1997 in film

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The year 1997 in film involved many significant films, including the blockbuster success Titanic, and the beginning of the film studio DreamWorks.

Highest-grossing films

The top ten films released in 1997 by worldwide gross are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1997^[1]

Rank	Title	Studio	Worldwide gross
1.	Titanic	Paramount / Fox	$1,843,201,268[2]
2.	The Lost World: Jurassic Park	Universal	$618,638,999
3.	Men in Black	Columbia	$589,390,539
4.	Tomorrow Never Dies	United Artists	$333,011,068
5.	Air Force One	Columbia	$315,156,409
6.	As Good as It Gets	TriStar	$314,178,011
7.	Liar Liar	Universal	$302,710,615
8.	My Best Friend's Wedding	TriStar	$299,288,605
9.	The Fifth Element	Columbia	$263,920,180
10.	The Full Monty	Fox Searchlight	$257,938,649

Events

• The original Star Wars trilogy's Special Editions are released.
• Production begins on Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.
• Titanic becomes the first film to gross US$1,000,000,000 at the box office making it the highest-grossing film in history until Avatar broke the record in 2010.
• The Lost World: Jurassic Park grosses a record $90,161,880 on Memorial Day Weekend.

Academy Awards

Golden Globe Awards

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Taste of Cherry (طعم گيلاس, Ta'm-e gilass), directed by Abbas Kiarostami, Iran / France

The Eel (うなぎ, Unagi), directed by Shohei Imamura, Japan

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Hana-bi (Fireworks), directed by Takeshi Kitano, Japan

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

The People vs. Larry Flynt, directed by Miloš Forman, Canada / United States

Award ceremonies

• 2nd Empire Awards

Awards

Category/Organization	55th Golden Globe Awards January 18, 1998		3rd Critics' Choice Awards January 20, 1998	4th Screen Actors Guild Awards March 8, 1998	70th Academy Awards March 23, 1998	51st BAFTA Awards April 18, 1998
	Drama	Musical or Comedy
Best Film	Titanic	As Good as It Gets	L.A. Confidential	N/A	Titanic	The Full Monty
Best Director	James Cameron Titanic			N/A	James Cameron Titanic	Baz Luhrmann Romeo + Juliet
Best Actor	Peter Fonda Ulee's Gold	Jack Nicholson As Good as It Gets				Robert Carlyle The Full Monty
Best Actress	Judi Dench Mrs. Brown	Helen Hunt As Good as It Gets	Helena Bonham Carter The Wings of the Dove	Helen Hunt As Good as It Gets		Judi Dench Mrs. Brown
Best Supporting Actor	Burt Reynolds Boogie Nights		Anthony Hopkins Amistad	Robin Williams Good Will Hunting		Tom Wilkinson The Full Monty
Best Supporting Actress	Kim Basinger L.A. Confidential		Joan Cusack In & Out	Kim Basinger L.A. Confidential Gloria Stuart Titanic	Kim Basinger L.A. Confidential	Sigourney Weaver The Ice Storm
Best Screenplay, Adapted	Good Will Hunting Ben Affleck and Matt Damon		L.A. Confidential Brian Helgeland and Curtis Hanson	N/A	L.A. Confidential Brian Helgeland and Curtis Hanson	Romeo + Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce
Best Screenplay, Original			Good Will Hunting Ben Affleck and Matt Damon	N/A	Good Will Hunting Ben Affleck and Matt Damon	Nil by Mouth Gary Oldman
Best Original Score	Titanic James Horner		N/A	N/A	Titanic James Horner	Romeo + Juliet Nellee Hooper
Best Original Song	"My Heart Will Go On" Titanic		N/A	N/A	"My Heart Will Go On" Titanic	N/A
Best Foreign Language Film	My Life in Pink		Shall We Dance?	N/A	Character	Ridicule

1997 Wide-release movies

January–March

Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew	Genre	Medium
J A N U A R Y	10	The Relic	Paramount Pictures	Peter Hyams (director); Amy Holden Jones, John Raffo, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver (screenplay); Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore, Linda Hunt, James Whitmore	Sci-Fi, Horror	Live Action
		Turbulence	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Robert Butler (director); Jonathan Brett (screenplay); Ray Liotta, Lauren Holly, Héctor Elizondo, Rachel Ticotin, Catherine Hicks, Brendan Gleeson	Action, Thriller	Live Action
		Jackie Chan's First Strike	Golden Harvest	Stanley Tong (director); Greg Mellott, Elliot Tong, Stanley Tong, Nick Tramontane (screenplay); Jackie Chan	Martial Arts, Comedy	Live Action
	17	Beverly Hills Ninja	TriStar Pictures	Dennis Dugan (director); Mark Feldberg, Mitch Klebanoff (screenplay); Chris Farley, Nicollette Sheridan, Nathaniel Parker, Soon-Tek Oh, with Chris Rock, Robin Shou	Action, Comedy	Live Action
		Metro	Touchstone Pictures / Caravan Pictures	Thomas Carter (director); Randy Feldman (screenplay); Eddie Murphy, Michael Wincott, Donal Logue, Michael Rapaport, Carmen Ejogo, Denis Arndt	Action	Live Action
	24	Fierce Creatures	Universal Pictures	Fred Schepisi, Robert Young (director); John Cleese (screenplay); John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin, Robert Lindsay, Ronnie Corbett, Derek Griffiths, Maria Aitken	Comedy	Live Action
		Zeus and Roxanne	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	George T. Miller (director); Tom Benedek (screenplay); Steve Guttenberg, Kathleen Quinlan, Miko Hughes, Arnold Vosloo	Family	Live Action
	31	Star Wars (Special Edition)	Lucasfilm / 20th Century Fox	George Lucas (director/screenplay); Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness, David Prowse, James Earl Jones, Peter Cushing, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew	Sci-Fi, Fantasy	Live Action
		Meet Wally Sparks	Largo Entertainment / JVC	Peter Baldwin (director); Harry Basil, Rodney Dangerfield (screenplay); Rodney Dangerfield, Debi Mazar, Michael Weatherly, Cindy Williams, Alan Rachins, Burt Reynolds, David Ogden Stiers	Comedy	Live Action
		Shadow Conspiracy	Hollywood Pictures / Cinergi Pictures	George P. Cosmatos (director); Charlie Sheen, Donald Sutherland, Linda Hamilton, Stephen Lang, Ben Gazzara, Sam Waterston	Action, Thriller
F E B R U A R Y	7	Dante's Peak	Universal Pictures	Roger Donaldson (director); Leslie Bohem (screenplay); Pierce Brosnan, Linda Hamilton, Charles Hallahan, Elizabeth Hoffman, Jamie Renée Smith, Jeremy Foley, Grant Heslov	Action, Adventure Thriller	Live Action
		The Beautician and the Beast	Paramount Pictures	Ken Kwapis (director); Fran Drescher, Timothy Dalton	Romance, Comedy	Live Action
	14	Absolute Power	Columbia Pictures / Castle Rock Entertainment	Clint Eastwood (director); Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Judy Davis, Scott Glenn, E. G. Marshall, Dennis Haysbert	Thriller	Live Action
		Fools Rush In	Columbia Pictures	Andy Tennant (director); Katherine Reback, Joan Taylor (screenplay); Matthew Perry, Salma Hayek, Siobhan Fallon Hogan	Romance, Comedy	Live Action
		Vegas Vacation	Warner Bros.	Stephen Kessler (director); Elisa Bell (screenplay); Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Ethan Embry, Marisol Nichols, Randy Quaid	Comedy	Live Action
	21	The Empire Strikes Back (Special Edition)	Lucasfilm / 20th Century Fox	Irvin Kershner (director); Leigh Brackett, Lawrence Kasdan (screenplay); Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, David Prowse, James Earl Jones, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew, Frank Oz	Sci-Fi, Fantasy	Live Action
		Rosewood	Warner Bros.	John Singleton (director); Gregory Poirier (screenplay); Jon Voight, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle, Bruce McGill, Loren Dean, Esther Rolle, Elise Neal, Michael Rooker	Drama	Live Action
	28	Booty Call	Columbia Pictures	Jeff Pollack (director); Takashi Bufford (screenplay); Jamie Foxx, Tommy Davidson, Vivica A. Fox, Tamala Jones, Art Malik	Comedy	Live Action
		Donnie Brasco	TriStar Pictures	Mike Newell (director); Paul Attanasio (screenplay); Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen, Bruno Kirby, James Russo, Zeljko Ivanek, Anne Heche	Crime, Drama	Live Action
M A R C H	7	Jungle 2 Jungle	Walt Disney Pictures	John Pasquin (director); Bruce A. Evans, Raynold Gideon (screenplay); Tim Allen, Martin Short, Sam Huntington, Lolita Davidovich, David Ogden Stiers, JoBeth Williams	Comedy	Live Action
		Private Parts	Paramount Pictures	Betty Thomas (director); Len Blum, Michael Kalesniko (screenplay); Howard Stern, Robin Quivers, Mary McCormack, Fred Norris, Paul Giamatti, Carol Alt, Allison Janney, Michael Murphy, Jenna Jameson	Biography, Comedy	Live Action
	14	Return of the Jedi (Special Edition)	Lucasfilm / 20th Century Fox	Richard Marquand (director); Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas (screenplay); Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, David Prowse, James Earl Jones, Ian McDiarmid, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew, Frank Oz	Sci-Fi, Fantasy	Live Action
		Love Jones	New Line Cinema	Theodore Witcher (director/screenplay); Larenz Tate, Nia Long, Bill Bellamy, Isaiah Washington, Lisa Nicole Carson	Romance, Drama	Live Action
	21	Liar Liar	Universal Pictures	Tom Shadyac (director); Paul Guay, Stephen Mazur (screenplay); Jim Carrey, Maura Tierney, Jennifer Tilly, Swoosie Kurtz, Amanda Donohoe, Jason Bernard, Mitchell Ryan, Anne Haney, Justin Cooper, Cary Elwes	Comedy	Live Action
		Selena	Warner Bros.	Gregory Nava (director/screenplay); Jennifer Lopez, Edward James Olmos, Constance Marie, Jon Seda, Lupe Ontiveros	Biography, Drama	Live Action
	28	The 6th Man	Touchstone Pictures	Randall Miller (director); Christopher Reed, Cynthia Carle (screenplay); Marlon Wayans, Kadeem Hardison, Michael Michele	Sports, Comedy	Live Action
		B*A*P*S	New Line Cinema	Robert Townsend (director); Troy Beyer (screenplay); Halle Berry, Martin Landau	Comedy	Live Action
		Cats Don't Dance	Warner Bros.	Mark Dindal (director); Roberts Gannaway, Cliff Ruby, Elana Lesser (screenplay); Scott Bakula, Jasmine Guy, Ashley Peldon, John Rhys-Davies, Kathy Najimy, Don Knotts	Comedy, Musical	Animation
		The Devil's Own	Columbia Pictures	Alan J. Pakula (director); David Aaron Cohen, Vincent Patrick, Kevin Jarre (screenplay); Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, Margaret Colin, Rubén Blades, Treat Williams, George Hearn	Action, Thriller	Live Action
		Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie	20th Century Fox	Shuki Levy (director/screenplay), David Winning (director); Shuki Levy, Shell Danielson (screenplay); Johnny Yong Bosch, Nakia Burrise, Steve Cardenas, Jason David Frank, Austin St. John, Catherine Sutherland, Jason Narvy, Paul Schrier, Hilary Shepard, Amy Jo Johnson, Blake Foster	Action, Adventure	Live Action

April–June

Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew	Genre	Medium
A P R I L	4	Double Team	Columbia Pictures	Tsui Hark (director); Don Jakoby, Paul Mones (screenplay); Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dennis Rodman, Paul Freeman, Mickey Rourke	Action	Live Action
		Chasing Amy	Miramax Films	Kevin Smith (director/screenplay); Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams, Jason Lee, Dwight Ewell, Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith	Romance, Comedy	Live Action
		The Saint	Paramount Pictures	Phillip Noyce (director); Jonathan Hensleigh, Wesley Strick (screenplay); Val Kilmer, Elisabeth Shue, Rade Šerbedžija	Thriller	Live Action
		That Old Feeling	Universal Pictures	Carl Reiner (director); Leslie Dixon (screenplay); Bette Midler, Dennis Farina, Paula Marshall, Gail O'Grady, David Rasche, James Denton, Danny Nucci	Romance, Comedy	Live Action
		Inventing the Abbotts	20th Century Fox	Pat O'Connor (director); Joaquin Phoenix, Liv Tyler, Jennifer Connelly, Billy Crudup, Joanna Going	Drama	Live Action
	11	Anaconda	Columbia Pictures	Luis Llosa (director); Hans Bauer, Jim Cash, Jack Epps, Jr. (screenplay); Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Jon Voight, Eric Stoltz, Owen Wilson, Kari Wührer, Jonathan Hyde	Adventure, Horror	Live Action
		Grosse Pointe Blank	Hollywood Pictures	George Armitage (director); Tom Jankiewicz, D. V. DeVincentis, Steve Pink, John Cusack (screenplay); John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Alan Arkin, Dan Aykroyd	Comedy	Live Action
	18	8 Heads in a Duffel Bag	Orion Pictures	Tom Schulman (director/screenplay); Joe Pesci, Andy Comeau, Kristy Swanson, George Hamilton, Dyan Cannon, David Spade, Todd Louiso	Comedy	Live Action
		McHale's Navy	Universal Pictures	Bryan Spicer (director); Peter Crabbe, Andy Rose (screenplay); Tom Arnold, Dean Stockwell, David Alan Grier, Debra Messing, Tim Curry, Bruce Campbell, Danton Stone, French Stewart, Brian Haley, Tommy Chong, Henry Cho, Honorato Magaloni, Guillermo Ríos, Anthony Jesse Cruz, Ernest Borgnine	Comedy	Live Action
		Murder at 1600	Warner Bros.	Dwight H. Little (director); Wayne Beach, David Hodgin (screenplay); Wesley Snipes, Diane Lane, Dennis Miller, Daniel Benzali, Alan Alda	Thriller	Live Action
	25	Romy and Michele's High School Reunion	Touchstone Pictures	David Mirkin (director); Robin Schiff (screenplay); Mira Sorvino, Lisa Kudrow, Janeane Garofalo, Camryn Manheim, Alan Cumming	Comedy	Live Action
		Volcano	20th Century Fox	Mick Jackson (director); Jerome Armstrong, Billy Ray (screenplay); Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche, Gaby Hoffmann, Don Cheadle, Jacqueline Kim, Keith David	Thriller	Live Action
M A Y	2	Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery	New Line Cinema	Jay Roach (director); Mike Myers (screenplay); Mike Myers, Elizabeth Hurley, Michael York, Robert Wagner, Seth Green, Mimi Rogers	Action, Comedy	Live Action
		Breakdown	Paramount Pictures	Jonathan Mostow (director/screenplay); Sam Montgomery (screenplay); Kurt Russell, J. T. Walsh, Kathleen Quinlan, M. C. Gainey	Thriller	Live Action
		Warriors of Virtue	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Ronny Yu (director); Michael Vickerman, Hugh Kelley (screenplay); Angus Macfadyen, Mario Yedidia, Marley Shelton, Chao-Li Chi, Doug Jones	Fantasy	Live Action
	9	The Fifth Element	Columbia Pictures	Luc Besson (director/screenplay); Robert Mark Kamen (screenplay); Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Milla Jovovich	Sci-Fi	Live Action
		Fathers' Day	Warner Bros.	Ivan Reitman (director); Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Nastassja Kinski	Comedy	Live Action
	16	Night Falls on Manhattan	Paramount Pictures	Sidney Lumet (director); Sidney Lumet (screenplay); Andy García, Ian Holm, James Gandolfini, Lena Olin, Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Leibman, Dominic Chianese	Crime, Drama	Live Action
	23	The Lost World: Jurassic Park	Universal Pictures	Steven Spielberg (director); David Koepp (screenplay); Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite, Arliss Howard, Vince Vaughn, Vanessa Lee Chester	Sci-Fi, Adventure	Live Action
		Addicted to Love	Warner Bros.	Griffin Dunne (director); Meg Ryan, Matthew Broderick, Kelly Preston, Tcheky Karyo	Romance, Comedy	Live Action
	30	Gone Fishin'	Hollywood Pictures	Christopher Cain (director); J. J. Abrams, Jill Mazursky (screenplay); Joe Pesci, Danny Glover, Rosanna Arquette, Lynn Whitfield	Comedy	Live Action
		Trial and Error	New Line Cinema	Jonathan Lynn (director); Michael Richards, Jeff Daniels, Charlize Theron	Comedy	Live Action
		'Til There Was You	Paramount Pictures	Scott Winant (director); Jeanne Tripplehorn, Dylan McDermott, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jennifer Aniston	Romance, Comedy	Live Action
J U N E	6	Con Air	Touchstone Pictures	Simon West (director); Scott Rosenberg (screenplay); Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich, Steve Buscemi, Ving Rhames, Colm Meaney, Mykelti Williamson, Rachel Ticotin, Monica Potter, Nick Chinlund	Action, Thriller	Live Action
		Buddy	Columbia Pictures	Caroline Thompson (director); Rene Russo, Robbie Coltrane, Alan Cumming	Drama	Live Action
	13	Speed 2: Cruise Control	20th Century Fox	Jan de Bont (director); Randall McCormick, Jeff Nathanson (screenplay); Sandra Bullock, Jason Patric, Willem Dafoe, Temuera Morrison, Glenn Plummer	Action	Live Action
		Ulee's Gold	Orion Pictures	Victor Nuñez (director); Victor Nuñez (screenplay); Peter Fonda, Patricia Richardson, Tom Wood, Christine Dunford, Jessica Biel	Drama	Live Action
	20	Batman & Robin	Warner Bros.	Joel Schumacher (director); Akiva Goldsman (screenplay); Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Clooney, Chris O'Donnell, Uma Thurman, Alicia Silverstone, Elle Macpherson, Pat Hingle	Action, Comedy	Live Action
		My Best Friend's Wedding	TriStar Pictures	P. J. Hogan (director); Ronald Bass (screenplay); Julia Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, Cameron Diaz, Rupert Everett, Philip Bosco	Comedy	Live Action
	27	Hercules	Walt Disney Pictures	Ron Clements, John Musker (directors/screenplay); Barry Johnson (screenplay); Tate Donovan, Danny DeVito, James Woods, Susan Egan, Rip Torn	Fantasy, Comedy, Musical	Animation
		Face/Off	Paramount Pictures / Touchstone Pictures	John Woo (director); Mike Werb, Michael Colleary (screenplay); John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen, Gina Gershon, Harve Presnell	Action	Live Action

July–September

Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew	Genre	Medium
J U L Y	2	Men in Black	Columbia Pictures	Barry Sonnenfeld (director); Ed Solomon (screenplay); Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino, Vincent D'Onofrio, Rip Torn, Tony Shalhoub	Action, Sci-Fi, Comedy	Live Action
		Out to Sea	20th Century Fox	Martha Coolidge (director); Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Dyan Cannon, Brent Spiner	Comedy	Live Action
		Wild America	Warner Bros.	William Dear (director); David Michael Wieger (screenplay); Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Devon Sawa, Scott Bairstow	Adventure	Live Action
	9	4 Little Girls	Home Box Office	Spike Lee (director)	Documentary	Live Action
	11	Contact	Warner Bros.	Robert Zemeckis (director); James V. Hart, Michael Goldenberg (screenplay); Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, Tom Skerritt, William Fichtner, John Hurt, Angela Bassett, David Morse, Jake Busey	Sci-Fi	Live Action
		A Simple Wish	Universal Pictures	Michael Ritchie (director); Martin Short, Mara Wilson, Kathleen Turner, Robert Pastorelli, Francis Capra, Amanda Plummer, Ruby Dee, Teri Garr	Fantasy, Comedy	Live Action
	18	George of the Jungle	Walt Disney Pictures	Sam Weisman (director); Dana Olsen, Audrey Wells (screenplay); Brendan Fraser, Leslie Mann, Thomas Haden Church, Holland Taylor, John Bennett Perry, Richard Roundtree, John Cleese	Comedy	Live Action
		Nothing to Lose	Touchstone Pictures	Steve Oedekerk (director/screenplay); Martin Lawrence, Tim Robbins, John C. McGinley, Giancarlo Esposito, Kelly Preston, Michael McKean, Rebecca Gayheart	Comedy	Live Action
		The Swan Princess: Escape from Castle Mountain	Nest Family Entertainment / Crest Animation Productions	Richard Rich (director); Michelle Nicastro, Douglas Sills	Musical, Fantasy	Animation
	25	Air Force One	Columbia Pictures	Wolfgang Petersen (director); Andrew W. Marlowe (screenplay); Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close, Dean Stockwell, Xander Berkeley, William H. Macy, Paul Guilfoyle	Action, Thriller	Live Action
		Good Burger	Paramount Pictures	Brian Robbins (director); Kel Mitchell, Kenan Thompson, Abe Vigoda	Comedy	Live Action
A U G U S T	1	Spawn	New Line Cinema	Mark A.Z. Dippé (director); Alan B. McElroy (screenplay); John Leguizamo, Michael Jai White, Martin Sheen, Theresa Randle, Nicol Williamson, D. B. Sweeney	Action	Live Action
		Picture Perfect	20th Century Fox	Glenn Gordon Caron (director); Jennifer Aniston, Jay Mohr, Kevin Bacon, Olympia Dukakis	Romance, Comedy	Live Action
		Air Bud	Walt Disney Pictures	Charles Martin Smith (director); Paul Tamasy, Aaron Mendelsohn (screenplay); Michael Jeter, Kevin Zegers, Wendy Makkena, Bill Cobbs, Eric Christmas, Nicola Cavendish, Brendan Fletcher, Norman Browning, Stephen E. Miller	Sports, Family	Live Action
	3	One Eight Seven	Warner Bros.	Kevin Reynolds (director); Scott Yagemann (screenplay); Samuel L. Jackson, John Heard, Kelly Rowan, Clifton Collins, Jr.	Crime, Drama	Live Action
	8	Free Willy 3: The Rescue	Warner Bros.	Sam Pillsbury (director); John Mattson (screenplay); Jason James Richter, August Schellenberg, Annie Corley, Vincent Berry, Patrick Kilpatrick	Family	Live Action
		Conspiracy Theory	Warner Bros.	Richard Donner (director); Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts	Action	Live Action
	13	The Full Monty	Fox Searchlight Pictures	Peter Cattaneo (director); Simon Beaufoy (screenplay); Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy, William Snape, Steve Huison, Tom Wilkinson, Paul Barber, Hugo Speer	Comedy, Drama	Live Action
	15	Cop Land	Miramax Films	James Mangold (director/screenplay); Sylvester Stallone, Harvey Keitel, Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Michael Rapaport, Robert Patrick, Peter Berg, Annabella Sciorra, Cathy Moriarty	Crime, Drama	Live Action
		Event Horizon	Paramount Pictures	Paul W. S. Anderson (director); Philip Eisner (screenplay); Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, Joely Richardson, Richard T. Jones, Jack Noseworthy, Jason Isaacs, Sean Pertwee	Sci-Fi, Horror, Fantasy	Live Action
		Steel	Warner Bros.	Kenneth Johnson (director/screenplay); Shaquille O'Neal, Annabeth Gish, Judd Nelson, Richard Roundtree, Ray J	Action	Live Action
	22	G.I. Jane	Hollywood Pictures	Ridley Scott (director); David Twohy, Danielle Alexandra (screenplay); Demi Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Anne Bancroft	Action	Live Action
		Masterminds	Columbia Pictures	Roger Christian (director); Floyd Byars (screenplay); Patrick Stewart, Vincent Kartheiser, Brenda Fricker, Bradley Whitford, Matt Craven, Annabelle Gurwitch, Jon Abrahams, Katie Stuart	Action, Comedy	Live Action
		Money Talks	New Line Cinema	Brett Ratner (director); Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow (screenplay); Chris Tucker, Charlie Sheen	Comedy	Live Action
		Mimic	Dimension Films / Miramax Films	Guillermo del Toro (director/screenplay); Matthew Robbins (screenplay); Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Josh Brolin, Charles S. Dutton, Giancarlo Giannini, F. Murray Abraham	Sci-Fi, Horror	Live Action
		Leave It to Beaver	Universal Studios	Andy Cadiff (director); Brian Levant, Lon Diamond (screenplay); Christopher McDonald, Janine Turner, Cameron Finley, Erik von Detten, Erika Christensen, Adam Zolotin	Comedy	Live Action
	27	Hoodlum	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Bill Duke (director); Chris Brancato (screenplay); Laurence Fishburne, Tim Roth, Vanessa Williams, Andy García	Drama, Period	Live Action
	29	Excess Baggage	Columbia Pictures	Marco Brambilla (director); Max D. Adams, Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais (screenplay); Alicia Silverstone, Benicio del Toro, Christopher Walken	Crime, Comedy	Live Action
		Kull the Conqueror	Universal Studios	John Nicolella (director); Charles Edward Pogue (screenplay); Kevin Sorbo, Tia Carrere, Thomas Ian Griffith, Litefoot, Roy Brocksmith, Harvey Fierstein, Karina Lombard	Fantasy	Live Action
S E P T E M B E R	5	Fire Down Below	Warner Bros.	Félix Enríquez Alcalá (director); Jeb Stuart, Phillip Morton (screenplay); Steven Seagal, Marg Helgenberger, Harry Dean Stanton, Stephen Lang, Brad Hunt, Levon Helm, Kris Kristofferson	Action, Thriller	Live Action
	12	The Game	PolyGram	David Fincher (director); John Brancato, Michael Ferris (screenplay); Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Kara Unger, James Rebhorn, Carroll Baker	Thriller	Live Action
	19	L.A. Confidential	Warner Bros.	Curtis Hanson (director/screenplay); Brian Helgeland (screenplay); Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito, James Cromwell, Simon Baker	Drama	Live Action
		In & Out	Paramount Pictures	Frank Oz (director); Kevin Kline, Joan Cusack, Matt Dillon, Debbie Reynolds, Wilford Brimley, Bob Newhart, Tom Selleck	Comedy	Live Action
		A Thousand Acres	Touchstone Pictures / PolyGram	Jocelyn Moorhouse (director); Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jason Robards, Keith Carradine, Colin Firth, Kevin Anderson	Drama	Live Action
		Wishmaster	Live Entertainment	Robert Kurtzman (director); Peter Atkins (screenplay); Tammy Lauren, Andrew Divoff, Chris Lemmon, Wendy Benson, Tony Crane, Jenny O'Hara, Kane Hodder, Tony Todd	Horror	Live Action
	26	The Edge	20th Century Fox	Lee Tamahori (director); David Mamet (screenplay); Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, Harold Perrineau, Elle Macpherson, L. Q. Jones, Bart the Bear	Drama	Live Action
		Soul Food	20th Century Fox	George Tillman, Jr. (director/screenplay); Vanessa Williams, Vivica A. Fox, Nia Long, Brandon Hammond, Irma P. Hall	Drama, Comedy	Live Action
		The Peacemaker	DreamWorks Pictures	Mimi Leder (director); Michael Schiffer (screenplay); George Clooney, Nicole Kidman	Action, Thriller	Live Action

October–December

Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew	Genre	Medium
O C T O B E R	3	Kiss the Girls	Paramount Pictures	Gary Fleder (director); David Klass (screenplay); Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Cary Elwes	Crime, Thriller	Live Action
		U Turn	TriStar Pictures / Phoenix Pictures	Oliver Stone (director/screenplay); John Ridley (screenplay); Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Jennifer Lopez, Joaquin Phoenix, Powers Boothe, Billy Bob Thornton, Claire Danes, Jon Voight	Crime	Live Action
	10	Seven Years in Tibet	TriStar Pictures / Phoenix Pictures	Jean-Jacques Annaud (director); Becky Johnston (screenplay); Brad Pitt, David Thewlis, B. D. Wong, Mako, Danny Denzongpa, Victor Wong, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė, Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk, Lhakpa Tsamchoe, Jetsun Pema	Period, Drama	Live Action
		RocketMan	Walt Disney Pictures	Stuart Gillard (director); Oren Aviv, Craig Mazin, Greg Erb (screenplay); Harland Williams, Jessica Lundy, William Sadler, Jeffrey DeMunn, James Pickens, Jr., Beau Bridges	Sci-Fi, Comedy	Live Action
		Most Wanted	New Line Cinema	David Hogan (director); Keenen Ivory Wayans (screenplay); Keenen Ivory Wayans, Jon Voight, Jill Hennessy, John Diehl, Robert Culp, Eric Roberts, Paul Sorvino, Tito Larriva	Thriller	Live Action
	17	I Know What You Did Last Summer	Columbia Pictures	Jim Gillespie (director); Kevin Williamson (screenplay); Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Bridgette Wilson, Anne Heche	Thriller	Live Action
		The Devil's Advocate	Warner Bros.	Taylor Hackford (director); Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino, Charlize Theron, Jeffrey Jones, Judith Ivey, Craig T. Nelson	Thriller	Live Action
	24	Gattaca	Columbia Pictures	Andrew Niccol (director, screenplay); Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman	Sci-Fi	Live Action
		A Life Less Ordinary	20th Century Fox	Danny Boyle (director); Ewan McGregor, Cameron Diaz, Holly Hunter, Delroy Lindo, Ian Holm	Black comedy	Live Action
		FairyTale: A True Story	Paramount Pictures	Charles Sturridge (director); Florence Hoath, Elizabeth Earl, Peter O'Toole, Harvey Keitel, Paul McGann	Fantasy	Live Action
	31	Red Corner	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Jon Avnet (director); Robert King (screenplay); Richard Gere, Bai Ling, Bradley Whitford	Thriller	Live Action
		Switchback	Paramount Pictures	Jeb Stuart (director/screenplay); Dennis Quaid, Danny Glover, Jared Leto, Ted Levine, William Fichtner, R. Lee Ermey	Thriller	Live Action
N O V E M B E R	7	Starship Troopers	TriStar Pictures / Touchstone Pictures	Paul Verhoeven (director); Edward Neumeier (screenplay); Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Jake Busey, Neil Patrick Harris, Patrick Muldoon, Clancy Brown, Michael Ironside	Sci-Fi, Action	Live Action
		Bean	Gramercy Pictures	Mel Smith (director); Rowan Atkinson, Richard Curtis, Robin Driscoll (screenplay); Rowan Atkinson	Comedy	Live Action
		Mad City	Warner Bros.	Costa Gavras (director); Tom Matthews (screenplay); Dustin Hoffman, John Travolta, Blythe Danner, Alan Alda	Thriller	Live Action
	14	The Little Mermaid (re-release)	Disney	John Musker, Ron Clements (director); Jodi Benson, Samuel E. Wright, Kenneth Mars, Pat Carroll, Buddy Hackett	Family, Musical	Animation
		The Jackal	Universal Pictures	Michael Caton-Jones (director); Chuck Pfarrer (screenplay); Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Sidney Poitier, Diane Venora	Spy, Action, Thriller	Live Action
		The Man Who Knew Too Little	Warner Bros.	Jon Amiel (director); Robert Farrar, Howard Franklin (screenplay); Bill Murray, Peter Gallagher, Joanne Whalley, Alfred Molina, Richard Wilson, Geraldine James, John Standing, Anna Chancellor	Comedy	Live Action
	21	Anastasia	20th Century Fox	Don Bluth, Gary Goldman (director); Susan Gauthier, Bruce Graham, Bob Tzudiker, Noni White, Eric Tuchman (screenplay); Meg Ryan, John Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Christopher Lloyd, Hank Azaria, Bernadette Peters, Kirsten Dunst, Angela Lansbury	Family, Musical, Mystery	Animation
		Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil	Warner Bros.	Clint Eastwood (director); Kevin Spacey, John Cusack	Drama	Live Action
		The Rainmaker	Paramount Pictures	Francis Ford Coppola (director/screenplay); Matt Damon, Claire Danes, Jon Voight, Mary Kay Place, Mickey Rourke, Danny DeVito, Danny Glover, Virginia Madsen, Dean Stockwell, Roy Scheider, Teresa Wright	Drama	Live Action
		Mortal Kombat: Annihilation	New Line Cinema	John R. Leonetti (director); Brent V. Friedman, Bryce Zabel (screenplay); Robin Shou, Talisa Soto, Brian Thompson, Sandra Hess, Lynn "Red" Williams, Irina Pantaeva, James Remar	Action, Fantasy	Live Action
	26	Alien: Resurrection	20th Century Fox	Jean-Pierre Jeunet (director); Joss Whedon (screenplay); Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Ron Perlman, Dominique Pinon, Gary Dourdan, Michael Wincott, Brad Dourif, Leland Orser, Dan Hedaya, J. E. Freeman, Kim Flowers, Raymond Cruz	Sci-Fi, Thriller	Live Action
		Flubber	Walt Disney Pictures	Les Mayfield (director); John Hughes (screenplay); Robin Williams, Marcia Gay Harden, Christopher McDonald, Ted Levine, Jodi Benson, Clancy Brown, Raymond J. Barry	Comedy	Live Action
D E C E M B E R	5	Good Will Hunting	Miramax Films	Gus Van Sant (director); Ben Affleck, Matt Damon (screenplay); Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Robin Williams, Minnie Driver, Stellan Skarsgård	Drama	Live Action
	12	Scream 2	Dimension Films	Wes Craven (director); Kevin Williamson (screenplay); David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jamie Kennedy, Laurie Metcalf, Jerry O'Connell, Jada Pinkett, Liev Schreiber	Thriller	Live Action
		Amistad	DreamWorks Pictures	Steven Spielberg (director); David Franzoni (screenplay); Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, Djimon Hounsou, Matthew McConaughey, Nigel Hawthorne, Stellan Skarsgård, Harry Blackmun, Anna Paquin	Period, Drama	Live Action
		Home Alone 3	20th Century Fox	Raja Gosnell (director); John Hughes (screenplay); Alex D. Linz, Olek Krupa, Rya Kihlstedt, Lenny Von Dohlen, David Thornton, Haviland Morris, Marian Seldes, Kevin Kilmer, Seth Smith, Scarlett Johansson, Christopher Curry, Baxter Harris	Comedy	Live Action
	19	Titanic	20th Century Fox / Paramount Pictures	James Cameron (director/screenplay); Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Bernard Hill, Jonathan Hyde, Danny Nucci, Gloria Stuart, David Warner, Victor Garber, Bill Paxton, Eric Braeden, Ioan Gruffudd, Bernard Fox, Suzy Amis, Lewis Abernathy, Nicholas Cascone	Period, Action, Drama, Romance	Live Action
		MouseHunt	DreamWorks Pictures	Gore Verbinski (director); Adam Rifkin (screenplay); Nathan Lane, Lee Evans, Vicki Lewis, Maury Chaykin, Christopher Walken	Comedy	Live Action
		Tomorrow Never Dies	United Artists Pictures	Roger Spottiswoode (director); Bruce Feirstein (screenplay); Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh, Teri Hatcher, Judi Dench	Action	Live Action
	25	As Good as It Gets	TriStar Pictures	James L. Brooks (director/screenplay); Mark Andrus (screenplay); Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Shirley Knight, Harold Ramis	Drama, Comedy	Live Action
		Jackie Brown	Miramax Films / A Band Apart	Quentin Tarantino (director/screenplay); Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton, Robert De Niro	Crime, Thriller, Comedy	Live Action
		The Postman	Warner Bros.	Kevin Costner (director); Eric Roth, Brian Helgeland (screenplay); Kevin Costner, Will Patton, Larenz Tate, Olivia Williams, James Russo, Tom Petty	Drama, Adventure	Live Action
		An American Werewolf in Paris	Hollywood Pictures	Anthony Waller (director); Tom Everett Scott, Julie Delpy	Horror	Live Action
		Mr. Magoo	Walt Disney Pictures	Stanley Tong (director); Pat Proft, Tom Sherohman (screenplay); Leslie Nielsen, Kelly Lynch, Matt Keeslar, Nick Chinlund, Stephen Tobolowsky, Ernie Hudson	Comedy	Live Action
	29	Young and Dangerous 4	Television Corporation of Singapore	Andrew Lau (director); Ekin Cheng, Jordan Chan	Triad	Live Action

Notable films released in 1997

U.S.A. unless stated

A-D

A

• Absolute Power, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, with Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Judy Davis, Dennis Haysbert, Scott Glenn, E. G. Marshall
• Addicted to Love, starring Meg Ryan and Matthew Broderick
• Air Bud
• Air Force One, starring Harrison Ford, Glenn Close, Gary Oldman
• The Alarmist, starring David Arquette and Stanley Tucci
• Albino Alligator, directed by Kevin Spacey, starring Matt Dillon, Gary Sinise, Viggo Mortensen
• Alien: Resurrection, starring Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder
• All Over Me
• An American Werewolf in Paris, starring Tom Everett Scott
• Amistad, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, Djimon Hounsou
• Anaconda, starring Jennifer Lopez, Eric Stoltz, Jon Voight
• Anastasia, directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman
• Another Day in Paradise, starring Melanie Griffith and James Woods
• The Apostle, directed by and starring Robert Duvall, with Miranda Richardson, Farrah Fawcett
• As Good as It Gets, directed by James L. Brooks, starring Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
• The Assignment
• Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, directed by Jay Roach and starring Mike Myers, Elizabeth Hurley, Mimi Rogers, Michael York

B

• Bang
• Batman & Robin, starring George Clooney, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chris O'Donnell, Uma Thurman
• Bean, directed by Mel Smith, starring Rowan Atkinson - (UK)
• Bent, starring Clive Owen - (UK)
• Best Men, starring Dean Cain, Sean Patrick Flanery, Drew Barrymore, Fred Ward, Andy Dick
• Beverly Hills Ninja, starring Chris Farley
• Boogie Nights, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman, William H. Macy, John C. Reilly, Don Cheadle
• Booty Call, starring Jamie Foxx
• The Borrowers, starring John Goodman
• Le Bossu (The Hunchback), starring Daniel Auteuil - (France)
• The Boxer, starring Daniel Day-Lewis
• Breakdown, starring Kurt Russell, Kathleen Quinlan, J. T. Walsh
• Brother (Brat) - (Russia)
• Buddy, starring Rene Russo
• The Butcher Boy, directed by Neil Jordan - (Ireland)
• Buud Yam - (Burkina Faso)

C

• Campfire Tales
• Career Girls, directed by Mike Leigh - (UK)
• The Castle - (Australia)
• Cats Don't Dance, directed by Mark Dindal
• Character (Karakter) - (Netherlands/Belgium) - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
• Chasing Amy, directed by Kevin Smith, starring Ben Affleck
• Children of Heaven (بچه‌های آسمان), directed by Majid Majidi - (Iran) - first Iranian film to be nominated for an Oscar
• City of Industry, directed by John Sayles
• Clockwatchers, starring Toni Collette, Parker Posey, Lisa Kudrow
• Commandments, starring Courteney Cox
• Con Air, starring John Cusack, Nicolas Cage, John Malkovich, Steve Buscemi
• Conspiracy Theory, directed by Richard Donner, starring Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts
• Contact, directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Skerritt, James Woods, John Hurt
• Cop Land, directed by James Mangold, starring Sylvester Stallone, Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro
• Crayola Kids Adventures: Tales of Gulliver's Travels
• Cube - (Canada)

D

• Dakan (Destiny) (Guinea)
• Dangerous Ground, starring Ice Cube
• Dante's Peak, starring Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton
• Deconstructing Harry, directed by and starring Woody Allen
• Def Jam's How to Be a Player
• Defying Gravity
• The Devil's Advocate, starring Keanu Reeves and Al Pacino
• The Devil's Own, directed by Alan J. Pakula, starring Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt
• Different Strokes, starring Dana Plato and Bentley Mitchum
• Dogtown, starring Mary Stuart Masterson and Jon Favreau
• Donnie Brasco, directed by Mike Newell, starring Al Pacino and Johnny Depp
• Double Team, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Mickey Rourke
• Dream with the Fishes

E-K

E

• The Edge, starring Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin
• The Eel, directed by Shohei Imamura - (Japan) - Palme d'Or award
• The End of Evangelion (July 19 - Japan)
• Evangelion: Death and Rebirth - (Japan)
• Event Horizon, starring Laurence Fishburne
• Eve's Bayou, starring Lynn Whitfield and Samuel L. Jackson
• Excess Baggage, starring Alicia Silverstone and Benicio del Toro

F

• Face, starring Robert Carlyle and Ray Winstone - (UK)
• Face/Off, directed by John Woo, starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage
• Fathers' Day, starring Robin Williams and Billy Crystal
• FernGully 2: The Magical Rescue
• Fever Pitch, starring Colin Firth - (UK)
• Fierce Creatures, starring John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin - (UK/US)
• The Fifth Element, directed by Luc Besson, starring Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Milla Jovovich, Chris Tucker - (France)
• Fire Down Below, starring Steven Seagal
• ...First Do No Harm, starring Meryl Streep, Fred Ward
• First Time Felon, starring Omar Epps and Delroy Lindo
• Flubber, directed by Les Mayfield, starring Robin Williams, Christopher McDonald, Clancy Brown, voices by Jodi Benson
• Fools Rush In, starring Salma Hayek and Matthew Perry
• For Richer or Poorer, starring Tim Allen and Kirstie Alley
• Free Willy 3: The Rescue, directed by Sam Pillsbury
• The Full Monty, directed by Peter Cattaneo and starring Robert Carlyle - (UK)
• Funny Games, directed by Michael Haneke - (Austria)

G

• G.I. Jane, starring Demi Moore and Anne Bancroft
• The Game, directed by David Fincher, starring Michael Douglas and Sean Penn
• Gang Related, starring James Belushi, Dennis Quaid, Tupac Shakur
• Gattaca, starring Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law
• George of the Jungle, directed by Sam Weisman, starring Brendan Fraser, Leslie Mann, Thomas Haden Church, Richard Roundtree and John Cleese (voice only)
• Ghosts, a music short featuring Michael Jackson
• Gone Fishin', starring Joe Pesci and Danny Glover
• Good Burger, starring Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell
• Goodbye America - (Philippines/US)
• Good Will Hunting, directed by Gus Van Sant, starring Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Minnie Driver, Ben Affleck
• Gridlock'd, starring Tim Roth and Tupac Shakur
• Grosse Pointe Blank, starring John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Dan Aykroyd

H

• Hacks, starring Stephen Rea, Illeana Douglas, John Ritter
• Hamam - (Italy/Spain/Turkey)
• Hana-bi (Fireworks), directed by and starring Takeshi Kitano - Palme d'Or award - (Japan)
• Heaven's Burning, starring Russell Crowe and Youki Kudoh - (Australia)
• Henry Fool, directed by Hal Hartley - winner of Best Screenplay Cannes Film Festival
• Hercules
• Highball, starring Justine Bateman
• Hold You Tight, directed by Stanley Kwan - (Hong Kong)
• Home Alone 3, starring Alex D. Linz and Scarlett Johansson
• Hoodlum, starring Laurence Fishburne
• The Hound
• Hugo Pool, starring Alyssa Milano
• Hurricane Streets

I

• I Know What You Did Last Summer, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe
• The Ice Storm, starring Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Tobey Maguire
• In & Out, starring Kevin Kline, Joan Cusack, Tom Selleck, Matt Dillon, Bob Newhart
• Incognito, starring Jason Patric
• Into Thin Air
• Inventing the Abbotts, starring Liv Tyler

J-K

• The Jackal, starring Bruce Willis and Richard Gere
• Jackie Brown, directed by Quentin Tarantino, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Pam Grier, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton, Robert Forster, Robert De Niro
• Jackie Chan's First Strike - (Hong Kong)
• Josh and the Big Wall!
• Jungle 2 Jungle, starring Tim Allen
• Just Write, starring Jeremy Piven
• Kini and Adams - (Burkina Faso)
• Kiss the Girls, starring Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd
• Knockin' on Heaven's Door (Germany)
• Kull the Conqueror
• Kundun, directed by Martin Scorsese

L-Q

L

• L.A. Confidential, directed by Curtis Hanson, starring Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito, James Cromwell
• Larry-Boy! And the Fib from Outer Space!
• Lawn Dogs, starring Sam Rockwell
• Leave It to Beaver, starring Christopher McDonald and Janine Turner
• Lewis and Clark and George
• Liar Liar, starring Jim Carrey
• Life is Beautiful, directed by and starring Roberto Benigni - (Italy) - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
• A Life Less Ordinary, starring Ewan McGregor and Cameron Diaz - (UK/US)
• Little City, starring Jon Bon Jovi
• Live Flesh, directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Javier Bardem - (Spain)
• Lolita, starring Jeremy Irons
• Lost Highway, directed by David Lynch, starring Bill Pullman and Patricia Arquette
• The Lost World: Jurassic Park, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Jeff Goldblum and Julianne Moore
• Love and Death on Long Island, starring John Hurt - (Canada/UK)
• Love Jones
• Lovelife, starring Sherilyn Fenn and Carla Gugino

M

• Ma vie en rose (My Life in Pink) - (Belgium) - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film
• Mad City, starring Dustin Hoffman and John Travolta
• The Man Who Knew Too Little, starring Bill Murray
• Masterminds, starring Patrick Stewart
• The MatchMaker, starring Janeane Garofalo - (Ireland)
• Meet Wally Sparks, starring Rodney Dangerfield
• Men in Black, directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith
• Metro, starring Eddie Murphy
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, directed by Clint Eastwood, starring Kevin Spacey and John Cusack
• Mimic, starring Mira Sorvino
• Money Talks, starring Chris Tucker
• Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
• Most Wanted
• MouseHunt, starring Nathan Lane
• Mr. Magoo, starring Leslie Nielsen
• Mrs. Brown, starring Judi Dench and Billy Connolly - (UK)
• Mrs. Dalloway, starring Vanessa Redgrave - (UK)
• Murder at 1600, starring Wesley Snipes
• My Best Friend's Wedding, starring Julia Roberts
• My Heart Is Mine Alone - (Germany)
• Myself in the Distant Future - (North Korea)

N-O

• Nevada, starring Amy Brenneman
• Night Falls on Manhattan, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Andy García
• Night of the Demons 3
• Nil by Mouth, directed by Gary Oldman, starring Ray Winstone - (UK)
• Nothing to Lose, starring Martin Lawrence and Tim Robbins
• Nowhere
• 187, starring Samuel L. Jackson
• One Night Stand, starring Wesley Snipes
• Orgazmo
• Ossos (Portugal)
• Out to Sea, starring Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon

P-Q

• The Peacemaker, starring George Clooney and Nicole Kidman
• Perdita Durango, starring Javier Bardem and Rosie Perez - (Spain)
• The Perfect Circle (Savršeni krug), directed by Ademir Kenović - (Bosnia and Herzogovina)
• Picture Perfect, starring Jennifer Aniston
• Pippi Longstocking - (Sweden)
• Playing God, starring David Duchovny
• The Postman, directed by and starring Kevin Costner
• Prefontaine, starring Jared Leto
• Pride Divide
• Princess Mononoke (Mononoke Hime) - (Japan)
• Private Parts, starring Howard Stern

R-Z

R

• The Rainmaker, directed by Francis Coppola, starring Matt Damon, Danny DeVito, Claire Danes, Jon Voight
• Red Corner, starring Richard Gere
• Regeneration, starring Jonathan Pryce - (UK)
• The Relic, starring Penelope Ann Miller
• Retroactive
• A River Made to Drown In
• RocketMan
• Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, starring Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino
• Rosewood, directed by John Singleton, starring Ving Rhames

S

• The Saint, starring Val Kilmer
• Scream 2, starring Neve Campbell
• Selena, starring Jennifer Lopez
• Seven Years in Tibet, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, starring Brad Pitt - (US/UK)
• She's So Lovely, starring Sean Penn, Robin Wright Penn, John Travolta
• Shooting Fish - (UK)
• The 6th Man, starring Marlon Wayans
• Soul Food, starring Vanessa L. Williams and Vivica A. Fox
• Space Marines
• Spaceman
• The Spanish Prisoner, directed by David Mamet, starring Campbell Scott and Steve Martin
• Spawn, starring Michael Jai White, John Leguizamo, Frank Welker and Martin Sheen
• Speed 2: Cruise Control, starring Sandra Bullock
• Spice World, featuring The Spice Girls and Richard E. Grant - (UK/US)
• Star Wars Trilogy (Special Edition)
• Starship Troopers, directed by Paul Verhoeven
• Steel, starring Shaquille O'Neal
• Strawberry Fields
• Suicide Kings, starring Christopher Walken
• Sunday
• Super Speedway
• The Sweet Hereafter, starring Ian Holm - (Canada)
• Switchback, starring Danny Glover and Dennis Quaid

T

• Taste of Cherry, directed by Abbas Kiarostami - (Iran) - Palme d'Or award
• That Old Feeling, starring Bette Midler and Dennis Farina
• This World, Then the Fireworks, starring Billy Zane and Gina Gershon
• Time Under Fire
• Titanic, directed by James Cameron, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture
• Tomorrow Never Dies, starring Pierce Brosnan (as James Bond), Michelle Yeoh, Teri Hatcher, Judi Dench - (UK)
• Trojan War
• Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie
• Turbulence, starring Ray Liotta and Lauren Holly

U-V

• U Turn, directed by Oliver Stone, starring Sean Penn, Jennifer Lopez, Nick Nolte
• Under the Lighthouse Dancing - (Australia)
• Ulee's Gold, starring Peter Fonda
• Vegas Vacation, starring Chevy Chase
• Volcano, starring Tommy Lee Jones

W

• Wag the Dog, directed by Barry Levinson, starring Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman
• Waiting for Guffman, directed by Christopher Guest
• Warriors of Virtue - (US/China)
• Welcome to Sarajevo, starring Woody Harrelson
• The Wiggles Movie - (Australia)
• Wild America
• The Wings of the Dove, starring Helena Bonham Carter - (UK/US)
• Wishmaster
• The Wrong Guy, starring Dave Foley - (Canada)

X-Z

• Year of the Horse, a documentary film about Neil Young directed by Jim Jarmusch
• Zeus and Roxanne, starring Steve Guttenberg and Kathleen Quinlan

Births

• January 24 - Jonah Bobo, American actor
• February 10 - Chloë Grace Moretz, American actress
• April 15 - Maisie Williams, British actress
• May 11 - Lana Condor, American actress
• August 5 - Olivia Holt, American teen actress and singer
• August 30 - Dana Gaier, American actress
• October 8 - Bella Thorne, singer, model and actress
• October 23 - Zach Callison, American actor and voice actor

Notable deaths

Month	Date	Name	Age	Country	Profession	Notable films
January	1	Joan Rice	66	UK	Actress	The Horror of Frankenstein His Majesty O'Keefe
	4	Bill Lancaster	49	USA	Screenwriter	The Thing The Bad News Bears
	6	Catherine Scorsese	84	USA	Actress	Goodfellas The Godfather Part III
	9	Jesse White	80	USA	Actor	Harvey It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
	10	Sheldon Leonard	89	USA	Actor, Director, Producer	It's a Wonderful Life To Have and Have Not
	11	Jill Summers	86	UK	Actress	Agatha
	13	Charlotte Holland	81	UK	Actress	Promise Her Anything
	18	Diana Lewis	77	UK	Actress	Go West It's a Gift
	19	Adriana Caselotti	80	USA	Actress	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs The Wizard of Oz
	19	James Dickey	73	USA	Author, Screenwriter, Actor	Deliverance
	21	Tom Parker	87	USA	Technical Advisor	Jailhouse Rock Blue Hawaii
	21	Polly Ann Young	88	USA	Actress	The Sheik Murders in the Rue Morgue
	21	John Glyn-Jones	87	Morocco	Actor, Producer, Director	I'm All Right Jack Two-Way Stretch
	23	Bill Zuckert	81	USA	Actor	Ace Ventura: Pet Detective Hang 'Em High
	23	David Waller	76	UK	Actor	Lady Jane The Secret Garden
	27	Richard X. Slattery	71	USA	Actor	The Boston Strangler Herbie Rides Again
	27	Bill Kennedy	88	USA	Actor	Now, Voyager Mr. Skeffington
	31	Eve Lister	83	UK	Actress	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street No Limit
February	1	Marjorie Reynolds	79	USA	Actress	Gone with the Wind Holiday Inn
	4	Robert Clouse	68	USA	Director	Enter the Dragon Ironheart
	8	Robert Ridgely	65	USA	Actor	Philadelphia Boogie Nights
	11	Barry Evans	53	UK	Actor	Alfred the Great Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
	11	Don Porter	84	USA	Actor	The Candidate Mame
	12	James Cossins	63	UK	Actor	The Man with the Golden Gun Gandhi
	17	Max Brimmell	76	UK	Actor	X the Unknown The Haunted Strangler
	19	Frank Delfino	86	USA	Actor	Planet of the Apes Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
	23	Oscar Lewenstein	80	UK	Producer	Tom Jones The Bride Wore Black
	25	Scott Forbes	76	UK	Actor	The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel Operation Pacific
	25	Arthur Hewlett	89	UK	Actor	Man About the House
	26	David Doyle	67	USA	Actor	Capricorn One The Adventures of Pinocchio
	26	Wende Wagner	55	USA	Actress	Rosemary's Baby Guns of the Magnificent Seven
March	4	Carey Loftin	83	USA	Stuntman, Actor	The Deer Hunter Patton
	8	Alexander Salkind	75	Poland	Producer	Superman The Three Musketeers
	9	Terry Nation	66	UK	Screenwriter	Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. Dr. Who and the Daleks
	13	Ronald Fraser	66	UK	Actor	The Flight of the Phoenix The Wild Geese
	14	Fred Zinnemann	89	Austria	Director, Producer	From Here to Eternity High Noon
	15	Gail Davis	71	USA	Actress	Annie Oakley The Far Frontier
	16	Leda Gloria	84	Italy	Actress	Le Petit Monde de Don Camillo Le Retour de Don Camillo
	22	John Hoesli	78	UK	Act Director, Draughtsman	The African Queen Lifeforce
	29	Ellen Pollock	94	UK	Actress	Piccadilly Horror Hospital
April	2	Anthony Bushell	92	UK	Actor	A Night to Remember The Battle of the River Plate
	2	Tomoyuki Tanaka	86	Japan	Producer	The Godzilla series Kagemusha
	4	Mike Raven	72	UK	Actor	Lust for a Vampire I, Monster
	5	Allen Ginsberg	70	USA	Poet, Actor	Chappaqua Renaldo and Clara
	6	Barbara Yu Ling	58	UK	Actress	The Satanic Rites of Dracula
	14	Michael Stroka	58	USA	Actor	King Rat House of Dark Shadows
	15	David Dockendorf	73	USA	Sound Engineer	Chinatown Planet of the Apes
	16	Roland Topor	59	France	Writer, Actor	The Tenant Fantastic Planet
	20	Jean Louis	89	France	Costume Designer	The Caine Mutiny A Star is Born
	24	Pat Paulsen	69	Mexico	Actor	Night Patrol Harper Valley PTA
	25	Brian May	62	Australia	Composer	Mad Max Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
	26	John Beal	87	USA	Actor	The Firm Amityville 3-D
	26	Joey Faye	87	USA	Actor	Once Upon a Time in America The Front
	26	Neil Robinson	61	USA	Actress	8½ Samson and Delilah
	27	Paul Lambert	74	USA	Actor	Planet of the Apes Spartacus
	27	Gabriel Figueroa	90	Mexico	Cinematographer	Kelly's Heroes The Exterminating Angel
	28	Steve Conte	77	Italy	Actor	The Onion Field The Wild World of Batwoman
May	1	Bo Widerberg	66	Sweden	Director, Screenwriter	Raven's End Elvira Madigan
	3	Hughie Green	77	UK	Actor, Producer	Hills of Home Tom Brown's School Days
	4	Alvy Moore	75	USA	Actor, Producer	The War of the Worlds Gentleman Prefer Blondes
	5	Walter Gotell	73	UK	Actor	From Russia with Love The Spy Who Loved Me
	6	Jorge Martínez de Hoyos	76	Mexico	Actor, Screenwriter	The Magnificent Seven Cronos
	9	Marco Ferreri	68	Italy	Director, Screenwriter	Dillinger Is Dead La Grande Bouffe
	10	Steve Holland	72	USA	Actor	The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
	10	John P. Austin	90	USA	Set Decorator	Touch of Evil Diamonds Are Forever
	11	Catherine McLeod	75	USA	Actress	The Thin Man Goes Home The Harvey Girls
	11	Howard Morton	71	USA	Actor	The Mechanic The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
	14	Thelma Carpenter	75	USA	Actress	The Wiz The Cotton Club
	15	Bridgette Andersen	21	USA	Actress	Nightmares Savannah Smiles
	16	Giuseppe De Santis	80	Italy	Director, Screenwriter	Bitter Rice Attack and Retreat
	22	Renzo Montagnani	66	Italy	Actor	The Date The Trade Unionist
	23	Frances E. Nealy	78	USA	Actress	Ghostbusters WarGames
	24	Edward Mulhare	74	Ireland	Actor	Out to Sea Megaforce
	28	Sydney Guilaroff	89	USA	Makeup Artist, Actor, Costume Executive	The Wizard of Oz North by Northwest
	29	George Fenneman	77	USA	Actor	The Thing from Another World Ocean's 11
June	14	Richard Jaeckel	70	USA	Actor	The Dirty Dozen Airplane II: The Sequel
	14	Marjorie Best	94	USA	Costume Designer	Rio Bravo Giant
	17	Maurice Rootes	80	UK	Film Editor	Jason and the Argonauts First Men in the Moon
	19	Olga Georges-Picot	57	France	Actress	The Day of the Jackal Love and Death
	22	Don Henderson	65	UK	Actor	Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope Brazil
	23	Rosina Lawrence	84	USA	Actor	Way Out West The Great Ziegfeld
	24	Brian Keith	75	USA	Actor	The Parent Trap Nevada Smith
	26	George Bassman	83	USA	Composer, Orchestrator	The Wizard of Oz Gone with the Wind
	28	Gary DeVore	69	USA	Actress	The Dogs of War Raw Deal
	29	William Hickey	69	USA	Actor	The Nightmare Before Christmas Prizzi's Honor
July	1	Robert Mitchum	79	USA	Actor	Cape Fear The Story of G.I. Joe
	2	James Stewart	89	USA	Actor	It's a Wonderful Life Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
	7	Royston Tickner	74		Actor	The Keep
	15	Rosamund Greenwood	90	UK	Actress	Village of the Damned The Witches
	16	William Reynolds	87	USA	Film Editor	The Godfather The Sound of Music
	17	Gene Warren	80	USA	Visual Effects Artist	True Lies Black Sunday
	23	David Warbeck	55	New Zealand	Actor	Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood Hunters of the Golden Cobra
	24	Brian Glover	63	UK	Actor	Alien 3 An American Werewolf in London
	24	Bill Shine	85	UK	Actor	The Red Shoes Around the World in 80 Days
	27	Isabel Dean	79	UK	Actor	Oh! What a Lovely War The Passionate Friends
	28	Rosalie Crutchley	77	UK	Actress, Soundtrack	Four Weddings and a Funeral The Haunting
August	2	William S. Burroughs	83	USA	Author, Actor	Twister Drugstore Cowboy
	4	Dick Bush	65	UK	Cinematographer, Camera Operator	Tommy Victor Victoria
	5	Don Steele	61	USA	Actor	Gremlins Grand Theft Auto
	9	William Abney	76	UK	Actor, Writer	Curse of the Pink Panther The City of the Dead
	15	Glenn Corbett	74	USA	Actor	Fixed Bayonets! The Violent Years
	18	Don Knight	64	UK	Actor	Swamp Thing The Apple Dumpling Gang
	18	Jeep Swenson	40	USA	Actor	Batman & Robin Bulletproof
	19	Cathleen Cordell	82	USA	Actress	MASH The Return of the Living Dead
	25	Camilla Spira	81	Germany	Actor	Die Buntkarierten Morgenrot
	26	Frances Osborne	76	USA	Actress	Earthquake Murder by Contract
	27	Sally Blane	87	USA	Actress	I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang The Sheik
	27	Brandon Tartikoff	48	USA	Studio executive
	27	Dick N. Lucas	77	USA	Animator	The Jungle Book One Hundred and One Dalmatians
	28	Eve Smith	91	USA	Actress	Romancing the Stone Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
	31	Dodi Fayed	42	Egypt	Producer	Hook Chariots of Fire
	31	Will Hare	81	USA	Actor	Back to the Future The Rose
September	5	Eddie Little Sky	71	USA	Actor	A Man Called Horse Paint Your Wagon
	7	Elisabeth Brooks	46	USA	Actress	The Howling Family Plot
	8	Helen Shaw	100	USA	Actress	Parenthood
	9	Burgess Meredith	89	USA	Actor	Rocky Batman
	13	Georges Guétary	82	France	Actor	An American in Paris
	13	Audrey Fildes	74	Canada	Actress	Kind Hearts and Coronets
	16	Terence Cooper	64	Australia	Actor	No Way Out Casino Royale
	17	Red Skelton	84	USA	Actor, Comedian	Ziegfeld Follies Merton of the Movies
	17	Brian Hall	59	UK	Actor	The Long Good Friday The Land That Time Forgot
	19	Jack May	75	UK	Actor	The Man Who Would Be King The Bounty
	21	Maurice Kaufmann	70	UK	Actor	A Shot in the Dark The Abominable Dr. Phibes
	21	Jennifer Holt	76	UK	Actress	Pardon My Sarong Private Buckaroo
	26	Dorothy Kingsley	87	USA	Screenwriter	Angels in the Outfield Valley of the Dolls
	26	Samuel W. Taylor	90	USA	Writer	Flubber The Absent-Minded Professor
October	3	John Ashley	95	UK	Actor, Producer	Apocalypse Now Hud
	3	Jarl Kulle	70	Sweden	Actor, Director, Writer	Fanny and Alexander Babette's Feast
	5	Andrew Keir	71	UK	Actor	Cleopatra Rob Roy
	5	Debbie Linden	36	UK	Actress	Eat the Rich Bloodbath at the House of Death
	9	Arch Johnson	75	USA	Actor	The Sting Niagara
	10	Stella Bonheur	92	UK	Actress	The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone Intent to Kill
	12	John Denver	53	USA	Singer, Actor	Oh, God! Fire and Ice
	13	Joyce Compton	90	USA	Actress	The Best Years of Our Lives Mildred Pierce
	14	Hy Averback	76	USA	Director, Producer, Actor	I Love You, Alice B. Toklas Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
	16	Audra Lindley	79	USA	Actress	When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? The Relic
	17	Ben Welden	96	USA	Actor	The Big Sleep The Roaring Twenties
	18	Milt Neil	83	USA	Animator	Fantasia Dumbo
	18	Marshall Green	78	USA	Production Manager, Second Unit Director	Spartacus Night Passage
	19	Arthur Ibbetson	75	UK	Cinematographer	Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory Where Eagles Dare
	20	Ron Tarr	60	UK	Actor	Willow A View to a Kill
	24	Don Messick	71	USA	Actor, Voice of Scooby-Doo	Jetsons: The Movie The Transformers: The Movie
	24	Michael Balfour	79	UK	Actor	Batman Fahrenheit 451
	30	Samuel Fuller	85	USA	Director, Screenwriter	The Big Red One Shock Corridor
November	6	William Watson	59	USA	Actor	In the Heat of the Night Chato's Land
	8	Michael Ward	88	UK	Actor	Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell Revenge of the Pink Panther
	11	William Alland	81	USA	Producer, Actor	Citizen Kane Creature from the Black Lagoon
	12	Sándor Szabó	82	Hungary	Actor	Topaz
	13	Dietrich Lohmann	54	Germany-USA	Cinematographer	Deep Impact The Peacemaker
	15	David Toguri	64	Canada	Miscellaneous, Actor	Who Framed Roger Rabbit The Rocky Horror Picture Show
	16	David K. Stewart	60	??	Cinematographer	Blade Runner Alien 3
	17	Wilfred Josephs	70	UK	Composer, Orchestrator	The Deadly Bees Frantic
	17	Peter James	73	UK	Set Decorator, Art Director	Lolita The Parent Trap
	19	Alfred Roome	88	UK	Editor	Carry On... Up the Khyber Carry On Camping
	21	Jack Purvis	60	UK	Actor	Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back Return of the Jedi
	22	Joanna Moore	63	USA	Actress	Follow That Dream Walk on the Wild Side
	25	Charles Hallahan	54	USA	Actor	The Thing Dante's Peak
	30	Glyn Dearman	57	UK	Actor	Scrooge The Flesh and the Fiends
December	2	Marge Kotlisky	70	USA	Actress	Sixteen Candles Major Dundee
	4	Richard Vernon	72	UK	Actor	Goldfinger A Hard Day's Night
	14	Stubby Kaye	79	USA	Actor	Who Framed Roger Rabbit Cat Ballou
	16	Richard Warwick	52	UK	Actor	Romeo and Juliet Hamlet
	17	Peter Taylor	75	Italy	Editor, Assistant Editor	The Bridge on the River Kwai Summertime
	18	Chris Farley	33	USA	Actor, Comedian	Tommy Boy Beverly Hills Ninja
	19	Michael Alldredge	56	USA	Actor	Scarface Iron Eagle
	20	Dawn Steel	51	USA	Producer	City of Angels Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
	21	Roger Barkley	61	USA	Actor	Amazon Women on the Moon
	23	Stanley Cortez	89	USA	Cinematographer	Chinatown The Night of the Hunter
	24	Dee Dee Wood	89	USA	Choreographer	The Sound of Music Mary Poppins
	24	Toshiro Mifune	77	Japan	Actor, Producer	Seven Samurai Rashomon
	25	Denver Pyle	77	USA	Actor	Bonnie and Clyde Maverick
	28	Bill Anderson	86	USA	Production Manager	Swiss Family Robinson Old Yeller
	31	Billie Dove	94	USA	Actress	The Black Pirate Beyond the Rainbow

Film debuts

• Eric Bana - The Castle
• Mischa Barton - Lawn Dogs
• Orlando Bloom - Wilde
• Gerard Butler - Mrs. Brown
• Shannon Elizabeth - Blast
• Jennifer Garner - Deconstructing Harry
• Adrian Grenier - Arresting Gena
• Ioan Gruffudd - Wilde
• Katie Holmes - The Ice Storm
• Maya Rudolph - Gattaca
• Mena Suvari - Nowhere
• Olivia Williams - Gaston's War

References

1. "1997 Worldwide Grosses". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 1, 2014.
2. "Titanic (1997)". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on March 21, 2012.