Events

• January 31 - The Cure for Insomnia premieres at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois, to officially become the world's longest film according to Guinness World Records.
• May 9 - Actor Tom Cruise marries actress Mimi Rogers.
• November 18 - The Last Emperor, Bernardo Bertolucci's epic drama about the historical events 20th Century China, is released in the U.S.
• November 21 - Actor Bruce Willis marries actress Demi Moore.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: The Last Emperor - Hemdale, Columbia

Best Director: Bernardo Bertolucci - The Last Emperor

Best Actor: Michael Douglas - Wall Street

Best Actress: Cher - Moonstruck

Best Supporting Actor: Sean Connery - The Untouchables

Best Supporting Actress: Olympia Dukakis - Moonstruck

Best Foreign Language Film: Babette's Feast (Babettes Gæstebud), directed by Gabriel Axel, Denmark

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: The Last Emperor

Best Actor: Michael Douglas - Wall Street

Best Actress: Sally Kirkland - Anna

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: Hope and Glory

Best Actor: Robin Williams - Good Morning, Vietnam

Best Actress: 'Cher - Moonstruck

Other

Best Director: Bernardo Bertolucci - The Last Emperor

Best Foreign Language Film: My Life as a Dog, Sweden

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Under the Sun of Satan (Sous le soleil de Satan), directed by Maurice Pialat, France

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Au revoir, les enfants (Goodbye, Children), directed by Louis Malle, France / W. Germany

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Tema (1979) (The Theme), directed by Gleb Panfilov, USSR

Films released in 1987

• Adventures in Babysitting (Also known as "A Night on the Town" in the UK), starring Elisabeth Shue
• L'Ami de mon amie (My Girlfriend's Boyfriend or Boyfriends and Girlfriends)
• Angel Heart, directed by Alan Parker, starring Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro and Lisa Bonet
• Anna, starring Sally Kirkland and Paulina Porizkova
• Aria (10 short films)
• Au revoir, les enfants - Golden Lion award
• Babette's Feast (Babettes Gæstebud) - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
• Baby Boom, starring Diane Keaton
• Backfire
• Bad Taste, written and directed by Peter Jackson et al.
• Bagdad Café, also known as Out of Rosenheim, Golden Space Needle award (for 1988)
• The Bedroom Window
• Bellman and True
• The Belly of an Architect
• Below Utopia
• Benji the Hunted
• Beverly Hills Cop II
• The Big Easy, starring Dennis Quaid and Ellen Barkin
• Black Widow, starring Debra Winger and Theresa Russell
• Born in East L.A.
• The Brave Little Toaster
• Broadcast News, directed by James L. Brooks, starring William Hurt, Albert Brooks and Holly Hunter
• Burglar, starring Whoopi Goldberg
• Business as Usual
• Can't Buy Me Love, starring Patrick Dempsey and Amanda Peterson
• The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland
• The Chipmunk Adventure
• Cry Freedom, starring Kevin Kline and Denzel Washington
• Dark Eyes, starring Marcello Mastroianni
• Daughter of the Nile (Niluohe nuer)
• Dead of Winter
• Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam, aka Dear America
• Death Before Dishonor
• Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
• Diary for My Loves (Napló szerelmeimnek)
• Dirty Dancing, starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey
• Empire of the Sun, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Christian Bale
• Enemy Territory
• Ernest Goes to Camp
• Evil Dead II
• Family Viewing
• Fatal Attraction, starring Michael Douglas, Glenn Close and Anne Archer
• Fatal Beauty, starring Whoopi Goldberg
• Five Corners, starring Tim Robbins, Jodie Foster, and John Turturro
• Full Metal Jacket, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Matthew Modine and Vincent D'Onofrio
• Gardens of Stone, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring James Caan, Anjelica Huston and James Earl Jones
• The Gate
• Ghost Chase
• G.I. Joe: The Movie
• Le Grand Chemin
• Going Home, directed by Terence Ryan, nominated for Canadian Gemini Award
• Good Morning, Vietnam, directed by Barry Levinson, starring Robin Williams
• Ground Zero
• Hamburger Hill
• Harry and the Hendersons, starring John Lithgow and Melinda Dillon
• The Hanoi Hilton
• Hello Again
• Hellraiser
• The Hidden
• Hiding Out, starring Jon Cryer
• High Tide
• Hollywood_Shuffle
• Hope and Glory, directed by John Boorman - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
• House II: The Second Story
• A Hungarian Fairy Tale (Hol volt, hol nem volt)
• Innerspace, starring Dennis Quaid, Martin Short and Meg Ryan
• Ironweed, starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep
• Ishtar, starring Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman and Isabelle Adjani
• Jaws The Revenge
• Jocks
• Julia and Julia
• Jumpin' Jack Flash
• King Lear
• The Last Emperor - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture
• Leonard Part 6 - Won three Razzie Awards for Worst Picture, Actor and Screenplay
• Less Than Zero, starring Andrew McCarthy, Jami Gertz and Robert Downey, Jr.
• Lethal Weapon, starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover
• The Liberators, directed by Kenneth Johnson, starring Robert Carradine, Larry B. Scott, James Mainprize, Cynthia Dale and James Douglas
• Light of Day
• The Living Daylights
• The Lost Boys, directed by Joel Schumacher, starring Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Kiefer Sutherland, Corey Feldman, Jami Gertz and Dianne Wiest
• Maid to Order
• Mannequin, starring Andrew McCarthy and Kim Cattrall
• Masters of the Universe starring Dolph Lundgren, Frank Langella and Courteney Cox
• Matewan
• Maurice
• Mio in the Land of Faraway
• The Monster Squad
• Moonstruck, directed by Norman Jewison, starring Cher, Nicolas Cage, Vincent Gardenia, Olympia Dukakis and Danny Aiello
• Mr. Nice Guy starring Mike MacDonald and Jan Smithers
• My Life As a Dog, directed by Lasse Hallstrom, Golden Space Needle award
• My Little Girl
• Near Dark
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
• Outrageous Fortune
• Overboard starring Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn
• Pelle the Conqueror - Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film (for 1988)
• Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night
• A Prayer for the Dying
• Predator, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
• The Principal, starring Jim Belushi
• Prince of Darkness starring Donald Pleasence, Jameson Parker and Victor Wong
• The Princess Bride, directed by Rob Reiner, starring Cary Elwes and Robin Wright Penn
• Radio Days, directed by Woody Allen
• Raising Arizona, starring Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter
• Real Men
• Red Sorghum (Hong gao liang) - Golden Bear award (for 1988)
• Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise with Robert Carradine and Courtney Thorne-Smith
• RoboCop starring Peter Weller and Nancy Allen
• Roxanne starring Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah
• Scenes from the Goldmine
• The Secret of My Succe$s, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Michael J. Fox
• The Sicilian (film)
• Some Kind of Wonderful starring Eric Stoltz, Mary Stuart Masterson and Lea Thompson
• Spaceballs directed by Mel Brooks, starring Brooks, John Candy and Rick Moranis
• Square Dance
• Skateout, starring Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez
• Straight to Hell
• Street Smart, starring Christopher Reeve and Morgan Freeman
• Street Trash
• Stripped to Kill
• Summer School, starring Mark Harmon and Kirstie Alley
• Superman IV: The Quest For Peace starring Christopher Reeve
• Suspect, starring Cher and Dennis Quaid
• Teen Wolf Too, starring Jason Bateman
• Three for the Road
• Three Men and a Baby, starring Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson
• Throw Momma from the Train, starring Danny DeVito, Billy Crystal, Anne Ramsey and Kate Mulgrew
• Tin Men
• Tropic of Ice
• Under the Sun of Satan (Sous le soleil de Satan) - Palme d'Or award
• The Untouchables, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro, Andy Garcia and Charles Martin Smith
• Waiting for the Moon
• Walker
• Wall Street, directed by Oliver Stone, starring Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen and Daryl Hannah
• Wanted: Dead or Alive
• Weeds
• Who's That Girl?, starring Madonna and Griffin Dunne
• Wings of Desire, directed by Wim Wenders
• Wish You Were Here with Emily Lloyd and Tom Bell
• The Witches of Eastwick, starring Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer
• Withnail and I

Births

• April 9 - Jesse McCartney, actor and singer
• September 22 - Tom Felton, actor
• September 28 - Hilary Duff
• July 30 - Phillip Mataway, creator of SpudPeeWee and member of the band Maxim Haxim
• September 7 - Evan Rachel Wood, Actress
• September 11 - Tyler Hoechlin, actor
• October 18 - Zac Efron, actor
• November 17 - Kyle Meyer, actor, guitarist
• November 18 - Courtney Weller
• November 30 - Dougie Poynter, McFly bassist
• December 21 - Labaren Holland - actor, singer/songwriter

Deaths

• January 15 - Ray Bolger, actor, singer, dancer
• March 3 - Danny Kaye, actor
• May 14 - Rita Hayworth, actress
• June 1 - Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, director
• June 22 - Fred Astaire, actor, singer, dancer
• July 3 - Viola Dana, actress
• August 1 - Pola Negri, actress
• August 28 - John Huston, actor, director
• September 25 - Mary Astor, actress
• October 13 - Kishore Kumar, actor, singer