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Events

• April 12 - Actor Morgan Mason marries The Go-Go's Belinda Carlisle
• Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger marries television journalist Maria Shriver.
• Turner Broadcasting begins to colorize black and white movie classics.
• Dar Robinson, considered the greatest stuntman ever, is killed on the set of the film Million Dollar Mystery.

Top grossing films

1. Top Gun, starring Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer
2. Crocodile Dundee
3. Platoon, starring Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe, Tom Berenger
4. The Karate Kid, Part II, starring Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita
5. The Voyage Home
6. Back to School
7. Aliens, starring Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn
8. The Golden Child, starring Eddie Murphy
9. Ruthless People, starring Danny Devito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold
10. Ferris Bueller's Day Off, starring Matthew Broderick
11. Hoosiers, starring Gene Hackman

Academy Awards

• Best Picture: Platoon - Hemdale, Orion
• Best Director: Oliver Stone - Platoon
• Best Actor: Paul Newman - The Color of Money
• Best Actress: Marlee Matlin - Children of a Lesser God

Births

• January 24 - Mischa Barton, English-born American actress
• March 9 - Brittany Snow, American actress
• March 14 - Jamie Bell, English actor
• April 3 - Amanda Bynes, American actress and variety show host
• June 11 - Shia LaBeouf, American actor
• June 13 - Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, American actresses and entrepreneurs
• July 2 - Lindsay Lohan, American actress
• August 16 - Shawn Pyfrom, American actor
• September 12 - Emmy Rossum, American actress and singer

Deaths

• March 10 - Ray Milland, British actor
• April 13 - Stephen Stucker, comedy actor
• June 13 - Benny Goodman, musician, actor
• October 5 - Hal B. Wallis, major American film producer
• November 21 – Dar Robinson, film stuntman
• November 29 - Cary Grant, actor
• December 13 - Heather Angel, actress
• December 28 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian movie director

Other movies released

• An American Tail
• Big Trouble In Little China, starring Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun, James Hong and Victor Wong
• Blue Velvet, directed by David Lynch
• Blood & Orchids, directed by Jerry Thorpe (a television movie)
• A New Generation (a prequel to the original Care Bears Movie from 1985), starring Alyson Court, Cree Summer and Hadley Kay
• Children of a Lesser God
• Club Paradise, starring Robin Williams, Jimmy Cliff, Peter O'Toole, Rick Moranis and Eugene Levy
• The Color of Money, starring Paul Newman and Tom Cruise
• Le Déclin de l'empire américain, (The Decline of the American Empire), written and directed by Denys Arcand
• F/X, starring Bryan Brown and Brian Dennehy
• The Fifth Missile
• The Great Mouse Detective
• Hannah and Her Sisters
• Highlander
• Jean de Florette, starring Gérard Depardieu and Yves Montand
• Jumpin' Jack Flash, starring Whoopi Goldberg, Annie Potts, Jon Lovitz, Carol Kane
• Little Shop of Horrors
• Manhunter, directed by Michael Mann and starring William Petersen.
• Manon des sources starring Emmanuelle Beart and Yves Montand
• The Movie (a feature-length adaptation of the TV series and toy line)
• Pretty in Pink, directed by Howard Deutch, Starring Molly Ringwald, Jon Cryer, James Spader
• Psycho III, directed by Anthony Perkins, Starring Anthony Perkins, Diana Scarwid, Jeff Fahey
• Raw Deal, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Shanghai Surprise, starring Madonna and Sean Penn
• Short Circuit, starring Steve Guttenberg
• Sid and Nancy, starring Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb
• Stand By Me
• The Money Pit, starring Tom Hanks and Shelley Long
• The Movie, starring Eric Idle, Judd Nelson, and Orson Welles

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