# 1988 in film

The following is an overview of events in 1988 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.

## Highest-grossing films

The top 10 films released in 1988 by worldwide gross are as follows:
Highest-grossing films of 1988 :
| Rank | Title | Distributor | Worldwide gross |
| 1 | Rain Man | MGM | $354,825,435 |
| 2 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Buena Vista | $329,803,958 |
| 3 | Coming to America | Paramount | $288,752,301 |
| 4 | Crocodile Dundee II | Paramount | $239,606,210 |
| 5 | Twins | Universal | $216,614,388 |
| 6 | Rambo III | TriStar / Carolco | $189,015,611 |
| 7 | A Fish Called Wanda | MGM | $188,597,000 |
| 8 | Cocktail | Buena Vista | $171,504,781 |
| 9 | Big | 20th Century Fox | $151,668,774 |
| 10 | Die Hard | 20th Century Fox | $141,500,000 |

## Events

* May 25 – Rambo III is released as the most expensive film ever made with a production budget between $58 and $63 million. The film fails to match the box office earnings from Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985).
* June 26 – Michael Keaton is first announced to play comic book superhero Batman in a forthcoming feature film to be directed by Tim Burton and co–starring Jack Nicholson as Batman's arch nemesis, The Joker.
* July 15 – Die Hard defies low commercial expectations to gross $141.5 million worldwide. Hailed as an influential landmark in the action film genre, it influences a common formula for many action films in the 1990s, featuring a lone everyman against a colorful terrorist character who is usually holding hostages in an isolated setting.
* September 19 – English character actor Roy Kinnear suffers a fall from a horse which will prove fatal while filming The Return of the Musketeers in Toledo, Spain.
* October 10 – Batman officially commences filming at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, England.
* October 27 – E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is released on VHS and laserdisc; to combat piracy, the tapeguards and tape hubs on the videocassettes are colored green, and the tape itself is affixed with a small, holographic sticker of the 1963 Universal logo (much like the holograms on a credit card), and encoded with Macrovision. In North America alone, VHS sales come to $75 million.
* December 16 – Rain Man is released to critical and commercial success and becomes the highest grossing film of 1988 worldwide with a gross of $355 million. Winning four Academy Awards including Best Picture, it is the last MGM title to be nominated for Best Picture until Licorice Pizza (2021) 33 years later. Giancarlo Parretti and Max Théret acquire a 52% stake in Pathé.

## Awards

| Category/Organization | 46th Golden Globe Awards January 28, 1989 | 46th Golden Globe Awards January 28, 1989 | 42nd BAFTA Awards March 19, 1989 | 61st Academy Awards March 29, 1989 |
| Category/Organization | Drama | Musical or Comedy | 42nd BAFTA Awards March 19, 1989 | 61st Academy Awards March 29, 1989 |
| Best Film | Rain Man | Working Girl | The Last Emperor | Rain Man |
| Best Director | Clint Eastwood Bird | Clint Eastwood Bird | Louis Malle Au revoir les enfants | Barry Levinson Rain Man |
| Best Actor | Dustin Hoffman Rain Man | Tom Hanks Big | John Cleese A Fish Called Wanda | Dustin Hoffman Rain Man |
| Best Actress | Jodie Foster The Accused Shirley MacLaine Madame Sousatzka Sigourney Weaver Gorillas in the Mist | Melanie Griffith Working Girl | Maggie Smith The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne | Jodie Foster The Accused |
| Best Supporting Actor | Martin Landau Tucker: The Man and His Dream | Martin Landau Tucker: The Man and His Dream | Michael Palin A Fish Called Wanda | Kevin Kline A Fish Called Wanda |
| Best Supporting Actress | Sigourney Weaver Working Girl | Sigourney Weaver Working Girl | Judi Dench A Handful of Dust | Geena Davis The Accidental Tourist |
| Best Screenplay, Adapted | Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal Running on Empty | Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal Running on Empty | Jean-Claude Carrière and Philip Kaufman The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Christopher Hampton Dangerous Liaisons |
| Best Screenplay, Original | Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal Running on Empty | Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal Running on Empty | Shawn Slovo A World Apart | Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow Rain Man |
| Best Original Score | Maurice Jarre Gorillas in the Mist | Maurice Jarre Gorillas in the Mist | John Williams Empire of the Sun | Dave Grusin The Milagro Beanfield War |
| Best Original Song | "Two Hearts" Buster "Let the River Run" Working Girl | "Two Hearts" Buster "Let the River Run" Working Girl | N/A | "Let the River Run" Working Girl |
| Best Foreign Language Film | Pelle the Conqueror | Pelle the Conqueror | Babette's Feast | Pelle the Conqueror |
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival)
    Pelle the Conqueror (Pelle erobreren), directed by Bille August, Denmark
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival)
    La leggenda del santo bevitore (The Legend of the Holy Drinker), directed by Ermanno Olmi, Italy / France
Golden Bear (Berlin International Film Festival)
    Red Sorghum (Hong gao liang), directed by Zhang Yimou, China

## 1988 films
### By country/region

* List of American films of 1988
* List of Argentine films of 1988
* List of Australian films of 1988
* List of Bangladeshi films of 1988
* List of British films of 1988
* List of Canadian films of 1988
* List of French films of 1988
* List of Hong Kong films of 1988
* List of Indian films of 1988
** List of Hindi films of 1988
** List of Kannada films of 1988
** List of Malayalam films of 1988
** List of Marathi films of 1988
** List of Tamil films of 1988
** List of Telugu films of 1988
* List of Japanese films of 1988
* List of Mexican films of 1988
* List of Pakistani films of 1988
* List of South Korean films of 1988
* List of Soviet films of 1988
* List of Spanish films of 1988

### By genre/medium

* List of action films of 1988
* List of animated feature films of 1988
* List of avant-garde films of 1988
* List of comedy films of 1988
* List of drama films of 1988
* List of horror films of 1988
* List of science fiction films of 1988
* List of thriller films of 1988
* List of western films of 1988

## Births

* January 3 – Karl Glusman, American actor
* January 6 – Mehwish Hayat, Pakistani actress
* January 7 – Haley Bennett, American actress and singer
* January 12 – Andrew Lawrence, American actor
* January 14 – Tom Rosenthal, English actor, comedian and writer
* January 21 – John Early, American comedian and actor
* February 2
** Amadou Ly, Senegalese-born American actor, writer and producer
** Zosia Mamet, American actress and musician
* February 6 – Anna Diop, Senegalese-born American actress
* February 8 – Ryan Pinkston, American actor
* February 11 – Jazz Raycole, American actress
* February 12
** Afshan Azad, British actress, model and media personality
** Nana Eikura, Japanese actress
* February 13
** Ferdinand Kingsley, British actor
** Erica Mendez, American voice actress
* February 16 – Steven Caple Jr., American director, producer and screenwriter
* February 17 – Nagita Slavina, Indonesian actress, television host, film producer, and singer
* February 18 – Sarah Sutherland, Canadian-American actress
* February 20
** Rihanna, Barbadian singer, songwriter and actress
** Tracy Spiridakos, Canadian actress
* February 29
** Reilly Dolman, Canadian actor
** Langston Fishburne, American actor
* March 4
** Josh Bowman, English actor
** Cody Longo, American actor (died 2023)
* March 21
** Luke Brandon Field, English actor and musician
** Kevin Guthrie, Scottish actor
* March 22 – Tania Raymonde, American actress
* March 24 – Finn Jones, English actor
* March 25 – Erik Knudsen, Canadian actor
* March 27
** Brenda Song, American actress, singer and model
** Holliday Grainger, English actress
* April 2 – Jesse Plemons, American actor
* April 3 – Ruby Bentall, English actress
* April 4 – Maggie Geha, American actress and model
* April 6 – Mike Bailey, English actor
* April 10
** Molly Bernard, American actress
** Haley Joel Osment, American actor
* April 13
** Allison Williams, American actress
** Katie Lucas, American actress and writer
* April 14
** Ben Lloyd-Hughes, British actor
** Chris Wood, American actor
* April 18 – Vanessa Kirby, English actress
* April 21
** Robbie Amell, Canadian actor and producer
** Christoph Sanders, American actor
* April 23 – Carla Quevedo, Argentine actress
* April 25
** Jonathan Bailey, English actor
** Sara Paxton, American singer and actress
* April 27
** Lizzo, American singer, actress, and flautist
** Regé-Jean Page, British actor
* April 30 – Ana de Armas, Cuban actress
* May 1
** Nicholas Braun, American actor
** Anushka Sharma, Indian actress
* May 2 – Laura Brent, Australian actress
* May 7 – Brandon Jones, American actor, producer and musician
* May 16 – Jermaine Fowler, American actor, comedian, producer and writer
* May 17 – Nikki Reed, American actress and writer
* June 2 – Awkwafina, American actress, comedian, writer, producer and rapper
* June 4 – Li Man, Chinese actress
* June 5 – Nuh Omar, Pakistani writer and director
* June 7 – Michael Cera, Canadian actor
* June 9
** Lauren Landa, American voice actress
** Mae Whitman, American actress
* June 13 – Cody Walker, American actor
* June 14 – Dayo Okeniyi, Nigerian-American actor
* June 16 – Jonny Weston, American actor
* June 22 – Shefali Chowdhury, British actress
* June 23
** Pippa Bennett-Warner, British actress
** Isabella Leong, Hong Kong singer, actress and model
* June 25 – Daniel Webber, Australian actor
* July 2 – Edward Randell, English musician and actor
* July 7 – Jack Whitehall, English actor, comedian, presenter and writer
* July 10 – Pavlo Lee, Ukrainian actor (died 2022)
* July 12 – Christine Marie Cabanos, American voice actress
* July 13 – Chris Sheffield, American actor
* July 14 – Elise Gatien, Canadian actress
* July 15 – Aimee Carrero, Dominican-born American actress
* July 18 – Chen Tang, Chinese-American actor
* July 19 – Cherami Leigh, American voice actress
* July 20 – Julianne Hough, American dancer, actress, singer and songwriter
* July 24 – Joe Pera, American comedian, writer and actor
* July 25 – Mamoudou Athie, Mauritanian-American actor and producer
* July 26 – Francia Raisa, American actress
* July 30 – Nico Tortorella, American actor and model
* July 31 – Charlie Carver, American actor
* August 1 – Max Carver, American actor
* August 16
** Kevin Schmidt, American actor
** Rumer Willis, American actress
* August 17 – Joyner Lucas, American rapper and actor
* August 24 – Rupert Grint, English actor
* August 26
** Evan Ross, American actor and musician
** Danielle Savre, American actress
* August 27 – Alexa PenaVega, American actress and singer
* September 6 – Jovan Adepo, English actor
* September 8 – E. J. Bonilla, American actor
* September 12
** Matt Martians, American record producer
** Clara Paget, British actress
* September 17 – Ritu Arya, English actress
* September 19 – Celine Song, Canadian director, playwright, and screenwriter
* September 22 – Sana Saeed, Indian actress
* September 26 – Lilly Singh, Canadian comedian, former talk show host and YouTuber
* September 28
** Olivia Jordan, American actress and model, Miss USA 2015
** Hana Mae Lee, American actress, model and comedian
* October 1 – Nick Whitaker, American actor
* October 3 – Alicia Vikander, Swedish actress
* October 4 – Melissa Benoist, American actress, singer and dancer
* October 5 – Bobby Edner, American actor and singer
* October 6 – Everlyn Sampi, Australian actress
* October 17 – Dee Jay Daniels, American former actor
* October 18 – Tessa Schram, Dutch actress and director
* October 21
** Glen Powell, American actor, writer and producer
** Mark Rendall, Canadian actor
* October 22
** Corey Hawkins, American actor
** Sharon Rooney, Scottish actress
* October 23 – Ritesh Rajan, American actor
* October 28 – Edd Gould, British animator, artist, writer, director and voice actor (died 2012)
* October 29 – Devon Murray, Irish actor
* November 6 – Emma Stone, American actress
* November 9
** Nikki Blonsky, American singer and actress
** Alexandrea Owens-Sarno, American actress
** Lio Tipton (credited as Analeigh Tipton up to 2021), American model and actress
* November 12 – Alistair Brammer, English actor
* November 17 – Justin Cooper, American producer and former child actor
* November 20 – Demetrius Shipp Jr., American actor
* November 22 – Jamie Campbell Bower, English actor and singer
* November 26 – Tamsin Egerton, English actress
* November 30
** Rotimi, Nigerian-American actor and singer
** Rebecca Rittenhouse, American actress
* December 1
** Nadia Hilker, German actress and model
** Im Si-wan, Korean actor and singer
** Zoë Kravitz, American actress
* December 2 – Alfred Enoch, English actor
* December 7
** Emily Browning, Australian actress
** Benjamin Clementine, British composer, musician and actor
* December 14 – Vanessa Hudgens, American actress and singer
* December 15 – Gregg Chillin, English actor and writer
* December 16
** Anna Popplewell, English actress
** Park Seo-joon, South Korean actor
* December 17 – Rin Takanashi, Japanese actress and model
* December 21 – Shelley Regner, American actress and singer
* December 27 – Hera Hilmar, Icelandic actress
* December 28 – Iwan Lewis, Welsh actor

## Deaths

| Month | Date | Name | Age | Country | Profession | Notable films |
| January | 1 | Marcel Hillaire | 79 | Germany | Actor | SabrinaMurderers' Row |
| January | 7 | Michel Auclair | 65 | France | Actor | The Day of the JackalBeauty and the Beast |
| January | 7 | Trevor Howard | 74 | UK | Actor | Brief EncounterMutiny on the Bounty |
| January | 8 | Boyd Morgan | 72 | US | Stuntman, Actor | Dirty HarrySpartacus |
| January | 10 | Hugh A. Robertson | 55 | US | Film Editor, Director | Midnight CowboyShaft |
| January | 16 | Ballard Berkeley | 83 | UK | Actor | National Lampoon's European VacationStage Fright |
| January | 19 | Bridget Boland | 75 | UK | Screenwriter | War and PeaceAnne of the Thousand Days |
| January | 19 | Cary Odell | 77 | US | Art Director | From Here to EternityCool Hand Luke |
| January | 25 | Colleen Moore | 88 | US | Actress | The Power and the GloryThe Scarlet Letter |
| February | 1 | Marcel Bozzuffi | 58 | French | Actor | The French ConnectionZ |
| February | 1 | Heather O'Rourke | 12 | US | Actress | PoltergeistPoltergeist II: The Other Side |
| February | 5 | Emeric Pressburger | 85 | Hungary | Screenwriter, Director | The Red ShoesBlack Narcissus |
| February | 8 | Allan Cuthbertson | 67 | Australia | Actor | The Guns of NavaronePerformance |
| February | 14 | Frederick Loewe | 86 | Germany | Composer | GigiThe Little Prince |
| February | 28 | Asakazu Nakai | 86 | Japan | Cinematographer | Seven SamuraiRan |
| February | 29 | Sidney Harmon | 80 | US | Producer, Screenwriter | Man CrazyThe Talk of the Town |
| March | 1 | Joe Besser | 80 | US | Actor | Africa ScreamsLet's Make Love |
| March | 3 | Lois Wilson | 93 | US | Actress | The Covered WagonMiss Lulu Bett |
| March | 5 | Alberto Olmedo | 54 | Argentina | Actor, Comedian | Los caballeros de la cama redondaLas Aventuras del Capitán Piluso en el Castillo del Terror |
| March | 6 | Jeanne Aubert | 82 | France | Actress | La PossessionMirages |
| March | 7 | Divine | 42 | US | Actor | Pink FlamingosHairspray |
| March | 7 | Robert Livingston | 83 | US | Actor | The Three MesquiteersThe Lone Ranger Rides Again |
| March | 12 | DeWitt Bodeen | 79 | US | Screenwriter | Cat PeopleI Remember Mama |
| March | 12 | Karen Steele | 56 | US | Actress | MartyRide Lonesome |
| March | 13 | Steno | 71 | Italy | Director, Screenwriter | An American in RomeBanana Joe |
| March | 13 | John Holmes | 43 | US | Actor | InsatiableFantasm |
| March | 13 | Olive Carey | 92 | US | Actress | The SearchersThe Alamo |
| March | 27 | Renato Salvatori | 55 | Italy | Actor | Big Deal on Madonna StreetTwo Women |
| March | 31 | Manuel Silos | 82 | Philippines | Actor, Director | Blessings of the Land |
| April | 1 | Jim Jordan | 91 | US | Actor | Look Who's LaughingThe Rescuers |
| April | 5 | Alf Kjellin | 68 | Sweden | Actor, Director | Assault on a QueenIce Station Zebra |
| April | 6 | John Clements | 77 | UK | Actor | GandhiThings to Come |
| April | 7 | Albert S. Rogell | 86 | US | Director | In Old OklahomaThe Black Cat |
| April | 11 | Jeff Donnell | 66 | US | Actress | In a Lonely PlaceGidget Goes Hawaiian |
| April | 11 | Jesse L. Lasky Jr. | 77 | US | Screenwriter | The Ten CommandmentsSamson and Delilah |
| April | 15 | Kenneth Williams | 62 | UK | Actor | Carry OnThe Hound of the Baskervilles |
| April | 21 | I. A. L. Diamond | 67 | Moldovia | Screenwriter | Some Like It HotThe Apartment |
| April | 22 | Irene Rich | 96 | US | Actress | They Had to See ParisThe Champ |
| April | 28 | Andrew Cruickshank | 80 | UK | Actor | El CidThe Cruel Sea |
| May | 1 | Paolo Stoppa | 81 | Italy | Actor | The LeopardOnce Upon a Time in the West |
| May | 4 | Tom Overton | 58 | US | Sound Engineer | Star Trek: The Motion PictureA Star Is Born |
| May | 5 | George Rose | 68 | UK | Actor | A Night to Remember Hamlet |
| May | 12 | Paul Osborn | 86 | US | Screenwriter | East of EdenSayonara |
| May | 15 | Andrew Duggan | 64 | US | Actor | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?Seven Days in May |
| May | 15 | Greta Nissen | 82 | Norway | Actress | Red WagonThe Luck of a Sailor |
| May | 18 | Daws Butler | 71 | US | Voice Actor | Mary PoppinsHey There, It's Yogi Bear! |
| May | 18 | Anthony Forwood | 72 | UK | Actor | Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.Knights of the Round Table |
| May | 18 | Christopher Gore | 43 | US | Screenwriter | Fame |
| May | 21 | Barbara Laage | 67 | France | Actress | The Happy RoadParis Blues |
| May | 22 | Tom Adair | 74 | US | Lyricist | JulieSleeping Beauty |
| May | 29 | Vladimír Menšík | 59 | Czech Republic | Actor | September NightsThree Wishes for Cinderella |
| May | 30 | Ella Raines | 67 | US | Actress | Brute ForceHail the Conquering Hero |
| June | 2 | Raj Kapoor | 63 | India | Actor, Director, Producer | AwaaraMera Naam Joker |
| June | 16 | Kim Milford | 37 | US | Actor | LaserblastCorvette Summer |
| June | 18 | Wilford Leach | 58 | US | Director, Screenwriter | The Wedding PartyThe Pirates of Penzance |
| June | 19 | Teru Shimada | 82 | Japan | Actor | You Only Live TwiceTokyo Joe |
| June | 22 | Dennis Day | 77 | US | Singer, Actor | I'll Get ByGolden Girl |
| June | 22 | Stuart Randall | 78 | US | Actor | Pony SoldierNaked Alibi |
| July | 1 | Alice Nunn | 60 | US | Actress | Pee-wee's Big AdventureMommie Dearest |
| July | 2 | Aldo Tonti | 78 | Italy | Cinematographer | Nights of CabiriaReflections in a Golden Eye |
| July | 7 | Jimmy Edwards | 68 | UK | Actor | The Bed-Sitting RoomThe Plank |
| July | 12 | Joshua Logan | 79 | US | Director, Screenwriter | Mister RobertsPaint Your Wagon |
| July | 22 | Milton Krasner | 84 | US | Cinematographer | All About EveAn Affair to Remember |
| July | 22 | Patrick Newell | 56 | UK | Actor | Young Sherlock HolmesBecket |
| July | 25 | Judith Barsi | 10 | US | Actress | The Land Before TimeJaws: The Revenge |
| July | 25 | Douglas Hickox | 59 | UK | Director | Theatre of BloodZulu Dawn |
| July | 27 | Larry Clemmons | 81 | US | Animator, Screenwriter | The Jungle BookThe Aristocats |
| July | 31 | Trinidad Silva | 38 | US | Actor | ColorsUHF |
| August | 1 | Florence Eldridge | 86 | US | Actress | Inherit the WindLes Misérables |
| August | 2 | Robert Emmet Smith | 73 | US | Art Director | King RatOperation Petticoat |
| August | 5 | Colin Higgins | 47 | France | Director, Producer, Screenwriter | Harold and Maude9 to 5 |
| August | 5 | Ralph Meeker | 65 | US | Actor | Kiss Me DeadlyThe Dirty Dozen |
| August | 7 | Wilfred Jackson | 82 | US | Animator | Snow White and the Seven DwarfsFantasia |
| August | 8 | Alan Napier | 85 | UK | Actor | Joan of ArcBatman |
| August | 10 | Adela Rogers St. Johns | 94 | US | Screenwriter | What Price Hollywood?A Free Soul |
| August | 11 | Anne Ramsey | 59 | US | Actress | The GooniesThrow Momma from the Train |
| August | 17 | Victoria Shaw | 53 | Australia | Actress | The Eddy Duchin StoryEdge of Eternity |
| August | 19 | Don Haggerty | 74 | US | Actor | Cause for Alarm!Footsteps in the Night |
| August | 23 | Jack Sher | 75 | US | Screenwriter, Director | The Kid from Left FieldFour Girls in Town |
| August | 24 | Leonard Frey | 49 | US | Actor | Fiddler on the RoofWhere the Buffalo Roam |
| August | 26 | Milton Sperling | 76 | US | Screenwriter | Battle of the BulgeThe Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell |
| August | 27 | Charles Farrell | 88 | Ireland | Actor | Night and the CityThe Crimson Pirate |
| September | 1 | Hugh Hunt | 86 | US | Set Decorator | Ben-HurJulius Caesar |
| September | 5 | Gert Fröbe | 75 | Germany | Actor | GoldfingerThe Longest Day |
| September | 6 | Harold Rosson | 93 | US | Cinematographer | The Wizard of OzSingin' in the Rain |
| September | 12 | Stephen B. Grimes | 61 | UK | Production Designer | The Way We WereOut of Africa |
| September | 14 | Louis Quinn | 73 | US | Actor | All the President's MenOcean's 11 |
| September | 15 | Samuel E. Beetley | 74 | US | Film Editor | The Longest DayDoctor Dolittle |
| September | 20 | Roy Kinnear | 54 | UK | Actor | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate FactoryWatership Down |
| September | 21 | Henry Koster | 83 | Germany | Director, Screenwriter | HarveyThe Bishop's Wife |
| September | 21 | Christine Norden | 63 | UK | Actress | Mine Own ExecutionerThe Black Widow |
| September | 30 | Chick Chandler | 83 | US | Actor | Seven Doors to DeathHideout |
| October | 1 | Lucien Ballard | 84 | US | Cinematographer | The Wild BunchThe Killing |
| October | 1 | Pavle Vuisić | 62 | Serbia | Actor | Battle of NeretvaDoktor Mladen |
| October | 4 | Margaret Lacey | 76 | UK | Actress | Diamonds Are ForeverThe Ruling Class |
| October | 6 | Don Terry | 86 | US | Actor | Who Killed Gail Preston?Unseen Enemy |
| October | 9 | Edward Chodorov | 84 | US | Screenwriter | Road HouseKind Lady |
| October | 11 | Morgan Farley | 90 | US | Actor | The Winner's CircleHigh Noon |
| October | 11 | Bonita Granville | 65 | US | Actress | Nancy Drew... DetectiveThese Three |
| October | 12 | Ken Murray | 85 | US | Actor, Producer | The Man Who Shot Liberty ValanceSon of Flubber |
| October | 13 | Melvin Frank | 75 | US | Screenwriter, Director | Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream HouseRoad to Utopia |
| October | 14 | Mary Morris | 72 | Fiji | Actress | The Thief of BagdadUndercover |
| October | 19 | Lawrence W. Butler | 80 | US | Special Effects Artist | CasablancaThe Caine Mutiny |
| October | 24 | Valerie Taylor | 85 | UK | Actress | RepulsionWent the Day Well? |
| October | 25 | Eric Larson | 83 | US | Animator | Alice in WonderlandThe Jungle Book |
| October | 27 | Charles Hawtrey | 73 | UK | Actor | SabotageThe Ghost of St. Michael's |
| October | 31 | John Houseman | 86 | Romania | Actor, Producer | The Paper ChaseRollerball |
| November | 1 | George J. Folsey | 90 | US | Cinematographer | Forbidden PlanetAdam's Rib |
| November | 2 | Lukas Heller | 58 | Germany | Screenwriter | The Dirty DozenWhat Ever Happened to Baby Jane? |
| November | 3 | Sidney Carroll | 75 | US | Screenwriter | The HustlerA Big Hand for the Little Lady |
| November | 6 | John Hubbard | 74 | US | Actor | One Million B.C.The Tall T |
| November | 9 | Billy Curtis | 79 | US | Actor | The Wizard of OzHigh Plains Drifter |
| November | 15 | Mona Washbourne | 84 | UK | Actress | My Fair LadyCasino Royale |
| November | 27 | Angela Aames | 32 | US | Actress | ScarfaceBachelor Party |
| November | 27 | John Carradine | 82 | US | Actor | StagecoachThe Grapes of Wrath |
| December | 7 | Christopher Connelly | 47 | US | Actor | BenjiMove Over, Darling |
| December | 7 | Dorothy Jordan | 82 | US | Actress | The Searchers70,000 Witnesses |
| December | 8 | Anne Seymour | 79 | US | Actress | All the King's MenField of Dreams |
| December | 15 | Maria De Matteis | 90 | Italy | Costume Designer | War and PeaceThe Bible: In the Beginning... |
| December | 10 | Richard S. Castellano | 55 | US | Actor | The GodfatherLove with the Proper Stranger |
| December | 10 | Dennis Arundell | 90 | UK | Actor, Composer | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp"Pimpernel" Smith |
| December | 17 | Jerry Hopper | 81 | US | Director | The Private War of Major BensonPony Express |
| December | 21 | Bob Steele | 81 | US | Actor | The Big SleepThe Colorado Kid |
| December | 22 | Tucker Smith | 52 | US | Actor, Dancer | West Side StoryThe Producers |
| December | 24 | Noel Willman | 70 | Ireland | Actor | Doctor ZhivagoThe Man Who Knew Too Much |
| December | 26 | Julanne Johnston | 88 | US | Actress | The Thief of BagdadDame Chance |
| December | 26 | John Loder | 90 | UK | Actor | Now, VoyagerSabotage |
| December | 27 | Hal Ashby | 59 | US | Director, Film Editor | Harold and MaudeBeing There |

## Film debuts

* Joe Alaskey – Who Framed Roger Rabbit
* Tim Allen – Tropical Snow
* Stephen Baldwin – Homeboy
* Ned Bellamy – The Night Before
* Annette Bening – The Great Outdoors
* Patrick Bergin – Taffin
* Lara Flynn Boyle – Poltergeist III
* Benjamin Bratt – Lovers, Partners & Spies
* Reg E. Cathey – Funny Farm
* Macaulay Culkin – Rocket Gibraltar
* Vondie Curtis-Hall – Coming to America
* Matt Damon – Mystic Pizza
* Benicio del Toro – Big Top Pee-wee
* Stephen Dillane – Business as Usual
* David Duchovny – Working Girl
* Kevin Dunn – Mississippi Burning
* Nora Dunn – Working Girl
* Richard Fancy – Sunset
* Colm Feore – Iron Eagle II
* Iain Glen – Paris by Night
* Cuba Gooding, Jr. – Coming to America
* Clark Gregg – Things Change
* Jess Harnell – Boulevard of Broken Dreams
* Danielle Harris – Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
* Neil Patrick Harris – Clara's Heart
* Jake Hoffman – Rain Man
* Jane Horrocks – The Dressmaker
* Felicity Huffman – Things Change
* Marceline Hugot – Working Girl
* Bonnie Hunt – Rain Man
* Milla Jovovich – Two Moon Junction
* Jenifer Lewis – Beaches
* Jane Lynch – Vice Versa
* Marc Macaulay – Graverobbers
* David Morrissey – Drowning by Numbers
* Dermot Mulroney – Sunset
* Clive Owen – Vroom
* Vincent Pastore – Black Roses
* Harold Perrineau – Shakedown
* David Hyde Pierce – Bright Lights, Big City
* Oliver Platt – Married to the Mob
* Bruce Ramsay – Pin
* Noomi Rapace – In the Shadow of the Raven
* Alan Rickman – Die Hard
* Katja Riemann – Faust - Vom Himmel durch die Welt zur Hölle
* Julia Roberts – Satisfaction
* Stephen Root – Crocodile Dundee II
* Richard Schiff – Medium Straight
* Steven Seagal – Above the Law
* Suzanne Shepherd – Mystic Pizza
* Roger Guenveur Smith – School Daze
* Lili Taylor – She's Having a Baby
* David Thornton – Diamond Run
* Goran Višnjić – Braća po materi
* Marlon Wayans – I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
* Duane Whitaker – Deadly Dreams
* Gregory Alan Williams – Above the Law