1990 IN FILM

The year '1990 in film' involved some significant events.
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Contents

Events

Top grossing films

Awards

Films released in 1990

Births

Deaths

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 ''.

★ The use of real-time computer graphics or "digital puppetry" to create a character in a motion picture is performed, in ''RoboCop 2''.

★ Future movie stars Chris Rock and Adam Sandler join ''SNL''.

★ February 4 - Actor Tom Cruise and actress Mimi Rogers divorce.

★ December 24 - Tom Cruise and actress Nicole Kidman marry.

★ The film ''Dances with Wolves'' becomes an instant American classic, reviving the Western genre with an epic saga from the Civil War.

Top grossing films

#''Home Alone'', starring Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard, Catherine O'Hara,
#''Ghost'', starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Goldwyn, Rick Aviles
#''Dances with Wolves'', starring and directed by Kevin Costner
#''Pretty Woman'', starring Julia Roberts, Richard Gere
#''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles''
#''The Hunt for Red October'', starring Sean Connery
#''Total Recall'', starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
#''Die Hard 2'', starring Bruce Willis
#''Dick Tracy'' starring Warren Beatty, Madonna
#''Kindergarten Cop'', starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Penelope Ann Miller

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

★ ''Air America''

★ ''Alice'', directed by Woody Allen

★ ''Another 48 Hrs.'', starring Eddie Murphy

★ ''Arachnophobia''

★ ''Avalon'', directed by Barry Levinson

★ ''Awakenings'', starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro

★ ''Back to the Future Part III'', starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd

★ ''Bad Influence''

★ ''Betsy's Wedding''

★ ''Bird on a Wire (film)''

★ ''Blind Fury''

★ ''Blue Steel'', starring Jamie Lee Curtis

★ ''Boiling Point''

★ ''The Bonfire of the Vanities''

★ ''Bride of Re-Animator''

★ ''Cadence, starring Charlie Sheen

★ ''Cadillac Man''

★ ''Child's Play 2''

★ ''Come See the Paradise''

★ ''Crash and Burn''

★ ''Cry-Baby''

★ ''Cyrano de Bergerac'' - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film

★ ''Dances with Wolves'' - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture

★ ''Darkman''

★ ''Days of Thunder''

★ ''Death Warrant''

★ ''Desperate Hours'', starring Anthony Hopkins and Mickey Rourke

★ ''Dick Tracy''

★ ''Die Hard 2''

★ ''Dreams'', directed by Akira Kurosawa

★ ''

★ ''Edward Scissorhands'', starring Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder

★ ''The End of Innocence''

★ ''Europa Europa'' - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film (for 1991)

★ ''The Exorcist III''

★ ''Fire Birds''

★ ''The First Power''

★ ''Flashback''

★ ''Flatliners''

★ ''Frankenstein Unbound''

★ ''The Freshman'', starring Marlon Brando

★ ''Ghost''

★ ''The Godfather Part III''

★ ''Goodfellas'', directed by Martin Scorsese

★ ''Green Card'' - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)

★ ''

★ ''The Grifters''

★ ''The Guardian (1990 film)''

★ ''Hamlet (1990 film)'' (with Mel Gibson)

★ ''Hard to Kill'', starring Steven Seagal

★ ''Havana (film)''

★ ''Heaven and Earth''

★ ''Henry & June''

★ ''Home Alone''

★ ''The Hot Spot''

★ ''House Party''

★ ''The Hunt for Red October''

★ ''I Come in Peace''

★ ''

★ ''Internal Affairs'', starring Richard Gere and Andy Garcia

★ ''Jacob's Ladder''

★ ''

★ ''Joe Versus the Volcano''

★ ''Journey of Hope'' (''Reise der Hoffnung'') - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

★ ''Kindergarten Cop''

★ ''King of New York''

★ ''The Krays''

★ ''La Femme Nikita'', directed by Luc Besson

★ ''Larks on a String'' (''Skrivánci na niti'') - Golden Bear award

★ ''Lionheart''

★ ''Longtime Companion''

★ ''Look Who's Talking Too''

★ ''Loose Cannons''

★ ''Lord of the Flies''

★ ''Mack the Knife (film)''

★ ''Marked for Death''

★ ''The Match Factory Girl''

★ ''Memphis Belle (film)''

★ ''Mermaids (film)''

★ ''Metropolitan''

★ ''Miami Blues'' (Alec Baldwin)

★ ''Miller's Crossing''

★ ''Misery''

★ ''Mo' Better Blues''

★ ''Mr. and Mrs. Bridge''

★ ''My Blue Heaven'', starring Steve Martin

★ ''My Mother's Castle'' (''Le Château de ma mère''), directed by Yves Robert, Golden Space Needle award (for 1991) - see novel Le Château de ma mère

★ ''Narrow Margin''

★ ''Navy SEALS'', starring Charlie Sheen

★ ''The Nasty Girl'' (''Das schreckliche Mädchen'')

★ ''

★ ''Nuns on the Run''

★ ''Pacific Heights (1990 film)''

★ ''Postcards from the Edge'' (Meryl Streep)

★ ''Predator 2'', starring Danny Glover

★ ''Presumed Innocent'', starring Harrison Ford

★ ''Pretty Woman''

★ ''Problem Child''

★ ''Pump Up the Volume'', directed by Allan Moyle, Golden Space Needle award

★ ''Q&A'', starring Nick Nolte, Timothy Hutton

★ ''Quick Change''

★ ''Quigley Down Under''

★ ''The Reflecting Skin

★ ''Repossessed'', a parody of ''The Exorcist''

★ ''The Rescuers Down Under''

★ ''Reversal of Fortune''

★ ''RoboCop 2''

★ ''Robot Jox''

★ ''Rocky V''

★ ''Romeo-Juliet''

★ ''The Rookie'', starring Clint Eastwood

★ ''Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead'' - Golden Lion award

★ ''The Russia House''

★ ''The Sheltering Sky'', directed by Bernardo Bertolucci''

★ ''Shipwrecked''

★ ''Shreck''

★ ''Side Out'', starring Courtney Thorne-Smith

★ ''Stanley and Iris'', starring Robert De Niro and Jane Fonda

★ ''State Of Grace''

★ ''Taking Care of Business'', starring James Belushi

★ ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles''

★ ''Tekken (1990 film)''

★ ''Tatie Danielle'', starring Tsilla Chelton

★ ''Texasville''

★ ''Three Men and a Little Lady''

★ ''Tilaï''

★ ''Treasure Island (1990 film)''

★ ''Total Recall''

★ ''The Two Jakes''

★ ''Vincent & Theo''

★ ''White Hunter, Black Heart''

★ ''White Palace''

★ ''Wild at Heart'', directed by David Lynch

★ ''Wild Orchid''

★ ''Wild at Heart'' - Palm d'Or award

★ ''The Witches'', directed by Nicolas Roeg

★ ''Young Guns II''

Births

★ March 24 - Keisha Castle-Hughes, actress

★ April 15 - Emma Watson, actress

★ May 14 - Sasha Spielberg, actress, daughter of producer/director Steven Spielberg and actress Kate Capshaw

★ July 24 - Daveigh Chase, actress

★ October 22 - Jonathan Lipnicki, actor

Deaths

★ January 6 - Ian Charleson, actor

★ January 8 - Terry-Thomas, actor, comedian

★ January 15 - Gordon Jackson, actor

★ January 20 - Barbara Stanwyck, actress

★ January 24 - Madge Bellamy, actress

★ January 25 - Ava Gardner, actress

★ March 5 - Gary Merrill, actor

★ March 17 - Capucine, actress

★ April 15 - Greta Garbo, actress

★ April 23 - Paulette Goddard, actress

★ May 6 - Charles Farrell, actor

★ May 10 - Susan Oliver, actress, pilot

★ May 16 - Sammy Davis Jr, actor, singer

★ May 16 - Jim Henson, creator of Muppets

★ May 18 - Jill Ireland, actress

★ June 2 - Rex Harrison, actor

★ July 15 - Margaret Lockwood, actress

★ July 19 - Eddie Quillan, actor

★ August 27 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, 36, guitarist/songwriter

★ September 4 - Irene Dunne, actress

★ September 19 - Hermes Pan, choreographer

★ October 15 - Delphine Seyrig, French actress

★ October 20 - Joel McCrea, actor

★ November 3 - Mary Martin, actress

★ November 12 - Eve Arden, actress

★ December 2 - Robert Cummings, actor

★ December 7 - Joan Bennett, actress

★ December 8 - Martin Ritt, director