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Events in Film & TV on August 25

Film Release

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

Akira Kurosawa
Film Director and Screenwriter Akira Kurosawa
Toshiro Mifune
Actor & Writer Toshiro Mifune
  • 1955 16th Venice Film Festival: "Ordet" directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer wins Golden Lion

Venice Film Festival

1962 23rd Venice Film Festival: "Family Diary" directed by Valerio Zurlini and "Ivan's Childhood" directed by Andrei Tarkovsky jointly awarded Golden Lion

Andrei Tarkovsky
Filmmaker and Director Andrei Tarkovsky
  • 1968 29th Venice Film Festival: "Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed" directed by Alexander Kluge wins Golden Lion
  • 1971 32nd Venice Film Festival opens

Television Premiere

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

Robert Wagner
Actor Robert Wagner
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

Emmy Awards

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

Seth Meyers
Comedian and Writer Seth Meyers


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