Events in Film & TV
- Jan 11 7th Critics' Choice Movie Awards: A Beautiful Mind wins Best Film
Film and TV Awards
Jan 13 28th People's Choice Awards: Tom Hanks & Julia Roberts win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Kelsey Grammer, Ray Romano & Jennifer Aniston win (TV)
Golden Globes
Jan 20 59th Golden Globes: "A Beautiful Mind", Russell Crowe, & Sissy Spacek win
Sissy Spacek
Russell Crowe
- Jan 20 18th Sundance Film Festival: "Personal Velocity: Three Portraits", directed by Rebecca Miller, wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
Weddings in Film & TV
Wedding of Interest
Jan 12 TV Host Conan O'Brien (38) weds Liza Powel (31) at St. James Cathedral in Seattle, Washington
Conan O'Brien
Deaths in Film & TV
- Jan 1 Julia Phillips, American film producer, dies at 57
- Jan 2 Margaret "Bibi" Osterwald, American actress (As Good as It Gets, Bridget Loves Bernie), dies of lung disease at 83
- Jan 6 Fred Taylor, American Basketball Hall of Fame coach and broadcaster (Ohio State University 1959-76; MLB Washington Senators 1950-52), dies at 77
- Jan 7 Avery Schreiber, American comedian and actor (My Mother the Car), dies at 66
- Jan 11 Henri Verneuil, French-Armenian playwright and film director (Mélodie en sous-sol), dies at 81
- Jan 12 Stanley Unwin, South African comedian (b. 1911)
- Jan 13 Ted Demme, American film director, dies at 38
- Jan 13 Gregorio Fuentes, Cuban fisherman, reputed model for Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea (b. 1897)
- Jan 13 Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian (Wayne and Shuster), dies at 85
- Jan 16 Ron Taylor, American actor (b. 1952)
- Jan 17 Queenie Leonard, American actress (b. 1905)
- Jan 20 Carrie Hamilton, American actress (Fame), dies at 38
- Jan 22 Sheldon Allman, American-Canadian actor, singer, and songwriter (Nevada Smith, Harris Against the World), dies at 77
- Jan 24 Peter Gzowski, Canadian broadcaster, writer and reporter (b. 1934)
- Jan 29 Harold Russell, Canadian actor (Best Years of Our Life, Dogtown), dies from a heart attack at 88