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1 Highest-grossing films  





2 Events  





3 Awards  





4 1991 films  



4.1  By country/region  





4.2  By genre/medium  







5 Births  





6 Deaths  





7 Film debuts  





8 References  





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List of years in film
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    The year 1991 in film involved numerous significant events. Important films released this year included The Silence of the Lambs, Beauty and the Beast, Thelma & Louise, JFK and Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

    Highest-grossing films[edit]

    The top 10 films released in 1991 by worldwide gross are as follows:[1]

    Highest-grossing films of 1991
    Rank Title Distributor Worldwide gross
    1 Terminator 2: Judgment Day Sony / Carolco $520,881,154[2]
    2 Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves Warner Bros. $390,493,908
    3 Beauty and the Beast Buena Vista $346,317,207[3]
    4 Hook Sony $300,854,984
    5 The Silence of the Lambs Orion $272,742,922
    6 JFK Warner Bros. $205,405,498
    7 The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear Paramount $192,230,411[4]
    8 The Addams Family Paramount / Orion $191,502,426
    9 Cape Fear Universal $182,291,969
    10 Hot Shots! 20th Century Fox $181,096,164

    Events[edit]

    Awards[edit]

    Academy Awards

    Golden Globe Awards

    Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

    Barton Fink, directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, United States

    Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

    Close to Eden (Urga), directed by Nikita Mikhalkov, France / USSR

    Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

    La Casa del sorriso (The House of Smiles), directed by Marco Ferreri, Italy
    Category/Organization 49th Golden Globe Awards
    January 18, 1992
    45th BAFTA Awards
    February 21, 1992
    64th Academy Awards
    March 30, 1992
    Drama Musical or Comedy
    Best Film Bugsy Beauty and the Beast The Commitments The Silence of the Lambs
    Best Director Oliver Stone
    JFK
    Alan Parker
    The Commitments
    Jonathan Demme
    The Silence of the Lambs
    Best Actor Nick Nolte
    The Prince of Tides
    Robin Williams
    The Fisher King
    Anthony Hopkins
    The Silence of the Lambs
    Best Actress Jodie Foster
    The Silence of the Lambs
    Bette Midler
    For the Boys
    Jodie Foster
    The Silence of the Lambs
    Best Supporting Actor Jack Palance
    City Slickers
    Alan Rickman
    Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
    Jack Palance
    City Slickers
    Best Supporting Actress Mercedes Ruehl
    The Fisher King
    Kate Nelligan
    Frankie and Johnny
    Mercedes Ruehl
    The Fisher King
    Best Screenplay, Adapted Thelma & Louise
    Callie Khouri
    The Commitments
    Dick Clement
    The Silence of the Lambs
    Ted Tally
    Best Screenplay, Original Truly, Madly, Deeply
    Anthony Minghella
    Thelma & Louise
    Callie Khouri
    Best Original Score Beauty and the Beast
    Alan Menken
    Cyrano de Bergerac
    Jean-Claude Petit
    Beauty and the Beast
    Alan Menken
    Best Original Song "Beauty and the Beast"
    Beauty and the Beast

    "Beauty and the Beast"
    Beauty and the Beast
    Best Foreign Language Film Europa Europa
    (Hitlerjunge Salomon)
    Nasty Girls
    Mediterraneo

    1991 films[edit]

    By country/region[edit]

    By genre/medium[edit]

    Births[edit]

    Deaths[edit]

    Month Date Name Age Country Profession Notable films
    January 2 Pato Guzman 57 US Production Designer
  • Down and Out in Beverly Hills
  • 4 Richard Maibaum 81 US Screenwriter
  • Ransom!
  • 12 Keye Luke 86 China Actor
  • The Green Hornet
  • 14 David Arkin 49 US Actor
  • MASH
  • 19 Don Beddoe 87 US Actor
  • The Night of the Hunter
  • 19 Jo Eisinger 81 US Screenwriter
  • Night and the City
  • 19 John Russell 70 US Actor
  • Rio Bravo
  • 25 Lilian Bond 83 UK Actress
  • The Westerner
  • 30 John McIntire 83 US Actor
  • The Asphalt Jungle
  • February 1 Carol Dempster 89 US Actress
  • Dream Street
  • 1 James MacDonald 84 UK Sound Engineer, Voice Actor
  • Cinderella
  • 2 Natalie Kingston 85 US Actress
  • River of Romance
  • 3 Nancy Kulp 69 US Actress
  • Sabrina
  • 5 Dean Jagger 87 US Actor
  • Elmer Gantry
  • 6 Danny Thomas 77 US Actor
  • I'll See You in My Dreams
  • 12 Ruth Morley 65 Austria Costume Designer
  • Taxi Driver
  • 24 George Gobel 71 US Actor
  • The Birds and the Bees
  • 24 Jean Rogers 74 US Actress
  • Backlash
  • 25 John Dunning 74 US Film Editor
  • Julius Caesar
  • 26 Bernard W. Burton 92 US Film Editor
  • One Hundred Men and a Girl
  • 26 Slim Gaillard 75 US Singer, Actor
  • Sky Bandits
  • March 3 Vance Colvig 72 US Actor
  • Barfly
  • 5 Ian McLellan Hunter 71 UK Screenwriter
  • Second Chorus
  • 6 Salvo Randone 84 Italy Actor
  • Hands Over the City
  • 7 Morton S. Fine 74 US Screenwriter
  • The Greek Tycoon
  • 14 Howard Ashman 40 US Lyricist
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • 15 George Sherman 78 US Director
  • Larceny
  • 18 Vilma Bánky 90 Hungary Actress
  • Two Lovers
  • 18 Narda Onyx 59 Estonia Actress
  • Hitler
  • 22 Gloria Holden 82 UK Actress
  • Dracula's Daughter
  • 22 R. L. Ryan 44 US Actor
  • The Toxic Avenger
  • 23 Mona Maris 87 Argentina Actress
  • The Falcon in Mexico
  • 27 Aldo Ray 64 US Actor
  • Battle Cry
  • 28 Carlos Montalbán 87 Mexico Actor
  • The Out-of-Towners
  • April 3 Graham Greene 86 UK Screenwriter
  • Our Man in Havana
  • 9 Maurice Binder 72 UK Title Designer
  • The Last Emperor
  • 10 Kevin Peter Hall 35 US Actor
  • Harry and the Hendersons
  • 10 Natalie Schafer 90 US Actress
  • The Snake Pit
  • 12 Tom Rosqui 62 US Actor
  • The Thomas Crown Affair
  • 16 David Lean 83 UK Director
  • Doctor Zhivago
  • 20 Don Siegel 78 US Director
  • The Shootist
  • 23 William Dozier 83 US Producer
  • American Gigolo
  • 26 Carmine Coppola 80 US Composer
  • The Godfather Part III
  • 26 A. B. Guthrie Jr. 90 US Screenwriter
  • The Kentuckian
  • 28 Ken Curtis 74 US Actor
  • The Alamo
  • May 1 Richard Thorpe 95 US Director
  • Ivanhoe
  • 2 Jerzy Kosiński 57 Poland Screenwriter, Actor
  • Reds
  • 6 Wilfrid Hyde-White 87 UK Actor
  • The Third Man
  • 8 Ronnie Brody 72 UK Actor
  • A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
  • 11 Dino Diluca 88 Italy Actor
  • La Cieca di Sorrento
  • 15 Ronald Lacey 55 UK Actor
  • Flesh & Blood
  • 18 Edwina Booth 86 US Actress
  • The Vanishing Legion
  • 18 Muriel Box 85 UK Director, Screenwriter
  • The Seventh Veil
  • 23 Fletcher Markle 70 Canada Director
  • Jigsaw
  • 26 Eugène Lourié 88 Ukraine Art Director, Production Designer
  • Bronco Billy
  • 29 Coral Browne 77 Australia Actress
  • The Killing of Sister George
  • 31 Manolo Gómez Bur 74 Spain Actor
  • Una chica casi decente
  • June 3 Eva Le Gallienne 92 UK Actress
  • The Devil's Disciple
  • 8 Heidi Bruhl 49 Germany Actress
  • The Eiger Sanction
  • 12 Peggy Ashcroft 83 UK Actress
  • When the Wind Blows
  • 12 Bernard Miles 83 UK Actor
  • Great Expectations
  • 15 Barry Kelley 82 US Actor
  • The Manchurian Candidate
  • 16 Joan Caulfield 69 US Actress
  • Blue Skies
  • 18 Ronald Allen 60 UK Actor
  • Circle of Deception
  • 19 Jean Arthur 90 US Actress
  • Shane
  • 23 Lea Padovani 70 Italy Actress
  • The Intruder
  • 26 Jack Marta 88 US Cinematographer
  • Walking Tall
  • 27 Milton Subotsky 69 US Producer, Screenwriter
  • Maximum Overdrive
  • 30 John B. Goodman 89 US Art Director
  • Shadow of a Doubt
  • July 1 Michael Landon 54 US Actor
  • The Legend of Tom Dooley
  • 2 Don Houghton 61 France Screenwriter
  • The Satanic Rites of Dracula
  • 2 Lee Remick 55 US Actress
  • Anatomy of a Murder
  • 5 Mildred Dunnock 90 US Actress
  • BUtterfield 8
  • 8 James Franciscus 57 US Actor
  • Marooned
  • 11 Atang de la Rama 89 Philippines Actress, Singer
  • Walang Sugat
  • 15 Bert Convy 57 US Actor
  • Weekend Warriors
  • August 4 Don DaGradi 80 US Screenwriter
  • The Love Bug
  • 16 Luigi Zampa 86 Italy Director
  • Difficult Years
  • 17 Don Dubbins 65 US Actor
  • From the Earth to the Moon
  • 18 David Gale 54 UK Actor
  • The First Power
  • 21 Richard Wilson 75 US Director
  • Al Capone
  • 22 Colleen Dewhurst 67 Canada Actress
  • The Last Run
  • 25 Niven Busch 88 US Screenwriter
  • Distant Drums
  • 26 Alan Barrett 52-53 UK Costume Designer
  • Far from the Madding Crowd
  • 29 Dallas Adams 44 UK Actor
  • King Ralph
  • 29 Dixie Dunbar 72 US Actress
  • Sing and Be Happy
  • 30 Alan Wheatley 84 UK Actor
  • The Rake's Progress
  • September 3 Jean Bourgoin 78 France Cinematographer
  • Mon Oncle
  • 3 Frank Capra 94 US Director
  • It's a Wonderful Life
  • 4 Tom Tryon 65 US Actor
  • In Harm's Way
  • 7 Ben Piazza 58 US Actor
  • The Hanging Tree
  • 8 Brad Davis 41 US Actor
  • Chariots of Fire
  • 8 Alex North 80 US Composer
  • Spartacus
  • 13 Joe Pasternak 89 Romania Producer
  • The Courtship of Eddie's Father
  • 14 Julie Bovasso 61 US Actress
  • Moonstruck
  • 15 John Hoyt 85 US Actor
  • When Worlds Collide
  • 16 Carol White 48 UK Actress
  • Something Big
  • 21 Angelo Rossitto 83 US Actor
  • Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
  • 23 Chuck Vincent 51 US Director, Producer, Screenwriter
  • Hollywood Hot Tubs
  • 24 Mary Lawrence 73 US Actress
  • The Stratton Story
  • 25 Viviane Romance 79 France Actress
  • La Bandera
  • 27 Floyd Huddleston 79 US Songwriter
  • Robin Hood
  • October 6 Phil Feldman 69 US Producer
  • Blue Thunder
  • 9 Thalmus Rasulala 51 US Actor
  • Mr. Ricco
  • 11 Redd Foxx 68 US Actor, Comedian
  • Harlem Nights
  • 12 Sheila Florance 75 Australia Actress
  • A Woman's Tale
  • 12 Diana Gibson 76 US Actress
  • Behind the Headlines
  • 12 Aline MacMahon 92 US Actress
  • Diamond Head
  • 12 Regis Toomey 93 US Actor
  • Meet John Doe
  • 13 Donald Houston 67 UK Actor
  • Where Eagles Dare
  • 14 Gene Roddenberry 70 US Producer
  • Pretty Maids All in a Row
  • 16 Arthur Arling 85 US Cinematographer
  • The Yearling
  • 17 J. G. Devlin 84 Ireland Actor
  • The Miracle
  • 22 Judy Kelly 77 Australia Actress
  • Premiere
  • 25 John Stratton 65 UK Actor
  • Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
  • 28 Sylvia Fine 78 US Lyricist, Composer, Producer
  • The Five Pennies
  • 29 John DeCuir 73 US Art Director, Production Designer
  • Ghostbusters
  • November 2 Irwin Allen 75 US Producer, Director, Screenwriter
  • The Towering Inferno
  • 5 Fred MacMurray 83 US Actor
  • The Caine Mutiny
  • 6 Gene Tierney 70 US Actress
  • Laura
  • 10 Tutte Lemkow 73 Norway Actor, Choreographer
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark
  • 11 Morton Stevens 62 US Composer
  • Hardly Working
  • 12 Diane Brewster 60 US Actress
  • The Young Philadelphians
  • 12 Gabriele Tinti 59 Italy Actor
  • Emanuelle in America
  • 13 Yves Montand 70 France Actor, Singer
  • On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
  • 14 Tony Richardson 63 UK Director
  • Hamlet
  • 19 Reggie Nalder 84 Austria Actor
  • Mark of the Devil
  • 20 Daniel Mann 89 US Director
  • The Rose Tattoo
  • 21 Robert Kaufman 60 US Screenwriter
  • Love at First Bite
  • 22 Tadashi Imai 79 Japan Director
  • Bushido, Samurai Saga
  • 23 Klaus Kinski 65 Germany Actor
  • Nosferatu the Vampyre
  • 24 Anton Furst 47 UK Production Designer
  • Batman
  • 24 Freddie Mercury 45 UK Singer, Songwriter
  • Highlander
  • 25 Eleanor Audley 86 US Actress
  • Sleeping Beauty
  • 27 Ralph Bellamy 87 US Actor
  • Trading Places
  • 27 George Edwards 67 US Producer
  • Harper Valley PTA
  • 28 Mel Dinelli 79 US Screenwriter
  • Beware, My Lovely
  • December 7 Herb Jaffe 70 US Producer
  • Fright Night
  • 11 Robert Q. Lewis 70 US Actor
  • An Affair to Remember
  • 11 Pat Walshe 91 US Actor The Wizard of Oz
    12 Eleanor Boardman 93 US Actress
  • Souls for Sale
  • 13 Judy Moorcroft 58 UK Costume Designer
  • A Passage to India
  • 19 Ernest K. Gann 81 US Screenwriter
  • Soldier of Fortune
  • 19 Paul Maxwell 70 Canada Actor
  • Aliens
  • 23 Gene Milford 89 US Film Editor
  • Lost Horizon
  • 18 Jacques Aubuchon 67 US Actor
  • The Silver Chalice
  • 28 Cassandra Harris 43 Australia Actress
  • Rough Cut
  • Film debuts[edit]

  • Tom ArnoldFreddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
  • Monica BellucciLa Riffa
  • Halle BerryJungle Fever
  • Jason BiggsThe Boy Who Cried Bitch
  • W. Earl BrownBackdraft
  • Steve CarellCurly Sue
  • James CaviezelMy Own Private Idaho
  • Morris ChestnutBoyz n the Hood
  • Clifton Collins Jr.Grand Canyon
  • Ice CubeBoyz n the Hood
  • Leonardo DiCaprioCritters 3
  • Wayne DuvallFinal Approach
  • Christopher EcclestonLet Him Have It
  • Brendan FraserDogfight
  • Edward FurlongTerminator 2: Judgment Day
  • Janeane GarofaloLate for Dinner
  • Paul GiamattiPast Midnight
  • Eddie GriffinDice Rules
  • Jake GyllenhaalCity Slickers
  • Philip Seymour HoffmanTriple Bogey on a Par Five Hole
  • Joshua JacksonCrooked Hearts
  • Keegan-Michael KeyLunatics: A Love Story
  • Regina KingBoyz n the Hood
  • Queen LatifahJungle Fever
  • Denis LearyStrictly Business
  • Téa LeoniSwitch
  • Matthew LillardGhoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College
  • Donal LogueRobotrix
  • Jason LondonThe Man in the Moon
  • Leslie MannVirgin High
  • Breckin MeyerFreddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
  • Jeffrey Dean MorganUncaged
  • Elisabeth MossSuburban Commando
  • Kathy NajimyThe Hard Way
  • Thandie NewtonFlirting
  • Sophie OkonedoYoung Soul Rebels
  • Gwyneth PaltrowShout
  • Teri PoloBorn to Ride
  • John ProskyLate for Dinner
  • Richard RoxburghDead to the World
  • Til SchweigerManta, Manta
  • David SchwimmerFlight of the Intruder
  • Rufus SewellTwenty-One
  • Marley SheltonGrand Canyon
  • Jeremy SistoGrand Canyon
  • Jon TenneyGuilty by Suspicion
  • Maura TierneyDead Women in Lingerie
  • Daniel von BargenThe Silence of the Lambs
  • Kari WahlgrenMobile Suit Gundam F91
  • Isaiah WashingtonThe Color of Love
  • Reese WitherspoonThe Man in the Moon
  • References[edit]

    1. ^ "1991 Worldwide Box Office". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved March 7, 2020.
  • ^ "Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on June 26, 2017. $519,843,345
  • ^ Beauty and the Beast box-office
  • ^ D'Alessandro, Anthony (July 15, 2002). "Top 50 worldwide grossers". Variety. p. 52, Paramount at 90 supplement.
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