1946 in film

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• 3.1 January to March
• 3.2 from April to June
• 3.3 July to September
• 3.4 October to December
• 3.5 day unknown

• 4.1 January to June
• 4.2 July to December

Events

• The film critic Nino Frank imprinted in an essay for the French film magazine L' écran français the term film noir

Film Awards

Academy Awards

On March 7, the Oscar ceremony will take place in Los Angeles at Grauman 's Chinese Theatre. Moderators are Bob Hope and James Stewart.

• Best Picture: The Lost Weekend Billy Wilder
• Best Actor: Ray Milland in The Lost Weekend
• Best Actress: Joan Crawford in a heart beat as long as
• Best Director: Billy Wilder for The Lost Weekend
• Best Supporting Actress: Anne Revere in Little Girl, Big Heart
• Best Music: Miklós Rózsa for Spellbound

Full list of winners

Golden Globe Award

On 30 March, the Golden Globe awarded in the Hollywood Knickerbocker Club in Los Angeles:

• Best Drama: The Lost Weekend Billy Wilder
• Best Actor: Ray Milland in The Lost Weekend
• Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman in The Bells of St. Mary's
• Best Supporting Actor: J. Carrol Naish in A Medal for Benny
• Best Supporting Actress: Angela Lansbury in The Picture of Dorian Gray
• Best Director: Billy Wilder for The Lost Weekend

Film Festival of Venice

The Venice Film Festival was held for the first time after World War II from 31 August to 15 September, again instead. However, no prizes were awarded.

International Film Festival of Cannes 1946

The Cannes Film Festival was held in 1939 for the first time. However, it was not to carry out due to the political situation in the run-up to the Second World War. This year, the first festival will take place on 20 September to 5 October. An international jury selected the following winners from:

• International Jury Prize: La Bataille du rail by René Clément
• Best Actor: Ray Milland for The Lost Weekend
• Pastoral Michèle Morgan for La Symphonie: Best Actress
• Best Director: René Clément for La Bataille du rail
• International Peace Prize: The last chance of Leopold Lindtberg

New York Film Critics Circle Award

• Best Picture: The Best Years of Our Lives by William Wyler
• Best Director: William Wyler for The Best Years of Our Lives
• Best Actor: Laurence Olivier in Henry V
• Best Actress: Celia Johnson in encounter
• Best Foreign Film: Rome, Open City by Roberto Rossellini

More movie awards and honors

• Louis- Delluc Prize: There once was by Jean Cocteau
• National Board of Review: Henry V of Laurence Olivier ( Best Film ), Rome, Open City by Roberto Rossellini ( Best Foreign Film ), The Best Years of Our Lives by William Wyler ( Best Director ), Laurence Olivier in Henry V ( Best primary Contributor), Anna Magnani in Rome, Open City ( Best Actress )
• Photoplay Award: The Bells of St. Mary of Leo McCarey ( Best Film ), Bing Crosby ( most popular male star ), Ingrid Bergman ( most popular female star )

Birthdays

January to March

January

• January 05: Diane Keaton, American actress
• January 16: Kabir Bedi, Indian actor
• JANUARY 19: Dolly Parton, American actress and singer
• January 20: David Lynch, American actor, screenwriter and director
• JANUARY 25: Richard Poe, American actor
• JANUARY 26: Christopher Hampton, British screenwriter and director
• January 27: Jürg Löw, Swiss actor
• January 30: Edward C. Kurtz Jr., American documentary filmmaker († 2013)

February

• February 01: Elisabeth Sladen, British actress († 2011)
• February 05: Charlotte Rampling, British actress
• February 07: Hector Babenco, Argentine director
• FEBRUARY 11: Pierre Curzi, Canadian actor
• FEBRUARY 14: Gregory Hines, American actor († 2003)
• FEBRUARY 14: Tina Aumont, French actress
• FEBRUARY 15: Marisa Berenson, American actress
• FEBRUARY 17: Andre Dussollier, French actor
• FEBRUARY 18: Jean -Claude Dreyfus, French actor
• FEBRUARY 19: Luis Puenzo, Argentine director
• FEBRUARY 20: Brenda Blethyn, British actress
• FEBRUARY 21: Tyne Daly, American actress
• FEBRUARY 21: Anthony Daniels, British actor
• FEBRUARY 21: Alan Rickman, British actor
• FEBRUARY 24: Barry Bostwick, American actor
• FEBRUARY 24: Michael Radford, director of British
• FEBRUARY 25: Roland Hemmo, German voice actor and actor

March

• March 01: Lana Wood, American actress
• March 07: Michael Chaplin, American actor
• MARCH 12: Dean Cundey, American Cinematographer
• MARCH 12: Liza Minnelli, American actress and singer
• March 14: Steve Kanaly, American actor
• MARCH 19: Bigas Luna, Spanish director and screenwriter († 2013)
• March 21: Timothy Dalton, British actor

April-June

April

• April 02: Lajos Koltai, Hungarian cameraman
• April 03: Marisa Paredes, Spanish actress
• April 05: Jane Asher, British actress
• April 07: Stan Winston, American artist ( † 2008)
• April 08: Tim Thomerson, American actor
• April 10: Adolf Winkelmann, German director
• APRIL 12: Ed O'Neill, American actor
• APRIL 16: Catherine Allégret, French actress
• April 19: Tim Curry, British actor
• APRIL 21: Xaver Schwarzenberger, Austrian cinematographer and director
• April 22: Nicole Garcia, French actress
• April 22: John Waters, American film director
• April 23: Blair Brown, American actress
• April 25: Andrzej Seweryn, Polish actor
• April 25: Talia Shire, American actress
• APRIL 29: Wayne Robson, Canadian actor († 2011)
• April 29: Franc Roddam, British director
• APRIL 30: Bill Plympton, American animator and director

May

• May 01: Joanna Lumley, British actress
• May 01: Arthur Max, American Designer
• May 01: Bruce Robinson, British actor, screenwriter and director
• 01 May: John Woo, Chinese-American director
• May 02: David Suchet, British actor
• May 09: Candice Bergen, American actress
• MAY 14: Joseph Zito, American film director and producer
• May 20: Cher, American singer and actress
• May 27: Lewis Collins, British actor († 2013)

June

• June 02: Lasse Hallstrom, the Swedish director and screenwriter
• 05 June: John Bach, Welsh actor
• June 05: Stefania Sandrelli, Italian actress
• 09 June: Joachim Hoeppner, German actor, director and voice actor († 2006)
• JUNE 13: Geoff Murphy, director of New Zealand
• June 15: Brigitte Fossey, French actress
• 20 June: Tony Aitken, British actor
• June 23: Ted Shackelford, American actor
• 28 June: Bruce Davison, American actor

July to September

July

• July 01: Stefan Aust, German journalist and documentary
• July 02: Ricky Bruch, Swedish actor († 2011)
• July 02: Ron Silver, American actor († 2009)
• July 06: Sylvester Stallone, American actor
• 07 July: Joe Spano, American actor
• 08 July: Jay Chattaway, American composer
• JULY 10: Sue Lyon, American actress
• July 13: Cheech Marin, American actor
• July 14: Vincent Pastore, American actor
• JULY 16: Richard Leparmentier, American actor and screenwriter († 2013)
• July 17: Alun Armstrong, British actor
• JULY 20: Randal Kleiser, American film director
• July 22: Danny Glover, American actor
• JULY 22: Paul Schrader, American film director
• July 27: Rade Šerbedžija, Croatian actor
• JULY 29: Bill Forsyth, director of British
• JULY 30: Barbara Kopple, American documentary filmmaker

August

• 01 August: Peter F. Bringmann, German director
• August 01: David Calder, British actor
• August 14: Antonio Fargas, American actor
• August 14: Susan Saint James, American actress
• August 16th: Lesley Ann Warren, American actress
• August 17: Serge Moati, French film director
• August 30: Peggy Lipton, American actress

September

• 05 September: Dennis Dugan, American actor and director
• September 05: Freddie Mercury, British musician († 1991)
• 07 September: Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Polish actor
• SEPTEMBER 13: Frank Marshall, American producer
• SEPTEMBER 15: Tommy Lee Jones, American actor
• SEPTEMBER 15: Oliver Stone, American film director and screenwriter
• September 18: Herbert Jefferson, Jr., American actor
• September 18: Gailard Sartain, American actor
• SEPTEMBER 18: Vincenzo Tempera, Italian composer
• September 27: François Dunoyer, French actor
• September 28: Jeffrey Jones, American actor
• September 30: Dan O'Bannon, American screenwriter and director († 2009)

October to December

October

• 02 October: Marie -Georges Pascal, French actress († 1985)
• October 04: Susan Sarandon, American actress
• October 08: Jean -Jacques Beineix, French director
• October 10: Charles Dance, English actor
• October 10: Ben Vereen, American actor
• OCTOBER 15: Victor Banerjee, Indian actor
• October 16: Suzanne Somers, American actress
• OCTOBER 18: Howard Shore, Canadian Composer
• OCTOBER 19: JS Cardone, American film director and screenwriter
• OCTOBER 27: Ivan Reitman, American film director
• October 31: Stephen Rea, Irish actor

November

• November 01: Dennis Muren, American special effects artist
• November 03: Tom Savini, American make-up artist
• 06 November: Sally Field, American actress
• NOVEMBER 26: Mark L. Lester, American film director
• November 28: Joe Dante, American film director

December

• December 06: Christian Steyer, German actor, speaker and composer
• 07 December: Rosalind Ayres, British actress
• December 08: Sharmila Tagore, Indian actor
• December 08: John Rubinstein, American actor and composer
• December 10: Catherine Hiegel, French actress
• DECEMBER 12: Paula Wagner, American producer
• December 14: Jane Birkin, British actress
• December 14: Patty Duke, American actress
• December 16: Terence Knox, American actor
• DECEMBER 16: Tom Stern, American Cinematographer
• December 17: Eugene Levy, American actor
• DECEMBER 18: Steven Spielberg, American film director and producer
• December 19: Robert Urich, American actor († 2002)
• December 22: Robert van Ackeren, German director
• December 28: Werner Faulstich, German media scientist

Day unknown

• Carola Regnier, German actress and dancer († 2011)

Deceased

January to June

• 05 February: George Arliss, British actor (* 1868)
• February 08: Miles Mander, British actor, director, screenwriter and producer (* 1888)
• FEBRUARY 21: Gerhard Dammann, German actor (* 1883)

• April 01: Noah Beery, American actor (* 1884)
• April 15: Werner Hochbaum, German director (* 1899)
• April 22: Lionel Atwill, British actor (* 1885)

• May 01: Phil Jutzi, German director (* 1896)
• 08 May: Karl Etlinger, German actor (* 1879)

• June 01: Leo Slezak, Austrian actor (* 1873)
• JUNE 13: Theodor Sparkuhl, German cameraman (* 1894)
• June 23: William S. Hart, American actor and director (* 1864)
• JUNE 28: Antoinette Perry, American actress (* 1888)

July to December

• AUGUST 26: Jeanie Macpherson, American screenwriter (* 1887)

• October 22: Henry Bergman, American actor (* 1868)

• November 07: Henry Lehrman, Austrian-American actor, director and producer (* 1886)
• November 18: Donald Meek, American actor ( b. 1878 )