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Film year 1990
Greta Garbo dies on April 15, 1990 .

Events

• The winners of the 1990 BRAVO Otto readers' choice:
  • Category - Male Movie Stars: Gold Tom Cruise , Silver Patrick Swayze , Bronze Richard Gere
  • Category - Female Movie Stars: Gold Julia Roberts , Silver Jennifer Gray , Bronze Kirstie Alley

Top 10 most successful films

In Germany

The ten most successful films at the German box office according to attendance (as of August 14, 2010):

space	Movie title	Visitors
1.	Pretty woman	10,625,337
2.	Look who's talking!	5,288,722
3.	Werner - tough!	4,900,159
4th	Arielle the mermaid	4,695,561
5.	The war of the roses	4,179,128
6th	Ghost message from Sam	3,902,419
7th	The Dead Poets Club	3,567,924
8th.	The Neverending Story II - In Search of Fantasias	3,231,527
9.	Gremlins 2 - The return of the little monsters	2,578,005
10.	Scott & Huutsch	2,274,012

Film awards

Golden Globe Award

The Golden Globe Awards will take place on January 20th at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.

• Best Drama: Born on July 4th by Oliver Stone
• Best Musical / Comedy: Driving Miss Daisy by Bruce Beresford
• Best Actor (Drama): Tom Cruise in Born July 4th
• Best Actress (Drama): Michelle Pfeiffer in The Fabulous Baker Boys
• Best Actor (Musical / Comedy): Morgan Freeman in Miss Daisy and Her Chauffeur
• Best Actress (Musical / Comedy): Jessica Tandy in Miss Daisy and Her Chauffeur
• Best Supporting Actor: Denzel Washington in Glory
• Best Supporting Actress: Julia Roberts in Magnolias Made of Steel
• Best Director: Oliver Stone for Born July 4th
• Best music: Alan Menken for Arielle, the mermaid
• Cecil B. DeMille Award : Audrey Hepburn

Oscar

The Oscars will be held on March 26th at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. The moderator is Billy Crystal .

• Best film: Miss Daisy and her chauffeur by Richard D. Zanuck and Lili Fini Zanuck
• Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot
• Best Actress: Jessica Tandy in Miss Daisy and Her Chauffeur
• Best Director: Oliver Stone for Born July 4th
• Best Supporting Actor: Denzel Washington for Glory
• Best Supporting Actress: Brenda Fricker in My Left Foot
• Best foreign language film: Cinema Paradiso by Giuseppe Tornatore
• Honorary Oscar: Akira Kurosawa

Complete list of award winners

Cannes International Film Festival 1990

The festival starts on May 10th and ends on May 21st. The jury under President Bernardo Bertolucci awards the following prizes:

• Golden Palm : Wild at Heart - The story of Sailor and Lula by David Lynch
• Best Actor: Gérard Depardieu in Cyrano by Bergerac
• Best Actress: Krystyna Janda in Interrogation of a Woman
• Best Director: Pawel Lungin for Taxi Blues

Berlin International Film Festival 1990

The festival starts on February 9th and ends on February 20th. The jury under President Michael Ballhaus selects the following winners:

• Golden Bear : Music Box - The Whole Truth by Constantin Costa-Gavras and Skrivánci na niti by Jiří Menzel
• Best Director: Michael Verhoeven for The Terrible Girl
• Honorary Golden Bear: Oliver Stone

Venice Film Festival

The festival starts on September 4th and ends on September 14th. The jury under President Gore Vidal selects the following winners:

• Golden Lion : Rosenkranz & Güldenstern by Tom Stoppard
• Best Director: Martin Scorsese for Good Fellas - Three Decades in the Mafia
• Grand Jury Prize :: Jane Campion for An Angel on My Board

European film award

The European Film Prize was awarded in Glasgow on December 2nd .

• Best film: Open Doors by Gianni Amelio
• Best Actor: Kenneth Branagh in Henry V.
• Best Actress: Carmen Maura in Ay Carmela! - Song of Freedom (¡Ay, Carmela!) By Carlos Saura
• Best Supporting Actor: Dmitri Pevtsov in Mat by Gleb Panfilov
• Best supporting actress: Malin Ek in The Guardian Angel (Skyddsängeln) by Suzanne Osten
• Best Director: Kenneth Branagh for Henry V.

German film award

• Best Film: Last Exit to Brooklyn by Uli Edel
• Best director: Uli Edel for Last Exit Brooklyn and Bernhard Wicki for Das Spinnennetz
• Best Actress: Lena Stolze for The Terrible Girl
• Best Actor: Klaus Maria Brandauer for Georg Elser - One from Germany

National Feature Film Festival of the GDR

• Best film: Treffen in Travers by Michael Gwisdek
• Best director: Heiner Carow for Coming Out and Rainer Simon for Jadup and Boel
• Best leading actor: Hermann Beyer in a meeting in Travers
• Best Actress: Corinna Harfouch in The Actress
• Best Supporting Actor: Wolfgang Greese in The Architects
• Best supporting actress: Gudrun Ritter in Verbotene Liebe

César

• Best film: Too beautiful for you by Bertrand Blier
• Best director: Bertrand Blier for Too beautiful for you
• Best Actor: Philippe Noiret for Life and Nothing Else
• Best leading actress: Carole Bouquet for Too beautiful for you
• Best supporting actor: Robert Hirsch for Winter 54
• Best Supporting Actress: Suzanne Flon for La Vouivre
• Best Foreign Film: Dangerous Liaisons by Stephen Frears

British Academy Film Award

• Best film: The Dead Poets Club by Peter Weir
• Best Director: Kenneth Branagh for Henry V.
• Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis for My Left Foot
• Best Actress: Pauline Collins for Shirley Valentine
• Best Supporting Actor: Ray McAnally for My Left Foot
• Best Supporting Actress: Michelle Pfeiffer for Dangerous Liaisons
• Best Non-English Language Film: The Life and Nothing Else by Bertrand Tavernier

New York Film Critics Circle Award

• Best film: Good Fellas - Three decades in the Mafia by Martin Scorsese
• Best Director: Martin Scorsese for Good Fellas - Three Decades in the Mafia
• Best Actor: Robert De Niro in Good Fellas - Three Decades in the Mafia and A Time of Awakening
• Best Actress: Joanne Woodward in Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
• Best Supporting Actor: Bruce Davison in Friendship for Life
• Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Jason Leigh in Miami Blues and Final Exit Brooklyn
• Best camera: Vittorio Storaro for sky over the desert
• Best Foreign Film: The Nasty Girl by Michael Verhoeven

National Board of Review

• Best Film: Dances With Wolves by Kevin Costner
• Best director: Kevin Costner for Dances with Wolves
• Best Actor: Robert De Niro and Robin Williams for Awakening Time
• Best Actress: Mia Farrow in Alice
• Best Supporting Actor: Joe Pesci in Good Fellas - Three Decades in the Mafia
• Best Supporting Actress: Winona Ryder in Mermaids Kiss Better
• Best foreign language film: Cyrano von Bergerac by Jean-Paul Rappeneau

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

• Best film: Good Fellas - Three decades in the Mafia by Martin Scorsese
• Best Director: Martin Scorsese for Good Fellas - Three Decades in the Mafia
• Best Actor: Jeremy Irons in The Sunny Affair by B.
• Best Actress: Anjelica Huston in Grifters and Witches
• Best Supporting Actor: Joe Pesci in Good Fellas - Three Decades in the Mafia
• Best Supporting Actress: Lorraine Bracco in Good Fellas - Three Decades in the Mafia
• Best Foreign Language Film: Life and Nothing Else by Bertrand Tavernier

Further film prizes and awards

• AFI Life Achievement Award : David Lean
• Amanda : A Handful of Times by Martin Asphaug (Best Norwegian Film), Distant Voices - Still Life by Terence Davies (Best Foreign Film)
• American Comedy Awards : Billy Crystal in Harry and Sally (Funniest Leading Actor), Meg Ryan in Harry and Sally (Funniest Leading Actress), Rick Moranis in Eine Wahnsinnsfamilie (Funniest Supporting Actor), Julie Kavner in New York Stories (Funniest Supporting Actress)
• American Society of Cinematographers Award : Dean Semler for Dances With Wolves
• Australian Film Institute Award : Flirting by John Duigan
• David di Donatello : Open Doors (Best Italian Film) and The Dead Poets Club (Best Foreign Film)
• German Critic Award : Sophie Maintigneux
• Directors Guild of America Award : Oliver Stone for Born on July 4th , Ingmar Bergman (Lifetime Achievement)
• Ernst Lubitsch Prize : Frank Beyer and Wolfgang Kohlhaase for Der Bruch
• Evening Standard British Film Award : Henry V. by Kenneth Branagh
• Genie Award : Jesus of Montreal by Denys Arcand
• Gilde Film Prize : The Club of Dead Poets by Peter Weir (Gold Foreign Film), The Spider Web by Bernhard Wicki (Gold German Film), My Left Foot by Jim Sheridan (Silver Foreign Film), Georg Elser - One from Germany by Klaus Maria Brandauer (silver German film)
• Goya 1990 : Twisted Obsession by Fernando Trueba
• Helmut Käutner Prize : Wolfgang Kohlhaase
• Independent Spirit Awards 1990 : Sex, Lies, and Video by Steven Soderbergh and My Left Foot by Jim Sheridan
• Jupiter : Rain Man by Barry Levinson (Best Motion Picture), Sigourney Weaver in Gorillas im Nebel und Die Waffen der Frauen (Best Actress), Sean Connery in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Best Actor)
• Konrad Wolf Prize : Heiner Carow
• Louis Delluc Prize : The Little Gangster by Jacques Doillon and The Man of the Hairdresser by Patrice Leconte
• Nastro d'Argento : A Story of Men and Women by Pupi Avati and The Dead Poets Club by Peter Weir
• National Society of Film Critics Award : Drugstore Cowboy by Gus Van Sant
• People's Choice Award : Batman by Tim Burton (Best Picture), Batman by Tim Burton and Magnolias of Steel by Herbert Ross (most popular drama), Look who's talking! by Amy Heckerling (most popular comedy film), Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep (most popular actors worldwide), Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep (most popular actors USA)
• Political Film Society Award for Democracy : Born on July 4th by Oliver Stone
• Political Film Society Award for Peace : Dances With Wolves by Kevin Costner
• Political Film Society Award for Human Rights : Driving Miss Daisy by Bruce Beresford
• Price of the German Film Critics : wedding guests from Niko Brücher
• Robert : Dancing with Regitze of Kaspar Rostrup (Best Danish film), A Short Film About Killing by Krzysztof Kieslowski (Best Foreign Film)
• Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia-San Sebastián : Letters from Alou from Montxo Armendáriz (Golden Shell)
• Sundance Film Festival : Douglas Street - The Chameleon of Wendell B. Harris Jr. (Grand Jury Prize)
• Toronto International Film Festival : Cyrano von Bergerac by Jean-Paul Rappeneau (Audience Award)
• Vancouver International Film Festival : The Horrible Girl by Michael Verhoeven
• Rental Promotion of the Friborg International Film Festival : Piravi by Shaji N. Karun
• Warsaw International Film Festival : The Dead Poets Club by Peter Weir (Audience Award)
• Writers Guild of America Award : Crimes and Minor Matters by Woody Allen (Best Original Screenplay), Miss Daisy and Her Chauffeur by Alfred Uhry (Best Adapted Screenplay)
• Young Artist Award : The Dead Poets Club by Peter Weir (Best Drama), Eine Wahnsinnsfamilie by Ron Howard (Best Comedy), Back to the Future II by Robert Zemeckis (Best Fantasy Film), Arielle, the Mermaid (Best Cartoon), The Curse of the Whales by Clive Rees (Best Foreign Film)

Birthdays

Kristen Stewart (born April 9)

Emma Watson (born April 14)

David Kross (born July 4th)

Christian Serratos (born September 21)

Liv Lisa Fries (born October 31)

January to March

January

• 0January 7th: Liam Aiken , American actor
• January 21: Jacob Smith , American actor
• January 23: Joel Basman , Swiss actor
• January 30th: Jake Thomas , American actor

February

• 0February 9: Camille Winbush , American actress
• February 10: Trevante Rhodes , American actor
• February 11: Q'orianka Kilcher , American actress
• February 14: Emily Mae Young , American actress
• February 20: Anjli Mohindra , British actress

March

• 0March 1: Harry Eden , British actor
• 0March 4th: Andrea Bowen , American actress
• 0March 4th: Becca Gardner , American actress
• March 24th: Keisha Castle-Hughes , Australian actress
• March 26: Yūya Yagira , Japanese actor
• March 28: Laura Harrier , American actress and model
• March 30: Cassie Scerbo , American actress, singer, and dancer

April to June

April

• 0April 9: Kristen Stewart , American actress
• April 10: Alex Pettyfer , British actor
• April 11th: Daniel Popat , German actor
• April 15th: Emma Watson , British actress

May

• 0May 2: Kay Panabaker , American actress
• May 21: Scotty Leavenworth , American actor
• May 30: Dean Collins , American actor

June

• 0June 2: Brittany Curran , American actress
• 0June 5th: Sophie Lowe , Australian actress
• June 20: Emil Reinke , German actor

July to September

July

• 0July 4th: David Kross , German actor
• July 11: Connor Paolo , American actor
• July 16: Eddie Hassell , American actor
• July 24th: Daveigh Chase , American actress
• July 29: Matt Prokop , American actor

August

• 0August 1: Jack O'Connell , British actor
• 0August 9: Adelaide Kane , Australian actress
• August 10: Lucas Till , American actor
• August 15: Jennifer Lawrence , American actress
• August 17th: Rachel Hurd-Wood , British actress
• August 28: Katie Findlay , Canadian actress

September

• September 21: Christian Serratos , American actress
• September 29: Tierra Abbott , American actress

October to December

October

• October 18: Carly Schroeder , American actress
• October 22: Jonathan Lipnicki , American actor
• October 31: Liv Lisa Fries , German actress

November

• November 16: Brittney Lee Harvey , American actress
• November 17: Shanica Knowles , American actress

December

• December 13: Nick Roux , American actor and singer
• December 23: Anna Maria Perez de Taglé , American actress

Day unknown

• Mason Lee , American actor

deceased

January to March

Ava Gardner (1922-1990)

Capucine (1928–1990)

January

• 0January 4: Vladimir Ussachevski , Russian-American composer (* 1911)
• 0January 5: Arthur Kennedy , American actor (born 1914)
• 0January 6: Ian Charleson , British actor (born 1949)
• 0January 6th: Hans Jaray , Austrian actor (* 1906)
• 0January 8: Terry-Thomas , British actor (born 1911)
• January 10: Lyle R. Wheeler , American production designer (born 1905)
• January 14th: John Witty , British actor (born 1915)
• January 15: Gordon Jackson , British actor (born 1923)
• January 20: Barbara Stanwyck , American actress (* 1907)
• January 24th: Madge Bellamy , American actress (* 1899)
• January 25: Ava Gardner , American actress (born 1922)

February

• 000February: Willy Krause , German actor (* 1901)
• 0February 6: John Merivale , Canadian actor (born 1917)
• 0February 7th: Jimmy Van Heusen , American composer (* 1913)
• 0February 8: Katalin Karády , Hungarian actress and singer (* 1912)
• February 10: Bill Sherwood , American director and screenwriter (* 1952)
• February 15: Henry Brandon , American actor (born 1912)
• February 17: Erik Rhodes , American actor (* 1906)
• February 17th: Dino Falconi , Italian screenwriter and director (* 1902)
• February 22: Arthur H. Nadel , American director, producer and screenwriter (born 1921)
• February 26: Bruno Vailati , Italian director (* 1919)

March

• 0March 5: Erni Kniepert , Austrian costume designer (* 1911)
• 0March 5: Gary Merrill , American actor (born 1915)
• March 17th: Capucine , French actress and model (* 1928)

April to June

Greta Garbo (1905-1990)

Sammy Davis Jr. (1925-1990)

Rex Harrison (1908-1990)

April

• 0April 2: Aldo Fabrizi , Italian actor (* 1905)
• April 15: Greta Garbo , Swedish actress (* 1905)
• April 18: Frédéric Rossif , French director, screenwriter and documentary filmmaker (* 1922)
• April 22nd: Albert Salmi , American actor (* 1928)

May

• 0May 6: Charles Farrell , American actor (born 1901)
• May 10: Susan Oliver , American actress (born 1932)
• May 11: Heidemarie Hatheyer , Austrian actress (* 1918)
• May 16: Sammy Davis Jr. , American actor and singer (born 1925)
• May 17: Carlos Riquelme , Mexican actor (* 1914)
• May 18: Jill Ireland , British actress (born 1936)
• May 21: Franklyn Seales , American actor (born 1952)

June

• 0June 1: Ernst Wilhelm Borchert , German actor (* 1907)
• 0June 1: Eric Barker , British actor (born 1912)
• 0June 2: Jack Gilford , American actor (born 1907)
• 0June 2: Rex Harrison , British actor (born 1908)
• 0June 3: Tom Brown , American actor (born 1913)
• 0June 3: Aino Taube , Swedish actress (* 1912)
• June 16: Ruedi Walter , Swiss actor (* 1916)
• June 20: Ina Balin , American actress (* 1937)
• June 21: Lucy Millowitsch , German actress and theater director (* 1905)

July to September

July

• July 11: Sun Yu , Chinese director (* 1900)
• July 14: Walter Sedlmayr , German actor (* 1926)
• July 15: Margaret Lockwood , British actress (born 1911)
• July 19: Eddie Quillan , American actor (* 1907)
• July 21: Sergei Parajanov , Armenian director (* 1924)
• July 21: Sacha Pitoëff , French actor (* 1920)
• July 27: Elizabeth Allan , British actress (born 1908)
• July 28: Jill Esmond , British actress (born 1908)
• July 31: Fernando Sancho , Spanish actor (* 1916)

August

• 0August 3: Betty Amann , German-American actress (* 1907)
• August 12: Dorothy Mackaill , American actress (* 1903)
• August 17th: Maria Paudler , German actress (* 1903)
• August 27: Pearl Bailey , American actress (born 1918)
• August 27: Raymond St. Jacques , American actor (born 1930)

September

• 0September 4: Irene Dunne , American actress (* 1898)
• 0September 9: Jack Hildyard , British cameraman (* 1908)

October to December

Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990)

Robert Cummings (1908–1990)

Eve Arden (1909–1990)

October

• October 14: Leonard Bernstein , American composer (* 1918)
• October 15: Delphine Seyrig , French actress (* 1932)
• October 20: Joel McCrea , American actor (born 1905)
• October 25: Werner Bergmann , German cameraman (* 1921)
• October 27: Jacques Demy , French director (* 1931)
• October 27: Ugo Tognazzi , Italian actor (* 1922)
• October 29: Volker von Collande , German actor and director (* 1913)
• October 30: V. Shantaram , Indian director (* 1901)

November

• 0November 2: William Travilla , American costume designer (* 1920)
• 0November 3: Mary Martin , American actress (* 1913)
• 0November 3: Sashadhar Mukerji , Indian film producer (* 1909)
• 0November 7th: Josephine Wilson , British actress (born 1904)
• November 12: Eve Arden , American actress (* 1909)
• November 15: Ettore Giannini , Italian actor, screenwriter and dialogue writer (* 1912)
• November 16: Pierre Braunberger , French producer (* 1905)
• November 18: Wolfgang Büttner , German actor (* 1912)
• November 24th: Helga Feddersen , German actress (* 1930)
• November 24th: Arnold Marquis , German actor and voice actor (* 1921)

December

• 0December 1: Sergio Corbucci , Italian director (* 1927)
• 0December 1: Pierre Dux , French actor (* 1908)
• 0December 2: Robert Cummings , American actor (born 1908)
• 0December 2: Paul Hoffmann , German actor (* 1902)
• 0December 4: Edward Binns , American actor (born 1916)
• 0December 7th: Joan Bennett , American actress (born 1910)
• 0December 7th: Oscar Millard , American screenwriter and writer (* 1908)
• 0December 8: Martin Ritt , American director (* 1914)
• December 18: Anne Revere , American actress (* 1903)
• December 30th: Manfred Tümmler , German voice actor and actor (* 1936)

Day unknown

• Pietro Tordi , Italian actor (* 1906)

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ The most successful films in Germany 1990 , insidekino.com. Retrieved August 14, 2010