1989 IN FILM

Contents

Events

Top grossing films

Awards

Films released in 1989

Births

Deaths

Events

★ Actress Kim Basinger and her brother Mick purchase Braselton, Georgia for $20 million. (Basinger would lose the town to her partner in the deal, the pension fund of Chicago-based Ameritech Corp., in 1993 after being forced to file for bankruptcy when a California judge ordered her to pay $7.4 million for refusing to honor a verbal contract to star in the movie ''Boxing Helena''.)

★ February - Filming begins on ''Back to the Future Part II''

★ June - Filming of ''Back to the Future Part II'' is completed

★ June 23 - The movie ''Batman'' is released in the United States.

★ August - Filming begins on ''Back to the Future Part III''

★ September - Christina Applegate moves to college

★ September - Columbia Pictures and Tri-Star Pictures are sold to Sony.

★ November - The Berlin Wall fell and was dismantled

★ December - Filming of ''Back to the Future Part III'' is completed

★ The James Bond film ''Licence to Kill'' is released. Unknown to anyone at the time, its release would be followed by years of legal wrangling over the future of the popular film series. The next Bond film, ''GoldenEye'', will not be released until 1995. While still considered parts of the same series, ''Licence to Kill'' is considered the last of the "old-style" Bond films as produced since 1962.

★ Screen and stage legend Lord Laurence Olivier appered in his last filmed role before his death in 1989 as an old soldier in War Requiem

Top grossing films

# ''Batman'', directed by Tim Burton, starring Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson and Kim Basinger
# ''Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'', starring Harrison Ford
# ''Lethal Weapon 2'', starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover
# ''Look Who's Talking'', starring Kirstie Alley, John Travolta, Olympia Dukakis,
# ''Twins'', starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Kelly Preston
# ''Back to the Future Part II'', starring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd and Lea Thompson
# ''Ghostbusters II'', starring Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray
# ''The Little Mermaid''
# ''Driving Miss Daisy'', starring Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman, Dan Aykroyd, Esther Rolle
# ''Parenthood'', starring Steve Martin

Awards

'Academy Awards:'
:Best Picture: '''Driving Miss Daisy''' - Majestic Films International, Zanuck Company., Warner Bros.
:Best Director: 'Oliver Stone' - ''Born on the Fourth of July''
:Best Actor: 'Daniel Day-Lewis' - ''My Left Foot''
:Best Actress: 'Jessica Tandy' - ''Driving Miss Daisy''
:Best Supporting Actor: 'Denzel Washington' - ''Glory''
:Best Supporting Actress: 'Brenda Fricker' - ''My Left Foot''
:Best Foreign Language Film: '''Nuovo cinema Paradiso''' (''Cinema Paradiso''), directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, Italy
:Best Art Direction/Set Decoration: 'Anton Furst' and Peter Young - ''Batman''

'Golden Globe Awards:'
:'Drama:'
:Best Picture: '''Born on the Fourth of July'''
:Best Actor: 'Tom Cruise' - ''Born on the Fourth of July''
:Best Actress: 'Michelle Pfeiffer' - ''The Fabulous Baker Boys''
:'Musical or comedy:'
:Best Picture: '''Driving Miss Daisy'''
:Best Actor: 'Morgan Freeman' - ''Driving Miss Daisy''
:Best Actress: 'Jessica Tandy' - ''Driving Miss Daisy''
:'Other'
:Best Director: 'Oliver Stone', ''Born on the Fourth of July''
:Best Foreign Language Film: '''Nuovo Cinema Paradiso''' (''Cinema Paradiso''), Italy
'Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):'
:'''Sex, lies, and videotape''', directed by Steven Soderbergh, United States
'Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):'
:'''A City of Sadness''' (''Beiqing chengshi''), directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien, China
'Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):'
:'''Rain Man''', directed by Barry Levinson, United States

Films released in 1989

★ ''84 Charlie Mopic''

★ ''The Abyss''

★ ''All Dogs Go To Heaven''

★ ''Apartment Zero'', directed by Martin Donovan'' - Golden Space Needle award

★ ''Back to the Future Part II''

★ ''Batman''

★ ''Bert Rigby, You're a Fool''

★ ''Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure''

★ ''Born on the Fourth of July'' - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Drama)

★ ''The 'Burbs''

★ ''Buy and Cell''

★ ''Cameron's Closet''

★ ''Chances Are''

★ ''Checking Out''

★ ''Cinema Paradiso'' (''Nuovo Cinema Paradiso'') - Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

★ ''A City of Sadness'' (''Beiqing chengshi'') - Golden Lion award

★ ''Cohen & Tate''

★ ''Cold Feet''

★ ''Cousins''

★ ''Criminal Law''

★ ''Crusoe''

★ ''Cyborg''

★ ''The Dawning''

★ ''Dead Bang''

★ ''Dead Calm''

★ ''Dead Poets' Society''

★ ''Deepstar Six''

★ ''Dimenticare Palermo''

★ ''Disorganized Crime''

★ ''Do the Right Thing''

★ ''The Dream Team''

★ ''The Dressmaker''

★ ''Driving Miss Daisy'' - Academy and Golden Globe (com./mus.) Awards for Best Picture

★ ''Drugstore Cowboy

★ ''Edge of Sanity''

★ ''The Experts''

★ ''Farewell to the King''

★ ''Fat Man and Little Boy''

★ ''Field of Dreams''

★ ''Fletch Lives''

★ ''The Fly II''

★ ''For Queen and Country''

★ ''

★ ''Getting It Right''

★ ''Ghostbusters II''

★ ''Gleaming the Cube''

★ ''Glory''

★ ''Great Balls of Fire!'' the Jerry Lee Lewis Story

★ ''Hard Times''

★ ''Heart of Midnight''

★ ''Heathers''

★ ''Henry V'', directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh

★ ''Her Alibi''

★ ''Honey, I Shrunk the Kids''

★ ''Horror Show''

★ ''How I Got Into College''

★ ''How to Get Ahead in Advertising''

★ ''Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade''

★ ''Jacknife''

★ ''The January Man''

★ ''Jesus of Montreal''

★ ''K-9''

★ ''Kiki's Delivery Service'' (orig. release in Japan)

★ ''Killing Dad''

★ ''Lauderdale''

★ ''Lean on Me''

★ ''Leningrad Cowboys Go America'', directed by Aki Kaurismäki, starring Leningrad Cowboys

★ ''Lethal Weapon 2''

★ ''Licence to Kill'', from the James Bond series

★ ''Listen to Me''

★ ''The Little Mermaid''

★ ''Look Who's Talking''

★ ''Major League''

★ ''Meet the Feebles''

★ ''Meet the Hollowheads''

★ ''Miss Firecracker

★ ''Music Box'' - Golden Bear award (for 1990)

★ ''My 20th Century''

★ ''My Left Foot''

★ ''My Mom's A Werewolf''

★ ''Mystery Train''

★ ''New York Stories'' (three short films:)

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★ ''Life Lessons'', directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Richard Price

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★ ''Life Without Zoe'', directed and written by Francis Ford Coppola, co-written by Sofia Coppola

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★ ''Oedipus Wrecks'', directed and written by Woody Allen.

★ ''

★ ''No Holds Barred''

★ ''Parenthood''

★ ''Pet Sematary''

★ ''Penn & Teller Get Killed''

★ ''

★ ''Return To Paradise''

★ ''Roger & Me''

★ ''Rosalie Goes Shopping''

★ ''Sex, lies, and videotape'' - Palm d'Or award

★ ''

★ ''Society''

★ ''She's Out of Control''

★ ''The Toxic Avenger Part II''

★ ''

★ ''True Love'' - won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival

★ ''UHF'', starring "Weird Al" Yankovic

★ ''Uncle Buck'', starring John Candy

★ ''War Requiem'', starring Sir Laurence Olivier in his final role.

★ ''The War of the Roses'', starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner

★ ''Weekend at Bernie's''

★ ''When Harry Met Sally...''

★ ''White Hot'' aka ''Crack in the Mirror''

★ ''The Wizard''

Births

★ January 3 - Alex D. Linz, actor

★ February 5 - Jessica Sumpter, actress

★ February 5 - Jeremy Sumpter, actor

★ February 13 - Carly McKillip, actress, singer

★ February 16 - Elizabeth Olsen, actress

★ March 5 - Jake Lloyd, actor

★ March 15 - Caitlin Wachs, American actress

★ April 18 - Alia Shawkat, American actress

★ April 20 - Alex Black, American actor

★ June 23 - Anton Yelchin, Russian actor

★ June 27 - Matthew Lewis, British actor

★ July 14 - Javier Zamora,

★ July 23 - Daniel Radcliffe, actor

★ August 21 - Hayden Panettiere, American actress

★ September 15 - Connor Sisson, Canadian actor, and director

★ December 12 - Harry Eden, British actor

Deaths

★ January 20 - Beatrice Lillie, actress

★ February 3 - Lionel Newman, composer

★ February 3 - John Cassavetes, actor, director

★ February 11 - George O'Hanlon, actor/director

★ February 17 - Marguerite Roberts, writer

★ March 27 - May Allison, actress

★ April 26 - Lucille Ball, film and television actress

★ May 20 - Gilda Radner, actress

★ June 4 - Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian leader and revolutionarie

★ June 27 - Jack Buetel, actor

★ June 28 - Joris Ivens, filmmaker

★ July 3 - Jim Backus, actor

★ July 10 - Mel Blanc, voice actor

★ July 11 - Lord Laurence Olivier, Legendary English stage and screen actor

★ August 16 - Amanda Blake, actress

★ October 4 - Graham Chapman, comedian

★ October 6 - Bette Davis, actress

★ October 16 - Cornel Wilde, actor

★ October 20 - Anthony Quayle, actor

★ November 20 - Lynn Bari, actress

★ December 16 - Aileen Pringle, actress

★ December 16 - Silvana Mangano, actress

★ December 16 - Lee Van Cleef, actor