1958 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 March
- 4.2 from April to June
- 4.3 July to September
- 4.4 October to December
Events
- On the occasion of the International Film Festival of Locarno is the premiere of Claude Chabrol's The Disappointed instead. This film is considered the first work of the Nouvelle Vague.
- For the second time the youth magazine BRAVO performs the readers' choice for BRAVO Otto. In the male movie stars Otto wins gold in Horst Buchholz, silver goes to OW Fischer and bronze to Rock Hudson. The most popular female movie stars of the year, Romy Schneider was the defending champion Maria Schell and Ruth Leuwerik.
Film Awards
Golden Globe Award
The Golden Globe are On February 22, in the Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles awarded.
- Best Drama: The Bridge on the River Kwai by David Lean
- Best Musical: The Girls of George Cukor
- Best Actor ( Drama ): Alec Guinness in The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Best Actress ( Drama ): Joanne Woodward in The Three Faces of Eve
- Best Actor (Musical / Comedy ): Frank Sinatra in Pal Joey
- Best Actress (Musical / Comedy ): Kay Kendall and Taina Elg in The Girls
- Best Supporting Actor: Red Buttons in Sayonara
- Best Supporting Actress: Elsa Lanchester in Witness for the Prosecution
- Best Director: David Lean for The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Cecil B. DeMille Award: Buddy Adler
- Full list of winners
Academy Awards
The Oscar ceremony will take place on 26 March at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles. Presenters are: James Stewart, David Niven, Jack Lemmon, Rosalind Russell and Bob Hope.
- Best Picture: The Bridge on the River Kwai by David Lean
- Best Actor: Alec Guinness in The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Best Actress: Joanne Woodward in The Three Faces of Eve
- Best Director: David Lean for The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Best Supporting Actor: Red Buttons in Sayonara
- Best Supporting Actress: Miyoshi Umeki in Sayonara
- Best Music: Malcolm Arnold for The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Best Foreign Language Film: The Nights of Cabiria by Federico Fellini
Full list of winners
International Film Festival of Cannes 1958
The Cannes Film Festival will be held until May 18 of 2 May. The jury selected the following winners:
- Palme d'Or: The Cranes Are Flying by Mikhail Kalatosov
- Best Actor: Paul Newman in The Long Hot Summer
- Best Director: Ingmar Bergman for close to the life
- Jury Special Prize: My uncle of Jacques Tati
International Film Festival Berlin 1958
The festival takes place in Berlin until July 8 June 27. The jury president Frank Capra selects the following winners:
- Golden Bear: Wild Strawberries by Ingmar Bergman
- Best Actor: Sidney Poitier in The Defiant Ones
- Best Actress: Anna Magnani in Wild is the Wind
- Best Director: Tadashi Imai for Mitsuko - story of a young love
Film Festival of Venice
The Venice Film Festival takes place from September 7 from 24 August. The jury selected the following winners:
- Golden Lion: Muhomatsu no issho by Hiroshi Inagaki
- Best Actor: Alec Guinness in The Horse 's Mouth ( The Horse's Mouth )
- Best Actress: Sophia Loren in The Black Orchid
German Film Prize
- Best Film: At night, when the devil came
- Best Director: Robert Siodmak for night, when the devil came
- Best Actress: Liselotte Pulver for The Haunted Castle
- Best Actor: Hannes Messemer for night, when the devil came
- Best Supporting Actress: Anne Marie Düringer for night, when the devil came
- Best Supporting Actor: Werner Peters for night, when the devil came
British Film Academy Award
- Best Picture: The Bridge on the River Kwai by David Lean
- Best British Actor: Alec Guinness for the bridge on the River Kwai
- Best Foreign Actor: Henry Fonda for Twelve Angry Men
- Best British Actress: Heather Sears for Esther Costello
- Best Foreign Actress: Simone Signoret for The Witches of Salem ( The Crucible )
Étoile de Cristal
- Best Film: The man who must die by Jules Dassin
- Best Actor: Pierre Brasseur in The Mousetrap
- Best Actress: Mylène Demongeot in The Witches of Salem ( The Crucible )
- Best Foreign Film: Twelve Angry Men by Sidney Lumet
- Best Foreign Starring: Åke Grönberg in Sawdust and Tinsel
- Best Foreign Actress: Marilyn Monroe in The Prince and the Showgirl
New York Film Critics Circle Award
- Best Film: The Defiant Ones by Stanley Kramer
- Best Director: Stanley Kramer's The Defiant Ones
- Best Actor: David Niven in Separate Tables bed
- Best Actress: Susan Hayward live in, let me
- Best Foreign Film: My uncle of Jacques Tati
National Board of Review
- Best Film: The Old Man and the Sea by John Sturges
- Best Director: John Ford for The Last Hurrah
- Best Actor: Spencer Tracy in The Old Man and the Sea and The Last Hurrah
- Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman in The Inn of the sixth happiness
- Best Supporting Actor: Albert Salmi in Bravados and The Brothers Karamazov
- Best Supporting Actress: Kay Walsh in The Horse's Mouth
- Best Foreign Language Film: Apus Road to Life: On the road from Satyajit Ray
Laurel Award
- Best action drama: Gunfight by John Sturges Best Action Starring: Burt Lancaster in Gunfight
- Best dramatic actor Marlon Brando in The Young Lions
- Best Dramatic Actress: Elizabeth Taylor in The Land of the rain tree
- Best comedic Starring: Glenn Ford in Do not go too close to the water
- Best comedic actress Audrey Hepburn in Ariane - Love in the Afternoon
- Best Musical Cast: Frank Sinatra in Pal Joey
- Best Musical Actress: Mitzi Gaynor in Les Girls
More movie awards and honors
- Directors Guild of America Award: David Lean for The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Ernst Lubitsch Prize: Kurt Hoffmann, Liselotte Pulver and Wolfgang Neuss for The Haunted Castle
- Louis- Delluc Price: I, a Negro by Jean Rouch
- Nastro d' Argento: The Nights of Cabiria by Federico Fellini and Twelve Angry Men by Sidney Lumet
- Photoplay Award: Gigi by Vincente Minnelli ( Best Film ), Tony Curtis ( most popular male star ), Debbie Reynolds ( most popular female star )
- German Film review: The Girl Rosemarie by Rolf Thiele
- Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia- San Sebastián: Eva wants to sleep by Tadeusz Chmielewski ( Golden Shell )
- Writers Guild of America Award: Les Girls ( Best Musical ), Twelve Angry Men ( Best Drama ), Ariane - Love in the Afternoon ( Best Comedy ), John Lee Mahin ( Lifetime Achievement )
Birthdays
January to March
January
- January 03: Bettina Janis, German screenwriter
- January 04: Matt Frewer, American actor
- January 04: Julian Sands, British actor
- 07 January: Linda Kozlowski, American actress
- 09 January: Thomas Jauch, German director
- January 11: Hitomi Kamanaka, Japanese documentary film writer and director
- January 11: Alyson Reed, American actress and dancer
- JANUARY 21: Michael Wincott, American actor
- JANUARY 25: Paulus Manker, Austrian actor
- JANUARY 25: Dinah Manoff, American actress
- JANUARY 26: Ellen DeGeneres, American actress
- JANUARY 29: Judy Norton - Taylor, American actress
February
- 03 February: Piotr Sobociński, Polish cinematographer († 2001)
- February 09: Tony Craig, actor from Trinidad and Tobago
- FEBRUARY 19: Martin Hewitt, American actor
- FEBRUARY 20: James Wilby, British actor
- FEBRUARY 21: Jack Coleman, American actor
- FEBRUARY 24: Mark Moses, American actor
March
- March 03: Miranda Richardson, British actress
- March 07: Donna Murphy, American actress
- 09 March: Linda Fiorentino, American actress
- March 10: Reza Bagher, Swedish director
- MARCH 13: Guillermo Arriaga, the Mexican screenwriter
- 20 March: Holly Hunter, American actress
- March 21: Sabrina Le Beauf, American actress
- MARCH 21: Gary Oldman, English actor
- MARCH 31: Tony Cox, American actor
- MARCH 31: Sylvester Groth, German actor
April-June
April
- April 03: Alec Baldwin, American actor
- 04 April: Mary- Margaret Humes, American actress
- APRIL 21: Andie MacDowell, American actress
- April 22: Ken Olandt, American actor and producer
- April 23: Radu Mihaileanu, Romanian director
- April 26: Giancarlo Esposito, American actor
- APRIL 29: Michelle Pfeiffer, American actress
- APRIL 30: Charles Berling, French actor
May
- May 01: Cecilia Peck, American actress
- May 03: Kevin Kilner, American actor
- 05 May: Aurélien Recoing, French actor
- MAY 12: Kim Greist, American actress
- May 20: Matt McCoy, American actor
- MAY 29: Annette Bening, American actress
- MAY 29: Juliano Mer Khamis, Israeli actor and director († 2011)
- May 30: Ted McGinley, American actor
- MAY 31: Roma Maffia, American actress
June
July to September
July
- 05 July: Peter Tolan, American screenwriter
- 08 July: Kevin Bacon, American actor
- July 10: Fiona Shaw, Irish Actress
- July 11: Mark Lester, British actor
- July 14: Scott Rudin, American producer
- July 17: Wong Kar- Wai, Chinese director
- July 27: Barbara Rudnik, German actress († 2009)
August
- August 02: Damian Harris, British director
- August 08: Cecilia Roth, Argentine- Spanish actress
- 09 August: Amanda Bearse, American actress
- August 10: Don Swayze, American actor
- August 16th: Angela Bassett, American actress
- August 16: Madonna, American singer and actress
- August 18: Madeleine Stowe, American actress
- AUGUST 19: Klaus Graf, an Austrian producer
- August 22: Colm Feore, Canadian actor
- August 24: Steve Guttenberg, American actor
- AUGUST 25: Tim Burton, American film director
- AUGUST 29: Michael Jackson, American singer, actor and entertainer († 2009)
September
- 06 September: Arsinée Khanjian, Armenian- Canadian actress
- September 06: Michael Winslow, American actor
- September 10: Chris Columbus, American film director
- September 11: Roxann Dawson, American actress
- September 11: Scott Patterson, American actor
- September 12: Franco Amurri, Italian director
- SEPTEMBER 16: Jennifer Tilly, American actress
- September 20: Charlie Kaufman, American screenwriter
- SEPTEMBER 24: Kevin Sorbo, American actor
- SEPTEMBER 25: Michael Madsen, American actor
- SEPTEMBER 29: Karen Young, American actress
October to December
October
- 07 October: Sunnyi Melles, German actress
- October 09: Michael Paré, American actor
- October 16: Tim Robbins, American actor
- October 20: Viggo Mortensen, American actor
- OCTOBER 21: Julio Médem, Spanish director
- OCTOBER 26: Pascale Ogier, French actress
- October 30: Kristina Van Eyck, German actress
November
- November 01: Rachel Ticotin, American actress
- November 02: Kai Maertens, a German actor
- November 05: Robert Patrick, American actor
- 08 November: Phil Fondacaro, American actor
- NOVEMBER 10: Stephen Herek, American film director
- NOVEMBER 12: Megan Mullally, American actress
- November 16: Marg Helgenberger, American actress
- November 17: Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, American actress
- NOVEMBER 19: Scott McGinnis, American actor
- November 21: David Reivers, American actor
- November 22: Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress
- November 24: Alain Chabat, French actor and director
- NOVEMBER 25: Josef Rusnak, German film director and screenwriter
- November 29: Kim Delaney, American actress
December
- December 01: Charlene Tilton, American actress
- 06 December: Nick Park, British animator
- 09 December: Raja Gosnell, American editor and director
- 09 December: Despina Pajanou, German - Greek actress
- December 11: Dominic Raacke, German actor
- December 12: Sheree J. Wilson, American actress
- December 13: Lynn - Holly Johnson, American actress
- DECEMBER 13: Brandon Clark, American actor, director and screenwriter
- DECEMBER 23: Joan Severance, American actress
- December 31: Bebe Neuwirth, American actress
Day unknown
- Tim Bevan, producer of New Zealand
- Corinna Duhr, German actress
- Massimo Gaudioso, Italian director
Deceased
January to March
- January 08: Joseph Rickson, American actor (* 1880)
- January 11: Edna Purviance, American actress (* 1895)
- JANUARY 13: Jesse L. Lasky, American producer (* 1880)
- January 16: Aubrey Mather, British actor (* 1885)
- JANUARY 19: Otto Sauter Sarto, German actor (* 1889)
- JANUARY 28: Carola Toelle, German actress (* 1892)
- February 04: Monta Bell, American film director and producer (* 1891)
- FEBRUARY 17: Tala Birell, Austrian actress (* 1907)
- FEBRUARY 18: Adrian Brunel, British director (* 1892)
- February 20: Else home, German actress ( b. 1878 )
- FEBRUARY 27: Harry Cohn, American producer (* 1891)
- March 06: Sam Taylor, American film director (* 1895)
- 08 March: Karl Ludwig Diehl, German actor (* 1896)
- March 09: Edward Bornträger, German actor (* 1888)
- MARCH 22: Michael Todd, American producer (* 1909)
- MARCH 26: Erwin Kals, German actor (* 1883)
- MARCH 27: Robert Baberske, German cameraman (* 1900)
April-June
- 08 May: Friedrich Gnass, German actor (* 1892)
- MAY 19: Ronald Colman, British actor (* 1891)
- June 09: Robert Donat, British actor ( b. 1905 )
- 21 June: Herbert Brenon, American film director (* 1880)
July to September
- JULY 19: Karol Adwentowicz, Polish actor and director (* 1871)
- September 07: Graham Cutts, a British director (* 1884)
- September 16: Gertrud de Lalsky, German actress ( b. 1878 )
- September 26: Zdenka Baldová, Czech actress (* 1885)
- SEPTEMBER 27: Rose Stradner, Austrian actress (* 1913)
October to December
- 04 October: Ida Wüst, German actress (* 1884)
- OCTOBER 27: Marshall Neilan, American film director (* 1891)
- November 04: Sam Zimbalist, American producer (* 1904)
- November 11: André Bazin, a French film critic ( born 1918 )
- November 15: Tyrone Power, American actor ( born in 1914 )
- NOVEMBER 19: Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, German actor (* 1898)
- November 22: William Franke Harling, British- American composer (* 1887)
- November 28: Klaus Pohl, Austrian actor (* 1883)
- 09 December: Botho Höfer, German art director ( * 1880)
- December 12: Lothar Brühne, German composer ( born 1900 )
- DECEMBER 12: Helen Twelvetrees, American actress (* 1907)
- December 16: János Székely, Hungarian screenwriter (* 1901)
- December 21: HB Warner, British actor (* 1875)