1990 in film

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The year 1990 in film involved some significant events.

Events

CGI technique is expanded with motion capture for CGI characters, used in Total Recall (1990).
The first digitally-manipulated matte painting is used, in Die Hard 2.
The use of real-time computer graphics or "digital puppetry" to create a character in a motion picture is performed, in RoboCop 2.
Future film stars Chris Rock and Adam Sandler join SNL.
February 4 - Actor Tom Cruise and actress Mimi Rogers divorce.
November 16 - Disney's first ever animated sequel, The Rescuers Down Under, is released.
December 24 - Tom Cruise and actress Nicole Kidman marry.
Universal Pictures celebrates its 75th anniversary with a new logo.

Top grossing films (worldwide)

Rank	Title	Studio	Actors	Director	Gross
1.	Ghost	Paramount	Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg	Jerry Zucker	$505,702,588
2.	Home Alone	Fox	Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern	Chris Columbus	$476,684,675
3.	Pretty Woman	Touchstone Pictures	Richard Gere, Julia Roberts	Garry Marshall	$464,406,268
4.	Dances with Wolves	Orion Pictures	Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene	Kevin Costner	$424,208,848
5.	Total Recall	TriStar Pictures	Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside, Ronny Cox	Paul Verhoeven	$261,299,840
6.	Back to the Future Part III	Universal Pictures	Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen	Robert Zemeckis	$244,527,583
7.	Die Hard 2: Die Harder	Fox	Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia	Renny Harlin	$240,031,094
8.	Presumed Innocent	Warner Bros.	Harrison Ford, Brian Dennehy, Raúl Juliá, Bonnie Bedelia, Greta Scacchi	Alan J. Pakula	$221,303,188
9.	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	New Line Cinema	Judith Hoag, Elias Koteas	Steve Barron	$201,965,915
10	Kindergarten Cop	Universal	Arnold Schwarzenegger, Penelope Ann Miller, Pamela Reed, Linda Hunt, Richard Tyson	Ivan Reitman	$201,957,688

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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

Palme 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

Wide-release films

January–March

January 1990 "Leatherface:The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III"
- January 19 - Tremors starring Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward
February 1990
- February 9 - Hard to Kill starring Steven Segal
- February 16 - Revenge, starring Kevin Costner
March 1990
- March 2 - The Hunt for Red October
- March 9 - Joe Versus the Volcano, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan
- March 23 - Pretty Woman
- March 30 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

April–June

April 1990
- April 6 - Cry-Baby, starring Johnny Depp
- April 27 - Spaced Invaders, directed by Patrick Read Johnson, starring Douglas Barr, Royal Dano, Ariana Richards and J. J. Anderson
May 1990
- May 4 - Short Time
- May 25
  - Back to the Future Part III
  - Fire Birds, starring Nicolas Cage and Tommy Lee Jones
June 1990
- June 1 - Total Recall

June 8 "Another 48 Hrs"

- June 15
  - Dick Tracy, starring Warren Beatty, Madonna, Glenne Headly and Al Pacino
  - Gremlins 2: The New Batch
- June 22 - RoboCop 2, starring Peter Weller and Nancy Allen
- June 27 - Days of Thunder

July–September

July 1990
- July 4 - Die Hard 2: Die Harder
- July 13 - Ghost
- July 18 - Arachnophobia
- July 27
  - Presumed Innocent, starring Harrison Ford
  - Problem Child
August 1990
- August 10 - Air America, starring Mel Gibson and Robert Downey, Jr. "Darkman" Liam Neeson, Frances McDormand
- August 17 - "The Exorcist III" starring George C. Scott
September 1990
- September 14 - Death Warrant
- September 19 - Goodfellas
- September 28 - Pacific Heights, starring Michael Keaton, Melanie Griffith and Matthew Modine

October–December

October 1990 "Marked for Death" Steven Seagal
November 1990
- November 9 - Child's Play 2
- November 16
  - Home Alone
  - Rocky V
- November 21
  - Dances with Wolves
  - Predator 2
  - Three Men and a Little Lady
December 1990
- December 6 - The End of Innocence, starring Rebecca Schaeffer, Dyan Cannon and John Heard
- December 7 - The Rookie, starring Clint Eastwood and Charlie Sheen
- December 14 - Edward Scissorhands, starring Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder
- December 20 - Awakenings, starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro
- December 21
  - The Bonfire of the Vanities, starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis and Melanie Griffith
  - Kindergarten Cop
- December 25 - The Godfather Part III

Births

February 7 - Mustafa Ali, actor, scientist
March 24 - Keisha Castle-Hughes, actress
April 6 - Charlie McDermott, actor
April 9 - Kristen Stewart, actress
April 15 - Emma Watson, actress, model
May 14 - Sasha Spielberg, actress, daughter of producer/director Steven Spielberg and actress Kate Capshaw
July 2 - Margot Robbie, Australian actress
July 24 - Daveigh Chase, actress
October 22 - Jonathan Lipnicki, actor
December 20 - JoJo, American singer-songwriter and actress
December 23 - Anna Maria Perez de Taglé, American actress/singer

Notable deaths

Month	Date	Name	Age	Country	Profession	Notable films
January	2	Alan Hale, Jr.	68	USA	Actor	Hang 'Em High • Johnny Dangerously • The Fifth Musketeer
	5	Arthur Kennedy	75	USA	Actor	Lawrence of Arabia • They Died with Their Boots On • Peyton Place • Elmer Gantry • The Man from Laramie • Fantastic Voyage • Nevada Smith
	6	Ian Charleson	40	UK	Actor	Chariots of Fire • Gandhi • Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
	10	Lyle R. Wheeler	84	USA	Art Director	Gone with the Wind • The Day the Earth Stood Still • All About Eve • The Diary of Anne Frank • Rebecca • Broken Lance • Twelve O'Clock High
	15	Gordon Jackson	66	UK	Actor	The Great Escape • The Ipcress File • Shaka Zulu
	18	Rusty Hamer	42	USA	Actor	Dance with Me, Henry
	20	Barbara Stanwyck	82	USA	Actress	Double Indemnity • Stella Dallas • Ball of Fire • Sorry, Wrong Number • Crime of Passion • Cattle Queen of Montana • Roustabout
	25	Ava Gardner	67	USA	Actress	The Barefoot Contessa • Earthquake • Mogambo • Show Boat • Bhowani Junction • The Snows of Kilimanjaro • The Bible: In the Beginning • On the Beach
February	13	Ken Lynch	79	USA	Actor	North by Northwest • Bad Charleston Charlie • Paratroop Command • Willie Dynamite • Across 110th Street
	14	Jean Wallace	66	USA	Actress	Lancelot and Guinevere • No Blade of Grass • The Big Combo • Beach Red
	15	Henry Brandon	77	Germany	Actor	The War of the Worlds • The Searchers • Assault on Precinct 13 • To Be or Not to Be
	16	Joshua Shelley	70	USA	Actor	All the President's Men • Funny Lady • The Front Page • Quicksilver • Little Miss Marker
	28	Fabia Drake	86	UK	Actress	A Room with a View • Year of the Dragon • Valmont
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