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The following is an overview of events in 1988 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.

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Highest-grossing films

The top 10 films released in 1988 by worldwide gross are as follows: [1]

Highest-grossing films of 1988
RankTitleDistributorWorldwide gross
1 Rain Man MGM $354,825,435
2 Who Framed Roger Rabbit Buena Vista $329,803,958
3 Coming to America Paramount $288,752,301
4 Crocodile Dundee II $239,606,210
5 Twins Universal $216,614,388
6 Rambo III TriStar / Carolco $189,015,611
7 A Fish Called Wanda MGM $188,597,000 [2] [3] [4]
8 Cocktail Buena Vista $171,504,781
9 Big 20th Century Fox $151,668,774
10 Die Hard $141,500,000

Events

Awards

Category/Organization 46th Golden Globe Awards
January 28, 1989		 42nd BAFTA Awards
March 19, 1989		 61st Academy Awards
March 29, 1989
DramaMusical or Comedy
Best Film Rain Man Working Girl The Last Emperor Rain Man
Best Director Clint Eastwood
Bird 		Louis Malle
Au revoir les enfants 		Barry Levinson
Rain Man
Best Actor Dustin Hoffman
Rain Man 		Tom Hanks
Big 		John Cleese
A Fish Called Wanda 		Dustin Hoffman
Rain Man
Best Actress Jodie Foster
The Accused
Shirley MacLaine
Madame Sousatzka
Sigourney Weaver
Gorillas in the Mist 		Melanie Griffith
Working Girl 		Maggie Smith
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne 		Jodie Foster
The Accused
Best Supporting Actor Martin Landau
Tucker: The Man and His Dream 		Michael Palin
A Fish Called Wanda 		Kevin Kline
A Fish Called Wanda
Best Supporting Actress Sigourney Weaver
Working Girl 		Judi Dench
A Handful of Dust 		Geena Davis
The Accidental Tourist
Best Screenplay, Adapted Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal
Running on Empty 		Jean-Claude Carriere and Philip Kaufman
The Unbearable Lightness of Being 		Christopher Hampton
Dangerous Liaisons
Best Screenplay, Original A World Apart
Shawn Slovo 		Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow
Rain Man
Best Original Score Maurice Jarre
Gorillas in the Mist 		John Williams
Empire of the Sun 		Dave Grusin
The Milagro Beanfield War
Best Original Song"Two Hearts"
Buster
"Let the River Run"
Working Girl 		N/A"Let the River Run"
Working Girl
Best Foreign Language Film Pelle the Conqueror Babette's Feast Pelle the Conqueror

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival)

Pelle the Conqueror (Pelle erobreren), directed by Bille August, Denmark

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival)

La leggenda del santo bevitore (The Legend of the Holy Drinker), directed by Ermanno Olmi, Italy / France

Golden Bear (Berlin International Film Festival)

Red Sorghum (Hong gao liang), directed by Zhang Yimou, China

1988 films

By country/region

By genre/medium

Births

Deaths

MonthDateNameAgeCountryProfessionNotable films
January1 Marcel Hillaire 79GermanyActor
7 Michel Auclair 65FranceActor
7 Trevor Howard 74UKActor
8 Boyd Morgan 72USStuntman, Actor
10 Hugh A. Robertson 55USFilm Editor, Director
16 Ballard Berkeley 83UKActor
19 Bridget Boland 75UKScreenwriter
19 Cary Odell 77USArt Director
25 Colleen Moore 88USActress
February1 Marcel Bozzuffi 58FrenchActor
1 Heather O'Rourke 12USActress
5 Emeric Pressburger 85HungaryScreenwriter, Director
8 Allan Cuthbertson 67AustraliaActor
14 Frederick Loewe 86GermanyComposer
28 Asakazu Nakai 86JapanCinematographer
29 Sidney Harmon 80USProducer, Screenwriter
March1 Joe Besser 80USActor
3 Lois Wilson 93USActress
5 Alberto Olmedo [9] 54ArgentinaActor, Comedian
6 Jeanne Aubert 82FranceActress
7 Divine 42USActor
7 Robert Livingston 83USActor
12 DeWitt Bodeen 79USScreenwriter
12 Karen Steele 56USActress
13 Steno 71ItalyDirector, Screenwriter
13 John Holmes 43USActor
13 Olive Carey 92USActress
27 Renato Salvatori 55ItalyActor
31 Manuel Silos 82PhilippinesActor, Director
April1 Jim Jordan 91USActor
5 Alf Kjellin 68SwedenActor, Director
6 John Clements 77UKActor
7 Albert S. Rogell 86USDirector
11 Jeff Donnell 66USActress
11 Jesse L. Lasky Jr. 77USScreenwriter
15 Kenneth Williams 62UKActor
21 I. A. L. Diamond 67MoldoviaScreenwriter
22 Irene Rich 96USActress
28 Andrew Cruickshank 80UKActor
May1 Paolo Stoppa 81ItalyActor
4 Tom Overton 58USSound Engineer
5 George Rose [10] 68UKActor
12 Paul Osborn 86USScreenwriter
15 Andrew Duggan 64USActor
15 Greta Nissen 82NorwayActress
18 Daws Butler 71USVoice Actor
18 Anthony Forwood 72UKActor
18 Christopher Gore 43USScreenwriter
21 Barbara Laage 67FranceActress
22 Tom Adair 74USLyricist
29 Vladimír Menšík 59Czech RepublicActor
30 Ella Raines [11] 67USActress
June2 Raj Kapoor [12] 63IndiaActor, Director, Producer
16 Kim Milford 37USActor
18 Wilford Leach 58USDirector, Screenwriter
19 Teru Shimada 82JapanActor
22 Dennis Day 77USSinger, Actor
22 Stuart Randall 78USActor
July1 Alice Nunn 60USActress
2 Aldo Tonti 78ItalyCinematographer
7 Jimmy Edwards 68UKActor
12 Joshua Logan 79USDirector, Screenwriter
22 Milton Krasner 84USCinematographer
22 Patrick Newell 56UKActor
25 Judith Barsi 10USActress
25 Douglas Hickox 59UKDirector
27 Larry Clemmons 81USAnimator, Screenwriter
31 Trinidad Silva 38USActor
August1 Florence Eldridge 86USActress
2 Robert Emmet Smith 73USArt Director
5 Colin Higgins 47FranceDirector, Producer, Screenwriter
5 Ralph Meeker 65USActor
7 Wilfred Jackson 82USAnimator
8 Alan Napier 85UKActor
10 Adela Rogers St. Johns 94USScreenwriter
11 Anne Ramsey 59USActress
17 Victoria Shaw 53AustraliaActress
19 Don Haggerty 74USActor
23 Jack Sher 75USScreenwriter, Director
24 Leonard Frey 49USActor
26 Milton Sperling 76USScreenwriter
27 Charles Farrell 88IrelandActor
September1 Hugh Hunt 86USSet Decorator
5 Gert Fröbe 75GermanyActor
6 Harold Rosson 93USCinematographer
12 Stephen B. Grimes 61UKProduction Designer
14 Louis Quinn 73USActor
15 Samuel E. Beetley 74USFilm Editor
20 Roy Kinnear 54UKActor
21 Henry Koster 83GermanyDirector, Screenwriter
21 Christine Norden 63UKActress
30 Chick Chandler 83USActor
October1 Lucien Ballard [13] 84USCinematographer
1 Pavle Vuisić 62YugoslaviaActor
4 Margaret Lacey 76UKActress
6 Don Terry 86USActor
9 Edward Chodorov 84USScreenwriter
11 Morgan Farley 90USActor
11 Bonita Granville 65USActress
12 Ken Murray 85USActor, Producer
13 Melvin Frank 75USScreenwriter, Director
14 Mary Morris 72FijiActress
19 Lawrence W. Butler 80USSpecial Effects Artist
24 Valerie Taylor 85UKActress
25 Eric Larson 83USAnimator
27 Charles Hawtrey 73UKActor
31 John Houseman 86RomaniaActor, Producer
November1 George J. Folsey 90USCinematographer
2 Lukas Heller 58GermanyScreenwriter
3 Sidney Carroll 75USScreenwriter
6 John Hubbard 74USActor
9 Billy Curtis 79USActor
15 Mona Washbourne 84UKActress
27 Angela Aames 32USActress
27 John Carradine 82USActor
December7 Christopher Connelly 47USActor
7 Dorothy Jordan 82USActress
8 Anne Seymour 79USActress
15 Maria De Matteis 90ItalyCostume Designer
10 Richard S. Castellano 55USActor
10 Dennis Arundell 90UKActor, Composer
17 Jerry Hopper 81USDirector
21 Bob Steele 81USActor
22 Tucker Smith 52USActor, Dancer
24 Noel Willman 70IrelandActor
26 Julanne Johnston 88USActress
26 John Loder 90UKActor
27 Hal Ashby 59USDirector, Film Editor

Film debuts

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References

  1. ↑ "1988 Worldwide Box Office". Box Office Mojo . IMDb. Archived from the original on October 28, 2020. Retrieved March 7, 2020.
  2. ↑ "A Fish Called Wanda (1988)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved April 7, 2020. A Fish Called Wanda domestic gross $62,493,712
  3. ↑ Groves, Don (August 9, 1989). "UIP Up, Up and Away For Year; Rentals Take Off". Variety . p. 11. UIP Top 10 Grossers, 1988–89
    Rain Man $233 million
    Crocodile Dundee 2 $126 million
    Coming to America $122 million
    A Fish Called Wanda $115 million
    Willow $80 million
    Twins $75 million
    The Naked Gun $61 million
  4. ↑ "UIP's $25M-Plus Club". Variety . September 11, 1995. p. 92. A Fish Called Wanda $126,103,000; The Naked Gun $73,689,000
  5. ↑ "Roy Kinnear Is Dead At 54 After Falling From Horse in Film". The New York Times. 23 September 1988. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
  6. ↑ Griffin, Nancy (June 1988). "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade". Premiere .
  7. ↑ Mason, Aiden (2017-08-28). "Five Things You Didn't Know About Anna Diop". TVOvermind. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
  8. ↑ Editors of Chase's (24 September 2019). Chase's Calendar of Events 2020: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 424. ISBN   978-1-64143-316-7.
  9. ↑ David K. Frasier (2002). Suicide in the Entertainment Industry: An Encyclopedia of 840 Twentieth-century Cases. McFarland. p. 244. ISBN   978-0-7864-1038-5.
  10. ↑ Dennis Hevesi (13 May 1988). "Dominican Police Say 4 Men Killed George Rose". The New York Times . Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  11. ↑ Newsweek. Newsweek. 1988. p. 72.
  12. ↑ Ritu Nanda; Rāja Kapūra (2002). Raj Kapoor Speaks. Penguin Books India. p. 14. ISBN   978-0-670-04952-3.
  13. ↑ John A. Willis (1989). Screen World. Crown Publishers. p. 235. ISBN   978-0-517-57332-7.
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