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The year 1996 in film involved some significant events. Major releases this year included Fargo
Fargo (film)

Fargo is a Cinema of the United States film produced, directed and written by brothers Coen brothers. Set in Minnesota, it is the story of a car salesman who hires two men to kidnap his wife for an $80,000 ransom....
, Trainspotting
Trainspotting (film)

Trainspotting is a 1996 Cinema of the United Kingdom directed by Danny Boyle based on the novel Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh. The movie follows a group of heroin addicts in early 1990s economic depression Edinburgh and their passage through life....
, The English Patient
The English Patient (film)

The English Patient is a 1996 in film film adaptation of the The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje. The film, directed by Anthony Minghella, won nine Academy Awards, including Academy Award for Best Picture....
, Independence Day
Independence Day (film)

Independence Day is a 1996 in film science fiction film about a hostile alien invasion of Earth, focusing on a disparate group of individuals and families as they coincidentally converge in the Nevada desert and, along with the rest of the human population, participate in a last-chance retaliation effort on July 4....
, Twister, Scream
Scream

A screaming is a loud exclamation of extreme emotion, usually horror or excitement, or pain.Scream may also refer to:...
, Jerry Maguire
Jerry Maguire

Jerry Maguire is a 1996 in film United States comedy-drama film starring Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Ren?e Zellweger. It was written and directed by Cameron Crowe....
 and Madonna
Madonna (entertainer)

Madonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance....
's Evita
Evita (film)

Evita is the 1996 in film film adaptation of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita based on the life of Eva Per?n. It was directed by Alan Parker and starred Madonna , Antonio Banderas and Jonathan Pryce....
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Rank Title Studio Gross
1.Independence Day
Independence Day (film)

Independence Day is a 1996 in film science fiction film about a hostile alien invasion of Earth, focusing on a disparate group of individuals and families as they coincidentally converge in the Nevada desert and, along with the rest of the human population, participate in a last-chance retaliation effort on July 4....
 20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation , also known as 20th Century Fox, Fox 2000 Pictures, or simply Fox, is one of the six Worldwide major film studios....
 $306,169,268
2.Twister Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. is one of the world's largest film producer of film and television.It is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank, California and New York City....
/Universal
Universal Studios

Universal Studios , a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is one of the six Worldwide major American film studios. Its production studios are located at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, California....
 $241,721,524
3.Mission: Impossible
Mission: Impossible (film)

Mission: Impossible is an action movie released in 1996 in film. It was directed by Brian De Palma and starred Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt. The plot follows Ethan Hunt?s mission to uncover the mole within CIA who has framed him for the murders of his entire IMF team....
 Paramount
Paramount

Paramount may refer to:In companies:*Paramount Motion Pictures Group, a motion picture holding company owned by Viacom*Paramount Pictures Corporation, a Worldwide American motion picture company...
 $180,981,856
4.Jerry Maguire
Jerry Maguire

Jerry Maguire is a 1996 in film United States comedy-drama film starring Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Ren?e Zellweger. It was written and directed by Cameron Crowe....
 TriStar
TriStar Pictures

TriStar Pictures, Inc. is a Film subsidiary of Columbia Pictures, itself a subdivision of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, which is owned by Sony Pictures....
 $153,952,592
5.Ransom Touchstone
Touchstone Pictures

Touchstone Pictures is one of several alternate film labels of The Walt Disney Company, established in 1984. Its releases typically feature more mature themes than those that are released under the Walt Disney Pictures banner....
 $136,492,681
6.101 Dalmatians Disney
Walt Disney Pictures

Walt Disney Pictures refers to several different entities associated with The Walt Disney Company:Walt Disney Pictures, the film banner, was found as a designation in 1983, prior to which Disney films since the death of Walt Disney were released under the name of the parent company, then named Walt Disney Productions....
 $136,189,294
7.The Rock
The Rock (film)

The Rock is a 1996 in film Academy Awards-nominated action film that primarily takes place on Alcatraz Island, and the San Francisco Bay area....
 Hollywood
Hollywood Pictures

Hollywood Pictures is one of The Walt Disney Company's several alternate movie divisions. Like Disney's Touchstone Pictures and Miramax Films brands, it produces films for a more mature adult audience than Walt Disney Pictures....
 $134,069,511
8.The Nutty Professor
The Nutty Professor (1996 film)

The Nutty Professor is a 1996 in film science fiction- romantic comedy film starring Eddie Murphy. It is a remake of the 1963 film The Nutty Professor starring Jerry Lewis....
 Universal
Universal Studios

Universal Studios , a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is one of the six Worldwide major American film studios. Its production studios are located at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, California....
 $128,814,019
9.The Birdcage
The Birdcage

The Birdcage is a 1996 in film comedy film directed by Mike Nichols, and stars Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Gene Hackman, Dianne Wiest, Dan Futterman, Calista Flockhart, Hank Azaria, and Christine Baranski....
 MGM/UA $124,060,553
10.A Time to Kill
A Time to Kill (film)

A Time to Kill is the name of the 1996 in film Film adaptation of John Grisham's 1989 legal thriller A Time to Kill. The movie was regarded as a commercial success, taking nearly $110 million at the box office....
 Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. is one of the world's largest film producer of film and television.It is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank, California and New York City....
 $108,766,007
source: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1996&p=.htm
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Golden Globe Awards
54th Golden Globe Awards

The 54th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1996, were held on 19 January, 1997....
:

Drama:
Best Picture
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama

This page lists the winners and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture ? Drama, since its institution in 1951....
: The English Patient
Best Actor
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Geoffrey Rush - Shine
Best Actress
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Brenda Blethyn
Brenda Blethyn

Brenda Blethyn Order of the British Empire is a Golden Globe-winning England actress and author. Blethyn began her career on stage as part of the Royal National Theatre, and made her late television debut in 1980....
 - Secrets & Lies
Secrets & Lies

Secrets & Lies is a 1996 in film British film directed by Mike Leigh and starring Brenda Blethyn and Marianne Jean-Baptiste.Storyline...


Musical or comedy:
Best Picture
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy has been awarded annually since 1952 in film by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association....
: Evita
Evita (film)

Evita is the 1996 in film film adaptation of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita based on the life of Eva Per?n. It was directed by Alan Parker and starred Madonna , Antonio Banderas and Jonathan Pryce....
Best Actor
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise

Thomas Cruise Mapother IV , better known by his Stage name Tom Cruise, is an United States actor and film producer. Forbes magazine ranked him as the world's most powerful celebrity in 2006....
 - Jerry Maguire
Best Actress
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1950 in film....
: Madonna
Madonna (entertainer)

Madonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance....
 - Evita


Other
Best Director
Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture

This page lists the winners of and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director. Since its inception in 1943, it has been presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, an organization comprised of journalists who cover the United States film industry for publications based outside North America....
: Milos Forman - The People vs. Larry Flynt
The People vs. Larry Flynt

The People vs. Larry Flynt is a 1996 film directed by Milo? Forman about the rise of pornographic magazine publisher and editor Larry Flynt, and his subsequent clash with the law....
Best Foreign Language Film
Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the awards presented at the Golden Globe Awards, an American film awards ceremony....
: Kolya, Czech Republic


Palme d'Or
Palme d'Or

The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded to competing films at the Cannes Film Festival. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee....
 (Cannes Film Festival):
Secrets & Lies
Secrets & Lies

Secrets & Lies is a 1996 in film British film directed by Mike Leigh and starring Brenda Blethyn and Marianne Jean-Baptiste.Storyline...
, directed by Mike Leigh
Mike Leigh

Mike Leigh, Order of the British Empire is an England writer and director of film and theatre. He studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and did his early acting with the Royal Shakespeare Company ....
, United Kingdom


Golden Lion
Golden Lion

The Leone d?Oro is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Biennale Venice Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1949 by the organizing committee and is now regarded as one of the film industry's most distinguished prizes....
 (Venice Film Festival):
Michael Collins
Michael Collins (film)

Michael Collins is a List of Irish films#1990s List of historical drama films biographical film about Michael Collins , the Ireland patriotism and revolutionary who died in the Irish Civil War....
, directed by Neil Jordan
Neil Jordan

Neil Jordan is an Academy Award-winning Ireland filmmaker and novelist. He received the Academy Award for The Crying Game....
, U.K.






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The year 1996 in film involved some significant events. Major releases this year included Fargo
Fargo (film)

Fargo is a Cinema of the United States film produced, directed and written by brothers Coen brothers. Set in Minnesota, it is the story of a car salesman who hires two men to kidnap his wife for an $80,000 ransom....
, Trainspotting
Trainspotting (film)

Trainspotting is a 1996 Cinema of the United Kingdom directed by Danny Boyle based on the novel Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh. The movie follows a group of heroin addicts in early 1990s economic depression Edinburgh and their passage through life....
, The English Patient
The English Patient (film)

The English Patient is a 1996 in film film adaptation of the The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje. The film, directed by Anthony Minghella, won nine Academy Awards, including Academy Award for Best Picture....
, Independence Day
Independence Day (film)

Independence Day is a 1996 in film science fiction film about a hostile alien invasion of Earth, focusing on a disparate group of individuals and families as they coincidentally converge in the Nevada desert and, along with the rest of the human population, participate in a last-chance retaliation effort on July 4....
, Twister, Scream
Scream

A screaming is a loud exclamation of extreme emotion, usually horror or excitement, or pain.Scream may also refer to:...
, Jerry Maguire
Jerry Maguire

Jerry Maguire is a 1996 in film United States comedy-drama film starring Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Ren?e Zellweger. It was written and directed by Cameron Crowe....
 and Madonna
Madonna (entertainer)

Madonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance....
's Evita
Evita (film)

Evita is the 1996 in film film adaptation of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita based on the life of Eva Per?n. It was directed by Alan Parker and starred Madonna , Antonio Banderas and Jonathan Pryce....
.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank Title Studio Gross
1.Independence Day
Independence Day (film)

Independence Day is a 1996 in film science fiction film about a hostile alien invasion of Earth, focusing on a disparate group of individuals and families as they coincidentally converge in the Nevada desert and, along with the rest of the human population, participate in a last-chance retaliation effort on July 4....
 20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation , also known as 20th Century Fox, Fox 2000 Pictures, or simply Fox, is one of the six Worldwide major film studios....
 $306,169,268
2.Twister Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. is one of the world's largest film producer of film and television.It is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank, California and New York City....
/Universal
Universal Studios

Universal Studios , a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is one of the six Worldwide major American film studios. Its production studios are located at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, California....
 $241,721,524
3.Mission: Impossible
Mission: Impossible (film)

Mission: Impossible is an action movie released in 1996 in film. It was directed by Brian De Palma and starred Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt. The plot follows Ethan Hunt?s mission to uncover the mole within CIA who has framed him for the murders of his entire IMF team....
 Paramount
Paramount

Paramount may refer to:In companies:*Paramount Motion Pictures Group, a motion picture holding company owned by Viacom*Paramount Pictures Corporation, a Worldwide American motion picture company...
 $180,981,856
4.Jerry Maguire
Jerry Maguire

Jerry Maguire is a 1996 in film United States comedy-drama film starring Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Ren?e Zellweger. It was written and directed by Cameron Crowe....
 TriStar
TriStar Pictures

TriStar Pictures, Inc. is a Film subsidiary of Columbia Pictures, itself a subdivision of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, which is owned by Sony Pictures....
 $153,952,592
5.Ransom Touchstone
Touchstone Pictures

Touchstone Pictures is one of several alternate film labels of The Walt Disney Company, established in 1984. Its releases typically feature more mature themes than those that are released under the Walt Disney Pictures banner....
 $136,492,681
6.101 Dalmatians Disney
Walt Disney Pictures

Walt Disney Pictures refers to several different entities associated with The Walt Disney Company:Walt Disney Pictures, the film banner, was found as a designation in 1983, prior to which Disney films since the death of Walt Disney were released under the name of the parent company, then named Walt Disney Productions....
 $136,189,294
7.The Rock
The Rock (film)

The Rock is a 1996 in film Academy Awards-nominated action film that primarily takes place on Alcatraz Island, and the San Francisco Bay area....
 Hollywood
Hollywood Pictures

Hollywood Pictures is one of The Walt Disney Company's several alternate movie divisions. Like Disney's Touchstone Pictures and Miramax Films brands, it produces films for a more mature adult audience than Walt Disney Pictures....
 $134,069,511
8.The Nutty Professor
The Nutty Professor (1996 film)

The Nutty Professor is a 1996 in film science fiction- romantic comedy film starring Eddie Murphy. It is a remake of the 1963 film The Nutty Professor starring Jerry Lewis....
 Universal
Universal Studios

Universal Studios , a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is one of the six Worldwide major American film studios. Its production studios are located at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, California....
 $128,814,019
9.The Birdcage
The Birdcage

The Birdcage is a 1996 in film comedy film directed by Mike Nichols, and stars Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Gene Hackman, Dianne Wiest, Dan Futterman, Calista Flockhart, Hank Azaria, and Christine Baranski....
 MGM/UA $124,060,553
10.A Time to Kill
A Time to Kill (film)

A Time to Kill is the name of the 1996 in film Film adaptation of John Grisham's 1989 legal thriller A Time to Kill. The movie was regarded as a commercial success, taking nearly $110 million at the box office....
 Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. is one of the world's largest film producer of film and television.It is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank, California and New York City....
 $108,766,007
source: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1996&p=.htm

Awards


Academy Awards
69th Academy Awards

The 69th Academy Awards were dominated by movies produced by independent studios, financed outside of mainstream Hollywood, California, leading to 1997 being dubbed "The Year of the Independents"....
:

Best Picture
Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the film industry....
: The English Patient
The English Patient (film)

The English Patient is a 1996 in film film adaptation of the The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje. The film, directed by Anthony Minghella, won nine Academy Awards, including Academy Award for Best Picture....
 - J&M Entertainment, Miramax Films, Tiger Moth Productions
Best Director: Anthony Minghella
Anthony Minghella

Anthony Minghella Order of the British Empire was an Academy Awards-winning England film director, playwright and screenwriter. He was Chairman of the Board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007....
 - The English Patient
Best Actor
Academy Award for Best Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: Geoffrey Rush
Geoffrey Rush

Geoffrey Roy Rush is an Australian actor. He moved to Melbourne in the early 1990s via Brisbane and Sydney and currently lives in the suburb of Camberwell, Victoria....
 - Shine
Shine (film)

Shine is a 1996 Australian film based on the life of piano David Helfgott, who suffered a mental breakdown and spent years in institutions. It stars Geoffrey Rush, Lynn Redgrave, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Noah Taylor, John Gielgud, Googie Withers, Justin Braine, Sonia Todd, Chris Haywood, and Alex Rafalowicz....
Best Actress
Academy Award for Best Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: Frances McDormand
Frances McDormand

Frances Louise McDormand is an Academy Award-winning and Golden Globe Award-nominated United States film, stage , and television actress....
 - Fargo
Fargo (film)

Fargo is a Cinema of the United States film produced, directed and written by brothers Coen brothers. Set in Minnesota, it is the story of a car salesman who hires two men to kidnap his wife for an $80,000 ransom....
Best Supporting Actor
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: Cuba Gooding Jr. - Jerry Maguire
Jerry Maguire

Jerry Maguire is a 1996 in film United States comedy-drama film starring Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Ren?e Zellweger. It was written and directed by Cameron Crowe....
Best Supporting Actress
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: Juliette Binoche
Juliette Binoche

Juliette Binoche is an Academy Award-winning France film Actor. Binoche is well known worldwide for her roles in popular, award-winning films such as The Unbearable Lightness of Being , The English Patient and Chocolat as well as internationally successful arthouse films including Three Colors: Blue and Cach? ....
 - The English Patient
Best Foreign Language Film
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Award, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ....
: Kolya
Kolya

Kolya is a 1996 in film Cinema of the Czech Republic drama about a man whose life is reshaped in an unexpected way. The film was directed by Jan Sver?k and stars his father Zdenek Sver?k who also wrote the script from a story by Pavel Taussig....
 (Kolja), directed by Jan Sverák
Jan Sverák

Jan Sver?k is one of the most successful Czech Republic film directors since the Velvet Revolution in 1989. He is the son of the prominent screenwriter and actor Zdenek Sver?k....
, Czech Republic


Golden Globe Awards
54th Golden Globe Awards

The 54th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1996, were held on 19 January, 1997....
:

Drama:
Best Picture
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama

This page lists the winners and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture ? Drama, since its institution in 1951....
: The English Patient
Best Actor
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Geoffrey Rush - Shine
Best Actress
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Brenda Blethyn
Brenda Blethyn

Brenda Blethyn Order of the British Empire is a Golden Globe-winning England actress and author. Blethyn began her career on stage as part of the Royal National Theatre, and made her late television debut in 1980....
 - Secrets & Lies
Secrets & Lies

Secrets & Lies is a 1996 in film British film directed by Mike Leigh and starring Brenda Blethyn and Marianne Jean-Baptiste.Storyline...


Musical or comedy:
Best Picture
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy has been awarded annually since 1952 in film by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association....
: Evita
Evita (film)

Evita is the 1996 in film film adaptation of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita based on the life of Eva Per?n. It was directed by Alan Parker and starred Madonna , Antonio Banderas and Jonathan Pryce....
Best Actor
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise

Thomas Cruise Mapother IV , better known by his Stage name Tom Cruise, is an United States actor and film producer. Forbes magazine ranked him as the world's most powerful celebrity in 2006....
 - Jerry Maguire
Best Actress
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1950 in film....
: Madonna
Madonna (entertainer)

Madonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance....
 - Evita


Other
Best Director
Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture

This page lists the winners of and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director. Since its inception in 1943, it has been presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, an organization comprised of journalists who cover the United States film industry for publications based outside North America....
: Milos Forman - The People vs. Larry Flynt
The People vs. Larry Flynt

The People vs. Larry Flynt is a 1996 film directed by Milo? Forman about the rise of pornographic magazine publisher and editor Larry Flynt, and his subsequent clash with the law....
Best Foreign Language Film
Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the awards presented at the Golden Globe Awards, an American film awards ceremony....
: Kolya, Czech Republic


Palme d'Or
Palme d'Or

The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded to competing films at the Cannes Film Festival. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee....
 (Cannes Film Festival):
Secrets & Lies
Secrets & Lies

Secrets & Lies is a 1996 in film British film directed by Mike Leigh and starring Brenda Blethyn and Marianne Jean-Baptiste.Storyline...
, directed by Mike Leigh
Mike Leigh

Mike Leigh, Order of the British Empire is an England writer and director of film and theatre. He studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and did his early acting with the Royal Shakespeare Company ....
, United Kingdom


Golden Lion
Golden Lion

The Leone d?Oro is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Biennale Venice Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1949 by the organizing committee and is now regarded as one of the film industry's most distinguished prizes....
 (Venice Film Festival):
Michael Collins
Michael Collins (film)

Michael Collins is a List of Irish films#1990s List of historical drama films biographical film about Michael Collins , the Ireland patriotism and revolutionary who died in the Irish Civil War....
, directed by Neil Jordan
Neil Jordan

Neil Jordan is an Academy Award-winning Ireland filmmaker and novelist. He received the Academy Award for The Crying Game....
, U.K. / Ireland / U.S.A.


Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
Sense and Sensibility, directed by Ang Lee
Ang Lee

Ang Lee is an Academy Award-winning Taiwanese American film director....
, United States


Films released in 1996

#
  • 101 Dalmatians, starring Glenn Close
    Glenn Close

    Glenn Close is an United States actress and singer of theatre and film, perhaps best known for her role as deranged stalker Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction ....
    , Jeff Daniels
    Jeff Daniels

    Jeffrey Warren "Jeff" Daniels is an United States actor, musician and playwright....
    , Joely Richardson
    Joely Richardson

    Joely Kim Richardson is an England actress who is perhaps best known for her role as Julia McNamara in the television drama Nip/Tuck....
    , Joan Plowright
    Joan Plowright

    Joan Ann Olivier, Lady Olivier, Order of the British Empire , better known as Dame Joan Plowright, is a Tony Award- winning, Golden Globe-winning, Academy Award- nominated, and Emmy Award- nominated England actor....
     and Hugh Laurie
    Hugh Laurie

    James Hugh Calum Laurie, Order of the British Empire is an English actor, comedian, writer and musician. He first reached fame as one half of the Fry and Laurie double act, along with his friend and comedy partner, Stephen Fry, and then as a cast member of Blackadder....
    , directed by Stephen Herek
    Stephen Herek

    Stephen Robert Herek is an United States film director.Herek attended the University of Texas at Austin, Texas.His career as film director took off in 1986 with Critters followed by Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure where he worked with Keanu Reeves in 1989....
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  • The Adventures of Pinocchio, starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas
    Jonathan Taylor Thomas

    Jonathan Taylor Thomas is an American actor, former child actor, and teen idol. He is well known for his role of middle child Randy Taylor on the sitcom Home Improvement and as the voice of the young Simba in Walt Disney Pictures's The Lion King....
    , Martin Landau
    Martin Landau

    Martin Landau is an Academy Awards-winning United States film and television actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles in the television series Mission: Impossible and Space: 1999 ....
    , Udo Kier
    Udo Kier

    Udo Kier is a German people–England actor....
    , Rob Schnieder and Dawn French
    Dawn French

    'Dawn Roma French' is an United Kingdom actor, writer and comedian. In her career, she has been nominated for six BAFTA Television Award. She is best-known for starring in and writing her sketch comedy, French and Saunders, alongside her comedy partner Jennifer Saunders, and for playing the lead role of Geraldine Granger in the sitcom Th...
    , directed by Steve Barron
    Steve Barron

    Steve Barron is a Film director and Film producer, best known for directing the films Coneheads , Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the innovative music video for a-ha's "Take on Me"....
  • Alaska
    Alaska (film)

    Alaska is a 1996 in film directed by Fraser Clarke Heston starring Charlton Heston , Thora Birch , Vincent Kartheiser and Dirk Benedict . It was shot in Vancouver and Tofino, British Columbia,Canada....
  • All Dogs Go to Heaven 2
    All Dogs Go to Heaven 2

    All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 is a 1996 in film Cinema of the United States animation film, and a sequel to United Artists's 1989 in film animated film All Dogs Go to Heaven....
  • The Arrival
    The Arrival (film)

    The Arrival is a 1996 in film science fiction film directed by David Twohy and starring Charlie Sheen, and co-staring Lindsay Crouse, Richard Schiff, Ron Silver, and Teri Polo....
    , starring Charlie Sheen
    Charlie Sheen

    Carlos Irwin Est?vez , better known as Charlie Sheen, is an American actor. His character roles in films have included Chris Taylor in the 1986 Vietnam War drama Platoon and Bud Fox in 1987 film Wall Street ....
  • The Associate
    The Associate

    The Associate is the title of a 1996 in film film starring Whoopi Goldberg, Dianne Wiest, Eli Wallach, Timothy Daly, Bebe Neuwirth, Austin Pendleton and Lainie Kazan....
  • August
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  • Bad Moon
    Bad Moon

    Bad Moon is an United States horror film released in 1996. The plot involves a family man who struggles to overcome his curse.The film is based on the novel Thor by Wayne Smith, which tells the story from the dog's viewpoint....
  • Barb Wire
    Barb Wire

    Barb Wire was a superhero published by Comics Greatest World, an imprint of Dark Horse Comics. A regular series was published for 9 issues between 1994 in comics-1995 in comics, followed by a mini-series in 1998 in comics....
  • Basquiat
    Basquiat

    This article is about the biographical film of the artist. For the artist, see Jean-Michel Basquiat.Basquiat is a 1996 in film film directed by Julian Schnabel which is based on the life of American postmodernism/neoexpressionism artist Jean-Michel Basquiat....
  • Beautiful Thing
    Beautiful Thing

    Beautiful Thing is a Play written and first performed in 1993 by Jonathan Harvey. A screen adaptation of the play was released in 1996 by Film4 Productions, with a revised screenplay also by Harvey....
  • Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
    Beavis and Butt-head Do America

    Beavis and Butt-Head Do America is an animated feature film, based on the TV series, Beavis and Butt-Head, that was released on December 20, 1996, produced by Paramount Pictures, The Geffen Film Company, and MTV Films, and directed by Mike Judge....
    , with guest voices by Bruce Willis
    Bruce Willis

    Walter Bruce Willis , better known as Bruce Willis, is an United Statesn actor and film producer. His career began in television in the 1980s and has continued both in television and film since....
    , Demi Moore
    Demi Moore

    Demetria Gene "Demi" Moore Kutcher is an American actress. She became well-known after a string of 1980s teen-oriented movies, and was one of the best known actresses of 1990s Hollywood....
    , Cloris Leachman
    Cloris Leachman

    Cloris Leachman is an United States actor of stage , film and television. She has won eight primetime Emmy Awards—more than any other female performer—and one Daytime Emmy Award....
    , Richard Linklater
    Richard Linklater

    Richard Stuart Linklater is an Academy Award-nominated United States film director and screenwriter....
    , Robert Stack
    Robert Stack

    Robert Langford Modini Stack was an Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award- nominated United States theater and movie actor. He was perhaps best known for his film acting as well as his role in the television series The Untouchables and as host of Unsolved Mysteries....
     and David Letterman
    David Letterman

    David Michael Letterman is an United States comedian, known for hosting the Late Show with David Letterman on CBS since 1993. Letterman's Irony, often Surreal humour comedy is heavily influenced by former The Tonight Show hosts Steve Allen, Johnny Carson and Jack Paar....
    , directed by Mike Judge
    Mike Judge

    Michael Craig Judge is an United States animator, actor, voice actor, writer, Film director, and television producer, best-known as the creator and star of the hit animated television series Beavis and Butt-head and King of the Hill....
  • Bed of Roses
    Bed of Roses

    Bed of Roses is a 1996 romance film that starred Mary Stuart Masterson and Christian Slater. It was screenwriter and film director by Michael Goldenberg....
  • Before and After
  • Big Bully
    Big Bully (film)

    Big Bully is a 1996 in film comedy film starring Rick Moranis and Tom Arnold. The film was directed by Steve Miner....


  • The Birdcage
    The Birdcage

    The Birdcage is a 1996 in film comedy film directed by Mike Nichols, and stars Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Gene Hackman, Dianne Wiest, Dan Futterman, Calista Flockhart, Hank Azaria, and Christine Baranski....
  • Black Sheep
    Black sheep

    File:Black sheep-1.jpgBlack sheep is an English language idiom which describes an odd or disreputable member of a group, especially within one's family....
  • Blood and Wine
    Blood and Wine

    Blood and Wine is a crime drama film directed by Bob Rafelson and screenplay written by Nick Villiers and Alison Cross. It features Jack Nicholson, Jennifer Lopez, Stephen Dorff, Michael Caine, and others....
  • Bottle Rocket
  • Bound
    Bound (film)

    Bound is a 1996 neo-noir crime film thriller film directed by the Wachowski Brothers. It is about a woman who longs to escape her relationship with her Mafia boyfriend ....
  • Breaking the Waves
    Breaking the Waves

    Breaking the Waves is a 1996 in film film directed by Lars von Trier and starring Emily Watson. Set in the Scottish Highlands in the 1970s, it tells the story of an unusual woman, Bess McNeill, and of the love she has for Jan, her husband....
  • Broken Arrow
    Broken Arrow (1996 film)

    Broken Arrow is a 1996 in film Cinema of the United States action film directed by John Woo, written by Graham Yost, and starring John Travolta and Christian Slater....
    , directed by John Woo
    John Woo

    John Woo Yu-Sen is a critically acclaimed international China film director and film producer. Recognized for his stylized films of highly choreographed action sequences, Mexican standoffs, and use of slow-motion, Mr....
  • Broken English
    Broken English (1996 film)

    Broken English was a feature film made in New Zealand in 1996 in New Zealand. Directed by Gregor Nicholas, it stars Aleksandra Vujcic, Julian Arahanga and Rade Serbedzija....
  • Bulletproof
    Bulletproof (1996 film)

    Bulletproof is a 1996 in film Cinema of the United States action film comedy film film directed by Ernest Dickerson, and starring Damon Wayans, Adam Sandler, James Caan and Robert Swenson....
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  • The Cable Guy
    The Cable Guy

    The Cable Guy is a 1996 in film comedy film directed by Ben Stiller and starring Jim Carrey and Matthew Broderick. The film also features Leslie Mann and Jack Black....
    , starring Jim Carrey
    Jim Carrey

    James Eugene Carrey , best known as Jim Carrey, is a two-time Golden Globe Award-winning Canadian-American actor and stand-up comedian. He is probably best known for his manic and slapstick performances in comedy films such as Dumb and Dumber, The Mask , Liar Liar, and Bruce Almighty....
     and Matthew Broderick
    Matthew Broderick

    Matthew Broderick is an United States award-winning film and stage actor who is best known for his roles as the title character in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Nick in Godzilla and David Lightman in WarGames....
    , directed by Ben Stiller
    Ben Stiller

    Benjamin Edward "Ben" Stiller is an Emmy Award-winning American comedian, actor, film director, and film producer. He is the son of veteran comedians and actors Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara....
  • Camping Cosmos
    Camping Cosmos

    Camping Cosmos is the second comedy in the film trilogy The Sexual Life of the Belgians , starring Claude Semal , Lolo Ferrari , No?l Godin , Herman Brusselmans and Arno Hintjens ....
  • Carried Away
    Carried Away (film)

    Carried Away is a 1996 English language film directed by Brazilian Bruno Barreto. It is based on the novel Farmer by Jim Harrison.The film stars Dennis Hopper, Amy Irving , Gary Busey, and Amy Locane....
  • Carpool
    Carpool (film)

    Carpool is a 1996 in film comedy film directed by Arthur Hiller and starring Tom Arnold and David Paymer....
  • Celtic Pride
    Celtic Pride

    Celtic Pride is a comedy film directed by Tom DeCerchio. It features Daniel Stern and Dan Aykroyd as Mike O'Hara and Jimmy Flaherty, two passionate Boston Celtics fans and Damon Wayans as Lewis Scott, the Utah Jazz's All-Star shooting guard....
  • Chain Reaction
    Chain Reaction (film)

    Chain Reaction is a 1996 in film Cinema of the United States starring Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Dunn and Fred Ward. It presents a fictional account of the invention of bubble fusion using sonoluminescence and the attempts by certain rogue elements within the Federal government of the United States to prevent the sp...
  • The Chamber
  • City Hall
    City Hall (film)

    City Hall is a 1996 in film film directed by Harold Becker. Al Pacino and John Cusack star as the idealistic Mayor of New York John Pappas, and Deputy Mayor, Kevin Calhoun respectively....
  • Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day
    Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day

    Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day is a 1996 in film drama film written and directed by Christopher M?nch. It stars Peter Alexander and features R.E.M....
  • Comrades: Almost a Love Story
    Comrades: Almost a Love Story

    Comrades, Almost a Love Story is a Hong Kong films of 1996 Cinema of Hong Kong starring Maggie Cheung, Leon Lai, Eric Tsang, and Kristy Yang....
    , Hong Kong Film Awards and Golden Space Needle award
  • Courage Under Fire
    Courage Under Fire

    Courage Under Fire is a motion picture, released in 1996, starring Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Lou Diamond Phillips and Matt Damon. It is one of the first films to depict the 1991 Gulf War....
    , starring Denzel Washington
    Denzel Washington

    Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. is an United States actor and film director. He has garnered much critical acclaim for his work in film since the 1990s, including for his portrayals of real-life figures, such as Steve Biko, Malcolm X, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, Melvin B....
  • The Craft
    The Craft (film)

    The Craft is a 1996 in film supernatural teen horror film directed by Andrew Fleming and starring Robin Tunney, Rachel True, Fairuza Balk and Neve Campbell....
    , Fairuza Balk
    Fairuza Balk

    Fairuza Alejandra Balk is an United States film actor. She made her theatrical film debut as Dorothy Gale in Walt Disney Company Return to Oz....
     and Neve Campbell
    Neve Campbell

    Neve Adrianne Campbell is a Canada film and television actress. Beginning her career on stage, she came to fame on the 1990s television series Party of Five, playing the role of the teenager Julia Salinger....
     are two of four co-stars in movie that helped begin a trend of gothic dressers.
  • The Crow: City of Angels
    The Crow: City of Angels

    The Crow: City of Angels is a 1996 in film action film and a sequel to the cult film The Crow . The film was directed by Tim Pope....
  • The Crucible
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  • D3: The Mighty Ducks
    D3: The Mighty Ducks

    D3: The Mighty Ducks also known as The Mighty Ducks 3 is the third film in The Mighty Ducks films* and the second theatrical sequel to The Mighty Ducks, and first to D2: The Mighty Ducks....
  • Daddy's Girl
    Daddy's Girl (film)

    Daddy's Girl is a 1996 in film film directed by Martin Kitrosser....
  • Daylight
    Daylight (film)

    Daylight is a 1996 disaster film, starring Sylvester Stallone, Amy Brenneman, Viggo Mortensen, Dan Hedaya, and Danielle Harris. It was directed by Rob Cohen and released in theaters on December 6, 1996....
    , starring Sylvester Stallone
    Sylvester Stallone

    Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone , nicknamed Sly Stallone, is an 48th Academy Awards-nominated American actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter....
  • Dear God
    Dear God

    Dear God was a 1996 comedy film distributed by Paramount Pictures....
  • The Dentist
    The Dentist

    The Dentist is an United States horror film released in 1992 in film. It was directed by Brian Yuzna and written by Sir Gregory Alan Wheeler Timms....
  • Diabolique
    Diabolique (1996 film)

    Diabolique is an American film directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik and written by Henri-Georges Clouzot and Don Roos. The film stars Sharon Stone and Isabelle Adjani....
  • Different for Girls
    Different for Girls

    For the Joe Jackson song "It's Different for Girls" see I'm the Man .'For the Leslie Mills album, see Different for Girls .Different for Girls is a 1996 in film British comedy with a major character who is a transsexual....
  • Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
    Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood

    'Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood' is a 1996 in film film. Similar to the Wayans brothers' previous effort I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, the film spoofs a number of African American, coming-of-age, 'hood films' such as Juice , Jungle Fever , South Central , Higher Learning, Do The Ri...
  • Down Periscope
    Down Periscope

    Down Periscope is a 1996 comedy movie starring Kelsey Grammer as the captain of a rust-bucket submarine called the USS Stingray, , who is fighting for his career....
  • Dragonheart
    Dragonheart

    Dragonheart is a 1996 fantasy/adventure film directed by Rob Cohen, and starring Dennis Quaid, David Thewlis, Pete Postlethwaite, Dina Meyer, and the voice of Sean Connery....
  • Dunston Checks In
    Dunston Checks In

    Dunston Checks In is a 1996 film starring Jason Alexander, Eric Lloyd, Faye Dunaway, Rupert Everett, Paul Reubens, Glenn Shadix, Graham Sack and Sam as Dunston....
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  • Eddie
    Eddie (film)

    Eddie is a 1996 in film sports movie starring Whoopi Goldberg and Frank Langella. It was a moderate success grossing $31,387,164 in the US....
    , starring Whoopi Goldberg
    Whoopi Goldberg

    Whoopi Goldberg is an United Statesn actress, comedian, singer-songwriter and media personality.She is one of only a handful of List of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards....
     and Frank Langella
    Frank Langella

    'Frank A. Langella, Jr.' is an Academy Award-nominated, Tony Award-winning United States Stage and film actor. His Tonys include two for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Edward Albee's Seascape , and Ivan Turgenev's Fortune's Fool , and for Best Leading Actor in a Play for his performance as Richard Nixon in Peter Morgan's Frost/N...
    , directed by Steve Rash
  • The English Patient
    The English Patient (film)

    The English Patient is a 1996 in film film adaptation of the The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje. The film, directed by Anthony Minghella, won nine Academy Awards, including Academy Award for Best Picture....
     - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture
  • Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story
    Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story

    Entertaining Angels: the Dorothy Day Story is a 1996 in film independent film about the life of Dorothy Day, the journalist turned social activist and founder of the Catholic Worker newspaper....
    , starring Moira Kelly
    Moira Kelly

    Moira Kelly is an Irish-American actor.She is the third of six children. Her father, Peter, was trained as a concert violinist. Her mother, Anne, is a nurse....
  • Eraser
    Eraser (film)

    Eraser is a 1996 in film action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Vanessa L. Williams. It was film director by Chuck Russell. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Sound Effects Editing in 1996....
    , starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
    Arnold Schwarzenegger

    Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger is an Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor, businessman, and Politics of the United States, currently serving as the List of Governors of California Governor of California of the state of California....
  • Escape from L.A.
    Escape from L.A.

    Escape From L.A. is a 1996 film directed by John Carpenter. The sequel to the action film Escape from New York, the film follows war hero Snake Plissken, played by Kurt Russell....
    , aka John Carpenter's Escape from L.A.
  • The Evening Star
    The Evening Star

    The Evening Star is a 1996 in film sequel film to the Academy Awards-winning Terms of Endearment, starring Shirley MacLaine, who reprises the role of Aurora Greenway she played in the original film....
  • Everyone Says I Love You
    Everyone Says I Love You

    Everyone Says I Love You is a Golden Globe-nominated musical film written and directed by Woody Allen. The film features many stars, including Julia Roberts, Alan Alda, Edward Norton, Drew Barrymore, Gaby Hoffmann, Tim Roth, Goldie Hawn, and Natalie Portman....
    , directed by Woody Allen
    Woody Allen

    Woody Allen is an Cinema of the United States film director, writer, actor, comedian, musician and playwright.Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to Screwball comedy film, have made him one of the most respected living American directors....
  • Evita
    Evita (film)

    Evita is the 1996 in film film adaptation of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita based on the life of Eva Per?n. It was directed by Alan Parker and starred Madonna , Antonio Banderas and Jonathan Pryce....
     - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
  • Executive Decision
    Executive Decision

    Executive Decision is a 1996 in film action film, directed by Stuart Baird and starring Kurt Russell, Halle Berry, John Leguizamo, and Steven Seagal....
  • Extreme Measures
    Extreme Measures

    Extreme Measures is a 1996 in film thriller film based on Michael Palmer 's 1991 Extreme Measures , about the ethics of how far we are willing to go, and how much we are willing to sacrifice, in order to cure the world's ills....
  • Eye for an Eye
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  • Fargo
    Fargo (film)

    Fargo is a Cinema of the United States film produced, directed and written by brothers Coen brothers. Set in Minnesota, it is the story of a car salesman who hires two men to kidnap his wife for an $80,000 ransom....
  • Fear
    Fear (film)

    Fear is a 1996 in film Thriller directed by James Foley, starring Mark Wahlberg and Reese Witherspoon. The film also features Amy Brenneman, William Petersen and Alyssa Milano....
     - staring Mark Wahlberg
    Mark Wahlberg

    Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg is an Academy Award-nominated, BAFTA-winning American actor, former rapper and producer of film and television. He was known as Marky Mark in his earlier years and became famous in his 1991 debut as a rap musician with the band Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch....
     and Reese Witherspoon
    Reese Witherspoon

    Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon , better known as Reese Witherspoon, is an American actress and film producer, who has established herself as a one of Hollywood top actresses in recent years....
  • Fire by Deepa Mehta
    Deepa Mehta

    Deepa Mehta is a Genie Award winning and Academy Award nominated Indian-born Canada film director and screenwriter. Deepa Mehta's films focus around the Indian community, in India and in the diaspora....
    , starring Shabana Azmi
    Shabana Azmi

    Shabana Azmi is one of the leading actresses of Parallel Cinema. She is a film actress as well as a social activist, and her performances in films in a variety of genres have generally earned her praises and awards including five wins of National Film Award for Best Actress....
     and Nandita Das
    Nandita Das

    Nandita Das is an award-winning Cinema of India Parallel Cinema actress and filmmaker. As an actress, she is known for her critically acclaimed performances in Fire , Earth , Bawandar and Aamaar Bhuvan ....
  • The First Wives Club
    The First Wives Club

    The First Wives Club is an Academy Award-nominated 1996 in film comedy film, based on the same-titled 1992 in literature novel by Olivia Goldsmith....
  • Fled
    Fled

    Fled is a 1996 in film film directed by Kevin Hooks. This American film is a remake of the 1958 in film film The Defiant Ones....
  • Flipper
    Flipper (1996 film)

    Flipper is a 1996 in film remake of the 1963 in film Flipper , starring Elijah Wood. The movie is about a boy who has to spend the summer with his uncle Porter , who lives in the Florida Keys....
  • Flirting with Disaster
    Flirting with Disaster

    For the album by rock band Molly Hatchet, see Flirtin' with Disaster.Flirting with Disaster is a 1996 in film Cinema of the United States comedy film written and directed by David O....
  • Floating Life
    Floating Life

    Floating Life is a 1996 Australian drama film directed by Clara Law about a Hong Kong family who move to Australia....
  • Fly Away Home
    Fly Away Home

    Fly Away Home is a 1996 film, directed by Carroll Ballard, about the daughter of a widower who, with her father, leads a flock of Canada geese from Canada to a wildlife refuge in the United States....
  • The Frighteners
    The Frighteners

    The Frighteners is a 1996 comedy horror film directed by Peter Jackson and co-written with his wife, Fran Walsh. The film's cast includesMichael J....
    , directed by Peter Jackson
    Peter Jackson

    Peter Robert Jackson, New Zealand Order of Merit is a three-time Academy Award-winning New Zealand filmmaker, film producer and screenwriter, best known for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy trilogy adapted from the The Lord of the Rings by J....
  • From Dusk Till Dawn
    From Dusk Till Dawn

    From Dusk till Dawn is a 1996 in film Action film/horror film directed by Robert Rodriguez and written by Quentin Tarantino. The movie stars George Clooney, Harvey Keitel, Quentin Tarantino, and Juliette Lewis....
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  • Gamera 2: Attack of Legion
    Gamera 2: Attack of Legion

    , released in 1996, is the tenth movie in the Gamera film series and the sequel to Gamera: Guardian of the Universe. The featured monsters are Gamera and the Legion....
  • Get on the Bus
    Get on the Bus

    Get on the Bus is a 1996 film about a group of African-American men who are taking a cross-country bus trip in order to participate in the Million Man March....
  • The Ghost and the Darkness
    The Ghost and the Darkness

    The Ghost and the Darkness is a 1996 film about the Tsavo maneaters, two lions who attacked the builders of the Uganda Railway in 1898, killing about 135 of them, and the subsequent hunt to kill them....
  • Ghosts of Mississippi
    Ghosts of Mississippi

    Ghosts of Mississippi is a 1996 in film drama film directed by Rob Reiner and starring Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg and James Woods. The plot focuses on the 1994 trial of Byron De La Beckwith, the white supremacist accused of the 1963 assassination of civil rights activist Medgar Evers....
    , directed by Rob Reiner
    Rob Reiner

    Robert "Rob" Reiner is an United States actor, Film director, Film producer, writer, and political activist. As an actor, Reiner first came to national prominence as Archie and Edith Bunker's son-in-law, Michael Stivic, on All in the Family....
  • Girl 6
    Girl 6

    Girl 6 may refer to:*Girl 6 , a 1996 film by Spike Lee*Girl 6 , the soundtrack for the film, composed by Prince*Girl 6 , the title song for the soundtrack...
  • The Glimmer Man
    The Glimmer Man

    For the official employed by coal gas reticulation companies in Ireland during the The Emergency see Glimmer ManThe Glimmer Man is a 1996 in film United States action film directed by John Gray ....
  • The Great White Hype
    The Great White Hype

    The 1996 movie The Great White Hype stars Samuel L. Jackson, Peter Berg, Damon Wayans, Jeff Goldblum, Jon Lovitz, Cheech Marin, John Rhys-Davies and Jamie Foxx ....
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  • Hamlet
    Hamlet (1996 film)

    Hamlet is a 1996 in film Shakespeare on screen of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, adapted and directed by Kenneth Branagh, who also stars in the title role as Prince Hamlet....
  • Happy Gilmore
    Happy Gilmore

    Happy Gilmore is a 1996 in film Cinema of the United States List of sports films comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan and starring Adam Sandler as the title character....
    , directed by Dennis Dugan
    Dennis Dugan

    Dennis Dugan is an United States actor, film director and screenwriter....
  • Hard Eight
    Hard Eight (film)

    Hard Eight is a 1996 film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Philip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow and Samuel L....
    , directed by P. T. Anderson
    Paul Thomas Anderson

    Paul Thomas Anderson is a five-time Academy Award-nominated United States filmmaker....
  • Harriet The Spy
    Harriet the Spy

    Harriet the Spy is a Children's literature by Louise Fitzhugh, published in 1964 in literature. It won the Sequoyah Book Award.It was made into a 1996 in film Harriet the Spy for Nickelodeon starring Michelle Trachtenberg....
  • Heaven's Prisoners
    Heaven's Prisoners

    Heaven's Prisoners is a 1996 in film psychological thriller/neo-noir feature film starring Alec Baldwin, Kelly Lynch, Mary Stuart Masterson, Teri Hatcher and Eric Roberts....
  • High School High
    High School High

    High School High is a 1996 comedy film about an inner city high school in the Los Angeles, California area, starring Jon Lovitz, Tia Carrere, Mekhi Phifer, Louise Fletcher, Malinda Williams and Brian Hooks....
  • Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
    Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco

    Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco is the 1996 in film sequel to the 1993 in film film Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey. The film is directed by David R....
    , directed by David R. Ellis
    David R. Ellis

    David Richard Ellis is an United States film director and a former stunt double....
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame
    The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996 film)

    The Hunchback of Notre Dame is an Academy Award-nominated, 1996 animated feature produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released to theaters on June 21, 1996 by Walt Disney Pictures....
    , directed by Gary Trousdale
    Gary Trousdale

    Gary Trousdale is the director of such movies as Atlantis: The Lost Empire , The Hunchback of Notre Dame , Beauty and the Beast and Cranium Command , the animated short, The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper and the ABC Christmas Special "Shrek the Halls"....
     and Kirk Wise
    Kirk Wise

    Kirk Wise is an United States film director and writer.Wise has directed such Disney movies as Atlantis: The Lost Empire , The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Beauty and the Beast ....
  • Hype!
    Hype!

    Hype! is a documentary directed by Doug Pray about the popularity of grunge rock in the early to mid-1990s United States. It incorporates interviews and rare concert footage to trace the steps of grunge, from its subversive inception in neighborhood basements, to its explosion as a popular culture phenomenon....
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  • I'm Not Rappaport
    I'm Not Rappaport

    I'm Not Rappaport is a play by Herb Gardner originally staged by Seattle Repertory Theatre in 1984. Its Broadway theatre debut production, directed by Daniel Sullivan , starring Judd Hirsch, Cleavon Little, Jace Alexander, and Mercedes Ruehl, opened on November 19, 1985 at the Booth Theatre, where it ran for 891 performances....
  • In Love and War
    In Love and War (1996 film)

    In Love and War is a Romantic drama film based on the book Hemingway in Love and War by Henry S. Villard and James Nagel and starring Mackenzie Astin, Chris O'Donnell, Sandra Bullock, and Margot Steinberg....
  • Independence Day
    Independence Day (film)

    Independence Day is a 1996 in film science fiction film about a hostile alien invasion of Earth, focusing on a disparate group of individuals and families as they coincidentally converge in the Nevada desert and, along with the rest of the human population, participate in a last-chance retaliation effort on July 4....
  • Infinity
    Infinity (film)

    Infinity is a 1996 in film United States biographical film drama film about the early life of physicist Richard Feynman. Feynman was played by Matthew Broderick, who also directed the film....
  • Intimate Relations
  • The Island of Dr. Moreau
    The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996 film)

    The Island of Dr. Moreau is a 1996 in film film, the third major movie version of the H. G. Wells novel The Island of Doctor Moreau, a science fiction horror story about a scientist who attempts to convert animals into people....
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  • Jack
    Jack (film)

    Jack is a 1996 comedy-drama film starring Robin Williams, Diane Lane, Brian Kerwin, Jennifer Lopez, Fran Drescher, and Bill Cosby, and directed by Francis Ford Coppola....
  • James and the Giant Peach
    James and the Giant Peach (film)

    James and the Giant Peach is a 1996 in film fantasy film directed by Henry Selick, based on the Roald Dahl James and the Giant Peach. It was produced by Tim Burton, who also had written the movie The Nightmare Before Christmas which also was a Disney project....
    , starring Miriam Margoyles, Joanna Lumley
    Joanna Lumley

    Joanna Lamond Lumley, Order of the British Empire is an England actor and former model , best known for her roles in the England television series The New Avengers, Sapphire and Steel, Absolutely Fabulous and Sensitive Skin ....
    , Pete Postlethwaite
    Pete Postlethwaite

    Peter William Postlethwaite Order of the British Empire , born 16 February 1946 is an Academy Award-nominated United Kingdom actor....
     and introducing Paul Terry
    Paul Terry

    Paul Terry may refer to:*Paul Terry , American, founder of Terrytoons*Paul Terry , English*Paul Terry , English*Paul Terry , English...
    , animation supervisor Paul Berry
    Paul Berry

    Paul Berry, is a Northern Ireland Unionists politician.Berry was born in Craigavon, County Armagh, and brought up in Tandragee, where he was educated at local state schools and colleges, following which he was employed in the textile industry....
    , director of photography Pete Kozachik (animation) and Hiro Narita
    Hiro Narita

    Hiro Narita, A.S.C. a Japanese American cinematographer, was born June 26, 1941 in Seoul, South Korea in the clinic owned by his physician father ....
     (live action), directed by Henry Selick
    Henry Selick

    Henry Selick is an United States stop motion movie director, producer and writer who is best known for directing The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach and Coraline ....
  • Jerry Maguire
    Jerry Maguire

    Jerry Maguire is a 1996 in film United States comedy-drama film starring Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Ren?e Zellweger. It was written and directed by Cameron Crowe....
  • Jingle All the Way
    Jingle All the Way

    Jingle All the Way is a 1996 in film family film comedy film film director by Brian Levant and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sinbad . The name is taken from a line in the Christmas song "Jingle Bells"....
    , starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
    Arnold Schwarzenegger

    Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger is an Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor, businessman, and Politics of the United States, currently serving as the List of Governors of California Governor of California of the state of California....
  • Joe's Apartment
    Joe's Apartment

    Joe's Apartment is a 1996 in film musical film-serio-comedy film film starring Jerry O'Connell and Megan Ward and the first film produced by MTV Films....
    , starring Jerry O'Connell
    Jerry O'Connell

    Jeremiah "Jerry" O'Connell is an United States actor, best known for playing Vern Tessio in the film Stand by Me , Quinn Mallory in the TV series Sliders, and Detective Woody Hoyt on the drama Crossing Jordan....
     and Megan Ward
    Megan Ward

    Megan Marie Ward is an United States actor best known for her numerous credits in science fiction and horror film film and television series. In 2007, she joined the cast of the American daytime drama General Hospital as Kate Howard....
    , voices by Billy West
    Billy West

    William Richard "Billy" West in Detroit, Michigan, Michigan) is an United States voice acting, best known for his roles on The Ren and Stimpy Show, Futurama and Doug....
    , animation directed by Chris Wedge
    Chris Wedge

    'John Christian "Chris" Wedge' is an American film director, best known for the films Ice Age and Robots is Robots 2 ....
    , directed by John Payson
  • Joseph Conley Kevin Bacon Michael Traenor (1996)
  • The Juror
    The Juror

    The Juror is a 1996 in film directed by Brian Gibson and starring Demi Moore as Annie Laird, a single mother, picked for jury duty on a Mafia trial....
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  • Kazaam
    Kazaam

    Kazaam is a 1996 in film comedy film that stars Shaquille O'Neal as the title character, a genie, who appears from a magic boombox to grant a boy three wishes....
  • Kingpin
    Kingpin (film)

    Kingpin is a 1996 in film Farrelly brothers film starring Woody Harrelson, Randy Quaid, Vanessa Angel, and Bill Murray. It was filmed in and around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as a stand-in for Scranton, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Dutch Country and even Reno, Nevada....
  • Kolya
    Kolya

    Kolya is a 1996 in film Cinema of the Czech Republic drama about a man whose life is reshaped in an unexpected way. The film was directed by Jan Sver?k and stars his father Zdenek Sver?k who also wrote the script from a story by Pavel Taussig....
    , directed by Jan Sverák
    Jan Sverák

    Jan Sver?k is one of the most successful Czech Republic film directors since the Velvet Revolution in 1989. He is the son of the prominent screenwriter and actor Zdenek Sver?k....
     - Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
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  • Larger than Life
    Larger Than Life (film)

    Larger Than Life is a 1996 in film comedy film staring Bill Murray....
  • Last Dance
    Last Dance (film)

    Last Dance is a 1996 in film film starring Sharon Stone, Rob Morrow, Randy Quaid and Peter Gallagher. The prison which the film is shot is in Ridgeland South Carolina....
  • Last Man Standing
    Last Man Standing (film)

    Last Man Standing is a 1996 in film action film written and directed by Walter Hill , starring Bruce Willis, Christopher Walken, and Bruce Dern....
  • Licántropo
    Licántropo

    Lic?ntropo, also known as Lycantropus: The Moonlight Murders, is a 1996 in film Spanish horror film film that is the eleventh in a long series about the werewolf Count Waldemar Daninsky, played by Paul Naschy....
  • Lone Star
  • The Long Kiss Goodnight
    The Long Kiss Goodnight

    The Long Kiss Goodnight is a 1996 in film action film thriller film starring Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson, written by Shane Black and directed by Renny Harlin....
  • Looking for Richard
    Looking for Richard

    Looking for Richard is a 1996 documentary film, the first film directed by Al Pacino. The film is both a performance of selected scenes of William Shakespeare's Richard III and a broader examination of Shakespeare's continuing role and relevance in popular culture....
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  • Mars Attacks!
    Mars Attacks!

    Mars Attacks! is a 1996 comedy science fiction movie by Tim Burton based on the popular card series Mars Attacks. It was released in 1996 by Warner Bros....
  • Marvin's Room
  • Mary Reilly
    Mary Reilly (film)

    Mary Reilly is a 1996 in film film directed by Stephen Frears. The movie was written by Christopher Hampton based on the novel Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin....
  • Matilda
    Matilda (1996 film)

    Matilda is a 1996 in film film directed by Danny DeVito. It is based on Roald Dahl's Matilda . The film was released by TriStar Pictures. It is rated PG by the MPAA for elements of exaggerated elements of meanness, ridicule, and for some mild language....
  • Maximum Risk
    Maximum Risk

    Maximum Risk is a 1996 film, directed by Ringo Lam and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Natasha Henstridge.Alain Moreau is a cop in Nice, France....
  • Michael
    Michael (1996 film)

    Michael is the title of an United States fantasy motion picture directed by Nora Ephron and released in 1996 in film. The film stars John Travolta as the Michael , who is sent to Earth to do various tasks, including mending some wounded hearts....
    , starring John Travolta
    John Travolta

    John Joseph Travolta is a two-time Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Screen Actors Guild Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning United States actor, dancer and singer, best known for his leading roles in films such as Saturday Night Fever, Grease and Pulp Fiction ....
    , Andie MacDowell
    Andie MacDowell

    Rosalie Anderson "Andie" MacDowell is an American model and actress. She is the winner of two Golden Globe Awards....
     and William Hurt
    William Hurt

    William M. Hurt is an United States actor. He won both the Academy Awards and BAFTA Awards for his work in Kiss of the Spider Woman ....
  • Michael Collins
    Michael Collins (film)

    Michael Collins is a List of Irish films#1990s List of historical drama films biographical film about Michael Collins , the Ireland patriotism and revolutionary who died in the Irish Civil War....
    , directed by Neil Jordan
    Neil Jordan

    Neil Jordan is an Academy Award-winning Ireland filmmaker and novelist. He received the Academy Award for The Crying Game....
     - Golden Lion award
  • The Mirror Has Two Faces
    The Mirror Has Two Faces

    The Mirror Has Two Faces is a 1996 in film United States romance film dramedy film produced and directed by Barbra Streisand, who also stars....
  • Mission: Impossible
    Mission: Impossible (film)

    Mission: Impossible is an action movie released in 1996 in film. It was directed by Brian De Palma and starred Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt. The plot follows Ethan Hunt?s mission to uncover the mole within CIA who has framed him for the murders of his entire IMF team....
  • Mother
    Mother (1996 film)

    Mother is a 1996 in film directed and written by Albert Brooks, and starring Brooks and Debbie Reynolds. The comedy involves a failed science fiction writer who attempts to improve his relations with his mother by moving in with her....
  • Mr. Wrong
  • Mulholland Falls
    Mulholland Falls

    Mulholland Falls is an United States neo-noir drama film directed by Lee Tamahori. The drama features Nick Nolte, Jennifer Connelly, Chazz Palminteri, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Melanie Griffith, among others....
  • Multiplicity
    Multiplicity (film)

    Multiplicity is a 1996 in film comedy film starring Michael Keaton and Andie MacDowell. The film was co-produced and directed by Harold Ramis....
  • Muppet Treasure Island
    Muppet Treasure Island

    Muppet Treasure Island is the fifth feature film to star The Muppets. It was released in 1996 and directed by Jim Henson's son Brian Henson....
    , starring Tim Curry
    Tim Curry

    Timothy James "Tim" Curry is an England actor, singer, composer and voice artist, known for his work in a diverse range of theatre, film and television productions....
    , Billy Connolly
    Billy Connolly

    Billy Connolly, Order of the British Empire is a Scottish comedian, musician, presenter and actor. He is sometimes known, especially in his native Scotland, by the nickname The Big Yin ....
    , Jennifer Saunders
    Jennifer Saunders

    Jennifer Jane Saunders is a BAFTA Award and Emmy Award-winning England comedienne, screenwriter and actress.She first came into widespread attention in the 1980s and the early 1990s when she became a member of The Comic Strip after graduating from the Central School of Speech and Drama....
     and introducing Kevin Bishop
    Kevin Bishop

    Kevin Bishop is an England actor, writer and comedian....
    , performed by Ziggy Marley
    Ziggy Marley

    David Nesta "Ziggy" Marley is a four time Grammy Award-winning Jamaican musician and leader of the band Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers. He is the oldest son of Rita Marley and Bob Marley, the roots reggae singer....
    , directed by Brian Henson
    Brian Henson

    Brian Henson is an Academy Award-winning puppeteer, director, producer, and technician. The son of puppeteers Jane Henson and Jim Henson, Brian was born in New York City, New York....
  • My Fellow Americans
    My Fellow Americans

    My Fellow Americans is a 1996 comedy film starring Jack Lemmon and James Garner as feuding ex-presidents. Dan Aykroyd, Lauren Bacall, John Heard , Wilford Brimley, Bradley Whitford and Jeff Yagher also appear....
  • Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
    Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie

    Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie is a theatrical adaptation of the cult television hit Mystery Science Theater 3000. The date of the movie's production, between seasons 6 and 7 of MST3K, explains the absence of both TV's Frank , who left the series in the finale of Season 6, and Pearl Forrester , who arrived in the premier...
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  • The Nutty Professor
    The Nutty Professor (1996 film)

    The Nutty Professor is a 1996 in film science fiction- romantic comedy film starring Eddie Murphy. It is a remake of the 1963 film The Nutty Professor starring Jerry Lewis....
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  • One Fine Day
  • Original Gangstas
    Original Gangstas

    Original Gangstas is a 1996 action movie set in urban area Gary, Indiana starring Blaxploitation film stars such as Fred Williamson, Pam Grier, Jim Brown, and Richard Roundtree....
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  • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
    Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills

    Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills is a 1996 in film documentary film directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky about the trials of West Memphis 3 in West Memphis, Arkansas for the murder and sexual mutilation of three prepubescent boys....
     (1996 National Board of Review Best Documentary, 1997 Peabody Award
    Peabody Award

    The George Foster Peabody Awards, better known as simply the Peabody Awards, are annual, international awards for excellence in radio and television broadcasting....
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  • The People vs. Larry Flynt
    The People vs. Larry Flynt

    The People vs. Larry Flynt is a 1996 film directed by Milo? Forman about the rise of pornographic magazine publisher and editor Larry Flynt, and his subsequent clash with the law....
     - Golden Bear award (for 1997)
  • The Phantom
    The Phantom (film)

    The Phantom is a 1996 in film action/adventure movie starring Billy Zane, and directed by Simon Wincer. It was based on Lee Falk's comic strip The Phantom, about a seemingly immortal crimefighter and his battle against all forms of evil....
  • Phenomenon
    Phenomenon (film)

    Phenomenon is a 1996 in film Drama film, Romance film, and fantasy film written by Gerald Di Pego, directed by Jon Turteltaub, and starring John Travolta, Kyra Sedgwick, Forest Whitaker, and Robert Duvall....
  • The Pillow Book
    The Pillow Book

    is a book of observations and musings recorded by Sei Shonagon during her time as court lady to Empress Sadako during the 990s and early 1000s in Heian period Japan....
  • The Portrait of a Lady
    The Portrait of a Lady (film)

    The Portrait of a Lady is a 1996 film adaptation of Henry James's novel The Portrait of a Lady directed by Jane Campion.The film stars Nicole Kidman, Barbara Hershey, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, Martin Donovan, Shelley Duvall, Richard E....
  • The Preacher's Wife
    The Preacher's Wife

    The Preacher's Wife is a 1996 in film romance film-family film-Comedy-drama film film directed by Penny Marshall, and starring Denzel Washington and Whitney Houston....
  • Police Story 4: First Strike
    Police Story 4: First Strike

    Police Story 4: First Strike , released in English language markets as Jackie Chan's First Strike, is a Hong Kong films of 1996 Hong Kong action cinema-adventure film made in the typical humorous style of Jackie Chan....
     (released May 1996)
  • Primal Fear
    Primal Fear (film)

    Primal Fear is a 1996 in film Film which tells a story of a defense attorney who defends an altar boy charged with the murder of a Catholic archbishop....
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  • The Quest
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  • Ransom
  • Ridicule
    Ridicule

    Ridicule is a 1996 in film Cinema of France set in the 18th century at the decadent court of Palace of Versailles, where social status can rise and fall based on one's ability to mete out witty insults and avoid ridicule oneself....
    , directed by Patrice Leconte
    Patrice Leconte

    Patrice Leconte is a France film director and screenwriter....
    , starring Fanny Ardant
    Fanny Ardant

    Fanny Marguerite Judith Ardant is a French actress. She has appeared in more than fifty motion pictures....
    , Judith Godrčche
    Judith Godrčche

    Judith Godr?che is a French actress and author, born in Paris....
  • The Rock
    The Rock (film)

    The Rock is a 1996 in film Academy Awards-nominated action film that primarily takes place on Alcatraz Island, and the San Francisco Bay area....
  • Rumble in the Bronx
    Rumble in the Bronx

    Rumble in the Bronx is a Hong Kong films of 1995 Hong Kong martial arts film-Hong Kong action cinema starring Jackie Chan and Anita Mui.Released in the US in 1996, Rumble in the Bronx had a successful theater run, and brought Chan into the United States mainstream....
  • Romeo + Juliet
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  • Scream
    Scream (film)

    Scream is a 1996 in film directed by Wes Craven and written by Kevin Williamson . The film revitalized the slasher film genre in the mid 1990s, similar to the impact Halloween had on late 1970s in film, by using a standard concept with a tongue-in-cheek approach that combined straightforward scares with dialogue that satirized slash...
  • Secrets & Lies
    Secrets & Lies

    Secrets & Lies is a 1996 in film British film directed by Mike Leigh and starring Brenda Blethyn and Marianne Jean-Baptiste.Storyline...
     - Palme d'Or award
  • Set It Off
    Set It Off

    Set It Off is a 1996 in film action film/crime film/drama film film directed by F. Gary Gray, and stars Jada Pinkett Smith, Queen Latifah, Vivica A....
  • Sgt. Bilko
  • She's the One
    She's the One

    She's the One is a 1996 in film romantic comedy written and directed by Edward Burns and starring Burns, Jennifer Aniston, and Cameron Diaz....
  • Shine
    Shine (film)

    Shine is a 1996 Australian film based on the life of piano David Helfgott, who suffered a mental breakdown and spent years in institutions. It stars Geoffrey Rush, Lynn Redgrave, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Noah Taylor, John Gielgud, Googie Withers, Justin Braine, Sonia Todd, Chris Haywood, and Alex Rafalowicz....
  • The Silencers
  • Sleepers
    Sleepers (film)

    Sleepers is a 1996 legal drama film by Barry Levinson based on Lorenzo Carcaterra's novel of the same name....
  • Sling Blade
    Sling Blade

    Sling Blade is an Academy Award-winning drama film set in rural Arkansas, written, directed by and starring Billy Bob Thornton.It tells the story of a mental retardation man named Karl Childers who is released from a psychiatric hospital where he has lived since killing his mother and her lover when he was 12 years old....
  • A Small Domain
    A Small Domain

    A Small Domain is a 1996 in film short film written and directed by Britta Sjogren. It premiered at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival and won several festival awards during 1996 and 1997....
  • Space Jam
    Space Jam

    Space Jam is a 1996 in film United States live-action/animated film starring Michael Jordan, Bugs Bunny and the rest of the Looney Tunes characters....
    , starring Michael Jordan
    Michael Jordan

    Michael Jeffrey Jordan is a retired United States professional basketball player and active businessman. His biography on the National Basketball Association website states, "By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time." Jordan was one of the most effectively marketed athletes of his generation and was instr...
    , Wayne Knight
    Wayne Knight

    Wayne Knight is an United States Comedian actor, perhaps best known for his role as Newman in the television situation comedy Seinfeld. His other prominent roles include Dennis Nedry in Jurassic Park , List of Toy Story characters#Al in Toy Story 2, Tantor in Tarzan , Don Orville in 3rd Rock from the Sun and Stan Podolak...
    , Theresa Randle
    Theresa Randle

    Theresa E. Randle is an United States stage, film and television actress.Randle was born in Los Angeles, California. She began her performing career by studying dance and comedy....
    , Charles Barkley
    Charles Barkley

    Charles Wade Barkley is an American retired professional basketball player and aspiring politician. Nicknamed "Sir Charles" for his aggressive and outspoken demeanor, and "The Round Mound of Rebound," for his unusual build and talent as a player, Barkley established himself as one of the National Basketball Association's most dom...
    , Shawn Bradley
    Shawn Bradley

    Shawn Paul Bradley is a retired German-American basketball player who played center for the Philadelphia 76ers, the New Jersey Nets and the Dallas Mavericks ....
    , Larry Bird
    Larry Bird

    Larry Joe Bird is a retired American National Basketball Association basketball player, widely considered one of the best players of all time and one of the top clutch performers in the history of U.S....
     and Bill Murray
    Bill Murray

    'William James' "'Bill'" 'Murray' is an Academy Award-nominated United States comedian and actor. He first gained national exposure on Saturday Night Live, following that with roles in films such as Stripes , Caddyshack, The Razor's Edge , Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day , Space Jam, Rushmore and What Abo...
    , voices by Danny DeVito
    Danny DeVito

    Daniel Michael "Danny-Fanny" DeVito, Jr. is an United States actor, film director and film producer, who first gained prominence for his portrayal of "Louie De Palma" on the popular American Broadcasting Company and NBC television television program Taxi ....
    , live action/animation visual effects by Ed Jones, directed by Joe Pytka
  • Space Truckers
    Space Truckers

    Space Truckers, written and directed by Stuart Gordon, is a comedy/science fiction film released in the spring of 1996 in film was filmed at Ardmore Studios, County Wicklow, Ireland....
  • The Spitfire Grill
    The Spitfire Grill

    The Spitfire Grill is a 1996 United States motion picture that tells a story of a woman who was just released from prison. A central theme is redemption....
  • Spy Hard
    Spy Hard

    Spy Hard is a 1996 film starring Leslie Nielsen and Nicollette Sheridan, parodying James Bond films and other action films.The title itself is a spoof of Die Hard which is never actually lampooned in the film itself....
    , starring Leslie Nielsen
    Leslie Nielsen

    Leslie William Nielsen Order of Canada is a Canadian American comedian and actor. Although Nielsen's acting career crossed a variety of genres in both television and films, he has achieved his greatest film success in comedies, including Airplane! and The Naked Gun series of films....
  • Star Trek: First Contact
    Star Trek: First Contact

    Star Trek: First Contact is a 1996 in film science fiction film and the Star Trek#Feature films based in the Star Trek. In the film, the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation encounter their adversaries the Borg , who attempt to conquer the Earth through the use of time travel....
  • Stealing Beauty
    Stealing Beauty

    Stealing Beauty is a 1996 in film Italy/France/United Kingdom drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and written by Bertolucci and Susan Minot....
    , directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
    Bernardo Bertolucci

    Bernardo Bertolucci is an Academy Award-winning Italy film director and screenwriter....
  • Striptease
    Striptease (film)

    Striptease is a 1996 in film sex in film comedy film starring Demi Moore, Burt Reynolds, and Ving Rhames. The film was directed by Andrew Bergman....
    , starring Demi Moore
    Demi Moore

    Demetria Gene "Demi" Moore Kutcher is an American actress. She became well-known after a string of 1980s teen-oriented movies, and was one of the best known actresses of 1990s Hollywood....
  • The Stupids
    The Stupids (film)

    The Stupids is a 1996 in film comedy/adventure film directed by John Landis. The film is based on The Stupids, characters from a series of books written by Harry Allard and illustrated by James Marshall ....
  • The Substitute
    The Substitute

    The Substitute is a 1996 in film action-crime film-thriller film directed by Robert Mandell and starring Tom Berenger, Marc Anthony, Ernie Hudson, William Forsythe , Raymond Cruz, and Luis Guzm?n....
    , starring Tom Berenger
    Tom Berenger

    Tom Berenger is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning United States actor known mainly for his roles in action films....
  • The Sunchaser
    The Sunchaser

    The Sunchaser is 1996 in film film directed by Michael Cimino and starring Woody Harrelson and Jon Seda....
    , directed by Michael Cimino
    Michael Cimino

    Michael Cimino is an United States, Academy Award-winning film director. He is often cited as an example of meteoric rises and falls that were seen in Hollywood in the 1970s....
  • Sunset Park
    Sunset Park (film)

    Sunset Park is a 1996 in film basketball film. It stars Rhea Perlman as the head coach of a high school boy's basketball team from the Sunset Park, Brooklyn neighborhood in New York City....
  • Swingers
    Swingers (1996 film)

    Swingers is a film released in 1996 in film about the lives of single, unemployed actors living on the 'eastside' of Hollywood, Los Angeles, California during the 1990s swing revival....
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  • That Thing You Do!
    That Thing You Do!

    That Thing You Do! is a 1996 film, screenwriter and Director by Tom Hanks. Set in the summer of 1964, the movie tells the slightly altered story of Erie Pennsylvania's 7 Fabulous Epics, and their one hit wonder, "High School Girl" on the Warner Brothers label....
  • A Thin Line Between Love and Hate
    A Thin Line Between Love and Hate

    A Thin Line Between Love and Hate is a 1996 in film Romantic comedy film. The film was directed by, written by, and stars Martin Lawrence. Along with Lawrence, Lynn Whitfield, Regina King, Bobby Brown and Della Reese also star in the film....
  • Thinner
    Thinner (film)

    Thinner is a 1996 in film horror film directed by Tom Holland and written by Stephen King , Michael McDowell and Tom Holland ....
  • A Time to Kill
    A Time to Kill (film)

    A Time to Kill is the name of the 1996 in film Film adaptation of John Grisham's 1989 legal thriller A Time to Kill. The movie was regarded as a commercial success, taking nearly $110 million at the box office....
  • Tin Cup
    Tin Cup

    Tin Cup is a 1996 in film romantic comedy film co-written and directed by Ron Shelton, and starring Kevin Costner and Rene Russo with Cheech Marin and Don Johnson in major supporting roles....
  • To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
    To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday

    To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday is a 1996 in film film starring Peter Gallagher, Claire Danes, Kathy Baker, Wendy Crewson and, in cameo appearances, Michelle Pfeiffer....
  • Trainspotting
    Trainspotting (film)

    Trainspotting is a 1996 Cinema of the United Kingdom directed by Danny Boyle based on the novel Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh. The movie follows a group of heroin addicts in early 1990s economic depression Edinburgh and their passage through life....
    , directed by Danny Boyle
    Danny Boyle

    Danny Boyle is an Academy Award-winning British people filmmaker and film producer. He is best known for his work on films such as Trainspotting , 28 Days Later, Sunshine , and Slumdog Millionaire, for which Boyle won numerous awards in 2009, including the Academy Award for Best Director....
     and starring Ewan McGregor
    Ewan McGregor

    Ewan Gordon McGregor is a Scottish people actor, singer, and adventurer who has had success in mainstream, independent film and Art film films....
     - Golden space Needle award
  • Tremors 2: Aftershocks
    Tremors 2: Aftershocks

    Tremors 2: Aftershocks is a 1996 monster film and sequel to Tremors , in which the character of Earl Bassett, returning from the first movie, is hired to deal with a subterranean "Graboid" infestation at a Mexico oilfield....
  • The Trigger Effect
    The Trigger Effect

    The Trigger Effect is a 1996 movie starring Kyle MacLachlan, Elisabeth Shue and Dermot Mulroney....
  • True Blue
    True Blue (film)

    True Blue is a 1996 UK sports film based on the book True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny. It follows the 1987 The Boat Race and the disagreement amongst the Oxford team known as the "Oxford mutiny"....
  • The Truth About Cats & Dogs
    The Truth About Cats & Dogs

    The Truth About Cats & Dogs is a 1996 in film American film, a romantic comedy starring Uma Thurman, Janeane Garofalo, Ben Chaplin, and Jamie Foxx....
  • Twelfth Night: Or What You Will
    Twelfth Night: Or What You Will (1996 film)

    Twelfth Night: Or What You Will is a 1996 in film film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, or What You Will by Film director Trevor Nunn....
  • Twister
  • Two Days in the Valley
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  • Unforgettable
    Unforgettable (film)

    Unforgettable is a 1996 Thriller with sci-fi elements, directed by John Dahl and starring Ray Liotta and Linda Fiorentino. The movie is about a man named David Krane , who is obsessed with finding out who murdered his wife....
  • Up Close & Personal
    Up Close & Personal

    Up Close & Personal is a 1996 in film United States motion picture drama/romance that was inspired by the story of Jessica Savitch who, in the 1970s, became the first female anchor on American television....
    , starring Robert Redford
    Robert Redford

    Charles Robert Redford Jr. , better known as Robert Redford, is an Academy Award-winning United States film director, actor, film producer, businessman, model , environmentalism, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival....
     and Michelle Pfeiffer
    Michelle Pfeiffer

    Michelle Marie Pfeiffer is an American actress. Over the course of her film career, she has been the recipient of a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award, for her performances in The Fabulous Baker Boys and Dangerous Liaisons respectively, as well as three Academy Award nominations....
  • Urban Safari
    Urban Safari

    Urban Safari is a 1996 in film comedy film film directed by Reto Salimbeni starring David Naughton .External links...
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  • Waiting for Guffman
    Waiting for Guffman

    Waiting for Guffman is a musical mockumentary starring, co-written and directed by Christopher Guest that was released in 1997. Its cast of actors has appeared in a series of Guest-directed mockumentaries....
    , directed by Christopher Guest
    Christopher Guest

    Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest , better known as Christopher Guest, is an United States screenwriter, composer, musician, director, actor and comedian....
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  • The War at Home
    The War at Home (film)

    The War at Home is a 1996 film starring Emilio Estevez, Kathy Bates, and Martin Sheen. Estevez also directed the film and also served as co-producer....
  • Werewolf
    Werewolf (1996 film)

    Werewolf, also known as Arizona Werewolf, is a 1996 direct-to-video horror film that was lampooned in a 1998 episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000....
  • The West
    The West

    The West is a generic term referring to the Western world, or Western culture or civilization.The term can also mean:* Western culture or Western civilization, referring to cultures derived from European origin....
  • White Squall
    White Squall (film)

    White Squall is a 1996 in film Film directed by Ridley Scott.The plot is based on the fate of the schooner Albatross , which sank on 2 May, 1961, allegedly because of a white squall....
  • William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet
    William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet

    William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet is a 1996 in film United States film and the 10th on-screen adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet....
  • The Wind in the Willows
    The Wind in the Willows (1996 film)

    The Wind in the Willows, released on video in the United States as Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, is a 1996 adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's classic novel The Wind in the Willows , although it differs substantially from the novel....
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Births

  • April 14 — Abigail Breslin
    Abigail Breslin

    'Abigail Kathleen Breslin' is an Academy-Award nominated United States child actor. The fourth youngest actress ever to be nominated for a competitive Academy Award, Breslin is best known for portraying Olive Hoover in the film Little Miss Sunshine, Nim Rusoe in Nim's Island, and the title character in Kit Kittredge: An American Girl...
    , actress
  • April 17 - Dee Dee Davis
    Dee Dee Davis

    Dee Dee Davis is an United States actress. She is best known for her role as Bryanna "Baby Girl" Thomkins on The Bernie Mac Show. She also guest starred in the Lifetime original series Strong Medicine....
    , actress
  • August 21 — Jamia Simone Nash
    Jamia Simone Nash

    Jamia Simone Nash is an United States child singer and Actor. She is known as simply, Jamia. She was in the movie August Rush.Jamia currently appears on CBS? "Young and the Restless," the #1 daytime soap opera on television....
    , actress
  • October 5 — Mary Gibbs
    Mary Gibbs

    Mary Jessica Gibbs is an American voice actress.She is known mainly for her work as the human child, Boo, in the movie, Monsters Inc. She also voiced baby Nala in the Lion King merchandise....
    , actress


Deaths

  • February 2 - Gene Kelly
    Gene Kelly

    Eugene Curran "Gene" Kelly was an United States dancer, actor, singer, film director, Film producer, and choreographer.A major exponent of 20th century filmed dance, Kelly was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks and the likeable characters that he played on screen....
    , actor
  • February 6 - Guy Madison
    Guy Madison

    Guy Madison was an United States film and television actor....
    , actor
  • February 11 - Phil Regan
    Phil Regan (actor)

    Phil Regan was an American singer and actor, who later served time for bribery in a real estate scandal.Regan was born in 1906 in New York. He worked as a detective on the NYPD, before his singing was overheard by as radio producer at a party....
    , singer, actor
  • February 13 - Martin Balsam
    Martin Balsam

    Martin Henry Balsam was an Academy Award and Tony Award-winning American actor....
    , actor
  • February 15 - McLean Stevenson
    McLean Stevenson

    McLean Stevenson , born in Normal, Illinois, was an American actor most recognized for his role as Henry Blake on the TV series M*A*S*H ....
    , American actor
  • February 15 - Tommy Rettig
    Tommy Rettig

    Thomas Noel Rettig, more familiarly Tommy Rettig or, as an adult, Tom Rettig, was an United States child actor and computer software engineer and author....
    , actor
  • February 17 - Evelyn Laye
    Evelyn Laye

    'Evelyn Laye' Order of the British Empire was an England theatre actor.Born 'Elsie Evelyn Lay' in Bloomsbury, London, England, Laye made her first stage appearance in August 1915 at the Theatre Royal, Brighton as Nang-Ping in Mr....
    , actress
  • February 25 - Haing S. Ngor
    Haing S. Ngor

    Dr. Haing S. Ngor was a Cambodian American physician, actor and author who is best known for winning the 1985 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the movie The Killing Fields , in which he portrayed journalist and refugee Dith Pran in 1970s Cambodia, under the rule of the Khmer Rouge....
    , actor
  • March 2 - Lyle Talbot
    Lyle Talbot

    Lyle Talbot was an United States actor best known for playing Joe Randolph on television's The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet and for his long career in films from 1931 to 1960....
    , actor
  • March 9 - George Burns
    George Burns

    George Burns was an United States comedy, actor, and comedy writer.His career spanned vaudeville, film, radio, and television, with and without his wife, Gracie Allen....
    , actor
  • March 13 - Krzysztof Kieslowski
    Krzysztof Kieslowski

    Krzysztof Kieslowski , was an influential Academy Awards-nominated Poland film film director and screenwriter, known internationally for his film cycles The Decalogue and Three Colors....
    , Polish film director
  • March 17 - René Clément
    René Clément

    Ren? Cl?ment was a film director and screenwriter.Cl?ment studied architecture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts where he developed an interest that led to the pursuit of a career in filmmaking....
    , French film director
  • April 6 - Greer Garson
    Greer Garson

    'Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson', Order of the British Empire was a United Kingdom-born actor who was very popular during the years of World War II. As one of MGM's major stars of the 1940s, Garson received seven Academy Award nominations, winning the Academy Award for Best Actress award for Mrs....
    , actress
  • April 16 - Lucille Bremer
    Lucille Bremer

    Lucille Bremer was an United States film actor and dancer.Bremer was born in Amsterdam, New York and began her career as a The Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, aged 16....
    , actress
  • May 20 - Jon Pertwee
    Jon Pertwee

    John Devon Roland Pertwee , better known as Jon Pertwee, was an England actor. Pertwee is best known for his role in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, where he played the Third Doctor of Doctor from 1970 to 1974, and as the title character in the series Worzel Gummidge....
    , actor
  • May 21 - Lash La Rue
    Lash La Rue

    Lash La Rue was a movie actor noted for his roles in low-budget Western film. In 1983, he was one of the first winners of the Golden Boot Award....
    , cowboy actor
  • June 7 - Max Factor, Sr.
    Max Factor, Sr.

    Max Factor, Sr. , born Factorowitz or Faktorowicz in L?dz, Poland , was a businessman and cosmetics who founded the Max Factor. He is known as the father of modern cosmetics....
    , make-up artist and founder of Max Factor
    Max Factor

    Max Factor & Company is an international cosmetics firm, founded in 1909 by Maximilian Faktorowicz, Max Factor, Sr., a Polish makeup artist for the Russian royal ballet....
  • June 10 - Jo Van Fleet
    Jo Van Fleet

    'Jo Van Fleet' was an Academy Award- and Tony Award- winning United States theatre and film actor.Van Fleet established herself as a notable dramatic actress on Broadway theatre over several years, winning a Tony Award in 1954 for her skill in a difficult role, playing an unsympathetic, even abusive character, in Horton Foote's The Trip to...
    , actress
  • June 11 - Brigitte Helm
    Brigitte Helm

    Brigitte Eva Gisela Schittenhelm was a German actor, best remembered for her role as the dual role Maria and her double the Maschinenmensch in Fritz Lang's 1927 silent film, Metropolis ....
    , German actress
  • July 2 - Margaux Hemingway
    Margaux Hemingway

    Margaux Louise Hemingway was an United States fashion supermodel and actor....
    , model, actress
  • July 30 - Claudette Colbert
    Claudette Colbert

    Claudette Colbert was a French-born American stage and film actress.Born in Saint-Mand?, France and raised in New York City, Colbert began her career in Broadway theater productions during the 1920s, progressing to film with the advent of talking pictures....
    , actress
  • September 7 - Bibi Besch
    Bibi Besch

    Bibiana Besch was an Austrian/United States actress....
    , actress
  • September 10 - Joanne Dru
    Joanne Dru

    Joanne Dru was an United States film and television actor known for films such as Red River and All the King's Men. She was the elder sister of Peter Marshall , best known for hosting Hollywood Squares....
    , actress
  • September 13 - Tupac Shakur
    Tupac Shakur

    Tupac Amaru Shakur , also known by his stage names 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American Rapping. In addition to his status as a top-selling recording artist, Shakur was a promising actor and a social activist....
    , rap singer/songwriter, actor
  • September 14 - Juliet Prowse
    Juliet Prowse

    Juliet Anne Prowse was a South African dancer, whose four decade career included stage, television and film but dancing remained her true love....
    , dancer, actress
  • September 18 - Annabella, actress
  • September 22 - Dorothy Lamour
    Dorothy Lamour

    Dorothy Lamour was an United States film actor. She is probably best-remembered for appearing in the Road to... movies, a series of successful comedies co-starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby....
    , actress
  • October 14 - Laura La Plante
    Laura La Plante

    Laura La Plante was an United States film actor who achieved her greatest success in silent film....
    , actress
  • October 31 - Marcel Carné
    Marcel Carné

    Marcel Carn? was a French film director.Born in Paris, France, he began his career in silent film as a trainee with director Jacques Feyder. By age 25, Carn? had already directed his first film, one that marked the beginning of a successful collaboration with surrealist poet and screenwriter Jacques Pr?vert....
    , French film director
  • November 14 - Virginia Cherrill
    Virginia Cherrill

    Virginia Cherrill was an United States actress best known for her role as the blind flower girl in Charlie Chaplin's City Lights . Due to marrying an English earl in the 1940s, she is also known as Virginia Child-Villiers, Countess of Jersey....
    , actress
  • November 19 - Véra Korčne
    Véra Korčne

    V?ra Kor?ne , was a Russian-born French actress and singer.Born R?becca V?ra Korestzky in Russia of Jewish extraction, she fled the Russian Revolution of 1917 and settled in Paris, France....
    , Russian born French actress
  • December 8 - Howard E. Rollins Jr, actor
  • December 19 - Marcello Mastroianni
    Marcello Mastroianni

    Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni was an Italians actor.During his career, Mastroianni had won or been nominated multiple times for awards such as Volpi Cup, Best Actor Award , BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, David di Donatello for Best Actor, Nastro d'Argento, Sant Jordi Award, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion...
    , actor
  • December 30 - Lew Ayres
    Lew Ayres

    Lew Ayres was an American actor....
    , actor
  • December 30 - Jack Nance
    Jack Nance

    Marvin John Nance , known professionally as Jack Nance and occasionally credited as John Nance, was an United States actor of stage and screen, primarily starring in offbeat or avant-garde productions....
    , actor