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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	Actors	Director	Gross

1. Home Alone Fox Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern Chris Columbus $285,761,243 2. Ghost Paramount Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg Jerry Zucker $217,631,306 3. Dances with Wolves Orion Kevin Costner Kevin Costner $184,208,848 4. Pretty Woman Touchstone Richard Gere and Julia Roberts Garry Marshall $178,406,268 5. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles New Line Cinema Judith Hoag and Elias Koteas Steve Barron $135,265,915 6. The Hunt for Red October Paramount Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin John McTiernan $122,012,643 7. Total Recall TriStar Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside and Ronny Cox Paul Verhoeven $119,394,840 8. Die Hard 2: Die Harder 20th Century Fox Bruce Willis Renny Harlin $117,540,947 9. Dick Tracy Touchstone Warren Beatty, Madonna, Glenne Headly and Al Pacino Warren Beatty $103,738,726 10 Kindergarten Cop Universal Arnold Schwarzenegger Ivan Reitman $91,457,688

Awards

Academy 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

Golden Globe Awards:

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

• The Adventures of Ford Fairlane
• After Dark, My Sweet
• Air America, starring Mel Gibson and Robert Downey, Jr.
• Alice, directed by Woody Allen
• American Ninja 4: The Annihilation
• Angel Town
• 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) film 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
• Captain America
• Childhood Days - Japan Academy Prize for Picture of the Year
• Child's Play 2
• City Hunter: Bay City Wars
• Class of 1999
• 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, directed by and starring Kevin Costner
• Darkman, starring Liam Neeson
• Days of Being Wild
• Days of Thunder, starring Tom Cruise, Robert Duvall and Nicole Kidman
• Death Warrant
• Dei tau lung (Dragon Fighter)
• Delta Force II: The Columbia Connection
• Denial
• 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
• Downtown, starring Anthony Edwards and Forest Whitaker
• 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
• Fantasia (restored version)
• 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
• Fourth War, The, starring Roy Schneider and Jurgen Prochnow
• Frankenstein Unbound
• The Freshman, starring Marlon Brando and Matthew Broderick
• Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
• Funny About Love directed by Leonard Nimoy, starring Gene Wilder and Christine Lahti
• 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
• Havana, starring Robert Redford, Lena Olin and Alan Arkin
• Heart Condition, starring Bob Hoskins, and Denzel Washington
• Heaven and Earth
• Henry & June, starring Fred Ward, Maria de Medeiros and Uma Thurman
• Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
• Home Alone, starring Macaulay Culkin
• The Hot Spot
• House Party
• The Hunt for Red October, starring Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin, directed by John McTiernan (Die Hard)
• I Come in Peace
• Internal Affairs, starring Richard Gere and Andy Garcia
• Jacob's Ladder, starring Tim Robbins, directed by Adrian Lyne
• Jetsons: The Movie
• Joe Versus the Volcano, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan
• John & Brandy
• 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
• Last Of the Finest
• Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III
• The Lemon Sisters
• Lionheart
• Longtime Companion
• The Long Walk Home
• Look Who's Talking Too, starring John Travolta and Kirstie Alley
• Loose Cannons
• Lord of the Flies
• Love at Large
• Mack the Knife
• Marked for Death, starring Steven Seagal
• The Match Factory Girl
• Memories of a River
• Memphis Belle
• Men at Work
• Mermaids, starring Cher, Winona Ryder and Christina Ricci
• Metropolitan
• Miami Blues starring Fred Ward and Alec Baldwin
• Midnight Ride
• 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
• Nightbreed
• 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, Talia Shire, Burt Young, and Burgess Meredith
• Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever
• Rockula
• 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
• Short Time
• Sibling Rivalry
• Side Out, starring Courtney Thorne-Smith
• Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation
• Silent Scream
• Spaced Invaders, directed by Patrick Read Johnson, starring Douglas Barr, Royal Dano, Ariana Richards and J. J. Anderson
• Stanley & Iris, starring Robert De Niro and Jane Fonda
• State of Grace, starring Sean Penn, Ed Harris and Gary Oldman
• Stella
• 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
• Ultra Q The Movie: Legend of the Stars
• Vincent & Theo
• Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
• Where the Heart Is
• 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

Wide-release movies

January-March

• January 1990
• February 1990
• March 1990
• March 2 - The Hunt for Red October
• March 25 - Pretty Woman

April-June

• April 1990
• May 1990
• May 4 - Short Time
• May 25 - Back to the Future Part III
• June 1990
• June 1 - Total Recall
• June 27 - Days of Thunder

July-September

• July 1990
• July 4 - Die Hard 2: Die Harder
• July 13 - Ghost
• July 18 - Arachnophobia
• August 1990
• September 1990
• September 19 - Goodfellas

October-December

• October 1990
• November 1990
• November 16
• Home Alone
• Rocky V
• November 21
• Dances with Wolves
• Predator 2
• Three Men and a Little Lady
• December 1990
• December 21 - Kindergarten Cop
• December 25 - The Godfather Part III

Births

• March 24 - Keisha Castle-Hughes, actress
• April 9 - Kristen Stewart, 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
• December 20 - JoJo, American singer-songwriter and actress

Deaths

• January 5 - Arthur Kennedy, actor
• 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
• February 19 - Michael Powell, director
• 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 8 - Howard Duff, actor
• July 15 - Margaret Lockwood, actress
• July 19 - Eddie Quillan, actor
• 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
• December 9 - Mike Mazurki, actor

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