1990 in film

<u>Musical or Comedy:

Best Picture: Green Card

Best Actor: Gérard Depardieu - Green Card

Best Actress: Julia Roberts - Pretty Woman

<u>Other

Best Director: Kevin Costner - Dances with Wolves

Best Foreign Language Film: Cyrano de Bergerac, France

PALM D'OR (Cannes Film Festival):

Wild at Heart, directed by David Lynch, United States

GOLDEN LION (Venice Film Festival):

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, directed by Tom Stoppard, U.K. / U.S.A.

GOLDEN BEAR (Berlin Film Festival):

Music Box, directed by Costa Gavras, United States

Larks on a String (Skrivánci na niti), directed by Jiri Menzel, Czechoslovakia

[edit] Films released in 1990

• Air America
• Another 48 Hrs., starring Eddie Murphy
• Awakenings, starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro
• Back to the Future Part III, starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd
• Bad Influence
• Betsy's Wedding
• Boiling Point
• The Bonfire of the Vanities
• Bride of Re-Animator
• Come See the Paradise
• Cyrano de Bergerac - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film
• Dances with Wolves - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture
• Darkman
• Days of Thunder
• Dick Tracy
• Die Hard 2
• Dreams, directed by Akira Kurosawa
• DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp
• Edward Scissorhands, starring Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder
• Europa Europa - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film (for 1991)
• Flashback
• Ghost
• The Godfather Part III
• Goodfellas, directed by Martin Scorsese
• Green Card - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
• Gremlins 2: The New Batch
• Home Alone
• The Hunt for Red October
• Initiation: Silent Night, Deadly Night 4
• Jacob's Ladder
• Jetsons: The Movie
• Joe Versus the Volcano
• Journey of Hope (Reise der Hoffnung) - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
• Kindergarten Cop
• King of New York
• Larks on a String (Skrivánci na niti) - Golden Bear award
• Lionheart
• Look Who's Talking Too
• Metropolitan
• Miller's Crossing
• Misery
• Mo' Better Blues
• My Blue Heaven, starring Steve Martin
• The Nasty Girl (Das schreckliche Mädchen)
• Nikita, directed by Luc Besson
• Nuns on the Run
• Q&A, starring Nick Nolte, Timothy Hutton
• Quick Change
• Predator 2, starring Danny Glover
• Pretty Woman
• Problem Child
• Pump Up the Volume
• The Reflecting Skin
• The Rescuers Down Under
• Repossessed, a parody of The Exorcist
• Reversal of Fortune
• Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead - Golden Lion award
• Side Out, starring Courtney Thorne-Smith
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Tatie Danielle, starring Tsilla Chelton
• Texasville
• Total Recall
• Wild Orchid
• Wild at Heart - Palm d'Or award
• The Witches, directed by Nicolas Roeg

[edit] Births

• March 24 - Keisha Castle-Hughes, actress
• April 15 - Emma Watson, actress
• May 14 - Sasha Spielberg, actress, daughter of producer/director Steven Spielberg and actress Kate Capshaw
• July 24 - Daveigh Chase, actress
• October 22 - Jonathan Lipnicki, actor

[edit] Deaths

• January 6 - Ian Charleson, actor
• January 8 - Terry-Thomas, actor, comedian
• January 15 - Gordon Jackson, actor
• January 20 - Barbara Stanwyck, actress
• January 24 - Madge Bellamy, actress
• January 25 - Ava Gardner, actress
• March 5 - Gary Merrill, actor
• March 17 - Capucine, actress
• April 15 - Greta Garbo, actress
• April 23 - Paulette Goddard, actress
• May 6 - Charles Farrell, actor
• May 10 - Susan Oliver, actress, pilot
• May 16 - Sammy Davis Jr, actor, singer
• May 16 - Jim Henson, creator of Muppets
• May 18 - Jill Ireland, actress
• June 2 - Rex Harrison, actor
• July 15 - Margaret Lockwood, actress
• July 19 - Eddie Quillan, actor
• August 27 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, 36, guitarist/songwriter
• September 4 - Irene Dunne, actress
• September 19 - Hermes Pan, choreographer
• October 15 - Delphine Seyrig, French actress
• October 20 - Joel McCrea, actor
• November 3 - Mary Martin, actress
• November 12 - Eve Arden, actress
• December 2 - Robert Cummings, actor
• December 7 - Joan Bennett, actress
• December 8 - Martin Ritt, directorde:Filmjahr 1990