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Top grossing films (U.S.)

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: Rain Man - Mirage Entertainment, Star Partners II, United Artists

Best Director: Barry Levinson - Rain Man

Best Actor: Dustin Hoffman - Rain Man

Best Actress: Jodie Foster - The Accused

Best Supporting Actor: Kevin Kline - A Fish Called Wanda

Best Supporting Actress: Geena Davis - The Accidental Tourist

Best Foreign Language Film: Pelle the Conqueror (Pelle erobreren), directed by Bille August, Denmark

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: Rain Man

Best Actor: Dustin Hoffman - Rain Man

Best Actress (tie): Jodie Foster - The Accused

Best Actress (tie): Sigourney Weaver - Gorillas in the Mist

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: Working Girl

Best Actor: Tom Hanks - Big

Best Actress: Melanie Griffith - Working Girl

Other

Best Director: Clint Eastwood - Bird

Best Foreign Language Film: Pelle the Conqueror, Denmark

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 Film Festival):

Red Sorghum (Hong gao liang), directed by Zhang Yimou, China

Films released in 1988

Numerals and A-B

• 18 Again!
• 1969
• The Accidental Tourist, starring William Hurt, Kathleen Turner and Geena Davis
• The Accused, starring Jodie Foster and Kelly McGillis
• Action Jackson, starring Carl Weathers, Craig T. Nelson, Vanity and Sharon Stone
• Act Of Piracy
• The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
• Akira
• Alice (Něco z Alenky)
• Alien Nation, starring James Caan and Mandy Patinkin
• Amsterdamned
• Angel III: The Final Chapter
• And God Created Woman
• Another Woman
• Arthur 2: On the Rocks, starring Dudley Moore and Liza Minnelli
• Bad Dreams, directed by Andrew Fleming and starring Jennifer Rubin
• Bat 21, starring Gene Hackman and Danny Glover
• Beaches, starring Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey
• The Beast
• Beetlejuice, starring Michael Keaton, Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis and Winona Ryder
• Betrayed
• Big, starring Tom Hanks
• The Big Blue, directed by Luc Besson
• Big Business, starring Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin
• The Big Easy
• Big Time
• Big Top Pee-wee, starring Paul Reubens
• Biloxi Blues, starring Matthew Broderick and Christopher Walken
• Bird, starring Forest Whitaker
• Black Eagle
• Blind Justice, aka Hold My Hand I'm Dying starring Oliver Reed, directed by Terence Ryan
• The Blob
• Bloodsport, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Forest Whitaker
• La Bohème, by Luigi Comencini (see disambiguation)
• The Boost starring James Woods and Sean Young
• Braddock: Missing In Action III
• Bright Lights, Big City, starring Michael J. Fox, Kiefer Sutherland, Phoebe Cates and Dianne Wiest
• Bull Durham, starring Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins
• Burning Secret
• Buster

C-G

• Caddyshack II
• Call Me
• Camille Claudel
• Candy Mountain
• Celia
• Child's Play
• Chocolat
• The Chocolate War -(film mentioned in article)
• A Chorus of Disapproval
• Clara's Heart, starring Whoopi Goldberg and Neil Patrick Harris
• Clean and Sober, starring Michael Keaton
• Cocktail, starring Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown and Elisabeth Shue
• Cocoon: The Return
• Colors, starring Robert Duvall and Sean Penn
• Coming to America, starring Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall
• Consuming Passions
• The Couch Trip
• The Courier
• Crocodile Dundee II, starring Paul Hogan and Linda Koszlowski
• Crossing Delancey, starring Amy Irving
• A Cry in the Dark, starring Meryl Streep and Sam Neill
• Da
• Daffy Duck's Quackbusters
• Dancing in the Dust - Ivory Coast polygyny film
• Dangerous Liaisons, starring Glenn Close, John Malkovich and Michelle Pfeiffer
• The Dawning
• Day of the Panther
• The Deceivers
• Dead Heat
• The Dead Pool
• Dead Ringers
• Die Hard, starring Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman
• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, starring Steve Martin and Michael Caine
• Distant Thunder
• Distant Voices, Still Lives
• D.O.A.
• Doin' Time On Planet Earth
• Dominick and Eugene
• Dream Demon
• Drowning By Numbers
• Earth Girls Are Easy
• Eight Men Out
• Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
• Ernest Saves Christmas
• The Everlasting Secret Family
• Everybody's All-American, starring Dennis Quaid, Jessica Lange and Timothy Hutton
• Far North
• Feds
• A Fish Called Wanda, starring John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline and Michael Palin
• Frantic, starring Harrison Ford
• Fresh Horses
• Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
• Fright Night II
• The Fruit Machine
• Full Moon In Blue Water
• Fun Down There
• Funny Farm, starring Chevy Chase
• Ghosts... of the Civil Dead
• Gotham (aka) The Dead Can't Lie
• The Good Mother
• Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey, starring Sigourney Weaver

H-M

• Hairspray, starring Ricki Lake, Divine, Jerry Stiller, Sonny Bono and Deborah Harry
• Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
• Hanna's War
• Hanussen
• Haunted Summer
• Hawks, starring Timothy Dalton and Anthony Edwards
• Heartbreak Hotel
• Hellbound: Hellraiser II
• Hero And The Terror
• High Hopes
• High Spirits, directed by Neil Jordan, starring Peter O'Toole, Steve Guttenberg and Daryl Hannah
• Hold My Hand I'm Dying aka Blind Justice, starring Oliver Reed, directed by Terence Ryan
• Hot to Trot
• Hotel Terminus: Klaus Barbie, His Life and Times
• The House on Carroll Street
• I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
• It Couldn't Happen Here
• Iron Eagle II
• Johnny Be Good
• Kansas
• Keaton's Cop
• Killer Klowns from Outer Space
• The Land Before Time
• The Last Temptation of Christ, directed by Martin Scorsese
• La Leggenda del Santo Bevitore (The Legend Of The Holy Drinker) - Golden Lion award
• License to Drive
• Light Years
• The Little Devil (Il Piccolo Diavolo), starring Walter Matthau, Roberto Benigni (also director)
• Mac and Me
• Married to the Mob, starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Modine and Dean Stockwell
• Masquerade, starring Rob Lowe and Meg Tilly
• Mercenary Fighters
• Midnight Run, starring Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin
• Miles from Home
• Mio in the Land of Faraway (U.S. release)
• Mississippi Burning, starring Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe and Frances McDormand
• The Moderns
• Monkey Shines
• Moonwalker
• Moving
• My Neighbour Totoro
• My Stepmother Is an Alien, starring Kim Basinger, Dan Aykroyd and Alyson Hannigan

N-Z

• The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, starring Leslie Nielsen and Priscilla Presley
• Never on Tuesday
• The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
• Off Limits
• Oliver & Company
• Paperhouse
• Patty Hearst*La Casa del sorriso (The House of Smiles) - Golden Bear award
• Pelle the Conqueror, starring Max von Sydow
• Phantasm II
• Plain Clothes
• Platoon Leader
• Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach
• Poltergeist 3
• Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw
• The Presidio
• Prison
• Punchline, starring Sally Field and Tom Hanks
• Pushpak
• Quelques Jours avec Moi (A Few Days with Me)
• Rain Man, starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture and Golden Bear (for 1989)
• Rambo III, starring Sylvester Stallone
• Rattle and Hum
• Red Heat, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Belushi
• The Rescue
• Ricky 1, low budget parody of Rocky
• Running on Empty, starring Christine Lahti, Judd Hirsch, River Phoenix and Martha Plimpton
• Salome's Last Dance
• Scrooged, starring Bill Murray
• Seven Hours To Judgment
• Shakedown aka Blue Jean Cop
• She's Having a Baby, starring Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth McGovern
• Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers
• Shoot to Kill aka Deadly Pursuit
• Short Circuit 2
• A Short Film About Love by Krzysztof Kieslowski
• Space Mutiny by David Winters - (considered the worst sci fi space action film made in the English language)
• Spike Of Bensonhurst
• Stand and Deliver, starring Edward James Olmos and Lou Diamond Phillips
• Stars and Bars
• Stealing Heaven, starring Derek de Lint and Kim Thomson
• Story of Women
• Strike Commando 2
• Tapeheads, starring John Cusack and Tim Robbins
• Ten Zan: The Ultimate Mission
• The Secret of the Sahara, directed by Alberto Negrin, starring Michael York and Andie MacDowell
• Taffin
• They Live, starring Roddy Piper
• To Kill A Priest (France)
• Tougher Than Leather
• Traxx
• Tucker: The Man and His Dream, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Jeff Bridges and Martin Landau
• Twins, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito
• Vibes, starring Jeff Goldblum and Cyndi Lauper
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being, according to a book by Milan Kundera
• War Party
• Watchers
• Waxwork
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit, starring Bob Hoskins and Christopher Lloyd
• Willow, starring Val Kilmer and Warwick Davis
• Working Girl, starring Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford and Sigourney Weaver - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
• A World Apart, starring Barbara Hershey and Jodhi May
• World Gone Wild
• Young Guns, starring Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen, Dermot Mulroney and Casey Siemaszko

Births

• March 27 - Brenda Song, American actress, singer and model
• April 10 - Haley Joel Osment, American actor
• April 25 - Sara Paxton, American singer/actress
• May 17 - Nikki Reed, American actress/writer
• June 7 - Michael Cera, American actor
• June 9 - Mae Whitman, American actress
• August 16 - Rumer Willis, American actress
• August 24 - Rupert Grint, English actor
• August 27 - Alexa Vega, American actress
• November 9 - Nikki Blonsky, American singer and actress
• December 14 - Vanessa Hudgens, American actress and singer

Deaths

• January 7 - Michel Auclair, actor (b. 1922)
• January 7 - Trevor Howard, actor
• February 1 - Heather O'Rourke, actress
• January 25 - Colleen Moore, actress
• March 6 - Jeanne Aubert, French actress
• April 21 - I. A. L. Diamond, screenwriter
• April 15 - Kenneth Williams, actor
• May 30 - Ella Raines, actress
• July 12 - Joshua Logan, director
• July 25 - Judith Barsi, actress
• August 4 - Florence Eldridge, actress
• September 5 - Gert Fröbe, actor
• October 1 - Lucien Ballard, cinematographer
• October 27 - Charles Hawtrey, actor
• October 31 - John Houseman, actor
• November 27 - John Carradine, actor
• December 23 – Frederick W. Elvidge, actor
• December 27 - Hal Ashby, director

Film debuts

• Alan Rickman
• Juliette Lewis
• Julianne Moore
• Julia Roberts