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1 Highest-grossing films  





2 Events  





3 Awards  





4 1990 films  



4.1  By country/region  





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5 Births  





6 Deaths  





7 Debuts  





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List of years in film
  • 1981
  • 1982
  • 1983
  • 1984
  • 1985
  • 1986
  • 1987
  • 1988
  • 1989
  • 1990
  • 1991
  • 1992
  • 1993
  • 1994
  • 1995
  • 1996
  • 1997
  • 1998
  • 1999
  • 2000
  • In radio
    1987
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    1989
    1990
    1991
    1992
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    In television
    1987
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    1990
    1991
    1992
    1993
    In music
    1987
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    1989
    1990
    1991
    1992
    1993
  • Archaeology
  • Architecture
  • Literature
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    The year 1990 in film involved many significant events as shown below. Universal Pictures celebrated its 75th anniversary in 1990, despite its actual 75th anniversary taking place in 1987.

    Highest-grossing films[edit]

    The top 10 films released in 1990 by worldwide gross are as follows:[1]

    Highest-grossing films of 1990
    Rank Title Distributor Worldwide gross
    1 Ghost Paramount $505,702,588
    2 Home Alone 20th Century Fox $476,684,675
    3 Pretty Woman Buena Vista $463,406,268
    4 Dances with Wolves Orion $424,208,848
    5 Total Recall Sony / Carolco $261,317,921
    6 Back to the Future Part III Universal $244,527,583
    7 Die Hard 2 20th Century Fox $240,031,094
    8 Presumed Innocent Warner Bros. $221,303,188
    9 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles New Line $202,000,000
    10 Kindergarten Cop Universal $91,457,688

    Events[edit]

    Awards[edit]

    Category/Organization 48th Golden Globe Awards
    January 19, 1991
    44th BAFTA Awards
    March 17, 1991
    63rd Academy Awards
    March 25, 1991
    Drama Musical or Comedy
    Best Film Dances with Wolves Green Card Goodfellas Dances with Wolves
    Best Director Kevin Costner
    Dances with Wolves
    Martin Scorsese
    Goodfellas
    Kevin Costner
    Dances with Wolves
    Best Actor Jeremy Irons
    Reversal of Fortune
    Gérard Depardieu
    Green Card
    Philippe Noiret
    Cinema Paradiso
    Jeremy Irons
    Reversal of Fortune
    Best Actress Kathy Bates
    Misery
    Julia Roberts
    Pretty Woman
    Jessica Tandy
    Driving Miss Daisy
    Kathy Bates
    Misery
    Best Supporting Actor Bruce Davison
    Longtime Companion
    Salvatore Cascio
    Cinema Paradiso
    Joe Pesci
    Goodfellas
    Best Supporting Actress Whoopi Goldberg
    Ghost
    Best Screenplay, Adapted Michael Blake
    Dances with Wolves
    Martin Scorsese and Nicholas Pileggi
    Goodfellas
    Michael Blake
    Dances with Wolves
    Best Screenplay, Original Giuseppe Tornatore
    Cinema Paradiso
    Bruce Joel Rubin
    Ghost
    Best Original Score The Sheltering Sky
    Ryuichi Sakamoto and Richard Horowitz
    Cinema Paradiso
    Ennio Morricone and Andrea Morricone
    Dances with Wolves
    John Barry
    Best Original Song "Blaze of Glory"
    Young Guns II
    N/A "Sooner or Later"
    Dick Tracy
    Best Foreign Language Film Cyrano de Bergerac

    Cinema Paradiso

    Journey of Hope

    1990 films[edit]

    By country/region[edit]

    By genre/medium[edit]

    Births[edit]

    Deaths[edit]

    Month Date Name Age Country Profession Notable films
    January 2 Alan Hale Jr. 68 US Actor
  • Johnny Dangerously
  • 5 Arthur Kennedy 75 US Actor
  • Some Came Running
  • 6 Ian Charleson 40 UK Actor
  • Gandhi
  • 6 Peter Cookson 76 US Actor
  • Detective Kitty O'Day
  • 8 Terry-Thomas 78 UK Actor
  • It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
  • 10 Lyle R. Wheeler 84 US Art Director
  • The Day the Earth Stood Still
  • 14 John Witty 74 UK Actor
  • The Vault of Horror
  • 15 Gordon Jackson 66 UK Actor
  • The Ipcress File
  • 20 John Maxim 64 UK Actor
  • Dracula: Prince of Darkness
  • 20 Barbara Stanwyck 82 US Actress
  • Stella Dallas
  • 25 Ava Gardner 67 US Actress
  • The Killers
  • 26 Dodo Abashidze 66 Georgia Director
  • Ashik Kerib
  • 27 Helen Jerome Eddy 92 US Actress
  • A Shot in the Dark
  • February 2 Hans Schumm 93 Germany Actor
  • The Great Dictator
  • 6 John Merivale 72 Canada Actor
  • Arabesque
  • 6 Jimmy Van Heusen 77 US Songwriter
  • The Joker Is Wild
  • 8 Frank Ross 85 US Producer
  • The Robe
  • 13 Ken Lynch 79 US Actor
  • Anatomy of a Murder
  • 14 Jean Wallace 66 US Actress
  • No Blade of Grass
  • 15 Henry Brandon 77 Germany Actor
  • The Searchers
  • 15 Michel Drach 59 France Director, Screenwriter, Producer
  • The Simple Past
  • 16 Joshua Shelley 70 US Actor
  • Funny Lady
  • 17 Allen Rivkin 86 US Screenwriter
  • The Farmer's Daughter
  • 19 Gabriel Katzka 59 US Producer
  • The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
  • 19 Michael Powell 84 UK Director
  • A Matter of Life and Death
  • 28 Fabia Drake 86 UK Actress
  • Year of the Dragon
  • March 5 Gary Merrill 74 US Actor
  • Twelve O'Clock High
  • 17 Capucine 62 Switzerland Actress
  • North to Alaska
  • 18 Robin Harris 36 US Actor, Comedian
  • House Party
  • 20 Maurice Cloche 82 France Director
  • Doctor Laennec
  • 28 Helene Reynolds 75 US Actress
  • The Man Who Wouldn't Die
  • April 2 Aldo Fabrizi 84 Italy Actor
  • Cops and Robbers
  • 3 Clair Huffaker 63 US Screenwriter
  • 100 Rifles
  • 8 Ernest Steward 79 UK Cinematographer
  • Quest for Love
  • 11 Vanda Godsell 67 UK Actress
  • A Shot in the Dark
  • 15 Greta Garbo 84 Sweden Actress
  • Ninotchka
  • 17 Joseph McMillan Johnson 77 US Art Director, Production Designer, Visual Effects Artist
  • Rear Window
  • 18 Robert D. Webb 87 US Director
  • Love Me Tender
  • 20 Alex McCrindle 78 UK Actor
  • Eye of the Needle
  • 22 Albert Salmi 62 US Actor
  • The Bravados
  • 23 Paulette Goddard 79 US Actress
  • Modern Times
  • 25 Dexter Gordon 67 US Musician, Actor
  • Awakenings
  • 27 Bella Spewack 91 US Screenwriter
  • Week-End at the Waldorf
  • May 1 Sunset Carson 69 US Actor
  • Alias Billy the Kid
  • 2 David Rappaport 38 US Actor
  • Turkish Delight
  • 6 Charles Farrell 89 US Actor
  • 7th Heaven
  • 10 Susan Oliver 58 US Actress
  • Your Cheatin' Heart
  • 12 Anthony Masters 70 UK Production Designer
  • Dune
  • 12 Nate Monaster 78 US Screenwriter
  • How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
  • 14 Franklyn Seales 37 West Indies Actor
  • Southern Comfort
  • 16 Sammy Davis Jr. 64 US Actor, Singer
  • Robin and the 7 Hoods
  • 16 Jim Henson 53 US Puppeteer, Director, Screenwriter, Producer
  • The Muppet Movie
  • 18 Jill Ireland 54 UK Actress
  • Breakheart Pass
  • 22 Max Wall 82 UK Actor
  • Jabberwocky
  • 25 Vic Tayback 60 US Actor
  • All Dogs Go to Heaven
  • June 1 Eric Barker 78 UK Actor
  • There's a Girl in My Soup
  • 2 Rex Harrison 82 UK Actor
  • Doctor Dolittle
  • 3 Tom Brown 70 US Actor
  • I Killed Wild Bill Hickok
  • 4 Jack Gilford 81 US Actor
  • Catch-22
  • 6 Marcel Grignon 75 France Cinematographer
  • The Fixer
  • 7 Barbara Baxley 67 US Actress
  • No Way to Treat a Lady
  • 15 Leonard Sachs 80 UK Actor
  • John Wesley
  • 20 Ina Balin 52 US Actress
  • The Patsy
  • 23 Frank Gatliff 62 UK Actor
  • Operation Daybreak
  • 25 Sydney Boehm 82 US Screenwriter
  • The Big Heat
  • July 8 Howard Duff 76 US Actor
  • The Naked City
  • 13 Lois Moran 81 US Actress
  • Under Suspicion
  • 14 Philip Leacock 74 UK Director
  • Let No Man Write My Epitaph
  • 15 Margaret Lockwood 73 UK Actress
  • Night Train to Munich
  • 15 Bud Thackery 87 US Cinematographer
  • Coogan's Bluff
  • 19 Eddie Quillan 83 US Actor
  • The Big Shot
  • 20 Sergei Parajanov 66 Georgia Director
  • The Color of Pomegranates
  • 21 Stanley Shapiro 65 US Screenwriter
  • That Touch of Mink
  • 23 Georges Flamant 86 France Actor
  • The 400 Blows
  • 27 Elizabeth Allan 80 UK Actress
  • Camille
  • 27 Ernest Archer 80 UK Art Director
  • The Pirates of Penzance
  • 28 Jill Esmond 82 UK Actress
  • No Funny Business
  • August 2 Edwin Richfield 68 UK Actor, Screenwriter
  • The Dam Busters
  • 3 Betty Amann 85 Germany Actress
  • In Old Mexico
  • 12 Dorothy Mackaill 87 US Actress
  • Safe in Hell
  • 12 Sara Seegar 76 US Actress
  • The Music Man
  • 17 Pearl Bailey 72 US Actress, Singer
  • St. Louis Blues
  • 23 Dorothea Kent 74 US Actress
  • She Married a Cop
  • 27 Raymond St. Jacques 60 US Actor
  • The Green Berets
  • 28 Edmund H. North 79 US Screenwriter
  • Patton
  • September 4 Irene Dunne 91 US Actress
  • Cimarron
  • 5 Jack Hildyard 82 UK Cinematographer
  • The Message
  • 19 Werner Janssen 91 US Composer
  • The Southerner
  • 19 Hermes Pan 80 US Choreographer
  • Top Hat
  • 20 Jackie Moran 67 US Actor
  • Nobody's Darling
  • October 4 Jill Bennett 58 UK Actress
  • The Sheltering Sky
  • 4 Roy Charman 60 UK Sound Engineer
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark
  • 14 Leonard Bernstein 72 US Composer
  • On the Waterfront
  • 15 Delphine Seyrig 58 France Actress, Director
  • The Day of the Jackal
  • 20 Joel McCrea 84 US Actor
  • Foreign Correspondent
  • 27 Jacques Demy 59 France Director, Screenwriter, Composer
  • The Young Girls of Rochefort
  • 27 Ugo Tognazzi 68 Italy Actor
  • The Conjugal Bed
  • November 2 William Travilla 70 US Costume Designer
  • Adventures of Don Juan
  • 3 Valerie French 62 UK Actress
  • Decision at Sundown
  • 3 Mary Martin 76 US Actress, Singer
  • Night and Day
  • 3 Walter H. Tyler 81 US Art Director
  • The Ten Commandments
  • 4 Carol Sobieski 51 US Screenwriter
  • Annie
  • 10 Maura McGiveney 51 US Actress
  • Do Not Disturb
  • 11 Alexis Minotis 90 Greece Actor
  • Boy on a Dolphin
  • 12 Eve Arden 82 US Actress
  • Anatomy of a Murder
  • 13 Don Chaffey 73 New Zealand Director
  • Pete's Dragon
  • 13 Maurice Richlin 70 US Screenwriter
  • Pillow Talk
  • 23 Roald Dahl 74 UK Screenwriter
  • You Only Live Twice
  • 27 David White 74 US Actor
  • The Apartment
  • December 1 Sergio Corbucci 63 Italy Director, Screenwriter
  • Navajo Joe
  • 1 Carla Lehmann 73 Canada Actress
  • 29 Acacia Avenue
  • 2 Robert Cummings 80 US Actor
  • Saboteur
  • 4 Edward Binns 79 US Actor
  • Fail-Safe
  • 7 Joan Bennett 80 US Actress
  • Scarlet Street
  • 8 Martin Ritt 76 US Director, Actor, Producer
  • The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
  • 9 Mike Mazurki 82 US Actor
  • Dick Tracy
  • 18 Anne Revere 87 US Actress
  • Gentleman's Agreement
  • 18 Connie Russell 67 US Singer, Actress
  • Nightmare
  • 26 Gene Callahan 67 US Production Designer
  • Steel Magnolias
  • 28 Warren Skaaren 44 US Screenwriter
  • Beetlejuice
  • Debuts[edit]

  • Abraham BenrubiDiving In
  • Julie BenzTwo Evil Eyes
  • Andrew BryniarskiDragonfight
  • Bill CampReversal of Fortune
  • Robert CarlyleSilent Scream
  • Kyle ChandlerThe Color of Evening
  • Nick ChinlundThe Ambulance
  • Scott CohenJacob's Ladder
  • Russell CroweBlood Oath
  • Hope DavisFlatliners
  • Andy DickThe Grifters
  • Vin DieselAwakenings
  • Ann DowdGreen Card
  • Denise DowseColdfire
  • Chris EllisDays of Thunder
  • Kerry FoxAn Angel at My Table
  • Brad GarrettJetsons: The Movie
  • Balthazar GettyLord of the Flies
  • Brendan GleesonThe Field
  • John HannahHarbour Beat
  • Marcia Gay HardenMiller's Crossing
  • Djimon HounsouWithout You I'm Nothing
  • Valérie LemercierMay Fools
  • Nia LongBuried Alive
  • George LopezSki Patrol
  • Aasif MandviNo Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers
  • Margo MartindaleDays of Thunder
  • Samantha MathisPump Up the Volume
  • Debi MazarGoodfellas
  • John McConnellMiller's Crossing
  • Neal McDonoughDarkman
  • Rose McGowanClass of 1999
  • Kristin MinterHome Alone
  • Julianne MooreTales from the Darkside: The Movie
  • Peter MullanThe Big Man
  • Guy PearceHeaven Tonight
  • Luke PerryTerminal Bliss
  • Christina RicciMermaids
  • Rob SchneiderMartians Go Home
  • Nick SearcyDays of Thunder
  • June SquibbAlice
  • Jeffrey WrightPresumed Innocent
  • Catherine Zeta-JonesLes 1001 Nuits
  • References[edit]

    1. ^ "1990 Worldwide Box Office". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved March 7, 2020.
  • ^ Mauduech, Bénédicte (18 February 2019). "François Civil, jeunesse se place". Libération (in French). Archived from the original on 16 February 2023. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
  • ^ "Emma Watson | Biography, Movie, Harry Potter, & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
  • ^ "Margot Robbie | Biography, Movies, Wolf of Wall Street, & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
  • External links[edit]

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