1996 in film

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The year 1996 in film involved some significant events.
Contents[hide]
1 Events
2 Top grossing films
3 Awards
4 Films released in 1996
5 Births
6 Deaths
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[edit] Events
For films, 1996 was the year of The English Patient, Independence Day, Twister, Jerry Maguire and Madonna's Evita.

[edit] Top grossing films
1996Rank Title Studio Gross

1. Independence Day 20th Century Fox $797,900,000
2. Twister Warner Bros. $494,471,524
3. Mission: Impossible Paramount Pictures $456,494,803
4. The Rock Hollywood Pictures $325,000,000
5. 101 Dalmatians Buena Vista $304,882,161
6. The Nutty ProfessorUniversal $244,300,000
7. Eraser Warner Bros. $233,200,000
8. Space Jam Warner Bros. $230,418,342
9. The Hunchback of Notre Dame Disney $184,700,000
10. Jerry Maguire TriStar Pictures $153,620,822

[edit] Awards
Academy Awards:
Best Picture: The English Patient - J&M Entertainment, Miramax Films, Tiger Moth Productions
Best Director: Anthony Minghella - The English Patient
Best Actor: Geoffrey Rush - Shine
Best Actress: Frances McDormand - Fargo
Best Supporting Actor: Cuba Gooding Jr. - Jerry Maguire
Best Supporting Actress: Juliette Binoche - The English Patient
Best Foreign Language Film: Kolya (Kolja), directed by Jan Svěrák, Czech Republic
Golden Globe Awards:
Drama:
Best Picture: The English Patient
Best Actor: Geoffrey Rush - Shine
Best Actress: Brenda Blethyn - Secrets & Lies
Musical or comedy:
Best Picture: Evita
Best Actor: Tom Cruise - Jerry Maguire
Best Actress: Madonna - Evita
Other
Best Director: Milos Forman - The People vs. Larry Flynt
Best Foreign Language Film: Kolya, Czech Republic
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
Secrets & Lies, directed by Mike Leigh, United Kingdom
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
Michael Collins, directed by Neil Jordan, U.K. / Ireland / U.S.A.
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
Sense and Sensibility, directed by Ang Lee, United States

[edit] Films released in 1996
101 Dalmatians
The Adventures of Pinocchio
The Arrival, starring Charlie Sheen
The Associate
Bad Moon
Barb Wire
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, with guest voices by Bruce Willis, Demi Moore, Cloris Leachman, Richard Linklater, Robert Stack and David Letterman
Bed of Roses
Before and After
Big Bully
The Birdcage
Blood and Wine
Bottle Rocket
Bound
Breaking the Waves
Broken Arrow
Bulletproof
The Cable Guy
Camping Cosmos
Carried Away
Carpool
Celtic Pride
Chain Reaction
The Chamber
City Hall
Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day
Comrades: Almost a Love Story, Hong Kong Film Awards and Golden Space Needle award
Courage Under Fire, starring Denzel Washington
The Craft, Fairuza Balk and Neve Campbell are two of four co-stars in movie that helped begin a trend of gothic dressers.
The Crow: City of Angels
The Crucible
D3: The Mighty Ducks
Daddy's Girl
Daylight, starring Sylvester Stallone
The Dentist
Diabolique
Different for Girls
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
Down Periscope
Dragonheart
Eddie
The English Patient - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture
Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story, starring Moira Kelly
Eraser, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
Escape from L.A., aka John Carpenter's Escape from L.A.
The Evening Star
Everyone Says I Love You, directed by Woody Allen
Evita - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
Executive Decision
Extreme Measures
Eye for an Eye
Fargo
Fear - staring Mark Wahlberg and Reese Witherspoon
Fire by Deepa Mehta, starring Shabana Azmi and Nandita Das
The First Wives Club
Fled
Flipper
Flirting With Disaster
Floating Life
Fly Away Home
The Frighteners, directed by Peter Jackson
From Dusk Till Dawn
Get on the Bus
The Ghost and the Darkness
Ghosts of Mississippi, directed by Rob Reiner
Girl 6
The Glimmer Man
The Great White Hype
Happy Gilmore
Hard Eight, directed by P. T. Anderson
Heaven's Prisoners
High School High
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hype!
I'm Not Rappaport
In Love and War
Independence Day
Infinity
Intimate Relations
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Jack
James and the Giant Peach
Jerry Maguire
Jingle All the Way, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
Joe's Apartment
The Juror
Kazaam
Kingpin
Kolya, directed by Jan Sverák - Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
Larger than Life
Last Dance
Last Man Standing
Licántropo
Lone Star
The Long Kiss Goodnight
Mars Attacks!
Marvin's Room
Mary Reilly
Matilda
Maximum Risk
Michael, starring John Travolta
Michael Collins, directed by Neil Jordan - Golden Lion award
The Mirror Has Two Faces
Mission: Impossible
Mother
Mr. Wrong
Mulholland Falls
Multiplicity
Muppet Treasure Island
My Fellow Americans
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
The Nutty Professor
One Fine Day
Original Gangstas
The People vs. Larry Flynt - Golden Bear award (for 1997)
The Phantom
Phenomenon
The Pillow Book
The Portrait of a Lady
The Preacher's Wife
Police Story 4: First Strike (released May 1996)
Primal Fear
The Quest
Ransom
Ridicule, directed by Patrice Leconte, starring Fanny Ardant, Judith Godrèche
The Rock
Romeo and Juliet (1996 film)
Rumble in the Bronx
Scream
Secrets & Lies - Palm d'Or award
Set It Off
Sgt. Bilko
She's the One
Shine
Sleepers
Sling Blade
Space Jam
Space Truckers
The Spitfire Grill
Spy Hard, starring Leslie Nielsen
Star Trek: First Contact
Stealing Beauty, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
Striptease, starring Demi Moore
The Stupids
The Substitute, starring Tom Berenger
The Sunchaser, directed by Michael Cimino
Sunday
Sunset Park
Swingers
That Thing You Do!
A Thin Line Between Love and Hate
Thinner
A Time to Kill
Tin Cup
Trainspotting, directed by Danny Boyle and starring Ewan McGregor - Golden space Needle award
The trigger effect
The Truth About Cats & Dogs
Twelfth Night: Or What You Will
Twister
2 Days in the Valley
Unforgettable
Up Close & Personal, starring Robert Redford and Michelle Pfeiffer
Werewolf
Welcome to the Dollhouse
White Squall
William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet
The Wind in the Willows

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths
February 2 - Gene Kelly, actor
February 6 - Guy Madison, actor
February 11 - Phil Regan, singer, actor
February 13 - Martin Balsam, actor
February 15 - McLean Stevenson, American actor
February 15 - Tommy Rettig, actor
February 17 - Evelyn Laye, actress
February 25 - Haing S. Ngor, actor
March 2 - Lyle Talbot, actor
March 9 - George Burns, actor
March 13 - Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director
March 17 - René Clément, French film director
April 6 - Greer Garson, actress
April 16 - Lucille Bremer, actress
May 20 - Jon Pertwee, actor
May 21 - Lash La Rue, cowboy actor
June 7 - Max Factor, make-up artist and founder of Max Factor Cosmetics
June 10 - Jo Van Fleet, actress
June 11 - Brigitte Helm, German actress
July 2 - Margaux Hemingway, model, actress
July 30 - Claudette Colbert, actress
September 7 - Bibi Besch, actress
September 10 - Joanne Dru, actress
September 13 - Tupac Shakur, rap singer/songwriter, actor
September 14 - Juliet Prowse, dancer, actress
September 18 - Annabella, actress
September 22 - Dorothy Lamour, actress
October 14 - Laura La Plante, actress
October 31 - Marcel Carné, French film director
November 14 - Virginia Cherrill, actress
November 19 - Véra Korène, Russian born French actress
December 8 - Howard E. Rollins Jr, actor
December 19 - Marcello Mastroianni, actor
December 30 - Lew Ayres, actor
December 30 - Jack Nance, actor'