1987 in film

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Events

• May 9 - Actor Tom Cruise marries actress Mimi Rogers.
• November 21 - Actor Bruce Willis marries actress Demi Moore.

Top grossing films

1. Three Men and a Baby, starring Ted Danson, Steve Guttenberg, and Tom Selleck
2. Fatal Attraction, starring Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, and Anne Archer
3. Beverly Hills Cop II, starring Eddie Murphy
4. Good Morning, Vietnam, starring Robin Williams
5. Moonstruck, starring Cher, Nicolas Cage
6. The Untouchables, starring Kevin Costner, Sean Connery and Robert De Niro.
7. The Secret of My Succe$s, starring Michael J. Fox
8. Stakeout, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez, Madeleine Stowe
9. Lethal Weapon, starring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, and Gary Busey
10. The Witches of Eastwick, starring Susan Sarandon, Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: The Last Emperor - Hemdale, Columbia

Best Director: Bernardo Bertolucci - The Last Emperor

Best Actor: Michael Douglas - Wall Street

Best Actress: Cher - Moonstruck

Best Supporting Actor: Sean Connery - The Untouchables

Best Supporting Actress: Olympia Dukakis - Moonstruck

Best Foreign Language Film: Babette's Feast (Babettes Gæstebud), directed by Gabriel Axel, Denmark

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: The Last Emperor

Best Actor: Michael Douglas - Wall Street

Best Actress: Sally Kirkland - Anna

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: Hope and Glory

Best Actor: Robin Williams - Good Morning, Vietnam

Best Actress: Cher - Moonstruck

Other

Best Director: Bernardo Bertolucci - The Last Emperor

Best Foreign Language Film: My Life as a Dog, Sweden

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Under the Sun of Satan (Sous le soleil de Satan), directed by Maurice Pialat, France

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Au revoir, les enfants (Goodbye, Children), directed by Louis Malle, France / W. Germany

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Tema (1979) (The Theme), directed by Gleb Panfilov, USSR

Films released in 1987

• Adventures in Babysitting
• L'Ami de mon amie (My Girlfriend's Boyfriend or Boyfriends and Girlfriends)
• Angel Heart
• Anna
• Aria (10 short films)
• Au revoir, les enfants - Golden Lion award
• Babette's Feast (Babettes Gæstebud) - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
• Baby Boom, starring Diane Keaton
• Backfire
• Bad Taste, written and directed by Peter Jackson et al.
• Bagdad Café, also known as Out of Rosenheim, Golden Space Needle award (for 1988)
• The Bedroom Window
• Bellman and True
• The Belly of an Architect
• Beverly Hills Cop II
• The Big Easy
• The Brave Little Toaster
• Broadcast News
• Business as Usual
• Dark Eyes
• Daughter of the Nile (Niluohe nuer)
• Dead of Winter
• Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam, aka Dear America
• Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
• Diary for My Loves (Napló szerelmeimnek)
• Dirty Dancing
• Empire of the Sun
• Evil Dead II
• Family Viewing
• Fatal Attraction
• Fatal Beauty
• Five Corners, starring Tim Robbins, Jodie Foster, and John Turturro
• Full Metal Jacket
• The Gate
• Ghost Chase
• Le Grand Chemin
• Ground Zero
• Good Morning, Vietnam
• The Hanoi Hilton
• Hellraiser
• The Hidden
• Hiding Out, starring Jon Cryer
• High Tide
• Hope and Glory - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
• A Hungarian Fairy Tale (Hol volt, hol nem volt)
• Innerspace
• The Last Emperor - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture
• Less Than Zero
• Lethal Weapon
• The Living Daylights
• The Lost Boys
• Maid to Order
• Mannequin
• Masters of the Universe starring Dolph Lundgren & Courteney Cox
• Matewan
• Mio in the Land of Faraway
• The Monster Squad
• Moonstruck
• Mr. Nice Guy starring Mike MacDonald and Jan Smithers
• My Life As a Dog, directed by Lasse Hallstrom, Golden Space Needle award
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors
• Overboard starring Kurt Russell & Goldie Hawn
• Pelle the Conqueror - Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film (for 1988)
• Predator
• The Principal
• Prince of Darkness starring Donald Pleasence, Jameson Parker and Victor Wong
• The Princess Bride
• Red Sorghum (Hong gao liang) - Golden Bear award (for 1988)
• Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise with Robert Carradine and Courtney Thorne-Smith
• RoboCop starring Peter Weller
• Roxanne starring Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah
• The Secret of My Succe$s
• The Sicilian (film)
• Some Kind of Wonderful starring Eric Stoltz, Mary Stuart Masterson and Lea Thompson
• Spaceballs directed by Mel Brooks
• Square Dance
• Stakeout
• Straight to Hell
• Summer School with Courtney Thorne-Smith
• Superman IV: The Quest For Peace starring Christopher Reeve
• Teen Wolf Too
• Three Men and a Baby
• Tropic Of Ice
• Under the Sun of Satan (Sous le soleil de Satan) - Palm d'Or award
• The Untouchables
• Waiting for the Moon
• Walker
• Wall Street
• Wanted: Dead or Alive
• Wish You Were Here with Emily Lloyd and Tom Bell
• The Witches of Eastwick
• Withnail and I

Births

• February 11 - Jesse McCartney, actor and singer
• September 22 - Tom Felton, actor
• September 28 - Hilary Duff
• July 30 - Phillip Mataway
• September 7 - Evan Rachel Wood, Actress
• September 11 - Tyler Hoechlin, actor
• November 18 - Courtney Weller
• December 21 - Labaren Holland - actor, singer/songwriter

Deaths

• January 15 - Ray Bolger, actor, singer, dancer
• March 3 - Danny Kaye, actor
• May 14 - Rita Hayworth, actress
• June 1 - Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, director
• June 22 - Fred Astaire, actor, singer, dancer
• July 3 - Viola Dana, actress
• August 1 - Pola Negri, actress
• August 28 - John Huston, actor, director
• September 25 - Mary Astor, actress
• October 13 - Kishore Kumar, actor, singer

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