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Years in film
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2010s
2010 • 2011 and beyond

Events

• April 12 - Actor Morgan Mason marries The Go-Go's Belinda Carlisle.
• April 26 - Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger marries television journalist Maria Shriver.
• May - Actress Heather Locklear marries Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee.
• November 21 - Actor Cary Grant dies of a cerebral hemorrhage.
• November 29 - Dar Robinson, considered the greatest stuntman ever, is killed on the set of the film Million Dollar Mystery.
• Turner Broadcasting begins to colorize black and white movie classics.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: Platoon - Hemdale, Orion

Best Director: Oliver Stone - Platoon

Best Actor: Paul Newman - The Color of Money

Best Actress: Marlee Matlin - Children of a Lesser God

Best Supporting Actor: Michael Caine - Hannah and Her Sisters

Best Supporting Actress: Dianne Wiest - Hannah and Her Sisters

Best Foreign Language Film: The Assault (De Aanslag), directed by Fons Rademakers, Netherlands

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: Platoon

Best Actor: Bob Hoskins - Mona Lisa

Best Actress: Marlee Matlin - Children of a Lesser God

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: Hannah and Her Sisters

Best Actor: Paul Hogan - Crocodile Dundee

Best Actress: Sissy Spacek - Crimes of the Heart

Other

Best Director: Oliver Stone, Platoon

Best Foreign Language Film: The Assault, Netherlands

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

The Mission, directed by Roland Joffé, United Kingdom

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

The Green Ray (Le Rayon vert), directed by Éric Rohmer, France

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Stammheim, directed by Reinhard Hauff, West Germany

Films released in 1986

• 3:15
• 37°2 le matin (Betty Blue), directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix, Golden Needle award for 1992
• 52 Pick-Up
• 8 Million Ways to Die
• 9½ Weeks
• About Last Night
• The Adventures of the American Rabbit
• The AIDS Show
• Aliens
• Armed and Dangerous
• Armed Response
• American Justice
• An American Tail
• Amorosa
• The Assault - Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, Golden Space Needle award
• As Is, directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, starring Colleen Dewhurst, Robert Carradine and Jonathan Hadary
• At Close Range
• Attention! Bandits!, aka Bandits, directed by Claude Lelouch (France)
• Avenging Force
• Back to School
• Band Of The Hand
• Big Trouble in Little China, starring Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun, James Hong and Victor Wong
• Black Moon Rising, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Linda Hamilton
• Blue City, starring Judd Nelson and Ally Sheedy
• Blue Velvet
• The Boy Who Could Fly
• Bullies
• By Touch
• Captain EO
• The Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation (a prequel to the original Care Bears Movie from 1985), starring Alyson Court, Cree Summer and Hadley Kay
• Casper's Wonderful Island
• Castaway, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring Amanda Donohoe and Oliver Reed
• Children of a Lesser God
• Choke Canyon
• Club Paradise, starring Robin Williams, Jimmy Cliff, Peter O'Toole, Rick Moranis and Eugene Levy
• The Color of Money, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Paul Newman and Tom Cruise
• Cobra
• Crocodile Dundee
• Dangerously Close
• Le Déclin de l'empire américain, (The Decline of the American Empire), written and directed by Denys Arcand
• The Delta Force
• Down and Out in Beverly Hills
• Down by Law, directed by Jim Jarmusch, starring Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni
• Eliminators
• Equalizer 2000
• Extremities
• Eye Of The Tiger
• F/X, starring Bryan Brown and Brian Dennehy
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off
• Firewalker
• Flight of the Navigator
• The Fly
• Foreign Body
• Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
• The Fringe Dwellers
• Genesis, starring Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, M.K. Raina (India / Switzerland / Belgium / France)
• Ghost Warrior
• GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords
• The Golden Child
• Good to Go
• The Great Mouse Detective
• The Green Ray (Le Rayon vert) - Golden Lion award
• Gung Ho!
• Hannah and Her Sisters - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
• Heartbreak Ridge
• Heathcliff: The Movie
• Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
• Highlander
• The Hitcher
• Hoosiers
• Hôtel du Paradis
• Howard the Duck
• Invaders from Mars
• Iron Eagle
• Jake Speed
• Jean de Florette, starring Gérard Depardieu and Yves Montand
• The Jet Benny Show
• Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
• Jumpin' Jack Flash, starring Whoopi Goldberg, Annie Potts, Jon Lovitz, Carol Kane
• The Karate Kid, Part II
• Laputa: Castle in the Sky (August 2 - Japan)
• Labyrinth, starring David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly
• Let's Get Harry
• Little Shop of Horrors
• Low Blow
• Loyalties
• Lucas
• Luxo Jr.
• Malcolm
• The Manhattan Project
• Manhunter, directed by Michael Mann and starring William Petersen.
• Manon des Sources starring Emmanuelle Beart and Yves Montand
• Maximum Overdrive
• The Messenger
• The Morning After
• Miracles
• The Mosquito Coast
• The Mission - Palme d'Or award
• Modern Girls
• Mona Lisa, directed by Neil Jordan
• The Money Pit, starring Tom Hanks and Shelley Long
• Murphy's Law
• My Little Pony: The Movie (a feature-length adaptation of the TV series and toy line)
• 'night, Mother, starring Sissy Spacek and Anne Bancroft
• The Name of the Rose, starring Sean Connery and Christian Slater
• Never Too Young To Die
• Nomads
• No Mercy, starring Kim Basinger and Richard Gere
• Off Beat
• One More Saturday Night
• Out of Bounds
• The Patriot
• Peggy Sue Got Married directed by Francis Ford Coppola starring Kathleen Turner
• Pirates, directed by Roman Polanski, starring Walter Matthau
• Platoon, directed by Oliver Stone - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture
• P.O.W.: The Escape
• Pretty in Pink, directed by Howard Deutch, starring Molly Ringwald, Jon Cryer, James Spader
• Project A-ko
• Psycho III, directed by Anthony Perkins, starring Anthony Perkins, Diana Scarwid, Jeff Fahey
• Quiet Cool
• Quicksilver
• Rad
• Raw Deal, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
• River's Edge(1986 film), starring Crispin Glover
• Robotech: The Movie, directed by Carl Macek and Noboru Ishiguro
• Round Midnight
• Ruthless People
• Sarraounia
• Shanghai Surprise, starring Madonna and Sean Penn
• Short Circuit, starring Steve Guttenberg
• Sid and Nancy, starring Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb
• Solarbabies
• Something Wild, starring Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith and Ray Liotta
• Stammheim - Golden Bear award
• Stand by Me
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
• Stoogemania
• Streets of Gold
• That's Life!
• ¡Three Amigos!, starring Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Chevy Chase
• Thunder Run
• Toby McTeague
• Top Gun
• Tough Guys
• Trick or Treat, starring Marc Price, Gene Simmons, and Ozzy Osbourne
• The Transformers: The Movie, starring Eric Idle, Judd Nelson, and Orson Welles
• Troll
• True Stories
• Under The Cherry Moon, starring Prince
• Wildcats, starring Goldie Hawn, Nipsey Russell, Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson and LL Cool J
• Wisdom
• X :The Unheard Music

Births

• January 24 - Mischa Barton, English-born American actress
• February 19 - Maria Mena, Norwegian singer
• March 9 - Brittany Snow, American actress
• March 14 - Jamie Bell, English actor
• April 3 - Amanda Bynes, American actress and variety show host
• April 9 - Leighton Meester, American actress and singer
• May 13- Robert Pattinson, English-born American actor
• May 16 - Megan Fox, American actress
• June 11 - Shia LaBeouf, American actor
• June 13 - Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, American actresses and entrepreneurs
• June 27 - Drake Bell, American actor
• July 2 - Lindsay Lohan, American actress
• August 16 - Shawn Pyfrom, American actor
• August 29 - Lauren Conrad, American TV personality and author
• September 12 - Emmy Rossum, American actress and singer
• October 2 - Camilla Belle, American actress
• November 1 - Penn Badgley, American actor
• November 25 - Katie Cassidy, American actress and singer

Deaths

• January 2 - Una Merkel, American actress
• January 14 - Donna Reed, American actress
• March 10 - Ray Milland, British actor
• March 30 - James Cagney, actor
• April 13 - Stephen Stucker, comedy actor
• April 23 - Otto Preminger, Austrian born director
• April 26 - Broderick Crawford, Oscar winning American actor
• April 26 - Bessie Love, American actress
• May 23 - Sterling Hayden, American actor
• June 3 - Anna Neagle, English actress
• June 13 - Benny Goodman, musician, actor
• July 25 - Vincente Minnelli, American director
• September 27 - Cliff Burton, American musician, Metallica
• October 5 - Hal B. Wallis, major American film producer
• November 21 - Dar Robinson, film stuntman
• November 29 - Cary Grant, actor
• December 13 - Heather Angel, actress
• December 26 - Elsa Lanchester, English actress
• December 28 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian film director

Film debuts

• Winona Ryder; Lucas
• Angela Bassett; F/X
• Christian Bale; Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna
• Joaquin Phoenix; SpaceCamp
• Tilda Swinton; Caravaggio
• Kristin Scott Thomas; Under the Cherry Moon
• Bill Pullman; Ruthless People
• Elizabeth Perkins; About Last Night...