1998 In Film

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The year 1998 in film involved many significant films including; Shakespeare in Love (which won the Academy Award for Best Picture), Saving Private Ryan, American History X, The Truman Show, Primary Colors, Rushmore, Rush Hour, There's Something About Mary, The Big Lebowski, and Terrence Malick's directorial return in The Thin Red Line. Animated films included A Bug's Life, Antz, Mulan and The Prince of Egypt.

Warner Bros. Pictures celebrated its 75th anniversary in 1998.

Highest-grossing films

The top ten films released in 1998 by worldwide gross are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1998^[1]

Rank	Title	Studio	Worldwide gross
1.	Armageddon	Touchstone Pictures	$553,709,788
2.	Saving Private Ryan	DreamWorks Pictures / Paramount Pictures	$481,840,909
3.	Godzilla	TriStar Pictures	$379,014,294
4.	There's Something About Mary	20th Century Fox	$369,884,651
5.	A Bug's Life	Walt Disney Pictures / Pixar	$363,398,565
6.	Deep Impact	Paramount Pictures / DreamWorks Pictures	$349,464,664
7.	Mulan	Walt Disney Pictures	$304,320,254
8.	Dr. Dolittle	20th Century Fox	$294,456,605
9.	Shakespeare in Love	Miramax Films / Universal Pictures	$289,317,794
10.	Lethal Weapon 4	Warner Bros.	$285,444,603

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Awards events

• 3rd Empire Awards
• 56th Golden Globe Awards
• 71st Academy Awards

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Eternity and a Day (Μια αιωνιότητα και μια μέρα, Mia aioniotita kai mia mera), directed by Theo Angelopoulos, Greece / France / Italy

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

The Way We Laughed (Così ridevano), directed by Gianni Amelio, Italy

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Central do Brasil (Central Station), directed by Walter Salles, Brazil / France

Awards

Category/Organization	56th Golden Globe Awards January 24, 1999		4th Critics Choice Awards January 1999	5th Screen Actors Guild Awards March 7, 1999	71st Academy Awards March 21, 1999	52nd BAFTA Awards April 11, 1999
	Drama	Musical or Comedy
Best Film	Saving Private Ryan	Shakespeare in Love	Saving Private Ryan	N/A	Shakespeare in Love
Best Director	Steven Spielberg Saving Private Ryan			N/A	Steven Spielberg Saving Private Ryan	Peter Weir The Truman Show
Best Actor	Jim Carrey The Truman Show	Michael Caine Little Voice	Ian McKellen Gods and Monsters Apt Pupil	Roberto Benigni Life is Beautiful
Best Actress	Cate Blanchett Elizabeth	Gwyneth Paltrow Shakespeare in Love	Cate Blanchett Elizabeth	Gwyneth Paltrow Shakespeare in Love		Cate Blanchett Elizabeth
Best Supporting Actor	Ed Harris The Truman Show		Billy Bob Thornton A Simple Plan	Robert Duvall A Civil Action	James Coburn Affliction	Geoffrey Rush Elizabeth
Best Supporting Actress	Lynn Redgrave Gods and Monsters		Kathy Bates Primary Colors		Judi Dench Shakespeare in Love
Best Screenplay, Adapted	Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard Shakespeare in Love		Scott B. Smith A Simple Plan	N/A	Bill Condon Gods and Monsters	Elaine May Primary Colors
Best Screenplay, Original			Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard Shakespeare in Love	N/A	Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard Shakespeare in Love	Andrew Niccol The Truman Show
Best Original Score	The Truman Show Burkhard Dallwitz and Philip Glass		Saving Private Ryan John Williams	N/A	Life Is Beautiful Nicola Piovani	Elizabeth David Hirschfelder
Best Original Song	"The Prayer" Quest for Camelot		"When You Believe" The Prince of Egypt	N/A	"When You Believe" The Prince of Egypt	N/A
Best Foreign Language Film	Central Station		Life is Beautiful	N/A	Life is Beautiful	Central Station

1998 Wide-release films

January–March

Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew	Genre	Medium
J A N U A R Y	9	Firestorm	20th Century Fox	Dean Semler (director); Chris Soth (screenplay); Howie Long, Scott Glenn, William Forsythe, Suzy Amis, Garwin Sanford, Sebastian Spence, Michael Greyeyes, Barry Pepper	Drama, Thriller	Live Action
		Wag the Dog	New Line Cinema	Barry Levinson (director); Hilary Henkin, David Mamet (screenplay); Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Anne Heche, Denis Leary, William H. Macy, Willie Nelson, Andrea Martin, Kirsten Dunst	Political drama	Live Action
	16	Fallen	Warner Bros. / Turner Entertainment / Atlas Entertainment	Gregory Hoblit (director); Nicholas Kazan (screenplay); Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Donald Sutherland, Embeth Davidtz, James Gandolfini, Elias Koteas	Thriller	Live Action
		Half Baked	Universal Pictures	Tamra Davis (director); Dave Chappelle, Neal Brennan (screenplay); Dave Chappelle, Guillermo Díaz, Jim Breuer, Harland Williams, Clarence Williams III, Rachel True	Comedy, Stoner	Live Action
		Hard Rain	Paramount Pictures / PolyGram Filmed Entertainment / Mutual Film Company	Christian Slater, Randy Quaid, Minnie Driver, Edward Asner, Michael Goorjian, Dann Florek	Action, Thriller	Live Action
	23	Spice World	Columbia Pictures / PolyGram Filmed Entertainment / Icon Entertainment	Bob Spiers (director); Kim Fuller, Jamie Curtis (screenplay); Victoria Beckham, Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton, Melanie Chisholm, Geri Halliwell, Richard E. Grant, Claire Rushbrook, Roger Moore	Comedy, Musical	Live Action
		Phantoms	Miramax Films / Dimension Films	Joe Chappelle (director); Dean Koontz (screenplay); Peter O'Toole, Rose McGowan, Joanna Going, Liev Schreiber, Ben Affleck, Nicky Katt, Clifton Powell	Sci-Fi, Horror	Live Action
		Slappy and the Stinkers	TriStar Pictures	Barnet Kellman (director); Robert Wolterstorff, Mike Scott; B.D. Wong, Bronson Pinchot, Jennifer Coolidge, Joseph Ashton (actor), Gary LeRoi Gray, Carl Michael Lindner, Scarlett Pomers, Travis Tedford	Adventure, Comedy	Live Action
	30	Desperate Measures	TriStar Pictures / Mandalay Entertainment	Barbet Schroeder (director); Michael Keaton, Andy García, Brian Cox, Marcia Gay Harden, Erik King, Efrain Figueroa, Joseph Cross	Action, Thriller	Live Action
		Deep Rising	Hollywood Pictures / Cinergi Pictures	Stephen Sommers (director/screenplay); Treat Williams, Famke Janssen, Kevin J. O'Connor, Anthony Heald, Wes Studi, Derrick O'Connor, Cliff Curtis, Una Damon, Djimon Hounsou, Jason Flemyng, Clifton Powell, Trevor Goddard	Action, Horror	Live Action
		Great Expectations	20th Century Fox	Alfonso Cuarón (director/screenplay); David Mamet, Mitch Glazer (screenplay); Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Chris Cooper, Hank Azaria, Anne Bancroft, Robert De Niro	Drama	Live Action
F E B R U A R Y	6	Blues Brothers 2000	Universal Pictures	John Landis (director/screenplay); Dan Aykroyd (screenplay); Dan Aykroyd, John Goodman, Joe Morton, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, B. B. King	Comedy, Musical	Live Action
		The Replacement Killers	Columbia Pictures	Antoine Fuqua (director); Ken Sanzel (screenplay); Chow Yun-fat, Mira Sorvino, Michael Rooker, Kenneth Tsang, Jürgen Prochnow, Til Schweiger, Danny Trejo, Clifton Gonzalez-Gonzalez	Action	Live Action
	13	Sphere	Warner Bros. / Baltimore Pictures	Barry Levinson (director); Kurt Wimmer, Stephen Hauser, Paul Attanasio (screenplay); Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L. Jackson, Liev Schreiber, Peter Coyote, Queen Latifah	Sci-Fi, Psychological Thriller	Live Action
		The Borrowers	Polygram Filmed Entertainment / Working Title Films / Universal Pictures	Peter Hewitt (director); Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Rachel Talalay (screenplay); John Goodman, Jim Broadbent, Tom Felton, Flora Newbigin, Bradley Pierce, Mark Williams, Raymond Pickard, Hugh Laurie	Fantasy Comedy	Live Action
		The Wedding Singer	New Line Cinema / Brillstein-Grey Entertainment	Frank Coraci (director); Tim Herlihy (screenplay); Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Christine Taylor, Allen Covert, Angela Featherstone, Matthew Glave, Ellen Albertini Dow, Rob Schneider	Romantic Comedy	Live Action
	19	Senseless	Miramax Films / Dimension Films / Mandeville Films	Penelope Spheeris (director); Greg Erb, Craig Mazin (screenplay); Marlon Wayans, David Spade, Matthew Lillard, Brad Dourif, Tamara Taylor, Rip Torn	Comedy	Live Action
		Palmetto	Columbia Pictures	Volker Schlöndorff (director); E. Max Frye (screenplay); Woody Harrelson, Elisabeth Shue, Gina Gershon, Rolf Hoppe, Michael Rapaport, Chloë Sevigny	Neo-noir	Live Action
	27	Caught Up	LIVE Entertainment	Darin Scott (director/screenplay); Bokeem Woodbine, Cynda Williams, Jeffrey Combs, Michael Clarke Duncan, Joseph Lindsey, LL Cool J, Jeris Poindexter, Clifton Powell, Snoop Dogg, Tony Todd	Crime, Drama	Live Action
		Dark City	New Line Cinema	Alex Proyas (director/screenplay); Lem Dobbs, David S. Goyer (screenplay); Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, Richard O'Brien, Ian Richardson, William Hurt, Bruce Spence, Colin Friels	Neo-noir, Sci-Fi	Live Action
		Krippendorf's Tribe	Touchstone Pictures	Todd Holland (director); Charlie Peters (screenplay); Richard Dreyfuss, Jenna Elfman, Natasha Lyonne, Lily Tomlin, Barbara Williams, Gregory Smith	Comedy	Live Action
		Kissing a Fool	Universal Pictures	Doug Ellin (director/screenplay); James Frey (screenplay); David Schwimmer, Jason Lee, Mili Avital, Bonnie Hunt, Kari Wuhrer, Vanessa Angel, Bitty Schram, Judy Greer	Romantic Comedy	Live Action
M A R C H	6	Twilight	Paramount Pictures	Robert Benton (director/screenplay); Richard Russo (screenplay); Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman, Reese Witherspoon, Stockard Channing, James Garner, Giancarlo Esposito, Liev Schreiber	Thriller, Neo-noir	Live Action
		The Big Lebowski	Gramercy Pictures / PolyGram Filmed Entertainment / Working Title Films	Coen Brothers (directors/screenplay); Jeff Daniels, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, David Huddleston, John Turturro, Tara Reid, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Sam Elliott	Comedy, Crime	Live Action
		Hush	TriStar Pictures	Jonathan Darby (director/screenplay); Jane Rusconi (screenplay); Jessica Lange, Gwyneth Paltrow, Johnathon Schaech, Nina Foch	Thriller	Live Action
		U.S. Marshals	Warner Bros.	Stuart Baird (director); Roy Huggins, John Pogue (screenplay); Tommy Lee Jones, Wesley Snipes, Robert Downey, Jr., Joe Pantoliano, Kate Nelligan, Irène Jacob, Daniel Roebuck, Tom Wood	Thriller	Live Action
	13	The Man in the Iron Mask	United Artists	Randall Wallace (director/screenplay); Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Gérard Depardieu, Gabriel Byrne, Hugh Laurie	Adventure, Drama	Live Action
		Chairman of the Board	Trimark Pictures	Alex Zamm (director/screenplay); Al Septien, Turi Meyer (screenplay); Carrot Top, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Larry Miller, Raquel Welch, Mystro Clark, Jack Plotnick, Jack Warden, Estelle Harris	Comedy	Live Action
	20	Primary Colors	Universal Pictures / Mutual Film Company	Mike Nichols (director); Elaine May (screenplay); John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Billy Bob Thornton, Kathy Bates, Adrian Lester, Maura Tierney, Larry Hagman	Comedy, Drama	Live Action
		Wild Things	Columbia Pictures / Mandalay Entertainment	John McNaughton (director); Stephen Peters (screenplay); Kevin Bacon, Matt Dillon, Neve Campbell, Denise Richards, Robert Wagner, Bill Murray, Theresa Russell, Daphne Rubin-Vega	Erotic Thriller	Live Action
	27	The Newton Boys	20th Century Fox	Richard Linklater (director/screenplay); Clara Lee Walker (screenplay); Matthew McConaughey, Skeet Ulrich, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Dwight Yoakam, Gail Cronauer	Comedy, Drama	Live Action
		Ride	Miramax Films / Dimension Films	Millicent Shelton (director/screenplay); Malik Yoba, Melissa De Sousa, John Witherspoon, Fredro Starr, Cedric the Entertainer, Kellie Shanygne Williams, Sticky Fingaz, Idalis DeLeón, Guy Torry, The Lady of Rage	Comedy	Live Action
		Meet the Deedles	Walt Disney Pictures / DIC Entertainment	Steve Boyum (director); Jim Herzfeld (screenplay); Paul Walker, Steve Van Wormer, A. J. Langer, John Ashton, Robert Englund, Dennis Hopper	Comedy	Live Action

April–June

Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew	Genre	Medium
A P R I L	3	Lost in Space	New Line Cinema	Stephen Hopkins (director); Akiva Goldsman (screenplay); William Hurt, Mimi Rogers, Heather Graham, Lacey Chabert, Jack Johnson, Jared Harris, Matt LeBlanc, Gary Oldman	Sci-Fi, Adventure	Live Action
		Mercury Rising	Universal Pictures / Imagine Entertainment	Harold Becker (director); Lawrence Konner, Mark Rosenthal (screenplay); Bruce Willis, Alec Baldwin, Miko Hughes, Chi McBride, Kim Dickens, John Carroll Lynch, Kelley Hazen, L.L. Ginter, Robert Stanton	Action, Thriller	Live Action
		Barney's Great Adventure	PolyGram Filmed Entertainment / Lyons Partnership / Lyrick Studios	Shirley Douglas	Children, Musical, Adventure	Live Action
	10	City of Angels	Warner Bros. / Regency Enterprises / Atlas Entertainment	Brad Silberling (director); Dana Stevens (screenplay); Nicolas Cage, Meg Ryan, Andre Braugher, Dennis Franz, Colm Feore, Robin Bartlett, Joanna Merlin	Drama, Romance, Fantasy	Live Action
		My Giant	Columbia Pictures / Castle Rock Entertainment	Kathleen Quinlan, Joanna Pacuła, Dan Castellaneta	Comedy, Drama	Live Action
		The Odd Couple II	Paramount Pictures	Howard Deutch (director); Neil Simon (screenplay); Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Richard Riehle, Jonathan Silverman, Lisa Waltz, Mary Beth Peil, Christine Baranski, Jean Smart, Rex Linn	Comedy	Live Action
		Species II	Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer	Justin Lazard	Sci-Fi, Horror	Live Action
		3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain	TriStar Pictures	Sean McNamara (director/screenplay); Jeff Philips (screenplay); Hulk Hogan, Loni Anderson, Jim Varney, Mathew Botuchis, Michael O'Laskey II, James Paul Roeske II, Brian Carl, Victor Wong, Alan McRae	Martial Arts	Live Action
	17	Major League: Back to the Minors	Morgan Creek Productions	John Warren (director/screenplay); David S. Ward (screenplay); Scott Bakula, Corbin Bernsen, Ted McGinley, Dennis Haysbert, Bob Uecker, Kenny Johnson, Thom Barry, Eric Bruskotter, Takaaki Ishibashi	Sports	Live Action
		The Object of My Affection	20th Century Fox	Nicholas Hytner (director); Wendy Wasserstein (screenplay); Jennifer Aniston, Paul Rudd, John Pankow, Allison Janney, Alan Alda, Tim Daly, Joan Copeland, Steve Zahn, Nigel Hawthorne	Romantic Comedy	Live Action
		Paulie	DreamWorks Pictures / Children's Television Workshop / The Jim Henson Company / Mutual Film Company	John Roberts (director); Laurie Craig (screenplay); Jay Mohr, Tony Shalhoub, Gena Rowlands, Hallie Eisenberg, Cheech Marin, Bruce Davison, Trini Alvarado, Buddy Hackett	Adventure, Fantasy	Live Action
		Nightwatch	Dimension Films	Ole Bornedal (director/screenplay); Steven Soderbergh (screenplay); Ewan McGregor, Patricia Arquette, Josh Brolin, Lauren Graham, Nick Nolte	Horror, Thriller	Live Action
	24	The Big Hit	TriStar Pictures	Che-Kirk Wong (director); Ben Ramsey (screenplay); Mark Wahlberg, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christina Applegate, Bokeem Woodbine, Antonio Sabàto, Jr., Avery Brooks, China Chow, Elliott Gould, Lainie Kazan, Lela Rochon	Action, Comedy	Live Action
		Tarzan and the Lost City	Warner Bros. / Village Roadshow Pictures	Carl Schenkel (director); Bayard Johnson, J. Anderson Black (screenplay); Casper Van Dien, Jane March, Steven Waddington, Winston Ntshona, Rapulana Seiphemo, Ian Roberts, Sean Taylor, Gys De Villiers	Action, Adventure	Live Action
		Sliding Doors	Miramax Films / Intermedia Films	Peter Howitt (director/screenplay); Gwyneth Paltrow, John Hannah, John Lynch, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Virginia McKenna, Zara Turner, Paul Brightwell, Nina Young, Kevin McNally, Christopher Villiers	Romantic Comedy, Drama	Live Action
M A Y	1	Black Dog	Universal Pictures / Mutual Film Company	Kevin Hooks (director); William Mickelberry, Dan Vining (screenplay); Patrick Swayze, Randy Travis, Meat Loaf, Graham Beckel, Brenda Strong, Charles S. Dutton, Lorraine Toussaint, Stephen Tobolowsky	Action	Live Action
		He Got Game	Touchstone Pictures / 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks	Spike Lee (director/screenplay); Denzel Washington, Ray Allen, Milla Jovovich, John Turturro, Rosario Dawson, Jim Brown, Hill Harper, Zelda Harris, Ned Beatty	Sports	Live Action
		Les Misérables	Columbia Pictures / Mandalay Entertainment	Bille August (director); Rafael Yglesias (screenplay); Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, Uma Thurman, Claire Danes, Hans Matheson, John McGlynn, Kelly Hunter, Lennie James, Peter Vaughan	Drama	Live Action
	8	Deep Impact	Paramount Pictures / DreamWorks Pictures	Morgan Freeman	Sci-Fi, Disaster	Live Action
	15	Bulworth	20th Century Fox	Warren Beatty (director/screenplay); Jeremy Pikser (screenplay); Warren Beatty, Halle Berry, Oliver Platt, Don Cheadle, Paul Sorvino, Jack Warden, Isaiah Washington, Christine Baranski, Amiri Baraka	Political, Comedy film	Live Action
		The Horse Whisperer	Touchstone Pictures	Robert Redford (director); Eric Roth, Richard LaGravenese (screenplay); Robert Redford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sam Neill, Dianne Wiest, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Cooper, Cherry Jones, Ty Hillman, Kate Bosworth	Drama	Live Action
		Quest for Camelot	Warner Bros. / Warner Bros. Feature Animation	Frederik Du Chau (director); Kirk DeMicco, William Schifrin, Jacqueline Feather, David Seidler (screenplay); Jessalyn Gilsig, Cary Elwes, Jane Seymour, Pierce Brosnan, Gary Oldman, Eric Idle, Don Rickles, Bronson Pinchot, Jaleel White, Gabriel Byrne, John Gielgud	Fantasy, Musical	Animation
	20	Godzilla	TriStar Pictures / Centropolis Entertainment	Roland Emmerich (director/screenplay); Dean Devlin (screenplay); Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno, Maria Pitillo, Hank Azaria, Kevin Dunn, Michael Lerner, Harry Shearer, Arabella Field, Vicki Lewis	Sci-Fi, Monster	Live Action
	22	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas	Universal Pictures / Rhino Entertainment / Summit Entertainment	Terry Gilliam (director/screenplay); Tony Grisoni, Alex Cox, Tod Davies (screenplay); Johnny Depp, Benicio del Toro, Tobey Maguire, Ellen Barkin, Gary Busey, Christina Ricci, Mark Harmon, Cameron Diaz, Katherine Helmond, Michael Jeter, Penn Jillette	Comedy, Road	Live Action
		The Opposite of Sex	Sony Pictures Classics	Don Roos (director/screenplay); Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan, Lisa Kudrow, Lyle Lovett, Johnny Galecki, Ivan Sergei, William Lee Scott, Colin Ferguson	Comedy	Live Action
	27	I Got the Hook Up	Miramax Films / Dimension Films	Michael Martin (director); Carrie Mungo, Leroy Douglas, Master P (screenplay); Master P, A.J. Johnson, Gretchen Palmer, Ice Cube, C-Murder, John Witherspoon, Snoop Dogg, Tom "Tiny" Lister, Jr.	Comedy, Crime	Live Action
	29	Almost Heroes	Warner Bros. / Turner Pictures	Christopher Guest (director); Mark Nutter, Tom Wolfe, Boyd Hale (screenplay); Chris Farley, Matthew Perry, Bokeem Woodbine, Franklin Cover, Eugene Levy, Lisa Barbuscia, Christian Clemenson, Harry Shearer	Adventure, Comedy	Live Action
		Hope Floats	20th Century Fox	Forest Whitaker (director); Steven Rogers (screenplay); Sandra Bullock, Harry Connick, Jr., Gena Rowlands, Mae Whitman, Michael Paré, Cameron Finley, Kathy Najimy, Connie Ray	Romance, Drama	Live Action
		Insomnia	First Run Features	Erik Skjoldbjærg (director/screenplay); Nikolaj Frobenius (screenplay); Stellan Skarsgård, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Bjørn Floberg, Gisken Armand, Maria Bonnevie	Thriller	Live Action
J U N E	5	A Perfect Murder	Warner Bros.	Andrew Davis (director); Patrick Smith Kelly (screenplay); Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow, Viggo Mortensen, David Suchet, Sarita Choudhury, Michael P. Moran, Novella Nelson, Constance Towers, David Eigenberg	Crime, Thriller	Live Action
		Beyond Silence	Miramax Films	Caroline Link (director/screenplay); Beth Serlin (screenplay); Sylvie Testud, Howie Seago, Emmanuelle Laborit, Sibylle Canonica, Matthias Habich, Alexandra Bolz, Birge Schade	Drama	Live Action
		Mr. Jealousy	Lionsgate Films	Noah Baumbach (director/screenplay); Eric Stoltz, Annabella Sciorra, Chris Eigeman, Carlos Jacott, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Brian Kerwin, John Lehr, Peter Bogdanovich	Romantic Comedy	Live Action
		The Truman Show	Paramount Pictures	Peter Weir (director); Andrew Niccol (screenplay); Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Natascha McElhone, Holland Taylor, Ed Harris, Brian Delate, Paul Giamatti	Comedy, Sci-Fi, Drama	Live Action
	12	Can't Hardly Wait	Columbia Pictures	Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont (directors/screenplay); Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ethan Embry, Charlie Korsmo, Lauren Ambrose, Peter Facinelli, Seth Green, Robert Jayne, Joel Michaely, Jay Paulson	Comedy	Live Action
		Cousin Bette	Fox Searchlight Pictures	Des McAnuff (director); Lynne Siefert, Susan Tarr (screenplay); Jessica Lange, Elisabeth Shue, Hugh Laurie, Bob Hoskins, Geraldine Chaplin, Kelly Macdonald, Aden Young, Toby Jones, Laura Fraser	Comedy, Drama	Live Action
		Dirty Work	Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer	Bob Saget (director); Frank Sebastiano, Norm Macdonald, Fred Wolf (screenplay); Norm Macdonald, Artie Lange, Jack Warden, Traylor Howard, Don Rickles, Chris Farley, Christopher McDonald, Chevy Chase, Adam Sandler	Comedy	Live Action
		High Art	October Films / Antidote Films	Lisa Cholodenko (director/screenplay); Ally Sheedy, Radha Mitchell, Gabriel Mann, Charis Michelsen, David Thornton, Anh Duong, Patricia Clarkson	Drama, Romance	Live Action
		Passion in the Desert	Fine Line Features	Lavinia Currier (director/screenplay); Ben Daniels, Michel Piccoli, Paul Meston, Nadia Odeh	Adventure, Drama	Live Action
		Six Days Seven Nights	Touchstone Pictures / Caravan Pictures	Ivan Reitman (director); Michael Browning (screenplay); Harrison Ford, Anne Heche, David Schwimmer, Jacqueline Obradors, Temuera Morrison, Allison Janney, Cliff Curtis, Danny Trejo, Ben Bodé	Adventure, Comedy	Live Action
		The Land Girls	PolyGram Filmed Entertainment / Intermedia Films / Channel Four Films / Canal+	Maureen O'Brien, Lucy Akhurst, Paul Bettany	Drama, Romance	Live Action
	19	Hav Plenty	Miramax Films	Christopher Scott Cherot (director/screenplay); Christopher Scott Cherot, Chenoa Maxwell, Reginald James, Robinne Lee, Tammie Katherine Jones, Hill Harper, Betty Vaughn, Chuck Baron, Kim Harris, Margie St. Juste, Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds	Comedy	Live Action
		Henry Fool	Sony Pictures Classics	Hal Hartley (director/screenplay); Thomas Jay Ryan, James Urbaniak, Parker Posey, Liam Aiken, Maria Porter, James Saito, Kevin Corrigan	Comedy, Drama	Live Action
		Dream for an Insomniac	Avalanche Releasing	Tiffanie DeBartolo (director/screenplay); Ione Skye, Jennifer Aniston, Mackenzie Astin, Michael Landes, Seymour Cassel, Robert Kelker-Kelly	Romantic Comedy	Live Action
		Mulan	Walt Disney Pictures / Walt Disney Feature Animation	Pat Morita	Action, Drama, Comedy, Musical	Animation
		The X-Files	20th Century Fox	Rob Bowman (director); Chris Carter (screenplay); David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Martin Landau, Blythe Danner, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Mitch Pileggi, William B. Davis, John Neville, Dean Haglund, Bruce Harwood, Tom Braidwood	Sci-Fi	Live Action
	21	I Went Down	BBC Films	Paddy Breathnach (director); Conor McPherson (screenplay); Peter McDonald, Brendan Gleeson, Tony Doyle, Peter Caffrey, Antoine Byrne, David Wilmot, Carly Baker, Michael McElhatton, Joe Gallagher	Comedy	Live Action
	26	Buffalo '66	Lionsgate Films / Cinepix Film Properties	Vincent Gallo (director/screenplay); Alison Bagnall (screenplay); Vincent Gallo, Christina Ricci, Ben Gazzara, Mickey Rourke, Rosanna Arquette, Jan-Michael Vincent, Anjelica Huston, Kevin Corrigan	Comedy, Drama	Live Action
		Dr. Dolittle	20th Century Fox / Davis Entertainment	Betty Thomas (director); Hugh Lofting, Nat Mauldin, Larry Levin (screenplay); Eddie Murphy, Ossie Davis, Oliver Platt, Peter Boyle, Kristen Wilson, Norm Macdonald, Kyla Pratt, Raven-Symoné, Richard Schiff, Jeffrey Tambor	Comedy	Live Action
		Out of Sight	Universal Pictures	Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle, Steve Zahn, Albert Brooks, Dennis Farina, Luis Guzmán, Isaiah Washington, Nancy Allen	Comedy, Crime	Live Action
		Smoke Signals	Miramax Films	Chris Eyre (director); Sherman Alexie (screenplay); Adam Beach, Evan Adams, Irene Bedard, Gary Farmer, Tantoo Cardinal	Comedy, Drama	Live Action

July–September

Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew	Genre	Medium
J U L Y	1	Armageddon	Touchstone Pictures / Jerry Bruckheimer Films / Valhalla Motion Pictures	Michael Bay (director); Tony Gilroy, Shane Salerno, Jonathan Hensleigh, J. J. Abrams (screenplay); Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Liv Tyler, Ben Affleck, Will Patton, Peter Stormare, Keith David, Owen Wilson, Michael Clarke Duncan, William Fichtner, Steve Buscemi	Sci-Fi, Disaster, Thriller	Live Action
		Nights of Cabiria (re-release)	Lopert Pictures Corporation	Frederico Fellini (director/screenplay); Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, Pier Paolo Pasolini (screenplay); Giulietta Masina, François Périer, Amedeo Nazzari, Franca Marzi, Dorian Gray, Franco Fabrizi, Aldo Silvani, Ennio Girolami	Drama	Live Action
	10	Hands on a Hard Body: The Documentary	Ideal Enterprises / Providence Entertainment	S.R. Bindler (director)	Documentary	Live Action
		Lethal Weapon 4	Warner Bros. / Silver Pictures	Richard Donner (director); Channing Gibson (screenplay); Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Rene Russo, Jet Li, Joe Pesci, Chris Rock, Kim Chan, Steve Kahan, Calvin Jung	Buddy Cop, Action	Live Action
		Pi	Artisan Entertainment / Protozoa Pictures	Darren Aronofsky (director/screenplay); Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman, Samia Shoaib, Ajay Naidu, Pamela Hart, Stephen Pearlman	Surrealist, Psychological Thriller	Live Action
		Small Soldiers	DreamWorks Pictures / Universal Pictures / Amblin Entertainment	Harry Shearer	Sci-Fi, Action, Comedy	Live Action
		Madeline	TriStar Pictures	Daisy von Scherler Mayer (director); Mark Levin, Jennifer Flackett (screenplay); Hatty Jones, Frances McDormand, Nigel Hawthorne, Stéphane Audran, Chantal Neuwirth, Ben Daniels	Family	Live Action
		When I Close My Eyes	Fine Line Features	Shunji Iwai (director/screenplay); Miho Nakayama, Etsushi Toyokawa, Bunjaku Han, Miki Sakai, Takashi Kashiwabara, Ranran Suzuki	Drama, Romance	Live Action
	15	There's Something About Mary	20th Century Fox	Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly (directors/screenplay); Ed Decter, John J. Strauss (screenplay); Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon, Ben Stiller, Chris Elliott, Lee Evans, Lin Shaye, W. Earl Brown, Jeffrey Tambor, Markie Post, Keith David	Comedy	Live Action
	17	Polish Wedding	Fox Searchlight Pictures	Theresa Connelly (director/screenplay); Claire Danes, Jon Bradford, Lena Olin, Ramsey Krull, Gabriel Byrne, Daniel Lapaine	Comedy, Drama	Live Action
		The Mask of Zorro	TriStar Pictures / Amblin Entertainment	Martin Campbell (director); John Eskow, Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio (screenplay); Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Stuart Wilson, Matt Letscher, Tony Amendola, Pedro Armendáriz, Jr., Victor Rivers	Swashbuckler	Live Action
		The Thief	Stratosphere Entertainment / Canal+	Pavel Chukhray (director/screenplay); Vladimir Mashkov, Yekaterina Rednikova, Misha Philipchuk, Lidiya Savchenko	Drama	Live Action
	22	Lolita	The Samuel Goldwyn Company / Pathé	Adrian Lyne (director); Stephen Schiff (screenplay); Jeremy Irons, Melanie Griffith, Dominique Swain, Frank Langella, Suzanne Shepherd, Keith Reddin, Erin J. Dean, Ed Grady	Drama	Live Action
		The Saltmen of Tibet	Zeitgeist Films	Ulrike Koch (director/screenplay)	Documentary	Live Action
	24	Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss	Trimark Pictures	Tommy O'Haver (director/screenplay); Sean P. Hayes, Brad Rowe, Richard Ganoung, Meredith Scott Lynn, Matthew Ashford, Paul Bartel, Holly Woodlawn, Jason-Shane Scott	Romantic Comedy	Live Action
		Disturbing Behavior	Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer / Village Roadshow Pictures / Beacon Pictures	David Nutter (director); Scott Rosenberg (screenplay); James Marsden, Katie Holmes, Nick Stahl, Bruce Greenwood, William Sadler, Steve Railsback, Chad E. Donella, Tobias Mehler, Katharine Isabelle, Ethan Embry	Sci-Fi, Horror	Live Action
		East Palace, West Palace	Fortissimo Films	Zhang Yuan (director/screenplay); Wang Xiaobo (screenplay); Si Han, Hu Jun, Zhao Wei, Jing Ye	Drama	Live Action
		Mafia!	Touchstone Pictures	Jim Abrahams (director/screenplay); Greg Norberg, Michael McManus (screenplay); Jay Mohr, Lloyd Bridges, Olympia Dukakis, Christina Applegate, Billy Burke, Pamela Gidley, Joe Viterelli, Tony Lo Bianco	Comedy	Live Action
		Saving Private Ryan	DreamWorks Pictures / Paramount Pictures / Amblin Entertainment / Mutual Film Company	Steven Spielberg (director); Robert Rodat (screenplay); Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore, Barry Pepper, Adam Goldberg, Vin Diesel, Giovanni Ribisi, Jeremy Davies, Harrison Young, Kathleen Byron, Ted Danson, Paul Giamatti, Dennis Farina, Harve Presnell, Leland Orser, Bryan Cranston, Nathan Fillion	Drama, War	Live Action
		Western	New Yorker Films	Manuel Poirier (director/screenplay); Sergi López i Ayats, Sacha Bourdo, Élisabeth Vitali, Marie Matheron, Daphné Gaudefroy	Road	Live Action
	29	The Negotiator	Warner Bros. / Regency Enterprises / Mandeville Films	F. Gary Gray (director); James DeMonaco, Kevin Fox (screenplay); Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, David Morse, Ron Rifkin, John Spencer, J.T. Walsh, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Paul Giamatti, Regina Taylor	Action, Thriller	Live Action
		The Parent Trap	Walt Disney Pictures	Nancy Meyers (director/screenplay); David Swift, Charles Shyer (screenplay); Lindsay Lohan, Dennis Quaid, Natasha Richardson, Elaine Hendrix, Lisa Ann Walter, Simon Kunz, Polly Holliday, Maggie Wheeler	Romantic Comedy	Live Action
	31	BASEketball	Universal Pictures	Trevor Einhorn, Francis X. McCarthy	Comedy, Sports	Live Action
		Ever After	20th Century Fox / Flower Films	Andy Tennant (director/screenplay); Susannah Grant, Tracey Trench (screenplay); Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston, Dougray Scott, Megan Dodds, Melanie Lynskey, Patrick Godfrey, Timothy West, Judy Parfitt, Richard O'Brien	Romantic Comedy, Drama	Live Action
		Full Tilt Boogie	Miramax Films	Sarah Kelly (director); Harvey Keitel, Juliette Lewis, Salma Hayek, Fred Williamson	Documentary	Live Action
		The Governess	Sony Pictures Classics	Sandra Goldbacher (director/screenplay); Minnie Driver, Tom Wilkinson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Harriet Walter, Florence Hoath	Drama	Live Action
		Seventh Heaven	Zeitgeist Films	Benoît Jacquot (director/screenplay); Sandrine Kiberlain, Vincent Lindon, François Berléand, Francine Bergé, Pierre Cassignard, Philippe Magnan, Florence Loiret	Drama	Live Action
A U G U S T	5	Halloween H20: 20 Years Later	Miramax Films / Dimension Films	Steve Miner (director); Robert Zappia, Matt Greenberg (screenplay); Jamie Lee Curtis, Adam Arkin, Michelle Williams, Adam Hann-Byrd, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Janet Leigh, Josh Hartnett, LL Cool J, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Chris Durand	Slasher, Horror	Live Action
	7	Snake Eyes	Paramount Pictures / Touchstone Pictures	Brian De Palma (director); David Koepp (screenplay); Nicolas Cage, Gary Sinise, Carla Gugino, John Heard, Joel Fabiani, Luis Guzmán, Stan Shaw, Kevin Dunn, Michael Rispoli, David Anthony Higgins, Mike Starr	Thriller	Live Action
	14	Air Bud: Golden Receiver	Dimension Films	Richard Martin (director); Paul Tamasy, Aaron Mendelsohn (screenplay); Kevin Zegers, Gregory Harrison, Robert Costanzo, Tim Conway, Dick Martin, Cynthia Stevenson, Nora Dunn	Family, Sports	Live Action
		The Avengers	Warner Bros.	Jeremiah S. Chechik (director); Don Macpherson (screenplay); Ralph Fiennes, Uma Thurman, Sean Connery, Jim Broadbent, Fiona Shaw, Eddie Izzard, Eileen Atkins, Carmen Ejogo, John Wood	Action, Spy	Live Action
		How Stella Got Her Groove Back	20th Century Fox	Kevin Rodney Sullivan (director); Terry McMillan, Ronald Bass (screenplay); Angela Bassett, Taye Diggs, Whoopi Goldberg, Regina King, Suzzanne Douglas, Michael J. Pagan, Sicily, Richard Lawson, Barry Shabaka Henley, Lee Weaver, Glynn Turman	Romantic Comedy	Live Action
		Return to Paradise	Universal Pictures / PolyGram Filmed Entertainment / Gramercy Pictures	Joseph Ruben (director); Wesley Strick, Bruce Robinson (screenplay); Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Joaquin Phoenix, David Conrad, Vera Farmiga, Jada Pinkett Smith	Drama, Thriller	Live Action
	21	Blade	New Line Cinema / Marvel Entertainment	Stephen Norrington (director); David S. Goyer (screenplay); Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson, N'Bushe Wright, Donal Logue, Udo Kier, Sanaa Lathan, Arly Jover, Kevin Patrick Walls, Tim Guinee, Traci Lords	Action, Superhero, Vampire	Live Action
		Dance with Me	Columbia Pictures / Mandalay Pictures	Randa Haines (director); Darryl Matthews (screenplay); Vanessa L. Williams, Chayanne, Kris Kristofferson, Joan Plowright, Jane Krakowski, Beth Grant, Harry Groener	Drama	Live Action
		Dead Man on Campus	Paramount Pictures / MTV Films / Pacific Western Productions	Alan Cohn (director); Michael Traeger, Mike White (screenplay); Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Tom Everett Scott, Poppy Montgomery, Lochlyn Munro, Corey Page, Alyson Hannigan, Shelley Malil, Mari Morrow, Dave Ruby	Black Comedy	Live Action
		Wrongfully Accused	Warner Bros.	Pat Proft (director/screenplay); Leslie Nielsen, Richard Crenna, Kelly Le Brock, Melinda McGraw, Michael York, Sandra Bernhard	Comedy	Live Action
	28	54	Miramax Films	Mark Christopher (director/screenplay); Ryan Phillippe, Salma Hayek, Neve Campbell, Mike Myers, Sela Ward, Breckin Meyer, Sherry Stringfield, Cameron Mathison, Heather Matarazzo	Drama	Live Action
		Why Do Fools Fall in Love	Warner Bros.	Gregory Nava (director); Tina Andrews (screenplay); Halle Berry, Vivica A. Fox, Lela Rochon, Larenz Tate, Paul Mazursky, Pamela Reed, Alexis Cruz, Jon Huertas	Romance, Drama	Live Action
S E P T E M B E R	4	Knock Off	TriStar Pictures / Film Workshop	Tsui Hark (director); Steven E. de Souza (screenplay); Jean-Claude Van Damme, Rob Schneider, Lela Rochon, Michael Wong, Carman Lee, Paul Sorvino, Wyman Wong	Action	Live Action
	11	Rounders	Miramax Films	John Dahl (director); David Levien, Brian Koppelman (screenplay); Matt Damon, Edward Norton, John Turturro, Famke Janssen, Gretchen Mol, John Malkovich, Martin Landau	Drama	Live Action
		Simon Birch	Hollywood Pictures / Caravan Pictures	Mark Steven Johnson (director/screenplay); Ian Michael Smith, Joseph Mazzello, Jim Carrey, Ashley Judd, Oliver Platt, David Strathairn, Dana Ivey, Beatrice Winde, Jan Hooks	Comedy, Drama	Live Action
	18	One True Thing	Universal Pictures	Carl Franklin (director); Karen Croner (screenplay); Meryl Streep, Renée Zellweger, William Hurt, Tom Everett Scott, Lauren Graham, Nicky Katt	Drama	Live Action
		Rush Hour	New Line Cinema	Brett Ratner (director); Jim Kouf, Ross LaManna (screenplay); Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Tom Wilkinson, Chris Penn, Elizabeth Peña, Tzi Ma, Ken Leung, Mark Rolston, Rex Linn	Buddy, Action, Comedy	Live Action
	24	Urban Legend	TriStar Pictures / Original Film / Phoenix Pictures	Jamie Blanks (director); Silvio Horta (screenplay); Jared Leto, Alicia Witt, Rebecca Gayheart, Joshua Jackson, Loretta Devine, Tara Reid, Michael Rosenbaum, Robert Englund	Slasher	Live Action
		Ronin	Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer / United Artists	John Frankenheimer (director); J.D. Zeik, David Mamet (screenplay); Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone, Stellan Skarsgård, Sean Bean, Jonathan Pryce, Skipp Sudduth, Michael Lonsdale, Jan Tříska	Gangster, Action	Live Action
		Clay Pigeons	Gramercy Pictures / Scott Free Productions	Gregory Sporleder, Phil Morris, Scott Wilson	Comedy, Crime	Live Action

October–December

Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew	Genre	Medium
O C T O B E R	2	Antz	DreamWorks Pictures / DreamWorks Animation	Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson (directors); Paul Weitz, Chris Weitz, Todd Alcott (screenplay); Woody Allen, Gene Hackman, Sharon Stone, Sylvester Stallone, Jennifer Lopez, Christopher Walken, Anne Bancroft, Dan Aykroyd, Danny Glover	Comedy	Animation
		A Night at the Roxbury	Paramount Pictures / SNL Studios	John Fortenberry (director); Will Ferrell, Chris Kattan, Steve Koren (screenplay); Will Ferrell, Chris Kattan, Loni Anderson, Dan Hedaya, Molly Shannon, Dwayne Hickman, Maree Cheatham, Lochlyn Munro, Jennifer Coolidge	Comedy	Live Action
		What Dreams May Come	Universal Pictures / Interscope Communications	Vincent Ward (director); Ronald Bass (screenplay); Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Annabella Sciorra, Max von Sydow, Jessica Brooks Grant, Josh Paddock, Rosalind Chao, Lucinda Jenney	Fantasy, Drama	Live Action
	9	Holy Man	Touchstone Pictures / Caravan Pictures	Stephen Herek (director); Tom Schulman (screenplay); Eddie Murphy, Jeff Goldblum, Kelly Preston, Eric McCormack, Robert Loggia, Jon Cryer	Comedy	Live Action
	16	Beloved	Touchstone Pictures / Harpo Productions	Jonathan Demme (director); Akosua Busia, Richard LaGravenese, Adam Brooks (screenplay); Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Kimberly Elise, Hill Harper, Beah Richards, Jason Robards, Irma P. Hall, Dorothy Love Coates	Horror, Drama	Live Action
		Bride of Chucky	Universal Pictures	Ronny Yu (director); Dan Mancini (screenplay); Jennifer Tilly, Brad Dourif, Katherine Heigl, Nick Stabile, John Ritter, Alexis Arquette, Gordon Michael Woolvett, Lawrence Dane, Michael Louis Johnson, James Gallanders, Janet Kidder, Vince Corazza	Horror, Black Comedy	Live Action
		Practical Magic	Warner Bros. / Village Roadshow Pictures	Griffin Dunne (director); Robin Swicord, Akiva Goldsman, Adam Brooks (screenplay); Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Goran Višnjić, Stockard Channing, Dianne Wiest, Aidan Quinn, Caprice Benedetti, Evan Rachel Wood, Mark Feuerstein	Romantic Comedy	Live Action
	23	Apt Pupil	TriStar Pictures / Phoenix Pictures	Bryan Singer (director); Brandon Boyce (screenplay); Ian McKellen, Brad Renfro, Bruce Davison, Ann Dowd, James Karen, Elias Koteas, Joe Morton	Thriller	Live Action
		Life is Beautiful	Miramax Films	Giustino Durano, Horst Buchholz, Marisa Paredes	Tragicomedy, Drama	Live Action
		Pleasantville	New Line Cinema	Gary Ross (director/screenplay); Tobey Maguire, Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen, William H. Macy, Paul Walker, J. T. Walsh, Reese Witherspoon, Marley Shelton, Giuseppe Andrews	Fantasy, Comedy, Drama	Live Action
		Soldier	Morgan Creek Productions	Paul W. S. Anderson (director); David Webb Peoples (screenplay); Kurt Russell, Jason Scott Lee, Connie Nielsen, Michael Chiklis, Gary Busey, Jason Isaacs, Sean Pertwee	Sci-Fi	Live Action
	30	American History X	New Line Cinema	Tony Kaye (director/screenplay); David McKenna (screenplay); Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Fairuza Balk, Stacy Keach, Elliott Gould, Avery Brooks, Ethan Suplee, Beverly D'Angelo	Crime, Drama	Live Action
		Vampires	Columbia Pictures / Largo Entertainment	John Carpenter (director); Don Jakoby (screenplay); James Woods, Daniel Baldwin, Sheryl Lee, Thomas Ian Griffith, Maximillian Schell, Tim Guinee, Mark Boone Junior, Gregory Sierra, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Thomas Rosales, Jr.	Western, Horror	Live Action
N O V E M B E R	4	Belly	Artisan Entertainment	Hype Williams (director/screenplay); Nas, DMX, Taral Hicks, Tionne Watkins, Method Man, Tyrin Turner, Hassan Johnson, Oliver "Power" Grant, Louie Rankin	Crime, Drama	Live Action
	6	Elizabeth	Gramercy Pictures / PolyGram Filmed Entertainment / Working Title Films / Film4 Productions	Shekhar Kapur (director); Michael Hirst (screenplay); Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Fiennes, John Gielgud, Richard Attenborough, Kenny Doughty, Kathy Burke, Fanny Ardant, Vincent Cassel, Emily Mortimer	Biography	Live Action
		Gods and Monsters	Lionsgate Films / Regent Entertainment / BBC Films	Bill Condon (director/screenplay); Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser, Lynn Redgrave, Matt McKenzie, Arthur Dignam, Lolita Davidovich, Jack Plotnick, David Dukes	Drama	Live Action
		The Siege	20th Century Fox	Edward Zwick (director/screenplay); Lawrence Wright, Menno Meyjes (screenplay); Denzel Washington, Annette Bening, Tony Shalhoub, David Proval, Bruce Willis, Aasif Mandvi, Sami Bouajila	Thriller	Live Action
		The Waterboy	Touchstone Pictures	Frank Coraci (director); Tim Herlihy, Adam Sandler (screenplay); Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates, Fairuza Balk, Henry Winkler, Jerry Reed, Larry Gilliard, Jr., Blake Clark, Peter Dante, Jonathan Loughran	Comedy, Sports	Live Action
	13	I Still Know What You Did Last Summer	Columbia Pictures / Mandalay Entertainment	Danny Cannon (director); Trey Callaway (screenplay); Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Brandy Norwood, Mekhi Phifer, Matthew Settle, Muse Watson, Jennifer Esposito, Bill Cobbs, Jeffrey Combs	Slasher	Live Action
		I'll Be Home for Christmas	Walt Disney Pictures / Mandeville Films	Gary Cole, Eve Gordon, Sean O'Bryan, Andrew Lauer, Lauren Maltby	Christmas, Family, Comedy	Live Action
		Meet Joe Black	Universal Pictures	Martin Brest (director); Bo Goldman, Kevin Wade, Ron Osborn, Jeff Reno (screenplay); Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani, Jake Weber, Marcia Gay Harden, Jeffrey Tambor, June Squibb	Fantasy, Romance	Live Action
	20	Enemy of the State	Touchstone Pictures / Jerry Bruckheimer Films / Scott Free Productions	Tony Scott (director); David Marconi (screenplay); Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Jack Black, Barry Pepper, Regina King, Ian Hart, Lisa Bonet, Jascha Washington, Jamie Kennedy, Jason Lee	Spy, Thriller	Live Action
		The Rugrats Movie	Paramount Pictures / Nickelodeon Movies / Klasky Csupo	Igor Kovalyov, Norton Virgien (directors); David N. Weiss, J. David Stern (screenplay); Elizabeth Daily, Christine Cavanaugh, Kath Soucie, Cheryl Chase, Tara Strong, Jack Riley, Melanie Chartoff, Joe Alaskey, Cree Summer, Busta Rhymes, David Spade, Whoopi Goldberg	Adventure, Comedy	Animation
		Waking Ned	Fox Searchlight Pictures / Canal+	Kirk Jones (director/screenplay); Ian Bannen, David Kelly, Fionnula Flanagan, Susan Lynch, James Nesbitt, Fintan McKeown	Comedy	Live Action
	25	A Bug's Life	Walt Disney Pictures / Pixar	John Lasseter (director); Andrew Stanton, Donald McEnery, Bob Shaw (screenplay); Dave Foley, Kevin Spacey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Hayden Panettiere, Phyllis Diller, Richard Kind, David Hyde Pierce, Denis Leary, Joe Ranft, Jonathan Harris, Madeline Kahn, Bonnie Hunt, Brad Garrett, Mike McShane, John Ratzenberger	Adventure, Comedy	Animation
		Babe: Pig in the City	Universal Pictures / Kennedy Miller Productions	Judy Morris, Mark Lamprell (screenplay); Magda Szubanski, James Cromwell, Mary Stein, Elizabeth Daily, Danny Mann, Steven Wright, Mickey Rooney, Paul Livingston, Glenne Headly, James Cosmo	Comedy, Drama	Live Action
	20	Very Bad Things	PolyGram Filmed Entertainment / Interscope Communications	Peter Berg (director/screenplay); Cameron Diaz, Jon Favreau, Daniel Stern, Jeremy Piven, Christian Slater, Leland Orser, Jeanne Tripplehorn	Comedy	Live Action
		Home Fries	Warner Bros.	Dean Parisot (director); Vince Gilligan (screenplay); Drew Barrymore, Luke Wilson, Catherine O'Hara, Shelley Duvall, Jake Busey, Daryl Mitchell, Lanny Flaherty, Chris Ellis	Romantic Comedy, Drama	Live Action
		Ringmaster	Artisan Entertainment / The Kushner-Locke Company	Neil Abramson (director); Jon Bernstein (screenplay); Jerry Springer, Jamie Pressly, William McNamara, Molly Hagan, John Capodice, Wendy Raquel Robinson, Ashley Holbrook, Tangie Ambrose, Nicki Micheaux, Krista Tesreau, Dawn Maxey, Maximilliana, Michael Jai White, Michael Dudikoff	Comedy	Live Action
D E C E M B E R	4	Psycho	Universal Pictures / Imagine Entertainment	Gus Van Sant (director); Joseph Stefano (screenplay); Vince Vaughn, Julianne Moore, Anne Heche, Viggo Mortensen, William H. Macy, Robert Forster, Philip Baker Hall, Anne Haney, Rance Howard, Chad Everett, James Remar	Horror	Live Action
		Little Voice (film)	Miramax Films	Mark Herman (director/screenplay); Jane Horrocks, Brenda Blethyn, Michael Caine, Ewan McGregor, Jim Broadbent, Philip Jackson, Annette Badland	Musical	Live Action
	11	Jack Frost	Warner Bros.	Troy Miller (director); Mark Steven Johnson, Jonathan Roberts, Steve Bloom, Jeff Cesario (screenplay); Michael Keaton, Kelly Preston, Joseph Cross, Mark Addy, Henry Rollins, Mika Boorem, Andrew Lawrence, Taylor Handley, Dweezil Zappa	Christmas, Comedy, Fantasy, Drama	Live Action
		Star Trek: Insurrection	Paramount Pictures	Jonathan Frakes (director); Michael Piller (screenplay); Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, F. Murray Abraham, Donna Murphy, Anthony Zerbe	Sci-Fi	Live Action
		Shakespeare in Love	Miramax Films / Universal Pictures	John Madden (director); Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard (screenplay); Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth, Ben Affleck, Judi Dench, Simon Callow, Jim Carter, Martin Clunes, Antony Sher, Tom Wilkinson, Patrick Barlow, Rupert Everett	Romantic Comedy, Drama	Live Action
		A Simple Plan	Paramount Pictures / Mutual Film Company / Savoy Pictures	Sam Raimi (director); Scott B. Smith (screenplay); Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Bridget Fonda, Brent Briscoe, Gary Cole, Chelcie Ross, Becky Ann Baker	Neo-noir, Crime, Thriller	Live Action
	18	Playing by Heart	Miramax Films / Hyperion Pictures	Willard Carroll (director/screenplay); Gillian Anderson, Ellen Burstyn, Sean Connery, Anthony Edwards, Angelina Jolie, Jay Mohr, Ryan Phillippe, Dennis Quaid, Gena Rowlands, Jon Stewart, Madeleine Stowe	Comedy, Drama	Live Action
		The Prince of Egypt	DreamWorks Pictures / DreamWorks Animation	Simon Wells, Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner (directors); Philip LaZebnik, Nicholas Meyer (screenplay); Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Goldblum, Patrick Stewart, Danny Glover, Steve Martin, Martin Short	Musical, Epic	Animation
		You've Got Mail	Warner Bros.	Nora Ephron (director/screenplay); Delia Ephron (screenplay); Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Parker Posey, Jean Stapleton, Dave Chappelle, Steve Zahn, Greg Kinnear, Heather Burns, Dabney Coleman, John Randolph, Deborah Rush	Romantic Comedy, Drama	Live Action
	25	Patch Adams	Universal Pictures	Tom Shadyac (director); Steve Oedekerk (screenplay); Robin Williams, Monica Potter, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bob Gunton, Daniel London, Peter Coyote, Frances Lee McCain, Irma P. Hall, Josef Sommer, Harold Gould, Harve Presnell, Michael Jeter	Biography, Comedy, Drama	Live Action
		Mighty Joe Young	Walt Disney Pictures	Ron Underwood (director); Merian C. Cooper, Ruth Rose, Mark Rosenthal, Lawrence Konner (screenplay); Bill Paxton, Charlize Theron, Rade Šerbedžija, Peter Firth, Regina King, David Paymer, Naveen Andrews, Robert Wisdom	Adventure	Live Action
		Stepmom	Columbia Pictures / 1492 Pictures	Chris Columbus (director); Gigi Levangie Grazer, Jessie Nelson, Steven Rogers, Ronald Bass, Karen Leigh Hopkins (screenplay); Julia Roberts, Susan Sarandon, Ed Harris, Jena Malone, Liam Aiken, Lynn Whitfield, Darrell Larson, Mary Louise Wilson	Comedy, Drama	Live Action
		The Faculty	Miramax Films / Dimension Films / Los Hooligans Productions	Robert Rodriguez (director); Kevin Williamson (screenplay); Josh Hartnett, Elijah Wood, Shawn Hatosy, Jordana Brewster, Clea DuVall, Laura Harris, Robert Patrick, Bebe Neuwirth, Piper Laurie, Famke Janssen, Usher, Salma Hayek, Jon Stewart	Sci-Fi, Horror	Live Action
		The Thin Red Line	20th Century Fox / Fox 2000 Pictures / Phoenix Pictures	John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, Jared Leto, John C. Reilly, John Travolta	Epic, War	Live Action
	30	The Hi-Lo Country	Gramercy Pictures / PolyGram Filmed Entertainment / Working Title Films	Stephen Frears (director); Walon Green (screenplay); Billy Crudup, Penélope Cruz, Woody Harrelson, Patricia Arquette, Cole Hauser, Sam Elliott, James Gammon, Enrique Castillo, Katy Jurado, Darren E. Burrows, Jacob Vargas	Western, Drama	Live Action
		Another Day in Paradise	Trimark Pictures	Larry Clark (director); Stephen Chin, Christopher B. Landon (screenplay); James Woods, Melanie Griffith, Vincent Kartheiser, Natasha Gregson Wagner, James Otis, Brent Briscoe, Peter Sarsgaard, Lou Diamond Phillips	Drama	Live Action

Notable films released in 1998

U.S.A. unless stated

#

• 54, starring Ryan Phillippe, Salma Hayek, Neve Campbell, Breckin Meyer and Mike Myers
• 1732 Høtten – (Norway)

A-D

• A, documentary about the Aum Shinrikyo cult – (Japan)
• The Adventures of Sebastian Cole, starring Adrian Grenier
• An Affair (Jeongsa) – (South Korea)
• After Life (Wandâfuru raifu), starring Arata – (Japan)
• Alice and Martin, directed by André Téchiné, starring Juliette Binoche – (France)
• Almost Heroes, directed by Christopher Guest, starring Chris Farley, Matthew Perry and Eugene Levy
• American History X, directed by Tony Kaye, starring Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D'Angelo, Elliott Gould and Stacy Keach
• An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island, direct-to-video sequel to the 1986 animated fantasy, voices of Thomas Dekker and Lacey Chabert
• An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn, starring Ryan O'Neal, Eric Idle, Coolio, Chuck D and Richard Jeni
• Another Day in Paradise, starring James Woods and Melanie Griffith
• Antz, animated film with voices of Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Sylvester Stallone, Jennifer Lopez and Dan Aykroyd
• Anxiety (Inquietude) – (Portugal)
• The Apple (Sib) – (Iran)
• April Story (Shigatsu monogatari) – short film starring Takako Matsu – (Japan)
• Apt Pupil, directed by Bryan Singer, starring Ian McKellen, Brad Renfro and David Schwimmer
• Armageddon, directed by Michael Bay, starring Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Liv Tyler, Ben Affleck and Steve Buscemi
• Art Museum by the Zoo (Misulgwan yup dongmulwon), starring Shim Eun-ha – (South Korea)
• August 32nd on Earth (Un 32 août sur terre) – (Canada)
• The Avengers, starring Ralph Fiennes, Uma Thurman, Sean Connery

B

• B. Monkey, starring Asia Argento, Rupert Everett and Jared Harris – (U.K./U.S.A.)
• James Cromwell, Magda Szubanski and Mickey Rooney with the voices of Elizabeth Daily and Hugo Weaving – (Australia/U.S.A.)
• The Barber of Siberia (Sibirskiy tsiryulnik) – (Russia)
• BASEketball, directed by David Zucker, starring Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Yasmine Bleeth, Jenny McCarthy and Robert Vaughn
• Basil, directed by Radha Bharadwaj, starring Jared Leto, Claire Forlani and Christian Slater – (U.K.)
• Be There or Be Square (Bu jian bu san) – (China)
• Beast Cops (Yeshou xingjing), directed by Gordon Chan – (Hong Kong)
• Bedrooms and Hallways, starring Kevin McKidd, Hugo Weaving and James Purefoy – (U.K.)
• Begging for Love (Ai o kou hito) – (Japan)
• Belly, directed by Hype Williams, starring DMX
• Beloved, directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover and Thandie Newton
• Beshkempir (a.k.a. Beshkempir the Adopted Son) – (Kyrgyzstan)
• Besieged (L'assedio), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, starring Thandie Newton and David Thewlis – (Italy/U.K.)
• The Big Hit, starring Mark Wahlberg, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christina Applegate and Elliott Gould
• The Big Lebowski, directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, starring Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, Julianne Moore, Peter Stormare and John Turturro
• Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss, starring Sean Hayes
• The Bird People in China (Chûgoku no chôjin), directed by Takashi Miike – (Japan)
• Birdcage Inn (Paran daemun) – (South Korea)
• Black Cat, White Cat (Crna mačka, beli mačor) – (Yugoslavia)
• Black Dog, starring Patrick Swayze and Meat Loaf
• Blade, directed by Stephen Norrington, starring Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff and Kris Kristofferson
• Blues Brothers 2000, directed by John Landis, starring Dan Aykroyd, John Goodman, Joe Morton, James Brown and Aretha Franklin
• Blues Harp, directed by Takashi Miike – (Japan)
• Bombay Boys, starring Naveen Andrews – (India)
• The Boys, starring David Wenham and Toni Collette – (Australia)
• Break Up, starring Bridget Fonda, Hart Bochner and Kiefer Sutherland
• Bride of Chucky, starring Jennifer Tilly, Katherine Heigl and Nick Stabile
• Broken Vessels
• Brown's Requiem, starring Michael Rooker and Selma Blair
• Buffalo '66, directed by and starring Vincent Gallo, with Christina Ricci, Mickey Rourke, Rosanna Arquette, Ben Gazzara, and Anjelica Huston
• A Bug's Life, animated film directed by John Lasseter, with the voices of Dave Foley, Kevin Spacey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, David Hyde Pierce, Denis Leary and Bonnie Hunt
• Bulworth, directed by and starring Warren Beatty, with Halle Berry, Don Cheadle, Oliver Platt and Paul Sorvino

C

• Can't Hardly Wait, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt and Ethan Embry
• Caresses (Caricias) – (Spain)
• Caught Up, starring Bokeem Woodbine
• The Celebration (Festen), directed by Thomas Vinterberg – (Denmark)
• Celebrity, directed by Woody Allen, starring Kenneth Branagh, Judy Davis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Melanie Griffith, Famke Janssen, Hank Azaria, Winona Ryder and Charlize Theron
• Central Station Central do Brasil – (Brazil/France) – Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and Golden Bear award
• Chachi 420 (The Trickster Aunt), starring Kamal Haasan, Amrish Puri and Om Puri – (India)
• Christmas in August (Palwolui Christmas) – (South Korea)
• City of Angels, directed by Brad Silberling, starring Nicolas Cage, Meg Ryan and Andre Braugher
• A Civil Action, directed by Steven Zaillian, starring John Travolta, Robert Duvall, William H. Macy, Tony Shalhoub, Kathleen Quinlan, James Gandolfini and John Lithgow
• Clay Pigeons, directed by David Dobkin, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Vince Vaughn and Janeane Garofalo – (U.S.A./Germany)
• Come Sweet Death (Komm, süßer Tod) – (Austria)
• Cousin Bette, starring Jessica Lange, Elisabeth Shue, Hugh Laurie – (U.K./U.S.A.)
• Croupier, directed by Mike Hodges, starring Clive Owen, Alex Kingston and Gina McKee – (U.K.)
• The Curve, starring Matthew Lillard and Keri Russell

D

• Dance Me to My Song – (Australia)
• Dance with Me, directed by Randa Haines, starring Vanessa L. Williams, Kris Kristofferson and Jane Krakowski
• Dancer, Texas Pop. 81, starring Breckin Meyer
• Dangerous Beauty, starring Catherine McCormack, Naomi Watts, Rufus Sewell, Fred Ward
• Dark City, directed by Alex Proyas, starring Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly and William Hurt – (Australia/U.S.A.)
• The Day Silence Died (El día que murió el silencio) – (Bolivia)
• Dead Man on Campus, starring Tom Everett Scott
• Vanessa Redgrave and Maximilian Schell
• Deep Rising, directed by Stephen Sommers, starring Treat Williams, Famke Janssen, Wes Studi and Anthony Heald
• Morgan J. Freeman
• Desperate Measures, starring Michael Keaton, Andy García, Marcia Gay Harden and Brian Cox
• Detective Conan: The Fourteenth Target (aka Case Closed: the Fourteenth Target) – (Japan)
• Digging to China, starring Evan Rachel Wood and Kevin Bacon
• Le Dîner de Cons (Dinner for Cretins), directed by Francis Veber – (France)
• Dirty Work, starring Norm Macdonald, Artie Lange, Jack Warden, Chevy Chase and Chris Farley
• Disturbing Behavior, starring James Marsden, Katie Holmes and Nick Stahl – (Australia/U.S.A.)
• Divorcing Jack, starring David Thewlis – (U.K.)
• Down in the Delta, directed by Maya Angelou, starring Alfre Woodard, Al Freeman, Jr., Esther Rolle, Loretta Devine, and Wesley Snipes
• Dr. Akagi (Kanzō-sensei), directed by Shohei Imamura – (Japan)
• Dr. Dolittle, starring Eddie Murphy, voices of Norm Macdonald, Albert Brooks, Chris Rock, Garry Shandling and Ellen DeGeneres
• The Dreamlife of Angels (La Vie rêvée des anges) – (France)

E-K

• Earth (अर्थ), directed by Deepa Mehta – (India)
• Elizabeth, directed by Shekhar Kapur, starring Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Christopher Eccleston, Sir John Gielgud, Daniel Craig, Fanny Ardant, Kathy Burke and Richard Attenborough – (U.K.)
• Enemy of the State, directed by Tony Scott, starring Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Barry Pepper, Lisa Bonet and Regina King
• Eternity and a Day (Mia aioniotita kai mia mera), starring Bruno Ganz – (Greece) – Palme d'Or award
• Ever After, starring Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston and Dougray Scott
• Everest, a documentary narrated by Liam Neeson

F

• The Faculty, directed by Robert Rodriguez, starring Josh Hartnett, Elijah Wood, Clea DuVall, Robert Patrick, Famke Janssen, Usher Raymond, Salma Hayek, and Jon Stewart
• Fallen, starring Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Embeth Davidtz and Donald Sutherland
• The Farm: Angola, USA
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Johnny Depp, Benicio del Toro, Tobey Maguire, Ellen Barkin, Christina Ricci and Cameron Diaz
• Fibra óptica (Fibre Optic) – (Mexico)
• Finding Graceland, starring Harvey Keitel and Bridget Fonda
• Firestorm, starring Howie Long and Scott Glenn
• Flowers of Shanghai (hǎi shàng huā) – (Taiwan)
• Foolish Heart (Corazón iluminado), directed by Héctor Babenco – (Argentina/Brazil)
• For Sale (À vendre) – (France)
• Forever Love, starring Reba McEntire and Tim Matheson
• From the Edge of the City (Apo tin akri tis polis) – (Greece)

G

• The General, directed by John Boorman, starring Brendan Gleeson and Jon Voight – (Ireland)
• Genghis Khan – (China)
• Estonia)
• Get Real – (U.K.)
• Ghulam (Slave), starring Aamir Khan – (India)
• The Gingerbread Man, directed by Robert Altman, starring Kenneth Branagh, Embeth Davidtz, Robert Downey, Jr., Tom Berenger, Daryl Hannah, Famke Janssen, and Robert Duvall
• The Girl of Your Dreams (La niña de tus ojos), starring Penélope Cruz – (Spain)
• Girls' Night, starring Julie Walters, Brenda Blethyn and Kris Kristofferson – (U.K.)
• God said "Ha!", starring Julia Sweeney – Golden Space Needle Award
• Gods and Monsters, directed by Bill Condon starring Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser and Lynn Redgrave – (U.K./U.S.A.)
• Godzilla, directed by Roland Emmerich, starring Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno, Maria Pitillo, Kevin Dunn and Hank Azaria
• Goodbye, 20th Century! (Zbogum na dvaesettiot vek!) – (Macedonia)
• Goodbye Lover, starring Patricia Arquette and Dermot Mulroney
• The Grandfather (El abuelo) – (Spain)
• Great Expectations, directed by Alfonso Cuarón, starring Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Anne Bancroft, Chris Cooper and Robert De Niro
• Gunshy, starring Diane Lane and William Petersen
• Gunslinger's Revenge, starring Leonardo Pieraccioni, Harvey Keitel and David Bowie

H

• The Hairy Bird, starring Kirsten Dunst, Gaby Hoffmann, Heather Matarazzo and Lynn Redgrave – (U.S.A./Canada)
• Half Baked, starring Dave Chappelle, Jim Breuer and Guillermo Diaz
• Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Adam Arkin, Michelle Williams, LL Cool J, Josh Hartnett and Janet Leigh
• Happiness, directed by Todd Solondz, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jane Adams, Dylan Baker, Lara Flynn Boyle, Ben Gazzara, Louise Lasser and Jon Lovitz
• Happy Birthday (S dnyom rozhdeniya) – (Russia)
• Minnie Driver and Randy Quaid
• Head On – (Australia)
• He Got Game, directed by Spike Lee, starring Denzel Washington, Ray Allen, Rosario Dawson, Milla Jovovich, and John Turturro
• The Hi-Lo Country, directed by Stephen Frears, starring Woody Harrelson, Penélope Cruz Billy Crudup and Patricia Arquette
• Hideous Kinky, starring Kate Winslet and Saïd Taghmaoui – (U.K./France)
• High Art, directed by Lisa Cholodenko, starring Ally Sheedy and Radha Mitchell
• Hilary and Jackie, directed by Anand Tucker, starring Emily Watson, Rachel Griffiths, David Morrissey and Charles Dance – (U.K.)
• Hold You Tight (愈快樂愈墮落), directed by Stanley Kwan – (Hong Kong)
• The Hole (Dong) – (Taiwan)
• Holy Man, starring Eddie Murphy, Jeff Goldblum and Kelly Preston
• Home Fries, starring Drew Barrymore and Luke Wilson
• Homegrown, starring Billy Bob Thornton, John Lithgow, Ryan Phillippe, Hank Azaria, Kelly Lynch and Jon Bon Jovi
• Hope Floats, directed by Forest Whitaker, starring Sandra Bullock, Harry Connick, Jr. and Gena Rowlands
• The Horse Whisperer, directed by and starring Robert Redford, with Kristin Scott Thomas, Sam Neill, Scarlett Johansson
• How Stella Got Her Groove Back, starring Angela Bassett, Taye Diggs and Whoopi Goldberg
• How to Make the Cruelest Month, starring Clea DuVall
• Human Remains
• Hurlyburly, starring Sean Penn, Chazz Palminteri, Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright, Garry Shandling, Meg Ryan and Anna Paquin
• Hush, starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Lange and Johnathon Schaech
• Hyderabad Blues – (India)

I

• I Stand Alone (Seul contre tous) – (France)
• I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Brandy and Mekhi Phifer
• I Want You, directed by Michael Winterbottom, starring Rachel Weisz and Alessandro Nivola – (U.K.)
• I Went Down, starring Brendan Gleeson – (Ireland)
• Identity Pieces (Pièces d'identités) – (Belgium/France/D.R. Congo)
• The Idiots (Idioterne), directed by Lars von Trier – (Denmark)
• If the Sun Rises in the West (Haega seojjog-eseo tteundamyeon) – (South Korea)
• Illuminata, directed by and starring John Turturro, with Beverly D'Angelo, Susan Sarandon and Christopher Walken
• The Impostors, directed by and starring Stanley Tucci, with Oliver Platt, Alfred Molina, Lili Taylor, Hope Davis, Tony Shalhoub, Billy Connolly and Steve Buscemi
• In God's Hands
• In the Flesh
• The Inheritors (Die Siebtelbauern) – (Austria)
• The Interview, starring Hugo Weaving – (Australia)
• It's a Long Road (Ola einai dromos) – (Greece)

J

• Jack Frost, starring Michael Keaton, Kelly Preston, Joseph Cross and Mark Addy
• Jane Austen's Mafia!, directed by Jim Abrahams starring Jay Mohr, Olympia Dukakis, Christina Applegate and Lloyd Bridges
• Jinnah, starring Christopher Lee, Shashi Kapoor and James Fox – (Pakistan/U.K.)
• Judas Kiss, starring Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson and Carla Gugino

K

• Khrustalyov, My Car! (Khrustalyov, mashinu!) – (Russia)
• Killer (Tueur à gages) – (Kazakhstan/France)
• Kirikou and the Sorceress (Kirikou et la Sorcière) – (France/Belgium/Luxembourg)
• Kissing a Fool, starring David Schwimmer, Mili Avital and Jason Lee
• Knock Off, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Rob Schneider
• Krippendorf's Tribe, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Jenna Elfman and Lily Tomlin
• Kurt & Courtney, directed by Nick Broomfield – (U.K.)

L-Q

• The Land Girls, directed by David Leland, starring Catherine McCormack, Rachel Weisz and Anna Friel – (U.K.)
• The Last Days
• The Last Days of Disco, directed by Whit Stillman starring Kate Beckinsale, Chloë Sevigny, Chris Eigeman and Robert Sean Leonard
• Last Night, directed by and starring Don McKellar, with Sandra Oh, Sarah Polley and David Cronenberg – (Canada)
• Leaf on a Pillow (Daun di Atas Bantal) – (Indonesia)
• Left Luggage (2 koffers vol), directed by Jeroen Krabbé, starring Isabella Rossellini – (Netherlands)
• The Legend of 1900 (La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano), directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, starring Tim Roth, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Mélanie Thierry and Bill Nunn – (Italy/U.S.A.)
• Les Misérables, directed by Bille August, starring Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, Uma Thurman and Claire Danes – (Germany/U.K./U.S.A.)
• Lethal Weapon 4, directed by Richard Donner, starring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, Chris Rock and Jet Li
• Life is to Whistle (La Vida es Silbar) – (Cuba)
• The Lighthouse (El Faro) – (Argentina/Spain)
• The Lion King II: Simba's Pride with the voices of Matthew Broderick, Moira Kelly, Neve Campbell, Ernie Sabella and Nathan Lane
• Little Thieves, Big Thieves (100 años de perdón) – (Venezuela)
• Little Tony – (Netherlands)
• Little Voice, directed by Mark Herman, starring Brenda Blethyn, Jane Horrocks, Michael Caine, Jim Broadbent and Ewan McGregor – (U.K.)
• Living Out Loud, starring Holly Hunter, Danny DeVito and Queen Latifah
• Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, directed by Guy Ritchie, starring Jason Flemyng, Jason Statham, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran, Vinnie Jones and Sting – (U.K.)
• The Longest Nite (aka Dark Flowers), starring Tony Leung – (Hong Kong)
• Lost in Space, directed by Stephen Hopkins, starring William Hurt, Gary Oldman, Mimi Rogers, Matt LeBlanc, Heather Graham and Lacey Chabert
• Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon, directed by John Maybury, starring Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig and Tilda Swinton – (U.K.)
• Love & Pop (ラブ&ポップ) – (Japan)
• Love from Ground Zero
• Lovers of the Arctic Circle (Los amantes del círculo polar) – (Spain)
• Lulu on the Bridge, starring Harvey Keitel and Mira Sorvino

M

• Madame Blueberry
• Madeline, starring Frances McDormand and Nigel Hawthorne – (U.S.A./France)
• Mala Época (Bad Times) – (Argentina)
• Mama Don't Cry (Mama Ne Goryuj) – (Russia)
• The Man in the Iron Mask, directed by Randall Wallace, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Gérard Depardieu, Gabriel Byrne – (U.K./U.S.A.)
• The Man with Rain in His Shoes, starring Lena Headey and Penélope Cruz – (Sp/Fr/U.K./U.S./Ger)
• The Mask of Zorro, directed by Martin Campbell, starring Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Stuart Wilson
• Meet Joe Black, directed by Martin Brest, starring Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani, Jake Weber, Jeffrey Tambor, Marcia Gay Harden
• Meeting People Is Easy, featuring Radiohead – (U.K.)
• Melting Pot
• Mercury Rising, directed by Harold Becker, starring Bruce Willis, Alec Baldwin, Miko Hughes and Kim Dickens
• The Mighty, starring Kieran Culkin, Sharon Stone, Elden Henson, Gena Rowlands, Gillian Anderson
• Mighty Joe Young, directed by Ron Underwood, starring Charlize Theron, Bill Paxton and Rade Šerbedžija
• The Mighty Kong
• Montana, starring Kyra Sedgwick and Stanley Tucci
• Monument Ave., starring Denis Leary and Famke Janssen
• Mr. Zhao (Zhào Xiānshēng) – (China)
• Mulan, with the voices of Ming-Na Wen and Eddie Murphy
• Music from Another Room, starring Jude Law and Jennifer Tilly
• The Mutants (Os mutantes) – (Portugal)
• My Giant, starring Billy Crystal
• My Name is Joe, directed by Ken Loach, starring Peter Mullan – (U.K.)

N

• The Naked Man, starring Michael Rapaport
• The Negotiator, directed by F. Gary Gray, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, David Morse and J. T. Walsh
• New Rose Hotel, directed by Abel Ferrara, starring Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe, Asia Argento and Annabella Sciorra
• The Newton Boys, directed by Richard Linklater, starring Matthew McConaughey, Ethan Hawke, Skeet Ulrich and Vincent D'Onofrio
• Next Stop Wonderland, starring Hope Davis
• A Night at the Roxbury, starring Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan
• Nô – (Canada)
• No Looking Back, starring Lauren Holly and Jon Bon Jovi

O

• The Object of My Affection, starring Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd
• October 22
• The Odd Couple II, starring Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon
• Of Freaks and Men (Pro urodov i lyudey) – (Russia)
• Okraina (Outskirts) – (Russia)
• One Evening After the War (Un soir apres la guerre) – (Cambodia/France)
• One True Thing, starring Meryl Streep, Renée Zellweger, William Hurt and Tom Everett Scott
• Only Clouds Move the Stars (Bare skyer beveger stjernene) – (Norway)
• The Opposite of Sex, starring Christina Ricci and Lisa Kudrow
• The Other Conquest (La Otra Conquista) – (Mexico)
• Jennifer Lopez, Don Cheadle, Ving Rhames, Dennis Farina and Albert Brooks
• Outside Ozona, starring Robert Forster, Kevin Pollak and Sherilyn Fenn
• Overnight Delivery, starring Paul Rudd and Reese Witherspoon

P-Q

• Paljas – (South Africa)
• Palmetto, directed by Volker Schlöndorff, starring Woody Harrelson and Elisabeth Shue
• The Parent Trap, starring Dennis Quaid, Natasha Richardson and Lindsay Lohan
• Passion (Szenvedély) – (Hungary)
• Patch Adams, directed by Tom Shadyac, starring Robin Williams, Monica Potter and Philip Seymour Hoffman
• Paulie, starring Tony Shalhoub, Gena Rowlands, Cheech Marin, Jay Mohr and Buddy Hackett
• Pecker, directed by John Waters, starring Edward Furlong, Christina Ricci, Lili Taylor, Martha Plimpton, Mary Kay Place and Bess Armstrong
• Peculiarities of the National Fishing (Osobennosti natsionalnoy rybalki) – (Russia)
• A Perfect Murder, directed by Andrew Davis, starring Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow, Viggo Mortensen and David Suchet
• Permanent Midnight, starring Ben Stiller, Maria Bello, Elizabeth Hurley, Janeane Garofalo and Owen Wilson
• The Personals (Zheng hun qi shi) – (Taiwan)
• Phantom Beirut (ashbah bayroot) – (Lebanon)
• Phantoms, starring Peter O'Toole, Rose McGowan, Liev Schreiber and Ben Affleck
• Phoenix, starring Ray Liotta and Anjelica Huston
• Pi, directed by Darren Aronofsky, starring Sean Gullette and Mark Margolis
• The Pianist (El pianista) – (Spain)
• A Place Called Chiapas – (Canada)
• Places in Cities (Plätze in Städten) – (Germany)
• Playing by Heart, starring Sean Connery, Gena Rowlands, Jon Stewart
• Pleasantville, directed by Gary Ross, starring Tobey Maguire, Joan Allen, Reese Witherspoon, William H. Macy, Don Knotts, J. T. Walsh and Jeff Daniels
• Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World
• The Polish Bride (De Poolse bruid) – (Netherlands)
• Poodle Springs (film), starring James Caan, Dina Meyer, David Keith, Brian Cox and Joe Don Baker
• The Power of Kangwon Province (Gangwon-do ui him) – (South Korea)
• Practical Magic, starring Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Dianne Wiest, Stockard Channing and Aidan Quinn
• A Price Above Rubies, starring Renée Zellweger
• Primary Colors, directed by Mike Nichols, starring John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Billy Bob Thornton, Adrian Lester and Kathy Bates
• The Prince of Egypt, directed by Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner and Simon Wells, starring Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Sandra Bullock, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jeff Goldblum, Patrick Stewart, Helen Mirren
• Prometheus, directed by Tony Harrison, starring Walter Sparrow (U.K.)
• Psycho, directed by Gus Van Sant, starring Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Julianne Moore, Viggo Mortensen, William H. Macy and Robert Forster
• Quest for Camelot
• The Quiet Family (Joyonghan Gajok) – (South Korea)

R-Z

• Radiofreccia – (Italy)
• The Rat Pack, directed by Rob Cohen, starring Ray Liotta, Joe Mantegna, Don Cheadle, Angus Macfadyen and Bobby Slayton
• Reach the Rock, starring William Sadler
• The Real Blonde, starring Matthew Modine, Catherine Keener, Daryl Hannah, Maxwell Caulfield, Kathleen Turner and Marlo Thomas
• The Red Violin (Le Violon rouge) – (Canada/Italy/U.K.)
• The Replacement Killers, directed by Antoine Fuqua, starring Chow Yun-fat, Mira Sorvino and Michael Rooker
• Restaurant, starring Adrien Brody and Lauryn Hill
• Return to Paradise, starring Vince Vaughn, Joaquin Phoenix and Anne Heche
• Riddler's Moon
• Ring (Ringu), directed by Hideo Nakata – (Japan)
• Ringmaster, starring Jerry Springer, Jaime Pressly and Molly Hagan
• Ronin, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Stellan Skarsgård, Jonathan Pryce, Natascha McElhone, Katarina Witt and Sean Bean
• The Rose Seller (La vendedora de rosas) – (Colombia)
• Rounders, directed by John Dahl, starring Matt Damon, Edward Norton, John Turturro, Gretchen Mol, Martin Landau and John Malkovich
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie, with the voices of John Goodman, Alan Arkin, Eric Idle and Whoopi Goldberg
• The Rugrats Movie
• Run Lola Run (Lola rennt), directed by Tom Tykwer, starring Franka Potente and Moritz Bleibtreu – (Germany) – Golden Space Needle Award (for 1999)
• Rush Hour, directed by Brett Ratner, starring Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker and Tom Wilkinson
• Rushmore, directed by Wes Anderson, starring Jason Schwartzman, Olivia Williams, Bill Murray, Mason Gamble and Seymour Cassel

S

• Safe Men, starring Sam Rockwell and Steve Zahn
• Saving Private Ryan, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Edward Burns, Dennis Farina, Vin Diesel, Paul Giamatti, Giovanni Ribisi and Ted Danson – Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Drama)
• Savior, starring Dennis Quaid and Stellan Skarsgård
• The School of Flesh (L'École de la chair), starring Isabelle Huppert – (France)
• Scratches in the Table (Madelief, krassen in het tafelblad) – (Netherlands)
• Sekal Has to Die (Je třeba zabít Sekala) – (Czech Republic)
• Senseless, starring Marlon Wayans and David Spade
• Shadrach, starring Harvey Keitel and Andie MacDowell
• Shakespeare in Love, directed by John Madden, starring Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Affleck, Colin Firth and Judi Dench – (U.K./U.S.A.) – Academy and Golden Globe (Mus./Com.) Awards for Best Picture
• The Shoe (Kurpe) – (Latvia)
• Show Me Love (Fucking Åmål) – (Sweden)
• Die Siebtelbauern (The Inheritors) – (Austria)
• The Siege, directed by Edward Zwick, starring Denzel Washington, Annette Bening, Bruce Willis and Tony Shalhoub
• Simon Birch, starring Ian Michael Smith, Joseph Mazzello, Ashley Judd and Oliver Platt
• A Simple Plan, directed by Sam Raimi, starring Billy Bob Thornton, Bill Paxton, Bridget Fonda and Gary Cole
• Since You've Been Gone, directed by and starring David Schwimmer, with Teri Hatcher, Jon Stewart, Rachel Griffiths, and Lara Flynn Boyle
• Six Days Seven Nights, directed by Ivan Reitman, starring Harrison Ford, Anne Heche and David Schwimmer
• Slam
• Sliding Doors, starring Gwyneth Paltrow, John Hannah, John Lynch and Jeanne Tripplehorn – (U.K./U.S.A.)
• Small Soldiers, directed by Joe Dante, starring Gregory Smith, Kirsten Dunst, Phil Hartman, Kevin Dunn, Ann Magnuson and Denis Leary with the voices of Tommy Lee Jones and Frank Langella
• Smoke Signals – (U.S.A./Canada)
• Snake Eyes, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Nicolas Cage, Gary Sinise, Carla Gugino, John Heard and Luis Guzman
• So Close to Paradise (Biandan guniang) – (China)
• Soldier, starring Kurt Russell
• Sour Grapes, directed by Larry David, starring Steven Weber and Craig Bierko
• Species II, starring Natasha Henstridge, Michael Madsen, Marg Helgenberger
• Sphere, directed by Barry Levinson, starring Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L. Jackson, Liev Schreiber and Queen Latifah
• Spring in My Hometown (Areumdaoon shijeol) – (South Korea)
• Star Kid
• Star Trek: Insurrection, directed by Jonathan Frakes, starring Patrick Stewart, LeVar Burton, Brent Spiner, Donna Murphy, Gregg Henry and F. Murray Abraham
• State of Dogs (Nokhoin Oron) – (Mongolia)
• Stepmom, directed by Chris Columbus, starring Julia Roberts, Susan Sarandon and Ed Harris
• Still Crazy, starring Stephen Rea, Billy Connolly, Bill Nighy, Jimmy Nail and Timothy Spall – (U.K.)
• Susan's Plan, directed by John Landis, starring Nastassja Kinski, Billy Zane, Rob Schneider, Lara Flynn Boyle and Dan Aykroyd
• The Swan Princess: The Mystery of the Enchanted Kingdom

T

• Tango, directed by Carlos Saura – (Argentina)
• Taxi – (France)
• The Teenage Textbook Movie – (Singapore)
• Tell Me I'm Dreaming (Dis-moi que je rêve) – (France)
• There's Something About Mary, directed by the Farrelly brothers, starring Ben Stiller, Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon, Lee Evans and Chris Elliott
• Thick as Thieves, starring Alec Baldwin
• George Clooney — Golden Bear Award for 1999
• The Three Men of Melita Žganjer (Tri muškarca Melite Žganjer) – (Croatia)
• Torrente, el brazo tonto de la ley (Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law) – (Spain)
• Train of Life (Train de Vie) (Fr/Bel/Neth/Is/Rom)
• Train to Pakistan – (India)
• Trance, starring Alison Elliott, Christopher Walken and Jared Harris
• The Truman Show, directed by Peter Weir, starring Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Natascha McElhone and Ed Harris
• Twilight, directed by Robert Benton, starring Paul Newman, Gene Hackman, Susan Sarandon, James Garner, Liev Schreiber, Stockard Channing and Reese Witherspoon

U-V

• U.S. Marshals, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Wesley Snipes and Robert Downey, Jr.
• Ultraman Tiga & Ultraman Dyna: Warriors of the Star of Light – (Japan)
• 42 Up – (U.K.)
• Up 'n' Under – (U.K.)
• Urban Legend, starring Alicia Witt, Tara Reid and Jared Leto
• Vampires, directed by John Carpenter, starring James Woods, Daniel Baldwin, Sheryl Lee, Thomas Ian Griffith and Maximilian Schell
• Velvet Goldmine, directed by Todd Haynes, starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Christian Bale, Ewan McGregor, Toni Collette and Eddie Izzard – (U.K.)
• Very Bad Things, directed by Peter Berg, starring Jon Favreau, Christian Slater, Jeremy Piven, Daniel Stern and Cameron Diaz
• The Very Thought of You, aka Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence, starring Monica Potter, Joseph Fiennes and Rufus Sewell – (U.K.)
• La Vie Sur Terre (Life on Earth) – (Mali/Mauritania)
• The Vivero Letter, starring Fred Ward, Robert Patrick

W

• Waking Ned, aka Waking Ned Devine, starring Ian Bannen, James Nesbitt and Fionnula Flanagan – (U.K./France)
• The Waterboy, starring Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates, Henry Winkler and Fairuza Balk
• The Way We Laughed (Così ridevano) – (Italy)
• The Wedding Singer, starring Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore and Christine Taylor
• Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God... Be Back by Five
• West Beirut (Beyrout al gharbiyya) – (Lebanon)
• What Dreams May Come, directed by Vincent Ward, starring Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Annabella Sciorra and Max von Sydow
• When the Dead Start Singing (Kad mrtvi zapjevaju) – (Croatia)
• Whispering Corridors (Yeogogoedam) – (South Korea)
• Who Am I? (Wǒ Shì Shéi), starring Jackie Chan – (Hong Kong)
• Why Do Fools Fall In Love, starring Halle Berry and Vivica A. Fox
• Wide Awake, directed by M. Night Shyamalan, starring Rosie O'Donnell, Dana Delany and Denis Leary
• Wild Things, directed by John McNaughton, starring Denise Richards, Neve Campbell, Kevin Bacon, Matt Dillon and Bill Murray
• Without Limits, directed by Robert Towne, starring Billy Crudup, Donald Sutherland, Monica Potter, Judith Ivey and Matthew Lillard
• The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit, starring Joe Mantegna and Esai Morales
• Woubi Chéri (Darling Woubi) – (Côte d'Ivoire/France)
• Wrongfully Accused, starring Leslie Nielsen, Richard Crenna, Melinda McGraw and Kelly Le Brock

XYZ

• The X-Files, directed by Rob Bowman, starring David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Martin Landau and Blythe Danner
• Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl (Tiān Yù), directed by Joan Chen – (China)
• Your Friends & Neighbors, directed by Neil LaBute, starring Amy Brenneman, Aaron Eckhart, Catherine Keener, Nastassja Kinski, Jason Patric and Ben Stiller
• You've Got Mail, directed by Nora Ephron, starring Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Parker Posey, Steve Zahn and Greg Kinnear
• Zero Effect, directed by Jake Kasdan, starring Bill Pullman, Ben Stiller, Kim Dickens and Ryan O'Neal

Births

• January 4 – Coco Jones, American actress/singer
• January 23 - Rachel Crow, American actress/singer and comedienne
• January 28 – Ariel Winter, American actress
• February 15 – Zachary Gordon, American actor
• April 9 – Elle Fanning, American actress
• May 29 – Shealeigh, American singer
• July 8 – Jaden Smith, American actor
• June 19 – Atticus Shaffer, American actor
• July 22 – Madison Pettis, American actress
• July 24 – Bindi Irwin, Australia actress
• July 28 – Sasha Meneghel, Brazilian actress
• July 31 – Rico Rodriguez II, American actor
• August 25 – China Anne McClain, American actress/singer
• October 23 – Amandla Stenberg, American actress
• October 28 – Nolan Gould, American actor
• November 23 – Bradley Steven Perry, American actor

Notable deaths

Month	Date	Name	Age	Country	Profession	Notable films
January	4	Mae Questel	89	USA	Actress, Voice of Betty Boop and Olive Oyl	Who Framed Roger Rabbit Funny Girl
	5	Sonny Bono	62	USA	Singer, Actor	Good Times Hairspray
	6	Walter Barnes	79	USA	Actor	The Big Gundown Escape to Witch Mountain
	6	Murray Salem	47	USA	Actor, Screenwriter	Kindergarten Cop The Spy Who Loved Me
	24	Jack Lord	77	USA	Actor	Dr. No God's Little Acre
	28	Jim Bohan	52	USA	Actor	American Graffiti Punishment Park
	30	Ferdy Mayne	81	UK	Actor	Ben-Hur Barry Lyndon
February	1	Jack T. Collis	75	USA	Art Director	Magnum Force The Last Tycoon
	2	Davy Kaye	81	Bahamas	Actor	Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines
	5	Douglas Gamley	73	Australia	Composer, Conductor	Tron Enigma
	17	Sheila Raynor	91	UK	Actor	A Clockwork Orange The Omen
	18	James Villiers	67	UK	Actor	For Your Eyes Only Repulsion
	23	Chuck Hayward	89	UK	Actor	The Blues Brothers The Longest Yard
	24	Henny Youngman	91	UK	Comedian, Actor	History of the World, Part I Goodfellas
	27	J. T. Walsh	54	USA	Actor	Hoffa Pleasantville
March	5	Donald Woods	91	Canada	Actor	Anthony Adverse The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
	10	Lloyd Bridges	85	USA	Actor	High Noon Airplane!
	10	Bill Alton	73	USA	Actor	Sweet Lorraine
	17	Helen Westcott	70	USA	Actress	The Gunfighter God's Little Acre
	25	Daniel Massey	64	UK	Actor	Star! In Which We Serve
April	1	Lucille Norman	76	USA	Actress	Carson City Painting the Clouds with Sunshine
	1	Gene Evans	75	USA	Actor	The Steel Helmet Shock Corridor
	3	Charles Lang	96	USA	Cinematographer	Some Like It Hot The Magnificent Seven
	11	Rodney Harvey	30	USA	Actor	My Own Private Idaho Guncrazy
	21	Peter Lind Hayes	82	USA	Actor	The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T The Senator Was Indiscreet
	28	Jerome Bixby	75	USA	Screenwriter	Twilight Zone: The Movie Fantastic Voyage
May	2	Maidie Norman	85	USA	Actress	What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Halloween III: Season of the Witch
	9	Alice Faye	83	USA	Actress, Singer	In Old Chicago Alexander's Ragtime Band
	10	Robert Jewell	78	Australia	Actor	Dr. Who and the Daleks Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.
	11	Gene Fowler, Jr.	80	USA	Film Editor	It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Hang 'Em High
	14	Frank Sinatra	82	USA	Singer, Actor	From Here to Eternity On the Town
	15	Linwood G. Dunn	93	USA	Visual Effects Artist	West Side Story 2001: A Space Odyssey
	20	Wolf Mankowitz	73	UK	Screenwriter	Casino Royale A Kid for Two Farthings
	21	Douglas Fowley	86	USA	Actor	Singin' in the Rain Mighty Joe Young
	22	John Derek	71	USA	Actor, Director	Knock on Any Door Saturday's Hero
	28	Phil Hartman	49	USA	Actor, Comedian	Pee-wee's Big Adventure Jingle All the Way
June	1	Darwin Joston	60	USA	Actor	Assault on Precinct 13 Eraserhead
	4	Josephine Hutchinson	94	USA	Actress	North by Northwest The Story of Louis Pasteur
	5	Jeanette Nolan	85	USA	Actress	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance The Fox and the Hound
	12	Theresa Merritt	73	USA	Actress	Billy Madison The Wiz Home Fries
	23	Kurt Kren	69	Austria	Director	8/64: Ana – Aktion Brus 10/65: Selbstverstümmelung
	23	Maureen O'Sullivan	87	USA	Actress	Tarzan the Ape Man The Thin Man
July	4	Gregg Burge	40	USA	Actor	A Chorus Line School Daze
	6	Roy Rogers	86	USA	Actor	Son of Paleface Dark Command
	10	William Preston	76	USA	Actor	The Fisher King Waterworld
	16	Leigh Brown	59	USA	Screenwriter	A Christmas Story It Runs in the Family
	17	Joseph Maher	64	Ireland	Actor	Mars Attacks! In & Out
	19	Betty Marsden	79	UK	Actress	Night and the City The Dresser
	21	Robert Young	91	USA	Actor	Crossfire That Forsyte Woman
	21	Kenneth Watson	66	UK	Actor	Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.
	22	Don Dunphy	90	USA	Announcer, Actor	Raging Bull The Fighter
	28	Lenny McLean	49	UK	Actor	Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels The Fifth Element
	29	Jerome Robbins	79	USA	Director, Choreographer	West Side Story
	29	O. Z. Whitehead	87	USA	Actor	The Lion in Winter The Grapes of Wrath
August	11	Derek Newark	65	UK	Actor	City Under the Sea Dad's Army
	16	Phil Leeds	82	USA	Actor	Ghost Rosemary's Baby
	18	Persis Khambatta	49	India	Actress	Star Trek: The Motion Picture Nighthawks
	24	E. G. Marshall	84	USA	Actor	12 Angry Men The Caine Mutiny
	24	Gene Page	58	USA	Composer	Blacula Brewster McCloud
September	2	Fernando Carrere	87	Mexico	Art Director	The Great Escape The Pink Panther
	6	Akira Kurosawa	88	Japan	Director, Screenwriter	Seven Samurai Rashomon
	8	Leonid Kinskey	95	Russia	Actor	Casablanca Duck Soup
	11	Dane Clark	86	USA	Actor	Action in the North Atlantic Destination Tokyo
	19	Patricia Hayes	88	UK	Actress	A Fish Called Wanda Willow
	22	John Garrie	75	UK	Actor	if.... The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
	24	Dennis Ayling	81	UK	Cinematographer	Alien
	30	Marius Goring	86	UK	Actor	Ill Met by Moonlight The Moonraker
October	2	Gene Autry	91	USA	Actor, Singer	The Phantom Empire The Singing Vagabond
	3	Roddy McDowall	70	USA	Actor	Planet of the Apes The Poseidon Adventure
	11	Richard Denning	84	USA	Actor	An Affair to Remember Creature from the Black Lagoon
	17	Joan Hickson	92	UK	Actress	Clockwise Theatre of Blood
	22	Eric Ambler	89	UK	Screenwriter	A Night to Remember Topkapi
	23	Christopher Gable	58	UK	Actor	The Boy Friend The Lair of the White Worm
	28	James Goldman	71	USA	Screenwriter	The Lion in Winter They Might Be Giants
November	2	Tommy Duggan	89	UK	Actor	The Omen Superman II
	4	Vincent Winter	50	UK	Production Manager	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Superman
	8	Jean Marais	84	France	Actor, Director	Julietta White Nights
	9	Ursula Reit	84	Germany	Actress	Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
	17	Dick O'Neill	70	USA	Actor	The Taking of Pelham One Two Three The Jerk
	17	Esther Rolle	78	USA	Actress	Driving Miss Daisy Rosewood
	19	Alan J. Pakula	70	USA	Director, Producer	All the President's Men To Kill a Mockingbird
	22	Nicky Blair	72	USA	Actor	The Godfather Part III Rocky V
	25	Enrico Sabbatini	66	Italy	Costume Designer	Seven Years in Tibet The Mission
	25	Flip Wilson	64	USA	Comedian, Actor	Skatetown, U.S.A. The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
	30	Ruth Clifford	98	USA	Actress	Behind the Lines The Savage
December
	1	Freddie Young	96	UK	Cinematographer	Lawrence of Arabia Doctor Zhivago
	7	John Addison	78	USA	Composer	A Bridge Too Far Sleuth
	13	Lew Grade	91	UK	Producer	The Dark Crystal Sophie's Choice
	14	Norman Fell	74	USA	Actor	Inherit the Wind It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
	20	Irene Hervey	89	USA	Actress	Play Misty for Me Cactus Flower
	21	Roger Avon	84	UK	Actor	Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. Curse of the Crimson Altar
	23	David Manners	97	USA	Actor	Dracula The Mummy
	25	Richard Paul	58	USA	Actor	The People vs. Larry Flynt Eating Raoul
	26	Hurd Hatfield	81	USA	Actor	The Picture of Dorian Gray The Boston Strangler
	28	William Frankfather	54	USA	Actor	Death Becomes Her The Rocketeer
	29	Don Taylor	81	USA	Actor, Director	Stalag 17

Film debuts

• Josh Hartnett – Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
• Lindsay Lohan – The Parent Trap
• Taye Diggs – How Stella Got Her Groove Back
• Eva Mendes – A Night at the Roxbury
• Jason Statham – Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
• Jason Segel – Can't Hardly Wait
• Jordana Brewster – The Faculty
• Rebecca Romijn – Dirty Work
• Kate Bosworth – The Horse Whisperer
• Jason Schwartzman – Rushmore
• Cedric the Entertainer – Ride
• Cillian Murphy – The Tale of Sweety Barrett

References

• 1998 IN REVIEW / Box-Office Cheers and Jeers / Movie year was crawling with ants, asteroids and Woody Allen

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