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Contents[hide]
1 Events
2 Top grossing films
3 Awards
4 Films released in 1981
5 Births
6 Deaths
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[edit] Events
January 19 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquires beleaguered concurrent United Artists. UA was humiliated by the astronomical losses on the $40,000,000 movie Heaven's Gate, a major factor in the decision of owner Transamerica to sell it.
November 29 - Off Santa Catalina Island, 43-year old actress Natalie Wood drowns during a boating accident.
Tom Cruise makes his acting debut.
[edit] Top grossing films
North America
Raiders of the Lost Ark, starring Harrison Ford
Superman II, starring Gene Hackman and Christopher Reeve
Stir Crazy, starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder
Nine to Five, starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton
Stripes, starring Bill Murray and Warren Oates
Any Which Way You Can , starring Clint Eastwood
Arthur, starring Dudley Moore
The Cannonball Run, starring Burt Reynolds and Roger Moore
The Four Seasons, starring Alan Alda
For Your Eyes Only, starring Roger Moore
[edit] Awards
Academy Awards:
Best Picture: Chariots of Fire - Enigma, The Ladd Company/Warner Bros.
Best Director: Warren Beatty - Reds
Best Actor: Henry Fonda - On Golden Pond
Best Actress: Katharine Hepburn - On Golden Pond
Best Supporting Actor: John Gielgud - Arthur
Best Supporting Actress: Maureen Stapleton - Reds
Best Foreign Language Film: Mephisto, directed by Istvan Szabo, Hungary
Golden Globe Awards:
Drama:
Best Picture: On Golden Pond
Best Actor: Henry Fonda - On Golden Pond
Best Actress: Meryl Streep - The French Lieutenant's Woman
Musical or comedy:
Best Picture: Arthur
Best Actor: Dudley Moore - Arthur
Best Actress: Bernadette Peters - Pennies from Heaven
Other
Best Director: Warren Beatty - Reds
Best Foreign Film: Chariots of Fire, United Kingdom
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
Man of Iron (Człowiek z żelaza), directed by Andrzej Wajda, Poland
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
Marianne and Juliane (Die Bleierne Zeit), directed by Margarethe von Trotta, W. Germany
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
Faster, Faster (Deprisa, deprisa / Vivre vite), directed by Carlos Saura, Spain / France
[edit] Films released in 1981
Absence of Malice
An American Werewolf in London
Arthur
Blow Out
The Boat Is Full
Bustin' Loose
The Cannonball Run
Clash of the Titans, starring Laurence Olivier and Maggie Smith
Come on, Granpa's!
Chariots of Fire
Das Boot (1982 US release)
Deadly Blessing starring Sharon Stone
Deprisa, Deprisa, Golden Bear winner
Dragonslayer
Escape from New York, starring Kurt Russell
Excalibur
For Your Eyes Only
Fort Apache the Bronx
The Four Seasons
The Fox and the Hound
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Friday the 13th Part 2
Full Moon High
The German Sisters, Golden Lion winner
The Great Muppet Caper
Halloween II, starring Jamie Lee Curtis
The Hand, starring Michael Caine, directed by Oliver Stone
Hardly Working, starring Jerry Lewis
History of the World: Part I
The Howling
The Land of Hunger
The Legend of the Lone Ranger
Lola, a German film
Looker
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (a)
Man of Iron, Palme d'Or winner
Mephisto
Mommie Dearest, starring Faye Dunaway, Diana Scarwid
My Dinner with Andre
Omen III: The Final Conflict, starring Sam Neill, Rossano Brazzi
On Golden Pond, starring Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, and Jane Fonda
Only When I Laugh
Outland
Pennies From Heaven, starring Steve Martin, based on the 1978 BBC Television serial by Dennis Potter.
Pixote
Prince of the City
Quest for Fire also called La Guerre du feu
Ragtime
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Reds
Rich And Famous
Sogni d'oro
Stripes
Sweet & Sour Cops
The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie
The Tale of Today, Tomorrow, and the Day After
Taps starring George C. Scott and Timothy Hutton
Tarzan, the Ape Man
They Don't Wear Black Tie
Time Bandits
Will
Wolfen
Women We Salute You!
Zoot Suit, starring Edward James Olmos
[edit] Births
January 28 – Elijah Wood, actor
April 19 - Hayden Christensen , actor
June 9 - Natalie Portman (Natalie Hershlag), actress
September 12 - Jennifer Hudson, singer and actress
[edit] Deaths
January 1 - Beulah Bondi, actress
January 10 - Richard Boone, actor
January 16 - Bernard Lee, actor
February 1 - Wanda Hendrix, actress
July 27 - William Wyler, director
August 1 - Paddy Chayefsky, screenwriter
August 4 - Melvyn Douglas, actor
August 18 - Anita Loos, writer
September 27 - Robert Montgomery, actor
October 24 - Edith Head, costume designer
November 12 - William Holden, actor
November 27 - Lotte Lenya, actress
November 29 - Natalie Wood, actress
December 28 - Allan Dwan, pioneer film director
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