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The year 1996 in film involved some significant events.
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Events
For films, 1996 was the year of The English Patient, Independence Day, Twister, Scream, 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. | Mission: Impossible | Paramount Pictures | $457,696,359 |
| 4. | The Rock | Hollywood Pictures | $335,062,621 |
| 5. | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Disney | $325,338,851 |
| 6. | 101 Dalmatians | Buena Vista | $320,689,294 |
| 7. | Ransom | Buena Vista | $309,492,681 |
| 8. | The Nutty Professor | Universal | $273,921,019 |
| 9. | Jerry Maguire | TriStar Pictures | $273,552,592 |
| 10. | Eraser | Warner Bros. | $242,295,562 |
in total 33 movies gross more than 100,000,000 and 3 movies gross more than 400,000,000
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
- 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
- Comrades: Almost a Love Story, 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 Crow: City of Angels
- The Crucible
- D3: The Mighty Ducks
- 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
- Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story, 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
- Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
- 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
- Looking for Richard
- 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
- Mission: Impossible
- Mother
- Mr. Wrong
- Mulholland Falls
- Multiplicity
- Muppet Treasure Island
- My Fellow Americans
- Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
- 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
- Police Story 4: First Strike (released May 1996)
- Primal Fear
- The Quest
- Ransom
- Ridicule, directed by Patrice Leconte, starring Fanny Ardant, Judith Godrèche
- The Rock
- Rumble in the Bronx
- Scream
- Secrets & Lies - Palm d'Or award
- Set It Off
- Sgt. Bilko
- She's the One
- Shine
- Sleepers
- Sling Blade
- A Small Domain
- Space Jam
- Space Truckers
- The Spitfire Grill
- Spy Hard, starring Leslie Nielsen
- Star Trek: First Contact
- 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
- To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
- Trainspotting, directed by Danny Boyle and starring Ewan McGregor - Golden space Needle award
- The trigger effect
- True Blue
- The Truth About Cats & Dogs
- Twelfth Night: Or What You Will
- Twister
- 2 Days in the Valley
- Unforgettable
- Up Close & Personal, starring Robert Redford and Michelle Pfeiffer
- Urban Safari
- The War at Home
- Werewolf
- Welcome to the Dollhouse
- White Squall
- William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet
- The Wind in the Willows
Births
Mary Gibbs- Boo in Monsters, Inc.
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 3 - Teddy, Poodle
- 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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