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1991 in film

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The year 1991 in film involved numerous significant events. Important films released this year included The Silence of the Lambs, Beauty and the Beast, Thelma & Louise, JFK and Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

Highest-grossing films

The top 10 films released in 1991 by worldwide gross are as follows:

RankTitleDistributorWorldwide gross12345678910
Terminator 2: Judgment DayTri-Startitle=Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)work=Box Office Mojourl=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=terminator2.htmarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170626051349/https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=terminator2.htmarchive-date=June 26, 2017quote=$519,843,345}}
Robin Hood: Prince of ThievesWarner Bros.$390,493,908
Beauty and the BeastBuena Vista$Beauty and the Beast box-office
HookTriStar$300,854,984
The Silence of the LambsOrion$272,742,922
JFKWarner Bros.$205,405,498
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of FearParamountmagazine=Varietytitle=Top 50 worldwide grossersdate=July 15, 2002last=D'Alessandrofirst=Anthonypage=52, Paramount at 90 supplement}}
The Addams FamilyParamount / Orion$191,502,426
Cape FearUniversal$182,291,969
Hot Shots!20th Century Fox$181,096,164

Events

  • February 14 – The Silence of the Lambs is released and becomes only the third film after It Happened One Night (1934) and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) to win the top five categories at the Academy Awards: Best Picture; Best Director (Jonathan Demme); Best Actor (Anthony Hopkins); Best Actress (Jodie Foster); and Best Adapted Screenplay (Ted Tally). It is also the first, and to date only, Best Picture winner widely considered to be a horror film.
  • March 20 - Frank Mancuso Sr. leaves as the head of Paramount Pictures.
  • July 1 - Brandon Tartikoff is appointed as chairman of Paramount Pictures.
  • July 3 – Terminator 2: Judgment Day became one of the landmarks for science fiction action films with its groundbreaking visual effects from Industrial Light & Magic.
  • August 7 - Sony Pictures Entertainment is formed, acquiring Columbia Pictures Industries. As a result of this new formation, Tri-Star Pictures drops the hyphen from its name and becomes TriStar Pictures, while RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video becomes Columbia-TriStar Home Video.
  • October – Mark Canton replaces Frank Price as chairman of Columbia Pictures.
  • November 22 – Walt Disney Pictures releases Beauty and the Beast, based on the original fairy tale and Jean Cocteau's 1946 film. The film became one of the most prestigious and greatest animated and romantic films in cinema history. It went on to become the first animated film ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Awards

Academy Awards

Golden Globe Awards

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival): :Barton Fink, directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, United States

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival): :Close to Eden (Urga), directed by Nikita Mikhalkov, France / USSR

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival): :La Casa del sorriso (The House of Smiles), directed by Marco Ferreri, Italy

Category/Organization49th Golden Globe Awards
January 18, 199245th BAFTA Awards
February 21, 199264th Academy Awards
March 30, 1992DramaMusical or Comedy
Best Film*Bugsy**Beauty and the Beast**The Commitments**The Silence of the Lambs*
Best DirectorOliver Stone
JFKAlan Parker
The CommitmentsJonathan Demme
The Silence of the Lambs
Best ActorNick Nolte
The Prince of TidesRobin Williams
The Fisher KingAnthony Hopkins
The Silence of the Lambs
Best ActressJodie Foster
The Silence of the LambsBette Midler
For the BoysJodie Foster
The Silence of the Lambs
Best Supporting ActorJack Palance
City SlickersAlan Rickman
Robin Hood: Prince of ThievesJack Palance
City Slickers
Best Supporting ActressMercedes Ruehl
The Fisher KingKate Nelligan
Frankie and JohnnyMercedes Ruehl
The Fisher King
Best Screenplay, Adapted*Thelma & Louise*
Callie Khouri*The Commitments*
Dick Clement*The Silence of the Lambs*
Ted Tally
Best Screenplay, Original*Truly, Madly, Deeply*
Anthony Minghella*Thelma & Louise*
Callie Khouri
Best Original Score*Beauty and the Beast*
Alan Menken*Cyrano de Bergerac*
Jean-Claude Petit*Beauty and the Beast*
Alan Menken
Best Original Song"Beauty and the Beast"
Beauty and the Beast
"Beauty and the Beast"
Beauty and the Beast
Best Foreign Language Film*Europa Europa*
(Hitlerjunge Salomon)*The Nasty Girl*
(Das schreckliche Mädchen)*Mediterraneo*

1991 films

By country/region

  • List of American films of 1991
  • List of Argentine films of 1991
  • List of Australian films of 1991
  • List of Bangladeshi films of 1991
  • List of British films of 1991
  • List of Canadian films of 1991
  • List of French films of 1991
  • List of Hong Kong films of 1991
  • List of Indian films of 1991
    • List of Hindi films of 1991
    • List of Kannada films of 1991
    • List of Malayalam films of 1991
    • List of Marathi films of 1991
    • List of Tamil films of 1991
    • List of Telugu films of 1991
  • List of Japanese films of 1991
  • List of Mexican films of 1991
  • List of Pakistani films of 1991
  • List of South Korean films of 1991
  • List of Soviet films of 1991
  • List of Spanish films of 1991

By genre/medium

  • List of action films of 1991
  • List of animated feature films of 1991
  • List of avant-garde films of 1991
  • List of crime films of 1991
  • List of comedy films of 1991
  • List of drama films of 1991
  • List of horror films of 1991
  • List of science fiction films of 1991
  • List of thriller films of 1991
  • List of western films of 1991

Births

  • January 1 - Mark L. Young, American actor
  • January 2 – Ben Hardy, English actor
  • January 4 – Charles Melton, American actor and model
  • January 7 - Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, American actress and singer
  • January 9 - Laura-Leigh, American actress
  • January 13
    • Genevieve Gaunt, English actress
    • Jennifer Paredes, American actress
  • January 14 - Jeanine Mason, American actress
  • January 15
    • Ayeza Khan, Pakistani actress and model
    • Lulu Popplewell, English comedian and actress
  • January 17 – Willa Fitzgerald, American actress
  • January 18 – Britt McKillip, Canadian actress, singer
  • January 19 – Erin Sanders, American actress
  • January 21
    • Craig Roberts, Welsh actor and director
    • Brittany Tiplady, Canadian actress
  • January 24 - Pablo Pauly, French actor
  • January 25
    • Ariana DeBose, American actress, dancer and singer
    • Rupert Simonian, British actor
  • January 27 – Cristo Fernández, Mexican actor
  • January 28 – Calum Worthy, Canadian actor, musician
  • February 10 – Emma Roberts, American actress
  • February 12 – Tanaya Beatty, Canadian actress
  • February 17
    • Ed Sheeran, English singer-songwriter
    • Bonnie Wright, English actress
    • Jeremy Allen White, American actor
  • February 18 – Malese Jow, American actress
  • February 21
    • Joe Alwyn, English actor
    • Rose Reynolds, British actress and singer
  • February 24 - O'Shea Jackson Jr., American actor and rapper
  • February 25 – Tony Oller, American singer, songwriter and actor
  • February 26 - Lex Scott Davis, American actress
  • February 28
    • Sarah Bolger, Irish actress
    • Rudy Mancuso, American internet personality, musician and actor
  • March 2 – Jake Picking, German-born American actor
  • March 5 – Hanna Mangan-Lawrence, English-Australian actress
  • March 6 – Tyler, The Creator, American rapper
  • March 7 – Daisy Head, English actress
  • March 8 – Devon Werkheiser, American actor
  • March 9 – Domo Genesis, American rapper
  • March 12 - Lauren Holt, American actress, comedian and singer
  • March 17 – Kristjan Lüüs, Estonian actor
  • March 19 – Garrett Clayton, American actor
  • March 22 - Dominique Fishback, American actress
  • March 23 – Madelyn Deutch, American actress, director, musician and writer
  • March 24 - Jack Bannon, English actor
  • March 25 – Seychelle Gabriel, American actress
  • March 28 – Amy Bruckner, American actress
  • March 29
    • Irene, South Korean singer, rapper and actress
    • Samantha Win, Canadian actress
  • March 31 – Elliot Barnes-Worrell, English actor
  • April 4 – Jamie Lynn Spears, American actress
  • April 7 - Anne-Marie, English singer-songwriter and actress
  • April 9 – Amber Lee Connors, American voice actress
  • April 10
    • AJ Michalka, American singer and actress
    • Sergiusz Żymełka, Polish actor
  • April 13 – Dylan Penn, American actress and model
  • April 19 – Mehazabien Chowdhury, Bangladeshi actress and model
  • April 21 – Frank Dillane, English actor
  • April 22 – Leonie Benesch, German actor
  • May 6 – Shamier Anderson, Canadian actor
  • May 17 – Daniel Curtis Lee, American actor, comedian and rapper
  • May 21 – Sarah Ramos, American actress
  • June 1 – Zazie Beetz, American actress
  • June 7 – Emily Ratajkowski, English-born American actress and model
  • June 11 – Kärt Tammjärv, Estonian actress
  • June 15 – Lindsay Seidel, American voice actress
  • June 18 – Willa Holland, American actress
  • June 20 - Ruby Modine, American actress and singer
  • June 24 – Dexter Darden, American actor
  • June 26 – Will Attenborough, British actor
  • June 28 - Daniel Zovatto, Costa Rican-American actor
  • June 29
    • Tajja Isen, Canadian actress and singer-songwriter
    • Addison Timlin, American actress
  • July 3 - Grant Rosenmeyer, American actor and screenwriter
  • July 5 – Jason Dolley, American actor
  • July 6 – Victoire Thivisol, French actress
  • July 7 – Eve Hewson, Irish actress
  • July 8
    • Thuso Mbedu, South African actress
    • Luke Pensabene, American actor and film producer
  • July 9 – Mitchel Musso, American actor
  • July 11 – Kentaro Sakaguchi, actor and model
  • July 12 – Erik Per Sullivan, American actor
  • July 16 – Alexandra Shipp, American actress
  • July 29 – Jahmil French, Canadian actor (died 2021)
  • August 4 - Lucinda Dryzek, English actress
  • August 12 – Lakeith Stanfield, American actor
  • August 13 - Nikita Hopkins, American screenwriter, visual artist and former child voice actor
  • August 16 – Evanna Lynch, Irish actress
  • August 17 – Austin Butler, American actor
  • August 22 – Naomi Ackie, English actress
  • August 23 - Jake Manley, Canadian actor
  • August 26 – Dylan O'Brien, American actor
  • August 27 – Young Mazino, American actor
  • August 28
    • Humberto Carrão, Brazilian actor
    • Kyle Massey, American actor
  • September 4 - Carter Jenkins, American actor
  • September 5 – Skandar Keynes, English actor
  • September 9
    • Yang Yang, Chinese actor
    • Kelsey Chow, American actress
  • September 17 – Mena Massoud, Egyptian-born Canadian actor and singer
  • September 19 – Tyler Neitzel, American actor
  • September 20
    • Spencer Locke, American actress
    • Jonah Meyerson, American actor and producer
  • September 25 – Alix Bénézech, French actress
  • September 27 – Thomas Mann, American actress
  • October 3 - Derek Klena, American actor and singer
  • October 5 – Xiao Zhan, Chinese actor
  • October 6 – Roshon Fegan, American actor, dancer, and rapper
  • October 15 - Charlotte Hope, English actress
  • October 18
    • Tyler Posey, American actor and musician
    • Toby Regbo, English actor
  • October 19 – Samantha Robinson, American actress
  • October 23 – Sophie Oda, American actress
  • October 25 – Lorina Kamburova, Bulgarian actress (d. 2021)
  • October 27 – Bryan Craig, American actor
  • October 28 – Mart Müürisepp, Estonian actor
  • October 31
    • Jordan-Claire Green, American actress
    • Junglepussy, American rapper and actress
  • November 1 – Anthony Ramos, American actor and singer-songwriter
  • November 4
    • Tanya Reynolds, English actress
    • Bee Vang, American actor
  • November 8 – Riker Lynch, American actor, singer, musician
  • November 10 - Genevieve Buechner, Canadian actress
  • November 11
    • Christa B. Allen, American actress
    • Travis Tope, American actor
  • November 13
    • Matt Bennett, American actor
    • Devon Bostick, Canadian actor
  • November 15 – Shailene Woodley, American actress
  • November 30 - Aoife Hinds, British-Irish actress
  • December 10 - KiKi Layne, American actress
  • December 12 – Jaime Lorente, Spanish actor
  • December 15
    • Eunice Cho, American actress
    • Alana Haim, American musician and actress
  • December 17 - Daniel Tay, American former actor
  • December 19 – Keiynan Lonsdale, Australian actor, dancer and singer-songwriter
  • December 20
    • Jillian Rose Reed, American actress
    • Colin Woodell, American actor
  • December 24 – Sofia Black-D'Elia, American actress
  • December 27 - Chloe Bridges, American actress

Deaths

MonthDateNameAgeCountryProfessionNotable films
January2Pato Guzman57USProduction Designer
4Richard Maibaum81USScreenwriter
12Keye Luke86ChinaActor
14David Arkin49USActor
19Don Beddoe87USActor
19Jo Eisinger81USScreenwriter
19John Russell70USActor
25Lilian Bond83UKActress
30John McIntire83USActor
February1Carol Dempster89USActress
1James MacDonald84UKSound Engineer, Voice Actor
2Natalie Kingston85USActress
3Nancy Kulp69USActress
5Dean Jagger87USActor
6Danny Thomas77USActor
12Ruth Morley65AustriaCostume Designer
19Peggy Mondo63USActress
24George Gobel71USActor
24Jean Rogers74USActress
25John Dunning74USFilm Editor
26Bernard W. Burton92USFilm Editor
26Slim Gaillard75USSinger, Actor
March3Vance Colvig72USActor
5Ian McLellan Hunter71UKScreenwriter
6Salvo Randone84ItalyActor
7Morton S. Fine74USScreenwriter
14Howard Ashman40USLyricist
15George Sherman78USDirector
18Vilma Bánky90HungaryActress
18Narda Onyx59EstoniaActress
22Gloria Holden82UKActress
22R. L. Ryan44USActor
23Mona Maris87ArgentinaActress
27Aldo Ray64USActor
28Carlos Montalbán87MexicoActor
April3Graham Greene86UKScreenwriter
9Maurice Binder72UKTitle Designer
10Kevin Peter Hall35USActor
10Natalie Schafer90USActress
12Tom Rosqui62USActor
16David Lean83UKDirector
20Don Siegel78USDirector
23William Dozier83USProducer
26Carmine Coppola80USComposer
26A. B. Guthrie Jr.90USScreenwriter
28Ken Curtis74USActor
May1Richard Thorpe95USDirector
2Jerzy Kosiński57PolandScreenwriter, Actor
5Laura Kerr88USScreenwriter
6Wilfrid Hyde-White87UKActor
8Ronnie Brody72UKActor
11Dino Diluca88ItalyActor
15Ronald Lacey55UKActor
18Edwina Booth86USActress
18Muriel Box85UKDirector, Screenwriter
23Fletcher Markle70CanadaDirector
26Eugène Lourié88UkraineArt Director, Production Designer
29Coral Browne77AustraliaActress
31Manolo Gómez Bur74SpainActor
June3Eva Le Gallienne92UKActress
8Heidi Bruhl49GermanyActress
12Peggy Ashcroft83UKActress
12Bernard Miles83UKActor
15Barry Kelley82USActor
16Joan Caulfield69USActress
18Ronald Allen60UKActor
19Jean Arthur90USActress
23Lea Padovani70ItalyActress
26Jack Marta88USCinematographer
27Milton Subotsky69USProducer, Screenwriter
30John B. Goodman89USArt Director
July1Michael Landon54USActor
2Don Houghton61FranceScreenwriter
2Lee Remick55USActress
5Mildred Dunnock90USActress
8James Franciscus57USActor
11Atang de la Rama89PhilippinesActress, Singer
15Bert Convy57USActor
21Theodore Wilson47USActor
August1Helen Page Camp60USActress
4Don DaGradi80USScreenwriter
16Bruno Nicolai65ItalyComposer
16Luigi Zampa86ItalyDirector
17Don Dubbins65USActor
18David Gale54UKActor
21Richard Wilson75USDirector
22Colleen Dewhurst67CanadaActress
25Niven Busch88USScreenwriter
26Alan Barrett52-53UKCostume Designer
28Alekos Sakellarios77GreeceDirector, Screenwriter
29Dallas Adams44UKActor
29Dixie Dunbar72USActress
30Alan Wheatley84UKActor
September3Jean Bourgoin78FranceCinematographer
3Frank Capra94USDirector
4Tom Tryon65USActor
7Ben Piazza58USActor
8Brad Davis41USActor
8Alex North80USComposer
13Joe Pasternak89RomaniaProducer
14Julie Bovasso61USActress
15John Hoyt85USActor
16Carol White48UKActress
21Angelo Rossitto83USActor
23Chuck Vincent51USDirector, Producer, Screenwriter
24Mary Lawrence73USActress
25Ralph Jester90USCostume Designer
25Viviane Romance79FranceActress
27Floyd Huddleston79USSongwriter
October6Phil Feldman69USProducer
9Thalmus Rasulala51USActor
11Redd Foxx68USActor, Comedian
12Sheila Florance75AustraliaActress
12Diana Gibson76USActress
12Aline MacMahon92USActress
12Regis Toomey93USActor
13Donald Houston67UKActor
14Gene Roddenberry70USProducer
15Han Ying-chieh64ChinaActor
16Arthur Arling85USCinematographer
17J. G. Devlin84IrelandActor
22Judy Kelly77AustraliaActress
25Khigh Dhiegh81USAActor
25John Stratton65UKActor
26Joe Lapis92HungarySound Engineer
28Sylvia Fine78USLyricist, Composer, Producer
29John DeCuir73USArt Director, Production Designer
November2Irwin Allen75USProducer, Director, Screenwriter
5Fred MacMurray83USActor
6Gene Tierney70USActress
10Tutte Lemkow73NorwayActor, Choreographer
11Morton Stevens62USComposer
12Diane Brewster60USActress
12Gabriele Tinti59ItalyActor
13Yves Montand70FranceActor, Singer
14Tony Richardson63UKDirector
19Reggie Nalder84AustriaActor
20Daniel Mann89USDirector
21Robert Kaufman60USScreenwriter
22Tadashi Imai79JapanDirector
23Klaus Kinski65GermanyActor
24Anton Furst47UKProduction Designer
24Freddie Mercury45UKSinger, Songwriter
25Eleanor Audley86USActress
27Ralph Bellamy87USActor
27George Edwards67USProducer
28Mel Dinelli79USScreenwriter
December7Herb Jaffe70USProducer
11Robert Q. Lewis70USActor
11Pat Walshe91USActorThe Wizard of Oz
12Eleanor Boardman93USActress
13Judy Moorcroft58UKCostume Designer
19Ernest K. Gann81USScreenwriter
19Paul Maxwell70CanadaActor
23Gene Milford89USFilm Editor
18Jacques Aubuchon67USActor
25Curt Bois90GermanyActor
28Cassandra Harris43AustraliaActress

Film debuts

  • Bruce Altman – Regarding Henry
  • Tom Arnold – Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
  • Monica Bellucci – La Riffa
  • Halle Berry – Jungle Fever
  • Jason Biggs – The Boy Who Cried Bitch
  • W. Earl Brown – Backdraft
  • Steve Carell – Curly Sue
  • James Caviezel – My Own Private Idaho
  • Morris Chestnut – Boyz n the Hood
  • Clifton Collins Jr. – Grand Canyon
  • Ice Cube – Boyz n the Hood
  • Leonardo DiCaprio – Critters 3
  • Wayne Duvall – Final Approach
  • Christopher Eccleston – Let Him Have It
  • Ethan Embry – Defending Your Life
  • Brendan Fraser – Dogfight
  • Edward Furlong – Terminator 2: Judgment Day
  • Janeane Garofalo – Late for Dinner
  • Paul Giamatti – Past Midnight
  • Eddie Griffin – Dice Rules
  • Jake Gyllenhaal – City Slickers
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman – Triple Bogey on a Par Five Hole
  • Joshua Jackson – Crooked Hearts
  • Keegan-Michael Key – Lunatics: A Love Story
  • Daniel Dae Kim – American Shaolin
  • Regina King – Boyz n the Hood
  • Queen Latifah – Jungle Fever
  • Denis Leary – Strictly Business
  • Téa Leoni – Switch
  • Matthew Lillard – Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College
  • Jason London – The Man in the Moon
  • Louis Mandylor – Necessary Roughness
  • Leslie Mann – Virgin High
  • Michael Massee – My Father Is Coming
  • Simon McBurney – Kafka
  • Michael McDonald – Uncaged
  • Breckin Meyer – Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
  • Jeffrey Dean Morgan – Uncaged
  • Elisabeth Moss – Suburban Commando
  • Kathy Najimy – The Hard Way
  • Thandiwe Newton – Flirting
  • Sophie Okonedo – Young Soul Rebels
  • Gwyneth Paltrow – Shout
  • Teri Polo – Born to Ride
  • John Prosky – Late for Dinner
  • Richard Roxburgh – Dead to the World
  • Til Schweiger – Manta, Manta
  • David Schwimmer – Flight of the Intruder
  • Rufus Sewell – Twenty-One
  • Marley Shelton – Grand Canyon
  • Jeremy Sisto – Grand Canyon
  • Jon Tenney – Guilty by Suspicion
  • Maura Tierney – Dead Women in Lingerie
  • Vince Vaughn – For the Boys
  • Daniel von Bargen – The Silence of the Lambs
  • Kari Wahlgren – Mobile Suit Gundam F91
  • Isaiah Washington – The Color of Love
  • Reese Witherspoon – The Man in the Moon

References

References

  1. "1991 Worldwide Box Office". [[IMDb]].
  2. "Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)". Box Office Mojo.
  3. D'Alessandro, Anthony. (July 15, 2002). "Top 50 worldwide grossers".
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