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The year 1990 in film involved many significant events as shown below. Universal Pictures celebrated its 75th anniversary in 1990.
Highest-grossing films
The top ten films released in 1990 by worldwide gross are as follows:
| Rank | Title | Studio | Worldwide gross |
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| 1. | Ghost | Paramount Pictures | $505,702,588 |
| 2. | Home Alone | 20th Century Fox | $476,684,675 |
| 3. | Pretty Woman | Touchstone Pictures | $463,406,268 |
| 4. | Dances with Wolves | Orion Pictures | $424,208,848 |
| 5. | Total Recall | TriStar Pictures / Carolco Pictures | $261,317,921 |
| 6. | Back to the Future Part III | Universal Pictures | $244,527,583 |
| 7. | Die Hard 2 | 20th Century Fox / Silver Pictures | $240,031,094 |
| 8. | Presumed Innocent | Warner Bros. | $221,303,188 |
| 9. | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | New Line Cinema | $201,965,915 |
| 10 | Kindergarten Cop | Universal Pictures | $201,957,688 |
Events
- February 4 - Actor Tom Cruise and actress Mimi Rogers divorce.
- March 30 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is released to massive box office success. At the time, it is the highest-grossing independent film in history.
- December 24 - Tom Cruise and actress Nicole Kidman marry.
- 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 movie stars Chris Rock and Adam Sandler join SNL.
- Buchwald v. Paramount decided, a leading case on the financial rewards due to writers of film treatments.
Awards
1990 Wide-release movies
January–March
April–June
July–September
October–December
Notable films released in 1990
U.S.A. unless stated
A-D
A
- The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, starring Andrew Dice Clay
- After Dark, My Sweet, starring Jason Patric, Rachel Ward, Bruce Dern
- Air America, directed by Roger Spottiswoode, starring Mel Gibson and Robert Downey, Jr.
- Alice, directed by Woody Allen, starring Mia Farrow
- The Ambulance, starring Eric Roberts
- American Ninja 4: The Annihilation
- Angel Town
- Another 48 Hrs., starring Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte
- Arachnophobia, starring Jeff Daniels
- Avalon, directed by Barry Levinson, starring Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth Perkins, Kevin Pollak
- Awakenings, directed by Penny Marshall, starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro
B
- Back to the Future Part III, starring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen
- Bad Influence, starring James Spader and Rob Lowe
- Betsy's Wedding, directed by and starring Alan Alda, with Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Madeline Kahn
- The Big Man aka Crossing the Line, starring Liam Neeson, Joanne Whalley and Billy Connolly
- The Big Steal
- Bird on a Wire, starring Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn
- Blind Fury, starring Rutger Hauer
- Blue Steel, starring Jamie Lee Curtis
- Boiling Point, directed by Takeshi Kitano, starring Beat Takeshi
- The Bonfire of the Vanities, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith
- Bride of Re-Animator
C
- Cadence, starring Charlie Sheen and Martin Sheen
- Cadillac Man, starring Robin Williams and Tim Robbins
- Captain America, starring Matt Salinger
- Childhood Days - Japan Academy Prize for Picture of the Year
- Child's Play 2, starring Jenny Agutter
- China Cry
- City Hunter: Bay City Wars
- Class of 1999, starring Malcolm McDowell and Pam Grier
- Close-Up - (Iran)
- Coins in the Fountain, starring Loni Anderson
- Come See the Paradise, starring Dennis Quaid and Tamlyn Tomita
- The Comfort of Strangers, starring Natasha Richardson and Helen Mirren
- Crash and Burn
- Cry-Baby, directed by John Waters, starring Johnny Depp
- Cyrano de Bergerac, starring Gérard Depardieu - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film
D
- Dances with Wolves, directed by and starring Kevin Costner - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture
- Darkman, starring Liam Neeson
- Days of Being Wild, directed by Wong Kar-wai, starring Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung and Andy Lau
- Days of Thunder, starring Tom Cruise, Robert Duvall, Nicole Kidman
- Death Warrant, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme
- Dei tau lung (Dragon Fighter)
- Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection, starring Chuck Norris
- Denial
- Desperate Hours, directed by Michael Cimino, starring Anthony Hopkins and Mickey Rourke
- Dick Tracy, directed by and starring Warren Beatty, with Madonna, Glenne Headly, Al Pacino
- Die Hard 2, starring Bruce Willis
- Downtown, starring Anthony Edwards and Forest Whitaker
- Dreams, directed by Akira Kurosawa
- DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp
E-K
E
- Edward Scissorhands, directed by Tim Burton, starring Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest
- The End of Innocence, directed by and starring Dyan Cannon
- Ernest Goes to Jail, starring Jim Varney
- Europa Europa - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film (for 1991)
- The Exorcist III, starring George C. Scott
F
- Fantasia (restored version)
- La Femme Nikita, directed by Luc Besson
- The Field, starring Richard Harris
- Fire Birds, starring Nicolas Cage and Tommy Lee Jones
- The First Power, starring Lou Diamond Phillips
- Flashback, starring Kiefer Sutherland and Dennis Hopper
- Flatliners, directed by Joel Schumacher, starring Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon
- The Fourth War, starring Roy Schneider and Jürgen Prochnow
- Frankenstein Unbound, starring John Hurt
- The Freshman, starring Marlon Brando and Matthew Broderick
- Funny About Love, directed by Leonard Nimoy, starring Gene Wilder and Christine Lahti
G
- Ghost, starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg
- The Godfather Part III, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Andy García, Joe Mantegna, Sofia Coppola
- Goodfellas, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino
- Graffiti Bridge, directed by and starring Prince
- Green Card, starring Gérard Depardieu and Andie MacDowell - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
- Gremlins 2: The New Batch
- The Grifters, starring Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, Annette Bening
- The Guardian, directed by William Friedkin
- The Guyver
H
- Hamlet, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, starring Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Helena Bonham Carter
- The Handmaid's Tale, directed by Volker Schlöndorff, starring Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Robert Duvall
- Hard to Kill, starring Steven Seagal
- Havana, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Robert Redford, Lena Olin, Raúl Juliá
- Heart Condition, starring Bob Hoskins, and Denzel Washington
- Heaven and Earth
- Henry & June, starring Fred Ward, Maria de Medeiros and Uma Thurman
- Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
- Hidden Agenda, directed by Ken Loach, starring Frances McDormand
- Home Alone, starring Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern
- The Hot Spot, directed by Dennis Hopper, starring Don Johnson, Jennifer Connelly, Virginia Madsen
- House Party
- The Hunt for Red October, starring Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin, directed by John McTiernan
I
- I Come in Peace, starring Dolph Lundgren
- I Love You to Death, starring Kevin Kline and Tracey Ullman
- Internal Affairs, directed by Mike Figgis, starring Richard Gere and Andy García
J
- Jacob's Ladder, starring Tim Robbins, directed by Adrian Lyne
- Jetsons: The Movie
- Joe Versus the Volcano, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan
- John & Brandy
- Journey of Hope (Reise der Hoffnung) - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
- Ju Dou, directed by Zhang Yimou and Yang Fengliang, starring Gong Li
K
- Kindergarten Cop, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
- King of New York, directed by Abel Ferrara, starring Christopher Walken, Wesley Snipes, Laurence Fishburne
- The Krays, directed by Peter Medak, starring Martin Kemp, Gary Kemp, Billie Whitelaw
L-Q
L
- Larks on a String (Skrivánci na niti) - Golden Bear award
- Last of the Finest
- Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III
- The Lemon Sisters, starring Diane Keaton
- Life Is Sweet, directed by Mike Leigh, starring Jim Broadbent
- Lionheart, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme
- Longtime Companion, starring Bruce Davison
- The Long Walk Home, starring Sissy Spacek and Whoopi Goldberg
- Look Who's Talking Too, starring John Travolta and Kirstie Alley
- Loose Cannons, starring Gene Hackman and Dan Aykroyd
- Lord of the Flies, starring Balthazar Getty
- Love at Large, starring Tom Berenger
M
- Mack the Knife, starring Raúl Juliá and Richard Harris
- A Man Called Sarge, starring Gary Kroeger and Marc Singer
- Marked for Death, starring Steven Seagal
- The Match Factory Girl, directed by Aki Kaurismäki, starring Kati Outinen
- Memories of a River
- Memphis Belle, directed by Michael Caton-Jones, starring Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, John Lithgow
- Men at Work, starring Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen
- Mermaids, directed by Richard Benjamin, starring Cher, Bob Hoskins, Winona Ryder, Christina Ricci
- Metropolitan
- Miami Blues, starring Fred Ward and Alec Baldwin
- Midnight Ride, starring Mark Hamill
- Miller's Crossing, directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, starring Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, Marcia Gay Harden
- Milou in May
- Misery, directed by Rob Reiner, starring James Caan and Kathy Bates
- Mo' Better Blues, directed by Spike Lee, starring Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes, Samuel L. Jackson
- Mountains of the Moon, directed by Bob Rafelson, starring Patrick Bergin
- Movie... In Your Face
- Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward
- Mr. Destiny, starring James Belushi
- My Blue Heaven, starring Steve Martin and Rick Moranis
- 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
N
- Narrow Margin, starring Gene Hackman and Anne Archer
- The Nasty Girl (Das schreckliche Mädchen)
- Navy SEALs, starring Charlie Sheen
- The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter
- Nightbreed, starring Craig Sheffer
- Nuns on the Run, starring Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane
- The Nutcracker Prince
P
- Pacific Heights, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Michael Keaton, Melanie Griffith, Matthew Modine
- Piece of Cake, directed by Jay Sandrich, starring T. K. Carter, Cleavant Derricks, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Tonya Lee Williams
- Postcards from the Edge, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Quaid
- Predator 2, starring Danny Glover
- Presumed Innocent, directed by Alan J. Pakula, starring Harrison Ford
- Pretty Woman, directed by Garry Marshall, starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere
- Problem Child, starring John Ritter
- Pump Up the Volume, directed by Allan Moyle, starring Christian Slater - Golden Space Needle award
Q
- Q&A, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Nick Nolte and Timothy Hutton
- Quick Change, starring Bill Murray, Geena Davis, Randy Quaid
- Quigley Down Under, starring Tom Selleck and Alan Rickman
R-Z
R
- The Reflecting Skin
- Repossessed, a parody of The Exorcist, starring Leslie Nielsen and Linda Blair
- The Rescuers Down Under
- Revenge, starring Kevin Costner and Anthony Quinn
- Reversal of Fortune, starring Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close, Ron Silver
- RoboCop 2, starring Peter Weller and Nancy Allen
- Robot Jox
- Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever, starring Corey Feldman
- Rockula
- Rocky V, starring Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Tommy Morrison
- Romeo.Juliet
- The Rookie, starring Clint Eastwood and Charlie Sheen
- Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, starring Richard Dreyfuss and Tim Roth - Golden Lion award
- The Russia House, starring Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer
S
- The Sheltering Sky, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, starring Debra Winger and John Malkovich
- Shipwrecked, starring Gabriel Byrne
- Short Time, starring Dabney Coleman
- A Show of Force, starring Amy Irving
- Shreck
- Sibling Rivalry, starring Kirstie Alley
- Side Out, starring Courtney Thorne-Smith and C. Thomas Howell
- Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation
- Silent Scream, starring Robert Carlyle
- Singapore Sling
- Spaced Invaders, directed by Patrick Read Johnson, starring Douglas Barr, Royal Dano, Ariana Richards, J. J. Anderson
- Stanley & Iris, starring Robert De Niro and Jane Fonda
- State of Grace, starring Sean Penn, Ed Harris, Gary Oldman
- Stella, starring Bette Midler
T
- Taking Care of Business, starring James Belushi and Charles Grodin
- Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
- Tatie Danielle, starring Tsilla Chelton
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, directed by Steve Barron
- Tekken
- Texasville, directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Jeff Bridges, Timothy Bottoms, Cybill Shepherd
- Three Men and a Little Lady, starring Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, Ted Danson
- Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Antonio Banderas
- Tilaï
- Too Much Sun, directed by Robert Downey, Sr., starring Robert Downey, Jr. and Eric Idle
- Total Recall, directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone
- Treasure Island, starring Charlton Heston and Christian Bale
- Tremors, starring Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward
- Truly, Madly, Deeply, directed by Anthony Minghella, starring Alan Rickman and Juliet Stevenson
- The Two Jakes, directed by and starring Jack Nicholson, with Harvey Keitel, Meg Tilly, Eli Wallach
U
V
- Vincent & Theo, starring Tim Roth
- Vincent and Me
W
- Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael, starring Winona Ryder
- Where the Heart Is, starring Dabney Coleman
- White Hunter Black Heart, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood
- White Palace, starring Susan Sarandon and James Spader
- Wild at Heart, directed by David Lynch, starring Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd
- Wild Orchid, starring Mickey Rourke
- The Witches, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring Anjelica Huston
Y
- Young Guns II, starring Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christian Slater, William Petersen
Births
- January 13 - Liam Hemsworth, Australian actor
- March 1 - Harry Eden, British actor
- March 24 - Keisha Castle-Hughes, actress
- April 9 - Kristen Stewart, American actress
- April 10 - Alex Pettyfer, actor, model
- April 15 - Emma Watson, British actress, model
- April 16 - Lorraine Nicholson, American actress
- April 23 - Dev Patel, British actor
- May 14 - Sasha Spielberg, American actress, daughter of producer/director Steven Spielberg and actress Kate Capshaw
- June 13 - Aaron Taylor-Johnson, British actor
- July 2 - Margot Robbie, Australian actress
- July 6 - Jeremy Suarez, actor and voice actor
- July 16 - James Maslow, actor
- July 24 - Daveigh Chase, American actress
- August 10 - Lucas Till, actor
- August 15 - Jennifer Lawrence, American actress
- August 17 - Rachel Hurd-Wood, British actress
- October 22 - Jonathan Lipnicki, American actor
- November 2 - Kendall Schmidt, actor
- December 20 - JoJo, American singer-songwriter and actress
Notable deaths
| Month | Date | Name | Age | Country | Profession | Notable films |
| January | 2 | Alan Hale, Jr. | 68 | USA | Actor | |
| 5 | Arthur Kennedy | 75 | USA | Actor | ||
| 6 | Ian Charleson | 40 | UK | Actor | ||
| 8 | Terry-Thomas | 78 | UK | Actor | ||
| 10 | Lyle R. Wheeler | 84 | USA | Art Director | ||
| 14 | John Witty | 74 | UK | Actor | ||
| 15 | Gordon Jackson | 66 | UK | Actor | ||
| 18 | Rusty Hamer | 42 | USA | Actor | Dance with Me, Henry | |
| 20 | John Maxim | 64 | UK | Actor | ||
| 20 | Barbara Stanwyck | 82 | USA | Actress | ||
| 25 | Ava Gardner | 67 | USA | Actress | ||
| 26 | Dodo Abashidze | 66 | Soviet Union | Director | ||
| February | 13 | Ken Lynch | 79 | USA | Actor | |
| 14 | Jean Wallace | 66 | USA | Actress | ||
| 15 | Henry Brandon | 77 | Germany | Actor | ||
| 16 | Joshua Shelley | 70 | USA | Actor | ||
| 19 | Michael Powell | 84 | UK | Director | ||
| 28 | Fabia Drake | 86 | UK | Actress | ||
| March | 5 | Gary Merrill | 74 | USA | Actor | |
| 17 | Capucine | 62 | Switzerland | Actress | ||
| April | 2 | Aldo Fabrizi | 84 | Italy | Actor | |
| 8 | Ernest Steward | 79 | UK | Cinematographer | ||
| 11 | Vanda Godsell | 67 | UK | Actress | ||
| 15 | Greta Garbo | 84 | Sweden | Actress | ||
| 20 | Alex McCrindle | 78 | UK | Actor, Producer | ||
| 22 | Albert Salmi | 62 | USA | Actor | ||
| 23 | Paulette Goddard | 79 | USA | Actress | ||
| 25 | Dexter Gordon | 67 | USA | Actor | ||
| May | 2 | David Rappaport | 38 | USA | Actor | |
| 10 | Susan Oliver | 58 | USA | Actress | ||
| 14 | Franklyn Seales | 37 | West Indies | Actor | ||
| 16 | Sammy Davis, Jr. | 64 | USA | Actor, Singer, Soundtrack | ||
| 16 | Jim Henson | 53 | USA | Actor, Writer, Producer | ||
| 18 | Jill Ireland | 54 | UK | Actress | ||
| 22 | Max Wall | 82 | UK | Actor, Writer | ||
| June | 1 | Eric Barker | 78 | UK | Actor, Writer | |
| 2 | Jack Gilford | 81 | USA | Actor, Writer, Soundtrack | ||
| 2 | Rex Harrison | 82 | UK | Actor | ||
| 3 | Tom Brown | 70 | USA | Actor | ||
| 15 | Leonard Sachs | 80 | UK | Actor | Thunderball | |
| 20 | Ina Balin | 52 | USA | Actress | ||
| 23 | Frank Gatliff | 62 | UK | Actor | ||
| July | 8 | Howard Duff | 76 | USA | Actor | |
| 15 | Margaret Lockwood | 73 | UK | Actress | ||
| 20 | Sergei Parajanov | 66 | Soviet Union | Director | ||
| August | 2 | Edwin Richfield | 68 | UK | Actor, Writer | |
| 17 | Pearl Bailey | 72 | USA | Actress | ||
| 27 | Raymond St. Jacques | 60 | USA | Actor | ||
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September |
4 | Irene Dunne | 91 | USA | Actress | |
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October |
4 | Jill Bennett | 58 | UK | Actress, Writer | |
| 20 | Joel McCrea | 84 | USA | Actor | ||
| 27 | Ugo Tognazzi | 68 | Italy | Actor | ||
| November | 3 | Mary Martin | 76 | USA | Actress | |
| 3 | Valerie French | 62 | UK | Actress | ||
| 10 | Maura McGiveney | 51 | USA | Actress | ||
| 12 | Eve Arden | 82 | USA | Actress | ||
| 13 | Don Chaffey | 73 | New Zealand | Director | ||
| 23 | Roald Dahl | 74 | UK | Writer | ||
| 24 | Dodie Smith | 94 | UK | Writer, Actress | One Hundred and One Dalmatians | |
| December | 1 | Sergio Corbucci | 63 | Italy | Director, Screenwriter | |
| 2 | Robert Cummings | 80 | USA | Actor, Director | ||
| 4 | Edward Binns | 79 | USA | Actor | ||
| 7 | Joan Bennett | 80 | USA | Actress, Soundtrack | ||
| 8 | Martin Ritt | 76 | USA | Director, Producer, Actor | ||
| 9 | Mike Mazurki | 82 | USA | Actor, Technical Advisor |
Debuts
- Hank Azaria - Pretty Woman
- Benjamin Bratt - Bright Angel
- Julie Benz - Two Evil Eyes
- Robert Carlyle - Silent Scream
- Harry Connick, Jr. - Memphis Belle
- Kevin Connolly - Rocky V
- Russell Crowe - Blood Oath
- Balthazar Getty - Lord of the Flies
- Brendan Gleeson - The Field
- Djimon Hounsou - Without You I'm Nothing
- Charlie Korsmo - Men Don't Leave
- Brad Garret - Jetsons: The Movie
- Reba McEntire - Tremors
- Julianne Moore - Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
- Chris O'Donnell - Men Don't Leave
- Robert Patrick - Die Hard 2
- Christina Ricci - Mermaids
- Catherine Zeta-Jones - Les 1001 Nuits
References
- ↑ "1990 Worldwide Grosses". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 1, 2014.
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