1995 in film

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The year 1995 in film involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films (U.S.) 3 Awards 4 Films released in 1995 5 Deaths

[edit] Events

• March 22 - The Dogme 95 movement is officially announced in Paris by Danish directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg.
• March 28 - Actress Julia Roberts and singer Lyle Lovett announce their plans for separation.
• November 17 - After a six-year hiatus, the James Bond film series resumes with the successful GoldenEye.
• November 22 - Toy Story is released, marking the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.

[edit] Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Studio	Gross
1.	Toy Story	Disney/Pixar	$191,796,233
2.	Batman Forever	Warner Bros.	$184,031,112
3.	Apollo 13	Universal	$172,071,312
4.	Pocahontas	Disney	$141,579,773
5.	Ace Ventura : When Nature Calls	Warner Bros.	$108,385,533
6.	GoldenEye	United Artists	$106,429,941
7.	Jumanji	TriStar	$100,475,249
8.	Casper	Universal	$100,328,194
9.	Se7en	New Line	$100,125,643
10.	Die Hard With A Vengeance*	Fox	$100,012,499

World Wide this Was the Highest Grossing film of 1995 source: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1995&p=.htm

[edit] Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: Braveheart - 20th Century Fox, B. H. Finance C. V., Icon Entertainment International, Paramount Pictures, The Ladd Company

Best Director: Mel Gibson - Braveheart

Best Actor: Nicolas Cage - Leaving Las Vegas

Best Actress: Susan Sarandon - Dead Man Walking

Best Supporting Actor: Kevin Spacey - The Usual Suspects

Best Supporting Actress: Mira Sorvino - Mighty Aphrodite

Best Foreign Language Film: Antonia's Line (Antonia), directed by Marleen Gorris, Netherlands

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: Sense and Sensibility

Best Actor: Nicolas Cage - Leaving Las Vegas

Best Actress: Sharon Stone - Casino

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: Babe

Best Actor: John Travolta - Get Shorty

Best Actress: Nicole Kidman - To Die For

Other

Best Director: Mel Gibson - Braveheart

Best Foreign Language Film: Les Misérables, France

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Underground (Подземље, Podzemlje), directed by Emir Kusturica, Yugoslavia

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Cyclo (Xich lo), directed by Tran Anh Hung, Vietnam / France / Hong Kong

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

L'Appât (Fresh Bait), directed by Bertrand Tavernier, France

[edit] Films released in 1995

#

• 3 Ninjas Knuckle Up

A

• Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, directed by Steve Oedekerk
• The Amazing Panda Adventure
• The American President
• Antonia's Line (Antonia) - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
• Angus
• L'Appât (Fresh Bait or The Bait) - Golden Bear award
• Apollo 13, directed by Ron Howard
• Arabian Knight
• Assassins

B

• Babe - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy), directed by Chris Noonan
• The Baby-Sitters Club
• Bad Boys, directed by Michael Bay
• Balto- animated film by Universal Studios and Amblin Entertainment
• The Basketball Diaries
• Batman Forever, directed by Joel Schumacher
• Before Sunrise
• Beyond Rangoon
• Beyond the Clouds
• The Big Green
• Billy Madison, directed by Tamra Davis
• Blue in the Face
• The Blue Villa
• Born to Be Wild, starring Wil Horneff, Helen Shaver, John C. McGinley and Peter Boyle
• Boys on the Side
• The Brady Bunch Movie, directed by Betty Thomas
• Braveheart, directed by Mel Gibson - Academy Award for Best Picture
• The Bridges of Madison County
• The Brothers McMullen

C

• Canadian Bacon, directed by Michael Moore
• Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
• Casino, directed by Martin Scorsese
• Casper, starring Bill Pullman, Christina Ricci, Cathy Moriarty and Eric Idle, introducing Malachi Pearson as Casper, directed by Brad Silberling
• Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest
• Circle of Friends
• The City of Lost Children
• Clockers
• Clueless, directed by Amy Heckerling
• Coldblooded
• Congo
• Copycat
• Crimson Tide
• The Crossing Guard
• Cry, the Beloved Country
• Cutthroat Island
• Cyclo - Golden Lion award

D

• Dangerous Minds
• Dead Man
• Dead Man Walking
• Dead Presidents
• Desperado
• Devil in a Blue Dress
• Die Hard with a Vengeance
• Dolores Claiborne
• Don Juan DeMarco
• Dracula: Dead and Loving It

E

• The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
• Empire Records
• Escape to Witch Mountain (remake)

F

• Fair Game
• Father of the Bride Part II
• First Knight
• Fluke
• Forget Paris
• Four Rooms
• Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home, directed by Dwight H. Little
• French Kiss
• Friday
• From the Journals of Jean Seberg - a documentary directed by Mark Rappaport
• Full Body Massage, directed by Nicolas Roeg
• Funny Bones

G

• Gamera: Guardian of the Universe
• Get Shorty, directed by Barry Sonnenfeld
• Ghost in the Shell
• The Glass Shield
• Godzilla vs. Destoroyah
• GoldenEye
• A Goofy Movie, starring Jason Marsden, Bill Farmer, Pauly Shore and Wallace Shawn, additional voices Dante Basco, directed by Kevin Lima
• Gordy
• Grumpier Old Men, starring Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, Sophia Loren

H

• Hackers
• La Haine
• Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
• Haunted
• Heat
• Higher Learning
• Home for the Holidays
• How to Make an American Quilt
• The Hunted

I

• Ice Cream Man
• In the Mouth of Madness, directed by John Carpenter, starring Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jürgen Prochnow, David Warner and Charlton Heston
• The Indian in the Cupboard, starring Hal Scardino, Litefoot, Richard Jenkins and Steve Coogan, directed by Frank Oz
• Iron Eagle IV
• It Takes Two, directed by Andy Tennant

J

• Jade
• Jerky Boys: The Movie
• Johnny Mnemonic
• Judge Dredd
• Jumanji, starring Robin Williams, Bonnie Hunt and Kristen Dunst, directed by Joe Johnston
• Jury Duty
• Just Cause

K

• A Kid in King Arthur's Court
• Kids
• Kiss of Death

L

• Land and Freedom
• A Last Note - Japan Academy Prize for Picture of the Year
• Last of the Dogmen
• The Last Supper
• The Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace
• Leaving Las Vegas
• A Little Princess
• Live Nude Girls
• Lord of Illusions (Cliver Barker's Lord of Illusions)
• Losing Isaiah

M

• Magic in the Water
• Man of the House
• Major Payne
• Mallrats, directed by Kevin Smith
• Margaret's Museum
• Mighty Aphrodite
• Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie
• Les Misérables - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film
• Money Train
• Moonlight and Valentino
• Mortal Kombat
• Mr. Holland's Opus
• Murder in the First

N

• Napoleon, family film directed by Mario Andreacchio
• The Net
• New Jersey Drive
• Nick of Time
• Nine Months
• Nixon
• Now and Then

O

• Operation Dumbo Drop, starring Ray Liotta, Danny Glover, Dennis Leary and Doug E. Doug, directed by Simon Wincer
• Othello
• Outbreak

P

• Panther
• The Pebble and the Penguin, directed by Don Bluth
• A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies, directed by Martin Scorsese (documentary)
• Picture Bride Sundance Film Festival Audience Award winner
• Pocahontas, directed by Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg
• Police Story 4: First Strike (released in Early 1996)
• Powder starring, Sean Patrick Flanery, Mary Steenburgen, Lance Henriksen, and Jeff Goldblum

Q

• The Quick and the Dead

R

• Restoration
• Richard III
• Rob Roy
• Rumble in the Bronx (released in Early 1996)

S

• Sabrina,starring, Harrison Ford, and Julia Ormond
• The Scarlet Letter
• Screamers
• Sense and Sensibility - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Drama) and Golden Bear award (for 1996)
• Se7en (also known as Seven),starring, Morgan Freeman, and Brad Pitt
• Sharpe's Sword
• Showgirls
• Smoke
• Something to Talk About
• Species
• The Stars Fell on Henrietta
• Stonewall
• Strange Days
• Sudden Death
• Summer Snow

T

• Tall Tale
• Tank Girl
• Teresa's Tattoo
• Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
• To Die For
• Tom and Huck, starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas, directed by Peter Hewitt
• Three Wishes, directed by Martha Coolidge - Nominated for Young Artist Award
• To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
• Tommy Boy, starring Chris Farley, David Spade and Rob Lowe
• Top Dog, starring Chuck Norris
• Toy Story, starring Tom Hanks and Tim Allen, directed by John Lasseter
• Twelve Monkeys
• Two Bits

U

• Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
• Underground - Palme d'Or award
• Unzipped
• The Usual Suspects

V

• Vampire in Brooklyn
• Village of the Damned, directed by John Carpenter, starring Christopher Reeve, Kirstie Alley, Linda Kozlowski, Mark Hamill and Peter Jason
• Virtuosity

W

• Waiting to Exhale
• A Walk in the Clouds
• The Walking Dead
• Waterworld, directed by Kevin Reynolds
• Welcome to the Dollhouse
• While You Were Sleeping
• White Man's Burden
• Wild Bill

[edit] Deaths

• October 21 - Shannon Hoon, lead singer Blind Melon
• February 2 - Donald Pleasence, actor
• March 12 - Juanin Clay, actress
• March 16 - Albert Hackett, screenwriter
• April 4 - Priscilla Lane, actress
• April 14 - Burl Ives, actor, singer
• April 24 - Sammy Jackson, actor, disc jockey
• April 25 - Ginger Rogers, actress
• May 16 - Lola Flores, Spanish actress
• May 18 Elizabeth Montgomery, actress
  • Elisha Cook Jr, actor
  • Alexander Godunov, dancer, actor
• May 26 - Friz Freleng, animator
• June 29 - Lana Turner, actress
• July 4 - Eva Gabor, actress
• August 3 - Ida Lupino, actress and director
• August 11 - Phil Harris, actor, singer
• August 29 - Enrique Carreras, director, producer
• October 21 - Maxene Andrews, member of The Andrews Sisters
• October 22 - Mary Wickes, actress
• October 25 - Viveca Lindfors, actress
• November 21 - Peter Grant, actor and manager
• November 23 - Louis Malle, director
• November 24 - Jeffrey Lynn, actor
• December 9 - Vivian Blaine, actress
• December 22 - Butterfly McQueen, actress
• December 25 - Dean Martin, singer and actor