1990 in film

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The year 1990 in film involved some significant events.

Events

• CGI technique is expanded with motion capture for CGI characters, used in Total Recall (1990).
• The first digitally-manipulated matte painting is used, in Die Hard 2.
• The use of real-time computer graphics or "digital puppetry" to create a character in a motion picture is performed, in RoboCop 2.
• Future film stars Chris Rock and Adam Sandler join SNL.
• February 4 - Actor Tom Cruise and actress Mimi Rogers divorce.
• November 16 - Disney's first ever animated sequel, The Rescuers Down Under, is released.
• December 24 - Tom Cruise and actress Nicole Kidman marry.
• Universal Pictures celebrates its 75th anniversary with a new logo.

Top grossing films (worldwide)

Rank	Title	Studio	Actors	Director	Gross
1.	Ghost	Paramount	Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg	Jerry Zucker	$505,702,588
2.	Home Alone	Fox	Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern	Chris Columbus	$476,684,675
3.	Pretty Woman	Touchstone Pictures	Richard Gere, Julia Roberts	Garry Marshall	$464,406,268
4.	Dances with Wolves	Orion Pictures	Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene	Kevin Costner	$424,208,848
5.	Total Recall	TriStar Pictures	Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside, Ronny Cox	Paul Verhoeven	$261,299,840
6.	Back to the Future Part III	Universal Pictures	Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen	Robert Zemeckis	$244,527,583
7.	Die Hard 2: Die Harder	Fox	Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia	Renny Harlin	$240,031,094
8.	Presumed Innocent	Warner Bros.	Harrison Ford, Brian Dennehy, Raúl Juliá, Bonnie Bedelia, Greta Scacchi	Alan J. Pakula	$221,303,188
9.	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	New Line Cinema	Judith Hoag, Elias Koteas	Steve Barron	$201,965,915
10	Kindergarten Cop	Universal	Arnold Schwarzenegger, Penelope Ann Miller, Pamela Reed, Linda Hunt, Richard Tyson	Ivan Reitman	$201,957,688

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Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: Dances with Wolves - Tig Productions, Majestic Films International

Best Director: Kevin Costner - Dances With Wolves

Best Actor: Jeremy Irons - Reversal of Fortune

Best Actress: Kathy Bates - Misery

Best Supporting Actor: Joe Pesci - Goodfellas

Best Supporting Actress: Whoopi Goldberg - Ghost

Best Foreign Language Film: Journey of Hope (Reise der Hoffnung), directed by Xavier Koller, Switzerland

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: Dances With Wolves

Best Actor: Jeremy Irons - Reversal of Fortune

Best Actress: Kathy Bates - Misery

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: Green Card

Best Actor: Gérard Depardieu - Green Card

Best Actress: Julia Roberts - Pretty Woman

Other

Best Director: Kevin Costner - Dances with Wolves

Best Foreign Language Film: Cyrano de Bergerac, France

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Wild at Heart, directed by David Lynch, United States

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, directed by Tom Stoppard, U.K. / U.S.A.

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Music Box, directed by Costa Gavras, United States

Larks on a String (Skrivánci na niti), directed by Jiri Menzel, Czechoslovakia

Films released in 1990

U.S.A. unless stated

A-D

A

• Abraham's Gold, starring Hanna Schygulla - (Germany)
• The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, directed by Renny Harlin, starring Andrew Dice Clay, Wayne Newton and Priscilla Presley
• Afghan Breakdown (Afganskiy Izlom) - (U.S.S.R.)
• After Dark, My Sweet, starring Jason Patric, Rachel Ward, Bruce Dern
• Agneepath (The Path of Fire) - (India)
• Air America, directed by Roger Spottiswoode, starring Mel Gibson and Robert Downey, Jr.
• Alice, directed by Woody Allen, starring Mia Farrow, Alec Baldwin, Joe Mantegna, William Hurt
• The Ambulance
• American Ninja 4: The Annihilation
• Anjali - (India)
• Another 48 Hrs., starring Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte
• Arachnophobia, starring Jeff Daniels, Harley Jane Kozak, John Goodman and Julian Sands
• Avalon, directed by Barry Levinson, starring Aidan Quinn, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elizabeth Perkins, Kevin Pollak
• Awakenings, directed by Penny Marshall, starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro

B

• Back to the Future Part III, starring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen
• Bad Influence, directed by Curtis Hanson, starring Rob Lowe and James Spader
• Betsy's Wedding, directed by Alan Alda, starring Alda, Molly Ringwald, Madeline Kahn, Joe Pesci, Anthony LaPaglia, Ally Sheedy, Joey Bishop
• Bird on a Wire, starring Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn
• Black Republic (Geudeuldo uri-cheoreom), directed by Park Kwang-su - (South Korea)
• Black Snow (Ben ming nian) - (China)
• Blind Fury, starring Rutger Hauer
• Blue Steel, starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Ron Silver
• Boiling Point (3-4 x jûgatsu), directed by Takeshi Kitano, starring Beat Takeshi - (Japan)
• The Bonfire of the Vanities, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Morgan Freeman and Kim Cattrall
• Bride of Re-Animator
• Bullet in the Head (Die xue jie tou), directed by John Woo, starring Tony Leung and Jacky Cheung - (Hong Kong)

C

• Cadence, starring Charlie Sheen and Martin Sheen
• Cadillac Man, starring Robin Williams, Tim Robbins, Annabella Sciorra, Lori Petty, Fran Drescher
• Captain America
• Childhood Days (Shōnen jidai) - (Japan) - Japan Academy Prize for Picture of the Year
• Child's Play 2, starring Alex Vincent, Jenny Agutter, Gerrit Graham and Christine Elise
• China Cry
• The Chosen One (Ishanou) - (India)
• Class of 1999
• Close-Up (Nema-ye Nazdik) - (Iran)
• Coins in the Fountain, starring Loni Anderson
• Come See the Paradise, directed by Alan Parker, starring Dennis Quaid and Tamlyn Tomita
• The Comfort of Strangers, directed by Paul Schrader, starring Christopher Walken, Natasha Richardson and Rupert Everett - (U.K.)
• Crash and Burn
• Crazy People, starring Dudley Moore, Daryl Hannah, J.T. Walsh, Paul Reiser
• Cry-Baby, directed by John Waters, starring Johnny Depp, Amy Locane, Polly Bergen, Ricki Lake, Traci Lords, Iggy Pop and Susan Tyrrell
• Cyrano de Bergerac, starring Gérard Depardieu - (France) - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film

D

• Dances with Wolves, directed by and starring Kevin Costner - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture
• Darkman, starring Liam Neeson, Frances McDormand and Larry Drake
• Days of Being Wild (A Fei jingjyuhn), directed by Wong Kar-wai, starring Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung and Andy Lau - (Hong Kong)
• Days of Thunder, directed by Tony Scott, starring Tom Cruise, Robert Duvall, Nicole Kidman, Randy Quaid and Cary Elwes
• Death Warrant, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme
• Dei tau lung (Dragon Fighter) - (Hong Kong)
• Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection
• Denial
• Desperate Hours, starring Anthony Hopkins, Mickey Rourke, Mimi Rogers, Lindsay Crouse, Kelly Lynch
• Dick Tracy, starring Warren Beatty, Madonna, Glenne Headly, Al Pacino
• Die Hard 2, starring Bruce Willis
• Downtown, starring Anthony Edwards and Forest Whitaker
• Dreams (Yume), directed by Akira Kurosawa - (Japan)
• DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp

E-K

E

• Edward Scissorhands, directed by Tim Burton, starring Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Alan Arkin, Anthony Michael Hall and Vincent Price
• The End of Innocence, directed by and starring Dyan Cannon
• Ernest Goes to Jail, starring Jim Varney
• Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema (Ucieczka z kina "Wolność") - (Poland)
• Europa Europa (aka Hitlerjunge Salomon) - (Germany/Poland) - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film (for 1991)
• Everybody's Fine (Stanno tutti bene), starring Marcello Mastroianni, Michèle Morgan - (Italy)
• The Exorcist III, starring George C. Scott

F

• Fantasia (restored version)
• La Femme Nikita, directed by Luc Besson - (France/Italy)
• The Field, starring Richard Harris, John Hurt, Tom Berenger - (Ireland/U.K.)
• Fire Birds, starring Nicolas Cage, Tommy Lee Jones and Sean Young
• The First Power, starring Lou Diamond Phillips
• Flashback, starring Kiefer Sutherland and Dennis Hopper
• Flatliners, directed by Joel Schumacher, starring Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin and Oliver Platt
• The Fourth War, starring Roy Schneider and Jürgen Prochnow
• Frankenstein Unbound, directed by Roger Corman, starring John Hurt
• The Freshman, starring Marlon Brando and Matthew Broderick
• Funny About Love directed by Leonard Nimoy, starring Gene Wilder, Christine Lahti, Mary Stuart Masterson

G

• Ghayal - (India)
• Ghost, starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg
• The Godfather Part III, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Andy García, Joe Mantegna, Eli Wallach, Sofia Coppola
• Goodfellas, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino
• Graffiti Bridge, directed by and starring Prince
• Green Card, starring Gérard Depardieu and Andie MacDowell - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
• Gremlins 2: The New Batch, starring Zach Galligan and Phoebe Cates
• The Grifters, directed by Stephen Frears, starring Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, Annette Bening
• The Guardian, starring Jenny Seagrove, Dwier Brown and Carey Lowell

H

• The Hairdresser's Husband (Le Mari de la coiffeuse), directed by Patrice Leconte - (France)
• Hamlet, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, starring Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Helena Bonham Carter - (U.K./U.S.A./France)
• Hamoun - (Iran)
• The Handmaid's Tale, directed by Volker Schlondorff, starring Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Robert Duvall
• Hard to Kill starring Steven Seagal and Kelly LeBrock
• Havana, starring Robert Redford, Lena Olin, Raúl Juliá, Alan Arkin
• Heart Condition, starring Bob Hoskins and Denzel Washington
• Heaven and Earth (Ten to chi to) - (Japan)
• Henry & June, starring Fred Ward, Maria de Medeiros, Uma Thurman
• Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, starring Michael Rooker
• Hidden Agenda, directed by Ken Loach, starring Frances McDormand and Brian Cox - (U.K.)
• Home Alone, directed by Chris Columbus, starring Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, Catherine O'Hara, John Heard
• The Hot Spot, directed by Dennis Hopper, starring Don Johnson, Virginia Madsen, Jennifer Connelly
• The Hunt for Red October, starring Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, James Earl Jones, Scott Glenn, Sam Neill, Tim Curry

I

• I Come in Peace (aka Dark Angel), starring Dolph Lundgren
• I Hired a Contract Killer, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud - (International)
• I Love You to Death, directed by Lawrence Kasdan, starring Kevin Kline, Tracey Ullman, River Phoenix, William Hurt, Keanu Reeves, Joan Plowright
• Internal Affairs, directed by Mike Figgis, starring Richard Gere, Andy García, Nancy Travis
• It - TV mini series based on the stephen king novel

J

• Jacob's Ladder, starring Tim Robbins, directed by Adrian Lyne
• Jetsons: The Movie
• Joe Versus the Volcano, starring Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Ossie Davis, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges
• Journey of Hope (Reise der Hoffnung or Umuda yolculuk) - (Switzerland/Turkey) - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
• Ju Dou, directed by Zhang Yimou and Yang Fengliang, starring Gong Li - (China)
• The Juniper Tree, starring Björk - (Iceland)

K

• Kindergarten Cop, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Penelope Ann Miller, Pamela Reed, Richard Tyson and Linda Hunt
• King of New York, directed by Abel Ferrara, starring Christopher Walken, Laurence Fishburne, Wesley Snipes, David Caruso
• Korczak, directed by Andrzej Wajda - (Poland)
• The Krays, directed by Peter Medak, starring Martin Kemp, Gary Kemp, Billie Whitelaw - (U.K.)

L-Q

L

• Larks on a String (Skrivánci na niti), directed by Jiří Menzel - (Czechoslovakia) - Golden Bear award
• The Last of the Finest, starring Brian Dennehy
• Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III
• The Lemon Sisters, starring Diane Keaton, Carol Kane, Elliott Gould
• Lionheart, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme
• The Long Walk Home, starring Sissy Spacek and Whoopi Goldberg
• Look Who's Talking Too, starring John Travolta and Kirstie Alley
• Loose Cannons, starring Gene Hackman and Dan Aykroyd
• Lord of the Flies
• Love at Large, starring Tom Berenger and Anne Archer

M

• Mack the Knife, starring Raúl Juliá
• A Man Called Sarge, starring Gary Kroeger and Marc Singer
• Marked for Death, starring Steven Seagal
• The Match Factory Girl (Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö) - (Finland/Sweden)
• Memories of a River (Tutajosok) - (Hungary)
• Memphis Belle, directed by Michael Caton-Jones, starring Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, D.B. Sweeney, Harry Connick, Jr., Sean Astin, Billy Zane
• Men at Work, starring Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez
• Mermaids, directed by Richard Benjamin, starring Cher, Bob Hoskins, Winona Ryder, Christina Ricci
• Metropolitan
• Miami Blues starring Fred Ward, Alec Baldwin, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Nora Dunn
• Miller's Crossing, directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, starring Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, Marcia Gay Harden, John Turturro, Jon Polito
• Milou in May (Milou en mai), directed by Louis Malle - (France)
• Misery, directed by Rob Reiner, starring James Caan, Kathy Bates, Richard Farnsworth, Lauren Bacall
• Mo' Better Blues, directed by Spike Lee, starring Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes, Samuel L. Jackson and Lee
• A Moment of Romance (Tin joek jau cing), starring Andy Lau - (Hong Kong)
• Mountains of the Moon, directed by Bob Rafelson
• Movie... In Your Face
• Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward
• Mr. Destiny, starring James Belushi, Michael Caine, Linda Hamilton
• My Blue Heaven, starring Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, Joan Cusack
• My Father's Glory (La Gloire de mon père) - (France)
• My Mother's Castle (Le Château de ma mère), directed by Yves Robert - (France) - Golden Space Needle award (for 1991) - see novel Le Château de ma mère

N

• Narrow Margin, starring Gene Hackman and Anne Archer
• The Nasty Girl (Das schreckliche Mädchen) - (West Germany)
• Navy SEALs, starring Charlie Sheen, Michael Biehn and Joanne Whalley
• The Neverending Story II: The Next Chapter
• Nightbreed, directed by Clive Barker
• Nuns on the Run, starring Robbie Coltrane and Eric Idle - (U.K.)
• The Nutcracker Prince - (Canada)

O

• On Tour (Turnè) - (Italy)

P

• Pacific Heights, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Michael Keaton, Melanie Griffith, Matthew Modine
• Piece of Cake, directed by Jay Sandrich, starring T.K. Carter, Cleavant Derricks, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Tonya Lee Williams
• Postcards from the Edge, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman
• Pratibandh - (India)
• Predator 2, starring Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Ruben Blades, Maria Conchita Alonso and Bill Paxton
• Presumed Innocent, directed by Alan J. Pakula, starring Harrison Ford, Greta Scacchi, Bonnie Bedelia, Brian Dennehy, Raúl Juliá
• Pretty Woman, directed by Garry Marshall, starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere
• Problem Child, starring John Ritter, Michael Oliver, Jack Warden, Amy Yasbeck, Gilbert Gottfried, Michael Richards
• Pump Up the Volume, directed by Allan Moyle, starring Christian Slater, Golden Space Needle award

Q

• Q&A, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Nick Nolte, Timothy Hutton, Armand Assante
• Quick Change, starring Bill Murray, Geena Davis, Randy Quaid
• Quigley Down Under, starring Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo, Alan Rickman - (Australia/U.S.A.)

R-Z

R

• The Reflecting Skin, starring Viggo Mortensen
• Repossessed, a parody of The Exorcist, starring Linda Blair and Leslie Nielsen
• The Rescuers Down Under, starring Bob Newhart, Eva Gabor and John Candy
• Revenge, starring Kevin Costner, Anthony Quinn, Madeleine Stowe, James Gammon, Miguel Ferrer, Sally Kirkland
• Reversal of Fortune, starring Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close and Ron Silver
• RoboCop 2, starring Peter Weller and Nancy Allen
• Robot Jox
• Rockula
• Rocky V, starring Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Tommy Morrison
• Romeo-Juliet, starring John Hurt, Francesca Annis, Ben Kingsley and Vanessa Redgrave
• The Rookie, starring Clint Eastwood and Charlie Sheen
• Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, directed by Tom Stoppard - (U.K./U.S.A.) - Golden Lion award
• The Russia House, starring Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Klaus Maria Brandauer, James Fox, Roy Scheider

S

• The Sheltering Sky, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, starring Debra Winger and John Malkovich - (Italy/U.K.)
• Shipwrecked (Haakon Haakonsen) - (Norway/Sweden/U.S.A.)
• Short Time, starring Dabney Coleman and Teri Garr
• A Show of Force, starring Amy Irving and Andy García
• Sibling Rivalry, starring Kirstie Alley
• Side Out, starring C. Thomas Howell and Peter Horton
• Silent Gunpowder (Gluvi barut) - (Yugoslavia)
• Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation
• Silent Scream - (U.K.)
• Song of the Exile (Ke tu qiu hen), starring Maggie Cheung - (Hong Kong)
• Spaced Invaders, directed by Patrick Read Johnson, starring Douglas Barr, Royal Dano, Ariana Richards, J. J. Anderson
• Stanley & Iris, starring Robert De Niro and Jane Fonda
• State of Grace, starring Sean Penn, Ed Harris, Gary Oldman, Robin Wright
• Stella, starring Bette Midler, Trini Alvarado, John Goodman, Stephen Collins, Marsha Mason
• The Sun Also Shines at Night (Il sole anche di notte), starring Julian Sands, Charlotte Gainsbourg - (Italy)

T

• Taking Care of Business, starring James Belushi and Charles Grodin
• Tales from the Darkside: The Movie, starring Deborah Harry and Christian Slater
• Tatie Danielle (Auntie Danielle), starring Tsilla Chelton - (France)
• Taxi Blues (Taksi-Blyuz) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, directed by Steve Barron
• Tekken - (Japan)
• Texasville, directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Jeff Bridges, Timothy Bottoms, Cybill Shepherd, Cloris Leachman, Annie Potts
• Three Men and a Little Lady, starring Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, Ted Danson
• Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (¡Átame!), directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Antonio Banderas - (Spain)
• Tilaï (The Law) - (Burkina Faso)
• Total Recall, directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside and Ronny Cox
• Treasure Island, starring Charlton Heston and Christian Bale - (U.K./U.S.A.)
• Tremors starring Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter, Michael Gross and Reba McEntire
• Truly, Madly, Deeply, directed by Anthony Minghella - (U.K.)
• The Two Jakes, directed by and starring Jack Nicholson, co-starring Harvey Keitel, Meg Tilly, Madeleine Stowe, David Keith, Eli Wallach

U

• Uchū no hōsoku - (Japan)
• Ultra Q The Movie: Legend of the Stars - (Japan)
• Uranus, directed by Claude Berri, starring Gérard Depardieu - (France)

V

• Vincent & Me (Vincent et Moi) - (Canada/France)
• Vincent & Theo, directed by Robert Altman

W

• Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael, starring Winona Ryder and Jeff Daniels
• Where the Heart Is
• White Hunter, Black Heart, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood
• White Palace, starring Susan Sarandon and James Spader
• Wild at Heart, directed by David Lynch, starring Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd, Willem Dafoe, Harry Dean Stanton and Isabella Rossellini
• Wild Orchid, starring Mickey Rourke, Carre Otis, Jacqueline Bisset
• The Witches, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring Anjelica Huston - (U.K./U.S.A.)

XYZ

• Young Guns II, starring Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christian Slater and William Petersen

Wide-release films

January–March

• January 1990 "Leatherface:The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III"
  • January 19 - Tremors starring Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward
• February 1990
  • February 9 - Hard to Kill starring Steven Segal
  • February 16 - Revenge, starring Kevin Costner
• March 1990
  • March 2 - The Hunt for Red October
  • March 9 - Joe Versus the Volcano, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan
  • March 23 - Pretty Woman
  • March 30 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

April–June

• April 1990
  • April 6 - Cry-Baby, starring Johnny Depp
  • April 27 - Spaced Invaders, directed by Patrick Read Johnson, starring Douglas Barr, Royal Dano, Ariana Richards and J. J. Anderson
• May 1990
  • May 4 - Short Time
  • May 25
    • Back to the Future Part III
    • Fire Birds, starring Nicolas Cage and Tommy Lee Jones
• June 1990
  • June 1 - Total Recall
  • June 8 - "Another 48 Hrs"
  • June 15
    • Dick Tracy, starring Warren Beatty, Madonna, Glenne Headly and Al Pacino
    • Gremlins 2: The New Batch
  • June 22 - RoboCop 2, starring Peter Weller and Nancy Allen
  • June 27 - Days of Thunder

July–September

• July 1990
  • July 4 - Die Hard 2: Die Harder
  • July 11 - The Adventures of Ford Fairlane
  • July 13 - Ghost
  • July 18 - Arachnophobia
  • July 27
    • Presumed Innocent, starring Harrison Ford
    • Problem Child
• August 1990
  • August 10 - Air America, starring Mel Gibson and Robert Downey, Jr.
  • August 17 - "The Exorcist III" starring George C. Scott
  • August 24 - Darkman starring Liam Neeson and Frances McDormand
• September 1990
  • September 14 - Death Warrant
  • September 19 - Goodfellas
  • September 28 - Pacific Heights, starring Michael Keaton, Melanie Griffith and Matthew Modine

October–December

• October 1990 Marked for Death Steven Seagal
• November 1990
  • November 9 - Child's Play 2
  • November 16
    • Home Alone
    • Rocky V
  • November 21
    • Dances with Wolves
    • Predator 2
    • Three Men and a Little Lady
• December 1990
  • December 6 - The End of Innocence, starring Rebecca Schaeffer, Dyan Cannon and John Heard
  • December 7 - The Rookie, starring Clint Eastwood and Charlie Sheen
  • December 14 - Edward Scissorhands, starring Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder
  • December 20 - Awakenings, starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro
  • December 21
    • The Bonfire of the Vanities, starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis and Melanie Griffith
    • Kindergarten Cop
  • December 25 - The Godfather Part III

Births

• February 7 - Mustafa Ali, actor, scientist
• March 24 - Keisha Castle-Hughes, actress
• April 6 - Charlie McDermott, actor
• April 9 - Kristen Stewart, actress
• April 15 - Emma Watson, actress, model
• May 14 - Sasha Spielberg, actress, daughter of producer/director Steven Spielberg and actress Kate Capshaw
• July 2 - Margot Robbie, Australian actress
• July 24 - Daveigh Chase, actress
• October 22 - Jonathan Lipnicki, actor
• December 20 - JoJo, American singer-songwriter and actress
• December 23 - Anna Maria Perez de Taglé, American actress/singer

Debuts

• Hank Azaria
• Benjamin Bratt
• Harry Connick, Jr. - Memphis Belle
• Kevin Connolly
• Russell Crowe
• Brendan Gleeson
• Djimon Hounsou
• Reba McEntire - Tremors
• Julianne Moore - Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
• Chris O'Donnell - Men Don't Leave
• Christina Ricci - Mermaids
• Catherine Zeta-Jones