1987 IN FILM

Contents

Events

Top grossing films

Awards

Films released in 1987

Births

Deaths

Events

★ May 9 - Actor Tom Cruise marries actress Mimi Rogers.

★ November 21 - Actor Bruce Willis marries actress Demi Moore.

Top grossing films

# ''Three Men and a Baby'', starring Ted Danson, Steve Guttenberg, and Tom Selleck
# ''Fatal Attraction'', starring Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, and Anne Archer
# ''Beverly Hills Cop II'', starring Eddie Murphy
# ''Good Morning, Vietnam'', starring Robin Williams
# ''Moonstruck'', starring Cher, Nicolas Cage
# ''The Untouchables'', starring Kevin Costner, Sean Connery and Robert De Niro.
# ''The Secret of My Succe$s'', starring Michael J. Fox
# ''Stakeout'', starring Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez, Madeleine Stowe
# ''Lethal Weapon'', starring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, and Gary Busey
# ''The Witches of Eastwick'', starring Susan Sarandon, Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer

Awards

'Academy Awards:'
:Best Picture: '''The Last Emperor''' - Hemdale, Columbia
:Best Director: 'Bernardo Bertolucci' - ''The Last Emperor''
:Best Actor: 'Michael Douglas' - ''Wall Street''
:Best Actress: 'Cher' - ''Moonstruck''
:Best Supporting Actor: 'Sean Connery' - ''The Untouchables''
:Best Supporting Actress: 'Olympia Dukakis' - ''Moonstruck''
:Best Foreign Language Film: '''Babette's Feast''' (''Babettes Gæstebud''), directed by Gabriel Axel, Denmark
'Golden Globe Awards:'
:'Drama:'
:Best Picture: '''The Last Emperor'''
:Best Actor: 'Michael Douglas' - ''Wall Street''
:Best Actress: 'Sally Kirkland' - ''Anna''
:'Musical or comedy:'
:Best Picture: '''Hope and Glory'''
:Best Actor: 'Robin Williams' - ''Good Morning, Vietnam''
:Best Actress: 'Cher - ''Moonstruck''
:'Other'
:Best Director: 'Bernardo Bertolucci' - ''The Last Emperor''
:Best Foreign Language Film: '''My Life as a Dog''', Sweden
'Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):'
:'''Under the Sun of Satan''' (''Sous le soleil de Satan''), directed by Maurice Pialat, France
'Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):'
:'''Au revoir, les enfants''' (''Goodbye, Children''), directed by Louis Malle, France / W. Germany
'Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):'
:'''Tema''' (1979) (''The Theme''), directed by Gleb Panfilov, USSR

Films released in 1987

★ ''Adventures in Babysitting''

★ ''L'Ami de mon amie'' (''My Girlfriend's Boyfriend'' or ''Boyfriends and Girlfriends'')

★ ''Angel Heart''

★ ''Anna''

★ ''Aria'' (10 short films)

★ ''Au revoir, les enfants'' - Golden Lion award

★ ''Babette's Feast'' (''Babettes Gæstebud'') - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

★ ''Baby Boom'', starring Diane Keaton

★ ''Backfire''

★ ''Bad Taste'', written and directed by Peter Jackson et al.

★ ''Bagdad Café'', also known as ''Out of Rosenheim'', Golden Space Needle award (for 1988)

★ ''The Bedroom Window''

★ ''Bellman and True''

★ ''The Belly of an Architect''

★ ''Beverly Hills Cop II''

★ ''The Big Easy''

★ ''The Brave Little Toaster''

★ ''Broadcast News''

★ ''Business as Usual''

★ ''Dark Eyes''

★ ''Daughter of the Nile'' (''Niluohe nuer'')

★ '', aka ''Dear America''

★ ''

★ ''Diary for My Loves'' (''Napló szerelmeimnek'')

★ ''Dirty Dancing''

★ ''Empire of the Sun''

★ ''Family Viewing''

★ ''Fatal Attraction''

★ ''Fatal Beauty''

★ ''Five Corners'', starring Tim Robbins, Jodie Foster, and John Turturro

★ ''Full Metal Jacket''

★ ''The Gate''

★ ''Ghost Chase''

★ ''Le Grand Chemin''

★ ''Ground Zero''

★ ''Good Morning, Vietnam''

★ ''The Hanoi Hilton''

★ ''Hellraiser''

★ ''The Hidden''

★ ''Hiding Out'', starring Jon Cryer

★ ''High Tide''

★ ''Hope and Glory'' - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)

★ ''A Hungarian Fairy Tale'' (''Hol volt, hol nem volt'')

★ ''Innerspace''

★ ''The Last Emperor'' - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture

★ ''Lethal Weapon''

★ ''The Living Daylights''

★ ''The Lost Boys''

★ ''Maid to Order''

★ ''Masters of the Universe'' starring Dolph Lundgren & Courteney Cox

★ ''Matewan''

★ ''Mio in the Land of Faraway

★ ''The Monster Squad''

★ ''Moonstruck''

★ ''Mr. Nice Guy'' starring Mike MacDonald and Jan Smithers

★ ''My Life As a Dog'', directed by Lasse Hallstrom, Golden Space Needle award

★ ''

★ ''Overboard'' starring Kurt Russell & Goldie Hawn

★ ''Pelle the Conqueror'' - Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film (for 1988)

★ ''Predator''

★ ''The Principal''

★ ''Prince of Darkness'' starring Donald Pleasence, Jameson Parker and Victor Wong

★ ''The Princess Bride''

★ ''Red Sorghum'' (''Hong gao liang'') - Golden Bear award (for 1988)

★ '' with Robert Carradine and Courtney Thorne-Smith

★ ''RoboCop'' starring Peter Weller

★ ''Roxanne'' starring Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah

★ ''The Secret of My Succe$s''

★ ''The Sicilian (film)''

★ ''Some Kind of Wonderful'' starring Eric Stoltz, Mary Stuart Masterson and Lea Thompson

★ ''Spaceballs'' directed by Mel Brooks

★ ''Square Dance''

★ ''Stakeout''

★ ''Straight to Hell''

★ ''Summer School'' with Courtney Thorne-Smith

★ '' starring Christopher Reeve

★ ''Teen Wolf Too''

★ ''Three Men and a Baby''

★ ''Tropic Of Ice''

★ ''Under the Sun of Satan'' (''Sous le soleil de Satan'') - Palm d'Or award

★ ''The Untouchables''

★ ''Waiting for the Moon''

★ ''Walker''

★ ''Wall Street''

★ ''Wish You Were Here'' with Emily Lloyd and Tom Bell

★ ''The Witches of Eastwick''

★ ''Withnail and I''

Births

★ February 11 - Jesse McCartney, actor and singer

★ September 22 - Tom Felton, actor

★ September 28 - Hilary Duff

★ July 30 - Phillip Mataway

★ September 7 - Evan Rachel Wood, Actress

★ September 11 - Tyler Hoechlin, actor

★ November 18 - Courtney Weller

★ December 21 - Labaren Holland - actor, singer/songwriter

Deaths

★ January 15 - Ray Bolger, actor, singer, dancer

★ March 3 - Danny Kaye, actor

★ May 14 - Rita Hayworth, actress

★ June 1 - Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, director

★ June 22 - Fred Astaire, actor, singer, dancer

★ July 3 - Viola Dana, actress

★ August 1 - Pola Negri, actress

★ August 28 - John Huston, actor, director

★ September 25 - Mary Astor, actress

★ October 13 - Kishore Kumar, actor, singer