Events

• November 1 - George Lucas leaves the day-to-day operations of his filmmaking business and starts a sabbatical (while on sabbatical, he wrote the prequel Star Wars trilogy).

Top grossing films

1. Forrest Gump, starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field
2. The Lion King (Disney)
3. True Lies, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis
4. The Santa Clause, starring Tim Allen, Wendy Crewson
5. The Flintstones, starring John Goodman, Rick Moranis, Rosie O'Donnell, Halle Berry, Kyle MacLachlan
6. Dumb & Dumber, starring Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly, Victoria Rowell
7. Clear and Present Danger, starring Harrison Ford
8. Speed starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock
9. The Mask, starring Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz
10. Pulp Fiction, starring John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, and Uma Thurman

Academy Awards

• Best Picture: Forrest Gump- Touchstone Pictures
• Best Director: Robert Zemeckis - Forrest Gump
• Best Actor: Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump
• Best Actress: Jessica Lange - Blue Sky
• Best Score: Hans Zimmer - The Lion King

Births

• February 23 - Dakota Fanning, actress

Deaths

• January 1 - Cesar Romero, actor
• January 22 - Telly Savalas, actor
• February 6 - Joseph Cotten, actor
• February 11 - Sorrell Booke, actor
• February 11 - William Conrad, actor
• February 19 - Derek Jarman, director
• February 24 - Dinah Shore, singer,actress
• March 4 - John Candy, comedian and actor
• March 6 - Melina Mercouri, actress
• March 17 - Mai Zetterling, actress, director
• March 21 - MacDonald Carey, actor
• March 21 - Lili Damita, actress
• March 23 - Giulietta Masina, actress
• May 8 - George Peppard, actor
• May 15 - Gilbert Roland, actor
• June 4 - Massimo Troisi, actor
• June 7 - Dennis Potter, writer
• June 14 - Henry Mancini, composer
• August 11 - Peter Cushing, actor
• September 7 - Dennis Morgan, actor
• September 11 - Jessica Tandy, actress
• September 12 - Tom Ewell, actor
• October 19 - Martha Raye, actress
• October 20 - Burt Lancaster, actor
• October 21 - Benoît Régent, French film actor
• October 24 - Raúl Juliá, actor
• November 1 - Noah Beery Jr, actor
• November 30 - Lionel Stander, actor
• December 24 - Rossano Brazzi, actor

Kids films

Other movies released

• The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert(a)
• Airheads
• Angels in the Outfield
• Baby's Day Out
• Barcelona
• Blank Check
• Clerks.
• The Crow
• Four Weddings and a Funeral
• Godzilla vs SpaceGodzilla
• Hoop Dreams
• Interview with the Vampire
• IQ
• The Last Seduction
• Lightning Jack
• Little Odessa — starring Tim Roth and Edward Furlong
• Miracle on 34th Street
• Muriels Wedding (a)
• Necronomicon
• On Deadly Ground
• The Puppet Masters starring Donald Sutherland, based on Robert A. Heinlein's book
• Quiz Show
• Rapa Nui
• ''The Ref
• Heavenly Creatures
• The Shawshank Redemption
• Stargate — starring Kurt Russell
• Generations — starring Patrick Stewart and Jonathan Frakes.
• The Sum of Us (a)
• Red — 3rd of the Krzysztof Kieślowski trilogy, starring Irène Jacob
• Wolf — starring Jack Nicholson and James Spader

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