1993 in film
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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.)
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- The film Jurassic Park, a dinosaur epic with massive special effects, breaks box-office records with 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.
| Rank | Title | Studio | Domestic |
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| 1. | Jurassic Park | Universal Studios | $357,000,000 |
| 2. | Mrs. Doubtfire | Fox | $219,195,243 |
| 3. | The Fugitive | Warner Bros. | $183,875,760 |
| 4. | The Firm | Paramount | $158,348,367 |
| 5. | Sleepless in Seattle | TriStar | $126,680,884 |
| 6. | Indecent Proposal | Paramount | $106,614,059 |
| 7. | In the Line of Fire | Columbia | $102,314,823 |
| 8. | The Pelican Brief | Warner Bros. | $100,768,056 |
| 9. | Schindler's List | Universal | $96,065,768 |
| 10. | Cliffhanger | TriStar | $84,049,211 |
source: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1993&p=.htm
- 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
- 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.
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
- 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
- Aspen Extreme
B
- 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
- CB4
- Chai gong (Mad Monk)
- Cliffhanger, starring Sylvester Stallone
- Coneheads, directed by Steve Barron
- Cool Runnings
- Cop and a Half
- The Crush, starring Cary Elwes and Alicia Silverstone
D
- The Dark Half, starring Timothy Hutton and Amy Madigan
- Dave, starring Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver
- Dazed and Confused
- Demolition Man, starring Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes and Sandra Bullock
- Dennis the Menace
- Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
E
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
- 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
- The Joy Luck Club
- Judgment Night
- Jurassic Park, directed by Steven Spielberg
K
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. 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
- Nowhere to Run
O
- Once Upon a Forest, directed by Charles Grosvenor
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
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
- 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 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, voice actor
- 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 7 - Francesca Fisher-Eastwood, actress
- August 11 - Alyson Stoner, 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
- October 8 - Angus T. Jones, actor
- December 8 - AnnaSophia Robb, actress
- December 22 - Ali Lohan, actress
- 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
- July 2 - Fred Gwynne, actor, "The Munsters" and numerous films
- June 30 - George "Spanky" McFarland, actor
- August 16 - Stewart Granger, actor
- August 17 - Laila Ayub, actress
- 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
- 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
