1990 in film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

1990 in film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Events

• Chris Rock and Adam Sandler join SNL
• February 4 - Actor Tom Cruise and actress Mimi Rogers divorce.
• December 24 - Tom Cruise and actress Nicole Kidman marry.

Top grossing films

1. Home Alone, starring Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard, Catherine O'Hara,
2. Ghost, starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Goldwyn, Rick Aviles
3. Dances with Wolves, starring and directed by Kevin Costner
4. Pretty Woman, starring Julia Roberts, Richard Gere
5. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
6. The Hunt for Red October, starring Sean Connery
7. Total Recall, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
8. Die Hard 2, starring Bruce Willis
9. Dick Tracy starring Warren Beatty, Madonna
10. Kindergarten Cop, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Penelope Ann Miller

Awards

ACADEMY AWARDS:

Best Picture: Dances with Wolves - Tig Productions, Majestic Films International

Best Director: Kevin Costner - Dances With Wolves

Best Actor: Jeremy Irons - Reversal of Fortune

Best Actress: Kathy Bates - Misery

Best Supporting Actor: Joe Pesci - Goodfellas

Best Supporting Actress: Whoopi Goldberg - Ghost

Best Foreign Language Film: Journey of Hope (Reise der Hoffnung), directed by Xavier Koller, Switzerland

GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS:

Drama:

Best Picture: Dances With Wolves

Best Actor: Jeremy Irons - Reversal of Fortune

Best Actress: Kathy Bates - Misery

Musical or Comedy:

Best Picture: Green Card

Best Actor: Gérard Depardieu - Green Card

Best Actress: Julia Roberts - Pretty Woman

Other

Best Director: Kevin Costner - Dances with Wolves

Best Foreign Language Film: Cyrano de Bergerac, France

PALM D'OR (Cannes Film Festival):

Wild at Heart, directed by David Lynch, United States

GOLDEN LION (Venice Film Festival):

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, directed by Tom Stoppard, U.K. / U.S.A.

GOLDEN BEAR (Berlin Film Festival):

Music Box, directed by Costa Gavras, United States

Larks on a String (Skrivánci na niti), directed by Jiri Menzel, Czechoslovakia

Films released in 1990

• Air America
• Another 48 Hrs., starring Eddie Murphy
• Awakenings, starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro
• Back to the Future Part III, starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd
• Bad Influence
• Betsy's Wedding
• Boiling Point
• The Bonfire of the Vanities
• Bride of Re-Animator
• Child's Play 2
• Come See the Paradise
• Crash and Burn
• Cyrano de Bergerac - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film
• Dances with Wolves - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture
• Darkman
• Days of Thunder
• Dick Tracy
• Die Hard 2
• Dreams, directed by Akira Kurosawa
• DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp
• Edward Scissorhands, starring Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder
• Europa Europa - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film (for 1991)
• Flashback
• Ghost
• The Godfather Part III
• Goodfellas, directed by Martin Scorsese
• Green Card - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
• Gremlins 2: The New Batch
• Home Alone
• The Hunt for Red October
• Initiation: Silent Night, Deadly Night 4
• Jacob's Ladder
• Jetsons: The Movie
• Joe Versus the Volcano
• Journey of Hope (Reise der Hoffnung) - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
• Kindergarten Cop
• King of New York
• Larks on a String (Skrivánci na niti) - Golden Bear award
• Lionheart
• Look Who's Talking Too
• Metropolitan
• Miller's Crossing
• Misery
• Mo' Better Blues
• My Blue Heaven, starring Steve Martin
• My Mother's Castle (Le Château de ma mère), directed by Yves Robert, Golden Space Needle award (for 1991) - see novel Le Château de ma mère
• The Nasty Girl (Das schreckliche Mädchen)
• Nikita, directed by Luc Besson
• Nuns on the Run
• Q&A, starring Nick Nolte, Timothy Hutton
• Quick Change
• Predator 2, starring Danny Glover
• Pretty Woman
• Problem Child
• Pump Up the Volume, directed by Allan Moyle, Golden Space Needle award
• The Reflecting Skin
• The Rescuers Down Under
• Repossessed, a parody of The Exorcist
• Reversal of Fortune
• Robot Jox
• Rocky V
• Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead - Golden Lion award
• Side Out, starring Courtney Thorne-Smith
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Tatie Danielle, starring Tsilla Chelton
• Texasville
• Total Recall
• Wild Orchid
• Wild at Heart - Palm d'Or award
• The Witches, directed by Nicolas Roeg

Births

• March 24 - Keisha Castle-Hughes, actress
• April 15 - Emma Watson, actress
• May 14 - Sasha Spielberg, actress, daughter of producer/director Steven Spielberg and actress Kate Capshaw
• July 24 - Daveigh Chase, actress
• October 22 - Jonathan Lipnicki, actor

Deaths

• January 6 - Ian Charleson, actor
• January 8 - Terry-Thomas, actor, comedian
• January 15 - Gordon Jackson, actor
• January 20 - Barbara Stanwyck, actress
• January 24 - Madge Bellamy, actress
• January 25 - Ava Gardner, actress
• March 5 - Gary Merrill, actor
• March 17 - Capucine, actress
• April 15 - Greta Garbo, actress
• April 23 - Paulette Goddard, actress
• May 6 - Charles Farrell, actor
• May 10 - Susan Oliver, actress, pilot
• May 16 - Sammy Davis Jr, actor, singer
• May 16 - Jim Henson, creator of Muppets
• May 18 - Jill Ireland, actress
• June 2 - Rex Harrison, actor
• July 15 - Margaret Lockwood, actress
• July 19 - Eddie Quillan, actor
• August 27 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, 36, guitarist/songwriter
• September 4 - Irene Dunne, actress
• September 19 - Hermes Pan, choreographer
• October 15 - Delphine Seyrig, French actress
• October 20 - Joel McCrea, actor
• November 3 - Mary Martin, actress
• November 12 - Eve Arden, actress
• December 2 - Robert Cummings, actor
• December 7 - Joan Bennett, actress
• December 8 - Martin Ritt, director