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The following is an overview of events in 1988 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.
Highest-grossing films
[edit]The top 10 films released in 1988 by worldwide gross are as follows:[1]
| Rank | Title | Distributor | Worldwide gross |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rain Man | MGM | $354,825,435 |
| 2 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Buena Vista | $329,803,958 |
| 3 | Coming to America | Paramount | $288,752,301 |
| 4 | Crocodile Dundee II | $239,606,210 | |
| 5 | Twins | Universal | $216,614,388 |
| 6 | Rambo III | TriStar / Carolco | $189,015,611 |
| 7 | A Fish Called Wanda | MGM | $188,597,000[2][3][4] |
| 8 | Cocktail | Buena Vista | $171,504,781 |
| 9 | Big | 20th Century Fox | $151,668,774 |
| 10 | Die Hard | $141,500,000 |
Events
[edit]- May 25 – Rambo III is released as the most expensive film ever made with a production budget between $58 and $63 million. The film fails to match the box office earnings from Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985).
- July 15 – Die Hard defies low commercial expectations to gross $141.5 million worldwide. Hailed as an influential landmark in the action film genre, it influences a common formula for many action films in the 1990s, featuring a lone everyman against a colorful terrorist character who is usually holding hostages in an isolated setting.
- September 19 – English character actor Roy Kinnear suffers a fall from a horse which will prove fatal while filming The Return of the Musketeers in Toledo, Spain.[5]
- October 10 – Batman officially commences filming at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, England.
- October 27 – E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is released on VHS and laserdisc; to combat piracy, the tapeguards and tape hubs on the videocassettes are colored green, and the tape itself is affixed with a small, holographic sticker of the 1963 Universal logo (much like the holograms on a credit card), and encoded with Macrovision. In North America alone, VHS sales come to $75 million.[6]
- December 16 – Rain Man is released to critical and commercial success and becomes the highest grossing film of 1988 worldwide with a gross of $355 million. Winning four Academy Awards including Best Picture, it is the last MGM title to be nominated for Best Picture until Licorice Pizza (2021) 33 years later.
Awards
[edit]Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival)
- Pelle the Conqueror (Pelle erobreren), directed by Bille August, Denmark
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival)
- La leggenda del santo bevitore (The Legend of the Holy Drinker), directed by Ermanno Olmi, Italy / France
Golden Bear (Berlin International Film Festival)
- Red Sorghum (Hong gao liang), directed by Zhang Yimou, China
1988 films
[edit]By country/region
[edit]- List of American films of 1988
- List of Argentine films of 1988
- List of Australian films of 1988
- List of Bangladeshi films of 1988
- List of British films of 1988
- List of Canadian films of 1988
- List of French films of 1988
- List of Hong Kong films of 1988
- List of Indian films of 1988
- List of Japanese films of 1988
- List of Mexican films of 1988
- List of Pakistani films of 1988
- List of South Korean films of 1988
- List of Soviet films of 1988
- List of Spanish films of 1988
By genre/medium
[edit]- List of action films of 1988
- List of animated feature films of 1988
- List of avant-garde films of 1988
- List of comedy films of 1988
- List of drama films of 1988
- List of horror films of 1988
- List of science fiction films of 1988
- List of thriller films of 1988
- List of western films of 1988
Births
[edit]- January 3 - Karl Glusman, American actor
- January 6 - Mehwish Hayat, Pakistani actress
- January 7 – Haley Bennett, American actress and singer
- January 12 – Andrew Lawrence, American actor
- January 14 - Tom Rosenthal, English actor, comedian and writer
- January 21 - John Early, American comedian and actor
- February 2
- Amadou Ly, Senegalese-born actor, writer and producer
- Zosia Mamet, American actress and musician
- February 6 – Anna Diop, Senegalese-born American actress[7]
- February 8 - Ryan Pinkston, American actor
- February 11 - Jazz Raycole, American actress
- February 12
- Afshan Azad, British actress, model and media personality
- Nana Eikura, Japanese actress
- February 13
- Ferdinand Kingsley, British actor
- Erica Mendez, American voice actress
- February 16 - Steven Caple Jr., American director, producer and screenwriter
- February 17 – Nagita Slavina, Indonesian actress, television host, film producer, and singer
- February 18 - Sarah Sutherland, Canadian-American actress
- February 20
- Rihanna, Barbadian singer, songwriter and actress
- Tracy Spiridakos, Canadian actress
- February 29
- Reilly Dolman, Canadian actor
- Langston Fishburne, American actor
- March 4
- Josh Bowman, English actor
- Cody Longo, American actor (died 2023)
- March 14 – Stephen Curry, American basketball player
- March 21
- Luke Brandon Field, English actor and musician
- Kevin Guthrie, Scottish actor
- March 22 - Tania Raymonde, American actress
- March 24 - Finn Jones, English actor
- March 25 - Erik Knudsen, Canadian actor
- March 27 – Brenda Song, American actress, singer and model
- March 27 – Holliday Grainger, English actress
- April 2 - Jesse Plemons, American actor
- April 3 - Ruby Bentall, English actress
- April 4 - Maggie Geha, American actress and model
- April 6 – Mike Bailey, English actor
- April 10 – Haley Joel Osment, American actor
- April 13
- Allison Williams, American actress
- Katie Lucas, American actress and writer
- April 14
- Ben Lloyd-Hughes, British actor
- Chris Wood, American actor
- April 18 – Allison Williams, American actress
- April 18 – Vanessa Kirby, English actress
- April 21
- Robbie Amell, Canadian actor and producer
- Christoph Sanders, American actor
- April 23 – Carla Quevedo, Argentine actress
- April 25
- Jonathan Bailey, English actor
- Sara Paxton, American singer and actress
- April 27
- Lizzo, American singer, actress, and flautist
- Regé-Jean Page, British actor
- April 30 – Ana de Armas, Cuban actress
- May 1
- Nicholas Braun, American actor
- Anushka Sharma, Indian actress
- May 2 - Laura Brent, Australian actress
- May 7 - Brandon Jones, American actor, producer and musician
- May 16 - Jermaine Fowler, American actor, comedian, producer and writer
- May 17 – Nikki Reed, American actress and writer
- June 2 – Awkwafina, American actress, comedian, writer, producer and rapper
- June 4 – Li Man, Chinese actress
- June 5 – Nuh Omar, Pakistani writer and director
- June 7 – Michael Cera, Canadian actor
- June 9
- Lauren Landa, American voice actress
- Mae Whitman, American actress
- June 13 - Cody Walker, American actor
- June 14 - Dayo Okeniyi, Nigerian-American actor
- June 16 - Jonny Weston, American actor
- June 22 - Shefali Chowdhury, British actress
- June 23
- Pippa Bennett-Warner, British actress
- Isabella Leong, Hong Kong singer, actress and model
- June 25 - Daniel Webber, Australian actor
- July 2 - Edward Randell, English musician and actor
- July 7 - Jack Whitehall, English actor, comedian, presenter and writer
- July 10 - Pavlo Lee, Ukrainian actor (died 2022)
- July 12 – Christine Marie Cabanos, American voice actress
- July 13 - Chris Sheffield, American actor
- July 14 - Elise Gatien, Canadian actress
- July 15 - Aimee Carrero, Dominican-born American actress
- July 18 - Chen Tang, Chinese-American actor
- July 19 – Cherami Leigh, American voice actress
- July 20 - Julianne Hough, American dancer, actress, singer and songwriter
- July 24 - Joe Pera, American comedian, writer and actor
- July 25 - Mamoudou Athie, Mauritanian-American actor and producer
- July 26 - Francia Raisa, American actress
- July 30 - Nico Tortorella, American actor and model
- July 31 - Charlie Carver, American actor
- August 1 - Max Carver, American actor
- August 16
- Kevin Schmidt, American actor
- Rumer Willis, American actress
- August 17 - Joyner Lucas, American rapper and actor
- August 24 – Rupert Grint, English actor[8]
- August 26
- Evan Ross, American actor and musician
- Danielle Savre, American actress
- August 27 – Alexa PenaVega, American actress and singer
- September 6 – Jovan Adepo, English actor
- September 12
- Matt Martians, American record producer
- Clara Paget, British actress
- September 17 - Ritu Arya, English actress
- September 22 – Sana Saeed, Indian actress
- September 26 - Lilly Singh, Canadian comedian, former talk show host and YouTuber
- September 28
- Olivia Jordan, American actress and model, Miss USA 2015
- Hana Mae Lee, American actress, model and comedian
- October 1 - Nick Whitaker, American actor
- October 3 – Alicia Vikander, Swedish actress
- October 4 – Melissa Benoist, American actress, singer and dancer
- October 5 - Bobby Edner, American actor and singer
- October 6 - Everlyn Sampi, Australian actress
- October 17 - Dee Jay Daniels, American former actor
- October 18 – Tessa Schram, Dutch actress and director
- October 21
- Glen Powell, American actor, writer and producer
- Mark Rendall, Canadian actor
- October 22
- Corey Hawkins, American actor
- Sharon Rooney, Scottish actress
- October 23 - Ritesh Rajan, American actor
- October 28 - Edd Gould, British animator, artist, writer, director and voice actor (died 2012)
- October 29 – Devon Murray, Irish actor
- November 6 – Emma Stone, American actress
- November 9
- Nikki Blonsky, American singer and actress
- Alexandrea Owens-Sarno, American actress
- Lio Tipton (credited as Analeigh Tipton up to 2021), American model and actress
- November 17 - Justin Cooper, American producer and former child actor
- November 20 - Demetrius Shipp Jr., American actor
- November 22 – Jamie Campbell Bower, English actor and singer
- November 26 - Tamsin Egerton, English actress
- November 30
- Rotimi, Nigerian-American actor and singer
- Rebecca Rittenhouse, American actress
- December 1
- Nadia Hilker, German actress and model
- Im Si-wan, Korean actor and singer
- Zoe Kravitz, American actress
- December 2 – Alfred Enoch, English actor
- December 7
- Emily Browning, Australian actress
- Benjamin Clementine, British composer, musician and actor
- December 14 – Vanessa Hudgens, American actress and singer
- December 15 - Gregg Chillin, English actor and writer
- December 16
- Anna Popplewell, English actress
- Park Seo-joon, South Korean actor
- December 17 – Rin Takanashi, Japanese actress and model
- December 21 - Shelley Regner, American actress and singer
- December 27 - Hera Hilmar, Icelandic actress
- unknown - Celine Song,Korean-Canadian director, playwright, and screenwriter
Deaths
[edit]| Month | Date | Name | Age | Country | Profession | Notable films |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 1 | Marcel Hillaire | 79 | Germany | Actor | |
| 7 | Michel Auclair | 65 | France | Actor | ||
| 7 | Trevor Howard | 74 | UK | Actor | ||
| 8 | Boyd Morgan | 72 | US | Stuntman, Actor | ||
| 10 | Hugh A. Robertson | 55 | US | Film Editor, Director | ||
| 16 | Ballard Berkeley | 83 | UK | Actor | ||
| 19 | Bridget Boland | 75 | UK | Screenwriter | ||
| 19 | Cary Odell | 77 | US | Art Director | ||
| 25 | Colleen Moore | 88 | US | Actress | ||
| February | 1 | Marcel Bozzuffi | 58 | French | Actor | |
| 1 | Heather O'Rourke | 12 | US | Actress | ||
| 5 | Emeric Pressburger | 85 | Hungary | Screenwriter, Director | ||
| 8 | Allan Cuthbertson | 67 | Australia | Actor | ||
| 14 | Frederick Loewe | 86 | Germany | Composer | ||
| 28 | Asakazu Nakai | 86 | Japan | Cinematographer | ||
| 29 | Sidney Harmon | 80 | US | Producer, Screenwriter | ||
| March | 1 | Joe Besser | 80 | US | Actor | |
| 3 | Lois Wilson | 93 | US | Actress | ||
| 5 | Alberto Olmedo[9] | 54 | Argentina | Actor, Comedian | ||
| 6 | Jeanne Aubert | 82 | France | Actress | ||
| 7 | Divine | 42 | US | Actor | ||
| 7 | Robert Livingston | 83 | US | Actor | ||
| 12 | DeWitt Bodeen | 79 | US | Screenwriter | ||
| 12 | Karen Steele | 56 | US | Actress | ||
| 13 | Steno | 71 | Italy | Director, Screenwriter | ||
| 13 | John Holmes | 43 | US | Actor | ||
| 13 | Olive Carey | 92 | US | Actress | ||
| 27 | Renato Salvatori | 55 | Italy | Actor | ||
| 31 | Manuel Silos | 82 | Philippines | Actor, Director | ||
| April | 1 | Jim Jordan | 91 | US | Actor | |
| 5 | Alf Kjellin | 68 | Sweden | Actor, Director | ||
| 6 | John Clements | 77 | UK | Actor | ||
| 7 | Albert S. Rogell | 86 | US | Director | ||
| 11 | Jeff Donnell | 66 | US | Actress | ||
| 11 | Jesse L. Lasky Jr. | 77 | US | Screenwriter | ||
| 15 | Kenneth Williams | 62 | UK | Actor | ||
| 21 | I. A. L. Diamond | 67 | Moldovia | Screenwriter | ||
| 22 | Irene Rich | 96 | US | Actress | ||
| 28 | Andrew Cruickshank | 80 | UK | Actor | ||
| May | 1 | Paolo Stoppa | 81 | Italy | Actor | |
| 4 | Tom Overton | 58 | US | Sound Engineer | ||
| 5 | George Rose[10] | 68 | UK | Actor | ||
| 12 | Paul Osborn | 86 | US | Screenwriter | ||
| 15 | Andrew Duggan | 64 | US | Actor | ||
| 15 | Greta Nissen | 82 | Norway | Actress | ||
| 18 | Daws Butler | 71 | US | Voice Actor | ||
| 18 | Anthony Forwood | 72 | UK | Actor | ||
| 18 | Christopher Gore | 43 | US | Screenwriter | ||
| 21 | Barbara Laage | 67 | France | Actress | ||
| 22 | Tom Adair | 74 | US | Lyricist | ||
| 29 | Vladimír Menšík | 59 | Czech Republic | Actor | ||
| 30 | Ella Raines[11] | 67 | US | Actress | ||
| June | 2 | Raj Kapoor[12] | 63 | India | Actor, Director, Producer | |
| 16 | Kim Milford | 37 | US | Actor | ||
| 18 | Wilford Leach | 58 | US | Director, Screenwriter | ||
| 19 | Teru Shimada | 82 | Japan | Actor | ||
| 22 | Dennis Day | 77 | US | Singer, Actor | ||
| 22 | Stuart Randall | 78 | US | Actor | ||
| July | 1 | Alice Nunn | 60 | US | Actress | |
| 2 | Aldo Tonti | 78 | Italy | Cinematographer | ||
| 7 | Jimmy Edwards | 68 | UK | Actor | ||
| 12 | Joshua Logan | 79 | US | Director, Screenwriter | ||
| 22 | Milton Krasner | 84 | US | Cinematographer | ||
| 22 | Patrick Newell | 56 | UK | Actor | ||
| 25 | Judith Barsi | 10 | US | Actress | ||
| 25 | Douglas Hickox | 59 | UK | Director | ||
| 27 | Larry Clemmons | 81 | US | Animator, Screenwriter | ||
| 31 | Trinidad Silva | 38 | US | Actor | ||
| August | 1 | Florence Eldridge | 86 | US | Actress | |
| 2 | Robert Emmet Smith | 73 | US | Art Director | ||
| 5 | Colin Higgins | 47 | France | Director, Producer, Screenwriter | ||
| 5 | Ralph Meeker | 65 | US | Actor | ||
| 7 | Wilfred Jackson | 82 | US | Animator | ||
| 8 | Alan Napier | 85 | UK | Actor | ||
| 10 | Adela Rogers St. Johns | 94 | US | Screenwriter | ||
| 11 | Anne Ramsey | 59 | US | Actress | ||
| 17 | Victoria Shaw | 53 | Australia | Actress | ||
| 19 | Don Haggerty | 74 | US | Actor | ||
| 23 | Jack Sher | 75 | US | Screenwriter, Director | ||
| 24 | Leonard Frey | 49 | US | Actor | ||
| 26 | Milton Sperling | 76 | US | Screenwriter | ||
| 27 | Charles Farrell | 88 | Ireland | Actor | ||
| September | 1 | Hugh Hunt | 86 | US | Set Decorator | |
| 5 | Gert Fröbe | 75 | Germany | Actor | ||
| 6 | Harold Rosson | 93 | US | Cinematographer | ||
| 12 | Stephen B. Grimes | 61 | UK | Production Designer | ||
| 14 | Louis Quinn | 73 | US | Actor | ||
| 15 | Samuel E. Beetley | 74 | US | Film Editor | ||
| 20 | Roy Kinnear | 54 | UK | Actor | ||
| 21 | Henry Koster | 83 | Germany | Director, Screenwriter | ||
| 21 | Christine Norden | 63 | UK | Actress | ||
| 30 | Chick Chandler | 83 | US | Actor | ||
| October | 1 | Lucien Ballard[13] | 84 | US | Cinematographer | |
| 1 | Pavle Vuisić | 62 | Yugoslavia | Actor | ||
| 4 | Margaret Lacey | 76 | UK | Actress | ||
| 6 | Don Terry | 86 | US | Actor | ||
| 9 | Edward Chodorov | 84 | US | Screenwriter | ||
| 11 | Morgan Farley | 90 | US | Actor | ||
| 11 | Bonita Granville | 65 | US | Actress | ||
| 12 | Ken Murray | 85 | US | Actor, Producer | ||
| 13 | Melvin Frank | 75 | US | Screenwriter, Director | ||
| 14 | Mary Morris | 72 | Fiji | Actress | ||
| 19 | Lawrence W. Butler | 80 | US | Special Effects Artist | ||
| 24 | Valerie Taylor | 85 | UK | Actress | ||
| 25 | Eric Larson | 83 | US | Animator | ||
| 27 | Charles Hawtrey | 73 | UK | Actor | ||
| 31 | John Houseman | 86 | Romania | Actor, Producer | ||
| November | 1 | George J. Folsey | 90 | US | Cinematographer | |
| 2 | Lukas Heller | 58 | Germany | Screenwriter | ||
| 3 | Sidney Carroll | 75 | US | Screenwriter | ||
| 6 | John Hubbard | 74 | US | Actor | ||
| 9 | Billy Curtis | 79 | US | Actor | ||
| 15 | Mona Washbourne | 84 | UK | Actress | ||
| 27 | Angela Aames | 32 | US | Actress | ||
| 27 | John Carradine | 82 | US | Actor | ||
| December | 7 | Christopher Connelly | 47 | US | Actor | |
| 7 | Dorothy Jordan | 82 | US | Actress | ||
| 8 | Anne Seymour | 79 | US | Actress | ||
| 15 | Maria De Matteis | 90 | Italy | Costume Designer | ||
| 10 | Richard S. Castellano | 55 | US | Actor | ||
| 10 | Dennis Arundell | 90 | UK | Actor, Composer | ||
| 17 | Jerry Hopper | 81 | US | Director | ||
| 21 | Bob Steele | 81 | US | Actor | ||
| 22 | Tucker Smith | 52 | US | Actor, Dancer | ||
| 24 | Noel Willman | 70 | Ireland | Actor | ||
| 26 | Julanne Johnston | 88 | US | Actress | ||
| 26 | John Loder | 90 | UK | Actor | ||
| 27 | Hal Ashby | 59 | US | Director, Film Editor |
Film debuts
[edit]- Joe Alaskey – Who Framed Roger Rabbit
- Tim Allen – Tropical Snow
- Stephen Baldwin – Homeboy
- Ned Bellamy – The Night Before
- Annette Bening – The Great Outdoors
- Jeff Bennett – Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
- Benjamin Bratt – Lovers, Partners & Spies
- Lara Flynn Boyle – Poltergeist III
- Reg E. Cathey – Funny Farm
- Macaulay Culkin – Rocket Gibraltar
- Matt Damon – Mystic Pizza
- Benicio del Toro – Big Top Pee-wee
- Stephen Dillane – Business as Usual
- David Duchovny – Working Girl
- Kevin Dunn – Mississippi Burning
- Nora Dunn – Working Girl
- Colm Feore – Iron Eagle II
- Iain Glen – Paris by Night
- Cuba Gooding, Jr. – Coming to America
- Clark Gregg – Things Change
- Jess Harnell – Boulevard of Broken Dreams
- Danielle Harris – Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
- Neil Patrick Harris – Clara's Heart
- Felicity Huffman – Things Change
- Bonnie Hunt – Rain Man
- Milla Jovovich – Two Moon Junction
- Jane Lynch – Vice Versa
- Jenifer Lewis – Beaches
- Marc Macaulay – Graverobbers
- David Morrissey – Drowning by Numbers
- Dermot Mulroney – Sunset
- Clive Owen – Vroom
- Vincent Pastore – Black Roses
- Harold Perrineau – Shakedown
- David Hyde Pierce – Bright Lights, Big City
- Oliver Platt – Married to the Mob
- Noomi Rapace – In the Shadow of the Raven
- Alan Rickman – Die Hard
- Julia Roberts – Satisfaction
- Stephen Root – Crocodile Dundee II
- Richard Schiff – Medium Straight
- Steven Seagal – Above the Law
- Lili Taylor – She's Having a Baby
- Goran Višnjić – Braća po materi
- Marlon Wayans – I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
- Duane Whitaker – Deadly Dreams
- Gregory Alan Williams – Above the Law
References
[edit]- ^ "1988 Worldwide Box Office". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Archived from the original on October 28, 2020. Retrieved March 7, 2020.
- ^ "A Fish Called Wanda (1988)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
A Fish Called Wanda domestic gross $62,493,712
- ^ Groves, Don (August 9, 1989). "UIP Up, Up and Away For Year; Rentals Take Off". Variety. p. 11.
UIP Top 10 Grossers, 1988–89
Rain Man $233 million
Crocodile Dundee 2 $126 million
Coming to America $122 million
A Fish Called Wanda $115 million
Willow $80 million
Twins $75 million
The Naked Gun $61 million - ^ "UIP's $25M-Plus Club". Variety. September 11, 1995. p. 92.
A Fish Called Wanda $126,103,000; The Naked Gun $73,689,000
- ^ "Roy Kinnear Is Dead At 54 After Falling From Horse in Film". The New York Times. 23 September 1988. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
- ^ Griffin, Nancy (June 1988). "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade". Premiere.
- ^ Mason, Aiden (2017-08-28). "Five Things You Didn't Know About Anna Diop". TVOvermind. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
- ^ Editors of Chase's (24 September 2019). Chase's Calendar of Events 2020: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 424. ISBN 978-1-64143-316-7.
- ^ David K. Frasier (2002). Suicide in the Entertainment Industry: An Encyclopedia of 840 Twentieth-century Cases. McFarland. p. 244. ISBN 978-0-7864-1038-5.
- ^ Dennis Hevesi (13 May 1988). "Dominican Police Say 4 Men Killed George Rose". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
- ^ Newsweek. Newsweek. 1988. p. 72.
- ^ Ritu Nanda; Rāja Kapūra (2002). Raj Kapoor Speaks. Penguin Books India. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-670-04952-3.
- ^ John A. Willis (1989). Screen World. Crown Publishers. p. 235. ISBN 978-0-517-57332-7.
External links
[edit]- 1988 Domestic Grosses at Box Office Mojo
- Top 1988 Movies at the Domestic Box Office at The Numbers
- Top 1988 Movies at the International Box Office at The Numbers
- Top 1988 Movies at the Worldwide Box Office at The Numbers
- Top-US-Grossing Titles Released 1988-01-01 to 1988-12-31 at IMDb
- Most Popular Feature Films Released 1988-01-01 to 1988-12-31 at IMDb
- List of 1988 films at IMDb
- List of 1988 deaths at IMDb
- List of 1988 births at IMDb
