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 with 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.
Top grossing films (U.S.)
| Rank |
Title |
Studio |
Domestic |
| 1. |
Jurassic Park |
Universal Studios |
$357,000,000 |
| 2. |
Mrs. Doubtfire |
Fox |
$219,195,243 |
| 3. |
The Fugitive |
Warner Bros. |
$183,875,760 |
| 4. |
The Firm |
Paramount |
$158,348,367 |
| 5. |
Sleepless in Seattle |
TriStar |
$126,680,884 |
| 6. |
Indecent Proposal |
Paramount |
$106,614,059 |
| 7. |
In the Line of Fire |
Columbia |
$102,314,823 |
| 8. |
The Pelican Brief |
Warner Bros. |
$100,768,056 |
| 9. |
Schindler's List |
Universal |
$96,065,768 |
| 10. |
Cliffhanger |
TriStar |
$84,049,211 |
source: http://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.
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- 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
- Striking Distance
- Sunset Grill
- Super Mario Bros., directed by Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel
- Surf Ninjas
- Swing Kids
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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
- 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, voice actor
- 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 7 - Francesca Fisher-Eastwood, actress
- August 11 - Alyson Stoner, 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
- 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
- July 2 - Fred Gwynne, actor, "The Munsters" and numerous films
- June 30 - George "Spanky" McFarland, actor
- August 16 - Stewart Granger, actor
- August 17 - Laila Ayub, actress
- 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
- 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
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