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The year 1992 in film involved many significant films. (For more about films in foreign languages, check sources in those languages.)
Events
Top grossing films
1992
Rank |
Title |
Studio |
Gross |
| 1. |
Aladdin |
Buena Vista |
$217,350,219 |
| 2. |
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York |
20th Century Fox |
$173,585,516 |
|
| 3. |
Batman Returns |
Warner Brothers |
$162,831,698 |
|
| 4. |
Lethal Weapon 3 |
Warner Brothers |
$144,731,527 |
|
| 5. |
A Few Good Men |
Columbia |
$141,340,178 |
|
| 6. |
Sister Act |
Buena Vista |
$139,605,150 |
|
| 7. |
The Bodyguard |
Warner Brothers |
$121,945,720 |
| 8. |
Wayne's World |
Paramount |
$121,697,323 |
| 9. |
Basic Instinct |
Tristar |
$117,727,224 |
| 10. |
A League of Their Own |
Sony |
$107,533,928 |
| 11. |
Unforgiven |
Warner Brothers |
$101,157,447 |
Note: This was the first year that there were more than 10 blockbuster movies (movies that grossed over $100,000,000 in the North American market), which is why there are 11 films listed.
source: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1992&p=.htm
Awards
Academy Awards:
- Best Picture: Unforgiven - Malpaso Productions, Warner Bros.
- Best Director: Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven
- Best Actor: Al Pacino - Scent of a Woman
- Best Actress: Emma Thompson - Howards End
- Best Supporting Actor: Gene Hackman - Unforgiven
- Best Supporting Actress: Marisa Tomei - My Cousin Vinny
- Best Foreign Language Film: Indochine, directed by Régis Wargnier, France
Golden Globe Awards:
- Drama:
- Best Picture: Scent of a Woman
- Best Actor: Al Pacino - Scent of a Woman
- Best Actress: Emma Thompson - Howards End
- Musical or comedy:
- Best Picture: The Player
- Best Actor: Tim Robbins - The Player
- Best Actress: Miranda Richardson - Enchanted April
- Other
- Best Director: Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven
- Best Foreign Language Film: Indochine, France
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
- The Best Intentions (Den goda viljan), directed by Bille August, Denmark
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
- The Story of Qiu Ju (Qiu Ju da guan si), directed by Zhang Yimou, China / Hong Kong
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
- Grand Canyon, directed by Lawrence Kasdan, United States
Films released in 1992
- 1991: The Year Punk Broke
- Aces: Iron Eagle III
- Aladdin
- A League of Their Own
- Alien³
- American Me
- Article 99
- The Babe
- Basic Instinct
- Batman Returns
- Bebe's Kids
- Beethoven
- Belle Époque (The Age of Beauty) - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (for 1993)
- The Best Intentions (Den goda viljan) - Palme d'Or award
- Blame It on the Bellboy
- The Bodyguard
- Boomerang
- Braindead
- Bram Stoker's Dracula
- Bridge, The
- Buffy The Vampire Slayer
- Candyman
- Captain Ron
- Carry On Columbus
- Chaplin
- Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
- City of Joy
- Class Act
- Consenting Adults
- Cool World
- CrissCross
- The Crying Game, directed by Neil Jordan
- The Cutting Edge
- Damage
- Death Becomes Her
- Deep Cover
- Diggstown
- The Distinguished Gentleman
- Dr. Giggles
- El Mariachi
- Enchanted April
- Encino Man
- Evil Toons
- Far and Away
- A Few Good Men
- Final Analysis
- The Five Heartbeats
- Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives
- Forever Young
- 1492: Conquest of Paradise
- Freejack
- Gladiator (With Cuba Gooding Jr.)
- Glengarry Glen Ross
- For a Lost Soldier (Voor een verloren soldaat), director Roeland Kerbosch, starring Jeroen Krabbe, Maarten Smit and Andrew Kelley
- Godzilla vs. Mothra
- The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
- Hard Boiled
- Hero, starring Dustin Hoffman
- Hoffa
- Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
- Honey, I Blew Up the Kid
- Honeymoon in Vegas
- HouseSitter
- Howards End
- Husbands and Wives
- Indochine - Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
- Innocent Blood
- Jennifer Eight
- Juice
- Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.
- K2: The Ultimate High
- Kuffs
- Ladybugs
- The Last of the Mohicans
- The Lawnmower Man
- A League of Their Own, starring Geena Davis, Tom Hanks, Lori Petty, Madonna, Rosie O'Donnell, Garry Marshall
- Leap of Faith
- Lethal Weapon 3
- Light Sleeper
- Like Water For Chocolate
- Lorenzo's Oil
- Love Field, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Dennis Haysbert, with notable role by Rhoda Griffis as Jacqueline Kennedy
- Love Potion No. 9
- The Lover
- Mad at the Moon
- Malcolm X
- The Mambo Kings
- Man Trouble
- Memoirs of an Invisible Man, directed by John Carpenter, starring Chevy Chase, Daryl Hannah, Sam Neill and Michael McKean
- A Midnight Clear
- The Mighty Ducks
- Mo' Money
- Mr. Baseball
- Mr. Saturday Night
- My Cousin Vinny, starring Joe Pesci
- The Naked Truth
- Newsies
- Night and the City
- Noises Off
- Of Mice and Men
- One False Move
- Only You
- Passenger 57
- Patriot Games
- Pet Sematary Two
- Pushing Hands
- The Player - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
- Porco Rosso
- Prelude to a Kiss
- Prom Night IV: Deliver us from Evil
- The Public Eye
- Radio Flyer
- Raising Cain
- Rapid Fire
- Reservoir Dogs
- A River Runs Through It
- Ruby
- Scent of a Woman - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Drama)
- School Ties
- Shakes the Clown
- Shining Through
- Single White Female
- Singles
- Sister Act
- Sleepwalkers (based on a Stephen King novel)
- Sneakers
- Split Second
- Stay Tuned
- Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
- Storyville
- A Stranger Among Us
- Thunderheart
- The Story of Qiu Ju (Qiu Ju da guan si) - Golden Lion award
- Tom and Jerry: The Movie - Warner Brothers movie
- Toys
- Trespass
- Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
- Under Siege
- Unforgiven, starring Clint Eastwood (also director), Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and Richard Harris - Academy Award for Best Picture
- Universal Soldier
- Unlawful Entry
- Waxwork II: Lost in Time
- The Waterdance
- Wayne's World
- White Men Can't Jump
- White Sands
- Wind
- Year of the Comet
Births
Deaths
- January 2 - Virginia Field, actress
- January 3 - Dame Judith Anderson, actress
- January 7 - Richard Hunt, actor and muppeter (The Muppet Movie, Follow That Bird)
- January 23 - Freddie Bartholomew, actor
- January 26 - José Ferrer, actor
- February 11 - Ray Danton, US actor/director
- March 2 - Sandy Dennis, actress
- March 29 - Paul Henreid, actor, director
- April 22 - Steffi Duna, actress
- April 23 - Satyajit Ray, Indian filmmaker
- April 29 - Mae Clarke, actress
- May 6 - Marlene Dietrich, actress
- May 17 - George Hurrell, photographer
- May 17 - Lawrence Welk, musician, television and film actor
- June 3 - Robert Morley, actor
- July 24 - Arletty, actress
- July 30 - Brenda Marshall, actress
- September 12 - Anthony Perkins, actor
- September 18 - Lona Andre, actress
- October 6 - Denholm Elliott, actor
- October 16 - Shirley Booth, actress
- October 22 - Cleavon Little, actor
- November 2 - Hal Roach, producer/director
- November 19 - Diane Varsi, actress
- December 9 - Vincent Gardenia, actor
- December 17 - Dana Andrews, actor
- December 24 - Pierre Culliford, also known as "Peyo". Belgian Creator of The Smurfsde:Filmjahr 1992
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