1986 in film

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Events

• April 12 - Actor Morgan Mason marries The Go-Go's Belinda Carlisle
• Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger marries television journalist Maria Shriver.
• Turner Broadcasting begins to colorize black and white movie classics.
• Dar Robinson, considered the greatest stuntman ever, is killed on the set of the film Million Dollar Mystery.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Studio	Gross
1.	Top Gun	Paramount	$176,786,701
2.	Crocodile Dundee	Paramount	$174,803,506
3.	Platoon	Orion	$138,530,565
4.	The Karate Kid Part II	Columbia	$115,103,979
5.	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home	Paramount	$109,713,132
6.	Back to School	Orion	$91,258,000
7.	Aliens	20th Century Fox	$86,160,248
8.	The Golden Child	Paramount	$79,817,937
9.	Ruthless People	Buena Vista	$71,624,879
10.	Ferris Bueller's Day Off	Paramount	$70,136,369
11.	The Great Mouse Detective	Buena Vista	$40,000,000

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: Platoon - Hemdale, Orion

Best Director: Oliver Stone - Platoon

Best Actor: Paul Newman - The Color of Money

Best Actress: Marlee Matlin - Children of a Lesser God

Best Supporting Actor: Michael Caine - Hannah and Her Sisters

Best Supporting Actress: Dianne Weist - Hannah and Her Sisters

Best Foreign Language Film: The Assault (De Aanslag), directed by Fons Rademakers, Netherlands

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: Platoon

Best Actor: Bob Hoskins - Mona Lisa

Best Actress: Marlee Matlin - Children of a Lesser God

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: Hannah and Her Sisters

Best Actor: Paul Hogan - Crocodile Dundee

Best Actress: Sissy Spacek - Crimes of the Heart

Other

Best Director: Oliver Stone, Platoon

Best Foreign Language Film: The Assault, Netherlands

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

The Mission, directed by Roland Joffé, United Kingdom

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

The Green Ray (Le Rayon vert), directed by Éric Rohmer, France

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Stammheim, directed by Reinhard Hauff, West Germany

Films released in 1986

• 37°2 le matin (Betty Blue), directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix, Golden Needle award for 1992
• 8 Million Ways to Die
• 9½ Weeks
• The Adventures of the American Rabbit
• The AIDS Show
• Aliens
• An American Tail
• Amorosa
• The Assault - Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, Golden Space Needle award
• At Close Range
• Attention Bandits!, aka Bandits, directed by Claude Lelouch (France)
• Back to School
• Big Trouble in Little China, starring Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun, James Hong and Victor Wong
• Blue Velvet
• The Boy Who Could Fly
• By Touch
• The Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation (a prequel to the original Care Bears Movie from 1985), starring Alyson Court, Cree Summer and Hadley Kay
• Castaway, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring Amanda Donohoe and Oliver Reed
• Children of a Lesser God
• Club Paradise, starring Robin Williams, Jimmy Cliff, Peter O'Toole, Rick Moranis and Eugene Levy
• The Color of Money, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Paul Newman and Tom Cruise
• Crimes of the Heart
• Crocodile Dundee
• Le Déclin de l'empire américain, (The Decline of the American Empire), written and directed by Denys Arcand
• The Delta Force
• Down and Out in Beverly Hills
• Down by Law, directed by Jim Jarmusch, starring Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni
• Extremities
• F/X, starring Bryan Brown and Brian Dennehy
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off
• Firewalker
• Flight of the Navigator
• The Fly
• Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
• Genesis, starring Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, M.K. Raina (India / Switzerland / Belgium / France)
• GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords
• The Golden Child
• Good to Go
• The Great Mouse Detective
• The Green Ray (Le Rayon vert) - Golden Lion award
• Hannah and Her Sisters - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
• Heartbreak Ridge
• Heathcliff: The Movie
• Highlander
• Hoosiers
• Hôtel du Paradis
• Howard the Duck
• Iron Eagle
• Jean de Florette, starring Gérard Depardieu and Yves Montand
• Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
• Jumpin' Jack Flash, starring Whoopi Goldberg, Annie Potts, Jon Lovitz, Carol Kane
• The Karate Kid, Part II
• Laputa: Castle in the Sky (August 2 - Japan)
• Labyrinth, starring David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly
• Little Shop of Horrors
• Loyalties
• Luxo Jr.
• Manhunter, directed by Michael Mann and starring William Petersen.
• Manon des Sources starring Emmanuelle Beart and Yves Montand
• Maximum Overdrive
• Ménage
• Miracles
• The Mosquito Coast
• The Mission - Palme d'Or award
• Modern Girls
• Mona Lisa, directed by Neil Jordan
• The Money Pit, starring Tom Hanks and Shelley Long
• My Little Pony: The Movie (a feature-length adaptation of the TV series and toy line)
• 'night, Mother, starring Sissy Spacek and Anne Bancroft
• Off Beat
• Pirates, directed by Roman Polanski, starring Walter Matthau
• Platoon, directed by Oliver Stone - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture
• Pretty in Pink, directed by Howard Deutch, starring Molly Ringwald, Jon Cryer, James Spader
• Psycho III, directed by Anthony Perkins, starring Anthony Perkins, Diana Scarwid, Jeff Fahey
• Quicksilver
• Raw Deal, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
• River's Edge, starring Crispin Glover
• Robotech: The Movie, directed by Carl Macek and Noboru Ishiguro
• Round Midnight
• Ruthless People
• Shanghai Surprise, starring Madonna and Sean Penn
• Short Circuit, starring Steve Guttenberg
• Sid and Nancy, starring Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb
• Stammheim - Golden Bear award
• Stand by Me
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
• Stoogemania
• ¡Three Amigos!, starring Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Chevy Chase
• Toby McTeague
• Top Gun
• Trick or Treat, starring Marc Price, Gene Simmons, and Ozzy Osbourne
• The Transformers: The Movie, starring Eric Idle, Judd Nelson, and Orson Welles
• Wildcats, starring Goldie Hawn, Nipsey Russell, Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson and LL Cool J
• Wisdom

Births

• January 24 - Mischa Barton, English-born American actress
• February 19 - Maria Mena, Norwegian singer
• March 9 - Brittany Snow, American actress
• March 14 - Jamie Bell, English actor
• April 3 - Amanda Bynes, American actress and variety show host
• June 11 - Shia LaBeouf, American actor
• June 13 - Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, American actresses and entrepreneurs
• July 2 - Lindsay Lohan, American actress
• August 16 - Shawn Pyfrom, American actor
• September 12 - Emmy Rossum, American actress and singer

Deaths

• March 10 - Ray Milland, British actor
• April 13 - Stephen Stucker, comedy actor
• June 13 - Benny Goodman, musician, actor
• October 5 - Hal B. Wallis, major American film producer
• November 21 - Dar Robinson, film stuntman
• November 29 - Cary Grant, actor
• December 13 - Heather Angel, actress
• December 28 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian film director

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