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Events

• Michael Jackson's first film was Moonwalker

Top grossing films

1. Rain Man, starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise
2. Who Framed Roger Rabbit, starring Bob Hoskins
3. Coming to America, starring Eddie Murphy
4. Big, starring Tom Hanks
5. Twins
6. Crocodile Dundee II
7. Die Hard, starring Bruce Willis
8. Cocktail, also starring Tom Cruise
9. From the Files of Police Squad!, starring Leslie Nielsen
10. Oliver and Company

Academy Awards

• Best Picture: Rain Man - Mirage Entertainment, Star Partners II, United Artists
• Best Actor: Dustin Hoffman - Rain Man
• Best Actress: Jodie Foster - The Accused

Births

• April 10 - Haley Joel Osment
• May 1 - Jacobo León
• August 24 - Rupert Grint
• November 15 - Zena Grey

Deaths

• January 7 - Trevor Howard, actor
• February 1 - Heather O'Rourke, actress
• January 25 - Colleen Moore, actress
• March 6 - Jeanne Aubert, French actress
• May 30 - Ella Raines, actress
• July 25 - Judith Barsi, actress
• August 4 - Florence Eldridge, actress
• September 5 - Gert Fröbe, actor
• October 1 - Lucien Ballard, cinematographer
• December 23 – Frederick W. Elvidge, actor

Other movies released

• American Gothic
• The Hiding of Anne Frank
• Beetlejuice
• Bloodsport
• Casual Sex?
• Child's Play
• The Return
• Dangerous Curves
• Dangerous Liaisons
• Earth Girls Are Easy
• Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
• A Fish Called Wanda
• The New Blood
• Fright Night II
• Gangster World
• The Return of Michael Myers
• Hawks, starring Timothy Dalton and Anthony Edwards
• Killer Klowns from Outer Space
• The Land Before Time
• Mac and Me
• Masters of the Universe, starring Dolph Lundgren and Courteney Cox
• Midnight Run
• Mississippi Burning
• The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking
• The Dream Master
• Paperhouse
• Punchline
• Pushpak
• Scrooged
• She's Having a Baby
• A Short Film About Love by Krzysztof Kieslowski
• Stand and Deliver
• They Live, starring Roddy Piper
• Working Girl, starring Harrison Ford
• A World Apart, starring Barbara Hershey and Jodhi May

1988 | 1988 films | Years in film

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