1993 in film

Highest-grossing films

Events

• The film Jurassic Park, a dinosaur epic with massive special effects, breaks box-office records by becoming the highest-grossing film ever made.
• Walt Disney Studios celebrated its 70th anniversary in 1993.
• Family romance film Sleepless in Seattle revives the genre of The Courtship of Eddie's Father, with an extensive soundtrack of oldies music.
• January 19 – Production begins on the film Toy Story.
• March 31 – Actor Brandon Lee is accidentally killed during the filming of The Crow.
• April 12 – Actress Lisa Bonet files for divorce from Lenny Kravitz.
• April 17 – The Bangles' Susanna Hoffs marries screenwriter Jay Roach in Los Angeles, California.
• Actress Kim Basinger files for bankruptcy after a California judge orders her to pay $7.4 million for refusing to honor a verbal contract to star in the film Boxing Helena. As a result, Basinger loses the town that she purchased in 1989, Braselton, Georgia, to her partner in the deal, the pension fund of Chicago-based Ameritech.
• May 28 – Produced by Hollywood Pictures, Super Mario Bros. opens, marking the first video game film released, starring Bob Hoskins as Mario and John Leguizamo as Luigi. The film would unfortunately end up grossing only $20.9 million domestically and receive negative reviews from critics.
• August 6 – The Fugitive is released to worldwide critical and commercial success. It will go on to become one of the highest-grossing films of all time at the time, and receive seven Academy Award nominations.
• October 31 – Actor River Phoenix accidentally dies of an overdose during the filming of Dark Blood. The film was later completed and released in 2012.
• October 31 – Legendary Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini dies in Rome, Italy, at the age of 73.
• December 22 - Turner Broadcasting System acquired Castle Rock Entertainment.

  Awards

1993 wide-release films

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

Notable films released in 1993

A

• '
• Aankhen, starring Givinda –
• Abraham's Valley –
• Acting on Impulse, starring Linda Fiorentino, C. Thomas Howell, Nancy Allen
• Addams Family Values, directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, starring Anjelica Huston, Raúl Juliá, Christopher Lloyd, Christina Ricci, Joan Cusack
• The Age of Innocence, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder
• '
• Airborne, starring Shane McDermott and Seth Green
• Al-Kompars –
• Alive, starring Ethan Hawke, Vincent Spano, Josh Hamilton
• Amos & Andrew, starring Nicolas Cage and Samuel L. Jackson
• Another Stakeout, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez, Rosie O'Donnell
• L'Arbre, le maire et la médiathèque, directed by Éric Rohmer –
• Arizona Dream, starring Johnny Depp and Jerry Lewis
• Army of Darkness, directed by Sam Raimi, starring Bruce Campbell and Embeth Davidtz
• Aspen Extreme, starring Peter Berg, Paul Gross, Finola Hughes, Teri Polo

  B

• Baazigar, starring Shahrukh Khan and Shilpa Shetty –
• Bad Behaviour, starring Stephen Rea and Sinéad Cusack –
• Bad Boy Bubby –
• The Ballad of Little Jo, starring Suzy Amis, Melissa Leo, Carrie Snodgress, Heather Graham
• Barbarians at the Gate, starring James Garner, Jonathan Pryce, Joanna Cassidy, Peter Riegert, Fred Dalton Thompson
• , animated film directed by Eric Radomski and Bruce Timm
• Beethoven's 2nd, starring Charles Grodin and Bonnie Hunt
• Beijing Bastards, directed by Zhang Yuan –
• Benny & Joon, starring Johnny Depp, Mary Stuart Masterson, Aidan Quinn
• The Beverly Hillbillies, starring Jim Varney, Cloris Leachman, Erika Eleniak, Diedrich Bader, Dabney Coleman, Lily Tomlin, Lea Thompson, Rob Schneider
• Bhaji on the Beach –
• Blood In Blood Out, directed by Taylor Hackford, starring Damian Chapa and Benjamin Bratt
• Bloom in the Moonlight –
• The Blue Kite –
• Bodies, Rest & Motion, starring Bridget Fonda and Phoebe Cates
• Body of Evidence, starring Madonna, Willem Dafoe, Joe Mantegna, Anne Archer, Julianne Moore, Jürgen Prochnow
• Body Snatchers, directed by Abel Ferrara, starring Gabrielle Anwar, Forest Whitaker, Meg Tilly
• Boiling Point, starring Wesley Snipes, Dennis Hopper and Viggo Mortensen
• Bopha!, directed by Morgan Freeman, starring Danny Glover
• Born Yesterday, starring Melanie Griffith, Don Johnson, John Goodman
• Boxing Helena, starring Sherilyn Fenn and Julian Sands
• The Bride with White Hair, starring Brigitte Lin and Leslie Cheung –
• A Bronx Tale, directed by and starring Robert De Niro, with Chazz Palminteri, Lillo Brancato, Jr., Francis Capra, Joe Pesci

  C

• CB4, starring Chris Rock
• Calendar Girl, starring Jason Priestley and Jerry O'Connell
• Caro diario, directed by Nanni Moretti –
• Carlito's Way, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller, Luis Guzmán, John Leguizamo
• The Cement Garden, starring Charlotte Gainsbourg –
• The Cemetery Club, starring Ellen Burstyn, Olympia Dukakis, Lainie Kazan, Diane Ladd, Danny Aiello
• Chai Gong, starring Maggie Cheung –
• Class to Remember, A – – Japan Academy Prize for Picture of the Year
• Cliffhanger, starring Sylvester Stallone, John Lithgow, Michael Rooker, Janine Turner
• Coneheads, directed by Steve Barron, starring Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin
• The Conjugal Bed –
• Cool Runnings, directed by Jon Turteltaub, starring John Candy
• Cop and a Half, starring Burt Reynolds
• Crime Story, starring Jackie Chan –
• Cronos, directed by Guillermo del Toro –
• The Crush, starring Cary Elwes and Alicia Silverstone

  D

• Damini – Lightning, starring Rishi Kapoor and Sunny Deol –
• A Dangerous Woman, starring Debra Winger, Barbara Hershey, Gabriel Byrne, David Strathairn, Laurie Metcalf
• The Dark Half, starring Timothy Hutton and Amy Madigan
• Darkness in Tallinn –
• Darr, directed by Yash Chopra –
• Dave, starring Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Frank Langella, Ving Rhames, Charles Grodin
• The Days, directed by Wang Xiaoshuai –
• Dazed and Confused, starring Matthew McConaughey, Ben Affleck, Parker Posey, Milla Jovovich
• Deadfall, starring Michael Biehn and Nicolas Cage
• Demolition Man, starring Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock
• Dennis the Menace, starring Walter Matthau and Mason Gamble
• Desperate Remedies –
• Digger –
• Dirty Weekend, starring Lia Williams and Rufus Sewell –
• , starring Jason Scott Lee and Lauren Holly

  E

• The Escort, directed by Ricky Tognazzi –
• La estrategia del caracol –
• Extreme Justice starring Lou Diamond Phillips and Scott Glenn

  F

• Falling Down, directed by Joel Schumacher, starring Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey, Rachel Ticotin, Frederic Forrest, Tuesday Weld
• A Far Off Place, starring Reese Witherspoon
• Faraway, So Close!, directed by Wim Wenders, starring Bruno Ganz, Otto Sander, Willem Dafoe, Nastassja Kinski –
• Farewell My Concubine, directed by Chen Kaige, starring Leslie Cheung and Gong Li – – Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and Palme d'Or
• Fatal Instinct, directed by Carl Reiner, starring Armand Assante, Sherilyn Fenn, Sean Young, Kate Nelligan
• Fearless, starring Jeff Bridges, Isabella Rossellini, Rosie Perez
• Fiorile, directed by Paolo Taviani –
• Fire on the Amazon, starring Sandra Bullock
• Fire in the Sky, starring Robert Patrick and D. B. Sweeney
• The Firm, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Tom Cruise, Gene Hackman, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Holly Hunter, Wilford Brimley, David Strathairn, Ed Harris
• Flesh and Bone, directed by Steve Kloves, starring Meg Ryan, Dennis Quaid, James Caan, Gwyneth Paltrow
• For Love or Money, directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, starring Michael J. Fox, Gabrielle Anwar, Anthony Higgins
• A Foreign Field, starring Alec Guinness and Leo McKern –
• –
• Free Willy, directed by Simon Wincer, starring Jason James Richter, Michael Madsen, Michael Ironside, Lori Petty
• The Fugitive, directed by Andrew Davis, starring Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Joe Pantoliano, Jeroen Krabbé, Sela Ward, Julianne Moore

  G

• Gardish, starring Jackie Shroff and Amrish Puri –
• Gentleman, starring Arjun and Madhoo –
• Germinal, directed by Claude Berri, starring Renaud, Gérard Depardieu and Miou-Miou –
• ', starring Wes Studi, Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall, Jason Patric
• Gettysburg, starring Tom Berenger, Jeff Daniels, Martin Sheen
• Ghost in the Machine, starring Karen Allen
• Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II –
• Golden Balls,, starring Javier Bardem –
• The Good Son, starring Macaulay Culkin and Elijah Wood
• The Great Pumpkin –
• Gross Misconduct, starring Naomi Watts and Jimmy Smits
• Groundhog Day, directed by Harold Ramis, starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell
• Grumpy Old Men, starring Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Burgess Meredith, Daryl Hannah, Kevin Pollak, Ann-Margret
• Guelwaar, directed by Ousmane Sembène –
• Guilty as Sin, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Rebecca De Mornay, Don Johnson, Jack Warden, Stephen Lang
• ', directed by Jerry Jameson, starring James Arness, James Brolin, Ali MacGraw, Amy Stoch, Christopher Bradley, Marco Sanchez, Tim Choate, Patrick Dollaghan

  H

• Hard Target, directed by John Woo, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lance Henriksen, Yancy Butler, Arnold Vosloo, Wilford Brimley
• Heart and Souls, starring Robert Downey, Jr., Charles Grodin, Kyra Sedgwick, Alfre Woodard, Elisabeth Shue, Tom Sizemore, David Paymer
• Heaven & Earth, directed by Oliver Stone, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Joan Chen –
• Hercules Returns –
• Hocus Pocus, directed by Kenny Ortega, starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy
• A Home of Our Own, directed by Tony Bill, starring Kathy Bates and Edward Furlong
• , narrated by Michael J. Fox
• Hot Shots! Part Deux, directed by Jim Abrahams, starring Charlie Sheen and Lloyd Bridges
• The Hour of the Pig, starring Colin Firth, Ian Holm, Donald Pleasence –
• House of Cards, starring Kathleen Turner and Tommy Lee Jones
• A House in the Hills, starring Helen Slater and Michael Madsen
• The House of the Spirits, starring Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, Antonio Banderas, Winona Ryder, Glenn Close –

  I

• I Love a Man in Uniform –
• In Custody, directed by Ismail Merchant, starring Shashi Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Om Puri –
• In the Line of Fire, directed by Wolfgang Petersen, starring Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Rene Russo
• In the Name of the Father, directed by Jim Sheridan, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Emma Thompson – – Golden Bear Award
• Indecent Proposal, directed by Adrian Lyne, starring Robert Redford, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson
• Indian Summer, directed by Mike Binder, starring Alan Arkin, Matt Craven, Diane Lane, Bill Paxton, Elizabeth Perkins, Kevin Pollak, Julie Warner
• Iron Monkey, starring Donnie Yen –

  J

• Jack the Bear, starring Danny DeVito
• Le Jeune Werther –
• Josh and S.A.M.
• Joshua Tree, starring Dolph Lundgren
• The Joy Luck Club, directed by Wayne Wang, starring Rosalind Chao, Lauren Tom, France Nuyen
• Judgment Night, starring Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Denis Leary, Stephen Dorff, Jeremy Piven
• Jurassic Park, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Samuel L. Jackson, Wayne Knight

  K

• Kalifornia, directed by Dominic Sena, starring Brad Pitt, Juliette Lewis, David Duchovny, Michelle Forbes
• –
• :de:Kaspar Hauser |Kaspar Hauser – Verbrechen am Seelenleben eines Menschen –
• Khalnayak, starring Sanjay Dutt and Jackie Shroff –
• Kådisbellan –
• King of the Hill, directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring Jesse Bradford, Jeroen Krabbé, Elizabeth McGovern, Karen Allen
• Kung Fu Cult Master

  L

• Last Action Hero, directed by John McTiernan, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Austin O'Brien
• The Legend, starring Jet Li –
• Leprechaun, starring Warwick Davis and Jennifer Aniston
• Libera me –
• Life with Mikey, starring Michael J. Fox and Nathan Lane
• The Little Blonde Death –
• Loaded Weapon 1, starring Emilio Estevez and Samuel L. Jackson
• Lost in Yonkers, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Irene Worth, Mercedes Ruehl, David Strathairn
• Love and Human Remains, directed by Denys Arcand –

  M

• M. Butterfly, directed by David Cronenberg, starring Jeremy Irons and John Lone
• Mad Dog and Glory, directed by John McNaughton, starring Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman, Bill Murray, David Caruso, Kathy Baker
• Madadayo, directed by Akira Kurosawa –
• Made in America, starring Whoopi Goldberg, Ted Danson, Nia Long, Jennifer Tilly, Will Smith
• Malice, directed by Harold Becker, starring Alec Baldwin, Nicole Kidman, Bill Pullman, Anne Bancroft, Peter Gallagher, Bebe Neuwirth, George C. Scott
• The Man Without a Face, directed by and starring Mel Gibson, with Nick Stahl
• Manhattan Murder Mystery, directed by and starring Woody Allen, with Diane Keaton, Anjelica Huston, Alan Alda
• Map of the Human Heart, starring Jason Scott Lee –
• Married to It, starring Beau Bridges, Stockard Channing, Robert Sean Leonard, Mary Stuart Masterson, Cybill Shepherd, Ron Silver
• Matinee, directed by Joe Dante, starring John Goodman
• Me and the Kid, starring Danny Aiello
• Menace II Society, starring Tyrin Turner, Larenz Tate and Jada Pinkett
• The Meteor Man, starring Robert Townsend
• Money for Nothing, starring John Cusack
• Moving –
• Mr. Jones, directed by Mike Figgis, starring Richard Gere and Lena Olin
• Mr. Nanny, starring Hulk Hogan and Sherman Hemsley
• Mr. Wonderful, starring Matt Dillon, Annabella Sciorra, William Hurt, Mary-Louise Parker, Vincent D'Onofrio
• Mrs. Doubtfire, directed by Chris Columbus, starring Robin Williams, Sally Field, Pierce Brosnan – Golden Globe Award for Best Picture
• Much Ado About Nothing, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh, with Michael Keaton, Keanu Reeves, Emma Thompson, Denzel Washington, Robert Sean Leonard, Kate Beckinsale –
• The Music of Chance, starring James Spader and Mandy Patinkin
• My Favorite Season, starring Catherine Deneuve and Daniel Auteuil –
• My Neighbor Totoro
• My Life, starring Michael Keaton, Nicole Kidman, Bradley Whitford, Michael Constantine, Queen Latifah

  N

• Naked, directed by Mike Leigh, starring David Thewlis –
• Naked in New York, starring Eric Stoltz, Mary-Louise Parker, Jill Clayburgh, Ralph Macchio, Kathleen Turner, Tony Curtis
• Needful Things, starring Ed Harris, Max von Sydow, Bonnie Bedelia, J. T. Walsh, Amanda Plummer
• The Nightmare Before Christmas, directed by Henry Selick
• The Night We Never Met, starring Matthew Broderick, Annabella Sciorra, Kevin Anderson, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Justine Bateman
• Ninja Scroll –
• No More Mr. Nice Guy –
• Nowhere to Run, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Rosanna Arquette, Ted Levine, Kieran Culkin, Joss Ackland

  O

• Oglinda –
• Once Upon a Forest, directed by Charles Grosvenor, featuring the voice of Michael Crawford –
• Once Upon a Time in China III, starring Jet Li and Rosamund Kwan –
• Only The Strong, starring Mark Dacascos
• Ordinary Magic, starring Ryan Reynolds and Glenne Headly –

  P–Q

• The Pelican Brief, directed by Alan J. Pakula, starring Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington
• A Perfect World, directed by Clint Eastwood, starring Kevin Costner, Eastwood, Laura Dern, Bradley Whitford
• Philadelphia, directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Antonio Banderas, Joanne Woodward, Mary Steenburgen, Jason Robards
• The Philadelphia Experiment II
• The Piano, directed by Jane Campion, starring Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin – – Palme d'Or award
• Poetic Justice, directed by John Singleton, starring Janet Jackson and Tupac Shakur
• Point of No Return, starring Bridget Fonda, Gabriel Byrne, Dermot Mulroney, Anne Bancroft, Harvey Keitel
• Posse, directed by and starring Mario Van Peebles
• The Program, starring James Caan, Halle Berry, Omar Epps, Craig Sheffer, Kristy Swanson
• Public Access, directed by Bryan Singer
• The Puppetmaster –

  R

• Raining Stones, directed by Ken Loach –
• The Real McCoy, starring Kim Basinger and Val Kilmer
• Red Rock West, directed by John Dahl, starring Nicolas Cage, Lara Flynn Boyle, J.T. Walsh, Dennis Hopper
• The Red Squirrel –
• The Remains of the Day, directed by James Ivory, starring Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, James Fox, Hugh Grant, Christopher Reeve –
• Return of the Living Dead 3
• Rich in Love, starring Albert Finney, Kathryn Erbe, Kyle MacLachlan, Suzy Amis, Jill Clayburgh
• Rising Sun, directed by Philip Kaufman, starring Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes
• RoboCop 3, directed by Fred Dekker, starring Robert John Burke and Nancy Allen
• , directed by Mel Brooks, starring Cary Elwes, Dave Chappelle, Amy Yasbeck, Roger Rees, Richard Lewis
• Romeo Is Bleeding, directed by Peter Medak, starring Gary Oldman, Lena Olin, Annabella Sciorra, Juliette Lewis, Roy Scheider
• Rookie of the Year, directed by Daniel Stern, starring Thomas Ian Nicholas, Gary Busey, Albert Hall
• Roosters, starring Edward James Olmos and Sônia Braga
• Ruby Cairo, starring Andie MacDowell and Liam Neeson
• Ruby in Paradise, starring Ashley Judd
• Rudy, directed by David Anspaugh, starring Sean Astin, Ned Beatty, Charles S. Dutton, Jason Miller, Jon Favreau

  S

• The Saint of Fort Washington, starring Matt Dillon and Danny Glover
• Samba Traoré, directed by Idrissa Ouedraogo –
• The Sandlot, directed by David M. Evans
• Sankofa –
• Say a Little Prayer –
• The Scent of Green Papaya or –
• Schindler's List, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes – Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Picture
• Searching For Bobby Fischer, directed by Steven Zaillian, starring Joe Mantegna, Joan Allen, Ben Kingsley, Laurence Fishburne
• The Secret Garden, starring Maggie Smith –
• The Sex of the Stars –
• Shadowlands, directed by Richard Attenborough, starring Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger –
• Short Cuts, directed by Robert Altman, starring Tim Robbins, Andie MacDowell, Fred Ward, Bruce Davison, Robert Downey, Jr., Julianne Moore, Madeleine Stowe, Chris Penn, Lori Singer, Jack Lemmon, Lily Tomlin, Tom Waits
• , directed by Bill Duke, starring Whoopi Goldberg
• Six Degrees of Separation, directed by Fred Schepisi, starring Stockard Channing, Will Smith, Donald Sutherland
• Slaughter of the Innocents, starring Scott Glenn
• Sleepless in Seattle, directed by Nora Ephron, starring Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Bill Pullman, Rosie O'Donnell, Rita Wilson, Rob Reiner
• Sliver, directed by Phillip Noyce, starring Sharon Stone, William Baldwin, Tom Berenger
• Smoking/No Smoking, directed by Alain Resnais –
• The Snapper, directed by Stephen Frears, starring Colm Meaney and Brendan Gleeson –
• Sniper, starring Tom Berenger and Billy Zane
• So I Married an Axe Murderer, starring Mike Myers, Nancy Travis, Amanda Plummer
• Sommersby, directed by Jon Amiel, starring Richard Gere, Jodie Foster and Bill Pullman
• Son in Law, starring Pauly Shore
• Son of the Pink Panther, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Roberto Benigni
• Sonatine, directed by and starring Takeshi Kitano –
• Seopyeonje –
• Speak Up! It's So Dark –
• Stalingrad –
• Strawberry and Chocolate –
• Striking Distance, starring Bruce Willis, Sarah Jessica Parker, John Mahoney, Robert Pastorelli, Dennis Farina
• Sunset Grill, starring Peter Weller and Lori Singer
• Super Mario Bros., directed by Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel, starring Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper, Samantha Mathis
• Swing Kids, starring Christian Bale and Robert Sean Leonard

  T

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
• The Temp, starring Timothy Hutton, Lara Flynn Boyle, Faye Dunaway
• The Thing Called Love, starring River Phoenix and Samantha Mathis
• Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould –
• This Boy's Life, directed by Michael Caton-Jones, starring Robert De Niro, Ellen Barkin, Leonardo DiCaprio
• The Three Best Things in Life –
• ' – 1st of the Krzysztof Kieślowski trilogy, starring Juliette Binoche – – Golden Lion award
• The Three Muketeers, directed by Stephen Herek, starring Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris O'Donnell, Oliver Platt, Rebecca De Mornay –
• Three of Hearts, starring William Baldwin, Kelly Lynch, Sherilyn Fenn
• Tirangaa, starring Raaj Kumar –
• To the Starry Island –
• To Want to Fly –
• ', directed by Phil Roman, starring Richard Kind, Dana Hill, Anndi McAfee, Charlotte Rae, Tony Jay, Ed Gilbert, David Lander, Henry Gibson, Rip Taylor
• Tombstone, directed by George P. Cosmatos, starring Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Dana Delany, Michael Biehn, Powers Boothe, Billy Zane
• Trauma, directed by Dario Argento, starring Asia Argento, Piper Laurie, Brad Dourif
• True Romance, directed by Tony Scott, written by Quentin Tarantino, starring Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken, Gary Oldman, Michael Rapaport, Bronson Pinchot, Brad Pitt
• Twenty Bucks, starring Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi, Elisabeth Shue, Linda Hunt
• Two Cops –
• Two Small Bodies, starring Fred Ward and Suzy Amis

  U–V

• Undercover Blues, starring Kathleen Turner and Dennis Quaid
• Untamed Heart, directed by Tony Bill, starring Christian Slater, Marisa Tomei, Rosie Perez
• The Untold Story –
• The Vanishing, starring Jeff Bridges, Kiefer Sutherland, Nancy Travis
• Les Visiteurs, starring Christian Clavier and Jean Reno –

  W

• A Wall of Silence, starring Vanessa Redgrave –
• The War Room, directed by Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker
• Watch It, starring Peter Gallagher and Suzy Amis
• Wayne's World 2, directed by Stephen Surjik, starring Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Christopher Walken, Tia Carrere, Kim Basinger
• The Wedding Banquet, directed by Ang Lee – – Golden Bear and Golden Space Needle awards
• The Wedding Gift, directed by Richard Loncraine, starring Julie Walters and Jim Broadbent –
• We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story, directed by Ralph Zondag, Phil Nibbelink, Simon Wells
• What's Eating Gilbert Grape, starring Johnny Depp, Juliette Lewis, Mary Steenburgen, Leonardo DiCaprio
• What's Love Got to Do With It, directed by Brian Gibson, starring Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne – Nominated for 2 Oscars, won the American Choreography Award
• Where's God When I'm S-Scared?
• When A Stranger Calls Back
• Who's the Man?, starring Doctor Dré and Ed Lover
• Wide Sargasso Sea, starring Rachel Ward, Karina Lombard, Nathaniel Parker
• Wilder Napalm, starring Dennis Quaid, Debra Winger, Arliss Howard, Jim Varney
• Woman of Desire, starring Bo Derek
• The Women from the Lake of Scented Souls – – Golden Bear award
• Wrestling Ernest Hemingway, directed by Randa Haines, starring Robert Duvall, Richard Harris, Shirley MacLaine, Sandra Bullock
• The Wrong Man, directed by Jim McBride, starring Rosanna Arquette, Kevin Anderson, John Lithgow
• The Wrong Trousers, a Wallace and Gromit short –

  XYZ

• The Young Americans, starring Harvey Keitel –
• Younger and Younger, starring Donald Sutherland and Brendan Fraser

  Births

• January 9 – Ashley Argota, American actress
• January 11 – Flora Cross, French-American actress
• January 18 – Morgan York, American actress
• January 19 – Gus Lewis, American-English actor
• January 26 – Cameron Bright, Canadian actor
• February 7 – David Dorfman, American actor
• February 12 – Jennifer Stone, American actress
• February 14 – Shane Harper, American actor
• February 19 – Victoria Justice, American actress, singer
• March 4 -
• *Jenna Boyd, American actress
• *Abigail Mavity, American actress
• March 15 – Alia Bhatt, Indian-British actress
• April 7 – Yell Htwe Aung, Burmese comedian, actor, and model
• April 10 – Sofia Carson, actress, singer and musician
• April 14 – Vivien Cardone, American actress
• May 10 – Spencer Fox, American actor, singer and musician
• May 13 – Debby Ryan, American actress, singer
• May 14 – Miranda Cosgrove, American actress, singer
• May 24 – Oliver Davis, American actor
• June 7 - Jordan Fry, American actor
• June 9 – Danielle Chuchran, American actress
• June 25 – Barney Clark, English actor
• June 26 – Ariana Grande, American actress, singer
• July 1 – Raini Rodriguez, American actress, singer
• July 3 – Sarah Wiedenheft, Dutch-American voice actress
• July 9 – Emily Hirst, Canadian actress
• July 18 – Casey Veggies, American rapper
• July 26
• *Elizabeth Gillies, American actress
• *Taylor Momsen, American actress
• July 31 – Christian Byers, Australian actor
• August 1 – Leon Thomas III, American actor, singer/songwriter, musician and dancer
• August 2 – Ryan and Kyle Pepi, American actors
• August 5 – Suzuka Ohgo, Japanese actress
• August 11 – Alyson Stoner, American actress
• August 12 – Imani Hakim, American actress
• August 16 – Cameron Monaghan, American actor
• August 18 – Maia Mitchell, Australian actress, singer
• August 26 – Keke Palmer, American actress
• September 18 – Patrick Schwarzenegger, American actor
• September 22 – Chase Ellison, American actor
• October 8 – Angus T. Jones, American actor
• October 30 – Brett Kelly, Canadian actor
• October 31 – Letitia Wright, Guyanese-British actress
• November 22 – Adèle Exarchopoulos, French actress
• December 8 – AnnaSophia Robb, American actress
• December 16 – Stephan James, Canadian actor
• December 22 – Aliana Lohan, American actress
• December 27 – Olivia Cooke, English actress

  Notable deaths

Film debuts

• Jennifer Aniston – Leprechaun
• Kate Beckinsale – Much Ado About Nothing
• Michelle Burke – Coneheads
• Neve Campbell – The Dark
• Drew Carey – Coneheads
• Dave Chappelle –
• Thomas Haden Church – Tombstone
• Dr. Dre – Who's the Man?
• Noah Emmerich – Last Action Hero
• Jon Favreau – Rudy
• Anne Heche – An Ambush of Ghosts
• Terrence Howard – Who's the Man?
• Albert Hughes – Menace II Society
• Allen Hughes – Menace II Society
• Josh Lucas – Alive
• Matthew McConaughey – My Boyfriend's Back
• Brittany Murphy – Family Prayers
• Anna Paquin – The Piano
• Ryan Reynolds – Ordinary Magic
• Denise Richards – Loaded Weapon 1
• Michael Shannon – Groundhog Day
• Alicia Silverstone – The Crush
• Jada Pinkett Smith – Menace II Society
• Mira Sorvino – Amongst Friends
• Vince Vaughn – Rudy
• Steve Zahn – Rain Without Thunder
• Renée Zellweger – Dazed and Confused