1960 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

February 9: With a star for Joanne Woodward the Hollywood Walk of Fame is established.

Film Awards

Golden Globe Award

On March 10, the Golden Globe awarded in the Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles.

Best Drama: Ben Hur by William Wyler
Best Musical: Porgy and Bess by Otto Preminger
Best Comedy: Some Like It Hot by Billy Wilder
Best Actor ( Drama ): Anthony Franciosa in Career
Best Actress ( Drama ): Elizabeth Taylor in Suddenly, Last Summer
Best Actor (Musical / Comedy ): Jack Lemmon in Some Like It Hot
Best Actress (Musical / Comedy ): Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot
Best Supporting Actor: Stephen Boyd in Ben Hur
Best Supporting Actress: Susan Kohner in Imitation of Life
Cecil B. DeMille Award: Bing Crosby

Academy Awards

Best Picture: Ben Hur by William Wyler
Best Actor: Charlton Heston in Ben Hur
Best Director: William Wyler for Ben Hur
Best Supporting Actor: Hugh Griffith in Ben -Hur
Best Supporting Actress: Shelley Winters in The Diary of Anne Frank
Best color camera: Robert Surtees for Ben Hur
Best Music: Miklós Rózsa for Ben Hur
Best Foreign Language Film: Orfeu Negro by Marcel Camus
Honorary Oscar for Lifetime Achievement: Buster Keaton

Full list of winners

International Film Festival of Cannes 1960

The festival will be held until May 20 of 4 May. The jury selected under President Georges Simenon following winners from:

Palme d'Or: The sweet life of Federico Fellini
Best Actress: Jeanne Moreau in hours full of tenderness and Melina Mercouri in Never on Sunday ...!

International Film Festival Berlin 1960

The festival takes place until July 5 June 24. The jury, President Harold Lloyd selects the following winners:

Golden Bear: El Lazarillo de Tormes by César Fernández Ardavin
Best Actor: Fredric March in Inherit the Wind
Best Actress: Juliette Mayniel in fair
Best Director: Jean -Luc Godard 's Breathless for

Film Festival of Venice

The festival will be held until September 7 of 24 August. The jury selected the following winners:

Golden Lion: Le Passage du Rhin by André Cayatte
Best Actor: John Mills in Tunes of Glory
Best Actress: Shirley MacLaine in The Apartment

German Film Prize

Best Picture: The Bridge
Best Director: Bernhard Wicki for The Bridge
Best Actress: Nadja Tiller for Labyrinth of Passion
Best Actor: Walter Giller for Roses for the Prosecutor
Best Supporting Actress: Edith Schultze- Westrum for The Bridge
Best Supporting Actor: Hanns Lothar for Buddenbrooks

British Film Academy Award

Best Picture: Ben Hur by William Wyler
Best British Actor: Peter Sellers for Young man of good family
Best Foreign Actor: Jack Lemmon for Some Like It Hot
Best British Actress: Audrey Hepburn for Nun's Story
Best Foreign Actress: Shirley MacLaine for Getting the darned women

Étoile de Cristal

Best Film: With your head against the walls of Georges Franju
Best Actor: Charles Aznavour in with his head against the walls
Best Actress: Emmanuelle Riva in Hiroshima, mon amour
Best Foreign Language Film: A Deadly Invention of Karel Zeman
Best Foreign Actor: Hannes Messemer in the wrong General
Best Foreign Actress: Ewa Krzyżewska in Ashes and Diamonds

New York Film Critics Circle Award

Best Film: Sons and Lovers by Jack Cardiff
Best Director: Jack Cardiff for Sons and Lovers and Billy Wilder for The Apartment
Best Actor: Burt Lancaster in Elmer Gantry
Best Actress: Deborah Kerr in The Sundowners
Best Foreign Film: Hiroshima, mon amour by Alain Resnais

National Board of Review

Best Film: Sons and Lovers by Jack Cardiff
Best Director: Jack Cardiff for Sons and Lovers
Best Actor: Robert Mitchum in The Sundowners and the Hill
Best Supporting Actor: George Peppard in the Hill
Best Supporting Actress: Shirley Jones in Elmer Gantry
Best Foreign Language Film: Apus Road to Life: Apus world of Satyajit Ray

Laurel Award

Best action drama: North by Northwest by Alfred Hitchcock Best Action Starring: Gary Cooper in They came to Cordura

Best dramatic Starring: James Stewart in Anatomy of a Murder
Best Dramatic Actress: Elizabeth Taylor in Suddenly, Last Summer

Best comedic Starring: Cary Grant in Operation Petticoat
Best comedic actress Doris Day in Pillow Talk

Best Musical Cast: Frank Sinatra in Can -Can
Best Musical Actress: Shirley MacLaine in Can -Can

More movie awards and honors

Astor de Oro: The Bridge of Bernhard Wicki
Directors Guild of America Award: William Wyler for Ben Hur, George Stevens ( Lifetime Achievement )
Ernst Lubitsch Prize: Ladislao Vajda for the Director to A man walks through the wall
Louis- Delluc Prize: Still by year and day by Henri Colpi
Nastro d' Argento: The false -General of Roberto Rossellini and Wild Strawberries by Ingmar Bergman
German Film review: The Bridge of Bernhard Wicki
Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia- San Sebastián: Romeo, Juliet and Darkness by Jiří Weiss ( Golden Shell )
Writers Guild of America Award: The Five Pennies ( Best Musical ), The Diary of Anne Frank ( Best Drama ), Some Like It Hot ( Best Comedy ), Norman Krasna ( Lifetime Achievement )

Birthdays

January to March

January

January 01: Adriana Altaras, German actress
January 10: Gurinder Chadha, British director
January 10: Jay Russell, American film director
January 11: Stanley Tucci, American actor
JANUARY 12: Oliver Platt, Canadian actor
January 13: Kevin Anderson, American actor
January 18: Mark Rylance, British- American actor

February

04 February: Jenette Goldstein, American actress
February 06: Megan Gallagher, American actress
February 07: Klaus J. Behrendt, German actor
February 07: James Spader, American actor
FEBRUARY 14: Meg Tilly, American actress
FEBRUARY 18: Greta Scacchi, Italian actress
FEBRUARY 26: Hannes Jaenicke, actor German

March

March 04: Mykelti Williamson, American actor
MARCH 11: Robert Glenister, British actor
MARCH 12: Jason Beghe, American actor
MARCH 12: Courtney B. Vance, American actor
MARCH 13: John Greyson, the Canadian director
March 14: Petter Næss, Norwegian actor and director
March 15: Chris Sanders, American film animator
MARCH 17: Arye Gross, American actor
MARCH 17: Pietro Scalia, Italian Cutter
MARCH 18: Steven Kloves, American screenwriter and director
MARCH 18: Max Tidof, German actor
MARCH 19: Stefanie mill, German actress († 2011)
MARCH 22: Nicole Holofcener, American director and screenwriter
MARCH 24: Kelly LeBrock, American actress
March 25: Brenda Strong, American actress
MARCH 26: Jennifer Grey, American actress
MARCH 26: Katharina Meinecke, German actress
MARCH 26: Axel Prahl, German actor
March 27: Sabine Arnhold, German synchronous and radio speaker
MARCH 29: Annabella Sciorra, American actress
March 30: Antonia Franceschi, American actress and ballet dancer

April-June

April

03 April: Elizabeth Gracen, American actress
04 April: Lorraine Toussaint, American actress
APRIL 10: Olivia Brown, American actress
APRIL 14: Brad Garrett, American actor
April 15: Susanne Bier, the Danish director
April 23: Valerie Bertinelli, American actress
APRIL 23: Craig Sheffer, American actor
April 29: Audrey Wells, American screenwriter and director

May

May 06: Anne Parillaud, French actress
MAY 13: Benjamin Volz, German actor and voice actor
MAY 15: Rob S. Bowman, American film director and producer
MAY 17: Fiona Hutchison, British- American actress
May 20: John Billingsley, American actor
May 20: Tony Goldwyn, American actor
MAY 22: Hideaki Anno, Japanese director
MAY 24: Doug Jones, American actor
MAY 24: Kristin Scott Thomas, British actress
MAY 26: Doug Hutchison, American actor
MAY 31: Chris Elliott, American actor

June

July to September

July

July 01: Mikael Håfström, Swedish director
July 02: Terry Rossio, American screenwriter
05 July: Pruitt Taylor Vince, American actor
July 11: Jafar Panahi, Iranian film director
July 18: Anne -Marie Johnson, American actress
July 19: Atom Egoyan, Canadian director
JULY 19: Caterina Vertova, Italian actress
JULY 30: Richard Linklater, American film director

August

August 04: Bernard Rose, British director
07 August: David Duchovny, American actor
August 10: Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor
August 10: Nicoletta Braschi, Italian actress
August 16th: Timothy Hutton, American actor
August 17: Sean Penn, American actor
August 24: Takashi Miike, Japanese director

September

September 08: Victoria Trauttmansdorff, Austrian actress
September 09: Hugh Grant, British actor
September 10: Colin Firth, British actor
September 10: Leland Orser, American actor
September 12: Robert John Burke, American actor
September 14: Melissa Leo, American actress
September 14: Christian Petzold, German director
September 21: Mary Mara, American actress
SEPTEMBER 23: Jason Carter, British actor
September 26: Claudia Jacob Hagen, German actress and speaker
SEPTEMBER 27: Jean -Marc Barr, French actor, director and screenwriter

October to December

October

October 01: Elizabeth Dennehy, American actress
October 01: Hubert Taczanowski, Polish cameraman
October 02: Heike Thiem Schneider, German actress
05 October: Daniel Baldwin, American actor
October 05: Lena Lessing, German actress and director
06 October: Kristiane copper, German actress
06 October: Shun Medoruma, Japanese novelist and screenwriter
08 October: Rano Karno, Indonesian actor
09 October: Udo Rein, German film artists
October 10: Carla Signoris, Italian actress
October 10: Vadivelu, Indian actor and comedian
October 10: David Vostell, German - Spanish composer and director
October 12: Hiroyuki Sanada, Japanese actor
OCTOBER 13: Pe Werner, German singer and actress
October 14: François Levantal, French actor
OCTOBER 15: Lolita Morena, Swiss actress, model and presenter
OCTOBER 15: Slavko Štimac, Serbian actor
October 16: Johannes Schild, German composer
October 17: Guy Henry, British actor
October 17: Rob Marshall, American film director
October 18: Jean -Claude Van Damme, Belgian actor
October 18: John Schwartzman, American Cinematographer
OCTOBER 19: Beate Eriksen, Norwegian actress and director
October 24: Christoph Schlingensief, German film director, screenwriter and actor († 2010)
OCTOBER 24: Bradley Darryl Wong, American actor
October 31: Arnaud Desplechin, French film director

November

November 03: William Monahan, American screenwriter
November 04: Kathy Griffin, American actress
November 05: Tilda Swinton, British actress
08 November: Elizabeth Avellan, American producer
08 November: Oleg Menshikov, Russian actor
November 08: Michael Nyqvist, the Swedish actor
November 11: Katja Flint, German actress
November 13: Neil Flynn, American actor
November 13: Wolfgang Murnberger, Austrian director
November 15: Franziska Buch, German director and screenwriter
November 15: Susanne Lothar, German actress († 2012)
November 18: Elizabeth Perkins, American actress
November 18: Yeşim Ustaoğlu, Turkish director
November 21: Brian McNamara, American actor
November 22: Leos Carax, French film director
November 29th: Cathy Moriarty, American actress
November 30: Hiam Abbass, Israeli actress

December

December 03: Daryl Hannah, American actress
December 03: Julianne Moore, American actress
07 December: Abdellatif Kechiche, French film director, screenwriter and actor
09 December: Stefen catch Meier, American special effects artist
December 10: Kenneth Branagh, Irish actor and director
December 11: Rachel Portman, British composer
December 14: Don Franklin, American actor
December 20: Kim Ki -duk, Korean director
December 25: Hong Sang -soo, Korean director
December 27: Maryam d'Abo, UK Actress

Day unknown

Eric Fellner, British producer
Robert Missler, German voice actor and actor
Gert Wilden Jr., German composer

Deceased