2001 film year
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Other events
Events
- May 1st: Dieter Kosslick becomes the new director of the Berlinale .
- The winners of the Bravo Otto readers' poll 2001:
- Male movie star category: Gold Josh Hartnett , Silver Daniel Radcliffe , Bronze Michael Herbig
- Female movie star category: Gold Julia Roberts , Silver Jennifer Lopez , Bronze Sandra Bullock
- Autumn: Amour Fou Filmproduktion is founded in Austria .
Top 10 most successful films
In Germany
The ten most successful films at the German box office according to attendance (as of August 28, 2011):
| space | Movie title | Visitors |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | 12,565,007 |
| 2. | The Lord of the Rings: The Companions | 11,833,420 |
| 3. | Manitou's shoe | 11,721,499 |
| 4th | What women Want | 6,483,589 |
| 5. | American Pie 2 | 5,818,102 |
| 6th | Cast Away | 4,950,894 |
| 7th | Pearl Harbor | 4,631,404 |
| 8th. | Bridget Jones - Chocolate for Breakfast | 4,290,812 |
| 9. | The mummy returns | 4,091,361 |
| 10. | Shrek - The daredevil hero | 3,640,183 |
In the United States
The ten most successful films at the US box office by grossing in US dollars (as of August 28, 2011):
| space | Movie title | revenue |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | $ 317,575,550 |
| 2. | The Lord of the Rings: The Companions | $ 313,364,114 |
| 3. | Shrek - The daredevil hero | $ 267,665,011 |
| 4th | the monster Inc | $ 255,873,250 |
| 5. | Rush hour 2 | $ 226.164.286 |
| 6th | The mummy returns | $ 202,019,785 |
| 7th | Pearl Harbor | $ 198,542,554 |
| 8th. | Ocean's Eleven | $ 183,417,150 |
| 9. | Jurassic Park III | $ 181,171,875 |
| 10. | planet of monkeys | $ 180,011,740 |
Worldwide
The ten most successful films worldwide by grossing in US dollars (as of August 28, 2011):
| space | Movie title | revenue |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | $ 974,755,371 |
| 2. | The Lord of the Rings: The Companions | $ 870,761,744 |
| 3. | the monster Inc | $ 525,366,597 |
| 4th | Shrek - The daredevil hero | $ 484,409,218 |
| 5. | Ocean's Eleven | $ 450,717,150 |
| 6th | Pearl Harbor | $ 449,220,945 |
| 7th | The mummy returns | $ 433,013,274 |
| 8th. | Jurassic Park III | $ 368,780,809 |
| 9. | planet of monkeys | $ 362,211,740 |
| 10. | Hannibal | $ 351,692,268 |
Film awards
Berlinale
- Best film: Intimacy (Director: Patrice Chéreau , France)
- Jury Grand Prize: Beijing Bicycle by Wang Xiaoshuai
- Best Director: Cheng-sheng Lin for Fire Red Blossoms (Taiwan)
- Best Actor: Benicio del Toro for Traffic - Power of the Cartel (Director: Steven Soderbergh , USA)
- Best Actress: Kerry Fox for Intimacy (Director: Patrice Chéreau , France)
Complete list of award winners
Cannes
- Golden Palm: My Son's Room (Director: Nanni Moretti , Italy)
- Grand Jury Prize: The piano player by Michael Haneke (France)
- Best Actor: Benoît Magimel for The Piano Player
- Best leading actress: Isabelle Huppert for The Piano Player
Complete list of award winners
Venice
- Golden Lion: Monsoon Wedding (Director: Mira Nair , India)
- Big Special Jury Prize: Dog Days by Ulrich Seidl (Austria)
- Best Actor: Luigi Lo Cascio for Luce dei miei occhi (Director: Giuseppe Piccioni , Italy)
- Best Actress: Sandra Ceccarelli for Luce dei miei occhi (Director: Giuseppe Piccioni , Italy)
Complete list of award winners
European film award
- Best film: The fabulous world of Amélie (Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet , Germany, France)
- Best director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet for The fabulous world of Amélie
- Best Actor: Ben Kingsley for Sexy Beast (Director: Jonathan Glazer , GB, Spain)
- Best leading actress: Isabelle Huppert for The Piano Player
Complete list of award winners
Oscar
- Best Film: Gladiator (Director: Ridley Scott , GB, USA)
- Best Director: Steven Soderbergh for Traffic - Power of the Cartel
- Best Actor: Russell Crowe for Gladiator
- Best Actress: Julia Roberts for Erin Brockovich (Director: Steven Soderbergh , USA)
- Best Foreign Language Film: Tiger and Dragon (Director: Ang Lee )
Complete list of award winners
Golden Globe Awards
- Best Film (Drama): Gladiator
- Best Film (Comedy / Musical): Almost Famous
- Best Director: Ang Lee for Tiger and Dragon
- Best Actress (Drama): Julia Roberts for Erin Brockovich
- Best Actress (Comedy / Musical): Renée Zellweger for Nurse Betty
- Best Actor (Drama): Tom Hanks for Cast Away
- Best Actor (Comedy / Musical): George Clooney for O Brother, Where Art Thou? - A Mississippi odyssey
- Best Supporting Actress: Kate Hudson for Almost Famous
- Best Supporting Actor: Benicio del Toro for Traffic - Power of the Cartel
- Best Foreign Film: Tiger and Dragon (Director: Ang Lee)
Complete list of award winners
German film award
- Best film: Internal Security (Director: Christian Petzold , Germany)
- Best director: Esther Gronenborn for alaska.de (Germany)
- Best Actor: Moritz Bleibtreu for Das Experiment (Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel , Germany)
- Best leading actress: Katrin Saß for Heidi M. (Director: Michael Klier , Germany)
Complete list of award winners
César
- Best Film: Lust for Other (Director: Agnès Jaoui , France)
- Best director: Dominik Moll for Harry means well with you (France)
- Best Actor: Sergi López for Harry means well with you
- Best Actress: Dominique Blanc for Stand-by (film)
- Best Foreign Film: In the Mood for Love by Wong Kar-Wai
Complete list of award winners
British Academy Film Award
- Best Film: Gladiator (Director: Ridley Scott , GB, USA)
- Best Director: Ang Lee for Tiger and Dragon
- Best Actor: Jamie Bell for Billy Elliot - I Will Dance ( Stephen Daldry , UK)
- Best Actress: Julia Roberts for Erin Brockovich (Director: Steven Soderbergh , USA)
- Best Non-English Language Film: Tiger and Dragon by Ang Lee
Complete list of award winners
Bavarian film award
The Bavarian Film Prize 2000 was awarded on January 19, 2001.
- Best Production: Forget America and The Solitude of the Crocodiles
- Best actress: Hannelore Elsner in The Untouchables
- Best performer: Benno Fürmann in Friends - Not in the mood for cops
- Best young actress: Fritzi Haberlandt in Kalt is the evening breath
- Best young actor: Tom Schilling and Robert Stadlober in Crazy
- Best director: Oliver Hirschbiegel for Das Experiment
- Honorary award: Mario Adorf
Sun Dance
- Grand Jury Prize: Inside a Skinhead (Director: Henry Bean , USA)
- Best Director (Feature Film): Todd Field for In the Bedroom (USA)
- Best director (documentary): Edet Belzberg for Asphaltkinder in Bucharest (USA)
- Audience Award (Drama): John Cameron Mitchell for Hedwig and the Angry Inch
- Best Director (Drama): John Cameron Mitchell for Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Complete list of award winners
New York Film Critics Circle Award
- Best Film: Mulholland Drive by David Lynch
- Best Director: Robert Altman for Gosford Park
- Best Actor: Tom Wilkinson in In the Bedroom
- Best Actress: Sissy Spacek in In the Bedroom
- Best Supporting Actor: Steve Buscemi in Ghost World
- Best Supporting Actress: Helen Mirren at Gosford Park
- Best Cinematography: Christopher Doyle and Pin Bing Lee for In the Mood for Love
- Best Foreign Film: In the Mood for Love by Wong Kar-Wai
National Board of Review
- Best film: Moulin Rouge! by Baz Luhrmann
- Best Director: Todd Field for In the Bedroom
- Best Actor: Billy Bob Thornton in Monster's Ball , The Man Who Wasn't There , Bandits!
- Best Actress: Halle Berry in Monster's Ball
- Best Supporting Actor: Jim Broadbent in Iris and Moulin Rouge!
- Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring , In Stormy Times , Ship Reports
- Best Acting Ensemble: Last Round - Last Orders by Fred Schepisi
- Best foreign language film: Amores Perros by Alejandro González Iñárritu
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
- Best Picture: In the Bedroom by Todd Field
- Best Director: David Lynch for Mulholland Drive
- Best Actor: Denzel Washington in Training Day
- Best Actress: Sissy Spacek in In the Bedroom
- Best Supporting Actor: Jim Broadbent in Iris and Moulin Rouge!
- Best Supporting Actress: Kate Winslet in Iris
- Best Foreign Language Film: No Man's Land by Danis Tanović
Jupiter
- Best film international: American Beauty by Sam Mendes
- Best German film: Anatomy by Stefan Ruzowitzky
- Best international director: Ridley Scott for Gladiator
- Best German director: Fatih Akın for In July
- Best Actor International: Kevin Spacey in American Beauty
- Best German actor: Moritz Bleibtreu in In July
- Best Actress International: Julia Roberts in Erin Brockovich
- Best German actress: Franka Potente in anatomy
Further film prizes and awards
- AFI Life Achievement Award : Barbra Streisand
- Amanda : Fierce and enthusiastic by Knut Erik Jensen (Best Norwegian Film), Billy Elliot - I Will Dance by Stephen Daldry (Best Foreign Film)
- American Comedy Awards : Ben Stiller in My Bride, Her Father and Me (Funniest Lead Actor), Sandra Bullock in Miss Undercover (Funniest Lead Actress), Fred Willard in Best in Show (Funniest Supporting Actor), Catherine O'Hara in Best in Show (Funniest Supporting actress)
- American Society of Cinematographers Award : Roger Deakins for The Man Who Wasn't There
- Australian Film Institute Award : Lantana by Ray Lawrence (Best Australian Film), Tiger and Dragon by Ang Lee (Best Foreign Film)
- Bodil : The Bank of Per Fly
- British Independent Film Awards : Sexy Beast (Best British Film) and In the Mood for Love (Best Foreign Language Film)
- Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival : Seom - The island of Kim Ki-duk
- Chlotrudis Awards : Requiem for a Dream by Darren Aronofsky
- David di Donatello : My Son's Room (Best Italian Film) and Desire for Other (Best Foreign Film)
- Directors Guild of America Award : Ang Lee for Tiger and Dragon
- Ernst Lubitsch Prize : Elisabeth Scherer , Christel Peters and Gudrun Okras for now or never - time is money
- Evening Standard British Film Award : Topsy-Turvy - Upside Down by Mike Leigh
- Festival du cinéma nordique : 101 Reykjavík by Baltasar Kormákur
- Genie Award : Maelström by Denis Villeneuve
- Gilde Film Prize : Chocolat - A small bite is enough from Lasse Hallström (gold foreign film), Der Krieger und die Kaiserin by Tom Tykwer (gold German film), bread and tulips by Silvio Soldini (silver foreign film), Gran Paradiso by Miguel Alexandre (Silver German film)
- GoEast : The Big Animal by Jerzy Stuhr and People Second Class by Kira Muratowa
- Golden Tulip (Istanbul) : The Untouchables by Oskar Roehler
- Guldbagge : Songs from the Second Floor by Roy Andersson
- Helmut Käutner Prize : Hannelore Hoger
- Hong Kong Film Awards : Tiger and Dragon by Ang Lee
- Independent Spirit Awards 2001 : Tiger and Dragon by Ang Lee (best film) and Dancer in the Dark by Lars von Trier (best foreign film)
- Karlovy Vary International Film Festival : The Fabulous World of Amélie by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Konrad Wolf Prize : Agnès Varda
- Louis Delluc Prize : Intimacy by Patrice Chéreau
- Max Ophüls Prize : The white noise by Hans Weingartner
- MTV Movie Awards : Gladiator by Ridley Scott
- Nastro d'Argento : My Son's Room by Nanni Moretti and Billy Elliot - I Will Dance by Stephen Daldry
- National Society of Film Critics Award : Yi Yi - A One and a Two by Edward Yang
- People's Choice Award : The Green Mile by Frank Darabont (Best Picture and Best Drama), My Bride, Her Father and I by Jay Roach (Best Comedy), Mel Gibson (Most Popular Actor), Julia Roberts (Most Popular Actress)
- Political Film Society Award for Democracy : The Majestic by Frank Darabont
- Political Film Society Award for Peace : Lumumba by Raoul Peck
- Political Film Society Award for Human Rights : Focus by Neal Slavin
- Polish Film Award : Życie jako śmiertelna choroba przenoszona drogą płciową by Krzysztof Zanussi
- Price of the German Film Critics : The internal security of Christian Petzold
- Prix Lumières : The Taste of Others by Agnès Jaoui
- Robert : Per Fly's Bank (best Danish film), Tiger and Dragon by Ang Lee (best foreign film without USA), American Beauty by Sam Mendes (best American film)
- Satellite Awards : In the Bedroom (Best Film / Drama) and Moulin Rouge (Best Film / Comedy-Musical)
- Swiss Film Award : Azzurro by Denis Rabaglia
- Screen Actors Guild Awards : Benicio del Toro for Traffic - Power of the Cartel and Julia Roberts for Erin Brockovich ; Lifetime Achievement Award: Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee
- International Film Festival Shanghai : Startup by Peter Howitt
- Toronto International Film Festival : The Fabulous World of Amélie by Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Audience Award)
- Vancouver International Film Festival : Hatred and Hope - Children in the Middle East Conflict by Carlos Bolado , BZ Goldberg and Justine Shapiro
- International Film Festival Warsaw : Italian for Beginners by Lone Scherfig (Audience Award)
- Writers Guild of America Award : You Can Count on Me by Kenneth Lonergan (Best Original Screenplay), Traffic - Power of the Cartel by Stephen Gaghan (Best Adapted Screenplay)
Birthdays
January to June
- January 14th: Alexander Türk , German child actor
- January 21: Jackson Brundage , American child actor
- February 2: Connor Gibbs , American actor
- February 21: Isabella Acres , American actress and voice actress
- March 6: Aryana Engineer , Canadian actress
July to December
- August 6: Ty Simpkins , American actor
- September 11th: Mackenzie Aladjem , American actress
- September 19: Taylor Geare , American actress
- October 12: Raymond Ochoa , American actor and voice actor
- October 27: Teilor Grubbs , American actress and model
- December 28: Madison De La Garza , American actress
Day unknown
- Melody B. Choi , Canadian actress
deceased
January to March
January
- January 1: Hans-Günter Martens , German actor (* 1930)
- January 1: Ray Walston , American actor (born 1914)
- January 5: Nancy Parsons , American actress (* 1942)
- January 13: Genia Nikolajewa , Russian actress (* 1904)
- January 21: Sandy Baron , American actor (born 1937)
- January 29th: Jean-Pierre Aumont , French actor (* 1911)
February
- February 5: Ljubomir Dimitrov , Bulgarian actor (* 1930)
- February 12: Tiberio Mitri , Italian actor (* 1926)
- February 12: Kristina Söderbaum , Swedish actress (* 1912)
- February 15: Burt Kennedy , American director (born 1922)
- February 16: Howard W. Koch , American producer (born 1916)
- February 16: Helen Vita , German actress (* 1928)
- February 19: Stanley Kramer , American producer (born 1913)
- February 22nd: Evelyn Holt , German actress (* 1906)
- February 23: Robert Enrico , French director (* 1931)
- February 27: Ralf D. Bode , American cameraman (* 1941)
March
- March 9: Giancarlo Prete , Italian actor (* 1942)
- March 13: John A. Alonzo , American cameraman (* 1934)
- March 15: Ann Sothern , American actress (* 1909)
- March 16: Maria von Tasnady , Hungarian actress (* 1911)
- March 17th: Ralph Thomas , British director (born 1915)
- March 21: Anthony Steel , British actor (born 1920)
- March 22nd: William Hanna , American animated film maker (* 1910)
- March 24th: Karl Schönböck , Austrian actor (* 1909)
- March 26: Piotr Sobociński , Polish cameraman (* 1958)
April to June
April
- April 1: Larry Tucker , American actor, screenwriter and producer (born 1934)
- April 7: David Graf , American actor (born 1950)
- April 7: Beatrice Straight , American actress (* 1914)
- April 10: Jean-Gabriel Albicocco , French director (* 1936)
- April 14: Hiroshi Teshigahara , Japanese director (* 1927)
- April 16: Klaus Kindler , German actor and voice actor (* 1930)
- April 16: Michael Ritchie , American director (* 1938)
- April 28: Ken Hughes , British film director, screenwriter and film producer (* 1922)
- April 28: Evelyn Künneke , German actress (* 1921)
May
- May 4th: Arne Sucksdorff , Swedish director (* 1917)
- May 5: Mabel Karr , Argentine actress (* 1934)
- May 12: Perry Como , American actor and singer (* 1912)
- May 13: Jason Anthony Miller , American actor (born 1939)
- May 14: Mauro Bolognini , Italian director (* 1922)
- May 26: Anne Haney , American actress (* 1934)
- May 31: Arlene Francis , American actress (* 1907)
June
- June 3: Anthony Quinn , American actor (born 1915)
- June 4th: Pierre Michaël , French actor (* 1932)
- June 15: Henri Alekan , French cameraman (* 1909)
- June 21: Carroll O'Connor , American actor (born 1924)
- June 23: Corinne Calvet , French actress (* 1925)
- June 25: Kurt Hoffmann , German director (* 1910)
- June 27: Chico O'Farrill , American composer (* 1921)
- June 27: Jack Lemmon , American actor (born 1925)
- June 28: Joan Sims , British actress (born 1930)
July to September
July
- July 2: Jack Gwillim , British actor (born 1909)
- July 2: Gerhard Respondek , German screenwriter and director (* 1927)
- July 3: Mordecai Richler , Canadian screenwriter (born 1931)
- July 5: AD Flowers , American film technician and specialist in special effects (* 1917)
- July 10th: Klaus Hein Fischer , German illustrator and stage designer (* 1936 or 1937)
- July 11th: Adolf Dresen , German theater director and actor (* 1935)
- July 13: Miguel Gila , Spanish actor (* 1919)
- July 14th: Agustín Navarro , Spanish director and screenwriter (* 1926)
- July 19: Paul Beeson , British cameraman (* 1921)
- July 26: Rudolf Nussgruber , Austrian director (* 1918)
- July 29: Alex Nicol , American actor (born 1916)
August
- August 3: Hans Holt , Austrian actor (* 1909)
- August 6: Robert Dunham , American actor (born 1931)
- August 20: Kim Stanley , American actress (* 1925)
- August 23: Kathleen Freeman , American actress (* 1919)
- August 24: Jane Greer , American actress (* 1924)
- August 25: John Chambers , American makeup artist (born 1923)
- August 25: Philippe Léotard , French actor (born 1940)
- August 29: Francisco Rabal , Spanish actor (* 1926)
September
- September 2: Troy Donahue , American actor (* 1936)
- September 3: Pauline Kael , American film critic (* 1919)
- September 9: Shinji Sōmai , Japanese director (* 1948)
- September 12: Victor Wong , Chinese-American actor (* 1927)
- September 13: Dorothy McGuire , American actress (* 1916)
- September 13: Charles Regnier , German actor (* 1914)
- September 15: Frederick de Cordova , American director and producer (* 1910)
- September 16: Samuel Z. Arkoff , American producer (* 1918)
- September 19: Trude Breitschopf , Austrian actress (* 1915)
- September 20: Gerd E. Schäfer , German actor (* 1923)
- September 28: Irene von Meyendorff , German actress (* 1916)
- September 29: Gloria Foster , American actress (* 1933)
- September 29: Georg Schuchter , Austrian actor (* 1952)
- September 30th: Luis Barboo , Spanish actor (* 1927)
October to December
October
- October 3: Herbert Coleman , American producer and director (* 1907)
- October 9: Herbert Ross , American director (born 1927)
- October 15: Ralph Levy , American film director and television producer (* 1919)
- October 16: Yuri Oserow , Russian director (* 1921)
- October 19: Ray Lovejoy , British film editor (born 1939)
- October 26: Gerhard Wohlgemuth , German composer (* 1920)
- October 29: Grigori Tschuchrai , Soviet screenwriter and director (* 1921)
- October 30: Bruno Carstens , German actor (* 1918)
- October 30: Ilse Kubaschewski , German film distributor and producer (* 1907)
- October 30: Marga Legal , German actress (* 1908)
- October 30: John Springer , American press agent, film historian and writer (* 1916)
November
- November 2: Thomas Brasch , German writer and director (* 1945)
- November 3: Carol Rubin , American producer (* 1945)
- November 5th: Roy Boulting , British producer, screenwriter and director (born 1913)
- November 5: Monika Lätzsch , German writer and screenwriter (* 1930)
- November 7th: Sachiko Hidari , Japanese actress (* 1930)
- November 8th: Yokoyama Ryūichi , Japanese mangaka and animation director (* 1909)
- November 21: Ralph Burns , American composer (* 1922)
- November 27: Jane Welsh , British actress (born 1905)
- November 28: Gunnar Hellström , Swedish director and actor (* 1928)
- November 29: Budd Boetticher , American director (* 1945)
- November 30th: Michael Lentz , German screenwriter and director (* 1926)
December
- December 1: Danilo Donati , Italian costume and production designer (* 1926)
- December 7th: Subrata Mitra , Indian cameraman (* 1930)
- December 8th: Willi Burth , German film technology pioneer (* 1904)
- December 10: Ashok Kumar , Indian actor and director (* 1911)
- December 15: Wilkie Cooper , British cameraman (* 1911)
- December 25th: Werner Achmann , German production designer and film set designer (* 1929)
- December 26: Paul Landres , American director (born 1912)
- December 26th: Nigel Hawthorne , British actor (born 1929)
- December 31st: Paul Hubschmid , Swiss actor (* 1917)
- December 31: Eileen Heckart , American actress (* 1919)
Web links
Commons : 2001 Film Year - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ The most successful films in Germany 2001 on insidekino.com, accessed on August 28, 2011
- ^ Box Office United States , accessed August 28, 2011
- ↑ Box Office Worldwide , accessed August 28, 2011