Events

• Chris Rock and Adam Sandler join SNL
• February 4 - Actor Tom Cruise and actress Mimi Rogers divorce.
• December 24 - Tom Cruise and actress Nicole Kidman marry.

Top grossing films of the year

1. Home Alone, starring Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, Catherine O'Hara,
2. Ghost, starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Goldwyn, Rick Aviles
3. Dances with Wolves, starring and directed by Kevin Costner
4. Pretty Woman, starring Julia Roberts, Richard Gere
5. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
6. The Hunt for Red October, starring Sean Connery
7. Total Recall, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
8. Die Hard 2, starring Bruce Willis
9. Dick Tracy starring Warren Beatty, Madonna
10. Kindergarten Cop, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Penelope Ann Miller

Academy Awards

• Best Picture: Dances With Wolves - Tig Productions, Majestic Films International
• Best Actor: Jeremy Irons - Reversal of Fortune
• Best Actress: Kathy Bates - Misery
• Best Supporting Actor: Joe Pesci - Goodfellas
• Best Supporting Actress: Whoopi Goldberg - Ghost

Births

• March 24 - Keisha Castle-Hughes, actress
• April 15 - Emma Watson, actress
• July 24 - Daveigh Chase, actress
• October 22 - Jonathan Lipnicki, actor

Deaths

• January 6 - Ian Charleson, actor
• January 8 - Terry-Thomas, actor, comedian
• January 15 - Gordon Jackson, actor
• January 20 - Barbara Stanwyck, actress
• January 24 - Madge Bellamy, actress
• January 25 - Ava Gardner, actress
• March 5 - Gary Merrill, actor
• March 17 - Capucine, actress
• April 15 - Greta Garbo, actress
• April 23 - Paulette Goddard, actress
• May 6 - Charles Farrell, actor
• May 10 - Susan Oliver, actress, pilot
• May 16 - Sammy Davis Jr, actor, singer
• May 16 - Jim Henson, creator of Muppets
• May 18 - Jill Ireland, actress
• June 2 - Rex Harrison, actor
• July 15 - Margaret Lockwood, actress
• August 27 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, 36, guitarist/songwriter
• September 4 - Irene Dunne, actress
• September 19 - Hermes Pan, choreographer
• October 15 - Delphine Seyrig, French actress
• October 20 - Joel McCrea, actor
• November 3 - Mary Martin, actress
• November 12 - Eve Arden, actress
• December 2 - Robert Cummings, actor
• December 7 - Joan Bennett, actress
• December 8 - Martin Ritt, director

Other movies released

• Pump Up the Volume

1990 | 1990 films | Years in film

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