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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.)

Contents

Events

Top grossing films

Awards

Films released in 1993

Births

Deaths

Events

★ The film ''Jurassic Park'', a dinosaur epic with massive special effects, breaks box-office records with a plot described as a "roller-coaster ride through a haunted house."

★ Family romance film ''Sleepless in Seattle'' revives the genre of the ''Courtship of Eddie's Father'', with an extensive soundtrack of oldies music.

★ Holocaust film ''Schindler's List'' becomes the latest story about the Nazi concentration camps, relating many incidents of each type of ordeal as a long, protracted reminder of the suffering.

★ March 31 - Actor Brandon Lee is accidentally killed during the filming of ''The Crow''.

★ April 12 - Actress Lisa Bonet files for divorce from Lenny Kravitz.

★ April 17 - The Bangles' Susanna Hoffs marries screenwriter Jay Roach in Los Angeles, California.

★ Actress Kim Basinger files for bankruptcy after a California judge orders her to pay $7.4 million for refusing to honor a verbal contract to star in the movie ''Boxing Helena''. As a result, Basinger loses the town that she purchased in 1989, Braselton, Georgia, to her partner in the deal, the pension fund of Chicago-based Ameritech.

★ May 28 - ''Super Mario Bros.'' opens, marking the first video game film released.

Top grossing films

'1993' 'Rank'	'Title'	'Studio'	'Gross'
1.	''Jurassic Park''	Universal	$914,691,118
2.	''Mrs. Doubtfire''	20th Centery Fox	$423,200,000
3.	''The Fugitive''	Warner bros.	$353,900,000
4.	''Schindler's List''	Universal	$317,100,000
5.	''Indecent Proposal''	Paramount	$266,600,000
6.	''The Firm''	Paramount	$262,300,000
7.	''Cliffhanger''	TriStar pictures	$255,000,000
8.	''Sleepless in Seattle''	TriStar pictures	$227,900,000
9.	''Philadelphia''	TriStar pictures	$201,300,000
10.	''The Pelican Brief''	Warner bros.	$195,000,000

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''

★ ''The Age of Innocence'', directed by Martin Scorsese

★ ''Alive''

★ ''Amos & Andrew''

★ ''Another Stakeout''

★ ''Arizona Dream''

★ ''

★ ''Beethoven's 2nd''

★ ''Benny & Joon''

★ ''Best of the Best 2''

★ ''Body of Evidence''

★ ''Boiling Point'', starring Wesley Snipes

★ ''Bopha!''

★ ''Born Yesterday (1993 film)'', starring Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith

★ ''Bound by Honor''

★ ''A Bronx Tale'', starring and directed by Robert De Niro

★ ''Calendar Girl''

★ ''Carlito's Way''

★ ''CB4''

★ ''Cliffhanger''

★ ''Coneheads''

★ ''Cool Runnings''

★ ''Cop and a Half''

★ ''The Crush'', starring Cary Elwes and Alicia Silverstone

★ ''The Dark Half''

★ ''Dave''

★ ''Dazed and Confused''

★ ''Demolition Man''

★ ''Dennis the Menace

★ ''

★ ''Excessive Force''

★ ''Falling Down''

★ ''A Far Off Place''

★ ''Farewell My Concubine'' (''Ba wang bie ji'') - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and Palm d'Or award

★ ''Fatal Instinct''

★ ''Fearless'', starring Jeff Bridges and Rosie Perez

★ ''Fire in the Sky''

★ ''The Firm''

★ ''Flesh and Bone''

★ ''For Love or Money''

★ ''A Foreign Field''

★ ''Free Willy''

★ ''The Fugitive''

★ ''

★ ''Gettysburg''

★ ''Ghost in the Machine'', director Rachel Talalay, starring Karen Allen

★ ''Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla II''

★ ''The Good Son''

★ ''Groundhog Day''

★ ''Grumpy Old Men''

★ ''Hard Target'', directed by John Woo

★ ''Heart and Souls''

★ ''Heaven & Earth''

★ ''Hocus Pocus''

★ ''

★ ''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''

★ ''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''

★ ''Matinee''

★ ''Menace II Society''

★ ''Meteor Man''

★ ''Mr. Jones''

★ ''Mrs. Doubtfire'' - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)

★ ''Much Ado About Nothing''

★ ''My Favorite Season''

★ ''My Life''

★ ''Naked''

★ ''National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1''

★ ''The Nightmare Before Christmas'', produced by Tim Burton and directed by Henry Selick

★ ''Nowhere to Run''

★ ''Once Upon a Forest''

★ ''The Pagemaster''

★ ''The Pelican Brief''

★ ''A Perfect World'', starring Kevin Costner and Clint Eastwood

★ ''Philadelphia'', starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington

★ ''The Piano'' - Palm 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''

★ ''

★ ''Robocop 3''

★ ''Rookie of the Year''

★ ''Romeo Is Bleeding''

★ ''Ruby in Paradise''

★ ''Rudy''

★ ''The Sandlot''

★ ''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

★ ''

★ ''Six Degrees of Separation''

★ ''Sleepless in Seattle''

★ ''Sliver''

★ ''Sniper'', starring Tom Berenger

★ ''So I Married an Axe Murderer''

★ ''Sommersby''

★ ''Son of the Pink Panther''

★ ''Speak Up! It's So Dark''

★ ''Super Mario Bros.''

★ ''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''

★ ''Three of Hearts''

★ ''Tombstone''

★ ''True Romance''

★ ''Undercover Blues''

★ ''Untamed Heart''

★ ''The Vanishing''

★ ''Wayne's World 2''

★ ''The Wedding Banquet'' - Golden Bear and Golden Space Needle awards

★ ''We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story''

★ ''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''

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

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★ Jenna Boyd, actress

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★ Alice Jones, actress

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★ Abigail Mavity, actress

★ 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 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

★ 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 Wanamaker