1989 in film

Years in film;
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2010s
	2010 • 2011 and beyond

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Events

"Batman" is released on June 23, and goes on to gross over $410 million worldwide.
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 License 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, is not released until 1995.
Screen and stage legend Laurence Olivier appeared in his last filmed role before his death in 1989 as an old soldier in War Requiem
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is released on May 24, it is the 3rd installment of the Indiana Jones series and the highest grossing film of the year.
Back to the Future Part II is released on November 22, and is the 2nd installment of the Back to the Future series.
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is released on June 23.
This is the first year where all ten top grossing films worldwide made more than $100,000,000.

Top grossing films (Worldwide)

Rank	Title	Studio	Actors	Director	Gross
1.	Batman	Warner Bros.	Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger	Tim Burton	$474,200,000
2.	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	Paramount/Lucasfilm	Harrison Ford, Sean Connery	Steven Spielberg	$411,300,000
3.	Back to the Future Part II	Universal	Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd	Robert Zemeckis	$332,000,000
4.	Look Who's Talking	TriStar	John Travolta, Kirstie Alley	Amy Heckerling	$297,000,000
5.	Lethal Weapon 2	Warner Bros.	Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci	Richard Donner	$235,900,000
6.	Born on the Fourth of July	Universal	Tom Cruise	Oliver Stone	$227,900,000
7.	When Harry Met Sally...	Columbia	Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan	Rob Reiner	$222,700,000
8.	Ghostbusters II	Columbia	Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver	Ivan Reitman	$215,400,000
9.	The Little Mermaid	Disney	Jodi Benson	Ron Clements and John Musker	$184,200,000
10.	The War of the Roses	20th Century Fox	Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner	Danny DeVito	$161,000,000

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

A

The Abyss, directed by James Cameron, starring Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
All Dogs Go To Heaven
Always, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter and John Goodman
American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt
An Innocent Man, starring Tom Selleck
Apartment Zero, directed by Martin Donovan - Golden Space Needle award
Arena

B

The BFG
Babar: The Movie
Back to the Future Part II, starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd; the second of Back to the Future trilogy
Batman, directed by Tim Burton, 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, Alex Winter and George Carlin
Black Rain (American film), directed by Ridley Scott, starring Michael Douglas, Andy García and Kate Capshaw
Black Rain (Japanese film), directed by Shohei Imamura
Blaze, starring Paul Newman
Blind Fury
Bloodhounds of Broadway, starring Matt Dillon, Jennifer Grey, Julie Hagerty, Rutger Hauer, Madonna, Esai Morales, Anita Morris and Randy Quaid
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

C

Cameron's Closet
Camille Claudel, starring Isabelle Adjani
Casualties of War, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Michael J. Fox and Sean Penn
Chances Are, starring Cybill Shepherd and Robert Downey, Jr.
Chandni
Checking Out
C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D.; sequel to C.H.U.D.
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, directed by Peter Greenaway, starring Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon and Helen Mirren
Cousins, starring Ted Danson, Isabella Rosselini, Sean Young and William Petersen
Crack House
Crimes and Misdemeanors, directed by Woody Allen, starring Allen and Martin Landau
Criminal Law
Crusoe
Cyborg

D

The Dawning
Dead Bang, starring Don Johnson
Dead Calm, directed by Phillip Noyce, starring Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman and Billy Zane
Dead Poets Society, directed by Peter Weir, starring Robin Williams
Deepstar Six
The Delinquents, starring Kylie Minogue and Charlie Schlatter
Dimenticare Palermo
Disorganized Crime
Do the Right Thing, directed by Spike Lee, starring Lee and Danny Aiello
Dream a Little Dream, starring Corey Feldman, Corey Haim and Meredith Salenger
The Dream Team
The Dressmaker
Driving Miss Daisy - Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Picture, directed by Bruce Beresford, starring Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman and Dan Aykroyd
Drugstore Cowboy, directed by Gus Van Sant, starring Matt Dillon and Kelly Lynch
A Dry White Season, starring Donald Sutherland, Susan Sarandon and Marlon Brando

E

Edge of Sanity, starring Anthony Perkins
Enemies, a Love Story, directed by Paul Mazursky, starring Ron Silver, Anjelica Huston, Lena Olin and Margaret Sophie Stein
The Experts

F

The Fabulous Baker Boys, starring Jeff Bridges, Michelle Pfeiffer and Beau Bridges
Farewell to the King, starring Nick Nolte and Nigel Havers
Fat Man and Little Boy, starring Paul Newman and Dwight Schultz
Field of Dreams, starring Kevin Costner
Fletch Lives, starring Chevy Chase, sequel to Fletch
The Fly II, starring Eric Stoltz and Daphne Zuniga, sequel to The Fly
For Queen and Country, starring Denzel Washington
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, eighth entry in the Friday the 13th series

G

Getting It Right
Ghostbusters II, starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis and Ernie Hudson
Gleaming the Cube
Glory, directed by Edward Zwick, starring Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes and Morgan Freeman
Godzilla vs. Biollante
Great Balls of Fire!, starring Dennis Quaid, Winona Ryder and Alec Baldwin
Gross Anatomy, starring Matthew Modine, Daphne Zuniga and Christine Lahti

H

Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers, fifth entry in the Halloween series
Hard Times
Harlem Nights, starring Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor, directed by Murphy
Heart of Dixie, starring Ally Sheedy, Virginia Madsen, Phoebe Cates and Treat Williams
Heart of Midnight, starring Jennifer Jason Leigh and Peter Coyote
Heathers, starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater
Henry V, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh with Derek Jacobi, Brian Blessed, Paul Scofield and Emma Thompson
Her Alibi, starring Tom Selleck and Paulina Porizkova
Hit List
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, starring Rick Moranis
The Horror Show, third film in the House series
Houseboat Horror, starring Alan Dale from Neighbours
How I Got Into College
How to Get Ahead in Advertising, starring Richard E. Grant

I

Impulse
In Country
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Harrison Ford and Sean Connery, third entry in the Indiana Jones series
Interrogation (Przesluchanie), Polish film by Ryszard Bugajski; banned for over 7 years but finally released after the overthrow of the communist regime in Poland.