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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 that has ever been 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.)

Rank	Title	Studio	Gross/Gross after Inflation
1.	Jurassic Park

Universal $357,067,947

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$610,636,127
2. Mrs. Doubtfire Fox $219,195,243

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$374,855,542
3. The Fugitive Warner Bros. $183,875,760

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$314,453,076
4. The Firm Paramount $158,348,367

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$270,798,003
5. Sleepless in Seattle TriStar $126,680,884

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$179,651,509
6. Indecent Proposal Paramount $106,614,059

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$151,193,897
7. In the Line of Fire Columbia $102,314,823

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$145,096,969
8. The Pelican Brief Warner Bros. $100,768,056

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$172,328,433
9. Schindler's List Universal $96,065,768

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$164,285,020
10. Cliffhanger TriStar $84,049,211

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$119,193,734
source: 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 Neighbour Totoro (English dub)
• 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
• Where's God When I'm S-Scared?
• 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