1989 in film
Events
 Actress Kim Basinger and her brother Mick purchase Braselton, Georgia for $20 million. (Basinger would lose the town to her partner in the deal, the pension fund of Chicago-based Ameritech Corp., in 1993 after being forced to file for bankruptcy when a California judge ordered her to pay $7.4 million for refusing to honor a verbal contract to star in the movie Boxing Helena.) '
September - Columbia Pictures and Tri-Star Pictures are sold to Sony
The James Bond film Licence to Kill is released. Unknown to anyone at the time, its release would be followed by years of legal wrangling over the future of the popular film series. The next Bond film, GoldenEye, will not be released until 1995. While still considered parts of the same series, Licence to Kill is considered the last of the "old-style" Bond films as produced since 1962.
Screen and stage legend Sir Laurence Olivier appeared in his last filmed role before his death in 1989 as an old soldier in War Requiem
Top grossing films (U.S.)
source: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1989&p=.htm
Awards
Academy Awards:
Best Picture: Driving Miss Daisy - Majestic Films International, Zanuck Company., Warner Bros.
Best Director: Oliver Stone - Born on the Fourth of July
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis - My Left Foot
Best Actress: Jessica Tandy - Driving Miss Daisy
Best Supporting Actor: Denzel Washington - Glory
Best Supporting Actress: Brenda Fricker - My Left Foot
Best Foreign Language Film: Nuovo cinema Paradiso (Cinema Paradiso), directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, Italy
Best Art Direction/Set Decoration: Anton Furst and Peter Young - Batman
Golden Globe Awards:
Drama:
Best Picture: Born on the Fourth of July
Best Actor: Tom Cruise - Born on the Fourth of July
Best Actress: Michelle Pfeiffer - The Fabulous Baker Boys
Musical or comedy:
Best Picture: Driving Miss Daisy
Best Actor: Morgan Freeman - Driving Miss Daisy
Best Actress: Jessica Tandy - Driving Miss Daisy
Other
Best Director: Oliver Stone, Born on the Fourth of July
Best Foreign Language Film: Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (Cinema Paradiso), Italy
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
Sex, lies, and videotape, directed by Steven Soderbergh, United States
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
A City of Sadness (Beiqing chengshi), directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien, China
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
Rain Man, directed by Barry Levinson, United States
Films released in 1989
84 Charlie Mopic
The Abyss, starring Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Michael Biehn
All Dogs Go To Heaven
Always, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter and John Goodman
Apartment Zero, directed by Martin Donovan - Golden Space Needle award
Back to the Future Part II, starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd; the second sequel of Back to the Future trilogy
Batman, starring Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson and Kim Basinger
Bert Rigby, You're a Fool
Best of the Best
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter
Black Rain, starring Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia and Kate Capshaw
Born on the Fourth of July - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Drama), directed by Oliver Stone, starring Tom Cruise
The 'Burbs, starring Tom Hanks
Buy and Cell
Cameron's Closet
Camille Claudel, starring Isabelle Adjani
Casualties of War, starring Michael J. Fox and Sean Penn
Chances Are, starring Cybill Shepherd and Robert Downey, Jr.
Checking Out
Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso) - Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
A City of Sadness (Beiqing chengshi) - Golden Lion award
Cohen & Tate
Cold Feet
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Cousins, starring Ted Danson, Isabella Rosselini, Sean Young and William Petersen
Crimes and Misdemeanors, directed by Woody Allen, starring Allen and Martin Landau
Criminal Law
Crusoe
Cyborg
The Dawning
Dead Bang, starring Don Johnson
Dead Calm, starring Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman and Billy Zane
Dead Poets Society, starring Robin Williams
Deepstar Six
Dream a Little Dream, starring Corey Feldman, Corey Haim and Meredith Salenger
Dimenticare Palermo
Disorganized Crime
Do the Right Thing, directed by Spike Lee, starring Lee and Danny Aiello
The Dream Team
The Dressmaker
Driving Miss Daisy - Academy and Golden Globe (com./mus.) Awards for Best Picture, starring Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman and Dan Aykroyd
Drugstore Cowboy
Edge of Sanity
Enemies, a Love Story
The Experts
Farewell to the King
Fat Man and Little Boy, starring Paul Newman and Dwight Schultz
Field of Dreams, starring Kevin Costner
Fletch Lives, starring Chevy Chase
The Fly II
For Queen and Country
Getting It Right
Ghostbusters II, starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts and Peter MacNicol
Gleaming the Cube
Glory, starring Matthew Broderick and Denzel Washington
Godzilla vs. Biollante
Great Balls of Fire!, starring Dennis Quaid, Winona Ryder and Alec Baldwin
Hard Times
Heart of Midnight
Heathers, starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater
Henry V, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh
Her Alibi, starring Tom Selleck and Paulina Porizkova
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, starring Rick Moranis
Horror Show
How I Got Into College
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Harrison Ford and Sean Connery
Jacknife
The January Man
Jesus of Montreal
K-9, starring James Belushi
The Karate Kid, Part III, starring Ralph Macchio and Noriyuki "Pat" Morita
Kickboxer
Kiki's Delivery Service (orig. release in Japan)
Killing Dad
Lauderdale
Lean on Me, starring Morgan Freeman
Leningrad Cowboys Go America, directed by Aki Kaurismäki, starring Leningrad Cowboys
Lethal Weapon 2, starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover
Licence to Kill, from the James Bond series
Listen to Me
The Little Mermaid
Look Who's Talking, starring John Travolta and Kirstie Alley
Major League, starring Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen and Corbin Bernsen
Meet the Feebles
Meet the Hollowheads
Miss Firecracker
Music Box - Golden Bear award (for 1990), starring Jessica Lange
My 20th Century
My Left Foot, starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Brenda Fricker
My Mom's A Werewolf
Mystery Train
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, starring Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo
New York Stories (three short films:)
*Life Lessons, directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Richard Price
*Life Without Zoe, directed and written by Francis Ford Coppola, co-written by Sofia Coppola
*Oedipus Wrecks, directed and written by Woody Allen.
Night Game
No Holds Barred
Nowhere to Run
Parenthood, directed by Ron Howard, starring Steve Martin, Mary Steenburgen, Jason Robards, Dianne Wiest, Rick Moranis, Tom Hulce, Martha Plimpton and Keanu Reeves
Pet Sematary
Penn & Teller Get Killed
The Punisher
Return To Paradise
Roger & Me
Rosalie Goes Shopping
Say Anything..., starring John Cusack and Ione Skye
Sex, lies, and videotape - Palme d'Or award, starring James Spader, Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher and Laura San Giacomo
She's Out of Control
Signs of Life
Skin Deep
Society
Steel Magnolias, starring Sally Field, Julia Roberts, Dolly Parton, Olympia Dukakis, Shirley MacLaine and Daryl Hannah
Teen Witch
Three Fugitives
The Toxic Avenger Part II
Triumph of the Spirit
Tropical Snow
True Love - won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival
Turner & Hooch, starring Tom Hanks
UHF, starring "Weird Al" Yankovic
Uncle Buck, starring John Candy and Amy Madigan
War Requiem, starring Sir Laurence Olivier in his final role.
The War of the Roses, starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito
Weekend at Bernie's, starring Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman
When Harry Met Sally..., starring Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan
White Hot aka Crack in the Mirror
The Wizard, starring Fred Savage
Births
January 3 - Alex D. Linz, actor
February 5 - Jessica Sumpter, actress
February 5 - Jeremy Sumpter, actor
February 13 - Carly McKillip, actress, singer
February 16 - Elizabeth Olsen, actress
March 5 - Jake Lloyd, actor
March 11 - Anton Yelchin, Russian actor
March 15 - Caitlin Wachs, American actress
April 18 - Alia Shawkat, American actress
April 20 - Alex Black, American actor
June 27 - Matthew Lewis, British actor
July 14 - Javier Zamora,
July 23 - Daniel Radcliffe, actor
August 21 - Hayden Panettiere, American actress
September 15 - Connor Sisson, Canadian actor, and director
November 4 - Jimmy Corrado, American actor
December 12 - Harry Eden, British actor
Deaths
January 20 - Beatrice Lillie, actress
February 3 - Lionel Newman, composer
February 3 - John Cassavetes, actor, director
February 11 - George O'Hanlon, actor/director
February 17 - Marguerite Roberts, writer
March 27 - May Allison, actress
April 26 - Lucille Ball, film and television actress
April 30 - Sergio Leone, Italian Western director
May 20 - Gilda Radner, actress
June 27 - Jack Buetel, actor
June 28 - Joris Ivens, filmmaker
July 3 - Jim Backus, actor
July 10 - Mel Blanc, voice actor
July 11 - Lord Laurence Olivier, Legendary English stage and screen actor
August 16 - Amanda Blake, actress
October 4 - Graham Chapman, comedian
October 6 - Bette Davis, actress
October 16 - Cornel Wilde, actor
October 20 - Anthony Quayle, actor
November 20 - Lynn Bari, actress
December 16 - Aileen Pringle, actress
December 16 - Silvana Mangano, actress
December 16 - Lee Van Cleef, actor
December 26 - Clare Johannah murphy, actress/musician
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