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1991 in film

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The year 1991 in film involved numerous significant events. Important films released this year included The Silence of the Lambs, Beauty and the Beast, Thelma & Louise, JFK and Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

Highest-grossing films

The top 10 films released in 1991 by worldwide gross are as follows:

RankTitleDistributorWorldwide gross12345678910
*Terminator 2: Judgment Day*Tri-Startitle=Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)work=Box Office Mojourl=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=terminator2.htmarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170626051349/https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=terminator2.htmarchive-date=June 26, 2017quote=$519,843,345}}
*Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves*Warner Bros.$390,493,908
*Beauty and the Beast*Buena Vista$*Beauty and the Beast* box-office
*Hook*TriStar$300,854,984
*The Silence of the Lambs*Orion$272,742,922
*JFK*Warner Bros.$205,405,498
*The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear*Paramountmagazine=Varietytitle=Top 50 worldwide grossersdate=July 15, 2002last=D'Alessandrofirst=Anthonypage=52, Paramount at 90 supplement}}
*The Addams Family*Paramount / Orion$191,502,426
*Cape Fear*Universal$182,291,969
*Hot Shots!*[20th Century Fox](20th-century-fox)$181,096,164

Events

  • February 14 – The Silence of the Lambs is released and becomes only the third film after It Happened One Night (1934) and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) to win the top five categories at the Academy Awards: Best Picture; Best Director (Jonathan Demme); Best Actor (Anthony Hopkins); Best Actress (Jodie Foster); and Best Adapted Screenplay (Ted Tally). It is also the first, and to date only, Best Picture winner widely considered to be a horror film.
  • March 20 - Frank Mancuso Sr. leaves as the head of Paramount Pictures.
  • July 1 - Brandon Tartikoff is appointed as chairman of Paramount Pictures.
  • July 3 – Terminator 2: Judgment Day became one of the landmarks for science fiction action films with its groundbreaking visual effects from Industrial Light & Magic.
  • August 7 - 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.
  • October – Mark Canton replaces Frank Price as chairman of Columbia Pictures.
  • November 22 – Walt Disney Pictures releases Beauty and the Beast, based on the original fairy tale and Jean Cocteau's 1946 film. The film became one of the most prestigious and greatest animated and romantic films in cinema history. It went on to become the first animated film ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

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

Category/Organization[49th Golden Globe Awards](49th-golden-globe-awards)
January 18, 1992[45th BAFTA Awards](45th-british-academy-film-awards)
February 21, 1992[64th Academy Awards](64th-academy-awards)
March 30, 1992DramaMusical or Comedy
Best Film***Bugsy******Beauty and the Beast******The Commitments******The Silence of the Lambs***
Best Director**Oliver Stone**
*JFK***Alan Parker**
*The Commitments***Jonathan Demme**
*The Silence of the Lambs*
Best Actor**Nick Nolte**
*The Prince of Tides***Robin Williams**
*The Fisher King***Anthony Hopkins**
*The Silence of the Lambs*
Best Actress**Jodie Foster**
*The Silence of the Lambs***Bette Midler**
*For the Boys***Jodie Foster**
*The Silence of the Lambs*
Best Supporting Actor**Jack Palance**
*City Slickers***Alan Rickman**
*Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves***Jack Palance**
*City Slickers*
Best Supporting Actress**Mercedes Ruehl**
*The Fisher King***Kate Nelligan**
*Frankie and Johnny***Mercedes Ruehl**
*The Fisher King*
Best Screenplay, Adapted***Thelma & Louise***
Callie Khouri***The Commitments***
Dick Clement***The Silence of the Lambs***
Ted Tally
Best Screenplay, Original***Truly, Madly, Deeply***
Anthony Minghella***Thelma & Louise***
Callie Khouri
Best Original Score***Beauty and the Beast***
Alan Menken***Cyrano de Bergerac***
Jean-Claude Petit***Beauty and the Beast***
Alan Menken
Best Original Song**"Beauty and the Beast"**
*Beauty and the Beast*
**"Beauty and the Beast"**
*Beauty and the Beast*
Best Foreign Language Film***Europa Europa***
(*Hitlerjunge Salomon*)***The Nasty Girl***
(*Das schreckliche Mädchen*)***Mediterraneo***

1991 films

By country/region

  • List of American films of 1991
  • List of Argentine films of 1991
  • List of Australian films of 1991
  • List of Bangladeshi films of 1991
  • List of British films of 1991
  • List of Canadian films of 1991
  • List of French films of 1991
  • List of Hong Kong films of 1991
  • List of Indian films of 1991
    • List of Hindi films of 1991
    • List of Kannada films of 1991
    • List of Malayalam films of 1991
    • List of Marathi films of 1991
    • List of Tamil films of 1991
    • List of Telugu films of 1991
  • List of Japanese films of 1991
  • List of Mexican films of 1991
  • List of Pakistani films of 1991
  • List of South Korean films of 1991
  • List of Soviet films of 1991
  • List of Spanish films of 1991

By genre/medium

  • List of action films of 1991
  • List of animated feature films of 1991
  • List of avant-garde films of 1991
  • List of crime films of 1991
  • List of comedy films of 1991
  • List of drama films of 1991
  • List of horror films of 1991
  • List of science fiction films of 1991
  • List of thriller films of 1991
  • List of western films of 1991

Births

  • January 1 - Mark L. Young, American actor
  • January 2 – Ben Hardy, English actor
  • January 4 – Charles Melton, American actor and model
  • January 7 - Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, American actress and singer
  • January 9 - Laura-Leigh, American actress
  • January 13
    • Genevieve Gaunt, English actress
    • Jennifer Paredes, American actress
  • January 14 - Jeanine Mason, American actress
  • January 15
    • Ayeza Khan, Pakistani actress and model
    • Lulu Popplewell, English comedian and actress
  • January 17 – Willa Fitzgerald, American actress
  • January 18 – Britt McKillip, Canadian actress, singer
  • January 19 – Erin Sanders, American actress
  • January 21
    • Craig Roberts, Welsh actor and director
    • Brittany Tiplady, Canadian actress
  • January 24 - Pablo Pauly, French actor
  • January 25
    • Ariana DeBose, American actress, dancer and singer
    • Rupert Simonian, British actor
  • January 27 – Cristo Fernández, Mexican actor
  • January 28 – Calum Worthy, Canadian actor, musician
  • February 10 – Emma Roberts, American actress
  • February 12 – Tanaya Beatty, Canadian actress
  • February 17
    • Ed Sheeran, English singer-songwriter
    • Bonnie Wright, English actress
    • Jeremy Allen White, American actor
  • February 18 – Malese Jow, American actress
  • February 21
    • Joe Alwyn, English actor
    • Rose Reynolds, British actress and singer
  • February 24 - O'Shea Jackson Jr., American actor and rapper
  • February 25 – Tony Oller, American singer, songwriter and actor
  • February 26 - Lex Scott Davis, American actress
  • February 28
    • Sarah Bolger, Irish actress
    • Rudy Mancuso, American internet personality, musician and actor
  • March 2 – Jake Picking, German-born American actor
  • March 5 – Hanna Mangan-Lawrence, English-Australian actress
  • March 6 – Tyler, The Creator, American rapper
  • March 7 – Daisy Head, English actress
  • March 8 – Devon Werkheiser, American actor
  • March 9 – Domo Genesis, American rapper
  • March 12 - Lauren Holt, American actress, comedian and singer
  • March 17 – Kristjan Lüüs, Estonian actor
  • March 19 – Garrett Clayton, American actor
  • March 22 - Dominique Fishback, American actress
  • March 23 – Madelyn Deutch, American actress, director, musician and writer
  • March 24 - Jack Bannon, English actor
  • March 25 – Seychelle Gabriel, American actress
  • March 28 – Amy Bruckner, American actress
  • March 29
    • Irene, South Korean singer, rapper and actress
    • Samantha Win, Canadian actress
  • March 31 – Elliot Barnes-Worrell, English actor
  • April 4 – Jamie Lynn Spears, American actress
  • April 7 - Anne-Marie, English singer-songwriter and actress
  • April 9 – Amber Lee Connors, American voice actress
  • April 10
    • AJ Michalka, American singer and actress
    • Sergiusz Żymełka, Polish actor
  • April 13 – Dylan Penn, American actress and model
  • April 19 – Mehazabien Chowdhury, Bangladeshi actress and model
  • April 21 – Frank Dillane, English actor
  • April 22 – Leonie Benesch, German actor
  • May 6 – Shamier Anderson, Canadian actor
  • May 17 – Daniel Curtis Lee, American actor, comedian and rapper
  • May 21 – Sarah Ramos, American actress
  • June 1 – Zazie Beetz, American actress
  • June 7 – Emily Ratajkowski, English-born American actress and model
  • June 11 – Kärt Tammjärv, Estonian actress
  • June 15 – Lindsay Seidel, American voice actress
  • June 18 – Willa Holland, American actress
  • June 20 - Ruby Modine, American actress and singer
  • June 24 – Dexter Darden, American actor
  • June 26 – Will Attenborough, British actor
  • June 28 - Daniel Zovatto, Costa Rican-American actor
  • June 29
    • Tajja Isen, Canadian actress and singer-songwriter
    • Addison Timlin, American actress
  • July 3 - Grant Rosenmeyer, American actor and screenwriter
  • July 5 – Jason Dolley, American actor
  • July 6 – Victoire Thivisol, French actress
  • July 7 – Eve Hewson, Irish actress
  • July 8
    • Thuso Mbedu, South African actress
    • Luke Pensabene, American actor and film producer
  • July 9 – Mitchel Musso, American actor
  • July 11 – Kentaro Sakaguchi, actor and model
  • July 12 – Erik Per Sullivan, American actor
  • July 16 – Alexandra Shipp, American actress
  • July 29 – Jahmil French, Canadian actor (died 2021)
  • August 4 - Lucinda Dryzek, English actress
  • August 12 – Lakeith Stanfield, American actor
  • August 13 - Nikita Hopkins, American screenwriter, visual artist and former child voice actor
  • August 16 – Evanna Lynch, Irish actress
  • August 17 – Austin Butler, American actor
  • August 22 – Naomi Ackie, English actress
  • August 23 - Jake Manley, Canadian actor
  • August 26 – Dylan O'Brien, American actor
  • August 27 – Young Mazino, American actor
  • August 28
    • Humberto Carrão, Brazilian actor
    • Kyle Massey, American actor
  • September 4 - Carter Jenkins, American actor
  • September 5 – Skandar Keynes, English actor
  • September 9
    • Yang Yang, Chinese actor
    • Kelsey Chow, American actress
  • September 17 – Mena Massoud, Egyptian-born Canadian actor and singer
  • September 19 – Tyler Neitzel, American actor
  • September 20
    • Spencer Locke, American actress
    • Jonah Meyerson, American actor and producer
  • September 25 – Alix Bénézech, French actress
  • September 27 – Thomas Mann, American actress
  • October 3 - Derek Klena, American actor and singer
  • October 5 – Xiao Zhan, Chinese actor
  • October 6 – Roshon Fegan, American actor, dancer, and rapper
  • October 15 - Charlotte Hope, English actress
  • October 18
    • Tyler Posey, American actor and musician
    • Toby Regbo, English actor
  • October 19 – Samantha Robinson, American actress
  • October 23 – Sophie Oda, American actress
  • October 25 – Lorina Kamburova, Bulgarian actress (d. 2021)
  • October 27 – Bryan Craig, American actor
  • October 28 – Mart Müürisepp, Estonian actor
  • October 31
    • Jordan-Claire Green, American actress
    • Junglepussy, American rapper and actress
  • November 1 – Anthony Ramos, American actor and singer-songwriter
  • November 4
    • Tanya Reynolds, English actress
    • Bee Vang, American actor
  • November 8 – Riker Lynch, American actor, singer, musician
  • November 10 - Genevieve Buechner, Canadian actress
  • November 11
    • Christa B. Allen, American actress
    • Travis Tope, American actor
  • November 13
    • Matt Bennett, American actor
    • Devon Bostick, Canadian actor
  • November 15 – Shailene Woodley, American actress
  • November 30 - Aoife Hinds, British-Irish actress
  • December 10 - KiKi Layne, American actress
  • December 12 – Jaime Lorente, Spanish actor
  • December 15
    • Eunice Cho, American actress
    • Alana Haim, American musician and actress
  • December 17 - Daniel Tay, American former actor
  • December 19 – Keiynan Lonsdale, Australian actor, dancer and singer-songwriter
  • December 20
    • Jillian Rose Reed, American actress
    • Colin Woodell, American actor
  • December 24 – Sofia Black-D'Elia, American actress
  • December 27 - Chloe Bridges, American actress

Deaths

MonthDateNameAgeCountryProfessionNotable films
**January***2*Pato Guzman57USProduction Designer
*4*Richard Maibaum81USScreenwriter
*12*Keye Luke86ChinaActor
*14*David Arkin49USActor
*19*Don Beddoe87USActor
*19*Jo Eisinger81USScreenwriter
*19*John Russell70USActor
*25*Lilian Bond83UKActress
*30*John McIntire83USActor
**February***1*Carol Dempster89USActress
*1*James MacDonald84UKSound Engineer, Voice Actor
*2*Natalie Kingston85USActress
*3*Nancy Kulp69USActress
*5*Dean Jagger87USActor
*6*Danny Thomas77USActor
*12*Ruth Morley65AustriaCostume Designer
*19*Peggy Mondo63USActress
*24*George Gobel71USActor
*24*Jean Rogers74USActress
*25*John Dunning74USFilm Editor
*26*Bernard W. Burton92USFilm Editor
*26*Slim Gaillard75USSinger, Actor
**March***3*Vance Colvig72USActor
*5*Ian McLellan Hunter71UKScreenwriter
*6*Salvo Randone84ItalyActor
*7*Morton S. Fine74USScreenwriter
*14*Howard Ashman40USLyricist
*15*George Sherman78USDirector
*18*Vilma Bánky90HungaryActress
*18*Narda Onyx59EstoniaActress
*22*Gloria Holden82UKActress
*22*R. L. Ryan44USActor
*23*Mona Maris87ArgentinaActress
*27*Aldo Ray64USActor
*28*Carlos Montalbán87MexicoActor
**April***3*Graham Greene86UKScreenwriter
*9*Maurice Binder72UKTitle Designer
*10*Kevin Peter Hall35USActor
*10*Natalie Schafer90USActress
*12*Tom Rosqui62USActor
*16*David Lean83UKDirector
*20*Don Siegel78USDirector
*23*William Dozier83USProducer
*26*Carmine Coppola80USComposer
*26*A. B. Guthrie Jr.90USScreenwriter
*28*Ken Curtis74USActor
**May***1*Richard Thorpe95USDirector
*2*Jerzy Kosiński57PolandScreenwriter, Actor
*5*Laura Kerr88USScreenwriter
*6*Wilfrid Hyde-White87UKActor
*8*Ronnie Brody72UKActor
*11*Dino Diluca88ItalyActor
*15*Ronald Lacey55UKActor
*18*Edwina Booth86USActress
*18*Muriel Box85UKDirector, Screenwriter
*23*Fletcher Markle70CanadaDirector
*26*Eugène Lourié88UkraineArt Director, Production Designer
*29*Coral Browne77AustraliaActress
*31*Manolo Gómez Bur74SpainActor
**June***3*Eva Le Gallienne92UKActress
*8*Heidi Bruhl49GermanyActress
*12*Peggy Ashcroft83UKActress
*12*Bernard Miles83UKActor
*15*Barry Kelley82USActor
*16*Joan Caulfield69USActress
*18*Ronald Allen60UKActor
*19*Jean Arthur90USActress
*23*Lea Padovani70ItalyActress
*26*Jack Marta88USCinematographer
*27*Milton Subotsky69USProducer, Screenwriter
*30*John B. Goodman89USArt Director
**July***1*Michael Landon54USActor
*2*Don Houghton61FranceScreenwriter
*2*Lee Remick55USActress
*5*Mildred Dunnock90USActress
*8*James Franciscus57USActor
*11*Atang de la Rama89PhilippinesActress, Singer
*15*Bert Convy57USActor
*21*Theodore Wilson47USActor
**August***1*Helen Page Camp60USActress
*4*Don DaGradi80USScreenwriter
*16*Bruno Nicolai65ItalyComposer
*16*Luigi Zampa86ItalyDirector
*17*Don Dubbins65USActor
*18*David Gale54UKActor
*21*Richard Wilson75USDirector
*22*Colleen Dewhurst67CanadaActress
*25*Niven Busch88USScreenwriter
*26*Alan Barrett52-53UKCostume Designer
*28*Alekos Sakellarios77GreeceDirector, Screenwriter
*29*Dallas Adams44UKActor
*29*Dixie Dunbar72USActress
*30*Alan Wheatley84UKActor
**September***3*Jean Bourgoin78FranceCinematographer
*3*Frank Capra94USDirector
*4*Tom Tryon65USActor
*7*Ben Piazza58USActor
*8*Brad Davis41USActor
*8*Alex North80USComposer
*13*Joe Pasternak89RomaniaProducer
*14*Julie Bovasso61USActress
*15*John Hoyt85USActor
*16*Carol White48UKActress
*21*Angelo Rossitto83USActor
*23*Chuck Vincent51USDirector, Producer, Screenwriter
*24*Mary Lawrence73USActress
*25*Ralph Jester90USCostume Designer
*25*Viviane Romance79FranceActress
*27*Floyd Huddleston79USSongwriter
**October***6*Phil Feldman69USProducer
*9*Thalmus Rasulala51USActor
*11*Redd Foxx68USActor, Comedian
*12*Sheila Florance75AustraliaActress
*12*Diana Gibson76USActress
*12*Aline MacMahon92USActress
*12*Regis Toomey93USActor
*13*Donald Houston67UKActor
*14*Gene Roddenberry70USProducer
*15*Han Ying-chieh64ChinaActor
*16*Arthur Arling85USCinematographer
*17*J. G. Devlin84IrelandActor
*22*Judy Kelly77AustraliaActress
*25*Khigh Dhiegh81USAActor
*25*John Stratton65UKActor
*26*Joe Lapis92HungarySound Engineer
*28*Sylvia Fine78USLyricist, Composer, Producer
*29*John DeCuir73USArt Director, Production Designer
**November***2*Irwin Allen75USProducer, Director, Screenwriter
*5*Fred MacMurray83USActor
*6*Gene Tierney70USActress
*10*Tutte Lemkow73NorwayActor, Choreographer
*11*Morton Stevens62USComposer
*12*Diane Brewster60USActress
*12*Gabriele Tinti59ItalyActor
*13*Yves Montand70FranceActor, Singer
*14*Tony Richardson63UKDirector
*19*Reggie Nalder84AustriaActor
*20*Daniel Mann89USDirector
*21*Robert Kaufman60USScreenwriter
*22*Tadashi Imai79JapanDirector
*23*Klaus Kinski65GermanyActor
*24*Anton Furst47UKProduction Designer
*24*Freddie Mercury45UKSinger, Songwriter
*25*Eleanor Audley86USActress
*27*Ralph Bellamy87USActor
*27*George Edwards67USProducer
*28*Mel Dinelli79USScreenwriter
**December***7*Herb Jaffe70USProducer
*11*Robert Q. Lewis70USActor
*11*Pat Walshe91USActor*The Wizard of Oz*
*12*Eleanor Boardman93USActress
*13*Judy Moorcroft58UKCostume Designer
*19*Ernest K. Gann81USScreenwriter
*19*Paul Maxwell70CanadaActor
*23*Gene Milford89USFilm Editor
*18*Jacques Aubuchon67USActor
*25*Curt Bois90GermanyActor
*28*Cassandra Harris43AustraliaActress

Film debuts

  • Bruce Altman – Regarding Henry
  • Tom Arnold – Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
  • Monica Bellucci – La Riffa
  • Halle Berry – Jungle Fever
  • Jason Biggs – The Boy Who Cried Bitch
  • W. Earl Brown – Backdraft
  • 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
  • Wayne Duvall – Final Approach
  • Christopher Eccleston – Let Him Have It
  • Ethan Embry – Defending Your Life
  • Brendan Fraser – Dogfight
  • Edward Furlong – Terminator 2: Judgment Day
  • Janeane Garofalo – Late for Dinner
  • Paul Giamatti – Past Midnight
  • Eddie Griffin – Dice Rules
  • Jake Gyllenhaal – City Slickers
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman – Triple Bogey on a Par Five Hole
  • Joshua Jackson – Crooked Hearts
  • Keegan-Michael Key – Lunatics: A Love Story
  • Daniel Dae Kim – American Shaolin
  • Regina King – Boyz n the Hood
  • Queen Latifah – Jungle Fever
  • Denis Leary – Strictly Business
  • Téa Leoni – Switch
  • Matthew Lillard – Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College
  • Jason London – The Man in the Moon
  • Louis Mandylor – Necessary Roughness
  • Leslie Mann – Virgin High
  • Michael Massee – My Father Is Coming
  • Simon McBurney – Kafka
  • Michael McDonald – Uncaged
  • Breckin Meyer – Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
  • Jeffrey Dean Morgan – Uncaged
  • Elisabeth Moss – Suburban Commando
  • Kathy Najimy – The Hard Way
  • Thandiwe Newton – Flirting
  • Sophie Okonedo – Young Soul Rebels
  • Gwyneth Paltrow – Shout
  • Teri Polo – Born to Ride
  • John Prosky – Late for Dinner
  • Richard Roxburgh – Dead to the World
  • Til Schweiger – Manta, Manta
  • David Schwimmer – Flight of the Intruder
  • Rufus Sewell – Twenty-One
  • Marley Shelton – Grand Canyon
  • Jeremy Sisto – Grand Canyon
  • Jon Tenney – Guilty by Suspicion
  • Maura Tierney – Dead Women in Lingerie
  • Vince Vaughn – For the Boys
  • Daniel von Bargen – The Silence of the Lambs
  • Kari Wahlgren – Mobile Suit Gundam F91
  • Isaiah Washington – The Color of Love
  • Reese Witherspoon – The Man in the Moon

References

References

  1. "1991 Worldwide Box Office". [[IMDb]].
  2. "Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)". Box Office Mojo.
  3. D'Alessandro, Anthony. (July 15, 2002). "Top 50 worldwide grossers".
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