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Top 10 most successful films

In Germany

The ten most successful films at the German box office according to number of visitors (as of August 22, 2011):

space	Movie title	Visitors
1.	Madagascar 2	6,059,265
2.	Quantum of comfort	4,739,369
3.	Mamma Mia!	4,300,124
4th	Hancock	3,846,331
5.	Our earth - the film	3,836,423
6th	WALL · E - The last one is cleaning up the earth	3.230.130
7th	Kung Fu Panda	3,157,094
8th.	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull	2,847,930
9.	The Dark Knight	2,808,380
10.	The wave	2,686,571

In Austria

The ten most successful films at the Austrian box office according to number of visitors (as of August 22, 2011):

space	Movie title	Visitors
1.	Madagascar 2	773.521
2.	Mamma Mia!	741.268
3.	Quantum of comfort	503,571
4th	Kung Fu Panda	461.454
5.	Hancock	442.287
6th	The Dark Knight	440.927
7th	Real Viennese - The Sackbauer Saga	370,822
8th.	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull	319.050
9.	Sex and the City - The Movie	302.155
10.	I am legend	297,366

In the United States

The ten most successful films at the US box office by grossing in US dollars (as of August 22, 2011):

space	Movie title	revenue
1.	The Dark Knight	$ 533,345,358
2.	Iron man	$ 318,412,101
3.	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull	$ 317,101,119
4th	Hancock	$ 227,946,274
5.	WALL · E - The last one is cleaning up the earth	$ 223,808,164
6th	Kung Fu Panda	$ 215,434,591
7th	Twilight - Until (s) dawn	$ 192,769,854
8th.	Madagascar 2	$ 180,010,950
9.	Quantum of comfort	$ 168,368,427
10.	Horton hears a who!	$ 154,529,439

Worldwide

The ten most successful films worldwide by grossing in US dollars (as of August 22, 2011):

space	Movie title	revenue
1.	The Dark Knight	$ 1,001,921,825
2.	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull	$ 786,636,033
3.	Kung Fu Panda	$ 631,744,560
4th	Hancock	$ 624,386,746
5.	Mamma Mia!	$ 609,841,637
6th	Madagascar 2	$ 603,900,354
7th	Quantum of comfort	$ 586,090,727
8th.	Iron man	$ 585,174,222
9.	WALL · E - The last one is cleaning up the earth	$ 521,311,860
10.	The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian of Narnia	$ 419,665,568

Film awards

Berlinale

Best film: Tropa de Elite by José Padilha
Jury Grand Prize: Standard Operating Procedure by Errol Morris
Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson for There Will Be Blood
Best Actor: Reza Najie in The Song of Sparrows
Best Actress: Sally Hawkins in Happy-Go-Lucky

Complete list of award winners

Cannes

Golden Palm: The class of Laurent Cantet
Grand Jury Prize: Gomorrah - Journey into the Realm of Camorra by Matteo Garrone
Best Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan ( Three Monkeys )
Best Actor: Benicio del Toro for Che ( Che - Revolución and Che - Guerrilla )
Best actress: Sandra Corveloni for Linha de Passe
Best script: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne ( Lorna's silence )

Complete list of award winners

Venice

Golden Lion : The Wrestler by Darren Aronofsky
Grand Jury Prize: Morgentau (Teza) by Haile Gerima
Best Actor: Silvio Orlando for Il papà di Giovanna
Best actress: Dominique Blanc for L'Autre

List of competition entries

Oscar

Best Film: No Country for Old Men - Directed by Ethan and Joel Coen
Best Director: Ethan and Joel Coen (No Country for Old Men)
Best Actress: Marion Cotillard ( La vie en rose )
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis ( There Will Be Blood )
Best Foreign Language Film: Die Fälscher ( Austria )

Complete list of award winners

Golden Globe Award

Best Picture (Drama): Atonement - Director: Joe Wright
Best Film (Comedy / Musical): Sweeney Todd - The Devilish Barber of Fleet Street - Director: Tim Burton
Best director: Julian Schnabel ( butterfly and diving bell )
Best Actress (Drama): Julie Christie ( By Her Side )
Best Actress (Comedy / Musical): Marion Cotillard ( La vie en rose )
Best Actor (Drama): Daniel Day-Lewis ( There Will Be Blood )
Best Actor (Comedy / Musical): Johnny Depp (Sweeney Todd - The Devilish Barber from Fleet Street)
Best Foreign Language Film: Butterfly and Diving Bell - Director: Julian Schnabel , USA

Complete list of award winners

German film award

Best Feature Film: On the Other Side - Director: Fatih Akın
Best Director: Fatih Akın (On the Other Side)
Best Actor: Elmar Wepper ( Cherry Blossoms - Hanami )
Best Actress: Nina Hoss ( Yella )

Complete list of award winners

European film award

Best European Film: Gomorrah - Journey into the Realm of Camorra - Director: Matteo Garrone
Best director: Matteo Garrone (Gomorrah - Journey into the realm of the Camorra)
Best Actor: Toni Servillo ( Gomorrah and Il Divo )
Best actress: Kristin Scott Thomas ( I've loved you for so many years )

Complete list of award winners

César

Best film: Couscous with Fish - Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
Best Director: Abdellatif Kechiche (Couscous with Fish)
Best Actor: Mathieu Amalric ( butterfly and diving bell )
Best Actress: Marion Cotillard ( La vie en rose )
Best Foreign Language Film: The Lives of Others (Germany)

Complete list of award winners

British Academy Film Award

Best Picture: Atonement - Directed by Joe Wright
Best British Film: This is England - Director: Shane Meadows
Best Director: Ethan and Joel Coen ( No Country for Old Men )
Best Actress: Marion Cotillard ( La vie en rose )
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis ( There Will Be Blood )
Best non-English language film: The Lives of Others - Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck , Germany

Complete list of award winners

Sun Dance

Grand Jury Prize (documentary): Trouble the Water - directed by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal
Grand Jury Prize (Feature Film): Frozen River - Director: Courtney Hunt
Audience Award (Feature Film): The Wackness - Being crazy is relative - Director: Jonathan Levine

Complete list of award winners

Bavarian film award

The 2007 Bavarian Film Prize was awarded on January 18, 2008.

Best production: cherry blossoms - hanami
Best actress: Martina Gedeck in My beautiful Christmas presents
Best actor: Elmar Wepper in cherry blossoms - Hanami
Best young actresses: Elinor Lüdde in Meer is nich and Petra Schmidt-Schaller in A fleeing horse
Best director: Fatih Akın for On the Other Side
Honorary award: Michael Ballhaus

New York Film Critics Circle Award

Best film: Milk by Gus Van Sant
Best director: Mike Leigh for Happy-Go-Lucky
Best Actor: Sean Penn in Milk
Best Actress: Sally Hawkins in Happy-Go-Lucky
Best Supporting Actor: Josh Brolin in Milk
Best Supporting Actress: Penélope Cruz in Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Best Cinematography: Anthony Dod Mantle for Slumdog Millionaire
Best foreign film: 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days by Cristian Mungiu

National Board of Review

Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire by Danny Boyle
Best director: David Fincher for The Strange Case of Benjamin Button
Best Actor: Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino
Best Actress: Anne Hathaway in Rachel's Wedding
Best Supporting Actor: Josh Brolin in Milk
Best Supporting Actress: Penélope Cruz in Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Best Acting Company: Question of Faith by John Patrick Shanley

Best Foreign Language Film: The Mongol by Sergei Bodrow

Born

June 10: Helena Zengel , German actress
September 17th: Mia Talerico , American actress

deceased

January to March

Brad Renfro (1982-2008)

Lois Nettleton (1927-2008)

Suzanne Pleshette (1937-2008)

Heath Ledger (1979-2008)

Veronika Bayer (1940-2008)

Barry Morse (1918-2008)

Roy Scheider (1932-2008)

Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-2008)

Paul Scofield (1922-2008)

Richard Widmark (1914-2008)

Jules Dassin (1911-2008)

Charlton Heston (1923-2008)

Vijay Tendulkar (1928-2008)

Sydney Pollack (1934-2008)

Gert Haucke (1929-2008)

Mel Ferrer (1917-2008)

Dino Risi (1916-2008)

Cyd Charisse (1922-2008)

January

0January 1: Peter Caffrey , Irish actor (born 1949)
0January 1: Irena Górska-Damięcka , Polish actress (* 1916)
0January 2: Günter Schubert , German actor (* 1938)
0January 3: Alexander Gawrilowitsch Abdulow , Russian actor (* 1953)
0January 3: Haymo Pockberger , Austrian actor (* 1925)
0January 4th: Marianne Kiefer , German actress (* 1928)
0January 4th: Claude Whatham , British director (born 1927)
0January 5: Edward Kłosiński , Polish cameraman (* 1943)
0January 9: Johnny Grant , American actor and producer (born 1923)
0January 9: Joseph Shaw , British actor (born 1920)
January 10: Maila Nurmi , American actress (* 1921)
January 15: Brad Renfro , American actor (* 1982)
January 16: Rudolf Möller , German actor (* 1914)
January 17: Allan Melvin , American actor and voice actor (* 1923)
January 17th: Madeleine Milhaud , French actress (* 1902)
January 18: Lois Nettleton , American actress (* 1927)
January 18: Ugo Pirro , Italian screenwriter (* 1920)
January 19: Suzanne Pleshette , American actress (* 1937)
January 20: Urs Hefti , Swiss actor (* 1944)
January 20: Walter Santesso , Italian actor, director and screenwriter (* 1931)
January 21: Russell Lloyd , British film editor (born 1916)
January 21: Jiří Sequens , Czech director and screenwriter (* 1922)
January 22nd: Kenneth Higgins , British cameraman (* 1919)
January 22: Heath Ledger , Australian actor and Oscar winner (* 1979)
January 22nd: Ștefan Niculescu , Romanian composer (* 1927)
January 25: Zvonimir Črnko , Croatian actor (* 1936)
January 26: Igor Dmitrijew , Russian actor (* 1927)
January 26: Italo Martinenghi , Italian film producer and director (* 1930)
January 28: Marie Takvam , Norwegian actress (* 1926)
January 29: Claude Faraldo , French director and screenwriter (* 1936)
January 29th: Gopi , Indian actor and director (* 1937)
January 29th: Philippe Khorsand , French actor (* 1948)
January 29: Manuel Padilla, Jr. , American actor (born 1955)
January 31: Veronika Bayer , German actress (* 1940)

February

0February 1: Shell Kepler , American actress (* 1961)
0February 2: Barry Morse , British actor (born 1918)
0February 3: Sigurveig Jónsdóttir , Icelandic actress (* 1931)
0February 4: Ralph B. White , American cameraman, film director, film producer (* 1941)
0February 7th: Tamara Desni , German-British actress (around 1910)
0February 8: Eva Dahlbeck , Swedish actress (* 1920)
0February 9: Robert DoQui , American actor (* 1934)
February 10: Ron Leavitt , American screenwriter and television producer (born 1947)
February 10: Roy Scheider , American actor (* 1932)
February 11: Emilio Carballido , Mexican screenwriter (* 1925)
February 12: Oscar Brodney , American screenwriter (* 1907)
February 12: David Groh , American actor (* 1939)
February 13: Kon Ichikawa , Japanese director (* 1915)
February 15: Manorama , Indian actress (* 1926)
February 17th: Aysel Gürel , Turkish actress (* 1929)
February 18: Gerhard F. Hummel , German film production manager and screenwriter (* 1921)
February 18: Alain Robbe-Grillet , French writer and director (* 1922)
February 19: David Hildyard , British sound engineer (* 1916)
February 19: Teo Macero , American composer (* 1925)
February 19: Emily Perry , British actress (born 1907)
February 19: David Watkin , British cameraman (* 1925)
February 20: Osvaldo Civirani , Italian cameraman (* 1917)
February 20: Richard Lane , Australian screenwriter (born 1918)
February 21: Robin Moore , American screenwriter (born 1925)
February 22: Rubens de Falco , Brazilian actor (* 1931)
February 22nd: Nunzio Gallo , Italian singer and actor (* 1928)
February 25: Fred Berhoff , German actor (* 1936)
February 26: Wolfgang Kühnlenz , German film production manager (* 1925)
February 26th: Bodil Udsen , Danish actress (* 1925)
February 27: Larry Pizer , British cameraman (* 1925)
February 27: Ivan Rebroff , German singer and actor (* 1931)
February 28: Senih Orkan , Turkish actor (* 1932)
February 28: Gito Rollies , Indonesian singer and actor (* 1947)
February 29: Gayne Rescher , American cameraman (* 1924)

March

0March 2: Sofiko Tschiaureli , Georgian actress (* 1937)
0March 4: Elena Nathanael , Greek actress (* 1924)
0March 4: Leonard Rosenman , American composer (* 1924)
0March 4: Semka Sokolović-Bertok , Yugoslav or Croatian actress (* 1935)
0March 5: Jörg Pfennigwerth , German actor (* 1945)
0March 5: Ronald Pierce , American sound engineer (* 1909)
0March 6: Uwe Günzler , German presenter and producer (* 1941)
0March 6: Gustaw Holoubek , Polish actor (* 1923)
March 10: Kenan Pars , Turkish actor, director, screenwriter and producer (* 1920)
March 10: Alfred Reiterer , Austrian actor (* 1934)
March 10: Dave Stevens , American screenwriter and producer (born 1955)
March 12: Erwin Geschonneck , German actor (* 1906)
March 12: Ovidiu Iuliu Moldovan , Romanian actor (* 1942)
March 14th: Wolfgang Kühne , German voice actor, actor, screenwriter, director (* 1953)
March 15: Albrecht Dennhardt , German actor (* 1944)
March 16: Ivan Dixon , American actor and director (* 1931)
March 16: John Hewer , British actor (born 1922)
March 17: Claude Farell , Austro-French actress (* 1918)
March 18: Tom Gloskovski , German actor and producer (* 1950)
March 18: Anthony Minghella , British director and screenwriter (* 1954)
March 19: Paul Scofield , British actor (born 1922)
March 19: Arthur C. Clarke , British novelist and screenwriter (born 1917)
March 20: Shobhan Babu , Indian actor (* 1937)
March 21: Raymond Leblanc , Belgian producer and director (* 1915)
March 22nd: Slavko Cerjak , Yugoslav actor (* 1956)
March 24th: Rafael Azcona , Spanish screenwriter (* 1926)
March 24: Richard Widmark , American actor (* 1914)
March 25: Abby Mann , American screenwriter and producer (born 1923)
March 31: Jules Dassin , American director and screenwriter (* 1911)

April to June

April

0April 1: Sabin Bălașa , Romanian filmmaker (* 1932)
0April 1: Maury Winetrobe , American film editor (* 1922)
0April 1: Jacques Berthier , French actor (* 1916)
0April 2: Mona Seilitz , Swedish actress (* 1943)
0April 3: Wayne Frost , American actor (born 1963)
0April 5: Max Goldstein , Swedish costume designer (* 1925)
0April 5: Alexander Grasshoff , American director (* 1928)
0April 5: Charlton Heston , American actor (born 1923)
0April 7th: Ingeborg Schumacher , German actress (* 1936)
0April 8: Stanley Kamel , American actor (born 1943)
0April 9: Jacques Morel , French actor (born 1922)
April 10: Shomu Mukherjee , Indian director and producer (* 1943)
April 11: Willoughby Goddard , British actor (born 1926)
April 12: Dieter Eppler , German actor (* 1927)
April 14: Ollie Johnston , American animator (born 1912)
April 14: June Travis , American actress (born 1914)
April 15: Hazel Court , British actress (born 1926)
April 15: Benoît Lamy , Belgian director (* 1945)
April 15: Geneviève Winding , French film editor (* 1927)
April 17: Nicolette Goulet , American actress (* 1956)
April 18: Joy Page , American actress (* 1924)
April 19: Lawrence Hertzog , American screenwriter and producer (* 1951)
April 20: Bebe Barron , American film music composer (* 1925)
April 21: Gustl Weishappel , Austrian-German actor (* 1925)
April 22nd: Jaspar von Oertzen , German actor (* 1912)
April 23: Jean Daniel Cadinot , French director and producer (* 1944)
April 24th: Tristram Cary , British film music composer (* 1925)
April 24: Kenneth Keith Kallenbach , American actor (* 1969)
April 29: Julie Ege , Norwegian actress (* 1943)
April 29: Claus Nissen , Danish actor (* 1938)

May

0May 1: Bernard Archard , British actor (born 1916)
0May 1: Elaine Dundy , American actress (* 1921)
0May 1: Jim Hager , American singer and actor (* 1946)
0May 2: Franco Lattanzi , Italian film director (* 1925)
0May 2: Alexander May , German actor and screenwriter (* 1927)
0May 2: Beverlee McKinsey , American actress (* 1940)
0May 4: Alvin Colt , American costume designer (* 1916)
0May 4th: Fred Haines , American screenwriter and film director (* 1936)
0May 4th: Lucien Jeunesse , French actor (* 1918)
0May 8: Hans Daniel , German actor (* 1922)
0May 8: Luigi Malerba , Italian screenwriter (* 1927)
0May 9: Pascal Sevran , French screenwriter and producer (* 1945)
May 10: Michael Weckler , German actor, director and voice actor (* 1942)
May 12: Robert Russell , English actor (born 1936)
May 12: Claudio Undari , Italian actor (* 1935)
May 13: Jill Adams , British actress (born 1930)
May 13: John Phillip Law , American actor (born 1937)
May 13: Colea Răutu , Romanian actor (* 1912)
May 14: Frith Banbury , British actor and director (born 1912)
May 14: John Forbes-Robertson , British actor (born 1928)
May 15: Alexander Courage , American film composer (* 1919)
May 15: Luisa Della Noce , Italian actress (* 1923)
May 16: Sandy Howard , American film producer (* 1927)
May 16: David Mitton , British animation director, screenwriter, producer (born 1938)
May 18: Joseph Pevney , American director and actor (born 1911)
May 18: Lawrence Roman , American screenwriter (born 1921)
May 19: Vijay Tendulkar , Indian screenwriter (* 1928)
May 20: Evelyn Moriarty , American actress (* 1926)
May 21: Ernst Meyer , Danish actor (* 1932)
May 22: Harry Lange , German-British production designer (* 1930)
May 24: Tano Cimarosa , Italian actor and director (* 1922)
May 24th: Ingolf Gorges , German actor (* 1940)
May 24: Robert Knox , British actor (* 1989)
May 24: Dick Martin , American actor and director (born 1922)
May 25: Mitch Mullany , American actor (* 1968)
May 26: Lilyan Chauvin , French actress and director (* 1925)
May 26: Earle Hagen , American film music composer (* 1919)
May 26: Sydney Pollack , American director, producer and actor (born 1934)
May 28: Robert Justman , American producer and assistant director (* 1926)
May 29: Harvey Korman , American actor (born 1927)
May 30th: Gert Haucke , German actor (* 1929)

June

0June 1: Ken Clark , American actor (* 1927)
0June 1: Soja Nikolajewna Wassilkowa , Russian actress (* 1926)
0June 2: Mel Ferrer , American actor, director and producer (born 1917)
0June 2: Adrien Porchet , Swiss film producer, filmmaker and cameraman (* 1907)
0June 7th: Dino Risi , Italian director and screenwriter (* 1916)
June 11: Jean Desailly , French actor (* 1920)
June 15: Ole-Jørgen Nilsen , Norwegian actor (* 1936)
June 15: Stan Winston , American film designer, director and producer (born 1946)
June 16: Wera Frydtberg , German actress (* 1926)
June 17: Henry Beckman , Canadian actor (born 1921)
June 17th: Jacqueline Bertrand , American actress (* 1925)
June 17th: Cyd Charisse , American actress (* 1921)
June 17: Davey Lee , American child actor (born 1924)
June 18: Jean Delannoy , French director and screenwriter (* 1908)
June 20: Curt Hanno Gutbrod , German screenwriter (* 1920)
June 21: Bernd Burgemeister , German film producer (* 1945)
June 21: William Vince , Canadian film producer (born 1963)
June 22nd: George Carlin , American entertainer and actor (born 1937)
June 22nd: Klaus Michael Grüber , German director and actor (* 1941)
June 23: John Furlong , American actor (born 1933)
June 23: Judith Holzmeister , Austrian actress (* 1920)
June 24th: Pinkas Braun , Swiss actor (* 1923)
June 24: Urs Frey , Swiss Rhaeto-Romanic documentary filmmaker (* 1960)
June 24th: Noriaki Tsuchimoto , Japanese director, screenwriter and producer (* 1928)
June 27: Raymond Lefèvre , French composer (* 1929)
June 28: Irina Baronova , Russian-British ballet dancer and actress (* 1919)
June 28: Stig Olin , Swedish actor, director and screenwriter (* 1920)
June 29: Hans Caninenberg , German actor (* 1913)
June 29: Don S. Davis , American actor (born 1942)

July to September

Estelle Getty (1923-2008)

Eva Pflug (1929-2008)

July

0July 3: Harald Heide-Steen junior , Norwegian actor (* 1939)
0July 4th: Evelyn Keyes , American actress (* 1916)
0July 4th: Thomas Schmidt , German actor (* 1942)
0July 5th: Mercedes Barranco , Spanish actress (*?)
0July 6th: Nonna Viktorovna Mordjukowa , Russian actress (* 1925)
0July 7th: Bruce Conner , American avant-garde director (* 1933)
0July 7th: Anton Pointecker , Austrian actor (* 1938)
0July 8: Wieńczysław Gliński , Polish actor (* 1921)
0July 9: Charles H. Joffe , American producer (born 1929)
July 10: Vittorio Casagrande , German-Italian actor (* 1934)
July 11: Breno Mello , Brazilian actor (* 1931)
July 17: Paul Sorensen , American actor (born 1926)
July 18: Michael Aichhorn , Austrian actor (* 1949)
July 18: Khosro Shakibai , Iranian actor (* 1944)
July 19: Dercy Gonçalves , Brazilian actress (* 1907)
July 22: Estelle Getty , American actress (born 1923)
July 24th: Norman Dello Joio , American composer (* 1913)
July 25: Mikhail Pugovkin , Russian actor (* 1923)
July 27: Youssef Chahine , Egyptian director (* 1926)
July 27th: Marisa Merlini , Italian actress (* 1923)

August

Isaac Hayes (1942-2008)

Michal Dočolomanský (1942-2008)

0August 5: Bruno Dallansky , Austrian actor (* 1928)
0August 5th: Eva Pflug , German actress and voice actress (* 1929)
0August 7: Bernie Brillstein , American producer (* 1931)
0August 8: Tom Drake , Canadian screenwriter and director (* 1936)
0August 9: Bernie Mac , American actor (born 1957)
August 10: Isaac Hayes , American musician and composer (* 1942)
August 11: George Furth , American actor and author (* 1932)
August 18: Manny Farber , American film critic (* 1917)
August 19: Julius Carry , American actor (born 1952)
August 21: Fred Crane , American actor (born 1918)
August 25: Marpessa Dawn , American actress (* 1934)
August 26: Michal Dočolomanský , Slovak film and theater actor (* 1942)
August 27: Mark Priestley , Australian actor (born 1976)
August 29: Jayshree Gadkar , Indian actress (* 1942)
August 31: Ken Campbell , British actor (born 1941)

September

Paul Newman (1925-2008)

0September 1: Don LaFontaine , American trailer speaker (* 1940)
0September 1: Michael Pate , Australian actor (* 1920)
0September 1: Jerry Reed , American singer and actor (born 1937)
0September 2: Bill Meléndez , American illustrator, producer and actor (* 1916)
0September 6th: Anita Page , American actress (* 1910)
0September 7th: Dino Dvornik , Croatian actor (* 1964)
September 17th: Humberto Solás , Cuban director (* 1941)
September 18: Florestano Vancini , Italian director (* 1926)
September 19: Jun Ichikawa , Japanese director (born 1948)
September 19: David Hugh Jones , British director (born 1934)
September 21: Jeri Sopanen , American cameraman (* 1929)
September 23: Sonja Savić , Serbian actress (* 1961)
September 26: Paul Newman , American actor (born 1925)

October to December

Guillaume Depardieu (1971-2008)

October

0October 1: House Peters Jr. , American actor (born 1916)
0October 2: Choi Jin-sil , South Korean actress (* 1968)
0October 5: Kim Chan , American actor (* ~ 1917)
0October 5: Hans Richter , German actor (* 1919)
0October 8: Herbert Bötticher , German actor (* 1928)
October 10: Kurt Weinzierl , Austrian actor (* 1931)
October 11: Badar Munir , Pakistani actor (* approx. 1940)
October 13: Guillaume Depardieu , French actor (* 1971)
October 13: Françoise Seigner , French actress (* 1928)
October 15: Edie Adams , American actress (* 1927)
October 18: Xie Jin , Chinese director (* 1923)
October 20: CV Sridhar , Indian director (* 1933)
October 25: Gerard Damiano , American director (* 1928)
October 28: Edd Stavjanik , Austrian actor (* 1927)
October 29: Mae Mercer , American actress (born 1932)
October 31: John Daly , British producer (born 1937)

November

Michael Crichton (1942-2008)

Beverly Garland (1926-2008)

Horst Tappert (1923-2008)

Peter Steiner (1927-2008)

0November 4: Michael Crichton , American screenwriter and director (* 1942)
0November 5: Baldev Raj Chopra , Indian director and producer (* 1914)
0November 6th: Michael Hinz , German actor (* 1939)
0November 7th: Wik Jongsma , Dutch actor (* 1943)
November 10: Horst Jüssen , German actor (* 1941)
November 13th: Marcello Fondato , Italian screenwriter, director (* 1924)
November 15: Peter W. Jansen , German film critic and journalist (* 1930)
November 17th: Irving Brecher , American screenwriter (born 1914)
November 17th: Ennio De Concini , Italian screenwriter, director (* 1923)
November 19: John Michael Hayes , American screenwriter (born 1919)
November 20: Jan Machulski , Polish actor (* 1928)
November 25: William Gibson , American screenwriter (born 1914)
November 27: Patricia Marand , American actress (* 1934)
November 28: William Finnegan , American producer (born 1928)

December

0December 5: Nina Foch , American actress (* 1924)
0December 5: Beverly Garland , American actress (born 1926)
0December 6th: Gérard Lauzier , French director and screenwriter (* 1932)
0December 8: Robert Prosky , American actor (born 1930)
December 10th: Melek Diehl , German actress (* 1976)
December 10: Georgia van der Rohe , German actress and director (* 1914)
December 12: Van Johnson , American actor (born 1916)
December 13: Horst Tappert , German actor (* 1923)
December 16: Sam Bottoms , American actor (born 1955)
December 18: Majel Barrett , American actress (born 1932)
December 18: John Costelloe , American actor (born 1961)
December 19: Tana Schanzara , German actress (* 1925)
December 20: Robert Mulligan , American director (born 1925)
December 22nd: Peter Steiner , German actor (* 1927)
December 24th: Harold Pinter , British screenwriter and actor (born 1930)
December 25: Eartha Kitt , American actress (born 1927)
December 25th: Ann Savage , American actress (born 1921)
December 26th: Dale Wasserman , American screenwriter (born 1917)
December 29th: Otto Pammer , Austrian newsreel and television film producer (* 1926)
December 30th: Bernie Hamilton , American actor (* 1928)
December 31: Fábio Sabag , Brazilian actor and director (* 1931)
December 31: Donald E. Westlake , American screenwriter (born 1933)

Exact date of death unknown

February: Wolf Richards , German actor (* 1930)

literature

Anke Westphal: Lots of battered heroes . In: Berliner Zeitung , December 24, 2008, Kulturkalender, p. K03; Review of the 2008 cinema year
Barbara Schweizerhof: The year of young films . In: taz , December 11, 2008, p. 16; Balance of the film year

Web links

Commons : Film Year 2008 - collection of images, videos and audio files

Our magical moments - photo series at sueddeutsche.de, December 31, 2008

Individual evidence

↑ The most successful films in Germany in 2008 on insidekino.com, accessed on August 22, 2011
↑ Facts & Figures 08: Top 50 Films , accessed on August 22, 2011
^ Box Office United States , accessed August 22, 2011
↑ Box Office Worldwide , accessed August 22, 2011

[1] The most successful films in Germany in 2008 on insidekino.com, accessed on August 22, 2011

[2] Facts & Figures 08: Top 50 Films , accessed on August 22, 2011

[3] Box Office United States , accessed August 22, 2011

[4] Box Office Worldwide , accessed August 22, 2011

Film year 2008

contents

Top 10 most successful films

In Germany

In Austria

In the United States

Worldwide

Film awards

Berlinale

Cannes

Venice

Oscar

Golden Globe Award

German film award

European film award

César

British Academy Film Award

Sun Dance

Bavarian film award

New York Film Critics Circle Award

National Board of Review

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

Jupiter

Further film prizes and awards

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October to December

Exact date of death unknown

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