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1990 in film

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

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

Events

March 2 - The Hunt for Red October is released. It is the first film in Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan franchise and is met with critical and blockbuster commercial success.
March 23 – Pretty Woman is released and grosses $463 million, making Julia Roberts a worldwide star.
March 30 – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is released to massive box office success. At the time, it is the highest-grossing independent film in history.
May 25 – Universal Pictures unveils a new opening logo with music composed by James Horner, which debuts on Back to the Future Part III. It is the first change to the Universal opening logo in 27 years.
June 1 – CGI technique is expanded with motion capture for CGI characters, used in Total Recall.
June 15 – Following a massive media and marketing blitz, Dick Tracy is released. Walt Disney Studios chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg expressed disappointment in a studio memo that noted that the film had cost about $100 million in total to produce, market and promote and with its disappointing performance claimed "We made demands on our time, talent and treasury that, upon reflection, may not have been worth it".
June 22 – The use of real-time computer graphics or "digital puppetry" to create a character in a motion picture is performed, in RoboCop 2.
July 4 – The first digitally-manipulated matte painting is used, in Die Hard 2.
July 13 - Ghost, starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg, is released and grosses $506 million, making it the third highest-grossing movie at the time.
November 9 – Kevin Costner's directorial debut, Dances with Wolves, is released. It later earns twelve Academy Award nominations and wins seven, including Best Picture and Best Director for Costner.
November 16
- Home Alone is released. It spends twelve consecutive weeks at number one on the United States box office, becoming both the highest-grossing film of the year and the highest-grossing comedy of all-time.
- The Rescuers Down Under is considered as the first fully digital film ever made.
December 24 – Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman marry.
Buchwald v. Paramount decided, a leading case on the financial rewards due to writers of film treatments.

Awards

1990 films

By country/region

List of American films of 1990
List of Argentine films of 1990
List of Australian films of 1990
List of Bangladeshi films of 1990
List of British films of 1990
List of Canadian films of 1990
List of French films of 1990
List of Hong Kong films of 1990
List of Indian films of 1990
- List of Hindi films of 1990
- List of Kannada films of 1990
- List of Malayalam films of 1990
- List of Marathi films of 1990
- List of Tamil films of 1990
- List of Telugu films of 1990
List of Japanese films of 1990
List of Mexican films of 1990
List of Pakistani films of 1990
List of Soviet films of 1990
List of South Korean films of 1990
List of Spanish films of 1990

By genre/medium

List of action films of 1990
List of animated feature films of 1990
List of avant-garde films of 1990
List of crime films of 1990
List of comedy films of 1990
List of drama films of 1990
List of horror films of 1990
List of science fiction films of 1990
List of thriller films of 1990
List of western films of 1990

Births

January 1 - Tom Ackerley, British producer and former assistant director
January 7 – Liam Aiken, American actor
January 13 – Liam Hemsworth, Australian actor
January 15 - Chris Warren, American actor
January 18 - Zeeko Zaki, Egyptian-born American actor
January 19 - Shaunette Renée Wilson, Guyanese-born American actress
January 21 - Jacob Smith, American actor
January 23 - Joel Basman, Swiss actor
January 25 - Dustin Ingram, American actor and musician
January 26 – Christopher Massey, American actor, comedian and rapper
January 29 – François Civil, French actor
January 30
- Eiza González, Mexican actress and singer
- Jake Thomas, American actor and voice actor
February 1 - Toby Onwumere, Nigerian-American actor
February 2 - Julia Fox, Italian-American actress
February 4 - Will Denton, American actor
February 5
- Charlbi Dean, South African actress and model (died 2022)
- Anthony Ingruber, Dutch-Australian actor and impressionist
February 8 - Christian Madsen, American actor
February 9 - Tyson Houseman, Canadian actor
February 15 - Callum Turner, British actor and model
February 16 - The Weeknd, Canadian singer-songwriter
February 21 – Flavio Aquilone, Italian voice actor
February 28 - Georgina Leonidas, British actress
March 1 – Harry Eden, British actor
March 2 - Tiger Shroff, Indian actor
March 11 - Reiley McClendon, American actor
March 12 – Jörgen Liik, Estonian actor
March 24 – Keisha Castle-Hughes, Australian-New Zealand actress
March 25 - Kiowa Gordon, American actor of Hualapai descent
March 26 - Choi Woo-shik, Korean-Canadian actor
March 28 – Laura Harrier, American actress
March 29 - Josh Blaylock, American actor
March 30 - Chelsea Harris, American actress
April 5 - Haruma Miura, Japanese actor (died 2020)
April 9 – Kristen Stewart, American actress
April 10 – Alex Pettyfer, English actor, model
April 15 – Emma Watson, English actress
April 16 – Lorraine Nicholson, American actress
April 17 – Gia Mantegna, American actress
April 18 - Britt Robertson, American actress
April 23 – Dev Patel, British actor
April 25 - Meghann Fahy, American actress
May 1 - Caitlin Stasey, Australian actress and singer
May 2 - Kay Panabaker, American retired actress
May 3 - Harvey Guillén, American actor
May 6 - Moses Storm, American writer, actor and comedian
May 14
- Rea Lest-Liik, Estonia actress
- Sasha Spielberg, American actress, daughter of producer/director Steven Spielberg and actress Kate Capshaw
May 15 - Sophie Cookson, English actress
May 16
- Deniz Akdeniz, Australian actor
- Thomas Brodie-Sangster, British actor
- Marc John Jefferies, American actor
May 17
- Ross Butler, American actor
- Leven Rambin, American actress
May 18 - Luke Kleintank, American actor
May 20 - Josh O'Connor, British actor
May 27 - Chris Colfer, American actor and singer
May 30
- Im Yoon-ah, South Korean actress
- Mason Lee, Taiwanese-American actor
May 31 - Phillipa Soo, American actress and singer
June 2 – Jack Lowden, British actor
June 13 - Aaron Taylor-Johnson, British actor
June 15 - Denzel Whitaker, American actor
June 17 - Monica Barbaro, American actress
June 18 - Jeremy Irvine, English actor
June 20 - Jacob Wysocki, American actor and comedian
July 2 – Margot Robbie, Australian actress
July 4
- Melissa Barrera, Mexican actress and singer
- David Kross, German actor
July 6 – Jeremy Suarez, American actor
July 12 – Rachel Brosnahan, American-British actress
July 15 - Olly Alexander, British musician, actor and screenwriter
July 16
- Eddie Hassell, American actor (died 2020)
- James Maslow, American actor
July 19 - Steven Anthony Lawrence, American actor
July 24 – Daveigh Chase, American actress
July 27 – Indiana Evans, Australian actress and singer-songwriter
July 29 – Matt Prokop, American actor
July 31 - Ruby Modine, American actress, model and singer
August 1 - Jack O'Connell, English actor
August 4 - Chet Hanks, American actor and musician
August 9
- Bill Skarsgård, Swedish actor
- Emily Tennant, Canadian actress
August 10 – Lucas Till, American actor
August 15 – Jennifer Lawrence, American actress
August 17 – Rachel Hurd-Wood, British actress
August 20 - Win Morisaki, Burmese singer and actor
August 23 – Wesley Singerman, American record producer, songwriter and guitarist, and voice actor
August 24 – Elizabeth Debicki, Australian actress
August 29
- Nicole Gale Anderson, American actress
- Erika Harlacher, American voice actress
September 1 - Aisling Loftus, English actress
September 3 - Bianca Bin, Brazilian actress
September 9 – Klaudia Tiitsmaa, Estonian actress
September 11 - Georgina Terry, British actress
September 15 – Matt Shively, American actor
September 20 – Saara Pius, Estonian actress
September 21
- Christian Serratos, American actress
- Allison Scagliotti, American actress and director
September 28 - Kirsten Prout, Canadian actress
October 5
- Wesley Morgan, Canadian actor and model
- Taylour Paige, American actress and dancer
October 6 - Scarlett Byrne, English actress and model
October 8 - Tom Rhys Harries, Welsh actor
October 13
- Florian Munteanu, German-Romanian actor and model
- Himesh Patel, British actor
October 18 - Carly Schroeder, American actress
October 22 – Jonathan Lipnicki, American actor
October 31 - Patti Harrison, American actress and comedian
November 2 – Kendall Schmidt, American actor
November 4 – Jean-Luc Bilodeau, Canadian actor
November 6 - Bowen Yang, Australian-born American actor, comedian and writer
November 9 – Chris Di Staulo, Canadian filmmaker
November 14 - Jessica Jacobs, Australian actress and singer (died 2008)
November 16 - Milo Gibson, American actor
November 24 - Sarah Hyland, American actress
November 26 - Rita Ora, British actress, singer and songwriter
November 28 - Carla Diaz, Brazilian actress
November 29 - Diego Boneta, Mexican actor, producer and singer
December 20 – JoJo, American singer-songwriter and actress
December 23
- Moses J. Moseley, American actor, writer and model (died 2022)
- Anna Maria Perez de Tagle, American actress and singer

Deaths

Debuts

References

External links

List of 1990 films at IMDb
1990 Domestic Grosses at Box Office Mojo
List of 1990 deaths at IMDb
List of 1990 births at IMDb

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