1986 in film

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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.
• September 13 - Siskel & Ebert, one of the world's most popular movie review programs, premieres in syndication. Although the two critics had been working as a pair since 1975, this will be their longest running program and will run in various incarnations until 2010.
• November 21 - Actor Cary Grant dies of a cerebral hemorrhage. Steven Spielberg's first ever animated feature film, An American Tail, is released, and breaks the record once held by Disney's The Rescuers for the largest financial amount made for an animated film on opening weekend.
• 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.
• Malcolm wins the AFI Award for best Movie (Australia).

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Studio	Actor/Actress	Director	Gross
1.	Top Gun	Paramount	Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards and Tom Skerritt	Tony Scott	$176,786,701
2.	Crocodile Dundee	Paramount	Paul Hogan and Linda Kozlowski	Peter Faiman	$174,803,506
3.	Platoon	Orion	Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe	Oliver Stone	$138,530,565
4.	An American Tail	Universal Studios	Christopher Plummer and Dom DeLuise	Don Bluth	$113,324,868
5.	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home	Paramount	William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy	Leonard Nimoy	$109,713,132
6.	Back to School	Orion	Rodney Dangerfield	Alan Metter	$108,634,920
7.	Aliens	Fox	Sigourney Weaver and Carrie Henn	James Cameron	$86,160,248
8.	The Golden Child	Paramount	Eddie Murphy	Michael Ritchie	$79,817,937
9.	Ruthless People	Touchstone	Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold and Helen Slater	Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker	$71,624,879
10.	Ferris Bueller's Day Off	Paramount	Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara and Jennifer Grey	John Hughes	$70,136,369

Awards

Category/Organization	44th Golden Globe Awards January 31, 1987		40th BAFTA Awards February 22, 1987	59th Academy Awards March 30, 1987
	Drama	Musical or Comedy
Best Film	Platoon	Hannah and Her Sisters	A Room with a View	Platoon
Best Director	Oliver Stone Platoon		Woody Allen Hannah and Her Sisters	Oliver Stone Platoon
Best Actor	Bob Hoskins Mona Lisa	Paul Hogan Crocodile Dundee	Bob Hoskins Mona Lisa	Paul Newman The Color of Money
Best Actress	Marlee Matlin Children of a Lesser God	Sissy Spacek Crimes of the Heart	Maggie Smith A Room with a View	Marlee Matlin Children of a Lesser God
Best Supporting Actor	Tom Berenger Platoon		Ray McAnally The Mission	Michael Caine Hannah and Her Sisters
Best Supporting Actress	Maggie Smith A Room with a View		Judi Dench A Room with a View	Dianne Wiest Hannah and Her Sisters
Best Screenplay, Adapted	The Mission Robert Bolt		Out of Africa Kurt Leudtke	A Room with a View Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Best Screenplay, Original			Hannah and Her Sisters Woody Allen	Hannah and Her Sisters Woody Allen
Best Foreign Language Film	The Assault (De Aanslag)		Ran (Ran)	The Assault (De Aanslag)

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

Razzie Awards

Worst Picture: Howard the Duck and Under the Cherry Moon (tie)

Worst Director: Prince - Under the Cherry Moon

Worst Actor: Prince - Under the Cherry Moon

Worst Actress: Madonna - Shanghai Surprise

Worst Supporting Actor: Jerome Benton - Under the Cherry Moon

Worst Supporting Actress: Dom DeLuise (in drag) - Haunted Honeymoon

Worst Screenplay: Howard the Duck

Films released in 1986

• 3:15, aka 3:15: The Moment of Truth
• 37°2 le matin (Betty Blue), directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix, Golden Needle award for 1992
• 52 Pick-Up, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Roy Scheider and Ann-Margret
• 8 Million Ways to Die, directed by Hal Ashby, starring Jeff Bridges and Rosanna Arquette
• 9½ Weeks, directed by Adrian Lyne, starring Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke

A-C

• About Last Night..., directed by Edward Zwick, starring Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, James Belushi and Elizabeth Perkins
• Absolute Beginners, directed by Julien Temple
• The Adventures of the American Rabbit
• The AIDS Show
• Aliens, directed by James Cameron, starring Sigourney Weaver
• American Justice
• An American Tail, directed by Don Bluth with the voices of Phillip Glasser and Dom DeLuise
• Amorosa
• Armed and Dangerous, starring John Candy, Eugene Levy and Meg Ryan
• Armed Response
• As Is, directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, starring Colleen Dewhurst, Robert Carradine and Jonathan Hadary
• The Assault - Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, Golden Space Needle award
• At Close Range, starring Sean Penn and Christopher Walken
• Attention! Bandits!, aka Bandits, directed by Claude Lelouch (France)
• Avenging Force

• Back to School, starring Rodney Dangerfield, Sally Kellerman and Keith Gordon
• Backlash
• Band of the Hand, starring Stephen Lang and Lauren Holly
• A Better Tomorrow, directed by John Woo, starring Chow Yun-fat and Leslie Cheung
• Betty Blue, starring Béatrice Dalle
• The Big Parade
• Big Trouble in Little China, directed by John Carpenter, 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, directed by David Lynch, starring Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rosselini and Dennis Hopper
• 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
• Caravaggio, directed by Derek Jarman
• Casper's Wonderful Island
• Castaway, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring Amanda Donohoe and Oliver Reed
• Children of a Lesser God, directed by Randa Haines, starring William Hurt and Marlee Matlin
• Choke Canyon
• The Clan of the Cave Bear, starring Daryl Hannah
• Clockwise, starring John Cleese
• Club Paradise, starring Robin Williams, Jimmy Cliff, Peter O'Toole, Rick Moranis and Eugene Levy
• Cobra, starring Sylvester Stallone
• The Color of Money, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Paul Newman, Tom Cruise and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
• Comrades
• Crawlspace
• Crimes of the Heart, directed by Bruce Beresford, starring Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek and Tess Harper
• Critters
• Crocodile Dundee, directed by Peter Faiman, starring Paul Hogan and Linda Kozlowski

D-F

• Dangerously Close
• Le Déclin de l'empire américain, (The Decline of the American Empire), written and directed by Denys Arcand
• The Delta Force, starring Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin
• Down and Out in Beverly Hills, directed by Paul Mazursky, starring Nick Nolte, Bette Midler and Richard Dreyfuss
• Down by Law, directed by Jim Jarmusch, starring Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni
• Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam, starring Jim Varney
• Duet for One, starring Julie Andrews

• Echo Park, starring Tom Hulce and Susan Dey
• Eliminators
• Equalizer 2000
• Extremities, starring Farrah Fawcett and James Russo
• Eye of the Tiger, starring Gary Busey

• F/X, starring Bryan Brown and Brian Dennehy
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off, directed by John Hughes, starring Matthew Broderick, Mia Sara, Alan Ruck, Jennifer Grey and Jeffrey Jones
• Firewalker, starring Chuck Norris
• Fire with Fire, starring Craig Sheffer and Virginia Madsen
• Flight of the Navigator, directed by Randal Kleiser
• The Fly, directed by David Cronenberg, starring Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis
• Footrot Flats
• Foreign Body, directed by Ronald Neame
• Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
• The Fringe Dwellers, directed by Bruce Beresford

G-H

• Genesis, directed by Mrinal Sen, 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, directed by Michael Ritchie, starring Eddie Murphy, Charles Dance and Charlotte Lewis
• Gonza the Spearman (近松門左衛門　鑓の権三)
• Good to Go
• The Great Mouse Detective
• The Green Ray (Le Rayon vert) - Golden Lion award
• Gung Ho!, directed by Ron Howard, starring Michael Keaton

• Half Moon Street, starring Sigourney Weaver and Michael Caine
• Hannah and Her Sisters, directed by and starring Woody Allen with Michael Caine, Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, Barbara Hershey
• Haunted Honeymoon], starring Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner
• Heartbreak Ridge, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, with Mario van Peebles, Marsha Mason, Boyd Gaines
• Heartburn, starring Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson
• Heat, starring Burt Reynolds
• Heathcliff: The Movie
• Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
• Hibiscus Town (芙蓉镇), directed by Xie Jin
• Highlander, directed by Russell Mulcahy, starring Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery
• The Hitcher, directed by Robert Harmon, starring Rutger Hauer, C. Thomas Howell and Jennifer Jason Leigh
• Hoosiers, starring Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey and Dennis Hopper
• Hôtel du Paradis
• Howard the Duck, starring Lea Thompson, Jeffrey Jones and Tim Robbins

I-K

• Ice Pirates, starring Robert Urich
• Invaders from Mars
• Iron Eagle, starring Louis Gossett, Jr.

• Jake Speed
• Jean de Florette, directed by Claude Berri, starring Gérard Depardieu, Yves Montand and Daniel Auteuil
• The Jet Benny Show
• Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling, starring Richard Pryor
• Jumpin' Jack Flash, starring Whoopi Goldberg, Annie Potts, Jon Lovitz, Carol Kane
• Just Between Friends, starring Mary Tyler Moore, Christine Lahti and Ted Danson

• The Karate Kid, Part II, starring Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita
• King Kong Lives, starring Linda Hamilton and Brian Kerwin
• Knights of the City

L-N

• Labyrinth, directed by Jim Henson, starring David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly
• Lady Jane, directed by Trevor Nunn, starring Helena Bonham Carter and Cary Elwes
• Laputa: Castle in the Sky (August 2 - Japan)
• Legal Eagles, directed by Ivan Reitman, starring Robert Redford, Debra Winger and Daryl Hannah
• Let's Get Harry, starring Robert Duvall
• Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Frank Oz, starring Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene and Steve Martin
• Low Blow
• Lucas, starring Corey Haim, Kerri Green, Charlie Sheen and Winona Ryder
• Luxo Jr.

• Malcolm
• The Manhattan Project, starring John Lithgow, Christopher Collet and Cynthia Nixon
• Manhunter, directed by Michael Mann and starring William Petersen, Kim Greist, Dennis Farina, Tom Noonan and Brian Cox (as Hannibal Lecter)
• Manon des Sources, directed by Claude Berri, starring Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil and Emmanuelle Béart
• Matador, directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Antonio Banderas
• Maximum Overdrive, with AC/DC soundtrack, starring Emilio Estevez
• The Men's Club, starring Roy Scheider, Harvey Keitel, Craig Wasson, David Dukes, Frank Langella and Treat Williams
• The Messenger
• Miracles
• The Mission, directed by Roland Joffe, starring Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons and Ray McAnally - Palme d'Or award
• Modern Girls
• Mona Lisa, directed by Neil Jordan, starring Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson and Michael Caine
• The Money Pit, directed by Richard Benjamin, starring Tom Hanks and Shelley Long
• Monster in the Closet, directed by Bob Dahlin, starring Claude Akins, Henry Gibson, Paul Dooley, Stella Stevens and Stacy Ferguson
• The Morning After, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Jane Fonda and Jeff Bridges
• The Mosquito Coast, directed by Peter Weir, starring Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren and River Phoenix
• Murphhy's Law, starring Charles Bronson
• My Little Pony: The Movie (a feature-length adaptation of the TV series and toy line)
• My Sweet Little Village (international release)

• The Name of the Rose, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, starring Sean Connery and Christian Slater
• Never Too Young to Die
• 'night, Mother, starring Sissy Spacek and Anne Bancroft
• Nomads
• No Mercy, starring Kim Basinger and Richard Gere

O-Q

• Off Beat, starring Judge Reinhold
• One Crazy Summer, starring John Cusack, Demi Moore and Bobcat Goldthwait
• One More Saturday Night
• Out of Bounds, starring Anthony Michael Hall

• The Patriot, starring Gregg Henry and Jeff Conaway
• Peggy Sue Got Married, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Kathleen Turner and Nicolas Cage
• Pirates, directed by Roman Polanski, starring Walter Matthau
• Platoon, directed by Oliver Stone, starring Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture
• Poltergeist II: The Other Side
• P.O.W. The Escape, starring David Carradine
• Pretty in Pink, directed by Howard Deutch, starring Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy, Jon Cryer and James Spader
• Project A-ko
• Psycho III, directed by Anthony Perkins, starring Anthony Perkins, Diana Scarwid, Jeff Fahey

• Quicksilver, starring Kevin Bacon
• Quiet Cool

R-S

• Rad
• Raw Deal, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
• The Return of Josey Wales, starring Michael Parks
• Rita, Sue and Bob Too
• River's Edge, starring Crispin Glover and Keanu Reeves
• Robotech: The Movie, directed by Carl Macek and Noboru Ishiguro
• Rosa Luxemburg
• Round Midnight, directed by Bertrand Tavernier, starring Dexter Gordon
• Ruthless People, directed by Jim Abrahams, starring Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold and Helen Slater

• The Sacrifice, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
• Salvador, starring James Woods and James Belushi
• Sarraounia
• Seize the Day, starring Robin Williams
• Shanghai Surprise, starring Madonna and Sean Penn
• She's Gotta Have It, directed by Spike Lee
• Short Circuit, starring Ally Sheedy and Steve Guttenberg
• Sid and Nancy, starring Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb
• Solarbabies
• Something Wild, starring Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith and Ray Liotta
• SpaceCamp, starring Kate Capshaw and Kelly Preston
• Stammheim - Golden Bear award
• Stand by Me, directed by Rob Reiner, starring River Phoenix, Will Wheaton, Corey Feldman and Jerry O'Connell
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, directed by Leonard Nimoy
• Stoogemania
• Streets of Gold, starring Wesley Snipes and Klaus Maria Brandauer

T-V

• That's Life!, starring Jack Lemmon and Julie Andrews
• ¡Three Amigos!, starring Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Chevy Chase
• Thunder Run
• Tai-Pan, starring Bryan Brown and Joan Chen
• Toby McTeague
• Top Gun, directed by Tony Scott, starring Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis and Val Kilmer
• Tough Guys, starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas
• The Transformers: The Movie, starring Eric Idle, Judd Nelson, and Orson Welles
• Trick or Treat, starring Marc Price, Gene Simmons, and Ozzy Osbourne
• Troll
• True Stories, directed by and starring David Byrne

• Under the Cherry Moon, starring Prince
• Under The Biltmore Clock

W-Z

• When the Wind Blows
• Wildcats, starring Goldie Hawn, Nipsey Russell, Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson and LL Cool J
• Wisdom, starring Emilio Estevez and Demi Moore
• The Wraith

• X: The Unheard Music

• Youngblood, starring Rob Lowe, Patrick Swayze and Cynthia Gibb

Births

• January 24 - Mischa Barton, English-born American actress
• February 14 - Tiffany Thornton, American actress, comedian, singer and songwriter
• 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, American actor
• April 13 - Stephen Stucker, American actor
• April 23 - Otto Preminger, Austrian born director
• April 26 - Broderick Crawford, Oscar winning American actor
• April 26 - Bessie Love, American actress
• March 15 - Alexandru Giugaru, Romanian actor
• May 23 - Sterling Hayden, American actor
• June 3 - Anna Neagle, English actress
• June 13 - Benny Goodman, American musician, actor
• July 25 - Vincente Minnelli, American director
• September 27 - Cliff Burton, American musician, Metallica
• October 5 - Hal B. Wallis, American film producer
• November 21 - Dar Robinson, American film stuntman
• November 29 - Cary Grant, American actor
• December 13 - Heather Angel, English actress
• December 26 - Elsa Lanchester, English actress
• December 28 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian film director

Film debuts

• Christian Bale -Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna
• Angela Bassett - F/X
• Stacy Ferguson - Monster in the Closet
• Elizabeth Perkins - About Last Night...
• Catherine Keener - About Last Night...
• Joaquin Phoenix - SpaceCamp
• Bill Pullman - Ruthless People
• Winona Ryder - Lucas
• Jeremy Piven - Lucas
• Kristin Scott Thomas - Under the Cherry Moon
• Kevin Spacey - Heartburn
• Tony Shalhoub - Heartburn
• Marlee Matlin - Children of a Lesser God
• Jerry O'Connell - Stand by Me
• Wesley Snipes - Wildcats
• Linus Roache
• Tilda Swinton - Caravaggio
• Jennifer Lopez
• Miranda Otto - Emma's War
• Sean Bean - Caravaggio
• Naomi Watts - For Love Alone
• Tony Goldwyn - Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
• Kristy Swanson - Pretty in Pink
• Imelda Staunton - Comrades
• Thomas Jane - Padamati Sandhya Ragam
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Troll
• Tia Carrere - Zombie Nightmare
• Jimmy Smits - Running Scared
• Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa - Armed Response