1995 in film

<u>Musical or Comedy:

Best Picture: Babe

Best Actor: John Travolta - Get Shorty

Best Actress: Nicole Kidman - To Die For

<u>Other

Best Director: Mel Gibson - Braveheart

Best Foreign Language Film: Les Misérables, France

PALM D'OR (Cannes Film Festival):

Underground (Подземље, Podzemlje), directed by Emir Kusturica, Yugoslavia

GOLDEN LION (Venice Film Festival):

Cyclo (Xich lo), directed by Tran Anh Hung, Vietnam / France / Hong Kong

GOLDEN BEAR (Berlin Film Festival):

L'Appât (Fresh Bait), directed by Bertrand Tavernier, France

[edit] Films released in 1995

• Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
• The American President
• Antonia's Line (Antonia) - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
• Angus
• L'Appât (Fresh Bait or The Bait) - Golden Bear award
• Apollo 13
• Assassins
• Babe - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
• Bad Boys
• The Basketball Diaries
• Batman Forever
• Before Sunrise
• Billy Madison
• Blue in the Face
• Born to be Wild, starring Wil Horneff, Helen Shaver, John C. McGinley and Peter Boyle
• Boys on the Side
• The Brady Bunch Movie
• Braveheart, directed by Mel Gibson - Academy Award for Best Picture
• The Bridges of Madison County
• The Brothers McMullen
• Canadian Bacon
• Casino, directed by Martin Scorsese
• Casper
• Circle of Friends
• The City of Lost Children
• Clockers
• Clueless
• Congo
• Copycat
• Crimson Tide
• The Crossing Guard
• Cutthroat Island
• Cyclo - Golden Lion award
• Dangerous Minds
• Dead Man
• Dead Man Walking
• Dead Presidents
• Desperado
• Devil in a Blue Dress
• Die Hard with a Vengeance
• Dolores Claiborne
• Don Juan DeMarco
• Dracula: Dead and Loving It
• The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
• Empire Records
• Escape to Witch Mountain (remake)
• Fair Game
• Father of the Bride Part II
• First Knight
• Fluke
• Forget Paris
• Four Rooms
• French Kiss
• Friday
• From the Journals of Jean Seberg - a documentary directed by Mark Rappaport
• Full Body Massage, directed by Nicolas Roeg
• Funny Bones
• Get Shorty
• Ghost in the Shell
• Godzilla vs. Destroyah
• GoldenEye
• A Goofy Movie, starring Jason Marsden
• Grumpier Old Men, starring Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, Sophia Loren
• Hackers
• La Haine
• Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
• Heat
• Higher Learning
• Home for the Holidays
• How to Make an American Quilt
• In the Mouth of Madness, directed by John Carpenter, starring Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jürgen Prochnow, David Warner and Charlton Heston
• The Indian in the Cupboard
• It Takes Two
• Jade
• Jerky Boys: The Movie
• Johnny Mnemonic
• Judge Dredd
• Jumanji
• Jury Duty
• Just Cause
• Kids
• Kiss of Death
• Land and Freedom
• Last of the Dogmen
• The Last Supper
• Leaving Las Vegas
• A Little Princess
• Lord of Illusions (Cliver Barker's Lord of Illusions)
• Losing Isaiah
• Major Payne
• Mallrats
• Margaret's Museum
• Max is Missing
• Mighty Aphrodite
• Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie
• Les Misérables - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film
• Money Train
• Mortal Kombat
• Mr. Holland's Opus
• Murder in the First
• Napoleon
• Nick of Time
• Nine Months
• Nixon
• Now and Then
• Outbreak
• A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies, directed by Martin Scorsese (documentary)
• Pocahontas
• Powder
• The Quick and the Dead
• Restoration
• Richard III
• Rob Roy
• Rumble in the Bronx
• Sabrina
• The Scarlet Letter
• Sense and Sensibility - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Drama) and Golden Bear award (for 1996)
• Se7en (also known as Seven)
• Showgirls
• Sick Time
• Smoke
• Species
• Strange Days
• Sudden Death
• Tank Girl
• To Die For
• Three Wishes
• To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
• Tommy Boy, starring Chris Farley, David Spade and Rob Lowe
• Top Dog
• Toy Story
• Twelve Monkeys
• Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
• Underground - Palm d'Or award
• The Usual Suspects
• Village of the Damned, directed by John Carpenter, starring Christopher Reeve, Kirstie Alley, Linda Kozlowski, Mark Hamill and Peter Jason
• Waterworld

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

• February 2 - Donald Pleasence, actor
• March 12 - Juanin Clay, actress
• March 16 - Albert Hackett, screenwriter
• April 4 - Priscilla Lane, actress
• April 14 - Burl Ives, actor, singer
• April 24 - Sammy Jackson, actor, disc jockey
• April 25 - Ginger Rogers, actress
• May 16 - Lola Flores, Spanish actress
• May 18 - Elizabeth Montgomery, actress
• May 18 - Elisha Cook Jr, actor
• May 18 - Alexander Godunov, dancer, actor
• May 26 - Friz Freleng, animator
• June 29 - Lana Turner, actress
• July 4 - Eva Gabor, actress
• August 3 - Ida Lupino, actress and director
• October 21 - Maxene Andrews, member of The Andrews Sisters
• October 22 - Mary Wickes, actress
• October 25 - Viveca Lindfors, actress
• November 21 - Peter Grant, actor and manager
• November 23 - Louis Malle, director
• November 24 - Jeffrey Lynn, actor
• December 9 - Vivian Blaine, actress
• December 22 - Butterfly McQueen, actress
• December 25 - Dean Martin, singer and actorde:Filmjahr 1995