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Major releases this year included Independence Day, Fargo, Trainspotting, The English Patient, Twister, Scream, Mars Attacks!, Jerry Maguire and Madonna's Evita.

Events

• 20 September - 75-year-old English actor Sir Dirk Bogarde suffers a severe stroke. He continued to need a wheelchair until his death in 1999.

• James Cameron officially begins writing future blockbuster and highest grossing film of all time, Avatar.

Top grossing films

http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=1996&p=.htm

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: The English Patient - J&M Entertainment, Miramax Films, Tiger Moth Productions

Best Director: Anthony Minghella - The English Patient

Best Actor: Geoffrey Rush - Shine

Best Actress: Frances McDormand - Fargo

Best Supporting Actor: Cuba Gooding Jr. - Jerry Maguire

Best Supporting Actress: Juliette Binoche - The English Patient

Best Foreign Language Film: Kolya (Kolja), directed by Jan Svěrák, Czech Republic

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: The English Patient

Best Actor: Geoffrey Rush - Shine

Best Actress: Brenda Blethyn - Secrets & Lies

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: Evita

Best Actor: Tom Cruise - Jerry Maguire

Best Actress: Madonna - Evita

Other

Best Director: Milos Forman - The People vs. Larry Flynt

Best Foreign Language Film: Kolya, Czech Republic

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Secrets & Lies, directed by Mike Leigh, United Kingdom

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Michael Collins, directed by Neil Jordan, U.K. / Ireland / U.S.A.

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Sense and Sensibility, directed by Ang Lee, United States

Films released in 1996

#

• 2 Days in the Valley
• 101 Dalmatians, starring Glenn Close, Jeff Daniels, Joely Richardson, Joan Plowright and Hugh Laurie, directed by Stephen Herek

A

• The Adventures of Pinocchio, starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Martin Landau, Udo Kier, Rob Schnieder and Dawn French, directed by Steve Barron
• Alaska, starring Thora Birch, Vincent Kartheiser, Dirk Benedict and Charlton Heston
• All Dogs Go to Heaven 2, with voices by Charlie Sheen, Dom DeLuise, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Nelson Reilly and Sheena Easton
• L'appartement
• The Arrival, starring Charlie Sheen
• The Associate, starring Whoopi Goldberg
• August

B

• Bad Moon, starring Mariel Hemingway and Michael Pare
• Barb Wire, starring Pamela Anderson
• Basquiat
• Beautiful Girls, starring Matt Dillon, Natalie Portman, Uma Thurman, Rosie O'Donnell and Mira Sorvino
• Beautiful Thing
• Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, with guest voices by Bruce Willis, Demi Moore, Cloris Leachman, Richard Linklater, Robert Stack and David Letterman, directed by Mike Judge
• Bed of Roses, starring Christian Slater and Mary Stuart Masterson
• Before and After, starring Meryl Streep, Liam Neeson and Edward Furlong
• Big Bully, starring Tom Arnold and Rick Moranis
• The Birdcage, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Gene Hackman and Dianne Wiest
• Black Sheep, starring Chris Farley and David Spade
• Blood and Wine
• Bottle Rocket
• Bound, starring Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly
• Brassed Off
• Breaking the Waves
• Broken Arrow, directed by John Woo, starring John Travolta, Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, and Howie Long
• Broken English
• Bulletproof, starring Damon Wayans, Adam Sandler and James Caan

C

• The Cable Guy, starring Jim Carrey and Matthew Broderick, directed by Ben Stiller
• Camping Cosmos
• Carried Away
• Carpool, starring Tom Arnold and David Paymer
• Celtic Pride
• Chain Reaction, starring Keanu Reeves and Morgan Freeman
• The Chamber, starring Chris O'Donnell and Gene Hackman
• City Hall, starring Al Pacino and John Cusack
• Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day
• Comrades: Almost a Love Story, Hong Kong Film Awards and Golden Space Needle award
• Courage Under Fire, starring Denzel Washington
• The Craft, starring Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell and Rachel True
• Crash, directed by David Cronenberg, starring James Spader and Holly Hunter
• The Crow: City of Angels
• The Crucible, starring Daniel Day Lewis, Winona Ryder, Joan Allen and Paul Scofield

D

• D3: The Mighty Ducks
• Dave and the Giant Pickle
• Daddy's Girl
• Daylight, starring Sylvester Stallone
• Dear God, starring Greg Kinnear
• The Dentist
• Diabolique, starring Sharon Stone, Isabelle Adjani, Chazz Palminteri and Kathy Bates
• Different for Girls
• Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
• Down Periscope
• Dragonheart, starring Dennis Quaid
• Dunston Checks In

E

• Eddie, starring Whoopi Goldberg and Frank Langella, directed by Steve Rash
• Emma, starring Gwyneth Paltrow
• The English Patient - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture, directed by Anthony Minghella and starring Ralph Fiennes
• Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story, starring Moira Kelly
• Eraser, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Caan and Vanessa Williams
• Escape from L.A., aka John Carpenter's Escape from L.A.
• The Evening Star, starring Shirley MacLaine
• Everyone Says I Love You, directed by Woody Allen
• Evita - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy), directed by Alan Parker and starring Madonna and Antonio Banderas
• Executive Decision, starring Kurt Russell, Steven Seagal and Halle Berry
• Extreme Measures
• Eye for an Eye, starring Sally Field, Kiefer Sutherland and Ed Harris

F

• The Fan - starring Robert De Niro, Wesley Snipes, and Benicio del Toro
• Fargo, made by Joel and Ethan Coen and starring Frances McDormand, William H. Macy and Steve Buscemi
• Fear - starring Mark Wahlberg and Reese Witherspoon
• Fire by Deepa Mehta, starring Shabana Azmi and Nandita Das
• The First Wives Club, starring Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton and Bette Midler
• Fled
• Flipper
• Flirting with Disaster
• Floating Life
• Fly Away Home, starring Jeff Daniels, Anna Paquin and Dana Delany
• Follow Me Home
• Foxfire
• The Frighteners, directed by Peter Jackson, starring Michael J. Fox
• From Dusk Till Dawn, directed by Robert Rodriguez and starring George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino, Harvey Keitel and Juliette Lewis

G

• Gamera 2: Attack of Legion
• Get on the Bus
• The Ghost and the Darkness, starring Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas
• Ghosts of Mississippi, directed by Rob Reiner and starring Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg and James Woods
• Girl 6
• The Glimmer Man, starring Steven Seagal and Keenen Ivory Wayans
• The Great White Hype

H

• Hamlet, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh with Julie Christie and Derek Jacobi
• Happy Gilmore, directed by Dennis Dugan and starring Adam Sandler
• Hard Eight, directed by P. T. Anderson
• Harriet The Spy, starring Michelle Trachtenberg and Rosie O'Donnell
• Heaven's Prisoners
• High School High
• Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco, directed by David R. Ellis
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame, directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise
• Hype!

I

• I'm Not Rappaport
• In Love and War
• Independence Day, directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Will Smith, Bill Pullman and Jeff Goldblum
• Infinity
• Intimate Relations
• Irma Vep
• The Island of Dr. Moreau, starring Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer

J

• Jack, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Robin Williams, Diane Lane, Brian Kerwin, Jennifer Lopez, Fran Drescher and Bill Cosby
• James and the Giant Peach, starring Miriam Margoyles, Joanna Lumley, Pete Postlethwaite and introducing Paul Terry, animation supervisor Paul Berry, directed by Henry Selick
• Jerry Maguire, written and directed by Cameron Crowe, starring Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Renée Zellweger
• Jingle All the Way, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Joe's Apartment, starring Jerry O'Connell and Megan Ward, voices by Billy West, animation directed by Chris Wedge, directed by John Payson
• Joseph Conley Kevin Bacon Michael Traenor (1996)
• The Juror, starring Demi Moore and Alec Baldwin

K

• Kazaam, starring Shaquille O'Neal
• Kingpin, directed by the Farrelly Brothers and starring Woody Harrelson and Randy Quaid
• Kolya, directed by Jan Sverák - Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

L

• Larger than Life
• Last Dance, starring Sharon Stone and Rob Morrow
• Last Man Standing
• Licántropo
• Lone Star
• The Long Kiss Goodnight, starring Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson
• Looking for Richard

M

• Mars Attacks!, directed by Tim Burton with an all-star cast
• Marvin's Room, starring Meryl Streep, Diane Keaton, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro
• Mary Reilly, directed by Stephen Frears, starring Julia Roberts and John Malkovich
• Matilda, starring Mara Wilson
• Maximum Risk
• Michael, starring John Travolta, Andie MacDowell and William Hurt
• Michael Collins, directed by Neil Jordan and starring Liam Neeson - Golden Lion award
• The Mirror Has Two Faces, starring Barbra Streisand, Jeff Bridges, Pierce Brosnan, Mimi Rogers and Lauren Bacall
• Mission: Impossible, directed by Brian De Palma and starring Tom Cruise
• Moll Flanders
• Mother, starring Albert Brooks and Debbie Reynolds
• Mr. Wrong, starring Ellen DeGeneres and Bill Pullman
• Mulholland Falls, directed by Lee Tamahori and starring Nick Nolte, Melanie Griffith and Jennifer Connelly
• Multiplicity, directed by Harold Ramis and starring Michael Keaton and Andie MacDowell
• Muppet Treasure Island, starring Tim Curry, Billy Connolly, Jennifer Saunders and introducing Kevin Bishop, performed by Ziggy Marley, directed by Brian Henson
• My Fellow Americans
• Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie

N

• The Nutty Professor, directed by Tom Shadyac and starring Eddie Murphy

O

• One Fine Day, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and George Clooney
• Original Gangstas

P

• Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996 National Board of Review Best Documentary, 1997 Peabody Award)
• The People vs. Larry Flynt, starring Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love and Edward Norton - Golden Bear award (for 1997)
• Persons Unknown, starring Naomi Watts, Joe Mantegna, Kelly Lynch
• The Phantom, starring Billy Zane
• Phenomenon, starring John Travolta, Kyra Sedgwick, Robert Duvall and Forest Whitaker
• Pie in the Sky
• The Pillow Book
• The Portrait of a Lady, directed by Jane Campion and starring Nicole Kidman and John Malkovich
• The Preacher's Wife, starring Denzel Washington, Whitney Houston and Courtney B. Vance
• Police Story 4: First Strike (released May 1996)
• Primal Fear, directed by Gregory Hoblit and starring Richard Gere, Laura Linney and Edward Norton

Q

• The Quest

R

• Race the Sun
• Ransom, directed by Ron Howard, starring Mel Gibson, Rene Russo, and Gary Sinise
• Revive! Ultraman
• Ridicule, directed by Patrice Leconte, starring Fanny Ardant, Judith Godrèche
• The Rock, starring Nicolas Cage, Sean Connery and Ed Harris
• Rumble in the Bronx
• Romeo + Juliet - starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes

S

• Santa with Muscles
• Scream, directed by Wes Craven and starring David Arquette, Neve Campbell and Courteney Cox
• Secrets & Lies, directed by Mike Leigh and starring Brenda Blethyn - Palme d'Or award
• Set It Off, starring Jada Pinkett Smith and Queen Latifah
• Sgt. Bilko
• She's the One
• Shine, directed by Scott Hicks and starring Geoffrey Rush
• The Silencers
• Silent Trigger
• Sleepers, directed by Barry Levinson and starring Kevin Bacon, Brad Pitt, Jason Patric, Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro
• Sling Blade, starring Billy Bob Thornton
• A Small Domain
• Some Mother's Son
• Space Jam, starring Michael Jordan, Wayne Knight, Theresa Randle, Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, and Bill Murray, voices by Danny DeVito, directed by Joe Pytka
• Space Truckers
• The Spitfire Grill
• Spy Hard, starring Leslie Nielsen and Nicollette Sheridan
• Star Trek: First Contact
• Stealing Beauty, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
• Striptease, starring Demi Moore and Burt Reynolds
• The Stupids, starring Tom Arnold
• The Substitute, starring Tom Berenger
• The Sunchaser, directed by Michael Cimino
• Sunset Park
• Surviving Picasso, directed by James Ivory
• Swingers

T

• Tender Fictions
• That Thing You Do!, written and directed by Tom Hanks and starring Tom Everett Scott and Liv Tyler
• A Thin Line Between Love and Hate
• Thinner
• A Time to Kill, directed by Joel Schumacher and starring Sandra Bullock, Mathew McConaughey and Samuel L. Jackson
• Tin Cup, starring Kevin Costner, Rene Russo and Don Johnson
• To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
• The Toy That Saved Christmas
• Trainspotting, directed by Danny Boyle and starring Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller and Robert Carlyle - Golden space Needle award
• Tremors 2: Aftershocks
• The Trigger Effect
• True Blue
• The Truth About Cats & Dogs, starring Janeane Garofalo, Uma Thurman and Ben Chaplin
• Twelfth Night: Or What You Will, directed by Trevor Nunn, starring Helena Bonham Carter
• Twister, directed by Jan de Bont and starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton
• Two Much, starring Antonio Banderas, Melanie Griffith and Daryl Hannah

U

• Unforgettable
• Up Close & Personal, starring Robert Redford and Michelle Pfeiffer
• Urban Safari

V

• The Van

W

• Waiting for Guffman, directed by Christopher Guest.
• The War at Home
• Wedding Bell Blues
• Werewolf
• The West
• White Squall, starring Jeff Bridges
• The Wind in the Willows

X

Y

Z

Wide-released movies

January–March

• January 1996
• January 5 - 12 Monkeys
• January 12 - Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood, Eye for an Eye, Dunston Checks In, Bio-Dome
• January 19 - From Dusk Till Dawn
• January 26 - Bed of Roses, Big Bully
• February 1996
• February 2 - Black Sheep, The Juror, White Squall
• February 9 - Broken Arrow, Beautiful Girls
• February 16 - Happy Gilmore, Mr. Wrong, Muppet Treasure Island
• February 23 - Mary Reilly, Before and After
• March 1996
• March 1 - Down Periscope, Up Close & Personal
• March 8 - The Birdcage
• March 15 - Ed, Executive Decision, Two Much
• March 22 - Diabolique, Flirting with Disaster
• March 29 - Sgt. Bilko

April–June

• April 1996
• April 5 - Primal Fear, A Thin Line Between Love and Hate
• April 12 - Fear, James and the Giant Peach
• April 19 - Celtic Pride, Mrs. Winterbourne, The Substitute
• April 26 - Mulholland Falls, The Truth About Cats & Dogs, Sunset Park, The Quest
• May 1996
• May 3 - Barb Wire, The Craft, The Great White Hype, Last Dance, The Pallbearer
• May 10 - Twister
• May 17 - Flipper, Heaven's Prisoners
• May 24 - Mission: Impossible, Spy Hard
• May 31 - The Arrival, Dragonheart, Eddie
• June 1996
• June 7 - The Phantom, The Rock
• June 14 - The Cable Guy, Moll Flanders
• June 21 - Eraser, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• June 28 - The Nutty Professor, Striptease

July–September

• July 1996
• July 3 - Independence Day
• July 5 - Phenomenon
• July 12 - Courage Under Fire, Harriet the Spy
• July 19 - Fled, The Frighteners, Kazaam, Multiplicity
• July 26 - A Time to Kill, Kingpin, Joe's Apartment, The Adventures of Pinocchio
• August 1996
• August 2 - Chain Reaction, Matilda
• August 9 - Escape from L.A., Jack
• August 16 - The Fan, Tin Cup, Alaska, Bordello of Blood
• August 23 - The Island of Dr. Moreau, A Very Brady Sequel, Carpool
• August 30 - First Kid, The Stupids
• September 1996
• September 6 - Bogus, Bulletproof
• September 13 - Maximum Risk, Fly Away Home, Feeling Minnesota
• September 20 - The First Wives Club, Last Man Standing
• September 27 - 2 Days in the Valley, Extreme Measures

October–December

• October 1996
• October 4 - That Thing You Do!, The Glimmer Man, Bound
• October 11 - The Ghost and the Darkness, The Long Kiss Goodnight, The Chamber, Michael Collins
• October 18 - Sleepers
• October 25 - The Associate, High School High
• November 1996
• November 1 - William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, Dear God, Larger Than Life
• November 8 - Ransom, Set It Off
• November 15 - Space Jam, The Mirror Has Two Faces, The English Patient
• November 22 - Jingle All the Way, Star Trek: First Contact
• November 29 - 101 Dalmatians
• December 1996
• December 6 - Daylight
• December 13 - Jerry Maguire, Mars Attacks!, The Preacher's Wife
• December 20 - Scream, Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, One Fine Day, My Fellow Americans
• December 27 - Michael, The Evening Star, Evita

Births

• February 28 – Bobb'e J. Thompson, actor
• April 14 – Abigail Breslin, actress
• April 17 – Dee Dee Davis, actress
• July 23 - Rachel G. Fox, actress
• August 21 – Jamia Simone Nash, actress
• January 1 – Mary Gibbs, actress
• Teala Dunn, actress

Deaths

• January 18 - NTR,Telugu film actor,director,producer
• January 19 - Don Simpson
• February 2 - Gene Kelly, 83, actor, dancer and singer
• February 6 - Guy Madison, 74, actor
• February 11 - Phil Regan, 89, singer, actor
• February 13 - Martin Balsam, 76, actor
• February 15 - McLean Stevenson, 68, American actor
• February 15 - Tommy Rettig, 54, actor
• February 17 - Evelyn Laye, 95, actress
• February 25 - Haing S. Ngor, 55, actor
• March 2 - Lyle Talbot, 94, actor
• March 9 - George Burns, 100, actor
• March 13 - Krzysztof Kieślowski, 54, Polish film director
• March 17 - René Clément, 82, French film director
• April 6 - Greer Garson, 91, actress
• April 8 - Ben Johnson, 77, actor
• April 16 - Lucille Bremer, 79, actress
• April 26 - Stirling Silliphant, 78, screenwriter and producer
• May 1 - Luana Patten, 57, actress
• May 20 - Jon Pertwee, 76, actor
• May 21 - Lash La Rue, 74, cowboy actor
• June 5 - Vito Scotti, 78, American character actor
• June 7 - Max Factor, Jr., 91, make-up artist and heir to Max Factor
• June 10 - Jo Van Fleet, 81, actress
• June 11 - Brigitte Helm, 88, German actress
• July 2 - Margaux Hemingway, 42, model, actress
• July 27 - Albert R. Broccoli, 87, producer
• July 30 - Claudette Colbert, 92, actress
• August 7 - Akiji Kobayashi, 65, Japanese actor
• September 7 - Bibi Besch, 56, actress
• September 10 - Joanne Dru, 74, actress
• September 13 - Tupac Shakur, 25, rap singer/songwriter, actor
• September 14 - Juliet Prowse, 59, dancer, actress
• September 18 - Annabella, 89, actress
• September 22 - Dorothy Lamour, 81, actress
• October 14 - Laura La Plante, 91, actress
• October 31 - Marcel Carné, 90, French film director
• November 14 - Virginia Cherrill, 88, actress
• November 19 - Véra Korène, 95, Russian born French actress
• December 8 - Howard E. Rollins Jr, 46, actor
• December 19 - Marcello Mastroianni, 72, actor
• December 30 - Lew Ayres, 88, actor
• December 30 - Jack Nance, 53, actor

Film debuts

• Gael García Bernal
• Emily Mortimer
• Samantha Morton