1988 in film
Overview of the events of 1988 in film
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.
Highest-grossing films
The top 10 films released in 1988 by worldwide gross are as follows:[ 1]
Highest-grossing films of 1988
Rank
Title
Distributor
Worldwide 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
May 25 – Rambo III Rambo: First Blood Part II
July 15 – Die Hard everyman against a colorful terrorist character who is usually holding hostages in an isolated setting.
September 19 – English character actor Roy Kinnear suffers a fall from a horse which will prove fatal while filming The Return of the Musketeers Toledo, Spain .[ 5]
October 10 – Batman Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire , England.
October 27 – E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Macrovision . In North America alone, VHS sales come to $75 million.[ 6]
December 16 – Rain Man Academy Awards including Best Picture , it is the last MGM title to be nominated for Best Picture until Licorice Pizza Giancarlo Parretti and Max Théret acquire a 52% stake in Pathé .[ 7]
Awards
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival)
Pelle the Conqueror Pelle erobreren ), directed by Bille August, DenmarkGolden Lion (Venice Film Festival)
La leggenda del santo bevitore The Legend of the Holy Drinker ), directed by Ermanno Olmi , Italy / FranceGolden Bear (Berlin International Film Festival)
Red Sorghum Hong gao liang ), directed by Zhang Yimou , China
1988 films
Births
January 3 - Karl Glusman , American actor
January 6 - Mehwish Hayat , Pakistani actress
January 7 – Haley Bennett , American actress and singer
January 12 – Andrew Lawrence , American actor
January 14 - Tom Rosenthal , English actor, comedian and writer
January 21 - John Early , American comedian and actor
February 2
February 6 – Anna Diop , Senegalese-born American actress[ 8]
February 8 - Ryan Pinkston , American actor
February 11 - Jazz Raycole , American actress
February 12
February 13
February 16 - Steven Caple Jr. , American director, producer and screenwriter
February 17 – Nagita Slavina , Indonesian actress, television host, film producer, and singer
February 18 - Sarah Sutherland , Canadian-American actress
February 20
February 29
March 4
March 14 – Stephen Curry , American basketball player
March 21
March 22 - Tania Raymonde , American actress
March 24 - Finn Jones , English actor
March 25 - Erik Knudsen , Canadian actor
March 27 – Brenda Song , American actress, singer and model
March 27 – Holliday Grainger , English actress
April 2 - Jesse Plemons , American actor
April 3 - Ruby Bentall , English actress
April 4 - Maggie Geha , American actress and model
April 6 – Mike Bailey , English actor
April 10 – Haley Joel Osment , American actor
April 13
April 14
April 18 – Allison Williams , American actress
April 18 – Vanessa Kirby , English actress
April 21
April 23 – Carla Quevedo , Argentine actress
April 25
April 27
April 30 – Ana de Armas , Cuban actress
May 1
May 2 - Laura Brent , Australian actress
May 7 - Brandon Jones , American actor, producer and musician
May 16 - Jermaine Fowler , American actor, comedian, producer and writer
May 17 – Nikki Reed , American actress and writer
June 2 – Awkwafina , American actress, comedian, writer, producer and rapper
June 4 – Li Man , Chinese actress
June 5 – Nuh Omar , Pakistani writer and director
June 7 – Michael Cera , Canadian actor
June 9
June 13 - Cody Walker , American actor
June 14 - Dayo Okeniyi , Nigerian-American actor
June 16 - Jonny Weston , American actor
June 22 - Shefali Chowdhury , British actress
June 23
June 25 - Daniel Webber , Australian actor
July 2 - Edward Randell , English musician and actor
July 7 - Jack Whitehall , English actor, comedian, presenter and writer
July 10 - Pavlo Lee , Ukrainian actor (died 2022)
July 12 – Christine Marie Cabanos , American voice actress
July 13 - Chris Sheffield , American actor
July 14 - Elise Gatien , Canadian actress
July 15 - Aimee Carrero , Dominican-born American actress
July 18 - Chen Tang , Chinese-American actor
July 19 – Cherami Leigh , American voice actress
July 20 - Julianne Hough , American dancer, actress, singer and songwriter
July 24 - Joe Pera , American comedian, writer and actor
July 25 - Mamoudou Athie , Mauritanian-American actor and producer
July 26 - Francia Raisa , American actress
July 30 - Nico Tortorella , American actor and model
July 31 - Charlie Carver , American actor
August 1 - Max Carver , American actor
August 16
August 17 - Joyner Lucas , American rapper and actor
August 24 – Rupert Grint , English actor[ 9]
August 26
August 27 – Alexa PenaVega , American actress and singer
September 6 – Jovan Adepo , English actor
September 8 - E. J. Bonilla , American actor
September 12
September 17 - Ritu Arya , English actress
September 22 – Sana Saeed , Indian actress
September 26 - Lilly Singh , Canadian comedian, former talk show host and YouTuber
September 28
October 1 - Nick Whitaker , American actor
October 3 – Alicia Vikander , Swedish actress
October 4 – Melissa Benoist , American actress, singer and dancer
October 5 - Bobby Edner , American actor and singer
October 6 - Everlyn Sampi , Australian actress
October 17 - Dee Jay Daniels , American former actor
October 18 – Tessa Schram , Dutch actress and director
October 21
October 22
October 23 - Ritesh Rajan , American actor
October 28 - Edd Gould , British animator, artist, writer, director and voice actor (died 2012)
October 29 – Devon Murray , Irish actor
November 6 – Emma Stone , American actress
November 9
November 17 - Justin Cooper , American producer and former child actor
November 20 - Demetrius Shipp Jr. , American actor
November 22 – Jamie Campbell Bower , English actor and singer
November 26 - Tamsin Egerton , English actress
November 30
December 1
December 2 – Alfred Enoch , English actor
December 7
December 14 – Vanessa Hudgens , American actress and singer
December 15 - Gregg Chillin , English actor and writer
December 16
December 17 – Rin Takanashi , Japanese actress and model
December 21 - Shelley Regner , American actress and singer
December 27 - Hera Hilmar , Icelandic actress
unknown - Celine Song , Korean-Canadian director, playwright, and screenwriter
Deaths
Month
Date
Name
Age
Country
Profession
Notable films
January
1 Marcel Hillaire 79
Germany
Actor
7 Michel Auclair 65
France
Actor
7 Trevor Howard 74
UK
Actor
8 Boyd Morgan 72
US
Stuntman, Actor
10 Hugh A. Robertson 55
US
Film Editor, Director
16 Ballard Berkeley 83
UK
Actor
19 Bridget Boland 75
UK
Screenwriter
19 Cary Odell 77
US
Art Director
25 Colleen Moore 88
US
Actress
February
1 Marcel Bozzuffi 58
French
Actor
1 Heather O'Rourke 12
US
Actress
5 Emeric Pressburger 85
Hungary
Screenwriter, Director
8 Allan Cuthbertson 67
Australia
Actor
14 Frederick Loewe 86
Germany
Composer
28 Asakazu Nakai 86
Japan
Cinematographer
29 Sidney Harmon 80
US
Producer, Screenwriter
March
1 Joe Besser 80
US
Actor
3 Lois Wilson 93
US
Actress
5 Alberto Olmedo [ 10] 54
Argentina
Actor, Comedian
6 Jeanne Aubert 82
France
Actress
7 Divine 42
US
Actor
7 Robert Livingston 83
US
Actor
12 DeWitt Bodeen 79
US
Screenwriter
12 Karen Steele 56
US
Actress
13 Steno 71
Italy
Director, Screenwriter
13 John Holmes 43
US
Actor
13 Olive Carey 92
US
Actress
27 Renato Salvatori 55
Italy
Actor
31 Manuel Silos 82
Philippines
Actor, Director
April
1 Jim Jordan 91
US
Actor
5 Alf Kjellin 68
Sweden
Actor, Director
6 John Clements 77
UK
Actor
7 Albert S. Rogell 86
US
Director
11 Jeff Donnell 66
US
Actress
11 Jesse L. Lasky Jr. 77
US
Screenwriter
15 Kenneth Williams 62
UK
Actor
21 I. A. L. Diamond 67
Moldovia
Screenwriter
22 Irene Rich 96
US
Actress
28 Andrew Cruickshank 80
UK
Actor
May
1 Paolo Stoppa 81
Italy
Actor
4 Tom Overton 58
US
Sound Engineer
5 George Rose [ 11] 68
UK
Actor
12 Paul Osborn 86
US
Screenwriter
15 Andrew Duggan 64
US
Actor
15 Greta Nissen 82
Norway
Actress
18 Daws Butler 71
US
Voice Actor
18 Anthony Forwood 72
UK
Actor
18 Christopher Gore 43
US
Screenwriter
21 Barbara Laage 67
France
Actress
22 Tom Adair 74
US
Lyricist
29 Vladimír Menšík 59
Czech Republic
Actor
30 Ella Raines [ 12] 67
US
Actress
June
2 Raj Kapoor [ 13] 63
India
Actor, Director, Producer
16 Kim Milford 37
US
Actor
18 Wilford Leach 58
US
Director, Screenwriter
19 Teru Shimada 82
Japan
Actor
22 Dennis Day 77
US
Singer, Actor
22 Stuart Randall 78
US
Actor
July
1 Alice Nunn 60
US
Actress
2 Aldo Tonti 78
Italy
Cinematographer
7 Jimmy Edwards 68
UK
Actor
12 Joshua Logan 79
US
Director, Screenwriter
22 Milton Krasner 84
US
Cinematographer
22 Patrick Newell 56
UK
Actor
25 Judith Barsi 10
US
Actress
25 Douglas Hickox 59
UK
Director
27 Larry Clemmons 81
US
Animator, Screenwriter
31 Trinidad Silva 38
US
Actor
August
1 Florence Eldridge 86
US
Actress
2 Robert Emmet Smith 73
US
Art Director
5 Colin Higgins 47
France
Director, Producer, Screenwriter
5 Ralph Meeker 65
US
Actor
7 Wilfred Jackson 82
US
Animator
8 Alan Napier 85
UK
Actor
10 Adela Rogers St. Johns 94
US
Screenwriter
11 Anne Ramsey 59
US
Actress
17 Victoria Shaw 53
Australia
Actress
19 Don Haggerty 74
US
Actor
23 Jack Sher 75
US
Screenwriter, Director
24 Leonard Frey 49
US
Actor
26 Milton Sperling 76
US
Screenwriter
27 Charles Farrell 88
Ireland
Actor
September
1 Hugh Hunt 86
US
Set Decorator
5 Gert Fröbe 75
Germany
Actor
6 Harold Rosson 93
US
Cinematographer
12 Stephen B. Grimes 61
UK
Production Designer
14 Louis Quinn 73
US
Actor
15 Samuel E. Beetley 74
US
Film Editor
20 Roy Kinnear 54
UK
Actor
21 Henry Koster 83
Germany
Director, Screenwriter
21 Christine Norden 63
UK
Actress
30 Chick Chandler 83
US
Actor
October
1 Lucien Ballard [ 14] 84
US
Cinematographer
1 Pavle Vuisić 62
Serbia
Actor
4 Margaret Lacey 76
UK
Actress
6 Don Terry 86
US
Actor
9 Edward Chodorov 84
US
Screenwriter
11 Morgan Farley 90
US
Actor
11 Bonita Granville 65
US
Actress
12 Ken Murray 85
US
Actor, Producer
13 Melvin Frank 75
US
Screenwriter, Director
14 Mary Morris 72
Fiji
Actress
19 Lawrence W. Butler 80
US
Special Effects Artist
24 Valerie Taylor 85
UK
Actress
25 Eric Larson 83
US
Animator
27 Charles Hawtrey 73
UK
Actor
31 John Houseman 86
Romania
Actor, Producer
November
1 George J. Folsey 90
US
Cinematographer
2 Lukas Heller 58
Germany
Screenwriter
3 Sidney Carroll 75
US
Screenwriter
6 John Hubbard 74
US
Actor
9 Billy Curtis 79
US
Actor
15 Mona Washbourne 84
UK
Actress
27 Angela Aames 32
US
Actress
27 John Carradine 82
US
Actor
December
7 Christopher Connelly 47
US
Actor
7 Dorothy Jordan 82
US
Actress
8 Anne Seymour 79
US
Actress
15 Maria De Matteis 90
Italy
Costume Designer
10 Richard S. Castellano 55
US
Actor
10 Dennis Arundell 90
UK
Actor, Composer
17 Jerry Hopper 81
US
Director
21 Bob Steele 81
US
Actor
22 Tucker Smith 52
US
Actor, Dancer
24 Noel Willman 70
Ireland
Actor
26 Julanne Johnston 88
US
Actress
26 John Loder 90
UK
Actor
27 Hal Ashby 59
US
Director, Film Editor
Film debuts
References
^ "1988 Worldwide Box Office" . Box Office Mojo IMDb . Archived from the original on October 28, 2020. Retrieved March 7, 2020 .^ "A Fish Called Wanda (1988)" . Box Office Mojo . Retrieved April 7, 2020 . A Fish Called Wanda domestic gross $62,493,712 ^ Groves, Don (August 9, 1989). "UIP Up, Up and Away For Year; Rentals Take Off". Variety UIP Top 10 Grossers, 1988–89 ^ "UIP's $25M-Plus Club". Variety A Fish Called Wanda $126,103,000; The Naked Gun $73,689,000 ^ "Roy Kinnear Is Dead At 54 After Falling From Horse in Film" . The New York Times . 23 September 1988. Retrieved 2020-05-24 .^ Griffin, Nancy (June 1988). "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade". Premiere ^ Alderman, Bruce (December 21, 1988). "After lengthy battle, Pathé falls into hands of Parretti, Théret". Variety ^ Mason, Aiden (2017-08-28). "Five Things You Didn't Know About Anna Diop" . TVOvermind . Retrieved 2021-03-10 . ^ Editors of Chase's (24 September 2019). Chase's Calendar of Events 2020: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months ISBN 978-1-64143-316-7 ^ David K. Frasier (2002). Suicide in the Entertainment Industry: An Encyclopedia of 840 Twentieth-century Cases ISBN 978-0-7864-1038-5 ^ Dennis Hevesi (13 May 1988). "Dominican Police Say 4 Men Killed George Rose" . The New York Times . Retrieved 2018-07-05 . ^ Newsweek ^ Ritu Nanda; Rāja Kapūra (2002). Raj Kapoor Speaks ISBN 978-0-670-04952-3 ^ John A. Willis (1989). Screen World ISBN 978-0-517-57332-7
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