List of German submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
Submissions -- West Germany
Table:
Year[e]
(Ceremony)

Film title used in nomination

Original title

Director

Result

1956
(29th)

The Captain of Köpenick

Der Hauptmann von Köpenick

Helmut Käutner

Nominated

1957
(30th)

The Devil Strikes at Night

Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam

Robert Siodmak

Nominated

1958
(31st)

Arms and the Man

Helden

Franz Peter Wirth

Nominated

1959
(32nd)

The Bridge

Die Brücke

Bernhard Wicki

Nominated

1960
(33rd)

Faust

Faust

Peter Gorski

Not Nominated

1966
(39th)

Young Törless

Der junge Törless

Volker Schlöndorff

Not Nominated

1967
(40th)

Tattoo

Tätowierung

Johannes Schaaf

Not Nominated

1968
(41st)

Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed

Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: ratlos

Alexander Kluge

Not Nominated

1969
(42nd)

Hunting Scenes from Bavaria

Jagdszenen aus Niederbayern

Peter Fleischmann

Not Nominated

1970
(43rd)

o.k.

o.k.

Michael Verhoeven

Not Nominated

1971
(44th)

The Castle

Das Schloß

Rudolf Noelte

Not Nominated

1972
(45th)

Trotta

Trotta

Johannes Schaaf

Not Nominated

1973
(46th)

The Pedestrian

Der Fußgänger

Maximilian Schell

Nominated

1974
(47th)

One or the Other of Us

Einer von uns beiden

Wolfgang Petersen

Not Nominated

1975
(48th)

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle

Werner Herzog

Not Nominated

1976
(49th)

The Clown [11]

Ansichten eines Clowns

Vojtěch Jasný

Not Nominated

1977
(50th)

The American Friend

Der amerikanische Freund

Wim Wenders

Not Nominated

1978
(51st)

The Glass Cell

Die gläserne Zelle

Hans W. Geißendörfer

Nominated

1979
(52nd)

The Tin Drum

Die Blechtrommel

Volker Schlöndorff

Won Academy Award

1980
(53rd)

Fabian

Fabian

Wolf Gremm

Not Nominated

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The following is an overview of 1956 in film , including significant events , a list of films released and notable births and deaths .
During the 29th Academy Awards , the regular competitive category of Best Foreign Language Film was introduced , instead of only being recognized as a Special Achievement Award or as a Best Picture nominee ( as in 1938 ) . The first winner in this new category was Federico Fellini 's La Strada with Anthony Quinn and a second nomination for Best Original Screenplay . Its win would help spur an interest in foreign-language films . Another Fellini film , Nights of Cabiria would win the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in the following year . This was also the first year that all of the five Best Picture nominees were in color . It was also the first Oscar telecast to be videotaped for later broadcast , especially for those network affiliates that did n't want to broadcast the event live . All of the major awards winners were large-scale epics - Mike Todd 's Around the World in 80 Days , The King and I , Anastasia , George Stevens ' Giant , Cecil B. DeMille 's The Ten Commandments ( the highest-grossing film of the year ) , King Vidor 's War and Peace and William Wyler 's Friendly Persuasion . And the trend toward blockbusters and colorful spectaculars was established for years to come , with The Bridge on the River Kwai , Gigi , and Ben-Hur being subsequent Best Picture champions . The Best Original Story category had two interesting quirks this year . First , the Oscar for Best Original Story for The Brave One was awarded to Robert Rich , a pseudonym of Dalton Trumbo , who was blacklisted at the time and thus unable to receive credit under his own name . Second , Edward Bernds and Elwood Ullman withdrew their names from consideration in this category for their work on High Society , as the nomination had been intended for the musical starring Grace Kelly , while Bernds and Ullman had instead written a Bowery Boys film of the same name . In fact , the nomination was a double mistake , as High Society was based on the play and film The Philadelphia Story and probably would not have qualified as an original story anyway .
The Captain from Köpenick ( German : Der Hauptmann von Köpenick ) is a 1956 West German film directed by Helmut Käutner and based upon the play The Captain of Köpenick by Carl Zuckmayer . The play was based on the true story of Wilhelm Voigt , a German impostor who masqueraded as a Prussian military officer in 1906 and became famous as the Captain from Köpenick . It was nominated for the 29th Academy Awards in the category Best Foreign Language Film . It was shot by Real Film at the Wandsbek Studios in Hamburg . The film 's sets were designed by the art director Albrecht Becker and Herbert Kirchhoff .
Helmut Käutner ( born 25 March 1908 in Düsseldorf , Germany ; died 20 April 1980 in Castellina in Chianti , Italy ) was a German film director active mainly in the 1940s and 1950s . He began his career at the end of the Weimar Republic and had released his first major films in Nazi Germany . His 1956 film Der Hauptmann von Köpenick was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 29th Academy Awards . Three years later , his film The Rest Is Silence was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival .
The year 1957 in film involved some significant events . The Bridge on the River Kwai topped the year 's box office in North America , France , and Germany , and won the Academy Award for Best Picture .
The 30th Academy Awards ceremony was held on March 26 , 1958 , to honor the best films of 1957 . The Oscar for Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium was awarded to Pierre Boulle for The Bridge on the River Kwai , despite the fact that he did not know English . The actual writers , Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson were blacklisted at the time and did not receive screen credit for their work . Foreman and Wilson have since been acknowledged by the Academy for their contributions . Peyton Place tied the record for the most nominations without a win ( 9 ) set by The Little Foxes ( 1941 ) . This record would stand until 1977 when The Turning Point received 11 nominations without a win , which is the record to date ( The Color Purple tied the record in 1985 ) . Peyton Place also set the record for most unsuccessful acting nominations with five ; this record has been tied once , by Tom Jones at the 36th Academy Awards . This was the first time all five Best Picture nominations were nominated for Best Director as well .
The Devil Strikes at Night ( German : Nachts , wenn der Teufel kam ) is a 1957 West German film directed by Robert Siodmak . It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and is based on the true story of Bruno Lüdke . It is the story of a serial killer who murders women during the last year or two of World War II . In one of the crimes a man is arrested who is obviously innocent . An investigator who starts to get a thread which leads to the real killer is frustrated by Nazi authorities who feel that revealing the truth will undermine the people 's faith in their supposedly infallible system . The detective story gradually becomes a story about the evils of political propaganda and corruption . The film 's sets were designed by the art directors Gottfried Will and Rolf Zehetbauer . Location shooting took place in Berlin and Munich .
Robert Siodmak ( /siˈɒd.mæk/ ; 8 August 1900 - 10 March 1973 ) was a German film director who also worked in the United States . He is best remembered as a thriller specialist and for a series of stylish , unpretentious Hollywood films noirs he made in the 1940s , such as The Killers ( 1946 ) .
The year 1958 in film in the US involved some significant events , including the hit musicals South Pacific and Gigi .
The 31st Academy Awards ceremony was held on April 6 , 1959 , to honor the best films of 1958 . The show 's producer , Jerry Wald , started cutting numbers from the show to make sure it ran on time . He cut too much material and the ceremony ended 20 minutes early , leaving Jerry Lewis to attempt to fill in the time . Eventually , NBC cut to a re-run of a sports show . The film Gigi won nine Oscars , breaking the previous record of eight ( set by Gone with the Wind and tied by From Here to Eternity and On the Waterfront ) . It would be short-lived , however , as Ben-Hur broke the record with eleven Oscars the following year . Gigi was the last film until The Last Emperor ( 1987 ) to win Best Picture without any acting nominations . It also had the biggest clean sweep at the time , winning all nine of its nominations , a record that would be tied by The Last Emperor . This record was broken in 2003 when The Lord of the Rings : The Return of the King won all 11 of its nominations . The ceremony was hosted by an ensemble of actors : Jerry Lewis , Mort Sahl , Tony Randall , Bob Hope , David Niven , and Laurence Olivier . Niven won Best Actor that night , making him the only host in Oscar history to have won an award during the same ceremony .
Arms and the Man or Heroes ( German : Helden ) is a 1958 West German historical comedy film directed by Franz Peter Wirth and based on the play of the same name by George Bernard Shaw . It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film . It was also entered into the 1959 Cannes Film Festival . The film 's sets were designed by the art director Hermann Warm . It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich .
Franz Peter Wirth ( 22 September 1919 in Munich - 17 October 1999 in Berg , Upper Bavaria ) was a German film director and screenwriter . His film Helden was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1958 .
The year 1959 in film involved some significant events , with Ben-Hur winning a record 11 Academy Awards .
The 32nd Academy Awards ceremony , presented by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , was held on April 4 , 1960 , and took place at the RKO Pantages Theatre to honor the best films of 1959 . The epic drama Ben-Hur won 11 Oscars , breaking the record of nine set the year before by Gigi . Ben-Hur remained the most honored motion picture in Academy Award history until Titanic equaled the feat in 1997 , followed by The Lord of the Rings : The Return of the King in 2003 . Ben-Hur was the third film to win both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor , a feat not repeated until Mystic River in 2004 . Director William Wyler became the third ( and most recent ) person to win more than two Best Director awards ( following Frank Capra and John Ford ) , as well as the only person to direct three Best Picture winners .
Die Brücke ( The Bridge ) is a 1959 West German film directed by Austrian filmmaker Bernhard Wicki . It is based on the 1958 novel of the same name by journalist and writer Gregor Dorfmeister ( published under the pseudonym Manfred Gregor ) . The story was based on an actual event , upon the personal report of a surviving veteran who in his own youth experienced a similar situation in World War II . The film was timely in West Germany as the Bundeswehr had only recently been created in 1955 with conscription in Germany beginning in 1956 . It received several international prizes , notably the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Film , also a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film .
Bernhard Wicki ( 28 October 1919 - 3 January 2000 ) was an Austrian actor and film director .
The year 1960 in film involved some significant events .
The 33rd Academy Awards , honoring the best in film for 1960 , were held on April 17 , 1961 , at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica , California . They were hosted by Bob Hope . This was the first ceremony to be aired on ABC television , which has aired the Academy Awards ever since ( save for the period between 1971 and 1975 , when they were aired on NBC for the first time since the previous year . ) The Apartment was the last black-and-white film to win Best Picture until Schindler 's List ( 1993 ) . Gary Cooper was selected by the Academy Board of Governors to be the year 's recipient of the Academy Honorary Award for his many memorable screen performances and the international recognition he , as an individual , has gained for the motion picture industry . Cooper was too ill to attend the ceremony , though his condition was not publicly disclosed , save for his family and close friends . At the awards ceremony James Stewart , a close friend of Cooper , accepted the Honorary Oscar on his behalf . Stewart 's emotional speech hinted that something was seriously wrong , and the next day newspapers ran the headline , Gary Cooper has cancer . Less than four weeks later , on May 13 , 1961 , six days after his 60th birthday , Cooper died . Young and rising star Hayley Mills was selected by the Academy Board of Governors to be the year 's recipient of the Academy Juvenile Award for her breakthrough and acclaimed performance in Walt Disney 's production of Pollyanna . Mills became the last recipient of the award , as the Academy retired the award afterwards . From 1963 onward , juvenile actors could officially compete in competitive acting awards with their adult counterparts .
Faust is a 1960 West German theatrical film directed by Peter Gorski . It is based on Goethe 's Faust and adapted from the theater production at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg . It stars Peter Gorski 's adoptive father Gustaf Gründgens as Mephistopheles and Will Quadflieg as Faust , and was chosen as West Germany 's official submission to the 33rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film , but did not manage to receive a nomination . The film also won a Deutscher Filmpreis ( transl . : German Movie Award ) for an Outstanding Documentary or Cultural Film in 1961 .
Peter Gorski , ( 7 September 1921 - 3 March 2007 ) was a German film director . He was born in Berlin and later adopted by the German actor Gustaf Gründgens . He started his career in 1955 as the assistant director for the film Ripening Youth . In 1960 he directed the film Faust , based on Goethe 's Faust and adapted from the theater production at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg . The film starred his adoptive father Gustaf Gründgens as Mephistopheles , and was chosen as West Germany 's official submission to the 33rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film , but did not manage to receive a nomination . The film also won Gorski a Deutscher Filmpreis for an Outstanding Documentary or Cultural Film in 1961 . In 1968 , Peter Gorski as the sole heir sued the Nymphenburger Verlagsbuchhandlung , which had published the novel Mephisto which was loosely based on the life of his adoptive father Gustaf Gründgens . The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany ruled that Gründgens ' personal freedom was more important than the freedom of art .
The year 1966 in film involved some significant events . A Man for All Seasons won six Academy Awards , including Best Picture .
The 39th Academy Awards , honoring the best in film for 1966 , were held on April 10 , 1967 , at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica , California . They were hosted by Bob Hope . Only two of the Best Picture nominees were nominated for Best Director : A Man for All Seasons and Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? Both were adaptations of stage dramas .
Young Törless ( German : Der junge Törless ) is a 1966 German film directed by Volker Schlöndorff , adapted from the autobiographical novel The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil . It deals with the violent , sadistic and homoerotic tendencies of a group of boys at an Austrian military academy at the beginning of the 20th century .
Volker Schlöndorff ( born 31 March 1939 ) is a German filmmaker who has worked in Germany , France and the United States . He was a prominent member of the New German Cinema of the late 1960s and early 1970s , which also included Werner Herzog , Wim Wenders , Margarethe von Trotta and Rainer Werner Fassbinder . He won an Oscar as well as the Palme d'or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival for The Tin Drum ( 1979 ) , the film version of the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass .
The year 1967 in film involved some significant events . It is widely considered as one of the most ground-breaking years in film , with revolutionary films highlighting the change , including : Bonnie and Clyde , The Graduate , Guess Who 's Coming to Dinner , Cool Hand Luke , The Dirty Dozen , In Cold Blood , In the Heat of the Night , The Jungle Book and You Only Live Twice .
The 40th Academy Awards honored film achievements of 1967 . Originally scheduled for April 8 , 1968 , the awards were postponed to two days later , April 10 , 1968 , because of the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Bob Hope was once again the host of the ceremony . Due to the increasing rarity of black and white feature films , the awards for cinematography , art direction and costume design were combined into single categories rather than a distinction between color and monochrome . The Best Picture nominees were an eclectic group of films reflecting the chaos of their era . The event was the first one since the 1948 awards show to feature film clips from the Best Picture nominated films . This year 's nominations also marked the first time that three different films were nominated for the Top Five Academy Awards : Best Picture , Director , Actor , Actress and Screenplay . The three films were Bonnie and Clyde , The Graduate and Guess Who 's Coming to Dinner . However , the winner of Best Picture was producer Walter Mirisch and director Norman Jewison 's thriller/mystery film , In the Heat of the Night ( with seven nominations and five wins - Best Picture , Best Actor , Best Screenplay , Best Film Editing and Best Sound ) . The Graduate is , as of the 91st Academy Awards , the last film to win Best Director and nothing else . Due to an all-out push by Academy President Gregory Peck , 18 of the 20 acting nominees were present at the ceremony . Only Katharine Hepburn and the late Spencer Tracy , who was nominated posthumously , were missing .
Tattoo ( German : Tätowierung ) is a 1967 West German film directed by Johannes Schaaf . The film was selected as the German entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 40th Academy Awards , but was not accepted as a nominee . It was also entered into the 17th Berlin International Film Festival . The film won three German Film Awards .
Johannes Schaaf ( 7 April 1933 - 1 November 2019 ) was a German film , theatre and opera director and actor . Several of his films have been internationally recognized . His focus shifted to opera in the 1980s and he worked with many of the leading international opera houses within Europe , and was invited to direct at several renowned opera houses in the United States and Asia .
The top ten 1968 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows :
The 41st Academy Awards were presented on April 14 , 1969 , at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion , Los Angeles . It was the first Academy Awards ceremony to be staged at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion . For the first time since the 11th Academy Awards , there was no host . Oliver ! is the only winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture to receive a G-rating prior to winning the award ( several earlier Best Picture winners have received the same rating retroactively ) . By contrast , the following year would see the only X-rated film to win Best Picture , Midnight Cowboy . Oliver ! would also be the last British film to win Best Picture until Chariots of Fire in 1982 and the last movie musical to win until Chicago in 2003 ( though others have been nominated between 1969 and 2003 : Hello , Dolly ! , Fiddler on the Roof , Cabaret , All That Jazz , Beauty and the Beast , and Moulin Rouge ! ) . The year was notable for the first - and so far , only - tie for Best Actress ( or any female acting category ) . Katharine Hepburn in The Lion in Winter and Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl shared the award . Hepburn also became the second actress and third performer overall to win an acting Oscar two years in a row , after Luise Rainer in 1936 ( The Great Ziegfeld ) and 1937 ( The Good Earth ) , and Spencer Tracy in 1937 ( Captains Courageous ) and 1938 ( Boys Town ) . The previous year , Hepburn had won Best Actress for Guess Who 's Coming to Dinner .
Artists in the Big Top : Perplexed ( German : Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel : Ratlos ) is a 1968 West German film written and directed by Alexander Kluge . The film is made in a collage style , featuring newsreels and quotations from philosophers alongside the story of a failing circus whose owner , Leni ( Hannelore Hoger ) , must decide whether her dream of a new kind of circus is too optimistic . The film is a symbolic representation of Kluge 's own frustrations in trying to help stimulate the New German Cinema movement .
Alexander Kluge ( born 14 February 1932 ) is a German author , philosopher , academic and film director .
The year 1969 in film involved some significant events , with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid dominating the U.S. box office and becoming one of the highest-grossing films of all time and Midnight Cowboy , a film rated X , winning the Academy Award for Best Picture .
The 42nd Academy Awards were presented April 7 , 1970 , at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles , California . For the second year in a row , there was no official host . Awards were presented by seventeen Friends of Oscar : Bob Hope , John Wayne , Barbra Streisand , Fred Astaire , Jon Voight , Myrna Loy , Clint Eastwood , Raquel Welch , Candice Bergen , James Earl Jones , Katharine Ross , Cliff Robertson , Ali MacGraw , Barbara McNair , Elliott Gould , Claudia Cardinale , and Elizabeth Taylor . This was the first Academy Awards ceremony to be broadcast via satellite to an international audience , but only outside North America . Mexico and Brazil were the sole countries to broadcast the event live . This is currently the highest rated of the televised Academy Awards ceremonies , according to Nielsen ratings . Midnight Cowboy became the first - and so far , the only - X-rated film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture . Its rating has since been downgraded to R. The previous year had seen the only G-rated film to win Best Picture , Carol Reed 's Oliver ! . They Shoot Horses , Do n't They ? set an Oscar record by receiving nine nominations without one for Best Picture . This was the last time until the 68th Academy Awards wherein none of the four acting winners had appeared in Best Picture nominees , as well as the first time where every acting nomination , as well as every major nominated film , was in color .
Hunting Scenes from Bavaria ( German : Jagdszenen aus Niederbayern ) is a 1969 West German film directed by Peter Fleischmann . It is based on a play of the same name by Martin Sperr , who also played the main role in the film . It was chosen as West Germany 's official submission to the 42nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film , but did not manage to receive a nomination .
Peter Fleischmann ( born 26 July 1937 ) is a German film director .
The year 1970 in film involved some significant events .
The 43rd Academy Awards ceremony , presented by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , was held on April 15 , 1971 , and took place at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion to honor the best films of 1970 . The Awards presentation , hosting duties were handled by 34 Friends of Oscar and broadcast by NBC for the first time in 11 years . It was during this ceremony that George C. Scott became the first actor to reject an Oscar , claiming that the Academy Awards were a two-hour meat parade , a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons . With her Best Supporting Actress win , Helen Hayes became the first performer to win Oscars in both lead and supporting categories ( having won Best Actress 38 years before for The Sin of Madelon Claudet ) . She also has the record of having the biggest gap between acting wins . The documentary film Woodstock garnered three Oscar nominations , making it the most nominated documentary film in Oscar history . This was the only time since the 2nd Academy Awards that all five nominees for Best Actress were first-time nominees , as well as the last time that either lead acting category had all new nominees . Also , this was the first time since the 7th Academy Awards in which none of the nominees for the Academy Award for Best Actor had a previous nomination in that category .
o.k . is a 1970 West German anti-war film directed by Michael Verhoeven . It was chosen as West Germany 's official submission to the 43rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film , but did not manage to receive a nomination . The film was also entered into the 20th Berlin International Film Festival . However , the competition was cancelled and no prizes were awarded , over controversy surrounding the film .
Michael Verhoeven ( born 13 July 1938 ) is a German film director .
The year 1971 in film involved some significant events .
The 44th Academy Awards were presented April 10 , 1972 , at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles . The ceremonies were presided over by Helen Hayes , Alan King , Sammy Davis Jr. , and Jack Lemmon . One of the highlights of the evening was the appearance of Betty Grable , battling cancer at the time , who made one of her last public appearances . She appeared along with one of her leading men from the 1940s , singer Dick Haymes , to present the musical scoring awards . Grable died the following year . This was the first time in the history of the Awards in which the nominees were shown on superimposed pictures while being announced .
The Castle ( German : Das Schloß ) is a 1968 West German film directed by Rudolf Noelte and starring Maximilian Schell , Cordula Trantow , Trudik Daniel and Helmut Qualtinger . It is based on the 1926 eponymous novel by Franz Kafka . The film won two German Film Awards . It was chosen as West Germany 's official submission to the 44th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film , but did not manage to receive a nomination . It was also listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival , but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France .
Rudolf Noelte ( 21 March 1921 - 8 November 2002 ) was a German film director , theater director and opera director .
The year 1972 in film involved several significant cinematic events including the release of Francis Ford Coppola 's Academy Award-winning film , The Godfather .
The 45th Academy Awards were presented Tuesday , March 27 , 1973 , at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles , California , honoring the best films of 1972 . The ceremonies were presided over by Carol Burnett , Michael Caine , Charlton Heston , and Rock Hudson . The ceremony was marked by Marlon Brando 's boycott of the Oscars and his sending of Sacheen Littlefeather to explain why he would not show up to collect his Best Actor award for The Godfather , and by Charlie Chaplin 's only competitive Oscar win for Best Original Dramatic Score for his 20-year-old film Limelight , which was eligible because it did not screen in Los Angeles until 1972 . Chaplin had received honorary Academy Awards in 1929 and 1972 . Cabaret , Bob Fosse 's adaptation of the Broadway stage musical , set a record for the most Oscars won without winning Best Picture . Best Picture winner The Godfather received only three Academy Awards . This year was the first time that two African American women received nominations for Best Actress . This was also the first year when all the Oscar winners were brought out on stage at the end of the ceremony .
Trotta is a 1971 West German film directed by Johannes Schaaf . It is based on the 1938 novel Die Kapuzinergruft ( The Emperor 's Tomb ) by Austrian author Joseph Roth . It was chosen as West Germany 's official submission to the 45th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film , but did not manage to receive a nomination . It was also entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival .
The year 1973 in film involved some significant events .
The 46th Academy Awards were presented on Tuesday , April 2 , 1974 , at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles , California . The ceremonies were presided over by Burt Reynolds , Diana Ross , John Huston , and David Niven . The Sting won 7 awards , including Best Picture and Best Director for George Roy Hill . The Exorcist and The Way We Were were the only other films to win multiple awards .
The Pedestrian ( German : Der Fußgänger ) is a 1973 film directed by Maximilian Schell . It is about the trial of an elderly war criminal . The film was a co-production between companies in Germany , Switzerland and Israel .
Maximilian Schell ( 8 December 1930 - 1 February 2014 ) was an Austrian-born Swiss film and stage actor , who also wrote , directed and produced some of his own films . He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1961 American film Judgment at Nuremberg , his second acting role in Hollywood . Born in Austria , his parents were involved in the arts and he grew up surrounded by acting and literature . While he was a child , his family fled to Switzerland in 1938 when Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany , and they settled in Zurich . After World War II ended , Schell took up acting or directing full-time . He appeared in numerous German films , often anti-war , before moving on to Hollywood . Schell was top billed in a number of Nazi-era themed films , as he could speak both English and German . Among those were two films for which he received Oscar nominations : The Man in the Glass Booth ( 1975 ; best actor ) , where he played a character with two identities , and Julia ( 1977 ; best supporting actor ) , where he helps the underground in Nazi Germany . His range of acting went beyond German characters , however ; and during his career , he also played personalities as diverse as Venezuelan leader Simón Bolívar , Russian emperor Peter the Great , and physicist Albert Einstein . For his role as Vladimir Lenin in the television film Stalin ( 1992 ) he won the Golden Globe Award . On stage , Schell acted in a number of plays , and his was considered one of the greatest Hamlets ever . In Schell 's private life , he was an accomplished pianist and conductor , performing with Claudio Abbado and Leonard Bernstein , and with orchestras in Berlin and Vienna .
The year 1974 in film involved some significant events .
The 47th Academy Awards were presented Tuesday , April 8 , 1975 , at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles , California . The ceremonies were presided over by Bob Hope , Shirley MacLaine , Sammy Davis Jr. , and Frank Sinatra . This was the last year NBC aired the ceremonies before ABC secured broadcasting rights , which they still hold to this day . The success of The Godfather Part II was notable ; it received twice as many Oscars as its predecessor ( six ) and duplicated its feat of three Best Supporting Actor nominations ( as of the 90th Academy Awards , the last film to receive three nominations in a single acting category ) . Between the two of them , father and son Carmine and Francis Ford Coppola won four awards , with Carmine winning for Best Original Dramatic Score ( with Nino Rota ) and Francis for Picture , Director , and Best Screenplay Adapted from Other Material ( with Mario Puzo ) . This was the only Oscars where all nominees in one category were released by the same studio : all five Best Costume Design nominations were for films released by Paramount Pictures .
One or the Other of Us ( German : Einer von uns beiden ) is a 1974 West German film directed by Wolfgang Petersen . It was Petersen 's first theatrical feature film , and was based on the novel of the same name by Horst Bosetzky , published anonymously under his pseudonym -ky . The film is a psychological thriller and focuses on the intense conflict between a university professor and a blackmailer . The film features Klaus Schwarzkopf and Jürgen Prochnow as the two main characters and won two Bundesfilmpreise .
Wolfgang Petersen ( born 14 March 1941 ) is a German film director , film producer and screenwriter . He was nominated for two Academy Awards for the World War II submarine warfare film Das Boot ( 1981 ) . His other films include The NeverEnding Story ( 1984 ) , Enemy Mine ( 1985 ) , In the Line of Fire ( 1993 ) , Outbreak ( 1995 ) , Air Force One ( 1997 ) , The Perfect Storm ( 2000 ) , Troy ( 2004 ) , and Poseidon ( 2006 ) .
The year 1975 in film involved some significant events , with Steven Spielberg 's thriller Jaws topping the box office .
The 48th Academy Awards were presented Monday , March 29 , 1976 , at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles , California . The ceremonies were presided over by Walter Matthau , Robert Shaw , George Segal , Goldie Hawn and Gene Kelly . This year , ABC took over broadcast rights from NBC and continues to broadcast them today . The recent previous editions had been held on Tuesday night . ( NBC 's coverage of the NCAA championship basketball game aired opposite the ceremony ; during the presentation of the Best Film Editing award , the winner was jokingly announced ( by presenter Elliott Gould ) as Indiana , 86-68 ; the undefeated Indiana Hoosiers had won the NCAA title that night in Philadelphia . The following year , the two events were again on the same night . ) Miloš Forman 's One Flew Over the Cuckoo 's Nest made a clean sweep of the major categories : Best Picture , Best Actor , Best Actress , Best Director and Best Screenplay ( Adapted ) . It was the second of three films to date to accomplish the sweep , following It Happened One Night in 1934 and preceding The Silence of the Lambs in 1991 . French actress Isabelle Adjani received her first nomination for Best Actress this year , making Adjani , 20 at the time , the youngest actress to be nominated in the leading actress category , breaking the record set by 22-year-old Elizabeth Hartman in 1965 . This record would later be surpassed by 13-year-old Keisha Castle-Hughes in 2004 , and again in 2013 by nine-year old Quvenzhané Wallis . Adjani also presented the Best Film Editing award that night along with Gould who delivered the Indiana joke during the presentation . At age 80 , George Burns became the oldest acting and Best Supporting Actor awardee ( as well as the final person to receive an acting award born in the nineteenth century ) , a record that stood until Jessica Tandy won Best Actress in 1989 .
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser ( German : Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle ; lit . Every Man for Himself and God Against All ) is a 1974 West German drama film written and directed by Werner Herzog and starring Bruno Schleinstein ( credited as Bruno S. ) and Walter Ladengast . The film closely follows the real story of foundling Kaspar Hauser , using the text of actual letters found with Hauser .
Werner Herzog ( German : [ ˈvɛɐ̯nɐ ˈhɛɐ̯tsoːk ] ; born 5 September 1942 ) is a German film director , screenwriter , author , actor , and opera director . Herzog is a figure of the New German Cinema . His films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams , people with unique talents in obscure fields , or individuals who are in conflict with nature . Werner Herzog made his first film in 1961 at the age of 19 . Since then he has produced , written , and directed more than sixty feature films and documentaries , such as Aguirre , the Wrath of God ( 1972 ) , Heart of Glass ( 1976 ) , Nosferatu the Vampyre ( 1978 ) , Fitzcarraldo ( 1982 ) , Lessons of Darkness ( 1992 ) , Little Dieter Needs to Fly ( 1997 ) , My Best Fiend ( 1999 ) , Invincible ( 2000 ) , Grizzly Man ( 2005 ) , Encounters at the End of the World ( 2007 ) , Bad Lieutenant : Port of Call New Orleans ( 2009 ) , and Cave of Forgotten Dreams ( 2010 ) . He has published more than a dozen books of prose , and directed as many operas . French filmmaker François Truffaut once called Herzog the most important film director alive . American film critic Roger Ebert said that Herzog has never created a single film that is compromised , shameful , made for pragmatic reasons , or uninteresting . Even his failures are spectacular . He was named one of the world 's 100 most influential people by Time magazine in 2009 .
The year 1976 in film involved some significant events , such as Alfred Hitchcock 's final film .
The 49th Academy Awards were presented Monday , March 28 , 1977 , at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles , California . The ceremonies were presided over by Richard Pryor , Ellen Burstyn , Jane Fonda , and Warren Beatty . This Academy Awards ceremony is notable for Peter Finch becoming the first posthumous winner of an Oscar for acting , a feat matched only by fellow Australian Heath Ledger 32 years later ; Finch had suffered a fatal heart attack in mid-January . Beatrice Straight set another record by becoming the actor with the shortest performance ever in a film to win an acting Oscar , with only five minutes and two seconds of screen-time in Network . Network , along with All the President 's Men , were the two biggest champs of the ceremony with four Oscars each , but Best Picture and Best Director ultimately went to Rocky . Piper Laurie was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Carrie ( 1976 ) , her first role since her Best Actress-nominated performance in The Hustler ( 1961 ) , thus being nominated for two consecutive roles , fifteen years apart . Network became the second film ( after A Streetcar Named Desire ) to win three acting Oscars , and the last , as of the 90th Academy Awards , to receive five acting nominations . It was also the eleventh of fifteen films ( to date ) to receive nominations in all four acting categories . This year 's Academy Awards is also notable for the first ever female nominee for Best Director , Lina Wertmüller for Seven Beauties . Barbra Streisand received her second Academy Award , composing music for the love theme Evergreen , the first woman to be honored as a composer , and as of the 90th Academy Awards , the only person to win Academy Awards for both acting and songwriting . No honorary awards were given this year . ABC had the Oscars from 1960-70 and had regained them for 1976 .
The Clown ( German : Ansichten eines Clowns ) is a 1976 West German film directed by Vojtěch Jasný . It is based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Böll . It was chosen as West Germany 's official submission to the 49th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film , but did not manage to receive a nomination .
Vojtěch Jasný ( 30 November 1925 - 15 November 2019 ) was a Czech director , screenwriter and professor who has written and directed over 50 films . Jasný made feature and documentary films in Czechoslovakia , Germany , Austria , USA & Canada . He is best remembered for his movies The Cassandra Cat and All My Compatriots , both of which won prizes at Cannes Film Festival . In addition to his film career he taught directing at film schools in Salzburg , Vienna , Münich and New York .
The year 1977 in film involved some significant events .
The 50th Academy Awards were held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles , California on April 3 , 1978 . The ceremonies were presided over by Bob Hope , who hosted the awards for the nineteenth and last time . Two of the year 's biggest winners were Star Wars , which swept the technical categories by winning 6 out of its 10 nominations and a Special Achievement for Sound Effects Editing , and Annie Hall , winning 4 out of 5 nominations , including Best Picture , Best Actress and Best Director . The awards show was also notable for a very politically charged acceptance speech by Vanessa Redgrave . The Turning Point set the record for the most nominations without a win ( 11 ) , previously held by Peyton Place and The Little Foxes , which each had 9 nominations with no wins . This record , later tied by The Color Purple , still stands as of 2018 [ update ] . Annie Hall was the last Best Picture winner to be nominated for just five awards until The Departed 29 years later in 2006 . Jason Robards became the fourth actor to win back-to-back Oscars , following Luise Rainer , Spencer Tracy , and Katharine Hepburn . For the only time to date , both Best Actor and Best Actress winners won for roles in two different romantic comedies . This event marked the second of three times that more than two films had received ten or more nominations ( after the 37th and before the 92nd Academy Awards ) . The animated opening sequence , as well as promos for the Awards show , were designed by British graphic designer Harry Marks , who outsourced the animated sequences to Robert Abel and Associates . Marks also designed animated sequences for the top nominated categories , which were n't used for the final telecast .
The American Friend ( German : Der amerikanische Freund ) is a 1977 neo-noir film by Wim Wenders , adapted from the novel Ripley 's Game by Patricia Highsmith . The film features Dennis Hopper as career criminal Tom Ripley and Bruno Ganz as Jonathan Zimmermann , a terminally ill picture framer whom Ripley coerces into becoming an assassin . The film uses an unusual , natural language concept , meaning that Zimmermann speaks German with his family and his doctor , but English with Ripley and whilst visiting Paris .
Ernst Wilhelm Wim Wenders ( German : [ ˈvɪm ˈvɛndɐs ] ; born 14 August 1945 ) is a German filmmaker , playwright , author , and photographer . He is a major figure in New German Cinema . Among many honors , he has received three nominations for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature : for Buena Vista Social Club ( 1999 ) , about Cuban music culture ; Pina ( 2011 ) , about the contemporary dance choreographer Pina Bausch ; and The Salt of the Earth ( 2014 ) , about Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado . One of Wenders ' earliest honors was a win for the BAFTA Award for Best Direction for his narrative drama Paris , Texas ( 1984 ) , which also won the Palme d'Or at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival . Many of his subsequent films have also been recognized at Cannes , including Wings of Desire ( 1987 ) , for which Wenders won the Best Director Award at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival . Wenders has been the president of the European Film Academy in Berlin since 1996 . Alongside filmmaking , he is an active photographer , emphasizing images of desolate landscapes . He is considered to be an auteur director .
The year 1978 in film involved some significant events .
The 51st Academy Awards ceremony , organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) , honored films released in 1978 and took place on April 9 , 1979 , at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles beginning at 7:00 p.m. PST / 10:00 p.m. EST . During the ceremony , AMPAS presented Academy Awards ( commonly referred to as Oscars ) in 22 categories . The ceremony , televised in the United States by ABC , was produced by Jack Haley Jr. and directed by Marty Pasetta . Comedian and talk show host Johnny Carson hosted the show for the first time . Three days earlier in a ceremony held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills , California , on April 6 , the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by hosts Gregory Peck and Christopher Reeve . The Deer Hunter won five awards including Best Picture . Other winners included Coming Home with three awards , Midnight Express with two awards , and The Buddy Holly Story , California Suite , Days of Heaven , Death on the Nile , The Flight of the Gossamer Condor , Get Out Your Handkerchiefs , Heaven Can Wait , Scared Straight ! , Special Delivery , Superman , Teenage Father and Thank God It 's Friday with one .
The Glass Cell ( German : Die gläserne Zelle ) is a 1978 West German crime film directed by Hans W. Geißendörfer , based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Patricia Highsmith . It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 51st Academy Awards .
Hans W. Geißendörfer ( born 6 April 1941 in Augsburg ) is a German film director and producer . Director of The Glass Cell ( 1978 , starring Brigitte Fossey ) , which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film , and 16 other films ( The Wild Duck starring Jean Seberg ; The Magic Mountain starring Rod Steiger ; Justice ) , he is creator of TV-Series Lindenstraße ( since 1985 ) . In 1970 , Geißendörfer won the Film Award in Gold at the Deutscher Filmpreis for Best New Direction for his first film Jonathan . In 1971 he directed the TV film Carlos , which starred Gottfried John and Anna Karina . His 1976 film The Sternstein Manor was entered into the 10th Moscow International Film Festival . In 1992 his film Gudrun was entered into the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival where it won an Honourable Mention . His drama Snowland ( 2005 , starring Julia Jentsch and Thomas Kretschmann ) won the Special Grand Prize at the Montréal World Film Festival .
The year 1979 in film involved many significant events .
The 52nd Academy Awards were presented April 14 , 1980 , at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles . The ceremonies were presided over by Johnny Carson who , in noting the long duration of the production , joked that President Jimmy Carter was working hard for their release from the ceremonies , a clear reference to the Iranian hostage crisis . Among the nominees for Best Supporting Actor were 8 year-old Justin Henry - the youngest Best Supporting Actor nominee ever - and 79-year-old Melvyn Douglas . This was the largest age difference between two competing actors in Oscar history until 2013 . Their age difference was partially the reason why Douglas did not attend the Oscars that night , despite winning the award . Henry was nominated for Kramer vs. Kramer , which out of its eight other nominations , finished with five awards , including Best Picture , Best Director for Robert Benton , and Best Actor for Dustin Hoffman .
The Tin Drum ( German : Die Blechtrommel ) is a 1979 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Günter Grass . It was directed and co-written by Volker Schlöndorff . It was mostly shot in West Germany . The film won the Palme d'Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1980 at the 52nd Academy Awards .
The following is an overview of events in 1980 in film , including the highest-grossing films , award ceremonies and festivals , a list of films released and notable deaths .
The 53rd Academy Awards , honoring the best in film for 1980 , were presented March 31 , 1981 , at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles . The ceremonies , which were presided over by Johnny Carson , were originally scheduled for the previous day but were postponed due to the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan . David Lynch 's The Elephant Man and Martin Scorsese 's Raging Bull , with eight nominations each , had the most nominations of this year 's films . Their nominations included Best Picture , Best Actor and Best Director . Michael Apted 's Coal Miner 's Daughter received seven nominations while Ordinary People and Tess received six . The year 's winner of acting categories also marked as the closest span ever between the four winners , all of whom were under 40 when they won the award . Robert De Niro was 37 when awarded Best Actor , Sissy Spacek was 31 when awarded Best Actress , Timothy Hutton was 20 when awarded Best Supporting Actor , and Mary Steenburgen was 28 when awarded Best Supporting Actress . In addition , Hutton was the youngest ever Best Supporting Actor winner . His award was one of four that Ordinary People won , more than any other movie ; the movie also won Best Picture , Best Director for Robert Redford and Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium for Alvin Sargent . The lack of recognition for Christopher Tucker 's make-up work on The Elephant Man prompted the creation of the Academy Award for Best Makeup the following year . Best Supporting Actress nominee Eva Le Gallienne was born in 1899 , which made her the last acting nominee to be born in the nineteenth century . As of 2019 [ update ] , this is the earliest Oscars for which all five directing nominees are still living .
Fabian is a 1980 West German drama film directed by Wolf Gremm . It is based on the novel Fabian , the Story of a Moralist ( 1931 ) by German author Erich Kästner . The film was chosen as West Germany 's official submission to the 53rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film , but did not manage to receive a nomination .
Wolf Gremm ( 26 February 1942 - 14 July 2015 ) was a German film director and screenwriter . Gremm was born in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1942 . In the 1960s , he studied German literature , psychology , sociology and theater . After graduation , he studied film direction at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin and directed his first feature film Ich dachte , ich wär tot in 1973 . During the 1970s and early 1980s , he produced several feature films . His greatest success was the 1980 film Fabian based on a novel by German author Erich Kästner . This film was chosen as West Germany 's official submission to the 53rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film , but was not nominated . He was a close friend of the German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder , who also starred in Gremm 's 1982 film Kamikaze 1989 . This film was his last feature film ; he then worked solely for television . [ citation needed ]