Cinema in the 1990s

Death of Terry Thomas

Death of Ava Gardner

Death of Ava Lavinia Gardner

Directs Das schreckliche Madchen.

Death of Greta Garbo

Death of Margaret Lockwood

Best Original Score for Dances with Wolves

Receives the supporting-actor Oscar for Glory, marking his first Academy Award victory.

Kurosawas Akira Kurosawas Dreams

Stars Oliver Stones Born on the 4th of July, which was based on the best selling autobiography of parapalegic veteran and anti-war activist Ron Kovic. Stars as hot-shot racecar driver "Cole Trickle" in Tony Scotts Days of Thunder

Directs Desperate Hours

Stars in Ghost, with Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg

Directs, New York, Goodfellas

Awarded the Honorary Academy Award

Awarded a Knighthood

Stars in Pacific Heights

Directs Postcards from the Edge

Appears in The Godfather Part III

Appears in "The Green Man"

Directs and stars in The Rookie with Charlie Sheen.

Stars in Treasure Island

Directs and stars in White Hunter Black Heart, a film inspired by the making of The African Queen.

Directs Wild at Heart, a road film combining romance, crime and surreal imagery.

Portrays Jim Morrison in Stone's film.

Stars as Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone's film The Doors.

Directs the biographical film The Doors.

Releases The Doors, a dramatized film biography.

Actress Lee Remick (55) dies in Los Angeles of cancer

Death of Yves Montand

Works as producer and actor in the film "American Friends" based upon a real event in the life of his great grandfather, a fellow at St Johns College, Oxford

Appears in Beauty and the Beast

Appears in Frankie and Johnny

Best Instrumental Composition Written For A Motion Picture Or For Television for Dances with Wolves

Directs, The Grifters

Stars in Hook

Stars in JFK

Plays Lee Harvey Oswald in Oliver Stone's political drama JFK.

Plays Gator Purify in Spike Lee's Jungle Fever, a breakthrough supporting performance.

King of New York, directed by Abel Ferrara, stars Walken as ruthless New York City drug dealer Frank White-recently released from prison and set on reclaiming his criminal territory

King of New York, directed by Abel Ferrara, stars Walken as ruthless New York City drug dealer Frank White-recently released from prison and set on reclaiming his criminal territory

Makes her feature directing debut with Little Man Tate, a drama about a gifted child.

Stars in One Good Cop

Directs Point Break, an action thriller about an FBI agent infiltrating a group of surfers.

Kurosawas Rhapsody in August

Plays FBI trainee Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs.

Directs Thelma and Louise, a road film centred on two women fleeing across the American Southwest.

Directs Schtonk!, a satire on the Hitler diaries scandal.

Death of Robert Morley

Death of Amjad Khan

Death of Harold Eugene "Hal" Roach, Sr

Wins a second Academy Award for Best Actress for The Silence of the Lambs.

Wins Academy and a BAFTA Award for Best Actress, for her strong performance in the British drama Howards End

Wins Academy and a BAFTA Award for Best Actress, for her strong performance in the British drama Howards End

Stars in Batman Returns

Walken again plays a supporting villain in Batman Returns as millionaire industrialist Max Shreck

Stars as Count Dracula in Francis Ford Coppola's adaptation Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Appears in Chaplin

Mick Jagger appears in the film, "Freejack"

Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for Scent of a Woman

Wins Academy and a BAFTA Award for Best Actress, for her strong performance in the British drama Howards End

Receives the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Directs Malcolm X, with Denzel Washington portraying the civil-rights leader.

Stars as Malcolm X in Spike Lee's biographical film about the activist and political leader.

Stars in the title role of Orlando, Sally Potter's adaptation of Virginia Woolf's novel.

Makes his feature directing breakthrough with Reservoir Dogs, a crime film structured around a failed robbery.

Appears in Scent of a Woman

Appears in Sister Act

Appears in The Lawnmower Man

Directs and stars in Unforgiven, a revisionist western examining violence and reputation.

Plays Heathcliff in the film adaptation of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights.

Death of Audrey Hepburn, in Switzerland

Death of Audrey Hepburn

Directs Stalingrad.

Death of Joseph Leo Mankiewicz

Death of Chishu Ryu

Wins Best Picture and Best Director Academy Awards for Unforgiven.

Death of Bernard Bresslaw

Actress Julia Roberts and country singer Lyle Lovett wed

Directs Faraway, So Close!, sequel to Wings of Desire.

Death of River Phoenix

Directs A Perfect World, a crime drama starring Kevin Costner.

Winner of the Oscar for Best Actor

Directs, The Age of Innocence

Wins best screenplay for " Husbands and Wives"

Appears in Carlitos Way

Stars in, "Grumpy Old Men"

Stars as a Secret Service agent in the political thriller In the Line of Fire.

Writes & directs, "Jurassic Park"

Kurosawas Madadayo

Directs and stars as Benedick in the film adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing.

Stars in My Life. Stars in Much Ado About Nothing

Directs Naked, a dark urban drama centred on an alienated drifter in London.

Portrays concentration-camp commandant Amon Goeth in Schindler's List, earning an Academy Award nomination.

Stars in The Firm

Appears in Waynes World 2

Plays Arnie Grape in What's Eating Gilbert Grape and receives his first Academy Award nomination.

Death of Giulietta Masina

Brosnan is announced as the fifth actor to play Bond, signed for a three-film Bond deal with the option of a fourth

Walken stars in A Business Affair, a rare leading role for him in a romantic comedy

Winner of the best male actor for "Philadelphia"

Stars in Crash

Stars in, "Death Wish 5: The Face of Death"

Makes an acclaimed early film appearance in Peter Jackson's psychological drama Heavenly Creatures.

Makes her feature-film debut as Mathilda in Leon: The Professional.

Stars in Natural Born Killers

Plays hitman Jules Winnfield in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction.

Writes and directs Pulp Fiction, interweaving several Los Angeles crime stories.

Stars in The Paper

Plays prison inmate Ellis Boyd Redding in The Shawshank Redemption.

Receives the Irving G Thalberg Memorial Award for lifetime achievement as a film producer.

Death of Lana Turner

Death of Dean Martin

Winner of the best male actor for "Forest Gump"

Wins the Academy Award for Original Screenplay for Pulp Fiction with Roger Avary.

Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Sense and Sensibility

BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Sense and Sensibility

Stars in Batman Forever

Directs, Casino

Appears in To Die For, wins a Golden Globe Award, and five other best actress awards for her portrayal of the murderous newscaster Suzanne Stone Maretto

Golden Globe for Best Adapted Screenplay for Sense and Sensibility

Stars as James Bond in GoldenEye

Debuts as M in GoldenEye, becoming the first woman to portray James Bond's intelligence chief in the film series.

Stars in, "Grumpier Old Men"

Stars in Bullet to Midnight in Saint Petersburg. Stars in Bullet to Beijing

Stars in Nixon

Stars in Sense and Sensibility

Plays Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility and receives her first Academy Award nomination.

Directs and stars in The Bridges of Madison County opposite Meryl Streep.

Directs, "The Great Patient"

Appears in To Die For, wins a Golden Globe Award, and five other best actress awards for her portrayal of the murderous newscaster Suzanne Stone Maretto. Appears in Days Of Thunder

Death of Gene Kelly

Receives the American Film Institute Life Achievement Award.

Directs Beyond Silence.

Death of Marcello Mastroianni

Winner of the best male actor for "Leaving Las Vegas"

Stars in, "The Crucible", BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Directs The Birdcage

Stars as pregnant Minnesota police chief Marge Gunderson in Fargo.

Directs and stars in an unabridged screen adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Brosnan formed a film production company entitled "Irish DreamTime" along with producing partner and long time friend Beau St. Clair

Walken appears in the film Last Man Standing, Walken plays a sadistic gangster

Stars in Mission: Impossible. Stars in Jerry Maguire

Stars in Multiplicity

Stars in Secrets & Lies

Directs Secrets and Lies, which wins the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

Directs The Sunchaser

Stars in, "The Crucible", BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Stars as Count Laszlo de Almasy in The English Patient and receives a Best Actor nomination.

Writes & directs, "Twister"

Death of Frank Launder

Death of Fred Zinnemann

Death of Robert Mitchum

Death of James Maitland Stewart

Death of James Stewart

Death of Juzo Itami

Death of Toshiro Mifune

Directs Comedian Harmonists.

Directs and stars in Absolute Power, a political thriller about presidential corruption.

Fargo brings McDormand the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Stars in Bella Mafia

Mick Jagger appears in the film, "Bent"

Directs, Kundun

Woody Allen marries Soon-Yi Previn

Stars in Men in Black

Directs Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, adapted from the nonfiction bestseller.

Plays Queen Victoria in Mrs Brown, earning major international recognition for the historical drama.

Stars as Jack Dawson in Titanic, the romantic disaster epic directed by James Cameron.

Stars as Rose DeWitt Bukater in Titanic, bringing her worldwide recognition.

Stars as James Bond in Tomorrow Never Dies

Directs Run Lola Run, an international breakthrough for German cinema.

Death of Akira Kurosawa

Stars in Desperate Measures

Winner of the Golden Blobe for Little Voice

Receives an Honorary Cesar recognizing his contribution to cinema.

Walken plays an influential gay New York theater critic in John Turturros film Illuminata

Walken plays an influential gay New York theater critic in John Turturros film Illuminata

Plays Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the biopic Jinnah, Pakistans founder

Stars in Little Voice

Appointed President of the National Rifle Association

National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor, Clean and Sober

Appears in the film Practical Magic

Receives a Producers Guild lifetime achievement honor for work in motion pictures.

Portrays Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love in a brief but highly acclaimed supporting performance.

Barry is inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame

Co-stars in Clement & La Frenais Sony movie "Still Crazy"

Stars in, "The Odd Couple II"

Stars in U.S. Marshals

Directs Aimee and Jaguar.

Death of Robert Oliver Reed

Death of Dirk Bogarde

Death of Charles Crichton

Winner of an Oscar for The Cider House Rules, best supporting actor

Wins the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Shakespeare in Love.

Awarded an honorary Oscar

Winner of a BAFTA for The Cider House Rules, best supporting role

Directs, Bringing Out the Dead

Stars in Casino

Joe Pesci plays Nicky Santoro, based on real-life mob enforcer Anthony Spilotro in Casino

Sharon Stone plays Ginger, Aces self-obsessed and devious wife in Casino a role that earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress

Made a Companion of Honour

Kidman and Cruise portray a married couple in Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley Kubricks final film

Final role as the elderly slave dealer Proximo in Gladiator

Sharon Stone plays Ginger, Aces self-obsessed and devious wife in Casino a role that earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress

Receives a National Board of Review career achievement award.

Stars in Sleepy Hollow

Screenwrites Tea With Mussolini

Appears in Tea With Mussolini

Wallken appears in the modern vampire flick The Addiction, which was his second collaboration with director Abel Ferrara and writer Nicholas St. John

Wallken appears in the modern vampire flick The Addiction, which was his second collaboration with director Abel Ferrara and writer Nicholas St. John

Stars in The Cider House Rules

Returns to feature direction with Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.

Plays Queen Padme Amidala in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.

Makes her feature directing debut with The Virgin Suicides, adapting Jeffrey Eugenides's novel.

Stars as James Bond in The World Is Not Enough

Directs and stars in True Crime, a journalism and death-row thriller.

Wallken appears in Wild Side, The Prophecy and the modern vampire flick The Addiction, which was his second collaboration with director Abel Ferrara and writer Nicholas St. John. Walken plays Calvin Webber in the romantic comedy Blast from the Past. Appears in Sleepy Hollow. Appears in Pulp Fiction