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The year 1993 in film involved many significant films. (For more about films in foreign languages, check sources in those languages.)

Events

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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