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Everything about 1993 In Film totally explainedThe year 1993 in film involved many significant films. (For more about films in foreign languages, check sources in those languages.)
Events
- The film Jurassic Park, a dinosaur epic with massive special effects, breaks box-office records with a plot described as a "roller-coaster ride through a haunted house."
- Family romance film Sleepless in Seattle revives the genre of the Courtship of Eddie's Father, with an extensive soundtrack of oldies music.
- March 31 - Actor Brandon Lee is accidentally killed during the filming of The Crow.
- April 12 - Actress Lisa Bonet files for divorce from Lenny Kravitz.
- April 17 - The Bangles' Susanna Hoffs marries screenwriter Jay Roach in Los Angeles, California.
- Actress Kim Basinger files for bankruptcy after a California judge orders her to pay $7.4 million for refusing to honor a verbal contract to star in the movie Boxing Helena. As a result, Basinger loses the town that she purchased in 1989, Braselton, Georgia, to her partner in the deal, the pension fund of Chicago-based Ameritech.
- May 28 - Produced by Warner Bros., Super Mario Bros. opens, marking the first video game film released.
Top grossing films (U.S.)
| Rank |
Title |
Studio |
Worldwide |
U.S./Canada |
Internatioal |
| 1. |
Jurassic Park |
Universal |
$914,691,118 |
$357,067,947 |
$557,623,171 |
| 2. |
Mrs. Doubtfire |
20th Centery Fox |
$441,195,243 |
$219,195,243 |
$222,000,000 |
| 3. |
The Fugitive |
Warner Brothers |
$368,875,760 |
$183,875,760 |
$185,000,000 |
| 4. |
Schindler's List |
Universal |
$321,306,305 |
$96,065,768 |
$225,240,537 |
| 5. |
The Firm |
Paramount |
$270,248,367 |
$158,348,367 |
$111,900,000 |
| 6. |
Indecent Proposal |
Paramount |
$266,614,059 |
$106,614,059 |
$160,000,000 |
| 7. |
Cliffhanger |
TriStar |
$255,000,211 |
$84,049,211 |
$170,951,000 |
| 8. |
Sleepless in Seattle |
TriStar |
$227,799,884 |
$126,680,884 |
$101,119,000 |
| 9. |
Philadelphia |
Columbia |
$206,678,440 |
$77,446,440 |
$129,232,000 |
| 10. |
The Pelican Brief |
Warner Brothers |
$195,268,056 |
$100,768,056 |
$94,500,000 |
source: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=1993&p=.htm
Awards
Academy Awards:
» Best Picture: Schindler's List - Amblin Entertainment, Universal Pictures
Best Director: Steven Spielberg - Schindler's List » Best Actor: Tom Hanks - Philadelphia
Best Actress: Holly Hunter - The Piano » Best Supporting Actor: Tommy Lee Jones - The Fugitive
Best Supporting Actress: Anna Paquin - The Piano » Best Foreign Language Film: Belle Époque ( The Age of Beauty), directed by Fernando Trueba, Spain
Golden Globe Awards: » Drama:
Best Picture: Schindler's List » Best Actor: Tom Hanks - Philadelphia
Best Actress: Holly Hunter - The Piano
» Musical or comedy:
Best Picture: Mrs. Doubtfire » Best Actor: Robin Williams - Mrs. Doubtfire
Best Actress: Angela Bassett - What's Love Got to Do with It?
» Other
Best Director: Steven Spielberg, Schindler's List » Best Foreign Language Film: Farewell My Concubine ( Ba wang bie ji), China / Hong Kong
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival): » Farewell My Concubine (霸王別姬, Ba wang bie ji), directed by Chen Kaige, China / Hong Kong
The Piano, directed by Jane Campion, New Zealand
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival): » Short Cuts, directed by Robert Altman, United States
( Trois Couleurs: Bleu), directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski, France / Poland / Switzerland / U.K.
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival): » The Women from the Lake of Scented Souls ( Xian hun nu), directed by Xie Fei, China
The Wedding Banquet ( Hsi yen), directed by Ang Lee, Taiwan / U.S.A.
Films released in 1993
Addams Family Values, directed by Barry Sonnenfeld
The Age of Innocence, directed by Martin Scorsese
Airborne
Alive
Amos & Andrew
Another Stakeout
Arizona Dream
Army of Darkness, directed by Sam Raimi
Aspen Extreme
, directed by Eric Radomski and Bruce Timm
Beethoven's 2nd
Benny & Joon
Best of the Best 2
Body of Evidence
Boiling Point
Bopha!
Born Yesterday
Bound by Honor
A Bronx Tale
Calendar Girl
Carlito's Way
CB4
Cliffhanger
Coneheads, directed by Steve Barron
Cool Runnings
Cop and a Half
The Crush
The Dark Half
Dave
Dazed and Confused
Demolition Man
Dennis the Menace
Excessive Force
Falling Down
A Far Off Place
Faraway, So Close!
Farewell My Concubine (Ba wang bie ji) - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and Palme d'Or award
Fatal Instinct
Fearless
Fire in the Sky
The Firm
Flesh and Bone
For Love or Money
A Foreign Field
Free Willy, directed by Simon Wincer
The Fugitive
Gettysburg
Ghost in the Machine
Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla II
The Good Son
Groundhog Day
Grumpy Old Men
Hard Target
Heart and Souls
Heaven & Earth
Hexed
Hocus Pocus, directed by Kenny Ortega
A Home of Our Own
Hot Shots! Part Deux
House of Cards
The House of the Spirits
In the Line of Fire
In the Name of the Father - Golden Bear award (for 1994)
Indecent Proposal
Jack the Bear
The Joy Luck Club
Judgment Night
Jurassic Park, directed by Steven Spielberg
Kalifornia
Last Action Hero
Leprechaun
Life with Mikey
Little Buddha
Look Who's Talking Now
Lost in Yonkers
M. Butterfly
Mad Dog and Glory
Made in America
Malice
The Man Without a Face
Manhattan Murder Mystery
Married to It
Matinee
Menace II Society
The Meteor Man
Mr. Jones
Mr. Wonderful
Mrs. Doubtfire - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
Much Ado About Nothing
My Favorite Season
My Life
Naked
Naked in New York
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
The Nightmare Before Christmas, directed by Henry Selick
Nowhere to Run
Once Upon a Forest, directed by Charles Grosvenor
Ordinary Magic
The Pelican Brief
A Perfect World, starring Kevin Costner and Clint Eastwood
Philadelphia, starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington
The Piano - Palme d'Or award
Poetic Justice, directed by John Singleton
Point of No Return
Posse
The Program
Public Access
The Real McCoy
The Remains of the Day
Return of the Living Dead 3
Rising Sun
, directed by Mel Brooks
Robocop 3, directed by Fred Dekker
Rookie of the Year, directed by Daniel Stern
Romeo Is Bleeding
Ruby in Paradise
Rudy
The Sandlot, directed by David M. Evans
Schindler's List - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture
Searching For Bobby Fischer
The Secret Garden
The Sex of the Stars
Shadowlands
Short Cuts - Golden Lion award
, directed by Bill Duke
Six Degrees of Separation
Sleepless in Seattle
Sliver
Sniper, starring Tom Berenger
So I Married an Axe Murderer
Sommersby
Son in Law
Son of the Pink Panther, directed by Blake Edwards
Speak Up! It's So Dark
Super Mario Bros., directed by Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel
Striking Distance
Surf Ninjas
Swing Kids
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
The Temp
This Boy's Life
- 1st of the Krzysztof Kieślowski trilogy, starring Juliette Binoche - Golden Lion award
The Three Musketeers, directed by Stephen Herek
Three of Hearts
, directed by Phil Roman
Tombstone
True Romance
Undercover Blues
Untamed Heart
The Vanishing
Wayne's World 2, directed by Stephen Surjik
The Wedding Banquet - Golden Bear and Golden Space Needle awards
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story, directed by Dick Zondag, Ralph Zondag, Phil Nibbelink and Simon Wells
Weekend at Bernie's II
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
What's Love Got to Do With It, directed by Brian Gibson - Nominated for 2 Oscars, won the American Choreography Award
Who's the Man?
The Women from the Lake of Scented Souls (Xian hun nu) - Golden Bear award
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
The Young Americans (film)
Births
January 11 - Flora Cross, actress
January 18 - Morgan York, actress
January 19 - Gus Lewis, actor
January 26 - Cameron Bright, actor
February 7 - David Dorfman, actor
February 16 - Mike Weinberg, actor
February 19 - Victoria Justice, actress
February 26 - Taylor Dooley, actress
March 4
March 17 - Julia Winter, actress
March 28 - Naoki Takeshi, actor
April 5 - Nick Price, actor
April 14 - Vivien Cardone, actress
May 14 - Miranda Cosgrove, actress
May 24 - Oliver Davis, actor
June 7 - Jordan Fry, actor
June 9 - Danielle Chuchran, actress
June 25 - Barney Clark, actor
July 6 - Jeremy Suarez, voice actor
July 9 - Emily Hirst, actress
July 26 - Taylor Momsen, actress
July 31 - Christian Byers, actor
August 2 - Ryan and Kyle Pepi, actors
August 5 - Suzuka Ohgo, actress
August 7 - Francesca Fisher-Eastwood, actress
August 11 - Alyson Stoner, actress
August 12 - Imani Hakim, actress
August 16 - Cameron Monaghan, actor
August 20 - Brianna and Brittany McConnell, actresses
August 26 - Keke Palmer, actress
September 9 - Charlie Stewart, actor
September 12 - Jacob and Zachary Handy, actors
September 18 - Patrick McGovern, actor
September 22 - Chase Ellison, actor
October 8 - Angus T. Jones, actor
December 8 - AnnaSophia Robb, actress
December 22 - Ali Lohan, actress
Deaths
January 20 - Audrey Hepburn, actress
February 6 - Joseph Mankiewicz, director, producer, writer
February 11 - Joy Garrett, actress
February 27 - Lillian Gish, actress
February 28 - Ruby Keeler, singer, actress
March 17 - Helen Hayes, actress
March 31 - Brandon Lee, actor, son of actor Bruce Lee
April 5 - Divya Bharti, Bollywood actress
June 9 - Alexis Smith, actress
July 2 - Fred Gwynne, actor, "The Munsters" and numerous films
June 30 - George "Spanky" McFarland, actor
August 16 - Stewart Granger, actor
August 17 - Laila Ayub, actress
September 12 - Raymond Burr, actor
October 10 - John Bindon, actor, bodyguard
October 25 - Vincent Price, actor
October 31 - Federico Fellini, Italian film director
October 31 - River Phoenix, actor
November 15 - Fritz Feld, actor
December 4 - Frank Zappa, songwriter/performer
December 6 - Don Ameche, actor
December 14 - Myrna Loy, actress
December 18 - Sam Wanamaker, director/actor, father of actress Zoë WanamakerFurther Information
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