| List of years in film (Table) |
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| … 1979 . 1980 . 1981 . 1982 . 1983 . 1984 . 1985 … 1986 1987 1988 -1989- 1990 1991 1992 … 1993 . 1994 . 1995 . 1996 . 1997 . 1998 . 1999 … In home video: 1986 1987 1988 -1989- 1990 1991 1992 In television: 1986 1987 1988 -1989- 1990 1991 1992 |
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| … 1986 . 1987 . 1988 - 1989 - 1990 . 1991 . 1992 … … 1950s . 1960s . 1970s -1980s- 1990s . 2000s . 2010s … … 19th century . 20th century . 21st century … |
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| 1870s |
| 1880s |
| 1890s |
| 1890 • 1891 • 1892 • 1893 • 1894 1895 • 1896 • 1897 • 1898 • 1899 |
| 1900s |
| 1900 • 1901 • 1902 • 1903 • 1904 1905 • 1906 • 1907 • 1908 • 1909 |
| 1910s |
| 1910 • 1911 • 1912 • 1913 • 1914 1915 • 1916 • 1917 • 1918 • 1919 |
| 1920s |
| 1920 • 1921 • 1922 • 1923 • 1924 1925 • 1926 • 1927 • 1928 • 1929 |
| 1930s |
| 1930 • 1931 • 1932 • 1933 • 1934 1935 • 1936 • 1937 • 1938 • 1939 |
| 1940s |
| 1940 • 1941 • 1942 • 1943 • 1944 1945 • 1946 • 1947 • 1948 •1949 |
| 1950s |
| 1950 • 1951 • 1952 • 1953 • 1954 1955 • 1956 • 1957 • 1958 • 1959 |
| 1960s |
| 1960 • 1961 • 1962 • 1963 • 1964 1965 • 1966 • 1967 • 1968 • 1969 |
| 1970s |
| 1970 • 1971 • 1972 • 1973 • 1974 1975 • 1976 • 1977 • 1978 • 1979 |
| 1980s |
| 1980 • 1981 • 1982 • 1983 • 1984 1985 • 1986 • 1987 • 1988 • 1989 |
| 1990s |
| 1990 • 1991 • 1992 • 1993 • 1994 1995 • 1996 • 1997 • 1998 • 1999 |
| 2000s |
| 2000 • 2001 • 2002 • 2003 • 2004 2005 • 2006 • 2007 • 2008 • 2009 |
Contents |
Events
- Actress Kim Basinger and her brother Mick purchase Braselton, Georgia for $20 million. (Basinger would lose the town to her partner in the deal, the pension fund of Chicago-based Ameritech Corp., in 1993 after being forced to file for bankruptcy when a California judge ordered her to pay $7.4 million for refusing to honor a verbal contract to star in the movie Boxing Helena.)
- February - Filming begins on Back to the Future Part II
- June - Filming of Back to the Future Part II is completed
- June 23 - The movie Batman is released in the United States.
- August - Filming begins on Back to the Future Part III
- September - Christina Applegate moves to college
- September - Columbia Pictures and Tri-Star Pictures are sold to Sony
- December - Filming of Back to the Future Part III is completed
- The James Bond film Licence to Kill is released. Unknown to anyone at the time, its release would be followed by years of legal wrangling over the future of the popular film series. The next Bond film, GoldenEye, will not be released until 1995. While still considered parts of the same series, Licence to Kill is considered the last of the "old-style" Bond films as produced since 1962.
- Screen and stage legend Sir Laurence Olivier appeared in his last filmed role before his death in 1989 as an old soldier in War Requiem
Top grossing films
- Batman, directed by Tim Burton, starring Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson and Kim Basinger
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, starring Harrison Ford
- Lethal Weapon 2, starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover
- Look Who's Talking, starring Kirstie Alley, John Travolta, Olympia Dukakis,
- Twins, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Kelly Preston
- Back to the Future Part II, starring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd and Lea Thompson
- Ghostbusters II, starring Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray
- The Little Mermaid
- Driving Miss Daisy, starring Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman, Dan Aykroyd, Esther Rolle
- Parenthood, starring Steve Martin
- Tango & Cash, starring Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Teri Hatcher
- The War of the Roses, starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito
- Steel Magnolias, starring Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine
- Christmas Vacation, starring Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo,Brian Doyle-Murray, E. G. Marshall
- Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Deforest Kelley
Awards
- Best Picture: Driving Miss Daisy - Majestic Films International, Zanuck Company., Warner Bros.
- Best Director: Oliver Stone - Born on the Fourth of July
- Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis - My Left Foot
- Best Actress: Jessica Tandy - Driving Miss Daisy
- Best Supporting Actor: Denzel Washington - Glory
- Best Supporting Actress: Brenda Fricker - My Left Foot
- Best Foreign Language Film: Nuovo cinema Paradiso (Cinema Paradiso), directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, Italy
- Best Art Direction/Set Decoration: Anton Furst and Peter Young - Batman
- Drama:
- Best Picture: Born on the Fourth of July
- Best Actor: Tom Cruise - Born on the Fourth of July
- Best Actress: Michelle Pfeiffer - The Fabulous Baker Boys
- Musical or comedy:
- Best Picture: Driving Miss Daisy
- Best Actor: Morgan Freeman - Driving Miss Daisy
- Best Actress: Jessica Tandy - Driving Miss Daisy
- Other
- Best Director: Oliver Stone, Born on the Fourth of July
- Best Foreign Language Film: Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (Cinema Paradiso), Italy
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
- Sex, lies, and videotape, directed by Steven Soderbergh, United States
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
- A City of Sadness (Beiqing chengshi), directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien, China
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
- Rain Man, directed by Barry Levinson, United States
Films released in 1989
- 84 Charlie Mopic
- The Abyss
- All Dogs Go To Heaven
- Apartment Zero, directed by Martin Donovan - Golden Space Needle award
- Back to the Future Part II
- Batman
- Bert Rigby, You're a Fool
- Best of the Best
- Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
- Born on the Fourth of July - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Drama)
- The 'Burbs
- Buy and Cell
- Cameron's Closet
- Casualties of War
- Chances Are
- Checking Out
- Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso) - Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
- A City of Sadness (Beiqing chengshi) - Golden Lion award
- Cohen & Tate
- Cold Feet
- The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
- Cousins
- Criminal Law
- Crusoe
- Cyborg
- The Dawning
- Dead Bang
- Dead Calm
- Dead Poets' Society
- Deepstar Six
- Dimenticare Palermo
- Disorganized Crime
- Do the Right Thing
- The Dream Team
- The Dressmaker
- Driving Miss Daisy - Academy and Golden Globe (com./mus.) Awards for Best Picture
- Drugstore Cowboy
- Edge of Sanity
- The Experts
- Farewell to the King
- Fat Man and Little Boy
- Field of Dreams
- Fletch Lives
- The Fly II
- For Queen and Country
- Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
- Getting It Right
- Ghostbusters II
- Gleaming the Cube
- Glory
- Great Balls of Fire! the Jerry Lee Lewis Story
- Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
- Hard Times
- Heart of Midnight
- Heathers
- Henry V, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh
- Her Alibi
- Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
- Horror Show
- How I Got Into College
- How to Get Ahead in Advertising
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Jacknife
- The January Man
- Jesus of Montreal
- K-9
- Kiki's Delivery Service (orig. release in Japan)
- Killing Dad
- Lauderdale
- Lean on Me
- Leningrad Cowboys Go America, directed by Aki Kaurismäki, starring Leningrad Cowboys
- Lethal Weapon 2
- Licence to Kill, from the James Bond series
- Listen to Me
- The Little Mermaid
- Look Who's Talking
- Major League
- Meet the Feebles
- Meet the Hollowheads
- Miss Firecracker
- Music Box - Golden Bear award (for 1990)
- My 20th Century
- My Left Foot
- My Mom's A Werewolf
- Mystery Train
- New York Stories (three short films:)
- Life Lessons, directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Richard Price
- Life Without Zoe, directed and written by Francis Ford Coppola, co-written by Sofia Coppola
- Oedipus Wrecks, directed and written by Woody Allen.
- Night Game
- A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
- No Holds Barred
- Nowhere to Run
- Parenthood
- Pet Sematary
- Penn & Teller Get Killed
- Prom Night III: The Last Kiss
- The Punisher
- Return To Paradise
- Roger & Me
- Rosalie Goes Shopping
- Sex, lies, and videotape - Palm d'Or award
- She's Out of Control
- Signs of Life
- Skin Deep
- Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland
- Society
- Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
- Teen Witch
- The Toxic Avenger Part II
- The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie
- True Love - won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival
- Turner & Hooch
- UHF, starring "Weird Al" Yankovic
- Uncle Buck, starring John Candy
- War Requiem, starring Sir Laurence Olivier in his final role.
- The War of the Roses, starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner
- Weekend at Bernie's
- When Harry Met Sally...
- White Hot aka Crack in the Mirror
- The Wizard
Births
- January 3 - Alex D. Linz, actor
- February 5 - Jessica Sumpter, actress
- February 5 - Jeremy Sumpter, actor
- February 13 - Carly McKillip, actress, singer
- February 16 - Elizabeth Olsen, actress
- March 5 - Jake Lloyd, actor
- March 15 - Caitlin Wachs, American actress
- April 18 - Alia Shawkat, American actress
- April 20 - Alex Black, American actor
- June 23 - Anton Yelchin, Russian actor
- June 27 - Matthew Lewis, British actor
- July 14 - Javier Zamora,
- July 23 - Daniel Radcliffe, actor
- August 21 - Hayden Panettiere, American actress
- September 15 - Connor Sisson, Canadian actor, and director
- December 12 - Harry Eden, British actor
Deaths
- January 20 - Beatrice Lillie, actress
- February 3 - Lionel Newman, composer
- February 3 - John Cassavetes, actor, director
- February 11 - George O'Hanlon, actor/director
- February 17 - Marguerite Roberts, writer
- March 27 - May Allison, actress
- April 26 - Lucille Ball, film and television actress
- April 30 - Sergio Leone, Italian Western director
- May 20 - Gilda Radner, actress
- June 27 - Jack Buetel, actor
- June 28 - Joris Ivens, filmmaker
- July 3 - Jim Backus, actor
- July 10 - Mel Blanc, voice actor
- July 11 - Lord Laurence Olivier, Legendary English stage and screen actor
- August 16 - Amanda Blake, actress
- October 4 - Graham Chapman, comedian
- October 6 - Bette Davis, actress
- October 16 - Cornel Wilde, actor
- October 20 - Anthony Quayle, actor
- November 20 - Lynn Bari, actress
- December 16 - Aileen Pringle, actress
- December 16 - Silvana Mangano, actress
- December 16 - Lee Van Cleef, actor
