Events in Film & TV
Music Concert
Feb 1 Wardrobe malfunction: Janet Jackson's breast is exposed during the half-time show of Super Bowl XXXVIII, resulting in US broadcasters adopting a stronger adherence to FCC censorship guidelines.
- Feb 5 54th Berlin International Film Festival: "Head-On" wins the Golden Bear
BAFTA Awards
Feb 15 57th British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" Best Film, Peter Weir Best Director
- Feb 28 24th Golden Raspberry Awards: "Gigli" wins
Academy Awards
Feb 29 76th Academy Awards: "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King," Sean Penn & Charlize Theron win
Birthdays in Film & TV
Millie Bobby Brown (19 years old)
Feb 19 English actress (Stranger Things) and UNICEF goodwill ambassador, born in Marbella, Spain
Weddings in Film & TV
Rosie O'Donnell
Feb 26 American actress and comedian Rosie O'Donnell (41) weds American marketing executive Kelli Carpenter (36) in San Francisco, California; voided in August due to state supreme court ruling
- Feb 27 American singer-songwriter Solange Knowles (17) weds Texas Southern University football player Daniel Smith (19) at Old Bahama Bay Resort in Grand Bahama Island; divorce in 2007
Deaths in Film & TV
- Feb 2 Bernard McEveety, American film director (b. 1924)
- Feb 3 Jason Raize, American musical theatre actor (b. 1975)
- Feb 5 John Hench, American animator (b. 1908)
- Feb 10 Guy Provost, Quebec actor (b. 1925)
- Feb 15 Jan Miner, American actress (Crime Photographer), dies at 86
- Feb 18 Jean Rouch, French filmmaker and ethnologist (b. 1917)
- Feb 23 Vijay Anand, Indian film director (b. 1934)
- Feb 24 John Randolph [Emanuel Hirsch Cohen], American actor (King Kong, Lucan, Lucas Tanner, Angie), dies at 88
- Feb 26 Ralph E. Winters, Canadian film editor, dies at 94