Information about 1996 In Film

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The year 1996 in film involved some significant events.

Events

For films, 1996 was the year of The English Patient, Independence Day, Twister, Jerry Maguire and Madonna's Evita.

Top grossing films

1996 Rank	Title	Studio	Gross
1.	Independence Day	20th Century Fox	'''$816,969,268
2.	Twister	Warner Bros.	'''$494,471,524
3.		Paramount Pictures	'''$457,696,359
4.	The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Disney	'''$325,338,851
5.	The Rock	Hollywood Pictures	'''$335,062,621
6.	101 Dalmatians	Buena Vista	'''$320,689,294
7.	The Nutty Professor	Universal	'''$273,921,019
8.	Jerry Maguire	TriStar Pictures	$273,552,592
9.	Eraser	Warner Bros.	'''$242,295,562
10.	Space Jam	Warner Bros.	'''$230,418,342

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: The English Patient - J&M Entertainment, Miramax Films, Tiger Moth Productions

Best Director: Anthony Minghella - The English Patient

Best Actor: Geoffrey Rush - Shine

Best Actress: Frances McDormand - Fargo

Best Supporting Actor: Cuba Gooding Jr. - Jerry Maguire

Best Supporting Actress: Juliette Binoche - The English Patient

Best Foreign Language Film: Kolya (Kolja), directed by Jan Svěrák, Czech Republic

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: The English Patient

Best Actor: Geoffrey Rush - Shine

Best Actress: Brenda Blethyn - Secrets & Lies

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: Evita

Best Actor: Tom Cruise - Jerry Maguire

Best Actress: Madonna - Evita

Other

Best Director: Milos Forman - The People vs. Larry Flynt

Best Foreign Language Film: Kolya, Czech Republic

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Secrets & Lies, directed by Mike Leigh, United Kingdom

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Michael Collins, directed by Neil Jordan, U.K. / Ireland / U.S.A.

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Sense and Sensibility, directed by Ang Lee, United States

Films released in 1996

• 101 Dalmatians
• The Adventures of Pinocchio
• The Arrival, starring Charlie Sheen
• The Associate
• Bad Moon
• Barb Wire
• Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, with guest voices by Bruce Willis, Demi Moore, Cloris Leachman, Richard Linklater, Robert Stack and David Letterman
• Bed of Roses
• Before and After
• Big Bully
• The Birdcage
• Blood and Wine
• Bottle Rocket
• Bound
• Breaking the Waves
• Broken Arrow
• Bulletproof
• The Cable Guy
• Camping Cosmos
• Carried Away
• Carpool
• Celtic Pride
• Chain Reaction
• The Chamber
• City Hall
• Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day
• , Hong Kong Film Awards and Golden Space Needle award
• Courage Under Fire, starring Denzel Washington
• The Craft, Fairuza Balk and Neve Campbell are two of four co-stars in movie that helped begin a trend of gothic dressers.
• The Crucible
• Daddy's Girl
• Daylight, starring Sylvester Stallone
• The Dentist
• Diabolique
• Different for Girls
• Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
• Down Periscope
• Dragonheart
• Eddie
• The English Patient - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture
• , starring Moira Kelly
• Eraser, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Escape from L.A., aka John Carpenter's Escape from L.A.
• The Evening Star
• Everyone Says I Love You, directed by Woody Allen
• Evita - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
• Executive Decision
• Extreme Measures
• Eye for an Eye
• Fargo
• Fear - staring Mark Wahlberg and Reese Witherspoon
• Fire by Deepa Mehta, starring Shabana Azmi and Nandita Das
• The First Wives Club
• Fled
• Flipper
• Flirting With Disaster
• Floating Life
• Fly Away Home
• The Frighteners, directed by Peter Jackson
• From Dusk Till Dawn
• Get on the Bus
• The Ghost and the Darkness
• Ghosts of Mississippi, directed by Rob Reiner
• Girl 6
• The Glimmer Man
• The Great White Hype
• Happy Gilmore
• Hard Eight, directed by P. T. Anderson
• Heaven's Prisoners
• High School High
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Hype!
• I'm Not Rappaport
• In Love and War
• Independence Day
• Infinity
• Intimate Relations
• ''The Island of Dr. Moreau
• Jack
• James and the Giant Peach
• Jerry Maguire
• Jingle All the Way, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Joe's Apartment
• The Juror
• Kazaam
• Kingpin
• Kolya, directed by Jan Sverák - Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
• Larger than Life
• Last Dance
• Last Man Standing
• Licántropo
• Lone Star
• The Long Kiss Goodnight
• Mars Attacks!
• Marvin's Room
• Mary Reilly
• Matilda
• Maximum Risk
• Michael, starring John Travolta
• Michael Collins, directed by Neil Jordan - Golden Lion award
• The Mirror Has Two Faces
• Mother
• Mr. Wrong
• Mulholland Falls
• Multiplicity
• Muppet Treasure Island
• My Fellow Americans
• The Nutty Professor
• One Fine Day
• Original Gangstas
• The People vs. Larry Flynt - Golden Bear award (for 1997)
• The Phantom
• Phenomenon
• The Pillow Book
• The Portrait of a Lady
• The Preacher's Wife
• (released May 1996)
• Primal Fear
• The Quest
• Ransom
• Ridicule, directed by Patrice Leconte, starring Fanny Ardant, Judith Godrèche
• The Rock
• Romeo and Juliet (1996 film)
• Rumble in the Bronx
• Scream
• Secrets & Lies - Palm d'Or award
• Set It Off
• Sgt. Bilko
• She's the One
• Shine
• Sleepers
• Sling Blade
• Space Jam
• Space Truckers
• The Spitfire Grill
• Spy Hard, starring Leslie Nielsen
• Stealing Beauty, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
• Striptease, starring Demi Moore
• The Stupids
• ''The Substitute, starring Tom Berenger
• The Sunchaser, directed by Michael Cimino
• Sunday
• Sunset Park
• Swingers
• That Thing You Do!
• A Thin Line Between Love and Hate
• Thinner
• A Time to Kill
• Tin Cup
• Trainspotting, directed by Danny Boyle and starring Ewan McGregor - Golden space Needle award
• The trigger effect
• The Truth About Cats & Dogs
• Twister
• 2 Days in the Valley
• Unforgettable
• Up Close & Personal, starring Robert Redford and Michelle Pfeiffer
• Urban Safari
• Werewolf
• Welcome to the Dollhouse
• White Squall
• William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet
• The Wind in the Willows

Births

Deaths

• February 2 - Gene Kelly, actor
• February 6 - Guy Madison, actor
• February 11 - Phil Regan, singer, actor
• February 13 - Martin Balsam, actor
• February 15 - McLean Stevenson, American actor
• February 15 - Tommy Rettig, actor
• February 17 - Evelyn Laye, actress
• February 25 - Haing S. Ngor, actor
• March 2 - Lyle Talbot, actor
• March 9 - George Burns, actor
• March 13 - Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director
• March 17 - René Clément, French film director
• April 6 - Greer Garson, actress
• April 16 - Lucille Bremer, actress
• May 20 - Jon Pertwee, actor
• May 21 - Lash La Rue, cowboy actor
• June 7 - Max Factor, make-up artist and founder of Max Factor Cosmetics
• June 10 - Jo Van Fleet, actress
• June 11 - Brigitte Helm, German actress
• July 2 - Margaux Hemingway, model, actress
• July 30 - Claudette Colbert, actress
• September 7 - Bibi Besch, actress
• September 10 - Joanne Dru, actress
• September 13 - Tupac Shakur, rap singer/songwriter, actor
• September 14 - Juliet Prowse, dancer, actress
• September 18 - Annabella, actress
• September 22 - Dorothy Lamour, actress
• October 14 - Laura La Plante, actress
• October 31 - Marcel Carné, French film director
• November 14 - Virginia Cherrill, actress
• November 19 - Véra Korène, Russian born French actress
• December 8 - Howard E. Rollins Jr, actor
• December 19 - Marcello Mastroianni, actor
• December 30 - Lew Ayres, actor
• December 30 - Jack Nance, actor

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