1989 in film

<u>Musical or Comedy:

Best Picture: Driving Miss Daisy

Best Actor: Morgan Freeman - Driving Miss Daisy

Best Actress: Jessica Tandy - Driving Miss Daisy

<u>Other

Best Director: Oliver Stone, Born on the Fourth of July

Best Foreign Language Film: Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (Cinema Paradiso), Italy

PALM D'OR (Cannes Film Festival):

Sex, lies, and videotape, directed by Steven Soderbergh, United States

GOLDEN LION (Venice Film Festival):

A City of Sadness (Beiqing chengshi), directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien, China

GOLDEN BEAR (Berlin Film Festival):

Rain Man, directed by Barry Levinson, United States

[edit] Films released in 1989

• 84 Charlie Mopic
• The Abyss
• Back to the Future Part II
• Batman
• Bert Rigby,You're a Fool
• Born on the Fourth of July - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Drama)
• The 'Burbs
• Buy and Cell
• Cameron's Closet
• Chances Are
• Checking Out
• Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso) - Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
• A City of Sadness (Beiqing chengshi) - Golden Lion award
• Cohen & Tate
• Cold Feet
• Cousins
• Criminal Law
• Crusoe
• Cyborg
• The Dawning
• Dead Bang
• Dead Calm
• Dead Poets Society
• Deepstar Six
• Disorganized Crime
• Do the Right Thing
• The Dream Team
• The Dressmaker
• Driving Miss Daisy - Academy and Golden Globe (com./mus.) Awards for Best Picture
• Drugstore Cowboy
• Edge of Sanity
• The Experts
• Farewell to the King
• Fat Man and Little Boy
• Field of Dreams
• Fletch Lives
• The Fly II
• For Queen and Country
• Getting It Right
• Ghostbusters II
• Gleaming the Cube
• Glory
• Great Balls of Fire the Jerry Lee Lewis Story
• Hard Times
• Heart of Midnight
• Heathers
• Henry V, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh
• Her Alibi
• Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
• Horror Show
• How I Got Into College
• How to Get Ahead in Advertising
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
• Jacknife
• January Man
• Jesus of Montreal
• K-9
• Kiki's Delivery Service (orig. release in Japan)
• Lauderdale
• Lean on Me
• Leningrad Cowboys Go America, directed by Aki Kaurismäki, starring Leningrad Cowboys
• Lethal Weapon 2
• Licence to Kill, from the James Bond series
• The Little Mermaid
• Look Who's Talking
• Major League
• Miss Firecracker
• Music Box - Golden Bear award (for 1990)
• My Left Foot
• My Mom's A Werewolf
• Mystery Train
• New York Stories (three short films:)
  • Life Lessons, directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Richard Price
  • Life Without Zoe, directed and written by Francis Ford Coppola, co-written by Sofia Coppola
  • Oedipus Wrecks, directed and written by Woody Allen.
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
• No Holds Barred
• Parenthood
• Penn & Teller Get Killed
• Return To Paradise
• Roger & Me
• Sex, lies, and videotape - Palm d'Or award
• Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland
• Society
• She's Out of Control
• The Toxic Avenger Part II
• The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie
• Uncle Buck, starring John Candy
• The War of the Roses, starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner
• When Harry Met Sally...
• White Hot aka Crack in the Mirror
• The Wizard

[edit] Births

• January 3 - Alex D. Linz, actor
• February 5 - Jessica Sumpter, actress
• February 5 - Jeremy Sumpter, actor
• February 13 - Carly McKillip, actress, singer
• February 16 - Elizabeth Olsen, actress
• March 5 - Jake Lloyd, actor
• March 15 - Caitlin Wachs, American actress
• April 18 - Alia Shawkat, American actress
• April 20 - Alex Black, American actor
• June 23 - Anton Yelchin, Russian actor
• June 27 - Matthew Lewis, British actor
• July 23 - Daniel Radcliffe, actor
• August 21 - Hayden Panettiere, American actress
• September 15 - Connor Sisson, Canadian actor, and director
• December 12 - Harry Eden, British actor

[edit] Deaths

• January 20 - Beatrice Lillie, actress
• February 3 - Lionel Newman, composer
• February 3 - John Cassavetes, actor, director
• February 11 - George O'Hanlon, actor/director
• February 17 - Marguerite Roberts, writer
• March 27 - May Allison, actress
• April 26 - Lucille Ball, film and television actress
• May 20 - Gilda Radner, actress
• June 27 - Jack Buetel, actor
• June 28 - Joris Ivens, filmmaker
• July 3 - Jim Backus, actor
• July 10 - Mel Blanc, voice actor
• July 11 - Laurence Olivier, actor
• August 16 - Amanda Blake, actress
• October 4 - Graham Chapman, comedian
• October 6 - Bette Davis, actress
• October 16 - Cornel Wilde, actor
• October 20 - Anthony Quayle, actor
• November 20 - Lynn Bari, actress
• December 16 - Aileen Pringle, actress
• December 16 - Silvana Mangano, actress
• December 16 - Lee Van Cleef, actorde:Filmjahr 1989