Film year 1987
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Events
- Steven Spielberg's drama The Empire of the Sun is the first Hollywood production to be allowed to film in China .
- The winners of the BRAVO Otto readers' choice 1987
- Category - Male Movie Stars: Gold Tom Cruise , Silver Sylvester Stallone , Bronze Eddie Murphy
- Category - Female Film Stars: Gold Kelly McGillis , Silver Jennifer Gray , Bronze Brigitte Nielsen
Top 10 most successful films
In Germany
The ten most successful films at the German box office by number of visitors (as of November 17, 2018):
| space | Movie title | Visitors |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Dirty Dancing | 8,700,248 |
| 2. | Otto - the new film | 6,458,957 |
| 3. | Crocodile Dundee - A crocodile to kiss | 5,758,937 |
| 4th | Beverly Hills Cop II | 3,441,234 |
| 5. | The last emperor | 3,124,114 |
| 6th | James Bond 007 - The Living Daylights | 3,106,367 |
| 7th | Asterix with the British | 2,937,686 |
| 8th. | The journey into the self | 2,614,597 |
| 9. | Platoon | 2,481,083 |
| 10. | Police Academy 4 - And now it's all about | 2,235,128 |
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: Platoon by Oliver Stone
- Best Musical / Comedy: Hannah and Her Sisters by Woody Allen
- Best Actor (Drama): Bob Hoskins in Mona Lisa
- Best Actress (Drama): Marlee Matlin in God's Forgotten Children
- Best Actor (Musical / Comedy): Paul Hogan in Crocodile Dundee - A crocodile to kiss
- Best Actress (Musical / Comedy): Sissy Spacek in Criminal Hearts
- Best Supporting Actor: Tom Berenger in Platoon
- Best Supporting Actress: Maggie Smith in Room With a View
- Best Director: Oliver Stone for Platoon
- Best music: Ennio Morricone for Mission
- Cecil B. DeMille Award : Anthony Quinn
Academy Awards
The Academy Awards will be held on March 30th at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. The moderators are Chevy Chase , Goldie Hawn and Paul Hogan .
- Best film: Platoon by Oliver Stone
- Best Actor: Paul Newman in The Color of Money
- Best Actress: Marlee Matlin in God's Forgotten Children
- Best Director: Oliver Stone for Platoon
- Best Supporting Actor: Michael Caine in Hannah and Her Sisters
- Best supporting actress: Dianne Wiest in Hannah and her sisters
- Best Original Screenplay: Woody Allen for Hannah and her sisters
- Best camera: Chris Menges for Mission
- Best music: Herbie Hancock for Round Midnight
- Best Foreign Language Film: The attack by Fons Rademakers
- Honorary Oscar: Ralph Bellamy
- Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award : Steven Spielberg
Complete list of award winners
Cannes International Film Festival 1987
The festival starts on May 7th and ends on May 19th. The jury under President Yves Montand awards the following prizes:
- Golden Palm : The Sun of Satan by Maurice Pialat
- Best Actor: Marcello Mastroianni in Black Eyes
- Best Actress: Barbara Hershey in Shy People
- Best director: Wim Wenders for Der Himmel über Berlin
Berlin International Film Festival 1987
The festival starts on February 20th and ends on March 3rd. The jury under President Klaus Maria Brandauer awards the following prizes:
- Golden Bear : Theme by Gleb Anatoljewitsch Panfilow
- Best Actor: Gian Maria Volonté in The Aldo Moro Affair (Il caso Moro)
- Best actress: Ana Beatriz Nogueira in Vera
- Best Director: Oliver Stone for Platoon
Venice Film Festival
The festival starts on August 29th and ends on September 9th. The jury under President Irene Papas awards the following prizes:
- Golden Lion : Goodbye, children of Louis Malle
- Best Actor: Hugh Grant and James Wilby in Maurice
- Best Actress: Soo-yeon Kang in The Surrogate Mother
German film award
- Best film: Francesca by Vérénice Rudolph
- Best director: Peter Lilienthal for The Silence of the Poet
- Best leading actress: Özay Fecht for 40 qm Germany , Rebecca Pauly for Peng! You are dead! and Katharina Thalbach for paradise
- Best Actor: Sean Connery for The Name of the Rose
César
- Best film: Therese by Alain Cavalier
- Best director: Alain Cavalier for Therese
- Best Actor: Daniel Auteuil for Jean de Florette
- Best leading actress: Sabine Azéma for Mélo
- Best Supporting Actor: Pierre Arditi for Mélo
- Best Supporting Actress: Emmanuelle Béart for Manon's Revenge
- Best Foreign Film: The Name of the Rose by Jean-Jacques Annaud
British Academy Film Award
- Best Picture: Room With a View by James Ivory
- Best directed by Woody Allen for Hannah and her sisters
- Best Actor: Bob Hoskins for Mona Lisa
- Best Actress: Maggie Smith for Room With a View
- Best Supporting Actor: Ray McAnally for Mission
- Best supporting actress: Judi Dench for Rooms with a View
- Best Foreign Language Film: Ran by Akira Kurosawa
New York Film Critics Circle Award
- Best Picture: News Fever - Broadcast News by James L. Brooks
- Best Director: James L. Brooks for News Fever - Broadcast News
- Best Actor: Jack Nicholson in News Fever - Broadcast News , The Witches of Eastwick, and Spurge
- Best Actress: Holly Hunter in News Fever - Broadcast News
- Best Supporting Actor: Morgan Freeman in Glittering Asphalt
- Best Supporting Actress: Vanessa Redgrave in The Stormy Life of Joe Orton
- Best camera: Vittorio Storaro for The Last Emperor
- Best Foreign Film: My Life as a Dog by Lasse Hallstrom
National Board of Review
- Best Film: The Realm of the Sun by Steven Spielberg
- Best director: Steven Spielberg for Das Reich der Sonne
- Best Actor: Michael Douglas in Wall Street
- Best Actress: Lillian Gish in Wale in August and Holly Hunter in News Fever - Broadcast News
- Best Supporting Actor: Sean Connery in The Untouchables
- Best Supporting Actress: Olympia Dukakis in Moonstruck
- Best Foreign Language Film: Jean de Florette and Manon's Revenge by Claude Berri
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
- Best Film: Hope and Glory by John Boorman
- Best Director: John Boorman for Hope and Glory
- Best Actor: Steve Martin in Roxanne; and Jack Nicholson in Spurge and The Witches of Eastwick
- Best Actress: Holly Hunter in News Fever - Broadcast News and Sally Kirkland in Anna… Exile New York
- Best Supporting Actor: Morgan Freeman in Glittering Asphalt
- Best Supporting Actress: Olympia Dukakis in Moonstruck
- Best Foreign Language Film: Goodbye, Children of Louis Malle
Further film prizes and awards
- AFI Life Achievement Award : Barbara Stanwyck
- Amanda : X by Oddvar Einarson (Best Norwegian Film), Down by Law by Jim Jarmusch (Best International Film)
- American Comedy Awards : Woody Allen in Hannah and Her Sisters (Funniest Actor), Bette Midler in The Incredible Abduction of Mad Mrs. Stone (Funniest Actress)
- American Society of Cinematographers Award: Allen Daviau for The Realm of the Sun
- Australian Film Institute Award: The Year of My First Love by John Duigan
- David di Donatello : The Family (Best Italian Film) and Room With a View (Best Foreign Film)
- German Critic Award : Jan Schütte
- Directors Guild of America Award : Oliver Stone for Platoon , Elia Kazan (Lifetime Achievement)
- Ernst Lubitsch Prize : Peter Timm for Meier
- Evening Standard British Film Award : Room With a View by James Ivory
- Genie Award : The Fall of the American Empire by Denys Arcand
- Gilde Film Prize : Room with a View by James Ivory (Gold Foreign Film), God's Forgotten Children by Randa Haines (Silver Foreign Film), Meier by Peter Timm (Gold German Film), Der Flieger by Erwin Keusch (Silver German Film)
- Guldbagge : victim of Andrei Tarkowski
- Hong Kong Film Awards : City Wolf by John Woo
- Independent Spirit Awards 1987 : Platoon by Oliver Stone and Zimmer with a View by James Ivory (Best Foreign Film)
- Jupiter : The Name of the Rose by Jean-Jacques Annaud (Best Picture), Farrah Fawcett (Best Actress), Sean Connery (Best Actor)
- Louis Delluc Prize : Goodbye, children of Louis Malle and Protect your rights by Jean-Luc Godard
- Nastro d'Argento : The family of Ettore Scola and At midnight by Bertrand Tavernier
- National Society of Film Critics Award : Blue Velvet by David Lynch
- People's Choice Award : Top Gun by Tony Scott (Most Popular Film), Clint Eastwood (Most Popular Actor), Meryl Streep (Most Popular Actress)
- Political Film Society Award for Peace : Platoon by Oliver Stone
- Political Film Society Award for Human Rights : Matewan by John Sayles
- German Film Critics' Prize : Drachenfutter by Jan Schütte
- Robert : Flambéed Hearts by Helle Ryslinge (Best Danish Film), My Life as a Dog by Lasse Hallström (Best Foreign Film)
- Sundance Film Festival : The Trouble with Dick by Gary Walkow and Waiting for the Moon by Jill Godmilow
- Toronto International Film Festival : The Prince's Bride by Rob Reiner
- Warsaw International Film Festival : Birdy by Alan Parker (Audience Award)
- Writers Guild of America Award: Hannah and Her Sisters by Woody Allen (Best Original Screenplay), Room with a View by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Best Adapted Screenplay), Woody Allen (Lifetime Achievement)
- Young Artist Award : Karate Kid II - Decision in Okinawa by John G. Avildsen (Best Drama), The Flying Moped by Hoite C. Caston (Best Comedy), Peter Billingsley in The Flying Moped (Best Actor), Laura Jacoby in Rad ( Best actress)
Birthdays
January to March
January
- January 2: Shelley Hennig , American actress
- January 7: Lyndsy Fonseca , American actress
- January 12: Will Rothhaar , American actor
- January 20: Evan Peters , American actor
- January 24th: Ruth Bradley , Irish actress
- January 25th: Hafsia Herzi , French actress
February
- February 2: Martin Spanjers , American actor
- February 21: Ashley Greene , American actress and model
- February 21: Ellen Page , Canadian actress
- February 25: Natalie Dreyfuss , American actress
- February 28: Nora Heschl , Austrian actress
- February 28: Michelle Horn , American actress
March
- March 8: Devon Graye , American actor
- March 6: Hannah Taylor-Gordon , British actress
- March 24th: María Valverde , Spanish actress
April to June
April
Brooklyn Decker (born April 12)
- April 1: Mackenzie Davis , Canadian actress
- April 1st: Jenna Presley , American porn actress
- April 9: Jesse McCartney , American actor and singer
- April 10: Jamie Renée Smith , American actress
- April 10: Brooklyn Decker , American model and actress
- April 18: Rosie Huntington-Whiteley , British model and actress
- April 19: Oxana Akinschina , Russian actress
- April 19: Markus Kaatsch , German producer and director
May
- May 5th: Jessie Cave , British actress
- May 13: Hunter Parrish , American actor
- May 21: Ashlie Brillault , American actress
- May 24th: Déborah François , Belgian actress
- May 25: Toni Deutsch , German actor
Bella Heathcote (born May 27)
- May 27: Bella Heathcote , Australian actress
July to September
July
- July 6: Matt O'Leary , American actor
- July 16: AnnaLynne McCord , American actress
- July 24th: Mara Wilson , American actress
- July 25: Michael Welch , American actor
August
- August 5th: Genelia D'Souza , Indian Bollywood actress
- August 8: Pierre Boulanger , French actor
- August 11th: Wolfgang Rauh , Austrian actor
- August 21: Cody Kasch , American actor
- August 18: Mika Boorem , American actress
- August 25: Blake Lively , American actress
- August 30: Cameron Finley , American actor
September
- September 7: Evan Rachel Wood , American actress
- September 11th: Tyler Hoechlin , American actor
- September 19: Danielle Panabaker , American actress
- September 22nd: Tom Felton , British actor
- September 24: Spencer Treat Clark , American actor
- September 28: Hilary Duff , American actress and singer
- September 29th: Anaïs Demoustier , French actress
October to December
October
- October 5th: Yvonne Greitzke , German actress and voice actress
- October 18: Zac Efron , American actor
December
- December 3: Michael Angarano , American actor
- December 16: Hallee Hirsh , American actress
- December 28: Thomas Dekker , American actor
- December 28th: Luise Risch , German actress
deceased
January to March
January
- January 2: Arthur Gould-Porter , British-American actor (* 1905)
- January 14th: Douglas Sirk , German director (* 1897)
- January 15: Ray Bolger , American actor (* 1904)
- January 15: Rudolf Carl , Austrian actor (* 1899)
- January 16: Joyce Jameson , American actor (born 1932)
- January 17: Aram Avakian , American film director, screenwriter and film editor (* 1926)
- January 19: Harry Keller , American film editor and director (* 1913)
- January 31: Yves Allégret , French director (* 1907)
February
- February 1: Gustav Knuth , German actor (* 1901)
- February 10: William Rose , American screenwriter (born 1914)
- February 19: Kirsten Walther , Danish actress (* 1933)
- February 25: James Coco , American actor (* 1930)
- February 28: Anny Ondra , Polish-Czech actress (* 1902)
March
- March 2: Randolph Scott , American actor (* 1898)
- March 3: Danny Kaye , American actor (* 1911)
- March 7th: Henri Decaë , French cameraman (* 1915)
- March 21: Robert Preston , American actor (born 1918)
- March 22: Joan Shawlee , American actress (* 1926)
- March 23: Maurice Labro , French film director and screenwriter (* 1910)
- March 26: Walter Abel , American actor (* 1898)
April to June
- April 3: Robert Dalban , French actor (* 1903)
- April 10: Berta Drews , German actress (* 1901)
- April 11: Kent Taylor , American actor (born 1906)
- April 12: Hertha von Walther , German actress (* 1903)
- April 17: Dick Shawn , American actor (born 1923)
- April 27: Attila Hörbiger , Austrian actor (* 1896)
May
- May 3: Dalida , French singer and actress (* 1933)
- May 4th: Lilli Schoenborn , German actress (* 1898)
- May 7th: Colin Blakely , British actor (born 1930)
- May 14: Rita Hayworth , American actress (* 1918)
- May 24th: Hermione Gingold , British actress (* 1897)
- May 30th: Hilde Weissner , German actress (* 1909)
June
- June 1: Khwaja Ahmad Abbas , Indian director (* 1914)
- June 3: Will Sampson , American actor (born 1933)
- June 8: Daniel Mandell , American film editor (* 1895)
- June 10: Elizabeth Hartman , American actress (born 1943)
- June 11th: Dan Vadis , American actor (* 1938)
- June 13: Geraldine Page , American actress (* 1924)
- June 14: Stanisław Bareja , Polish director (* 1929)
- June 22nd: Fred Astaire , American actor (* 1899)
- June 24: Jackie Gleason , American actor (born 1916)
July to September
- July 3: Viola Dana , American actress (* 1897)
- July 7th: Hannelore Schroth , German actress (* 1922)
- July 8: Oskar Kalbus , German film historian and producer (* 1890)
- July 15: Alfie Bass , British film and theater actor (born 1921)
- July 20: Richard Egan , American actor (born 1921)
- July 28: Arthur Bressan , American director and producer (* 1940)
August
- August 1: Pola Negri , Polish actress (* 1897)
- August 17th: Clarence Brown , American director (* 1890)
- August 19: Hayden Rorke , American actor (born 1910)
- August 21: Angelo Francesco Lavagnino , Italian composer (* 1909)
- August 28: John Huston , American director and actor (born 1906)
- August 29: Lee Marvin , American actor (born 1924)
September
- September 4th: Richard Marquand , British director (born 1938)
- September 8: Konrad Georg , German actor (* 1914)
- September 11: Lorne Greene , Canadian actor (born 1915)
- September 12: John Qualen , Canadian actor (* 1899)
- September 13: Mervyn LeRoy , American director (* 1900)
- September 23: Bob Fosse , American director and choreographer (* 1927)
- September 23: Erland van Lidth , American actor (* 1953)
- September 25: Mary Astor , American actress (* 1906)
October to December
- October 2: Madeleine Carroll , British actress (* 1906)
- October 2: Russell Rouse , American screenwriter and director (born 1913)
- October 14th: Basil Wright , British documentary filmmaker (born 1907)
- October 21: Pál Gábor , Hungarian director (* 1932)
- October 22: Lino Ventura , French actor (* 1919)
November
- November 5: Georges Franju , French director (* 1912)
- November 21: Ivan Jandl , Czech actor (* 1937)
- November 28: Wolfgang Liebeneiner , German director (* 1905)
December
- December 4: Rouben Mamoulian , American director (* 1897)
- December 10: Don Orlando , Italian-American actor (* 1912)
- December 17: Arkadi Isaakowitsch Raikin , Soviet-Russian actor and director (* 1911)
- December 21: Ralph Nelson , American director (born 1916)
- December 30th: Leslie Arliss , British screenwriter and director (born 1901)
Day unknown
- Rolf Badenhausen , German dramaturge (* 1907)
Individual evidence
- ^ The most successful films in Germany 1987. In: InsideKino. November 17, 2018, accessed November 17, 2018 .
Web links
Commons : Film Year 1987 - collection of images, videos and audio files
