mechlowicz , American actor
January 18: Antje Traue , German actress
January 21: Izabella Miko , US-Polish actress
January 22nd: Beverley Mitchell , American actress
January 23: Julia Jones , American actress
January 26: Colin O'Donoghue , Irish actor
January 28: Elijah Wood , American actor
January 31: Constanze Behrends , German actress and singer

February

0February 5: Nora Zehetner , American actress
February 17: Joseph Gordon-Levitt , American actor
February 27th: Aino Laberenz , German stage and costume designer

March

0March 1: Adam LaVorgna , American actor
0March 2: Bryce Dallas Howard , American actress
0March 6: Ellen Muth , American actress
0March 7th: Andreas Wilson , Swedish actor
March 11: David Anders , American actor
March 11th: Matthias Schweighöfer , German actor
March 13: April Matson , American actress
March 18: Vanessa Lee Evigan , American actress
March 19: Kim Rae-won , South Korean actor
March 20: Jake Hoffman , American actor
March 26: Luke Ford , Australian actor
March 28: Julia Stiles , American actress
March 30th: Katy Mixon , American actress

April to June

Jessica Alba (born April 28)

Natalie Portman (born June 9)

April

0April 2: Bethany Joy Lenz , American actress
0April 5: Tom Riley , British actor
0April 6: Eliza Coupe , American actress
April 10: Michael Pitt , American actor
April 17: Charlie Hofheimer , American actor
April 19: Hayden Christensen , Canadian actor
April 19: Catalina Sandino Moreno , Colombian actress
April 26th: Mariana Ximenes , Brazilian actress
April 28: Jessica Alba , American actress
April 28: Cheyenne Rushing , American actress

May

0May 8: Stephen Amell , Canadian actor
May 11: Austin O'Brien , American actor
May 12: Rami Malek , American actor
May 13: Rebecka Liljeberg , Swedish actress
May 14th: Philippe Reinhardt , Swiss actor
May 15: Jamie-Lynn Sigler , American actress
May 16: Jim Sturgess , British actor
May 17th: Cosma Shiva Hagen , German actress
May 27: Helmut La , Austrian actor

June

0June 6: Felix Nottensteiner , German actor
0June 7th: Larisa Oleynik , American actress
0June 9th: Celina Jaitley , Indian Bollywood actress
0June 9: Natalie Portman , American actress
June 10: Jonathan Bennett , American actor
June 13: Chris Evans , American actor
June 20: Alisan Porter , American actress
June 22nd: Amanda Brooks , American actress
June 25: Joe Taslim , Indonesian actor
June 30th: Tom Burke , British actor
June 30th: Alissa Jung , German actress

July to September

Mélanie Thierry (born July 17)

Ben Barnes (born August 20)

Nicole Richie (born September 21)

July

0July 1: Nick Nicotera , American actor
0July 2: Eralp Uzun , German actor († 2013)
0July 4th: Alexander Merbeth , German actor
0July 4th: Tahar Rahim , French actor
0July 4th: Friedemann Thiele , German actor
0July 5: Ryan Hansen , American actor
0July 6: Sandra Knoll , Austrian actress
0July 8: Ashley Blue , American porn actress
July 14: Trevor Fehrman , American actor
July 14th: Pablo Sprungala , German actor
July 15: Taylor Kinney , American actor
July 17th: Jakob M. Erwa , Austrian director and screenwriter
July 17th: Mélanie Thierry , French actress
July 17th: Mélanie Thierry , French actress
July 18: Angela Trimbur , American actress
July 21: Gerrit Jansen , German actor
July 31: Eric Lively , American actor

August

0August 8: Meagan Good , American actress
August 10: Yaani King , American actress
August 20: Ben Barnes , British singer and actor
August 20: Jacob Weigert , German actor and speaker
August 22: Ross Marquand , American actor
August 24: Chad Michael Murray , American actor
August 25: Rachel Bilson , American actress
August 29: Émilie Dequenne , Belgian actress
August 29: Michelle Meadows , Swedish actress

September

0September 1st: Nina Zanjani , Swedish actress
0September 4th: Beyoncé Knowles , American actress
0September 7th: Hannah Herzsprung , German actress
0September 9: Julie Gonzalo , American actress
September 11th: Paul Pieck , German cameraman
September 12: Jennifer Hudson , American actress
September 16: Alexis Bledel , American actress
September 18: Jennifer Tisdale , American actress
September 21: Nicole Richie , American actress
September 24th: Sebastian Edtbauer , German actor
September 24: Yūki Matsuzaki , Japanese actor
September 25th: Axel Fischer , German actor
September 25: Lee Norris , American actor
September 27th: Cytherea , American porn actress
September 27: Mirjam Weichselbraun , Austrian actress and voice actress
September 28: Gül Gölge , Turkish actress

October to December

Rupert Friend (born October 1)

Caterina Scorsone (born October 16)

Scottie Thompson (born November 9th)

Sienna Miller (born December 28)

October

0October 1: Rupert Friend , British actor
0October 2: Erik Fellows , American actor and model
0October 2nd: Annette Strasser , German actress
0October 3: Seth Gabel , American actor
0October 3: Daniel James , New Zealand actor and voice actor
0October 7th: Jelena Jensen , American porn actress
0October 9: Zachery Ty Bryan , American actor
0October 9: Tad Hilgenbrink , American actor
October 12: Thomas Guiry , American actor
October 12: Brian J. Smith , American actor
October 16: Brea Grant , American actress
October 16: Caterina Scorsone , Canadian actress
October 19: Karoline Schuch , German actress
October 22: Michael Fishman , American actor
October 24th: Natalie Langer , German presenter and actress
October 24th: Jemima Rooper , British actress
October 24: Tila Tequila , American singer and actress
October 25: Josh Henderson , American actor

November

0November 1: Matt L. Jones , American actor
0November 7th: Murathan Muslu , Austrian actor
0November 8: Azura Skye , American actress
0November 9: Scottie Thompson , American actress
November 13: Shawn Yue , Chinese actor
November 17th: Sarah Harding , British dancer, singer and actress
November 18: Vittoria Puccini , Italian actress
November 18: Christina Vidal , American actress
November 24: Michael Patrick Carter , American actor
November 27th: Nina Hartmann , Austrian actress
November 30th: Swann Arlaud , French actor
November 30: Teddy Dunn , American actor
November 30th: Olga Krasko , Russian actress

December

0December 1st: Nora Waldstätten , Austrian actress
0December 2nd: Lesley-Ann Brandt , South African actress
0December 2: Eric Jungmann , American actor
0December 2: Britney Spears , American singer and actress
0December 3: Liza Lapira , American actress
December 11th: Courtney Henggeler , American actress
December 15th: Michelle Dockery , British actress
December 16: Krysten Ritter , American actress
December 28: Sienna Miller , American actress
December 31: Michael Shulman , American actor

Day unknown

Björn Ahrens , German actor
Felix Hassenfratz , German director and screenwriter