1992 in film

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The year 1992 in film involved many significant films. (For more about films in foreign languages, check sources in those languages.)

Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films worldwide 3 Awards 4 Films released in 1992 5 Births 6 Deaths

Events

• January 12 - HAL 9000 is activated, the computer in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (fictional event: date taken from the film).

Top grossing films worldwide

1. Aladdin (Walt Disney Pictures)
2. The Bodyguard (Warner Bros.), starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston
3. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (Twentieth Century Fox), starring Macauley Culkin, Joe Pesci, and Daniel Stern (actor) & Catherine O'Hara
4. Basic Instinct (TriStar Pictures), starring Sharon Stone
5. Lethal Weapon 3 (Warner Bros.), starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover
6. Batman Returns (Warner Bros.), starring Michael Keaton
7. A Few Good Men (Columbia Pictures), starring Tom Cruise, Demi Moore and Jack Nicholson
8. Sister Act (Buena Vista Pictures), starring Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Smith & Kathy Najimy
9. Bram Stoker's Dracula (Columbia Pictures), starring Gary Oldman, Keanu Reeves, Anthony Hopkins and Winona Ryder
10. Wayne's World (Paramount Pictures), starring Michael Myers and Dana Carvey

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: Unforgiven - Malpaso Productions, Warner Bros.

Best Director: Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven

Best Actor: Al Pacino - Scent of a Woman

Best Actress: Emma Thompson - Howards End

Best Supporting Actor: Gene Hackman - Unforgiven

Best Supporting Actress: Marisa Tomei - My Cousin Vinny

Best Foreign Language Film: Indochine, directed by Régis Wargnier, France

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: Scent of a Woman

Best Actor: Al Pacino - Scent of a Woman

Best Actress: Emma Thompson - Howards End

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: The Player

Best Actor: Tim Robbins - The Player

Best Actress: Miranda Richardson - Enchanted April

Other

Best Director: Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven

Best Foreign Language Film: Indochine, France

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

The Best Intentions (Den goda viljan), directed by Bille August, Denmark

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

The Story of Qiu Ju (Qiu Ju da guan si), directed by Zhang Yimou, China / Hong Kong

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Grand Canyon, directed by Lawrence Kasdan, United States

Films released in 1992

• 1991: The Year Punk Broke
• Aces: Iron Eagle III
• Aladdin
• A League of Their Own
• Alien³
• American Me
• Army of Darkness
• Article 99
• The Babe
• Basic Instinct
• Batman Returns
• Bebe's Kids
• Beethoven
• Belle Époque (The Age of Beauty) - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (for 1993)
• The Best Intentions (Den goda viljan) - Palm d'Or award
• Blame It on the Bellboy
• The Bodyguard
• Boomerang
• Braindead
• Bram Stoker's Dracula
• Bridge, The
• Buffy The Vampire Slayer
• Candyman
• Captain Ron
• Carry On Columbus
• Chaplin
• Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
• City of Joy
• Class Act
• Consenting Adults
• Cool World
• Crisscross
• The Crying Game, directed by Neil Jordan
• The Cutting Edge
• Damage
• Death Becomes Her
• Deep Cover
• Diggstown
• The Distinguished Gentleman
• Dr. Giggles
• El Mariachi
• Enchanted April
• Evil Toons
• Far and Away
• A Few Good Men
• Final Analysis
• The Five Heartbeats
• Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives
• Forever Young
• 1492: Conquest of Paradise
• Freejack
• Gladiator (With Cuba Gooding Jr.)
• Glengarry Glen Ross
• For a Lost Soldier (Voor een verloren soldaat), director Roeland Kerbosch, starring Jeroen Krabbe, Maarten Smit and Andrew Kelley
• Godzilla vs. Mothra
• The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
• Hard-boiled
• Hero, starring Dustin Hoffman
• Hoffa
• Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
• Honey, I Blew Up the Kid
• Honeymoon In Vegas
• HouseSitter
• Howards End
• Husbands and Wives
• Indochine - Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
• Innocent Blood
• Jennifer Eight
• Juice
• Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.
• Kuffs
• Ladybugs
• The Last of the Mohicans
• The Lawnmower Man
• A League of Their Own, starring Geena Davis, Tom Hanks, Lori Petty, Madonna, Rosie O'Donnell, Garry Marshall
• Leap of Faith
• Lethal Weapon 3
• Light Sleeper
• Like Water For Chocolate
• Lorenzo's Oil
• Love Field, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Dennis Haysbert, with notable role by Rhoda Griffis as Jacqueline Kennedy
• Love Potion No. 9
• The Lover
• Mad at the Moon
• Malcolm X
• The Mambo Kings
• Man Trouble
• Memoirs of an Invisible Man, directed by John Carpenter, starring Chevy Chase, Daryl Hannah, Sam Neill and Michael McKean
• A Midnight Clear
• The Mighty Ducks
• Mo' Money
• Mr. Baseball
• Mr. Saturday Night
• My Cousin Vinny, starring Joe Pesci
• Newsies
• Night and the City
• Noises Off
• Of Mice and Men
• One False Move
• Only You
• Passenger 57
• Patriot Games
• Pet Sematary Two
• Pushing Hands
• The Player - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
• Porco Rosso
• Prelude To a Kiss
• Prom Night IV: Deliver us from Evil
• The Public Eye
• Radio Flyer
• Raising Cain
• Rapid Fire
• Reservoir Dogs
• A River Runs Through It
• Ruby
• Scent of a Woman - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Drama)
• School Ties
• Shakes the Clown
• Shining Through
• Single White Female
• Singles
• Sister Act
• Sleepwalkers (Based on a Stephen King novel)
• Sneakers
• Split Second
• Stay Tuned
• Stop, or My Mom Will Shoot!
• Storyville
• A Stranger Among Us
• Thunderheart
• The Story of Qiu Ju (Qiu Ju da guan si) - Golden Lion award
• Tom and Jerry: The Movie - Warner Brothers movie
• Toys
• Trespass
• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
• Under Siege
• Unforgiven, starring Clint Eastwood (also director), Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and Richard Harris - Academy Award for Best Picture
• Universal Soldier
• Unlawful Entry
• Waxwork II: Lost in Time
• The Waterdance
• Wayne's World
• White Men Can't Jump
• White Sands
• Wind
• Year of the Comet

Births

• January 19 - Logan Lerman, actor
• February 14 - Freddie Highmore, actor
• November 23 - Miley Cyrus, actress and singer

Deaths

• January 2 - Virginia Field, actress
• January 3 - Dame Judith Anderson, actress
• January 7 - Richard Hunt, actor and muppeter (The Muppet Movie, Follow That Bird)
• January 23 - Freddie Bartholomew, actor
• January 26 - José Ferrer, actor
• February 11 - Ray Danton, US actor/director
• March 2 - Sandy Dennis, actress
• March 29 - Paul Henreid, actor, director
• April 22 - Steffi Duna, actress
• April 23 - Satyajit Ray, Indian filmmaker
• April 29 - Mae Clarke, actress
• May 6 - Marlene Dietrich, actress
• May 17 - George Hurrell, photographer
• May 17 - Lawrence Welk, musician, television and film actor
• June 3 - Robert Morley, actor
• July 24 - Arletty, actress
• July 30 - Brenda Marshall, actress
• September 12 - Anthony Perkins, actor
• September 18 - Lona Andre, actress
• October 6 - Denholm Elliott, actor
• October 16 - Shirley Booth, actress
• October 22 - Cleavon Little, actor
• November 2 - Hal Roach, producer/director
• November 19 - Diane Varsi, actress
• December 9 - Vincent Gardenia, actor
• December 17 - Dana Andrews, actor
• December 24 - Pierre Culliford, also known as "Peyo". Belgian Creator of The Smurfs