Events

• April 12 - Actor Morgan Mason marries The Go-Go's Belinda Carlisle.
• April 26 - Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger marries television journalist Maria Shriver.
• May - Actress Heather Locklear marries Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee.
• November 21 - Actor Cary Grant dies of a cerebral hemorrhage.
• November 29 - Dar Robinson, considered the greatest stuntman ever, is killed on the set of the film Million Dollar Mystery.
• Turner Broadcasting begins to colorize black and white movie classics.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Awards

Best Picture: Platoon - Hemdale, Orion Best Director: Oliver Stone - Platoon Best Actor: Paul Newman - The Color of Money Best Actress: Marlee Matlin - Children of a Lesser God Best Supporting Actor: Michael Caine - Hannah and Her Sisters Best Supporting Actress: Dianne Wiest - Hannah and Her Sisters Best Foreign Language Film: The Assault (De Aanslag), directed by Fons Rademakers, Netherlands

Drama: Best Picture: Platoon Best Actor: Bob Hoskins - Mona Lisa Best Actress: Marlee Matlin - Children of a Lesser God

Musical or comedy: Best Picture: Hannah and Her Sisters Best Actor: Paul Hogan - Crocodile Dundee Best Actress: Sissy Spacek - Crimes of the Heart

Other Best Director: Oliver Stone, Platoon Best Foreign Language Film: The Assault, Netherlands

The Mission, directed by Roland Joffé, United Kingdom

The Green Ray (Le Rayon vert), directed by Éric Rohmer, France

Stammheim, directed by Reinhard Hauff, West Germany

Films released in 1986

• 3:15
• 37°2 le matin (Betty Blue), directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix, Golden Needle award for 1992
• 52 Pick-Up
• 8 Million Ways to Die
• 9½ Weeks
• About Last Night
• The Adventures of the American Rabbit
• The AIDS Show
• Aliens
• Armed and Dangerous
• Armed Response
• American Justice
• An American Tail
• Amorosa
• The Assault - Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, Golden Space Needle award
• As Is, directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, starring Colleen Dewhurst, Robert Carradine and Jonathan Hadary
• At Close Range
• Attention! Bandits!, aka Bandits, directed by Claude Lelouch (France)
• Avenging Force
• Back to School
• Band Of The Hand
• Big Trouble in Little China, starring Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun, James Hong and Victor Wong
• Black Moon Rising, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Linda Hamilton
• Blue City, starring Judd Nelson and Ally Sheedy
• Blue Velvet
• The Boy Who Could Fly
• Bullies
• By Touch
• Captain EO
• The Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation (a prequel to the original Care Bears Movie from 1985), starring Alyson Court, Cree Summer and Hadley Kay
• Casper's Wonderful Island
• Castaway, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring Amanda Donohoe and Oliver Reed
• Children of a Lesser God
• Choke Canyon
• Club Paradise, starring Robin Williams, Jimmy Cliff, Peter O'Toole, Rick Moranis and Eugene Levy
• The Color of Money, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Paul Newman and Tom Cruise
• Cobra
• Crocodile Dundee
• Dangerously Close
• Le Déclin de l'empire américain, (The Decline of the American Empire), written and directed by Denys Arcand
• The Delta Force
• Down and Out in Beverly Hills
• Down by Law, directed by Jim Jarmusch, starring Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni
• Eliminators
• Equalizer 2000
• Extremities
• Eye Of The Tiger
• F/X, starring Bryan Brown and Brian Dennehy
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off
• Firewalker
• Flight of the Navigator
• The Fly
• Foreign Body
• Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
• The Fringe Dwellers
• Genesis, starring Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, M.K. Raina (India / Switzerland / Belgium / France)
• Ghost Warrior
• GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords
• The Golden Child
• Good to Go
• The Great Mouse Detective
• The Green Ray (Le Rayon vert) - Golden Lion award
• Gung Ho!
• Hannah and Her Sisters - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
• Heartbreak Ridge
• Heathcliff: The Movie
• Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
• Highlander
• The Hitcher
• Hoosiers
• Hôtel du Paradis
• Howard the Duck
• Invaders from Mars
• Iron Eagle
• Jake Speed
• Jean de Florette, starring Gérard Depardieu and Yves Montand
• The Jet Benny Show
• Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
• Jumpin' Jack Flash, starring Whoopi Goldberg, Annie Potts, Jon Lovitz, Carol Kane
• The Karate Kid, Part II
• Laputa: Castle in the Sky (August 2 - Japan)
• Labyrinth, starring David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly
• Let's Get Harry
• Little Shop of Horrors
• Low Blow
• Loyalties
• Lucas
• Luxo Jr.
• Malcolm
• The Manhattan Project
• Manhunter, directed by Michael Mann and starring William Petersen.
• Manon des Sources starring Emmanuelle Beart and Yves Montand
• Maximum Overdrive
• The Messenger
• The Morning After
• Miracles
• The Mosquito Coast
• The Mission - Palme d'Or award
• Modern Girls
• Mona Lisa, directed by Neil Jordan
• The Money Pit, starring Tom Hanks and Shelley Long
• Murphy's Law
• My Little Pony: The Movie (a feature-length adaptation of the TV series and toy line)
• 'night, Mother, starring Sissy Spacek and Anne Bancroft
• The Name of the Rose, starring Sean Connery and Christian Slater
• Never Too Young To Die
• Nomads
• No Mercy, starring Kim Basinger and Richard Gere
• Off Beat
• One More Saturday Night
• Out of Bounds
• The Patriot
• Peggy Sue Got Married directed by Francis Ford Coppola starring Kathleen Turner
• Pirates, directed by Roman Polanski, starring Walter Matthau
• Platoon, directed by Oliver Stone - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture
• P.O.W.: The Escape
• Pretty in Pink, directed by Howard Deutch, starring Molly Ringwald, Jon Cryer, James Spader
• Project A-ko
• Psycho III, directed by Anthony Perkins, starring Anthony Perkins, Diana Scarwid, Jeff Fahey
• Quiet Cool
• Quicksilver
• Rad
• Raw Deal, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
• River's Edge(1986 film), starring Crispin Glover
• Robotech: The Movie, directed by Carl Macek and Noboru Ishiguro
• Round Midnight
• Ruthless People
• Sarraounia
• Shanghai Surprise, starring Madonna and Sean Penn
• Short Circuit, starring Steve Guttenberg
• Sid and Nancy, starring Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb
• Solarbabies
• Something Wild, starring Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith and Ray Liotta
• Stammheim - Golden Bear award
• Stand by Me
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
• Stoogemania
• Streets of Gold
• That's Life!
• ¡Three Amigos!, starring Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Chevy Chase
• Thunder Run
• Toby McTeague
• Top Gun
• Tough Guys
• Trick or Treat, starring Marc Price, Gene Simmons, and Ozzy Osbourne
• The Transformers: The Movie, starring Eric Idle, Judd Nelson, and Orson Welles
• Troll
• True Stories
• Under The Cherry Moon, starring Prince
• Wildcats, starring Goldie Hawn, Nipsey Russell, Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson and LL Cool J
• Wisdom
• X :The Unheard Music

Births

• January 24 - Mischa Barton, English-born American actress
• February 19 - Maria Mena, Norwegian singer
• March 9 - Brittany Snow, American actress
• March 14 - Jamie Bell, English actor
• April 3 - Amanda Bynes, American actress and variety show host
• April 9 - Leighton Meester, American actress and singer
• May 13- Robert Pattinson, English-born American actor
• May 16 - Megan Fox, American actress
• June 11 - Shia LaBeouf, American actor
• June 13 - Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, American actresses and entrepreneurs
• June 27 - Drake Bell, American actor
• July 2 - Lindsay Lohan, American actress
• August 16 - Shawn Pyfrom, American actor
• August 29 - Lauren Conrad, American TV personality and author
• September 12 - Emmy Rossum, American actress and singer
• October 2 - Camilla Belle, American actress
• November 1 - Penn Badgley, American actor
• November 25 - Katie Cassidy, American actress and singer

Deaths

• January 2 - Una Merkel, American actress
• January 14 - Donna Reed, American actress
• March 10 - Ray Milland, British actor
• March 30 - James Cagney, actor
• April 13 - Stephen Stucker, comedy actor
• April 23 - Otto Preminger, Austrian born director
• April 26 - Broderick Crawford, Oscar winning American actor
• April 26 - Bessie Love, American actress
• May 23 - Sterling Hayden, American actor
• June 3 - Anna Neagle, English actress
• June 13 - Benny Goodman, musician, actor
• July 25 - Vincente Minnelli, American director
• September 27 - Cliff Burton, American musician, Metallica
• October 5 - Hal B. Wallis, major American film producer
• November 21 - Dar Robinson, film stuntman
• November 29 - Cary Grant, actor
• December 13 - Heather Angel, actress
• December 26 - Elsa Lanchester, English actress
• December 28 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian film director

Film debuts

• Winona Ryder; Lucas
• Angela Bassett; F/X
• Christian Bale; Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna
• Joaquin Phoenix; SpaceCamp
• Tilda Swinton; Caravaggio
• Kristin Scott Thomas; Under the Cherry Moon
• Bill Pullman; Ruthless People
• Elizabeth Perkins; About Last Night...