1989 film year

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1989 film year
Dustin Hoffman receives the second Oscar of his career for Rain Man .

Events

The winners Bravo Otto readers' choice 1989:
- Category - Male Movie Stars: Gold Tom Cruise , Silver Corey Haim , Bronze Patrick Swayze
- Category - Female Movie Stars: Gold Kim Basinger , Silver Sophie Marceau , Bronze Jennifer Gray

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.	Rain Man	6.007.188
2.	A fish called Wanda	3,787,623
3.	Back to the Future II	3,657,625
4th	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	3,644,906
5.	Otto - The non-Frisian	3,585,645
6th	Asterix - Operation Menhir	2,679,034
7th	The naked cannon	2,576,177
8th.	In a land before our time	2,569,802
9.	Harry and Sally	2,559,494
10.	James Bond 007 - License to Kill	2,472,732

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: Rain Man by Barry Levinson
Best Musical / Comedy: The Working Girl, by Mike Nichols
Best Actor (Drama): Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man
Best Actress (Drama): Sigourney Weaver in Gorillas in the Fog , Jodie Foster in Indicted, and Shirley MacLaine in Madame Sousatzka
Best Actor (Musical / Comedy): Tom Hanks in Big
Best Actress (Musical / Comedy): Melanie Griffith in Working Girl
Best Supporting Actor: Martin Landau in Tucker: The Man and His Dream
Best Supporting Actress: Sigourney Weaver in Working Girl
Best Director: Clint Eastwood for Bird
Best music: Maurice Jarre for Gorillas in the Fog
Cecil B. DeMille Award : Doris Day

Dustin Hoffman at the 1989 Academy Awards

Oscar

The Oscars will be held on March 29 at the Shrine Civic Auditorium in Los Angeles.

Best Picture: Rain Man by Barry Levinson
Best Actor: Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man
Best Actress: Jodie Foster in Indicted
Best Director: Barry Levinson for Rain Man
Best Supporting Actor: Kevin Kline for A Fish Called Wanda
Best Supporting Actress: Geena Davis in The Accidental Tourist
Best script based on a literary source: Christopher Hampton for dangerous love affairs
Best Foreign Language Film: Pelle, the Conqueror by Bille August

Complete list of award winners

Cannes International Film Festival 1989

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

Golden Palm : Sex, Lies and Video by Steven Soderbergh
Best Actor: James Spader in Sex, Lies, and Video
Best Actress: Meryl Streep in A Scream in the Dark
Best Director: Emir Kusturica for Time of the Gypsies

Berlin International Film Festival 1989

The festival starts on February 10th and ends on February 21st. The jury under President Rolf Liebermann selects the following winners:

Golden Bear : Rain Man by Barry Levinson
Best Actor: Gene Hackman in Mississippi Burning
Best Actress: Isabelle Adjani in Camille Claudel
Best director: Dusan Hanák for Ja milujem, ty milujes
Honorary Golden Bear: Dustin Hoffman

Venice International Film Festival

The festival starts on September 4th and ends on September 15th. The jury selects the following winners:

Golden Lion : A City of Sadness by Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Best Actor: Marcello Mastroianni and Massimo Troisi in What Time Is It?
Best Actress: Peggy Ashcroft and Geraldine James in An Unworthy Woman
Golden Lion of Honor for his life's work: Robert Bresson

European film award

The European Film Prize was awarded in Paris on November 25th .

Best film: Landscape in the Fog by Theo Angelopoulos
Best Actor: Philippe Noiret in Cinema Paradiso
Best Actress: Ruth Sheen in High Expectations
Best Supporting Actress: Edna Doré in High Expectations
Best director: Géza Bereményi for Eldorado

German film award

Best film: Yasemin by Hark Bohm
Best director: Maria Theresia Wagner for The Night of the Marten
Best leading actress: Heidemarie Hatheyer for Martha Jellneck , Zuhal Olcay for Farewell to False Paradise , Ayşe Romey for Yasemin and Dana Vávrová for Herbstmilch
Best leading actor: Heinz Bennent for In the Year of the Tortoise and Werner Stocker for Herbstmilch

César

Best film: Camille Claudel by Bruno Nuytten
Best director: Jean-Jacques Annaud for Der Bär
Best Actor: Jean-Paul Belmondo for The Lion
Best Actress: Isabelle Adjani for Camille Claudel
Best Supporting Actor: Patrick Chesnais for The Reader
Best Supporting Actress: Hélène Vincent for Life is a long, calm river
Best foreign film: Out of Rosenheim by Percy Adlon

British Academy Film Award

Best film: The Last Emperor by Bernardo Bertolucci
Best Director: Louis Malle for Goodbye, Children
Best Actor: John Cleese for A Fish Called Wanda
Best Actress: Maggie Smith for Judith Hearne's Great Desire
Best Supporting Actor: Michael Palin for A Fish Called Wanda
Best Supporting Actress: Olympia Dukakis for Moonstruck
Best non-English language film: Babette's Festival by Gabriel Axel

New York Film Critics Circle Award

Best Picture: My Left Foot by Jim Sheridan
Best director: Paul Mazursky for Feinde - The Story of a Love
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot
Best Actress: Michelle Pfeiffer in The Fabulous Baker Boys
Best Supporting Actor: Alan Alda in Crime and Other Trifles
Best Supporting Actress: Lena Olin in Enemies: A Love Story
Best Cinematography: Ernest R. Dickerson for Do the Right Thing
Best Foreign Film: A Woman's Business by Claude Chabrol

National Board of Review

Best Picture: Driving Miss Daisy by Bruce Beresford
Best Director: Kenneth Branagh for Henry V.
Best Actor: Morgan Freeman in Miss Daisy and Her Chauffeur
Best Actress: Michelle Pfeiffer in The Fabulous Baker Boys
Best Supporting Actor: Alan Alda in Crime and Other Trifles
Best Supporting Actress: Mary Stuart Masterson in Second Hand Family
Best Foreign Language Film: A Woman's Business by Claude Chabrol

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

Best Film: Do the Right Thing by Spike Lee
Best Director: Spike Lee for Do the Right Thing
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot
Best Actress: Andie MacDowell in Sex, Lies, and Video; and Michelle Pfeiffer in The Fabulous Baker Boys
Best Supporting Actor: Danny Aiello in Do the Right Thing
Best Supporting Actress: Brenda Fricker in The Left Foot
Best Foreign Language Film: Distant Voices - Still Life by Terence Davies and A Woman's Thing by Claude Chabrol

Further film prizes and awards

AFI Life Achievement Award : Gregory Peck
Amanda : For harde livet by Sigve Endresen (Best Norwegian Film), Out of Rosenheim by Percy Adlon (Best Foreign Film)
American Comedy Awards : Tom Hanks in Big (Funniest Leading Actor), Bette Midler in Zwei Mal Zwei (Funniest Leading Actress), Arsenio Hall in The Prince of Zamunda (Funniest Supporting Actor), Joan Cusack in Die Waffen der Frauen (Funniest Supporting Actress)
American Society of Cinematographers Award : Haskell Wexler for Blaze - A Dangerous Love
Australian Film Institute Award : A Scream in the Dark by Fred Schepisi
Bodil : Emma's shadow by Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival : Paperhouse - Nightmares come true by Bernard Rose
David di Donatello : The Legend of the Holy Drinker (Best Italian Film) and Rain Man (Best Foreign Film)
German Critics' Prize : Heiner Carow
Directors Guild of America Award : Barry Levinson for Rain Man , Sidney Lumet (Lifetime Achievement)
Ernst Lubitsch Prize : Loriot for Oedipussi and his complete works
Evening Standard British Film Award : A Fish Called Wanda by Charles Crichton
Genie Award : The Lovebirds by David Cronenberg
Gilde Film Prize : Dangerous Liaisons by Stephen Frears (gold foreign film), Herbstmilch by Joseph Vilsmaier (gold German film), Der Bär by Jean-Jacques Annaud (silver foreign film), Yasemin by Hark Bohm (silver German film)
Goya : Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown by Pedro Almodóvar
Independent Spirit Awards 1989 : Stand and Deliver by Ramón Menéndez (Best Film) and Der Himmel über Berlin by Wim Wenders (Best Foreign Film)
Jupiter : Wrong Game with Roger Rabbit by Robert Zemeckis (Best Film), Sophie Marceau (Best Actress), Michael Douglas (Best Actor)
Louis Delluc Prize : A World Without Compassion by Éric Rochant
Nastro d'Argento : The legend of the holy drinker by Ermanno Olmi and women on the verge of a nervous breakdown by Pedro Almodóvar
National Society of Film Critics Award : The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Philip Kaufman
People's Choice Award : Rain Man by Barry Levinson (most popular drama), Big by Penny Marshall and Twins - Twins by Ivan Reitman (most popular comedy film), Dustin Hoffman (most popular dramatic actor), Eddie Murphy (most popular comedic actor), Meryl Streep (most popular dramatic actress), Bette Midler (most popular comedic actress)
Political Film Society Award for Democracy : The Dead Poets Club by Peter Weir
Political Film Society Award for Peace : The Damned of War by Brian De Palma
Political Film Society Award for Human Rights : Mississippi Burning - The Root of Hatred by Alan Parker
German Film Critics' Award : It's Better Everywhere Where We're Not by Michael Klier
Robert : Emma's shadow by Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Out of Rosenheim by Percy Adlon (Best Foreign Film)
Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián : Homer and Eddie by Andrei Konchalowski and The Secret Nation by Jorge Sanjinés (Golden Shell)
Sundance Film Festival : True Love by Nancy Savoca (Grand Jury Prize)
Toronto International Film Festival : Roger & Me by Michael Moore (Audience Award)
Vancouver International Film Festival : Roger & Me by Michael Moore
Warsaw International Film Festival : Conspiracy of the Women by Peter Greenaway (Audience Award)
Writers Guild of America Award : Annie's Men by Ron Shelton (Best Original Screenplay), Dangerous Liaisons by Christopher Hampton (Best Adapted Screenplay)
Young Artist Award : The Realm of the Sun by Steven Spielberg (Best Drama), The Miracle in 8th Street by Matthew Robbins (Best Comedy), Beetlejuice by Tim Burton (Best Fantasy Film), Pelle, the Conqueror by Bille August (Best Foreign Language Movie)

Birthdays

Nina Dobrev (born January 9th)

January to March

January

0January 3: Alex D. Linz , American actor
0January 9: Nina Dobrev , Bulgarian-Canadian actress and model
January 13: Beau Mirchoff , American-Canadian actor
January 14th: Emma Greenwell , American actress
January 15: Ryan Corr , Australian actor
January 16: Yvonne Zima , American actress
January 30: Khleo Thomas , American actor

February

0February 5: Jeremy Sumpter , American actor
February 13: Katie Volding , American actress
February 21: Kristin Herrera , American actress
February 21: Scout Taylor-Compton , American actress
February 24: Daniel Kaluuya , British actor and comedian

March

0March 5: Jake Lloyd , American actor
March 11: Anton Yelchin , American actor († 2016 )

April to June

Lily James (born April 5)

Renee Olstead (born June 18)

April

0April 5th: Lily James , British actress
0April 8: Gabriella Wilde , British actress
April 18: Alia Shawkat , American actress
April 20: Alex Black , American actor
April 26: Luke Bracey , Australian actor
April 27: Emily Rios , American actress and model

June

0June 2: Stephan Bender , American actor
June 14: Lucy Hale , American actress
June 18: Renee Olstead , American actress and singer
June 20: Christopher Mintz-Plasse , American actor
June 22nd: Karla Crome , British actress
June 24th: Rafi Gavron , British actor

July to September

Daniel Radcliffe (born July 23)

July

July 11: David Henrie , American actor
July 14th: Sean Flynn , American actor
July 20: Amelie Plaas-Link , German actress
July 21: Rory Culkin , American actor
July 21: Jamie Waylett , British actor
July 23: Daniel Radcliffe , British actor
July 25: Timo Rüggeberg , German actor († 2011)
July 27: Charlotte Arnold , Canadian actress

August

0August 9: Meredith Deane , American actress
August 17th: Frederick Lau , German actor
August 21: Hayden Panettiere , American actress

September

0September 8th: Jade Laroche , French porn actress
September 14th: Jessica Brown Findlay , British actress
September 15: Kara Pacitto , American actress
September 20: Malachi Kirby , British actor
September 24: Jesse James , American actor
September 26: Emma Rigby , British actress

October to December

Mia Wasikowska (born October 14)

October

October 14: Mia Wasikowska , Australian actress
October 18: Joy Lauren , American actress
October 29th: Kai-Peter Malina , German actor

November

November 10: Taron Egerton , British actor

December

December 29th: Jane Levy , American actress

Day unknown

Alex Turrek , German actor and voice actor