1993 in film

<u>Musical or Comedy:

Best Picture: Mrs. Doubtfire

Best Actor: Robin Williams - Mrs. Doubtfire

Best Actress: Angela Bassett - What's Love Got to Do with It?

<u>Other

Best Director: Steven Spielberg, Schindler's List

Best Foreign Language Film: Farewell My Concubine (Ba wang bie ji), China / Hong Kong

PALM D'OR (Cannes Film Festival):

Farewell My Concubine (霸王別姬, Ba wang bie ji), directed by Chen Kaige, China / Hong Kong

The Piano, directed by Jane Campion, New Zealand

GOLDEN LION (Venice Film Festival):

Short Cuts, directed by Robert Altman, United States

Three Colors: Blue (Trois Couleurs: Bleu), directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski, France / Poland / Switzerland / U.K.

GOLDEN BEAR (Berlin Film Festival):

The Women from the Lake of Scented Souls (Xian hun nu), directed by Xie Fei, China

The Wedding Banquet (Hsi yen), directed by Ang Lee, Taiwan / U.S.A.

[edit] Films released in 1993

• Addams Family Values
• The Age of Innocence, directed by Martin Scorsese
• Amos & Andrew
• Arizona Dream
• Army of Darkness, directed by Sam Raimi, starring Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz, Marcus Gilbert, Ian Abercrombie and Bridget Fonda
• Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
• Beethoven's 2nd
• Benny & Joon
• Cliffhanger
• Coneheads
• Dave
• Dazed and Confused
• Dennis the Menace
• Falling Down
• Farewell My Concubine (Ba wang bie ji) - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and Palm d'Or award
• The Firm
• Flesh and Bone
• A Foreign Field
• The Fugitive
• Ghost in the Machine, director Rachel Talalay, starring Karen Allen, Chris Mulkey, Ted Marcoux, Wil Horneff, Jessica Walter, Brandon Quintin Adams, Rick Ducommun, Nancy Fish, Jack Laufer
• Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla II
• Groundhog Day
• Grumpy Old Men
• Heaven & Earth
• The House of the Spirits
• In the Line of Fire
• In the Name of the Father - Golden Bear award (for 1994)
• Indecent Proposal
• Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
• Jurassic Park
• Kalifornia
• Last Action Hero
• Leprechaun
• Life with Mikey
• Little Corey Gorey
• Look Who's Talking Now
• Malice
• Manhattan Murder Mystery
• Married to It
• Menace II Society
• Mrs. Doubtfire - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
• My Life
• Naked
• National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
• The Nightmare Before Christmas, produced by Tim Burton and directed by Henry Selick
• The Pelican Brief
• Philadelphia, starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington
• The Piano - Palm d'Or award
• Point of No Return
• Public Access
• The Real McCoy
• Return of the Living Dead 3
• Rising Sun
• Robin Hood: Men in Tights
• Rookie of the Year
• Romeo Is Bleeding
• Ruby in Paradise
• The Sandlot
• Schindler's List - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture
• The Secret Garden
• Short Cuts - Golden Lion award
• Sleepless in Seattle
• Sliver
• Super Mario Bros.
• Striking Distance
• Surf Ninjas
• Swing Kids
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
• Three Colors: Blue - 1st of the Krzysztof Kieślowski trilogy, starring Juliette Binoche - Golden Lion award
• The Three Musketeers
• Tombstone
• True Romance
• Untamed Heart
• Wayne's World 2
• The Wedding Banquet - Golden Bear award
• What's Love Got to Do With It
• The Women from the Lake of Scented Souls (Xian hun nu) - Golden Bear award

[edit] Births

• January 11 - Flora Cross, actress
• January 18 - Morgan York, actress
• January 19 - Gus Lewis, actor
• January 26 - Cameron Bright, actor
• February 7 - David Dorfman, actor
• February 16 - Mike Weinberg, actor
• February 19 - Victoria Justice, actress
• February 26 - Taylor Dooley, actress
• March 4 - Jenna Boyd, actress
• March 4 - Alice Jones, actress
• March 4 - Abigail Mavity, actress
• March 17 - Julia Winter, actress
• March 28 - Naoki Takeshi, actor
• April 5 - Nick Price, actor
• April 14 - Vivien Cardone, actress
• May 14 - Miranda Cosgrove, actress
• May 24 - Oliver Davis, actor
• June 7 - Jordan Fry, actor
• June 9 - Danielle Chuchran, actress
• June 25 - Barney Clark, actor
• July 6 - Jeremy Suarez, voice actor
• July 9 - Emily Hirst, actress
• July 26 - Taylor Momsen, actress
• July 31 - Christian Byers, actor
• August 2 - Ryan and Kyle Pepi, actors
• August 5 - Suzuka Ohgo, actress
• August 7 - Francesca Fisher-Eastwood, actress
• August 11 - Alyson Stoner, actress
• August 12 - Imani Hakim, actress
• August 16 - Cameron Monaghan, actor
• August 20 - Brianna and Brittany McConnell, actresses
• August 26 - Keke Palmer, actress
• September 9 - Charlie Stewart, actor
• September 12 - Jacob and Zachary Handy, actors
• September 22 - Chase Ellison, actor
• October 8 - Angus T. Jones, actor
• December 8 - AnnaSophia Robb, actress
• December 22 - Ali Lohan, actress

[edit] Deaths

• January 20 - Audrey Hepburn, actress
• February 6 - Joseph Mankiewicz, director, producer, writer
• February 11 - Joy Garrett, actress
• February 27 - Lillian Gish, actress
• February 28 - Ruby Keeler, singer, actress
• March 17 - Helen Hayes, actress
• March 31 - Brandon Lee, actor, son of actor Bruce Lee
• April 5 - Divya Bharti, Bollywood actress
• June 9 - Alexis Smith, actress
• July 2 - Fred Gwynne, actor, "The Munsters" and numerous films
• July 9 - Will Rogers Jr., actor
• June 30 - George "Spanky" McFarland, actor
• August 16 - Stewart Granger, actor
• September 12 - Raymond Burr, actor
• October 10 - John Bindon, actor, bodyguard
• October 25 - Vincent Price, actor
• October 31 - Federico Fellini, Italian film director
• October 31 - River Phoenix, actor
• November 15 - Fritz Feld, actor
• December 4 - Frank Zappa, songwriter/performer
• December 6 - Don Ameche, actor
• December 14 - Myrna Loy, actress
• December 18 - Sam Wanamaker, director/actor, father of actress Zoë Wanamakerde:Filmjahr 1993