1988 in film

Overview of the events of 1988 in film

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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

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See also: List of 1988 box office number-one films in the United States

The top 10 films released in 1988 by worldwide gross are as follows:[1]

Highest-grossing films of 1988  Rank | Title | Distributor | Worldwide gross

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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 | $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[2][3][4]
8  | Cocktail | Buena Vista | $171,504,781
9  | Big | 20th Century Fox | $151,668,774
10  | Die Hard | $141,500,000

## Events

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* 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).
* 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.[5]
* 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.[6]
* 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.

## Awards

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Category/Organization | 46th Golden Globe Awards
January 28, 1989 | 42nd BAFTA Awards
March 19, 1989 | 61st Academy Awards
March 29, 1989

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Drama | Musical or Comedy
Best Film | Rain Man | Working Girl | The Last Emperor | Rain Man
Best Director | 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 | Michael Palin
A Fish Called Wanda | Kevin Kline
A Fish Called Wanda
Best Supporting Actress | Sigourney Weaver
Working Girl | Judi Dench
A Handful of Dust | Geena Davis
The Accidental Tourist
Best Screenplay, Adapted | Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal
Running on Empty | Jean-Claude Carriere and Philip Kaufman
The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Christopher Hampton
Dangerous Liaisons
Best Screenplay, Original | A World Apart
Shawn Slovo | Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow
Rain Man
Best Original Score | 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 | N/A | "Let the River Run"
Working Girl
Best Foreign Language Film | 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

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### By country/region

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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 actor, writer and producer
* Zosia Mamet, American actress and musician
* February 6 – Anna Diop, Senegalese-born American actress[7]
* 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 14 – Stephen Curry, American basketball player
* 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
* March 27 – 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 – 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 – Allison Williams, American actress
* 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[8]
* 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 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 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
* Zoe 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
* unknown - Celine Song,Korean-Canadian director, playwright, and screenwriter

## Deaths

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Month | Date | Name | Age | Country | Profession | Notable films

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January | 1 | Marcel Hillaire | 79 | Germany | Actor |

* Sabrina
* Murderers' Row

7 | Michel Auclair | 65 | France | Actor |

* The Day of the Jackal
* Beauty and the Beast

7 | Trevor Howard | 74 | UK | Actor |

* Brief Encounter
* Mutiny on the Bounty

8 | Boyd Morgan | 72 | US | Stuntman, Actor |

* Dirty Harry
* Spartacus

10 | Hugh A. Robertson | 55 | US | Film Editor, Director |

* Midnight Cowboy
* Shaft

16 | Ballard Berkeley | 83 | UK | Actor |

* National Lampoon's European Vacation
* Stage Fright

19 | Bridget Boland | 75 | UK | Screenwriter |

* War and Peace
* Anne of the Thousand Days

19 | Cary Odell | 77 | US | Art Director |

* From Here to Eternity
* Cool Hand Luke

25 | Colleen Moore | 88 | US | Actress |

* The Power and the Glory
* The Scarlet Letter

February | 1 | Marcel Bozzuffi | 58 | French | Actor |

* The French Connection
* Z

1 | Heather O'Rourke | 12 | US | Actress |

* Poltergeist
* Poltergeist II: The Other Side

5 | Emeric Pressburger | 85 | Hungary | Screenwriter, Director |

* The Red Shoes
* Black Narcissus

8 | Allan Cuthbertson | 67 | Australia | Actor |

* The Guns of Navarone
* Performance

14 | Frederick Loewe | 86 | Germany | Composer |

* Gigi
* The Little Prince

28 | Asakazu Nakai | 86 | Japan | Cinematographer |

* Seven Samurai
* Ran

29 | Sidney Harmon | 80 | US | Producer, Screenwriter |

* Man Crazy
* The Talk of the Town

March | 1 | Joe Besser | 80 | US | Actor |

* Africa Screams
* Let's Make Love

3 | Lois Wilson | 93 | US | Actress |

* The Covered Wagon
* Miss Lulu Bett

5 | Alberto Olmedo[9] | 54 | Argentina | Actor, Comedian |

* Los caballeros de la cama redonda
* Las Aventuras del Capitán Piluso en el Castillo del Terror

6 | Jeanne Aubert | 82 | France | Actress |

* La Possession
* Mirages

7 | Divine | 42 | US | Actor |

* Pink Flamingos
* Hairspray

7 | Robert Livingston | 83 | US | Actor |

* The Three Mesquiteers
* The Lone Ranger Rides Again

12 | DeWitt Bodeen | 79 | US | Screenwriter |

* Cat People
* I Remember Mama

12 | Karen Steele | 56 | US | Actress |

* Marty
* Ride Lonesome

13 | Steno | 71 | Italy | Director, Screenwriter |

* An American in Rome
* Banana Joe

13 | John Holmes | 43 | US | Actor |

* Insatiable
* Fantasm

13 | Olive Carey | 92 | US | Actress |

* The Searchers
* The Alamo

27 | Renato Salvatori | 55 | Italy | Actor |

* Big Deal on Madonna Street
* Two Women

31 | Manuel Silos | 82 | Philippines | Actor, Director |

* Blessings of the Land

April | 1 | Jim Jordan | 91 | US | Actor |

* Look Who's Laughing
* The Rescuers

5 | Alf Kjellin | 68 | Sweden | Actor, Director |

* Assault on a Queen
* Ice Station Zebra

6 | John Clements | 77 | UK | Actor |

* Gandhi
* Things to Come

7 | Albert S. Rogell | 86 | US | Director |

* In Old Oklahoma
* The Black Cat

11 | Jeff Donnell | 66 | US | Actress |

* In a Lonely Place
* Gidget Goes Hawaiian

11 | Jesse L. Lasky Jr. | 77 | US | Screenwriter |

* The Ten Commandments
* Samson and Delilah

15 | Kenneth Williams | 62 | UK | Actor |

* Carry On
* The Hound of the Baskervilles

21 | I. A. L. Diamond | 67 | Moldovia | Screenwriter |

* Some Like It Hot
* The Apartment

22 | Irene Rich | 96 | US | Actress |

* They Had to See Paris
* The Champ

28 | Andrew Cruickshank | 80 | UK | Actor |

* El Cid
* The Cruel Sea

May | 1 | Paolo Stoppa | 81 | Italy | Actor |

* The Leopard
* Once Upon a Time in the West

4 | Tom Overton | 58 | US | Sound Engineer |

* Star Trek: The Motion Picture
* A Star Is Born

5 | George Rose[10] | 68 | UK | Actor |

* A Night to Remember
* Hamlet

12 | Paul Osborn | 86 | US | Screenwriter |

* East of Eden
* Sayonara

15 | Andrew Duggan | 64 | US | Actor |

* What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
* Seven Days in May

15 | Greta Nissen | 82 | Norway | Actress |

* Red Wagon
* The Luck of a Sailor

18 | Daws Butler | 71 | US | Voice Actor |

* Mary Poppins
* Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!

18 | Anthony Forwood | 72 | UK | Actor |

* Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
* Knights of the Round Table

18 | Christopher Gore | 43 | US | Screenwriter |

* Fame

21 | Barbara Laage | 67 | France | Actress |

* The Happy Road
* Paris Blues

22 | Tom Adair | 74 | US | Lyricist |

* Julie
* Sleeping Beauty

29 | Vladimír Menšík | 59 | Czech Republic | Actor |

* September Nights
* Tři oříšky pro Popelku

30 | Ella Raines[11] | 67 | US | Actress |

* Brute Force
* Hail the Conquering Hero

June | 2 | Raj Kapoor[12] | 63 | India | Actor, Director, Producer |

* Awaara
* Mera Naam Joker

16 | Kim Milford | 37 | US | Actor |

* Laserblast
* Corvette Summer

18 | Wilford Leach | 58 | US | Director, Screenwriter |

* The Wedding Party
* The Pirates of Penzance

19 | Teru Shimada | 82 | Japan | Actor |

* You Only Live Twice
* Tokyo Joe

22 | Dennis Day | 77 | US | Singer, Actor |

* I'll Get By
* Golden Girl

22 | Stuart Randall | 78 | US | Actor |

* Pony Soldier
* Naked Alibi

July | 1 | Alice Nunn | 60 | US | Actress |

* Pee-wee's Big Adventure
* Mommie Dearest

2 | Aldo Tonti | 78 | Italy | Cinematographer |

* Nights of Cabiria
* Reflections in a Golden Eye

7 | Jimmy Edwards | 68 | UK | Actor |

* The Bed-Sitting Room
* The Plank

12 | Joshua Logan | 79 | US | Director, Screenwriter |

* Mister Roberts
* Paint Your Wagon

22 | Milton Krasner | 84 | US | Cinematographer |

* All About Eve
* An Affair to Remember

22 | Patrick Newell | 56 | UK | Actor |

* Young Sherlock Holmes
* Becket

25 | Judith Barsi | 10 | US | Actress |

* The Land Before Time
* Jaws: The Revenge

25 | Douglas Hickox | 59 | UK | Director |

* Theatre of Blood
* Zulu Dawn

27 | Larry Clemmons | 81 | US | Animator, Screenwriter |

* The Jungle Book
* The Aristocats

31 | Trinidad Silva | 38 | US | Actor |

* Colors
* UHF

August | 1 | Florence Eldridge | 86 | US | Actress |

* Inherit the Wind
* Les Misérables

2 | Robert Emmet Smith | 73 | US | Art Director |

* King Rat
* Operation Petticoat

5 | Colin Higgins | 47 | France | Director, Producer, Screenwriter |

* Harold and Maude
* 9 to 5

5 | Ralph Meeker | 65 | US | Actor |

* Kiss Me Deadly
* The Dirty Dozen

7 | Wilfred Jackson | 82 | US | Animator |

* Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
* Fantasia

8 | Alan Napier | 85 | UK | Actor |

* Joan of Arc
* Batman

10 | Adela Rogers St. Johns | 94 | US | Screenwriter |

* What Price Hollywood?
* A Free Soul

11 | Anne Ramsey | 59 | US | Actress |

* The Goonies
* Throw Momma from the Train

17 | Victoria Shaw | 53 | Australia | Actress |

* The Eddy Duchin Story
* Edge of Eternity

19 | Don Haggerty | 74 | US | Actor |

* Cause for Alarm!
* Footsteps in the Night

23 | Jack Sher | 75 | US | Screenwriter, Director |

* The Kid from Left Field
* Four Girls in Town

24 | Leonard Frey | 49 | US | Actor |

* Fiddler on the Roof
* Where the Buffalo Roam

26 | Milton Sperling | 76 | US | Screenwriter |

* Battle of the Bulge
* The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell

27 | Charles Farrell | 88 | Ireland | Actor |

* Night and the City
* The Crimson Pirate

September | 1 | Hugh Hunt | 86 | US | Set Decorator |

* Ben-Hur
* Julius Caesar

5 | Gert Fröbe | 75 | Germany | Actor |

* Goldfinger
* The Longest Day

6 | Harold Rosson | 93 | US | Cinematographer |

* The Wizard of Oz
* Singin' in the Rain

12 | Stephen B. Grimes | 61 | UK | Production Designer |

* The Way We Were
* Out of Africa

14 | Louis Quinn | 73 | US | Actor |

* All the President's Men
* Ocean's 11

15 | Samuel E. Beetley | 74 | US | Film Editor |

* The Longest Day
* Doctor Dolittle

20 | Roy Kinnear | 54 | UK | Actor |

* Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
* Watership Down

21 | Henry Koster | 83 | Germany | Director, Screenwriter |

* Harvey
* The Bishop's Wife

21 | Christine Norden | 63 | UK | Actress |

* Mine Own Executioner
* The Black Widow

30 | Chick Chandler | 83 | US | Actor |

* Seven Doors to Death
* Hideout

October | 1 | Lucien Ballard[13] | 84 | US | Cinematographer |

* The Wild Bunch
* The Killing

1 | Pavle Vuisić | 62 | Yugoslavia | Actor |

* Battle of Neretva
* Doktor Mladen

4 | Margaret Lacey | 76 | UK | Actress |

* Diamonds Are Forever
* The Ruling Class

6 | Don Terry | 86 | US | Actor |

* Who Killed Gail Preston?
* Unseen Enemy

9 | Edward Chodorov | 84 | US | Screenwriter |

* Road House
* Kind Lady

11 | Morgan Farley | 90 | US | Actor |

* The Winner's Circle
* High Noon

11 | Bonita Granville | 65 | US | Actress |

* Nancy Drew... Detective
* These Three

12 | Ken Murray | 85 | US | Actor, Producer |

* The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
* Son of Flubber

13 | Melvin Frank | 75 | US | Screenwriter, Director |

* Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
* Road to Utopia

14 | Mary Morris | 72 | Fiji | Actress |

* The Thief of Bagdad
* Undercover

19 | Lawrence W. Butler | 80 | US | Special Effects Artist |

* Casablanca
* The Caine Mutiny

24 | Valerie Taylor | 85 | UK | Actress |

* Repulsion
* Went the Day Well?

25 | Eric Larson | 83 | US | Animator |

* Alice in Wonderland
* The Jungle Book

27 | Charles Hawtrey | 73 | UK | Actor |

* Sabotage
* The Ghost of St. Michael's

31 | John Houseman | 86 | Romania | Actor, Producer |

* The Paper Chase
* Rollerball

November | 1 | George J. Folsey | 90 | US | Cinematographer |

* Forbidden Planet
* Adam's Rib

2 | Lukas Heller | 58 | Germany | Screenwriter |

* The Dirty Dozen
* What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

3 | Sidney Carroll | 75 | US | Screenwriter |

* The Hustler
* A Big Hand for the Little Lady

6 | John Hubbard | 74 | US | Actor |

* One Million B.C.
* The Tall T

9 | Billy Curtis | 79 | US | Actor |

* The Wizard of Oz
* High Plains Drifter

15 | Mona Washbourne | 84 | UK | Actress |

* My Fair Lady
* Casino Royale

27 | Angela Aames | 32 | US | Actress |

* Scarface
* Bachelor Party

27 | John Carradine | 82 | US | Actor |

* Stagecoach
* The Grapes of Wrath

December | 7 | Christopher Connelly | 47 | US | Actor |

* Benji
* Move Over, Darling

7 | Dorothy Jordan | 82 | US | Actress |

* The Searchers
* 70,000 Witnesses

8 | Anne Seymour | 79 | US | Actress |

* All the King's Men
* Field of Dreams

15 | Maria De Matteis | 90 | Italy | Costume Designer |

* War and Peace
* The Bible: In the Beginning...

10 | Richard S. Castellano | 55 | US | Actor |

* The Godfather
* Love with the Proper Stranger

10 | Dennis Arundell | 90 | UK | Actor, Composer |

* The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
* "Pimpernel" Smith

17 | Jerry Hopper | 81 | US | Director |

* The Private War of Major Benson
* Pony Express

21 | Bob Steele | 81 | US | Actor |

* The Big Sleep
* The Colorado Kid

22 | Tucker Smith | 52 | US | Actor, Dancer |

* West Side Story
* The Producers

24 | Noel Willman | 70 | Ireland | Actor |

* Doctor Zhivago
* The Man Who Knew Too Much

26 | Julanne Johnston | 88 | US | Actress |

* The Thief of Bagdad
* Dame Chance

26 | John Loder | 90 | UK | Actor |

* Now, Voyager
* Sabotage

27 | Hal Ashby | 59 | US | Director, Film Editor |

* Harold and Maude
* Being There

## Film debuts

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* Joe Alaskey – Who Framed Roger Rabbit
* Tim Allen – Tropical Snow
* Stephen Baldwin – Homeboy
* Ned Bellamy – The Night Before
* Annette Bening – The Great Outdoors
* 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
* 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
* Goran Višnjić – Braća po materi
* Marlon Wayans – I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
* Duane Whitaker – Deadly Dreams
* Gregory Alan Williams – Above the Law

## References

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1. ^ "1988 Worldwide Box Office". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Archived from the original on October 28, 2020. Retrieved March 7, 2020.
2. ^ "A Fish Called Wanda (1988)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved April 7, 2020. "A Fish Called Wanda domestic gross $62,493,712"
3. ^ Groves, Don (August 9, 1989). "UIP Up, Up and Away For Year; Rentals Take Off". Variety. p. 11\. "UIP Top 10 Grossers, 1988–89
Rain Man $233 million
Crocodile Dundee 2 $126 million
Coming to America $122 million
A Fish Called Wanda $115 million
Willow $80 million
Twins $75 million
The Naked Gun $61 million"
4. ^ "UIP's $25M-Plus Club". Variety. September 11, 1995. p. 92\. "A Fish Called Wanda $126,103,000; The Naked Gun $73,689,000"
5. ^ "Roy Kinnear Is Dead At 54 After Falling From Horse in Film". The New York Times. 23 September 1988. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
6. ^ Griffin, Nancy (June 1988). "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade". Premiere.
7. ^ Mason, Aiden (2017-08-28). "Five Things You Didn't Know About Anna Diop". TVOvermind. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
8. ^ Editors of Chase's (24 September 2019). Chase's Calendar of Events 2020: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 424\. ISBN 978-1-64143-316-7.
9. ^ David K. Frasier (2002). Suicide in the Entertainment Industry: An Encyclopedia of 840 Twentieth-century Cases. McFarland. p. 244\. ISBN 978-0-7864-1038-5.
10. ^ Dennis Hevesi (13 May 1988). "Dominican Police Say 4 Men Killed George Rose". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
11. ^ Newsweek. Newsweek. 1988. p. 72.
12. ^ Ritu Nanda; Rāja Kapūra (2002). Raj Kapoor Speaks. Penguin Books India. p. 14\. ISBN 978-0-670-04952-3.
13. ^ John A. Willis (1989). Screen World. Crown Publishers. p. 235\. ISBN 978-0-517-57332-7.

## External links

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* 1988 Domestic Grosses at Box Office Mojo
* Top 1988 Movies at the Domestic Box Office at The Numbers
* Top 1988 Movies at the International Box Office at The Numbers
* Top 1988 Movies at the Worldwide Box Office at The Numbers
* Top-US-Grossing Titles Released 1988-01-01 to 1988-12-31 at IMDb
* Most Popular Feature Films Released 1988-01-01 to 1988-12-31 at IMDb
* List of 1988 films at IMDb
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