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The year 1993 in film involved many significant films. (For more about films in foreign languages, check sources in those languages.)

Events

• The film Jurassic Park, a dinosaur epic with massive special effects, breaks box-office records by becoming the highest-grossing film of ever made (at the time) and a plot described as a "roller-coaster ride through a haunted house."
• Family romance film Sleepless in Seattle revives the genre of the Courtship of Eddie's Father, with an extensive soundtrack of oldies music.
• March 31 - Actor Brandon Lee is accidentally killed during the filming of The Crow.
• April 12 - Actress Lisa Bonet files for divorce from Lenny Kravitz.
• April 17 - The Bangles' Susanna Hoffs marries screenwriter Jay Roach in Los Angeles, California.
• Actress Kim Basinger files for bankruptcy after a California judge orders her to pay $7.4 million for refusing to honor a verbal contract to star in the movie Boxing Helena. As a result, Basinger loses the town that she purchased in 1989, Braselton, Georgia, to her partner in the deal, the pension fund of Chicago-based Ameritech.
• May 28 - Produced by Hollywood Pictures, Super Mario Bros. opens, marking the first video game film released, starring Bob Hoskins as Mario and John Leguizamo as Luigi.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

source: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1993&p=.htm

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: Schindler's List - Amblin Entertainment, Universal Pictures

Best Director: Steven Spielberg - Schindler's List

Best Actor: Tom Hanks - Philadelphia

Best Actress: Holly Hunter - The Piano

Best Supporting Actor: Tommy Lee Jones - The Fugitive

Best Supporting Actress: Anna Paquin - The Piano

Best Foreign Language Film: Belle Époque (The Age of Beauty), directed by Fernando Trueba, Spain

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: Schindler's List

Best Actor: Tom Hanks - Philadelphia

Best Actress: Holly Hunter - The Piano

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: Mrs. Doubtfire

Best Actor: Robin Williams - Mrs. Doubtfire

Best Actress: Angela Bassett - What's Love Got to Do with It?

Other

Best Director: Steven Spielberg, Schindler's List

Best Foreign Language Film: Farewell My Concubine (Ba wang bie ji), China / Hong Kong

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Farewell My Concubine (霸王別姬, Ba wang bie ji), directed by Chen Kaige, China / Hong Kong

The Piano, directed by Jane Campion, New Zealand

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Short Cuts, directed by Robert Altman, United States

Three Colors: Blue (Trois Couleurs: Bleu), directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski, France / Poland / Switzerland / U.K.

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

The Women from the Lake of Scented Souls (Xian hun nu), directed by Xie Fei, China

The Wedding Banquet (Hsi yen), directed by Ang Lee, Taiwan / U.S.A.

Films released in 1993

A

• Addams Family Values, directed by Barry Sonnenfeld
• The Age of Innocence, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer and Winona Ryder
• Airborne
• Alive
• American Cyborg:Steel Warrior
• Amos & Andrew, starring Nicolas Cage and Samuel L. Jackson
• Another Stakeout, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez and Rosie O'Donnell
• Arizona Dream
• Army of Darkness, directed by Sam Raimi
• Army Of One
• Aspen Extreme

B

• Bank Robber
• Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, directed by Eric Radomski and Bruce Timm
• Beethoven's 2nd
• Being Human
• Benny & Joon, starring Johnny Depp, Mary Stuart Masterson and Aidan Quinn
• Best of the Best 2
• Body of Evidence, starring Madonna, Willem Dafoe, Joe Mantegna and Anne Archer
• Boiling Point
• Bopha!
• Born Yesterday
• Bound by Honor
• Boxing Helena, starring Sherilyn Fenn and Julian Sands
• A Bronx Tale

C

• Calendar Girl
• Carlito's Way, starring Al Pacino and Sean Penn
• Carnosaur,
• CB4
• Chai gong (Mad Monk)
• Class to Remember, A - Japan Academy Prize for Picture of the Year
• Cliffhanger, starring Sylvester Stallone
• Coneheads, directed by Steve Barron
• Cool Runnings
• Cop and a Half
• The Crush, starring Cary Elwes and Alicia Silverstone

D

• A Dangerous Woman
• The Dark Half, starring Timothy Hutton and Amy Madigan
• Darr
• Dave, starring Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver
• Dazed and Confused
• Deadfall
• Demolition Man, starring Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes and Sandra Bullock
• Dennis the Menace
• Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story

E

• Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
• Excessive Force

F

• Falling Down, starring Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey
• A Far Off Place
• Faraway, So Close!
• Farewell My Concubine (Ba wang bie ji) - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and Palme d'Or award
• Fatal Instinct, starring Armand Assante, Sherilyn Fenn and Sean Young
• Fearless, starring Jeff Bridges, Isabella Rosselini and Rosie Perez
• Fire in the Sky
• The Firm, starring Tom Cruise
• Flesh and Bone
• For Love or Money
• A Foreign Field
• Free Willy, directed by Simon Wincer
• The Fugitive, starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones

G

• Geronimo: An American Legend
• Gettysburg
• Ghost in the Machine
• Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla II
• The Good Son, starring Macaulay Culkin and Elijah Wood
• Groundhog Day, starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell
• Grumpy Old Men

H

• Happily Ever After
• Hard Target
• Heart and Souls, starring Robert Downey, Jr.
• Heaven & Earth
• Hexed
• Hocus Pocus, directed by Kenny Ortega, starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy
• A Home of Our Own
• Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
• Hot Shots! Part Deux
• House of Cards
• The House of the Spirits

I

• In the Line of Fire, starring Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich and Rene Russo
• In the Name of the Father - Golden Bear award (for 1994), starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite and Emma Thompson
• Indecent Proposal, starring Robert Redford, Demi Moore and Woody Harrelson

J

• Jack the Bear
• Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
• Joshua Tree
• The Joy Luck Club
• Judgment Night
• Jurassic Park, directed by Steven Spielberg

K

• Kalifornia

L

• Last Action Hero, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Leprechaun
• Life with Mikey
• Little Buddha
• Look Who's Talking Now
• Lost in Yonkers

M

• M. Butterfly
• Mad Dog and Glory
• Made in America, starring Whoopi Goldberg and Ted Danson
• Malice, starring Alec Baldwin, Nicole Kidman and Bill Pullman
• The Man Without a Face
• Manhattan Murder Mystery
• Married to It
• Matinee
• Menace II Society
• The Meteor Man
• Mr. Jones
• Mr. Nanny, starring Hulk Hogan and Sherman Hemsley
• Mr. Wonderful, starring Matt Dillon, Annabella Sciorra, William Hurt and Mary-Louise Parker
• Mrs. Doubtfire - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy), starring Robin Williams and Sally Field
• Much Ado About Nothing
• My Favorite Season
• My Life

N

• Naked
• Naked in New York
• National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
• The Nightmare Before Christmas, directed by Henry Selick
• Ninja Scroll
• No Place To Hide
• Nowhere to Run

O

• Once Upon a Forest, directed by Charles Grosvenor
• Only The Strong
• Ordinary Magic

P

• The Pelican Brief, starring Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington
• A Perfect World, starring Kevin Costner and Clint Eastwood
• Philadelphia, starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington
• The Piano - Palme d'Or award, starring Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill and Anna Paquin
• Poetic Justice, directed by John Singleton, starring Janet Jackson
• Point Of Impact
• Point of No Return, starring Bridget Fonda
• Posse
• The Program
• Public Access

R

• The Real McCoy
• The Remains of the Day, starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson
• Return of the Living Dead 3
• Rising Sun, starring Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes
• Robin Hood: Men in Tights, directed by Mel Brooks
• Robocop 3, directed by Fred Dekker
• Rookie of the Year, directed by Daniel Stern
• Romeo Is Bleeding
• Ruby in Paradise
• Rudy

S

• The Sandlot, directed by David M. Evans
• Schindler's List - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture
• Searching For Bobby Fischer
• The Secret Garden
• The Sex of the Stars
• Shadowlands, starring Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger
• Short Cuts - Golden Lion award
• Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, directed by Bill Duke
• Six Degrees of Separation, starring Stockard Channing, Will Smith and Donald Sutherland
• Sleepless in Seattle, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan
• Sliver, starring Sharon Stone, William Baldwin and Tom Berenger
• Sniper, starring Tom Berenger
• So I Married an Axe Murderer
• Sommersby, starring Richard Gere and Jodie Foster
• Son in Law
• Son of the Pink Panther, directed by Blake Edwards
• Speak Up! It's So Dark
• Street Knight
• Striking Distance
• Sunset Grill
• Super Mario Bros., directed by Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel
• Surf Ninjas
• Swing Kids

T

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
• The Temp, starring Timothy Hutton, Lara Flynn Boyle and Faye Dunaway
• This Boy's Life, starring Robert De Niro, Ellen Barkin and Leonardo DiCaprio
• Three Colors: Blue - 1st of the Krzysztof Kieślowski trilogy, starring Juliette Binoche - Golden Lion award
• The Three Musketeers, directed by Stephen Herek
• Three of Hearts, starring William Baldwin, Kelly Lynch and Sherilyn Fenn
• Tom and Jerry: The Movie, directed by Phil Roman
• Tombstone
• True Romance, starring Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette
• Two Small Bodies

U

• Undercover Blues, starring Kathleen Turner and Dennis Quaid
• Untamed Heart, starring Christian Slater and Marisa Tomei

V

• The Vanishing

W

• Wayne's World 2, directed by Stephen Surjik
• The Wedding Banquet - Golden Bear and Golden Space Needle awards
• We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story, directed by Dick Zondag, Ralph Zondag, Phil Nibbelink and Simon Wells
• Weekend at Bernie's II
• What's Eating Gilbert Grape, starring Johnny Depp, Juliette Lewis and Leonardo DiCaprio
• What's Love Got to Do With It, directed by Brian Gibson - Nominated for 2 Oscars, won the American Choreography Award, starring Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne
• Who's the Man?
• The Women from the Lake of Scented Souls (Xian hun nu) - Golden Bear award
• Wrestling Ernest Hemingway

Y

• The Young Americans

Wide-release movies

January-March

• January 1993
• January 15-Nowhere to Run
• February 1993
• March 1993
• March 19-Teenage Muntant Ninja Turtules 3

April-June

• April 1993
• May 1993
• May 28-Super Mario Bros., Made In America,Cliffhanger
• June 1993
• June 11-Jurassic Park
• June 18 - Last Action Hero
• June 25 - Dennis the Menace, Sleepless in Seattle
• June 30-The Firm

July-September

• July 1993
• July 9-In The Line of Fire

• July 16-Free Willy
• August 1993
• August 6-The Fugitive
• September 1993
• September 17-Striking Distance

October-December

• October 1993
• November 1993
• November 5-Robocop 3
• December 1993
• December 10-Wayne's World 2

• December 17-What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Pelican Brief

• December 25-Batman:Mask of The Phantasm,Tombstone,Grumpy Old Men

Births

• January 11 - Flora Cross, actress
• January 18 - Morgan York, actress
• January 19 - Gus Lewis, actor
• January 26 - Cameron Bright, actor
• February 7 - David Dorfman, actor
• February 16 - Mike Weinberg, actor
• February 19 - Victoria Justice, actress
• February 26 - Taylor Dooley, actress
• March 4
  • Jenna Boyd, actress
  • Alice Jones, actress
  • Abigail Mavity, actress
• March 9 - Joseph Judge, future Oscar-winning director
• March 17 - Julia Winter, actress
• March 28 - Naoki Takeshi, actor
• April 5 - Nick Price, actor
• April 14 - Vivien Cardone, actress
• May 14 - Miranda Cosgrove, actress
• May 24 - Oliver Davis, actor
• June 7 - Jordan Fry, actor
• June 9 - Danielle Chuchran, actress
• June 25 - Barney Clark, actor
• July 6 - Jeremy Suarez, actor and voice actor (The Bernie Mac Show, Brother Bear)
• July 9 - Emily Hirst, actress
• July 26 - Taylor Momsen, actress
• July 31 - Christian Byers, actor
• August 2 - Ryan and Kyle Pepi, actors
• August 5 - Suzuka Ohgo, actress
• August 12 - Imani Hakim, actress
• August 16 - Cameron Monaghan, actor
• August 20 - Brianna and Brittany McConnell, actresses
• August 26 - Keke Palmer, actress
• September 9 - Charlie Stewart, actor
• September 12 - Jacob and Zachary Handy, actors
• September 18 - Patrick McGovern, actor
• September 22 - Chase Ellison, actor
• November 22 - Dante Orange, actor
• October 8 - Angus T. Jones, actor
• December 8 - AnnaSophia Robb, actress
• December 22 - Ali Lohan, actress

Deaths

• January 20 - Audrey Hepburn, actress
• February 6 - Joseph Mankiewicz, director, producer, writer
• February 11 - Joy Garrett, actress
• February 27 - Lillian Gish, actress
• February 28 - Ruby Keeler, singer, actress
• March 17 - Helen Hayes, actress
• March 31 - Brandon Lee, actor, son of actor Bruce Lee
• April 5 - Divya Bharti, Bollywood actress
• June 9 - Alexis Smith, actress
• June 11 - Bernard Bresslaw, actor
• June 30 - George "Spanky" McFarland, actor
• July 2 - Fred Gwynne, actor, "The Munsters" and numerous films
• August 16 - Stewart Granger, actor
• September 12 - Raymond Burr, actor
• October 10 - John Bindon, actor, bodyguard
• October 25 - Vincent Price, actor
• October 31 - Federico Fellini, Italian film director
• October 31 - River Phoenix, actor
• November 15 - Fritz Feld, actor
• November 28 - Kenneth Connor, actor
• December 4 - Frank Zappa, songwriter/performer
• December 6 - Don Ameche, actor
• December 14 - Myrna Loy, actress
• December 18 - Sam Wanamaker, director/actor, father of actress Zoë Wanamaker