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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: Die Harder.
- The use of real-time computer graphics or "digital puppetry" to create a character in a motion picture is performed, in RoboCop 2.
- Future movie stars Chris Rock and Adam Sandler join SNL.
- February 4 - Actor Tom Cruise and actress Mimi Rogers divorce.
- December 24 - Tom Cruise and actress Nicole Kidman marry.
- The film Dances with Wolves becomes an instant American classic, reviving the Western genre with an epic saga from the Civil War.
Top grossing films
- Home Alone, starring Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard, Catherine O'Hara,
- Ghost, starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Goldwyn, Rick Aviles
- Dances with Wolves, starring and directed by Kevin Costner
- Pretty Woman, starring Julia Roberts, Richard Gere
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- The Hunt for Red October, starring Sean Connery
- Total Recall, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Die Hard 2, starring Bruce Willis
- Dick Tracy starring Warren Beatty, Madonna
- Kindergarten Cop, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Penelope Ann Miller
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
- 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
- Air America
- Another 48 Hrs., starring Eddie Murphy
- Awakenings, starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro
- Back to the Future Part III, starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd
- Bad Influence
- Betsy's Wedding
- Bird on a Wire (film)
- Boiling Point
- The Bonfire of the Vanities
- Bride of Re-Animator
- Cadillac Man
- Child's Play 2
- Come See the Paradise
- Crash and Burn
- Cyrano de Bergerac - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film
- Dances with Wolves - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture
- Darkman
- Days of Thunder
- Dick Tracy
- Die Hard 2
- Dreams, directed by Akira Kurosawa
- DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp
- Edward Scissorhands, starring Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder
- The End of Innocence
- Europa Europa - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film (for 1991)
- The Exorcist III
- Flashback
- Flatliners
- Ghost
- The Godfather Part III
- Goodfellas, directed by Martin Scorsese
- Green Card - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
- Gremlins 2: The New Batch
- The Guardian (1990 film)
- Hamlet (1990 film) (with Mel Gibson)
- Havana (film)
- Heaven and Earth (1990 film)
- Henry & June
- Home Alone
- The Hunt for Red October
- Initiation: Silent Night, Deadly Night 4
- Jacob's Ladder
- Jetsons: The Movie
- Joe Versus the Volcano
- Journey of Hope (Reise der Hoffnung) - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
- Kindergarten Cop
- King of New York
- Larks on a String (Skrivánci na niti) - Golden Bear award
- Lionheart
- Longtime Companion
- Look Who's Talking Too
- Lord of the Flies
- Mack the Knife (film)
- The Match Factory Girl
- Memphis Belle (film)
- Mermaids (film)
- Metropolitan
- Miami Blues (Alec Baldwin)
- Miller's Crossing
- Misery
- Mo' Better Blues
- My Blue Heaven, starring Steve Martin
- My Mother's Castle (Le Château de ma mère), directed by Yves Robert, Golden Space Needle award (for 1991) - see novel Le Château de ma mère
- The Nasty Girl (Das schreckliche Mädchen)
- Nikita, directed by Luc Besson
- Nuns on the Run
- Q&A, starring Nick Nolte, Timothy Hutton
- Quick Change
- Pacific Heights (1990 film)
- Postcards from the Edge (Meryl Streep)
- Predator 2, starring Danny Glover
- Pretty Woman
- Problem Child
- Pump Up the Volume, directed by Allan Moyle, Golden Space Needle award
- Quigley Down Under
- The Reflecting Skin
- The Rescuers Down Under
- Repossessed, a parody of The Exorcist
- The Rescuers Down Under
- Reversal of Fortune
- RoboCop 2
- Robot Jox
- Rocky V
- Romeo-Juliet
- Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead - Golden Lion award
- The Russia House
- Shreck
- Side Out, starring Courtney Thorne-Smith
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Tekken (1990 film)
- Tatie Danielle, starring Tsilla Chelton
- Texasville
- Treasure Island (1990 film)
- Total Recall
- Vincent & Theo
- Wild Orchid
- Wild at Heart - Palm d'Or award
- The Witches, directed by Nicolas Roeg
Births
- March 24 - Keisha Castle-Hughes, actress
- April 15 - Emma Watson, actress
- May 14 - Sasha Spielberg, actress, daughter of producer/director Steven Spielberg and actress Kate Capshaw
- July 24 - Daveigh Chase, actress
- October 22 - Jonathan Lipnicki, actor
Deaths
- January 6 - Ian Charleson, actor
- January 8 - Terry-Thomas, actor, comedian
- January 15 - Gordon Jackson, actor
- January 20 - Barbara Stanwyck, actress
- January 24 - Madge Bellamy, actress
- January 25 - Ava Gardner, actress
- March 5 - Gary Merrill, actor
- March 17 - Capucine, actress
- April 15 - Greta Garbo, actress
- April 23 - Paulette Goddard, actress
- May 6 - Charles Farrell, actor
- May 10 - Susan Oliver, actress, pilot
- May 16 - Sammy Davis Jr, actor, singer
- May 16 - Jim Henson, creator of Muppets
- May 18 - Jill Ireland, actress
- June 2 - Rex Harrison, actor
- July 15 - Margaret Lockwood, actress
- July 19 - Eddie Quillan, actor
- August 27 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, 36, guitarist/songwriter
- September 4 - Irene Dunne, actress
- September 19 - Hermes Pan, choreographer
- October 15 - Delphine Seyrig, French actress
- October 20 - Joel McCrea, actor
- November 3 - Mary Martin, actress
- November 12 - Eve Arden, actress
- December 2 - Robert Cummings, actor
- December 7 - Joan Bennett, actress
- December 8 - Martin Ritt, director