Film year 1995
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Events
- March 20: The Danish film directors Lars von Trier , Thomas Vinterberg , Kristian Levring and Søren Kragh-Jacobsen present the Manifest Dogma 95 in Paris .
- Even during the siege of Sarajevo is Sarajevo Film Festival founded.
- After a 6 year hiatus, the James Bond series continues with GoldenEye
- With Toy Story , the first full-length feature film starts, exclusively on computer originated. The film therefore establishes the genre of computer-animated cartoons .
- The winners of the 1995 BRAVO Otto readers' choice:
- Category - Male Movie Stars: Gold Brad Pitt , Silver Tom Hanks , Bronze Johnny Depp
- Category - Female Movie Stars: Gold Sandra Bullock , Silver Alicia Silverstone , Bronze Whoopi Goldberg
Top 10 most successful films
In Germany
The ten most successful films at the German box office according to attendance (as of May 25, 2010):
| space | Movie title | Visitors |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | A pig named Babe | 6,050,218 |
| 2. | James Bond 007 - Goldeneye | 5.501.310 |
| 3. | While you slept | 4,019,577 |
| 4th | Pocahontas | 3,649,368 |
| 5. | Casper | 3,472,362 |
| 6th | Die hard: now more than ever | 3,202,391 |
| 7th | Stargate | 3,096,306 |
| 8th. | Waterworld | 3,017,995 |
| 9. | revelation | 2,902,858 |
| 10. | seven | 2,839,426 |
In the United States
| space | Movie title | revenue |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Toy story | $ 191,780,865 |
| 2. | Batman Forever | $ 184,031,112 |
| 3. | Apollo 13 | $ 172,060,755 |
| 4th | Pocahontas | $ 141,579,773 |
| 5. | Ace Ventura - Now it's getting wild | $ 108,360,063 |
| 6th | GoldenEye | $ 106,429,941 |
| 4th | Jumanji | $ 100,475,249 |
| 4th | Casper | $ 100,280,070 |
| 9. | seven | $ 100,125,643 |
| 10. | Die hard: now more than ever | $ 100,012,499 |
Film awards
Golden Globe Award
The Golden Globe Awards will take place on January 21 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.
- Best drama: Forrest Gump by Robert Zemeckis
- Best Musical / Comedy: The Lion King by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff
- Best Actor (Drama): Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump
- Best Actress (Drama): Jessica Lange in Operation Blue Sky
- Best Actor (Musical / Comedy): Hugh Grant in Four Weddings and a Funeral
- Best Actress (Musical / Comedy): Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies
- Best Supporting Actor: Martin Landau in Ed Wood
- Best Supporting Actress: Dianne Wiest in Bullets Over Broadway
- Best Director: Robert Zemeckis for Forrest Gump
- Cecil B. DeMille Award : Sophia Loren
Oscar
The Academy Awards will be held on March 27 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. The moderator is David Letterman .
- Best Picture: Forrest Gump by Wendy Finerman , Steve Starkey and Steve Tisch
- Best Actor: Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump
- Best Actress: Jessica Lange in Operation Blue Sky
- Best Director: Robert Zemeckis for Forrest Gump
- Best Supporting Actor: Martin Landau in Ed Wood
- Best Supporting Actress: Dianne Wiest in Bullets Over Broadway
- Best soundtrack: Hans Zimmer for The Lion King
- Best Foreign Language Film: The Sun That Deceives Us by Nikita Mikhalkov
- Honorary Oscar: Michelangelo Antonioni
Complete list of award winners
International Cannes Film Festival 1995
The festival starts on May 17th and ends on May 28th. The jury under President Jeanne Moreau awards the following prizes:
- Golden Palm : Underground by Emir Kusturica
- Best Actor: Jonathan Pryce in Carrington
- Best Actress: Helen Mirren in King George
- Best director: Mathieu Kassovitz for Hass
- Grand Jury Prize: The View of Odysseus by Theo Angelopoulos
Berlin International Film Festival 1995
The festival starts on February 9th and ends on February 20th. The jury under President Lia Van Leer will award the following prizes:
- Golden Bear : The decoy of Bertrand Tavernier
- Best Actor: Paul Newman in Nobody's Fool - Irresistible in the long run
- Best actress: Josephine Siao in summer snow
- Best Director: Richard Linklater for Before Sunrise
Venice Film Festival
The festival starts on August 30th and ends on September 9th. The jury under President Jorge Semprún awards the following prizes:
- Golden Lion: Cyclo from Trần Anh Hùng
- Best actor: Götz George in Der Totmacher
- Best actress: Sandrine Bonnaire and Isabelle Huppert in Biester
German film award
- Best Picture: The Most Desired Man of Sönke Wortmann
- Best director: Sönke Wortmann for The Moving Man
- Best leading actress: Maria Schrader for Burning Life , one of my oldest friends and nobody loves me
- Best Actor: Joachim Król for The Moving Man
César
- Best film: Wild Hearts by André Téchiné
- Best director: André Téchiné for Wilde Herzen
- Best Actor: Gérard Lanvin for The Favorite Son
- Best leading actress: Isabelle Adjani for The Bartholomew Night
- Best supporting actor: Jean-Hugues Anglade for The Bartholomew Night
- Best Supporting Actress: Mathieu Kassovitz for When Men Fall
- Best Foreign Film: Four Weddings and a Funeral by Mike Newell
British Academy Film Award
- Best Film: Four Weddings and a Funeral by Mike Newell
- Best Director: Mikel Newell for Four Weddings and a Funeral
- Best Actor: Hugh Grant for Four Weddings and a Funeral
- Best Actress: Susan Sarandon for Der Klient
- Best Supporting Actor: Samuel L. Jackson for Pulp Fiction
- Best Supporting Actress: Kristin Scott Thomas for Four Weddings and a Death
- Best Non-English Language Film: Belle Epoque by Fernando Trueba and Life! by Zhang Yimou
New York Film Critics Circle Award
- Best Film: Leaving Las Vegas by Mike Figgis
- Best director: Ang Lee for sense and sensuality
- Best Actor: Nicolas Cage in Leaving Las Vegas
- Best Actress: Jennifer Jason Leigh in Georgia
- Best Supporting Actor: Kevin Spacey in Outbreak , Seven , Sharks in Hollywood, and The Usual Suspects
- Best Supporting Actress: Mira Sorvino in Beloved Aphrodite
- Best camera: Lü Yue for Shanghai Serenade
- Best foreign film: Wild Heart by André Téchiné
National Board of Review
- Best Film: Sense and Sensuality by Ang Lee
- Best director: Ang Lee for sense and sensuality
- Best Actor: Nicolas Cage in Leaving Las Vegas
- Best Actress: Emma Thompson in Sense and Sensuality
- Best Supporting Actor: Kevin Spacey in The Usual Suspects
- Best Supporting Actress: Mira Sorvino in Beloved Aphrodite
- Best Acting Ensemble: The Usual Suspects by Bryan Singer
- Best Foreign Language Film: Shanghai Serenade by Zhang Yimou
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
- Best Film: Leaving Las Vegas by Mike Figgis
- Best Director: Mike Figgis for Leaving Las Vegas
- Best Actor: Nicolas Cage in Leaving Las Vegas
- Best Actress: Elisabeth Shue in Leaving Las Vegas
- Best Supporting Actor: Don Cheadle in Devil in Blue
- Best Supporting Actress: Joan Allen in Nixon
- Best Foreign Language Film: Wild Heart by André Téchiné
Jupiter
- Best International Film: Schindler's List by Steven Spielberg
- Best German Film: The Moving Man by Sönke Wortmann
- Best Director: Steven Spielberg for Schindler's List
- Best Actor: Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump
- Best actress: Sandra Bullock in Speed
Further film prizes and awards
- AFI Life Achievement Award : Steven Spielberg
- Amanda : Egghead by Bent Hamer (Best Norwegian Film), Forrest Gump by Robert Zemeckis (Best Foreign Film)
- American Comedy Awards : Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump (Funniest Leading Actor), Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies (Funniest Leading Actress), Martin Landau in Ed Wood (Funniest Supporting Actor), Dianne Wiest in Bullets Over Broadway (Funniest Supporting Actress)
- American Society of Cinematographers Award : John Toll for Braveheart
- Australian Film Institute Award : Angel Baby by Michael Rymer (Best Australian Film), The Last Warrior by Lee Tamahori (Best Foreign Film)
- Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival : Accumulator 1 by Jan Svěrák
- Chlotrudis Awards : Priscilla - Queen of the Desert by Stephan Elliott
- David di Donatello : La scuola (Best Italian Film) and Pulp Fiction (Best Foreign Film)
- German critic award : Andreas Gruber
- Directors Guild of America Award : Robert Zemeckis for Forrest Gump , James Ivory (Lifetime Achievement)
- Ernst Lubitsch Prize : Sönke Wortmann for The Moving Man
- European Film Award : Land and Freedom by Ken Loach
- Evening Standard British Film Award : On behalf of Jim Sheridan 's father
- Genie Award : Confessionnal by Robert Lepage
- Guild Film Prize : Four Weddings and a Death from Mike Newell (gold foreign film), The Promise of Margarethe von Trotta (gold German film), Gilbert Grape - Somewhere in Iowa from Lasse Hallström (silver foreign film), Mario and the magician from Klaus Maria Brandauer and The Moving Man by Sönke Wortmann (each silver German film)
- Goya 1995 : Your time is running out, killer of Imanol Uribe
- Helmut Käutner Prize : Hanns Eckelkamp , Enno Patalas and Wolf Donner
- Hong Kong Film Awards : Chungking Express by Wong Kar-Wai
- Independent Spirit Awards 1995 : Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino (Best Film) and Drei Farben: Rot by Krzysztof Kieślowski (Best Foreign Film)
- Konrad Wolf Prize : Ken Loach
- Louis Delluc Prize : Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud by Claude Sautet
- Max Ophüls Prize : One of my oldest friends of Rainer Kaufmann
- MTV Movie Awards : Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino
- National Society of Film Critics Award : Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino
- People's Choice Award : Forrest Gump by Robert Zemeckis (Best Picture and Best Drama), The Santa Clause - A Nice Present by John Pasquin (Best Comedy), Tom Hanks (Most Popular Dramatic Actor), Tim Allen (Most Popular Comedic Actor), Jodie Foster (Most Popular Dramatic Actress), Whoopi Goldberg (Most Popular Comedic Actress)
- Political Film Society Award for Democracy : Rangoon - In the Heart of the Storm by John Boorman
- Political Film Society Award for Peace : Rangoon - In the Heart of the Storm by John Boorman
- Political Film Society Award for Human Rights : Murder in the First by Marc Rocco
- German Film Critics' Prize : The Happiness of My Sister by Angela Schanelec
- Robert : Nightwatch - Nightwatch by Ole Bornedal (Best Danish film), what remained of the day remained of James Ivory (foreign Best Picture)
- Screen Actors Guild Awards : Tom Hanks for Forrest Gump and Jodie Foster for Nell ; Lifetime Achievement Award: George Burns
- Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia-San Sebastián : Margaret's Museum by Mort Ransen (Golden Shell)
- International Film Festival Shanghai : Broken Silence by Wolfgang Panzer
- Nastro d'Argento : Lamerica by Gianni Amelio and What was left of the day by James Ivory
- Sundance Film Festival : Little Sins Among Brothers of Edward Burns (Grand Jury Prize)
- Toronto International Film Festival : Antonia's World by Marleen Gorris (Audience Award)
- Vancouver International Film Festival : Carrington by Christopher Hampton
- Warsaw International Film Festival : Before the Rain by Milčo Mančevski
- Writers Guild of America Award : Four Weddings and a Death by Richard Curtis (Best Original Screenplay), Forrest Gump by Eric Roth (Best Adapted Screenplay)
Birthdays
January to June
January
- January 4th: Maddie Hasson , American actress
- January 5: Jordan Orr , American actor
April
- April 18: Virginia Gardner , American actress
May
- May 2nd: Skye Bennett , British actress
- May 31: Johannes Nussbaum , Austrian actor
June
- June 9: Blake Woodruff , American actor
- June 28: Kåre Hedebrant , Swedish actor
July to December
July
- July 9: Georgie Henley , British actress
August
- August 20: Zsá Zsá Inci Bürkle , German actress
- August 20: Liana Liberato , American actress
- August 26: Gracie Dzienny , American actress and model
September
- September 12: Ryan Potter , American actor
- September 20: Sammi Hanratty , American actress
- September 27: Lena Beyerling , German actress
- September 27: Lina Leandersson , Swedish actress
October
- October 25: Conchita Campbell , Canadian actress
November
- November 16: Kurt Ipekkaya , German actor
- November 16: Noah Gray-Cabey , American actor
Day unknown
- Lili Epply , Austrian actress
deceased
January to March
January
- January 2: Nancy Kelly , American actress (* 1921)
- January 7th: Ted Tetzlaff , American director and cameraman (* 1903)
- January 10: Roy Ashton , British makeup artist (* 1909)
- January 24: Edward Colman , American cameraman (* 1905)
- January 25: John Smith , American actor (born 1931)
- January 25: William Sylvester , American actor (born 1922)
- January 31: George Abbott , American screenwriter, director and actor (* 1887)
February
- February 5: Doug McClure , American actor (born 1935)
- February 9: David Wayne , American actor (born 1914)
- February 14: Maria Andergast , German actress (* 1912)
- February 14: Michael V. Gazzo , American actor (* 1923)
- February 20: Robert Bolt , British screenwriter (born 1924)
- February 22nd: Ed Flanders , American actor (* 1934)
- February 24th: Hans Hessling , German actor (* 1903)
- February 26: Jack Clayton , British director (born 1921)
March
- March 6: Barbara Lass , Polish actress (* 1940)
- March 11: Lotte Rausch , German actress (* 1911)
- March 16: Albert Hackett , American screenwriter (* 1900)
- March 21: Robert Urquhart , Scottish actor (* 1921)
- March 23: Vladimir Iwaschow , Russian actor (* 1939)
- March 27: René Allio , French director (* 1924)
April to June
April
- April 4: Priscilla Lane , American actress (born 1915)
- April 9: Oscar Heiler , German actor (* 1906)
- April 14: Burl Ives , American actor (born 1909)
- April 21: Tessie O'Shea , British actress (born 1913)
- April 25: Alexander Knox , Canadian actor (* 1907)
- April 25: Ginger Rogers , American actress (* 1911)
- April 27: Katherine DeMille , American actress (born 1911)
- April 27: Silverio Blasi , Italian actor, screenwriter and director (* 1921)
May
- May 2: Michael Hordern , British actor (* 1911)
- May 7th: María Luisa Bemberg , Argentine director and screenwriter (* 1922)
- May 9: Rudi Schippel , Austrian actor (* 1922)
- May 12: Arthur Lubin , American director (* 1898)
- May 13: Alan Maley , British painter and special effects artist (* 1931)
- May 18: Elisha Cook , American actress (* 1903)
- May 18: Elizabeth Montgomery , American actress (born 1933)
- May 18: Sabine Sinjen , German actress (* 1942)
- May 26: Friz Freleng , American cartoon filmmaker (* 1905)
June
- June 15: Charles Bennett , British screenwriter (* 1899)
- June 20: Julian Blaustein , American producer and screenwriter (* 1913)
- June 21: Franz Stoss , Austrian actor (* 1909)
- June 21: Ulrich Thein , German actor and director (* 1930)
- June 29: Lana Turner , American actress (* 1921)
- June 30: Gale Gordon , American actor (born 1906)
July to September
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July
- July 4th: Eva Gabor , American actress (* 1919)
- July 11th: Helma Seitz , German actress (* 1913)
- July 11: Don Starr , American actor (* 1917)
- July 17: Harry Guardino , American actor (born 1925)
- July 24th: Jerzy Toeplitz , Polish film historian (* 1909)
- July 27: Miklós Rózsa , Hungarian composer (* 1907)
August
- August 3: Ida Lupino , British actress (born 1914)
- August 12: Robert Stephens , British actor (born 1931)
- August 17th: Howard Koch , American screenwriter (* 1901)
- August 18: Alex Joffé , French director, screenwriter and actor (* 1918)
- August 20: Maly Delschaft , German actress (* 1898)
- August 24: Zbyněk Brynych , Czech director (* 1927)
- August 24: Gary Crosby , American actor (born 1933)
- August 29: Frank Perry , American director (born 1930)
- August 31: David Farrar , British actor (born 1908)
September
- September 10: Charles Denner , French actor (* 1926)
- September 12: Jeremy Brett , British actor (born 1933)
- September 12: Tom Helmore , American actor (* 1904)
- September 14: Eiji Okada , Japanese actor (* 1920)
- September 17: Grady Sutton , American actor (born 1906)
- September 22nd: Alfred Böhm , Austrian chamber actor (* 1920)
- September 25: Dorothy Dickson , British actress (* 1893)
October to December
October
- October 18: Claudio Brook , Mexican actor (* 1927)
- October 21: Jack Rose , American screenwriter (born 1911)
- October 22: Mary Wickes , American actress (born 1910)
- October 25: Viveca Lindfors , Swedish actress (* 1920)
- October 27: Leo Bardischewski , German actor and voice actor (* 1914)
- October 28: Julien Bertheau , French actor (* 1910)
- October 29: Jean Heather , American actress (* 1921)
- October 29: Terry Southern , American screenwriter (born 1924)
- October 30: Brian Easdale , British composer and conductor (* 1909)
- October 31: Rosalind Cash , American actress (* 1938)
November
- November 4th: Paul Eddington , British actor (born 1927)
- November 9: Geraldine Katt , Austrian actress (* 1921)
- November 16: Jack Finney , American writer (* 1911)
- November 23: Louis Malle , French director (* 1932)
- November 25: Erich Schellow , German actor (* 1915)
- November 30th: Til Kiwe , German actor (* 1915)
December
- December 2: Ira Wallach , American screenwriter (* 1913)
- December 4: Robert Parrish , American director (born 1916)
- December 9: Vivian Blaine , American actress and singer (* 1921)
- December 20: Madge Sinclair , American actress (* 1938)
- December 22nd: Butterfly McQueen , American actress (* 1911)
- December 25: Dean Martin , American actor and singer (born 1917)
- December 29th: Lita Gray , American actress (born 1908)
- December 31: Fritz Eckhardt , Austrian actor, author and director (* 1907)
Web links
Commons : Film Year 1995 - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ The most successful films in Germany 1995 at InsideKino, May 25, 2010