1991 in film

The year 1991 in film involved some significant events.

Highest-grossing films

The top ten films released in 1991 by worldwide gross are as follows:

Events

• April 28 - Bonnie Raitt marries actor Michael O'Keefe in New York
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day became one of the landmarks for science fiction action films with its groundbreaking visual effects from Industrial Light & Magic.
• Sony Pictures Entertainment is formed, acquiring Columbia Pictures Industries. As a result of this new formation, Tri-Star Pictures drops the hyphen from its name and becomes TriStar Pictures, while RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video becomes Columbia-TriStar Home Video.
• November 22 - Walt Disney Pictures releases Beauty and the Beast, which became one of the most prestigious and greatest animated and romantic films in cinema history and went on to become the first animated film in history to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture of the Year.

Awards

Academy Awards Golden Globe Awards

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Barton Fink, directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, United States

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Close To Eden (Urga), directed by Nikita Mikhalkov, France / USSR

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

La Casa del sorriso (The House of Smiles), directed by Marco Ferreri, Italy

1991 Wide-release films

Januaryâ€"March

Aprilâ€"June

Julyâ€"September

Octoberâ€"December

Notable films released in 1991

U.S.A. unless stated

#

• 29th Street, starring Danny Aiello and Anthony LaPaglia

A-D

A

• Across the Tracks, starring Ricky Schroder and Brad Pitt
• The Addams Family, directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, starring Raúl Juliá, Anjelica Huston, Christopher Lloyd, Christina Ricci
• The Adjuster, directed by Atom Egoyan, starring Elias Koteas - (Canada)
• Afraid of the Dark (aka Double Vue), starring James Fox and Fanny Ardant - (U.K./France)
• All I Want for Christmas, starring Thora Birch and Lauren Bacall
• Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (aka The Lovers on the Bridge), starring Juliette Binoche - (France)
• Anna Karamazoff, starring Jeanne Moreau - (U.S.S.R.)
• An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
• Another You, starring Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, Mercedes Ruehl
• Armour of God II: Operation Condor (Fei ying gai wak), starring Jackie Chan - (Hong Kong)
• The Assassin of the Tsar (Tsareubiytsa) - (U.S.S.R.)
• At Play in the Fields of the Lord, starring Tom Berenger, Aidan Quinn, Daryl Hannah, John Lithgow, Tom Waits, Kathy Bates

B

• Backdraft, directed by Ron Howard, starring Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Robert De Niro, Donald Sutherland, Scott Glenn, Jennifer Jason Leigh
• The Ballad of the Sad Café, directed by Simon Callow, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Keith Carradine - (U.K.)
• Barton Fink, directed by The Coen brothers, starring John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis, John Mahoney, Michael Lerner - Palme d'Or award
• Beauty and the Beast
• La Belle Noiseuse (The Beautiful Troublemaker), directed by Jacques Rivette, starring Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin and Emmanuelle Béart - (France)
• Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter
• Billy Bathgate, directed by Robert Benton, starring Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, Loren Dean, Steven Hill, Bruce Willis
• Bingo, starring Cindy Williams
• Black Robe, directed by Bruce Beresford - (Canada/Australia)
• Blue Desert, starring Courteney Cox
• Body Parts, starring Jeff Fahey and Kim Delaney
• The Borrower, directed by John McNaughton, starring Rae Dawn Chong and Don Gordon
• Boyz n the Hood, directed by John Singleton, starring Cuba Gooding, Jr., Ice Cube, Morris Chestnut, Laurence Fishburne
• A Brighter Summer Day (Gu ling jie shao nian sha ren shi jian), directed by Edward Yang - (Taiwan)
• Brother Future
• Bugsy, directed by Barry Levinson, starring Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel, Ben Kingsley, Joe Mantegna - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Drama)
• The Butcher's Wife, starring Demi Moore and Jeff Daniels
• By the Sword, starring Eric Roberts and F. Murray Abraham

C

• Cabeza de Vaca - (Mexico)
• Cape Fear, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis, Illeana Douglas, Joe Don Baker
• Chains of Gold, starring John Travolta, Héctor Elizondo, Benjamin Bratt
• Child's Play 3, directed by Jack Bender, starring Justin Whalin
• City of Hope, directed by John Sayles, starring Chris Cooper, Joe Morton, Vincent Spano, Angela Bassett
• City Slickers, directed by Ron Underwood, starring Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Bruno Kirby, Helen Slater, Jack Palance
• Class Action, directed by Michael Apted, starring Gene Hackman and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
• Close My Eyes, starring Alan Rickman and Clive Owen - (U.K.)
• Close To Eden (Urga) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Closet Land, starring Madeleine Stowe and Alan Rickman
• Cold Heaven, starring Theresa Russell and Mark Harmon
• Cold Moon (Lune Froide) - (France)
• The Commitments, directed by Alan Parker, starring Robert Arkins, Colm Meaney, Andrew Strong - (Ireland/U.S.A./U.K.)
• Company Business, starring Gene Hackman and Mikhail Baryshnikov
• Confesión a Laura (Confessing to Laura) - (Colombia)
• Controlled Conversations (Rozmowy kontrolowane) - (Poland)
• Cool As Ice, starring Vanilla Ice and Kristin Minter
• Cup Final (×'מר ×'×'×™×¢, gmar gavi'a) - (Israel)
• Curly Sue, starring James Belushi, Kelly Lynch and Alisan Porter

D

• The Dark Backward, starring Judd Nelson, James Caan, Wayne Newton
• The Dark Wind, starring Lou Diamond Phillips
• Dead Again, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh, with Emma Thompson, Andy García, Robin Williams
• Deceived, starring Goldie Hawn and John Heard
• December Bride, starring Saskia Reeves, Donal McCann, Ciarán Hinds - (Ireland)
• Defending Your Life, directed by and starring Albert Brooks, with Meryl Streep, Rip Torn, Lee Grant
• Defenseless, starring Barbara Hershey and Sam Shepard
• Delicatessen, directed by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet - (France)
• Delirious, starring John Candy and Mariel Hemingway
• Dingo, starring Colin Friels - (Australia)
• Doc Hollywood, starring Michael J. Fox, Julie Warner, Woody Harrelson, Bridget Fonda
• The Doctor, starring William Hurt, Christine Lahti, Mandy Patinkin, Adam Arkin, Elizabeth Perkins
• Dogfight, starring River Phoenix
• Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, starring Christina Applegate
• The Doors, directed by Oliver Stone, starring Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Kyle MacLachlan, Frank Whaley, Kathleen Quinlan
• Double Impact, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme
• The Double Life of Véronique (La double vie de Véronique) or (Podwójne życie Weroniki) - (France/Poland)
• Drop Dead Fred, starring Phoebe Cates and Rik Mayall
• Dutch, starring Ed O'Neill and Ethan Embry
• Dying Young, starring Julia Roberts and Campbell Scott

E-K

E

• Edge of Honor, starring Corey Feldman
• Edward II, directed by Derek Jarman - (U.K.)
• The Elementary School (Obecná Å¡kola) - (Czechoslovakia)
• Ernest Scared Stupid, starring Jim Varney and Eartha Kitt
• Europa, directed by Lars von Trier - (Denmark/Germany/Sweden)
• Eve Of Destruction, starring Gregory Hines and Renée Soutendijk
• Eyes of an Angel, starring John Travolta

F

• F/X2, starring Bryan Brown and Brian Dennehy
• Father of the Bride, directed by Charles Shyer, starring Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, Martin Short, Kimberly Williams, George Newbern
• Fight Back to School (Tao xue wei long), directed by Gordon Chan - (Hong Kong)
• Final Approach, starring Héctor Elizondo
• Fire! (Ta Dona) - (Mali)
• The Fisher King, directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, Mercedes Ruehl, Amanda Plummer
• The Five Heartbeats, directed by Robert Townsend, starring Robert Townsend, Michael Wright, Leon Robinson
• Flight of the Intruder, starring Danny Glover and Willem Dafoe
• Flirting, starring Noah Taylor, Thandie Newton and Nicole Kidman - (Australia)
• For The Boys, directed by Mark Rydell, starring Bette Midler, James Caan, Arye Gross, Arliss Howard, George Segal
• Frankie and Johnny, directed by Garry Marshall, starring Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kate Nelligan, Héctor Elizondo
• Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
• Fried Green Tomatoes, directed by Jon Avnet, starring Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker
• The Frontier (La Frontera) - (Chile)

G

• Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (Gojira tai Kingu Gidora) - (Japan)
• Grand Canyon, directed by Lawrence Kasdan, starring Danny Glover, Steve Martin, Alfre Woodard, Kevin Kline
• The Grass Arena, starring Mark Rylance and Pete Postlethwaite - (U.K.)
• Guilty by Suspicion, directed by Irwin Winkler, starring Robert De Niro, Annette Bening, Patricia Wettig, George Wendt

H

• Happy Days (Schastlivye dni) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Hard Promises, starring Sissy Spacek and William Petersen
• The Hard Way, directed by John Badham, starring Michael J. Fox and James Woods
• Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, starring Mickey Rourke and Don Johnson
• Hear My Song, starring Adrian Dunbar, David McCallum, Ned Beatty - (U.K.)
• He Said, She Said, starring Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth Perkins
• High Heels (Tacones lejanos), directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Marisa Paredes - (Spain)
• Highlander II: The Quickening, starring Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Virginia Madsen and Michael Ironside
• Highway 61 - (Canada)
• The Hitman, starring Chuck Norris
• Hook, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Julia Roberts, Bob Hoskins
• Hot Shots!, directed by Jim Abrahams, starring Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino, Lloyd Bridges
• The Hours and Times
• The House of Smiles (La casa del sorriso), starring Ingrid Thulin - (Italy)
• Hudson Hawk, starring Bruce Willis, Danny Aiello, Andie MacDowell, Sandra Bernhard, Richard E. Grant, James Coburn
• Hum (Us) - (India)

I

• I Don't Kiss (J'embrasse pas), directed by André Téchiné, starring Manuel Blanc, Philippe Noiret, Emmanuelle Béart - (France)
• If Looks Could Kill, starring Richard Grieco
• Impromptu, starring Judy Davis and Hugh Grant - (U.K./France)
• The Indian Runner, directed by Sean Penn, starring Viggo Mortensen and David Morse
• The Inner Circle, directed by Andrei Konchalovsky - (U.S.A./Italy/U.S.S.R.)

J

• JFK, directed by Oliver Stone, starring Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman, Joe Pesci, Laurie Metcalf, Sissy Spacek, Kevin Bacon, John Candy
• Jacquot de Nantes, directed by Agnès Varda - (France)
• Johnny Stecchino, directed by and starring Roberto Benigni - (Italy)
• Johnny Suede, starring Brad Pitt
• Jungle Fever, directed by Spike Lee, starring Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra and John Turturro

K

• K2, directed by Franc Roddam - (U.K./Japan/U.S.A.)
• Kafka, directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring Jeremy Irons, Theresa Russell, Ian Holm
• King Ralph, starring John Goodman and Peter O'Toole
• A Kiss Before Dying, starring Matt Dillon and Sean Young

L-Q

L

• L.A. Story, directed by Mick Jackson, starring Steve Martin, Victoria Tennant, Richard E. Grant, Marilu Henner, Sarah Jessica Parker
• Lamhe (Moments), starring Anil Kapoor and Sridevi - (India)
• The Last Boy Scout, directed by Tony Scott, starring Bruce Willis and Damon Wayans
• Lee Rock (Wu yi tan zhang), starring Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and Andy Lau - (Hong Kong)
• Let Him Have It, starring Christopher Eccleston - (U.K.)
• Life, and Nothing More... (Zendegi va digar hich), directed by Abbas Kiarostami - (Iran)
• Life is Sweet, directed by Mike Leigh, starring Jim Broadbent and Jane Horrocks - (U.K.)
• Life on a String (Bian zou bian chang), directed by Chen Kaige - (China)
• Life Stinks, directed by and starring Mel Brooks, with Lesley Ann Warren, Jeffrey Tambor, Howard Morris
• The Linguini Incident, starring Rosanna Arquette and David Bowie
• The Little Engine That Could
• Little Man Tate, directed by and starring Jodie Foster, with Dianne Wiest, Harry Connick, Jr., Adam Hann-Byrd
• Love Hurts, directed by Bud Yorkin, starring Jeff Daniels, John Mahoney, Judith Ivey
• Love in the Time of Hysteria (Sólo Con Tu Pareja) - (Mexico)
• Lovers (Amantes) - (Spain)

M

• Madame Bovary, directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Isabelle Huppert - (France)
• The Man in the Moon, starring Reese Witherspoon, Jason London, Sam Waterston, Tess Harper
• The Marrying Man, starring Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Elisabeth Shue, Robert Loggia, Fisher Stevens, Paul Reiser
• Mayrig, directed by Henri Verneuil, starring Richard Berry, Claudia Cardinale, Omar Sharif - (France)
• McBain, starring Christopher Walken
• Mediterraneo - (Italy)
• Meet the Applegates, starring Ed Begley, Jr. and Stockard Channing
• The Miracle, directed by Neil Jordan, starring Beverly D'Angelo
• Mississippi Masala, directed by Mira Nair, starring Denzel Washington
• Mobsters, starring Christian Slater, Patrick Dempsey, Richard Grieco, Costas Mandylor
• Mortal Thoughts, starring Demi Moore, Glenne Headly, Bruce Willis, John Pankow, Harvey Keitel
• My Best Friend, General Vasili, Son of Joseph Stalin (Moy luchshiy drug, general Vasiliy, syn Iosifa) - (U.S.S.R.)
• My Girl, starring Anna Chlumsky, Macaulay Culkin, Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis
• My Own Private Idaho, directed by Gus Van Sant, starring River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves
• My Sons (musuko) - Japan Academy Prize for Picture of the Year - (Japan)
• Mystery Date, starring Ethan Hawke - (U.S.A./Canada)

N

• The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear, directed by David Zucker, starring Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, Robert Goulet
• Naked Lunch, directed by David Cronenberg, starring Peter Weller and Judy Davis - (Canada/U.K./Japan)
• Necessary Roughness, starring Scott Bakula, Héctor Elizondo, Harley Jane Kozak, Kathy Ireland
• New Jack City, starring Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Mario Van Peebles, Judd Nelson
• Night on Earth, starring Gena Rowlands and Winona Ryder
• Njan Gandharvan (I, Celestial Lover) - (India)
• Not Without My Daughter, starring Sally Field and Alfred Molina
• Nothing But Trouble, starring Chevy Chase, Demi Moore, Dan Aykroyd, John Candy

O

• The Object of Beauty, starring John Malkovich and Andie MacDowell
• Once A Thief (Zong heng si hai), directed by John Woo, starring Chow Yun-fat and Leslie Cheung - (Hong Kong)
• Once Around, starring Holly Hunter, Richard Dreyfuss, Danny Aiello, Gena Rowlands
• Once Upon a Time in China (Wong Fei Hung), starring Jet Li - (Hong Kong)
• One Good Cop, starring Michael Keaton and Rene Russo
• Only The Lonely, directed by Chris Columbus, starring John Candy, Ally Sheedy, Maureen O'Hara, James Belushi, Anthony Quinn
• Oscar, directed by John Landis, starring Sylvester Stallone, Marisa Tomei, Vincent Spano, Peter Riegert, Linda Gray, Tim Curry
• Other People's Money, directed by Norman Jewison, starring Danny DeVito, Gregory Peck, Piper Laurie, Penelope Ann Miller, Dean Jones
• Out for Justice, starring Steven Seagal
• Out of Life (Hors la vie), directed by Maroun Bagdadi, starring Hippolyte Girardot - (France)
• The Ox (Oxen), directed by Sven Nykvist, starring Stellan SkarsgÃ¥rd - (Sweden)

P-Q

• Pappa Ante Portas - (Germany)
• Paradise, starring Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson
• Paris Trout, starring Dennis Hopper, Barbara Hershey and Ed Harris
• Pastime, starring William Russ, Glenn Plummer, Jeffrey Tambor
• Paths of Death and Angels (Halálutak és angyalok) - (Hungary)
• The People Under the Stairs, directed by Wes Craven, starring Brandon Adams and Ving Rhames
• The Perfect Weapon, starring Jeff Speakman
• Point Break, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, starring Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves and Gary Busey
• Poison
• The Prince of Tides, directed by and starring Barbra Streisand, with Nick Nolte, Blythe Danner, Melinda Dillon, Jason Gould, George Carlin
• Proof, starring Hugo Weaving and Russell Crowe - (Australia)
• Prospero's Books, directed by Peter Greenaway, starring John Gielgud - (U.K./France)
• Pure Luck, starring Danny Glover and Martin Short
• Queens Logic, starring Kevin Bacon, Joe Mantegna, John Malkovich, Jamie Lee Curtis, Linda Fiorentino, Chloe Webb
• Quiet Days in August (Isyhes meres tou Avgoustou) - (Greece)

R-Y

R

• A Rage in Harlem, directed by Bill Duke, starring Forest Whitaker, Gregory Hines, Robin Givens
• Raise the Red Lantern (Dà Hóng DÄ"nglóng Gāogāo Guà), directed by Zhang Yimou, starring Gong Li - (China/Hong Kong/Taiwan)
• Rambling Rose, directed by Martha Coolidge, starring Laura Dern, Robert Duvall, Diane Ladd, Lukas Haas
• The Rapture, directed by Michael Tolkin, starring Mimi Rogers, David Duchovny, Will Patton
• Regarding Henry, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Harrison Ford and Annette Bening
• Requiem pro panenku (Requiem for a Maiden) - (Czechoslovakia)
• Return to the Blue Lagoon, starring Milla Jovovich and Brian Krause
• Rhapsody in August (Hachigatsu no rapusodÄ«), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Richard Gere - (Japan)
• Ricochet, starring Denzel Washington, John Lithgow, Lindsay Wagner, Ice-T
• Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (Lik Wong) - (Hong Kong)
• Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, starring Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Alan Rickman, Christian Slater
• The Rocketeer, starring Billy Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Timothy Dalton, Alan Arkin, Paul Sorvino
• Rover Dangerfield, an animated film starring Rodney Dangerfield
• Run, starring Patrick Dempsey
• Rush, starring Jason Patric and Jennifer Jason Leigh

S

• Saajan, starring Sanjay Dutt and Salman Khan - (India)
• Sadak, starring Sanjay Dutt and Pooja Bhatt - (India)
• A Scene at the Sea (Ano natsu, ichiban shizukana umi), directed by Takeshi Kitano - (Japan)
• Scenes from a Mall, directed by Paul Mazursky, starring Woody Allen and Bette Midler
• Scorchers, starring Faye Dunaway and James Earl Jones
• The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, starring Lily Tomlin
• Sebastian Star Bear: First Mission (Beertje Sebastiaan: De Geheime Opdracht) - (Netherlands)
• Shadows and Fog, directed by and starring Woody Allen with Mia Farrow, John Malkovich, John Cusack, Madonna
• Shattered, directed by Wolfgang Petersen, starring Tom Berenger, Greta Scacchi, Bob Hoskins
• Showdown in Little Tokyo, starring Dolph Lundgren and Brandon Lee
• The Silence of the Lambs, directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine, Anthony Heald, Diane Baker
• Silver Stallion (Eunma neun oji anhneunda) - (South Korea)
• Slacker, directed by and starring Richard Linklater
• Sleeping with the Enemy starring Julia Roberts, Patrick Bergin, Kevin Anderson
• Soapdish, directed by Michael Hoffman, starring Sally Field, Kevin Kline, Robert Downey, Jr., Elisabeth Shue, Whoopi Goldberg
• Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Christopher Plummer, Kim Cattrall, Brock Peters, Iman
• Stepping Out, starring Liza Minnelli, Julie Walters, Jane Krakowski, Andrea Martin, Bill Irwin, Shelley Winters
• Stone Cold, starring Brian Bosworth
• Strictly Business, starring Tommy Davidson and Halle Berry
• Suburban Commando, starring Hulk Hogan, Christopher Lloyd, Shelley Duvall
• The Super, starring Joe Pesci
• The Suspended Step of the Stork (To meteoro vima tou pelargou), starring Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau - (Greece)
• Switch, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Ellen Barkin, Jimmy Smits, Lorraine Bracco
• Swordsmen in Double Flag Town (Shuang-Qi-Zhen daoke) - (China)

T

• Talent for the Game, starring Edward James Olmos, Lorraine Bracco, Terry Kinney
• The Taking of Beverly Hills, starring Ken Wahl and Harley Jane Kozak
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day, directed by James Cameron, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick, Edward Furlong
• Thelma & Louise, directed by Ridley Scott, starring Geena Davis, Susan Sarandon, Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen, Brad Pitt
• Together Alone
• Toto the Hero (Toto le Héros) - (Belgium)
• Tous les Matins du Monde (All the Mornings of the World), starring Jean-Pierre Marielle and Gérard Depardieu - (France)
• Towards Evening (Verso sera), starring Marcello Mastroianni and Sandrine Bonnaire - (Italy)
• Toy Soldiers, starring Sean Astin, Wil Wheaton, Louis Gossett, Jr., Denholm Elliott
• Tricky Brains (Jing gu jyun ga), starring Andy Lau - (Hong Kong)
• True Colors, starring John Cusack and James Spader
• Truth or Dare, a documentary on Madonna

U-V

• Ultra, directed by Ricky Tognazzi - (Italy)
• Under Suspicion, starring Liam Neeson and Laura San Giacomo
• Until the End of the World (Bis ans Ende der Welt), directed by Wim Wenders, starring William Hurt, Solveig Dommartin, Sam Neill - (Germany/France/Australia)
• Van Gogh, directed by Maurice Pialat - (France)
• Victim of Love, starring Pierce Brosnan, Virginia Madsen, JoBeth Williams
• V.I. Warshawski, starring Kathleen Turner
• Voyager, starring Sam Shepard and Julie Delpy - (Germany)

W

• What About Bob?, directed by Frank Oz, starring Bill Murray, Richard Dreyfuss, Julie Hagerty, Charlie Korsmo, Kathryn Erbe
• Where Angels Fear to Tread, starring Helena Bonham Carter, Rupert Graves, Judy Davis - (U.K.)
• White Fang, starring Ethan Hawke and Klaus Maria Brandauer
• Whore, starring Theresa Russell
• Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken, starring Gabrielle Anwar
• Woman of the Port (La mujer del puerto) - (Mexico)
• A Woman's Tale - (Australia)

Y

• Year of the Gun, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Andrew McCarthy, Valeria Golino, Sharon Stone
• The Yes Man (Il Portaborse) - (Italy)
• Yumeji, directed by Seijun Suzuki - (Japan)

Births

• Britt McKillip, January 18, actress, singer
• Erin Sanders, January 19 American actress
• Brittany Tiplady, January 21, Canadian actress
• Calum Worthy, January 28, Canadian actor, musician
• Emma Roberts, February 10, actress
• Bonnie Wright, February 17, actress
• Malese Jow, February 18, actress
• Sarah Bolger, February 28, Irish actress
• Tyler, The Creator, March 6, rapper
• Devon Werkheiser, March 8, actor
• Domo Genesis, March 9, rapper
• Seychelle Gabriel, March 25, actress
• Amy Bruckner, March 28, actress
• Jamie Lynn Spears, April 4, actress
• AJ Michalka, April 10, singer actress
• Sarah Ramos, May 21, actress
• Willa Holland, June 18, actress
• Addison Timlin, June 29, actress
• Jason Dolley, July 5, actor
• Victoire Thivisol, July 6, actress
• Keith Stanfield, August 12, actor
• Evanna Lynch, August 16, actress
• Skandar Keynes, September 5, actor
• Spencer Locke, September 20, actress
• Roshon Fegan, October 6, American actor, dancer, and rapper
• Sophie Oda, October 23, actress
• Jordan-Claire Green, October 31, actress
• Riker Lynch, November 8, actor, singer, musician
• Christa B. Allen, November 11, actress
• Shailene Woodley, November 15, actress

Notable deaths

Film debuts

• Halle Berry - Jungle Fever
• Steve Carell - Curly Sue
• James Caviezel - My Own Private Idaho
• Morris Chestnut - Boyz n the Hood
• Clifton Collins, Jr. - Grand Canyon
• Ice Cube - Boyz n the Hood
• Leonardo DiCaprio - Critters 3
• Brendan Fraser - Dogfight
• Edward Furlong - Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• Janeane Garofalo - Late for Dinner
• Jake Gyllenhaal - City Slickers
• Philip Seymour Hoffman - Triple Bogey on a Par Five Hole
• Regina King - Boyz n the Hood
• Queen Latifah - Jungle Fever
• Denis Leary - Strictly Business
• Téa Leoni - Switch
• Julianna Margulies - Out for Justice
• Breckin Meyer - Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
• Thandie Newton - Flirting
• Marley Shelton - Grand Canyon
• Jeremy Sisto - Grand Canyon
• Gwyneth Paltrow - Shout
• Isaiah Washington - The Color of Love
• Kimberly Williams - Father of the Bride
• Reese Witherspoon - The Man in the Moon

References