1988 in film
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[edit] Events
- Michael Jackson's first film was Moonwalker
[edit] Top grossing films (U.S.)
| Rank | Title | Studio | Gross |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Rain Man | MGM | $172,825,435 |
| 2. | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Buena Vista | $156,452,370 |
| 3. | Coming to America | Paramount | $128,152,301 |
| 4. | Big | 20th Century Fox | $114,968,774 |
| 5. | Twins | Universal | $111,938,388 |
| 6. | Crocodile Dundee II | Paramount | $109,306,210 |
| 7. | Die Hard | 20th Century Fox | $83,008,852 |
| 8. | The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! | Paramount | $78,756,177 |
| 9. | Cocktail | Buena Vista | $78,222,753 |
| 10. | Beetlejuice | Warner Brothers | $73,707,461 |
source: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1988&p=.htm
[edit] Awards
- Best Picture: Rain Man - Mirage Entertainment, Star Partners II, United Artists
- Best Director: Barry Levinson - Rain Man
- Best Actor: Dustin Hoffman - Rain Man
- Best Actress: Jodie Foster - The Accused
- Best Supporting Actor: Kevin Kline - A Fish Called Wanda
- Best Supporting Actress: Geena Davis - The Accidental Tourist
- Best Foreign Language Film: Pelle the Conqueror (Pelle erobreren), directed by Bille August, Denmark
- Drama:
- Best Picture: Rain Man
- Best Actor: Dustin Hoffman - Rain Man
- Best Actress (tie): Jodie Foster - The Accused
- Best Actress (tie): Sigourney Weaver - Gorillas in the Mist
- Musical or comedy:
- Best Picture: Working Girl
- Best Actor: Tom Hanks - Big
- Best Actress: Melanie Griffith - Working Girl
- Other
- Best Director: Clint Eastwood - Bird
- Best Foreign Language Film: Pelle the Conqueror, Denmark
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
- Pelle the Conqueror (Pelle erobreren), directed by Bille August, Denmark
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
- La leggenda del santo bevitore (The Legend of the Holy Drinker), directed by Ermanno Olmi, Italy / France
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
- Red Sorghum (Hong gao liang), directed by Yimou Zhang, China
[edit] Films released in 1988
- 18 Again!
- 1969
- The Accidental Tourist, starring William Hurt, Kathleen Turner and Geena Davis
- The Accused, starring Jodie Foster and Kelly McGillis
- Action Jackson, starring Carl Weathers, Craig T. Nelson, Vanity and Sharon Stone
- The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
- Alice (Něco z Alenky)
- Alien Nation, starring James Caan and Mandy Patinkin
- Amsterdamned
- And God Created Woman
- Another Woman
- Arthur 2: On the Rocks, starring Dudley Moore and Liza Minnelli
- Bat 21, starring Gene Hackman and Danny Glover
- Beaches, starring Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey
- The Beast
- Beetlejuice, starring Michael Keaton, Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis and Winona Ryder
- Betrayed
- Big, starring Tom Hanks
- The Big Blue, directed by Luc Besson
- Big Business, starring Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin
- Big Time
- Big Top Pee-wee, starring Paul Reubens
- Biloxi Blues, starring Matthew Broderick and Christopher Walken
- Bird, starring Forest Whitaker
- Black Eagle
- Blind Justice, aka Hold My Hand I'm Dying starring Oliver Reed, directed by Terence Ryan
- The Blob
- Bloodsport
- La Boheme, by Luigi Comencini (see disambiguation)
- Bright Lights, Big City, starring Michael J. Fox, Kiefer Sutherland, Phoebe Cates and Dianne Wiest
- Bull Durham, starring Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins
- Burning Secret
- Buster
- Caddyshack II
- Call Me
- Camille Claudel
- Celia
- Child's Play
- Chocolat
- The Chocolate War -(film mentioned in article)
- A Chorus of Disapproval
- Clara's Heart, starring Whoopi Goldberg and Neil Patrick Harris
- Clean and Sober, starring Michael Keaton
- Cocktail, starring Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown and Elisabeth Shue
- Cocoon: The Return
- Colors, starring Robert Duvall and Sean Penn
- Coming to America, starring Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall
- Consuming Passions
- The Couch Trip
- The Courier
- Crocodile Dundee II, starring Paul Hogan and Linda Koszlowski
- Crossing Delancey, starring Amy Irving
- A Cry in the Dark, starring Meryl Streep and Sam Neill
- Da
- Daffy Duck's Quackbusters
- Dancing in the Dust - Ivory Coast polygyny film
- Dangerous Liaisons, starring Glenn Close, John Malkovich and Michelle Pfeiffer
- The Dawning
- The Deceivers
- The Dead Pool
- Dead Ringers
- Die Hard, starring Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman
- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, starring Steve Martin and Michael Caine
- Distant Thunder
- Distant Voices, Still Lives
- D.O.A.
- Doin' Time On Planet Earth
- Dream Demon
- Drowning By Numbers
- Earth Girls Are Easy
- Eight Men Out
- Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
- Ernest Saves Christmas
- The Everlasting Secret Family
- Everybody's All-American, starring Dennis Quaid, Jessica Lange and Timothy Hutton
- Far North
- Feds
- A Fish Called Wanda, starring John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline and Michael Palin
- Frantic, starring Harrison Ford
- Fresh Horses
- Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
- Fright Night II
- The Fruit Machine
- Full Moon In Blue Water
- Fun Down There
- Ghost Town
- Ghosts... of the Civil Dead
- Gotham (aka) The Dead Can't Lie
- The Good Mother
- Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey, starring Sigourney Weaver
- Hairspray, starring Ricki Lake, Divine, Jerry Stiller, Sonny Bono and Deborah Harry
- Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
- Hanna's War
- Hanussen
- Haunted Summer
- Hawks, starring Timothy Dalton and Anthony Edwards
- Heartbreak Hotel
- Hellbound: Hellraiser II
- High Hopes
- High Spirits, directed by Neil Jordan, starring Peter O'Toole, Steve Guttenberg and Daryl Hannah
- Hold My Hand I'm Dying, aka Blind Justice starring Oliver Reed, directed by Terence Ryan
- Hot to Trot
- Hotel Terminus: Klaus Barbie, His Life and Times
- The House on Carroll Street
- I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
- It Couldn't Happen Here
- Iron Eagle II
- Kansas
- Killer Klowns from Outer Space
- The Land Before Time
- The Last Temptation of Christ, directed by Martin Scorsese
- La Leggenda del Santo Bevitore (The Legend Of The Holy Drinker) - Golden Lion award
- License to Drive
- The Little Devil (Il Piccolo Diavolo), starring Walter Matthau, Roberto Benigni (also director)
- Mac and Me
- Married to the Mob, starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Modine and Dean Stockwell
- Midnight Run, starring Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin
- Mio in the Land of Faraway (U.S. release)
- Mississippi Burning, starring Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe and Frances McDormand
- Moonwalker
- My Neighbour Totoro
- My Stepmother Is an Alien, starring Kim Basinger, Dan Aykroyd and Alyson Hannigan
- The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, starring Leslie Nielsen and Priscilla Presley
- Never on Tuesday
- The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking
- A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
- Off Limits
- Oliver and Company
- Paperhouse
- Patty Hearst*La Casa del sorriso (The House of Smiles) - Golden Bear award
- Pelle the Conqueror, starring Max von Sydow
- Phantasm II
- Plain Clothes
- Prison
- Punchline, starring Sally Field and Tom Hanks
- Pushpak
- Quelques Jours avec Moi (A Few Days with Me)
- Rain Man, starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture and Golden Bear (for 1989)
- Rambo III, starring Sylvester Stallone
- Rattle and Hum
- Red Heat, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Belushi
- Running on Empty, starring Christine Lahti, Judd Hirsch, River Phoenix and Martha Plimpton
- Salome's Last Dance
- Scrooged, starring Bill Murray
- Shakedown aka Blue Jean Cop
- She's Having a Baby, starring Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth McGovern
- Shoot to Kill aka Deadly Pursuit
- A Short Film About Love by Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Stand and Deliver, starring Edward James Olmos and Lou Diamond Phillips
- Story of Women
- Tapeheads, starring John Cusack and Tim Robbins
- They Live, starring Roddy Piper
- Tucker: The Man and His Dream, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Jeff Bridges and Martin Landau
- Twins, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito
- Vibes, starring Jeff Goldblum and Cyndi Lauper
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being, according to a book by Milan Kundera
- Watchers
- Waxwork
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit, starring Bob Hoskins and Christopher Lloyd
- Willow, starring Val Kilmer and Warwick Davis
- Working Girl, starring Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford and Sigourney Weaver - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
- A World Apart, starring Barbara Hershey and Jodhi May
- Young Guns, starring Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen, Dermot Mulroney and Casey Siemaszko
[edit] Births
- May 24 - Joseph John Tromans
- April 10 - Haley Joel Osment
- April 25 - Sara Paxton, American singer/actress
- May 1 - Jacobo León
- August 24 - Rupert Grint, British actor
- November 15 - Zena Grey
- June 8 - Chris Green
- June 9 - Jessie Hardin
- December- Bonnie Boulware
[edit] Deaths
- January 7 - Michel Auclair, actor (b. 1922)
- January 7 - Trevor Howard, actor
- February 1 - Heather O'Rourke, actress
- January 25 - Colleen Moore, actress
- March 6 - Jeanne Aubert, French actress
- May 30 - Ella Raines, actress
- July 25 - Judith Barsi, actress
- August 4 - Florence Eldridge, actress
- September 5 - Gert Fröbe, actor
- October 1 - Lucien Ballard, cinematographer
- December 23 – Frederick W. Elvidge, actor
