Film year 1988

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Film year 1988
Cher received this year's Oscar for best actress for Moonstruck .

Events

The winners of the BRAVO Otto readers' choice in 1988:
- Category - Male Movie Stars: Gold Patrick Swayze , Silver Sylvester Stallone , Bronze Eddie Murphy
- Category - Female Movie Stars: Gold Jennifer Gray , Silver Linda Kozlowski , Bronze Kelly McGillis

Top 10 most successful films

In Germany

The ten most successful films at the German box office according to attendance (as of November 4, 2018):

space	Movie title	Visitors
1.	A fateful affair	4,683,631
2.	Oedipussi	4,612,801
3.	Wrong game with Roger Rabbit	4,300,769
4th	The prince from Zamunda	3,896,204
5.	Crocodile Dundee II	3,746,964
6th	Me and him	3,530,164
7th	Rambo III	2,630,309
8th.	One speaks German	2,152,136
9.	Anna - the film	1,765,731
10.	Willow	1,565,060

Film awards

Golden Globe Award

The Golden Globe Awards will take place on January 23 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.

Best Drama: The Last Emperor by Bernardo Bertolucci
Best Musical / Comedy: Hope and Glory by John Boorman
Best Actor (Drama): Michael Douglas in Wall Street
Best Actress (Drama): Sally Kirkland in Anna ... Exile New York
Best Actor (Musical / Comedy): Robin Williams in Good Morning, Vietnam
Best Actress (Musical / Comedy): Cher in Moonstruck
Best Supporting Actor: Sean Connery in The Untouchables
Best Supporting Actress: Olympia Dukakis in Moonstruck
Best director: Bernardo Bertolucci for The Last Emperor
Best music: David Byrne for The Last Emperor
Cecil B. DeMille Award : Clint Eastwood

Academy Awards

The Academy Awards will be held on April 11 at the Shrine Civic Auditorium in Los Angeles. The moderator is Chevy Chase .

Best film: The Last Emperor by Bernardo Bertolucci
Best Actor: Michael Douglas in Wall Street
Best Actress: Cher in Moonstruck
Best director: Bernardo Bertolucci for The Last Emperor
Best Supporting Actor: Sean Connery in The Untouchables
Best Supporting Actress: Olympia Dukakis in Moonstruck
Best camera: Vittorio Storaro for The Last Emperor
Best music: David Byrne for The Last Emperor
Best foreign language film: Babette's Festival by Gabriel Axel
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award : Billy Wilder

Complete list of award winners

Cannes International Film Festival 1988

The festival starts on May 11th and ends on May 23rd. The jury under President Ettore Scola awards the following prizes:

Golden palm : Pelle, the conqueror of Bille August
Best Actor: Forest Whitaker in Bird
Best Actress: Barbara Hershey , Jodhi May and Linda Mvusi in Two Worlds
Best Director: Pino Solanas for South - Sur

Berlin International Film Festival 1988

The festival starts on February 12th and ends on February 23rd. The jury under President Guglielmo Biraghi awards the following prizes:

Golden Bear : Red Cornfield by Zhang Yimou
Best actor: Jörg Pose and Manfred Möck in each other's burden ...
Best Actress: Holly Hunter in News Fever - Broadcast News
Best Director: Norman Jewison for Moonstruck

Venice Film Festival

The festival starts on August 29th and ends on September 9th. The jury under President Sergio Leone awards the following prizes:

Golden Lion : The Legend of the Holy Drinker by Ermanno Olmi
Best Actor: Don Ameche and Joe Mantegna in Things Change
Best actress: Shirley MacLaine in Madame Sousatzka and Isabelle Huppert in Eine Frauensache
Golden Lion of Honor for his life's work: Joris Ivens

European film award

The European Film Prize was awarded on November 26th at the Theater des Westens in Berlin .

Best film: A short film about the killing of Krzysztof Kieślowski
Best actor: Max von Sydow in Pelle, the conqueror of Bille August
Best Actress: Carmen Maura in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown by Pedro Almodóvar
Best supporting actor: Curt Bois in Der Himmel über Berlin by Wim Wenders
Best supporting actress: Johanna ter Steege in Disappeared Without a Trace by George Sluizer
Best director: Wim Wenders for Der Himmel über Berlin

German film award

Best film: The sky over Berlin by Wim Wenders
Best director: Dominik Graf for The Cat
Best leading actress: Adriana Altaras for Das Mikoskop and Marianne Sägebrecht for Out of Rosenheim
Best Actor: Michel Piccoli for Das weite Land and Vladimir Weigl for Das Mikoskop

National Feature Film Festival of the GDR

Best film: Fallada - Last chapter by Roland Gräf
Best director: Heiner Carow for The Russians are coming
Best leading actor: Jörg Gudzuhn in driving school
Best leading actress: Carmen-Maja Antoni in childhood
Best supporting actor: Hermann Beyer in childhood
Best supporting actress: Karin Gregorek in One Carrying the Other's Burden ...

César

Best Picture: Goodbye, Children of Louis Malle
Best Director: Louis Malle for Goodbye, Children
Best Actor: Richard Bohringer for Am Grosse Weg
Best leading actress: Anémone for Am große Weg
Best Supporting Actor: Jean-Claude Brialy for The Innocents
Best Supporting Actress: Dominique Lavanant for Agent Trouble - Accidental Murder
Best Foreign Film: The Last Emperor by Bernardo Bertolucci

British Academy Film Award

Best film: Jean Florette by Claude Berri
Best director: Oliver Stone for Platoon
Best Actor: Sean Connery for The Name of the Rose
Best Actress: Anne Bancroft for Between the Lines
Best Supporting Actor: Daniel Auteuil for Jean Florette
Best Supporting Actress: Susan Wooldridge for Hope and Glory
Best Foreign Language Film: Victims by Andrei Tarkowski

New York Film Critics Circle Award

Best Film: The Travels of Mr. Leary by Lawrence Kasdan
Best director: Chris Menges for Zwei Welten
Best Actor: Jeremy Irons in The Lovebirds
Best Actress: Meryl Streep in A Scream in the Dark
Best Supporting Actor: Dean Stockwell in The Mafiosi Bride and Tucker
Best Supporting Actress: Diane Venora in Bird
Best camera: Henri Alekan for Der Himmel über Berlin
Best Foreign Film: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown by Pedro Almodóvar

National Board of Review

Best Film: Mississippi Burning, by Alan Parker
Best directed by Alan Parker for Mississippi Burning
Best Actor: Gene Hackman in Mississippi Burning - The Root of Hatred
Best Actress: Jodie Foster in Indicted
Best Supporting Actor: River Phoenix in Escape into the Unknown
Best Supporting Actress: Frances McDormand in Mississippi Burning
Best Foreign Language Film: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown by Pedro Almodóvar

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

Best film: Klein Dorrit by Christine Edzard
Best director: David Cronenberg for Die Inseparable
Best Actor: Tom Hanks in Big and Punchline - The Bang Effect
Best Actress: Christine Lahti in Escape into the Unknown
Best Supporting Actor: Alec Guinness in Little Dorrit
Best Supporting Actress: Geneviève Bujold in Die Unzertrennlichen and The Moderns
Best foreign language film: The sky over Berlin by Wim Wenders

Further film prizes and awards

AFI Life Achievement Award : Jack Lemmon
Amanda : Pathfinder by Nils Gaup (Best Norwegian Film), Dirty Dancing by Emile Ardolino (Best International Film)
American Comedy Awards : Robin Williams in Good Morning, Vietnam (Funniest Actor), Bette Midler in Nothing But Trouble With That Guy (Funniest Actress)
American Society of Cinematographers Award : Conrad L. Hall for Tequila Sunrise
Australian Film Institute Award : The Navigator by Vincent Ward
Bodil : Pelle, the conqueror of Bille August
Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival : In the moment of fear from Bigas Luna
David di Donatello : The Last Emperor (Best Italian Film) and Goodbye, Children (Best Foreign Film)
German Critic's Prize : Nico Hofmann
Directors Guild of America Award : Bernardo Bertolucci for The Last Emperor , Robert Wise (Lifetime Achievement)
Ernst Lubitsch Prize : Percy Adlon for Out of Rosenheim
Evening Standard British Film Award : Hope and Glory by John Boorman
Festival du cinéma nordique : Babette's festival by Gabriel Axel
Genie Award : Night Zoo - Creatures of the Night by Jean-Claude Lauzon
Gilde Film Prize : The Last Emperor by Bernardo Bertolucci (gold foreign film), Auf Wiedersehen, Kinder von Louis Malle (silver foreign film), Out of Rosenheim by Percy Adlon (gold German film), Der Himmel über Berlin by Wim Wenders (silver German film)
Guldbagge : Pelle, the conqueror of Bille August
Helmut Käutner Prize : Hilmar Hoffmann and Ulrich Gregor
Jupiter : Dirty Dancing by Emile Ardolino , Kim Basinger (Best Actress), Mickey Rourke (Best Actor)
Independent Spirit Awards 1988 : The Knife on the Bank by Tim Hunter (Best Film) and Mein Leben als Hund by Lasse Hallström (Best Foreign Film)
Louis Delluc Prize : The Reader by Michel Deville
Nastro d'Argento : The last emperor by Bernardo Bertolucci and goodbye, children of Louis Malle
National Society of Film Critics Award : The Dead by John Huston
People's Choice Award : A Fateful Affair by Adrian Lyne (most popular drama), Three Men Yet Another Baby by Leonard Nimoy (most popular comedy film), Michael Douglas (most popular actor), Glenn Close (most popular actress)
Political Film Society Award for Democracy : Milagro - The War in the Beanfield by Robert Redford
Political Film Society Award for Peace : Good Morning, Vietnam by Barry Levinson
Political Film Society Award for Human Rights : Freedom Cry by Richard Attenborough
Polish Film Festival Gdynia : A short film about love and A short film about killing by Krzysztof Kieślowski
German Film Critics' Prize : Waller's Last Course by Christian Wagner
Robert : Pelle, the Conqueror by Bille August (Best Danish Film), Down By Law by Jim Jarmusch (Best Foreign Film)
Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia-San Sebastián : Black Hill by Andrew Grieve (Golden Shell)
Sundance Film Festival : Heat and Sunlight by Rob Nilsson (Grand Jury Prize)
Toronto International Film Festival : Women on the Verge of Mental Breakdown by Pedro Almodóvar (Audience Award)
Vancouver International Film Festival : Some Girls by Michael Hoffman
Warsaw International Film Festival : Koyaanisqatsi by Godfrey Reggio (Audience Award)
Distribution award of the Freiburg International Film Festival : The Horse Thief (Dao Ma Tse) by Tian Zhuangzhuang
Writers Guild of America Award : Moonstruck by John Patrick Shanley (Best Original Screenplay), Roxanne by Steve Martin (Best Adapted Screenplay)
Young Artist Award : Over the Top by Menahem Golan (Best Drama), Like Father, So Son by Rod Daniel (Best Comedy), The Lost Boys by Joel Schumacher (Best Youth Film), Feivel, der Mauswanderer (Best Cartoon), My life as a dog by Lasse Hallström (Best Foreign Language Film)

Birthdays

Haley Joel Osment (born April 10th)

January to March

January

January 12: Andrew Lawrence , American actor
January 17: Nikki Reed , American actress
January 27: Alexandra Purvis , American actress
January 30th: Stefanie Reinsperger , Austrian actress

February

February 22nd: Colton James , American actor

March

0March 1: Katija Pevec , American actress
March 22nd: Tania Raymonde , American actress
March 27: Brenda Song , American actress

April to June

April

0April 4: Maggie Geha , American actress
April 10: Haley Joel Osment , American actor
April 14th: Kristina Asmus , Russian actress
April 23: Erica Mer , American actress
April 25: Sara Paxton , American actress

May

0May 1: Nicholas Braun , American actor
May 10: Miriam Stein , Austrian-Swiss actress
May 19: Lily Cole , British actress

June

0June 9: Mae Whitman , American actress
June 14: Dayo Okeniyi , Nigerian actor
June 16: Jonny Weston , American actor

July to September

Rupert Grint (born August 24)

July

0July 1: Evan Ellingson , American actor
0July 6: Sarah Barrable-Tishauer , Canadian actress
July 13: Steven R. McQueen , American actor

August

August 16: Rumer Willis , American actress
August 19: Travis Tedford , American actor
August 24: Rupert Grint , British actor
August 27: Alexa Vega , American actress

September

September 24: Kyle Sullivan , American actor

October to December

Jamie Campbell Bower (born November 22)

October

0October 5: Bobby Edner , American actor
October 14: Max Thieriot , American actor
October 20: Adam Butcher , Canadian actor
October 30th: Janel Parrish , American actress

November

0November 6: Emma Stone , American actress
November 15: Zena Gray , American actress
November 20: Rhys Wakefield , Australian actor
November 22: Jamie Campbell Bower , British actor
November 26: Tamsin Egerton , British actress
November 28: Scarlett Pomers , American actress
November 30: Rebecca Rittenhouse , American actress

December

0December 1: Zoë Kravitz , American actress
0December 7th: Emily Browning , Australian actress