Events in Film & TV
BAFTA Awards
Feb 2 73rd British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs): "1917" Best Film, Sam Mendes Best Director, Renée Zellweger, Joaquin Phoenix best actors
Radio History
Feb 4 Radio personality Rush Limbaugh is presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Donald Trump during the State Of The Union Address
Academy Awards
Feb 9 92nd Academy Awards: "Parasite" 1st non English film to win Best Picture, Best Director Bong Joon-ho, Best Actor Joaquin Phoenix, Best Actress Renée Zellweger
Film & TV History
Feb 24 Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein found guilty of rape and a criminal sexual act in landmark case that ignited #MeToo movement
Deaths in Film & TV
- Feb 2 Ivan Král, Czech-American bass player, songwriter, record producer (Patti Smith; Iggy Pop; John Waite), and filmmaker, dies of cancer at 71
Kirk Douglas (1916-2020)
Feb 5 American actor (Spartacus, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral), dies at 103
- Feb 7 Nexhmije Pagarusha, Albanian singer ‘the Nightingale of Kosovo’ and actress, dies at 86
- Feb 7 Orson Bean, American actor and comedian (To Tell the Truth), killed in a traffic accident at 91
- Feb 8 Robert Conrad [Conrad R. Falk], American actor (Wild Wild West), dies at 84
- Feb 10 Claire Bretécher, French cartoonist (Les Frustrés), dies at 79
- Feb 15 Caroline Flack, British television presenter (Love Island), commits suicide at 40
- Feb 24 Ben Cooper, American western actor (The Rose Tattoo; Outcast; Arizona Raiders), dies at 86
- Feb 24 Katherine Johnson, American NASA mathematician (portrayed in film Hidden Figures), dies at 101
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