Information about 1995 In Film

Events

• March 28 - Actress Julia Roberts and singer Lyle Lovett announce their plans for separation.
• November - After a six-year hiatus, the James Bond film series resumes with the successful GoldenEye.
• November 21 - Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.

Awards

Best Picture: Braveheart - 20th Century Fox, B. H. Finance C. V., Icon Entertainment International, Paramount Pictures, The Ladd Company

Best Director: Mel Gibson - Braveheart

Best Actor: Nicolas Cage - Leaving Las Vegas

Best Actress: Susan Sarandon - Dead Man Walking

Best Supporting Actor: Kevin Spacey - The Usual Suspects

Best Supporting Actress: Mira Sorvino - Mighty Aphrodite

Best Foreign Language Film: Antonia's Line (Antonia), directed by Marleen Gorris, Netherlands

Drama:

Best Picture: Sense and Sensibility

Best Actor: Nicolas Cage - Leaving Las Vegas

Best Actress: Sharon Stone - Casino

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: Babe

Best Actor: John Travolta - Get Shorty

Best Actress: Nicole Kidman - To Die For

Other

Best Director: Mel Gibson - Braveheart

Best Foreign Language Film: Les Misérables, France

Underground (Подземље, Podzemlje), directed by Emir Kusturica, Yugoslavia

Cyclo (Xich lo), directed by Tran Anh Hung, Vietnam / France / Hong Kong

L'Appât (Fresh Bait), directed by Bertrand Tavernier, France

Films released in 1995

• The American President
• Antonia's Line (Antonia) - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
• Angus
• L'Appât (Fresh Bait or The Bait) - Golden Bear award
• Apollo 13
• Assassins
• Babe - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
• Bad Boys
• The Basketball Diaries
• Batman Forever
• Before Sunrise
• Beyond Rangoon
• The Big Green
• Billy Madison
• Blue in the Face
• Born to be Wild, starring Wil Horneff, Helen Shaver, John C. McGinley and Peter Boyle
• Boys on the Side
• The Brady Bunch Movie
• Braveheart, directed by Mel Gibson - Academy Award for Best Picture
• The Bridges of Madison County
• The Brothers McMullen
• Canadian Bacon
• Casino, directed by Martin Scorsese
• Casper
• Circle of Friends
• The City of Lost Children
• Clockers
• Clueless
• Coldblooded
• Congo
• Copycat
• Crimson Tide
• The Crossing Guard
• Cry, the Beloved Country
• Cutthroat Island
• Cyclo - Golden Lion award
• Dangerous Minds
• Dead Man
• Dead Man Walking
• Dead Presidents
• Desperado
• Devil in a Blue Dress
• Die Hard with a Vengeance
• Dolores Claiborne
• Don Juan DeMarco
• The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
• Empire Records
• Escape to Witch Mountain (remake)
• Fair Game
• Father of the Bride Part II
• First Knight
• Fluke - Nomination for Saturn Award 1996
• Forget Paris
• Four Rooms
• French Kiss
• Friday
• From the Journals of Jean Seberg - a documentary directed by Mark Rappaport
• Full Body Massage, directed by Nicolas Roeg
• Funny Bones
• Get Shorty
• Ghost in the Shell
• The Glass Shield
• Godzilla vs. Destroyah - Nominated for Award of the Japanese Academy 1996
• GoldenEye
• A Goofy Movie, starring Jason Marsden
• Grumpier Old Men, starring Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, Sophia Loren
• Hackers
• La Haine
• Heat
• Higher Learning
• Home for the Holidays
• How to Make an American Quilt
• The Hunted
• In the Mouth of Madness, directed by John Carpenter, starring Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jürgen Prochnow, David Warner and Charlton Heston
• The Indian in the Cupboard
• It Takes Two
• Jade
• Johnny Mnemonic
• Judge Dredd
• Jumanji
• Jury Duty
• Just Cause
• A Kid in King Arthur's Court
• Kids
• Kiss of Death
• Land and Freedom
• Last of the Dogmen
• The Last Supper
• Leaving Las Vegas
• A Little Princess
• ''Lord of Illusions (Cliver Barker's Lord of Illusions)
• Losing Isaiah
• Man of the House
• Major Payne
• Mallrats
• Margaret's Museum
• Max is Missing - Nominated for Young Artist Award (Peru/U.S.A.)
• Mighty Aphrodite
• Les Misérables - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film
• Money Train
• Moonlight and Valentino
• Mortal Kombat
• Mr. Holland's Opus
• Murder in the First
• Napoleon, family film directed by Mario Andreacchio
• The Net
• New Jersey Drive
• Nick of Time
• Nine Months
• Nixon
• Now and Then
• Operation Dumbo Drop
• Othello
• Outbreak
• A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies, directed by Martin Scorsese (documentary)
• Picture Bride Sundance Film Festival Audience Award winner
• Pocahontas
• (released in Early 1996)
• Powder
• The Quick and the Dead
• Restoration
• Richard III
• Rob Roy
• Rumble in the Bronx (released in Early 1996)
• Sabrina
• The Scarlet Letter
• Screamers
• Sense and Sensibility - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Drama) and Golden Bear award (for 1996)
• Se7en (also known as Seven)
• Showgirls
• Sick Time
• Smoke
• Something to Talk About
• Species
• Strange Days
• Sudden Death
• Tall Tale
• Tank Girl
• Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
• To Die For
• Tom and Huck
• Three Wishes, directed by Martha Coolidge - Nominated for Young Artist Award
• To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
• Tommy Boy, starring Chris Farley, David Spade and Rob Lowe
• Top Dog, starring Chuck Norris
• Toy Story
• Twelve Monkeys
• Two Bits
• Underground - Palm d'Or award
• Unzipped
• The Usual Suspects
• Vampire in Brooklyn
• Village of the Damned, directed by John Carpenter, starring Christopher Reeve, Kirstie Alley, Linda Kozlowski, Mark Hamill and Peter Jason
• Virtuosity
• Waiting to Exhale
• A Walk in the Clouds
• The Walking Dead
• Waterworld
• While You Were Sleeping
• White Man's Burden
• Wild Bill

Births

Deaths

• February 2 - Donald Pleasence, actor
• March 12 - Juanin Clay, actress
• March 16 - Albert Hackett, screenwriter
• April 4 - Priscilla Lane, actress
• April 14 - Burl Ives, actor, singer
• April 24 - Sammy Jackson, actor, disc jockey
• April 25 - Ginger Rogers, actress
• May 16 - Lola Flores, Spanish actress
• May 18 Elizabeth Montgomery, actress
• Elisha Cook Jr, actor
• Alexander Godunov, dancer, actor
• May 26 - Friz Freleng, animator
• June 29 - Lana Turner, actress
• July 4 - Eva Gabor, actress
• August 3 - Ida Lupino, actress and director
• August 29 - Enrique Carreras, director, producer
• October 21 - Maxene Andrews, member of The Andrews Sisters
• October 22 - Mary Wickes, actress
• October 25 - Viveca Lindfors, actress
• November 21 - Peter Grant, actor and manager
• November 23 - Louis Malle, director
• November 24 - Jeffrey Lynn, actor
• December 9 - Vivian Blaine, actress
• December 22 - Butterfly McQueen, actress
• December 25 - Dean Martin, singer and actor