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The year 1990 in film involved some significant events.
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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 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.
- February 4 - Actor Tom Cruise and actress Mimi Rogers divorce.
- December 24 - Tom Cruise and actress Nicole Kidman marry.
Top grossing films (U.S.)
| Rank | Title | Studio | Gross |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Home Alone | Fox | $285,761,243 |
| 2. | Ghost | Paramount | $217,631,306 |
| 3. | Dances With Wolves | Orion | $184,208,848 |
| 4. | Pretty Woman | Touchstone | $178,406,268 |
| 5. | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | New Line | $135,265,915 |
| 6. | The Hunt for Red October | Paramount | $122,012,643 |
| 7. | Total Recall | TriStar | $119,394,840 |
| 8. | Die Hard 2 : Die Harder | Fox | $117,540,947 |
| 9. | Dick Tracy | Touchstone | $103,738,726 |
| 10. | Kindergarten Cop | Universal | $91,457,688 |
source: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1990&p=.htm
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
- 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, starring Mel Gibson and Robert Downey, Jr.
- Alice, directed by Woody Allen
- Another 48 Hrs., starring Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte
- Arachnophobia, starring Jeff Daniels
- Avalon, directed by Barry Levinson
- Awakenings, starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro
- Back to the Future Part III, starring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd and Mary Steenburgen (as Clara Clayton); the last (third) sequel of Back to the Future trilogy
- Bad Influence
- Betsy's Wedding, starring Molly Ringwald
- Bird on a Wire, starring Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn
- Blind Fury
- Blue Steel, starring Jamie Lee Curtis
- Boiling Point, starring Wesley Snipes
- The Bonfire of the Vanities, starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis and Melanie Griffith
- Bride of Re-Animator
- Cadence, starring Charlie Sheen
- Cadillac Man, starring Robin Williams and Tim Robbins
- Child's Play 2
- City Hunter: Bay City Wars
- Coins in the Fountain, starring Loni Anderson
- Come See the Paradise, starring Dennis Quaid and Tamlyn Tomita
- Crash and Burn
- Cry-Baby, starring Johnny Depp
- Cyrano de Bergerac - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film
- Dances with Wolves - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture, direceted by and starring Kevin Costner
- Darkman, starring Liam Neeson
- Days of Thunder, starring Tom Cruise, Robert Duvall and Nicole Kidman
- Death Warrant
- Dei tau lung (Dragon Fighter)
- Desperate Hours, starring Anthony Hopkins and Mickey Rourke
- Dick Tracy, starring Warren Beatty, Madonna, Glenne Headly and Al Pacino
- Die Hard 2, starring Bruce Willis
- Dreams, directed by Akira Kurosawa
- DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp
- Edward Scissorhands, starring Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder
- The End of Innocence
- Ernest Goes to Jail
- Europa Europa - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film (for 1991)
- The Exorcist III, starring George C. Scott
- La Femme Nikita, directed by Luc Besson
- Fire Birds, starring Nicolas Cage and Tommy Lee Jones
- The First Power
- Flashback, starring Kiefer Sutherland and Dennis Hopper
- Flatliners, starring Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts and Kevin Bacon
- Frankenstein Unbound
- The Freshman, starring Marlon Brando and Matthew Broderick
- Ghost, starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg
- The Godfather Part III, starring Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Andy Garcia and Sofia Coppola
- The Guyver
- Goodfellas, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco and Paul Sorvino
- Green Card - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy), starring Gerard Depardieu and Andie MacDowell
- Gremlins 2: The New Batch
- The Grifters, starring Anjelica Huston, John Cusack and Annette Bening
- The Guardian
- Hamlet, starring Mel Gibson and Glenn Close
- The Handmaid's Tale
- Hard to Kill, starring Steven Seagal
- Havana, starring Robert Redford, Lena Olin and Alan Arkin
- Heaven and Earth
- Henry & June, starring Fred Ward, Maria de Medeiros and Uma Thurman
- Home Alone, starring Macaulay Culkin
- The Hot Spot
- House Party
- The Hunt for Red October, starring Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin
- I Come in Peace
- Initiation: Silent Night, Deadly Night 4
- Internal Affairs, starring Richard Gere and Andy Garcia
- Jacob's Ladder, starring Tim Robbins
- Jetsons: The Movie
- Joe Versus the Volcano, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan
- Journey of Hope (Reise der Hoffnung) - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
- Kindergarten Cop, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
- King of New York
- The Krays
- Larks on a String (Skrivánci na niti) - Golden Bear award
- Lionheart
- Longtime Companion
- Look Who's Talking Too, starring John Travolta and Kirstie Alley
- Loose Cannons
- Lord of the Flies
- Mack the Knife
- Marked for Death, starring Steven Seagal
- The Match Factory Girl
- Memories of a River
- Memphis Belle
- Men at Work
- Mermaids (film), starring Cher, Winona Ryder and Christina Ricci
- Metropolitan
- Miami Blues starring Fred Ward and Alec Baldwin
- Miller's Crossing
- Misery, starring James Caan and Kathy Bates
- Mo' Better Blues, starring Denzel Washington
- Movie... In Your Face
- Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward
- Mr. Destiny
- 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
- Narrow Margin
- Navy SEALS, starring Charlie Sheen
- The Nasty Girl (Das schreckliche Mädchen)
- The Neverending Story II: The Next Chapter
- The Nutcracker Prince
- Nuns on the Run
- Pacific Heights, starring Michael Keaton, Melanie Griffith and Matthew Modine
- Piece of Cake, directed by Jay Sandrich, starring T.K. Carter, Cleavant Derricks, Vanessa Bell Calloway and Tonya Lee Williams
- Postcards from the Edge, starring Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine and Dennis Quaid
- Predator 2, starring Danny Glover
- Presumed Innocent, starring Harrison Ford
- Pretty Woman, starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere
- Problem Child
- Pump Up the Volume, directed by Allan Moyle, Golden Space Needle award
- Q&A, starring Nick Nolte, Timothy Hutton
- Quick Change, starring Bill Murray, Geena Davis, Randy Quaid
- Quigley Down Under, starring Tom Selleck
- The Reflecting Skin
- Repossessed, a parody of The Exorcist
- The Rescuers Down Under
- Revenge, starring Kevin Costner
- Reversal of Fortune, starring Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close and Ron Silver
- RoboCop 2, starring Peter Weller and Nancy Allen
- Robot Jox
- Rocky V, starring Sylvester Stallone
- Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever
- Romeo-Juliet
- The Rookie, starring Clint Eastwood and Charlie Sheen
- Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead - Golden Lion award
- The Russia House, starring Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer
- The Sheltering Sky, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
- Shipwrecked
- A Show of Force
- Shreck
- Side Out, starring Courtney Thorne-Smith
- Silent Scream
- Spaced Invaders, directed by Patrick Read Johnson, starring Douglas Barr, Royal Dano, Ariana Richards and J.J. Anderson
- Stanley and Iris, starring Robert De Niro and Jane Fonda
- State of Grace, starring Sean Penn, Ed Harris and Gary Oldman
- Taking Care of Business, starring James Belushi
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Tekken
- Tatie Danielle, starring Tsilla Chelton
- Texasville, starring Jeff Bridges and Cybill Shepherd
- Three Men and a Little Lady, starring Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson
- Tilaï
- Treasure Island
- Tremors starring Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward
- Total Recall, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
- The Two Jakes, starring Jack Nicholson
- Vincent & Theo
- White Hunter, Black Heart
- White Palace, starring Susan Sarandon and James Spader
- Wild at Heart, directed by David Lynch, starring Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern and Diane Ladd
- Wild Orchid
- The Witches, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring Anjelica Huston
- Young Guns II, starring Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christian Slater and William Petersen
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