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Events in Film & TV on August 25

Film release premierFilm Release

1950 "Rashomon", Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune and Machiko Kyō, is released (Honorary Academy Award 1952)

Film Director and Screenwriter Akira Kurosawa
Film Director and Screenwriter
Akira Kurosawa
Actor & Writer Toshiro Mifune
Actor & Writer
Toshiro Mifune
  • 1955 16th Venice Film Festival: "Ordet" directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer wins Golden Lion
  • 1962 23rd Venice Film Festival: "Family Diary" directed by Valerio Zurlini and "Ivan's Childhood" directed by Andrei Tarkovsky jointly awarded Golden Lion
  • 1968 29th Venice Film Festival: "Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed" directed by Alexander Kluge wins Golden Lion
  • 1971 32nd Venice Film Festival opens

Appears on tv showTelevision Premiere

1979 TV series "Hart to Hart" starring Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers premieres in the US on ABC

Actor Robert Wagner
Actor
Robert Wagner
Novelist Sidney Sheldon
Novelist
Sidney Sheldon
  • 1991 43rd Emmy Awards: "LA Law", "Cheers", Kirstie Alley & Patricia Wettig win
  • 1992 Jamie Solinger, of Iowa, crowned 10th Miss Teen USA

Film tv awardsEmmy Awards

2014 66th Primetime Emmy Awards hosted by Seth Meyers broadcast on NBC

Comedian and Writer Seth Meyers
Comedian and Writer
Seth Meyers


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