1999 in film

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3.1 Golden Globe Award
3.2 Oscar
3.3 Film Festival Cannes
3.4 International Film Festival Berlin
3.5 Film Festival of Venice
3.6 European Film Awards
3.7 German Film Prize
3.8 César
3.9 British Academy Film Award
3:10 Sundance
3:11 New York Film Critics Circle Award
3:12 National Board of Review
3:13 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
3:14 Jupiter
3:15 More movie awards and honors

4.1 January to June
4.2 July to December
4.3 day unknown

5.1 January to March
5.2 from April to June
5.3 July to September
5.4 October to December
5.5 day unknown

Events

January 25: World Premiere of The Blair Witch Project (directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez ). With production costs of $ 60,000 and a box office of $ 248 million of these two film students turned horror pseudo documentary applies to Deep Throat in terms of return on sales as the second most successful film.
The winners of the Bravo Otto Readers' Choice 1999: Category - male movie stars: Leonardo di Caprio gold, silver, Freddie Prinze Jr., Ryan Phillippe Bronze
Category - female movie stars: Julia Roberts Gold, Silver Rachel Leigh Cook, Sarah Michelle Gellar Bronze

In Austria, the film academy graduates Barbara Albert, Jessica Hausner, Martin Gschlacht and Antonin Svoboda founded the film production company coop99.

Top 10 most successful films

In Germany

The ten most successful films at the German box office by admissions (as of September 9, 2011 ):

In the United States

The ten most successful films at the U.S. box office after grossing in U.S. dollars (as of 9 September 2011):

Worldwide

The world's ten most successful films after grossing in U.S. dollars (as of 9 September 2011):

Film Awards

Golden Globe Award

On 24 January, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, the Golden Globe Awards take place.

Best Drama: Saving Private Ryan by Steven Spielberg
Best Musical / Comedy: Shakespeare in Love by John Madden
Best Actor ( Drama ): Jim Carrey in The Truman Show
Best Actress ( Drama ): Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth
Best Actor (Musical / Comedy ): Michael Caine in Little Voice
Best Actress (Musical / Comedy ): Gwyneth Paltrow in Shakespeare in Love
Best Supporting Actor: Ed Harris in The Truman Show
Best Supporting Actress: Lynn Redgrave in Gods and Monsters
Best Director: Steven Spielberg for Saving Private Ryan
Cecil B. DeMille Award: Jack Nicholson

Full list of winners

Oscar

The Oscar ceremony will take place on March 21 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. Presenter Whoopi Goldberg

Best Picture: Shakespeare in Love by David Parfitt, Donna Gigliotti, Harvey Weinstein, Edward Zwick and Marc Norman
Best Actor: Roberto Benigni in Life Is Beautiful
Best Actress: Gwyneth Paltrow in Shakespeare in Love
Best Director: Steven Spielberg for Saving Private Ryan
Best Supporting Actor: James Coburn in Affliction
Best Supporting Actress: Judi Dench in Shakespeare in Love
Best Cinematography: Janusz Kaminski for Saving Private Ryan
Best Foreign Language Film: Life is Beautiful by Roberto Benigni
Honorary Oscar to Elia Kazan

Full list of winners

Film Festival of Cannes

The festival starts on May 12 and ends on May 23 The jury president David Cronenberg award the following prizes:

Palme d'Or: Rosetta by Jean -Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Best Actor: Emmanuel Schotte in L' Humanité
Best Actress: Séverine Caneele in L' Humanité and Émilie Dequenne in Rosetta
Best Director: Pedro Almodóvar for All About My Mother
Grand Jury Prize: L' Humanité by Bruno Dumont

Full list of winners

International Film Festival Berlin

The festival begins on 10 February and ends on 21 February. The jury, Ángela Molina President awards the following prizes:

Golden Bear: The Thin Red Line by Terrence Malick
Best Actor: Michael Gwisdek in Nachtgestalten
Best Actress: Juliane Köhler and Maria Schrader in Aimée & Jaguar
Best Director: Stephen Frears for Hi- Lo Country - In the Country of Last Cowboys

Full list of winners

Film Festival of Venice

The festival begins on 1 September and ends on 11 September. The jury president Emir Kusturica will award the following prizes:

Golden Lion: Not One Less - Not One Less, Zhang Yimou of
Best Short Film: Portrait of a Young Man Drowning by Teboho Mahlatsi

Full list of winners

European Film Awards

The ceremony will take place in Berlin on December 4. Moderators are Carole Bouquet and Mel Smith

Best Picture: All About My Mother by Agustín Almodóvar
Best Actor: Ralph Fiennes in A touch of sunshine
Best Actress: Cecilia Roth in All About My Mother
Best Cinematography: Lajos Koltai for The Legend of pianists
Bester Screenplay: Sunshine - A breath of sunshine by István Szabó and Israel Horovitz

Full list of winners

German Film Prize

The ceremony will take place in Berlin on 17 June. Moderator is Katarina Witt and Piet Klocke

Best movie: Run Lola Run
Best Actor: August Diehl in 23 - Nothing is as it seems
Best Actress: Juliane Köhler and Maria Schrader in Aimée & Jaguar
Best Supporting Actor: Herbert Knaup runs into Lola
Best Supporting Actress: Nina Petri in Am I Beautiful?

Full list of winners

César

The ceremony will take place in Paris on March 6. Presenter is Isabelle Huppert

Best Film: Love life by Erick Zonca
Best Actor: Jacques Villeret in Dinner for Schmucks
Best Actress: Élodie Bouchez in love life
Best Supporting Actor: Daniel Prévost in Dinner for Schmucks
Best Supporting Actress: Dominique Blanc, Who loves me, takes the train
Best Director: Patrice Chéreau for Those Who Love Me Can Take the train
Best Foreign Film: Life is Beautiful by Roberto Benigni

Full list of winners

British Academy Film Award

The ceremony will take place on April 19th at the Business Design Centre, London.

Best Picture: Shakespeare in Love by David Parfitt, Donna Gigliotti, Harvey Weinstein, Edward Zwick, Marc Norman
Best Actor: Roberto Benigni in Life Is Beautiful * Best non - English film: Central Station by Arthur Cohn, Martine de Clermont- Tonnerre, Walter Salles
Best Actress: Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth
Best Supporting Actor: Geoffrey Rush in Elizabeth
Best Supporting Actress: Judi Dench in Shakespeare in Love

Full list of winners

Sundance

The festival begins on 15 January and ends on January 25.

Best Documentary: American Movie: The Making of Northwestern by Chris Smith
Best Drama: Three Seasons by Tony Bui
Best Director ( Documentary ): Barbara Sonneborn regret for we to have to inform you
Best Director ( Drama ): Eric Mendelsohn for Judy Berlin
Audience Award ( Documentary ): Roko Belic for Genghis Blues
Audience Award ( Drama ): Tony Bui for Three Seasons
Audience Award ( World Cinema ): Tom Tykwer runs for Lola and Radu Mihaileanu for train of life

Full list of winners

New York Film Critics Circle Award

Best Picture: Topsy Turvy - - Upside Down by Mike Leigh
Best Director: Mike Leigh Topsy - Turvy for - Upside Down
Best Actor: Richard Farnsworth in A True Story - The Straight Story
Best Actress: Hilary Swank in Boys Do not Cry
Best Supporting Actor: John Malkovich in Being John Malkovich
Best Supporting Actress: Catherine Keener in Being John Malkovich
Best Cinematography: Freddie Francis for A True Story - The Straight Story
Best Foreign Film: All About My Mother by Pedro Almodóvar

National Board of Review

Best Picture: American Beauty by Sam Mendes
Best Director: Anthony Minghella for The Talented Mr. Ripley
Best Actor: Russell Crowe in insider
Best Actress: Janet McTeer in Tumbleweeds
Best Supporting Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman in Magnolia and The Talented Mr. Ripley
Best Supporting Actress: Julianne Moore in Magnolia, An Ideal Husband, Innocent pursued
Best Acting Ensemble: Magnolia by Paul Thomas Anderson
Best Foreign Language Film: All About My Mother by Pedro Almodóvar

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

Best Picture: Insider by Michael Mann
Best Director: Sam Mendes for American Beauty
Best Actor: Russell Crowe in insider
Best Actress: Hilary Swank in Boys Do not Cry
Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer in insider
Best Supporting Actress: Chloë Sevigny in Boys Do not Cry
Best Foreign Language Film: All About My Mother by Pedro Almodóvar

Jupiter

Best Film International: Titanic by James Cameron
Best German film Run Lola Run by Tom Tykwer
Best Director International Websites: James Cameron for Titanic
Best German director Tom Tykwer Run Lola Run for
Best Actor International: Jack Nicholson could not be better
Best German actor Moritz Bleibtreu in Run Lola Run
Best Actress internationally: Kate Winslet in Titanic
Best German Actress Franka Potente in Run Lola Run

More movie awards and honors

AFI Life Achievement Award: Dustin Hoffman
Amanda: Only Clouds Move the Stars by Torun Lian ( Best Norwegian film), Show Me Love by Lukas Moodysson ( Best Foreign Film )
American Comedy Awards: Roberto Benigni in Life Is Beautiful ( Funniest lead actor ), Cameron Diaz in There's Something About Mary ( Funniest Leading Actress ), Bill Murray in Rushmore ( Funniest Supporting Actor ), Kathy Bates in Primary Colors ( Funniest Supporting Actress )
American Society of Cinematographers Award: Conrad L. Hall for American Beauty
Australian Film Institute Award: Two Hands by Gregor Jordan ( Best Australian film), Life is Beautiful by Roberto Benigni ( Best Foreign Film )
Bodil: The Feast of Thomas Vinterberg
British Independent Film Awards 1999: Wonderland ( Best British film) and All About My Mother ( Best Foreign Film )
Chlotrudis Awards: Gods and Monsters by Bill Condon
David di Donatello: Not of This World ( Best Italian film) and train of life ( Best Foreign Film )
Directors Guild of America Award: Steven Spielberg for Saving Private Ryan
Ernst Lubitsch Prize: Tom Tykwer runs for Lola
Evening Standard British Film Award: The General by John Boorman
Genie Award: The red violin by François Girard
Guild Film Award: Life is Beautiful by Roberto Benigni (Gold Foreign Film ), Run Lola Run by Tom Tykwer (Gold German film), Elizabeth by Shekhar Kapur (Silver Foreign Film ), Aimée and Jaguar by Max Färberböck and migratory birds ... Once to Inari by Peter the light box (each silver German film )
Goya: The Girl of Your Dreams by Fernando Trueba
Guldbagge: Show Me Love by Lukas Moodysson
Helmut Käutner Price: Rudolf Arnheim
Independent Spirit Awards 1999: Gods and Monsters by Bill Condon ( Best Film ) and The Feast of Thomas Vinterberg ( Best Foreign Film )
Louis- Delluc Price: Marabus of Otar Iosseliani
MTV Movie Awards: There's Something About Mary by Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly
Nastro d' Argento: The Legend of the Ocean by Giuseppe Tornatore pianist and Saving Private Ryan by Steven Spielberg
National Society of Film Critics Award: Out of Sight by Steven Soderbergh
People's Choice Award: Titanic by James Cameron ( Best Film and Best Drama ), There's Something About Mary by Bobby and Peter Farrelly ( Best Comedy ) Tom Hanks ( Popular Most actor), Sandra Bullock ( popular actress)
Political Film Society Award for Democracy: Insider by Michael Mann
Political Film Society Award for Peace: Three Kings - It's nice to be by David O. Russell King
Political Film Society Award for Human Rights: The Green Mile by Frank Darabont
Polish Film Festival Gdynia: The guilt of Krzysztof Krauze
Polish Film Award: Historia kina w Popielawach by Jan Jakub Kolski
German Film review: Night Shapes by Andreas Dresen
Prix Lumière: Love life by Erick Zonca
Robert: The Feast of Thomas Vinterberg (best Danish film), My Name is Joe by Ken Loach ( Best foreign film without USA), The Truman Show by Peter Weir ( Best American film )
Satellite Awards: Insider ( Best Picture / Drama ) and Being John Malkovich ( Best Picture / Comedy - Musical)
Swiss Film Prize: F. est un salaud by Marcel Gisler
Screen Actors Guild Awards: Roberto Benigni for Life is Beautiful and Gwyneth Paltrow for Shakespeare in Love; The price of the life's work: Kirk Douglas
Toronto International Film Festival: American Beauty by Sam Mendes ( Audience Award )
Vancouver International Film Festival: Genghis Blues by Roko Belic
International Film Festival Warsaw: The Children of Heaven by Majid Majidi ( Audience Award )
Vienna Film Prize: the northern edge of Barbara Albert
World Film Festival: The Colour of Paradise by Majid Majidi ( Grand Prix of the Americas )
Writers Guild of America Award: Shakespeare in Love by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard ( Best Original Screenplay ), Out of Sight by Scott Frank ( Adapted Screenplay )

Birthdays

January to June

July to December

July 23: Felina Czycykowski, German actress
JULY 30: Joey King, American actress
August 22: Dakota Goyo, Canadian actor
OCT 15: Bailee Madison, American actress
NOVEMBER 10: Kiernan Shipka, American actress

Day unknown

Levin Henning, German actor
Rebel Rodriguez, American actor
Paul Maximilian Schüller, German actor

Deceased

January to March

January

February

09 February: Lotte Loebinger, German actress ( b. 1905 )
FEBRUARY 18: Olle Nordemar, Swedish producer (* 1914)
February 22: Adalberto Albertini, Italian director (* 1924)
FEBRUARY 24: Derek Nimmo, British actor ( b. 1930 )

March

March 05: Richard Kiley, American actor (* 1922)
March 07: Stanley Kubrick, American film director ( b. 1928 )
March 08: Peggy Cass, American actress (* 1924)
MARCH 11: Stefan Schnabel, German actor (* 1912)
MARCH 13: Garson Kanin, American writer and director (* 1912)
MARCH 16: Gratien Gélinas, Canadian actor (* 1909)
MARCH 17: Ernest Gold, American composer ( b. 1921 )
MARCH 23: Dorothea Brooking, British producer, screenwriter and director (* 1916)

April-June

April

04 April: Bob Peck, British actor ( b. 1945 )
APRIL 14: Ellen Corby, American actress ( born 1911 )
APRIL 28: Rory Calhoun, American actor (* 1922)

May

000Mai: Emmerich Schäffer, German actor ( born 1931 )
02 May: Oliver Reed, English actor ( b. 1938 )
May 08, Dirk Bogarde, English actor ( b. 1921 )
May 08: Ed Gilbert, American actor ( born 1931 )
08 May: Dana Plato, American actress ( b. 1964 )
MAY 17: Henry Jones, American actor (* 1912)
MAY 19: Candy Candido, American actor (* 1913)
MAY 21: Vanessa Brown, Austrian actress ( b. 1928 )
MAY 25: Horst Frank, German actor ( born 1929 )

June

July to September

July

July 01: Edward Dmytryk, American film director ( b. 1908 )
July 01: Sylvia Sidney, American actress (* 1910)
July 02: Mario Puzo, American author (* 1920)
03 July: Yoko Tani, Japanese actress ( b. 1932 )
05 July: Jean -Pierre Darras, French actor (* 1927)

August

August 04: Victor Mature, American actor (* 1913)
August 07: Brion James, American actor ( b. 1945 )
09 August: George Marishka, Austrian actor and director (* 1922)
August 12: Ross Elliott, American actor ( * 1917 )
AUGUST 25: Georg Thomalla, German actor ( born 1915 )

September

September 06: Richard Allan, American actor ( b. 1923 )
09 September: Ruth Roman, American actress (* 1922)
September 14: Charles Crichton, British director and writer (* 1910)
SEPTEMBER 17: Riccardo Cucciolla, Italian actor ( b. 1930 )
SEPTEMBER 17: Ellen Frank, German actress (* 1904)
September 18: Harold F. Kress, American Cutter ( * 1913)
September 20: Willy Millowitsch, German actor (* 1909)
September 22: George C. Scott, American actor (* 1927)

October to December

October

07 October: Helen Vinson, American actress (* 1907)
October 17: Franz Peter Wirth, German film director ( b. 1919 )
October 31: Martin Hellberg, German actor ( b. 1905 )

November

November 05: James Goldstone, American film director ( born 1931 )
November 08: Harry Riebauer, German actor ( b. 1921 )
NOVEMBER 10: Robert Kramer, American documentary filmmaker ( b. 1939 )
November 11: Maurice Dugowson, French film director, documentary filmmaker and screenwriter ( b. 1938 )
NOVEMBER 12: Konrad Petzold, German film director ( b. 1930 )
November 13: Ian Bannen, British actor ( b. 1928 )
November 28: Bethel Leslie, American actress ( born 1929 )
November 29: John Berry, American film director, screenwriter, actor and film producer ( * 1917 )
November 30: Ulrich Wild Gruber, German actor ( b. 1937 )

December

December 03: Madeline Kahn, American actress ( b. 1942 )
December 10: Harry Wüstenhagen German actor and voice actor ( b. 1928 )
December 16: Dorit Kreysler, Austrian actress (* 1909)
DECEMBER 18: Robert Bresson, French film director (* 1901)
December 19: Desmond Llewelyn, English actor ( born in 1914 )
December 20: Irving Rapper, British director (* 1898)
December 27: David Duncan, American screenwriter and novel writer (* 1913)
December 28: Pierre Clémenti, French actor ( b. 1942 )

Day unknown

Gábor Pogány, Swedish cinematographer (* 1915)

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