1994 in film

Highest-grossing films

Awards

1994 wide-release films

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

Notable films released in 1994

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• , starring Anil Kapoor and Jackie Shroff –
• 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance, directed by Michael Haneke –
• 8 Seconds, starring Luke Perry, Stephen Baldwin, Cynthia Gibb

  A

• Above the Rim, starring Duane Martin and Tupac Shakur
• Accumulator 1 –
• The Accused Uncle Shangang –
• ', directed by Tom Shadyac, starring Jim Carrey, Courteney Cox, Sean Young
• The Act in Question –
• The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, starring Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce –
• '
• The Air Up There, starring Kevin Bacon
• Airheads, starring Steve Buscemi, Adam Sandler, Brendan Fraser
• Amaidhi Padai, starring Satyaraj – 1994 aMSM
• Amateur, starring Isabelle Huppert –
• Andaz Apna Apna, directed by Rajkumar Santoshi – starring Aamir Khan, Salman Khan-
• Andre, starring Keith Carradine
• Angel Dust, directed by Sogo Ishii –
• Angels in the Outfield, directed by William Dear, starring Danny Glover, Tony Danza, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Christopher Lloyd
• A.P.E.X.
• Ashes of Time, directed by Wong Kar-wai, starring Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung –
• Assia and the Hen with the Golden Eggs, directed by Andrei Konchalovsky –

  B

• Bab El-Oued City –
• Baby's Day Out, starring Joe Mantegna, Lara Flynn Boyle, Joe Pantoliano
• Backbeat, a Beatles biopic starring Stephen Dorff –
• Bad Girls, starring Madeleine Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson, Andie MacDowell, Drew Barrymore
• Bandit Queen, directed by Shekhar Kapur –
• Barcelona, starring Taylor Nichols and Mira Sorvino
• Barnabo of the Mountains –
• Before the Rain – – Golden Lion Award
• Beverly Hills Cop III, directed by John Landis, starring Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Héctor Elizondo, Alan Young
• Der bewegte Mann –
• Black Beauty, starring Alan Cumming and Sean Bean –
• Blank Check, directed by Rupert Wainwright, starring Brian Bonsall, Karen Duffy, and Miguel Ferrer
• Blankman, starring Damon Wayans and David Alan Grier
• Blink, directed by Michael Apted, starring Madeleine Stowe and Aidan Quinn
• Blown Away, directed by Stephen Hopkins, starring Jeff Bridges, Tommy Lee Jones, Forest Whitaker, Suzy Amis, Lloyd Bridges
• Blue Chips, directed by William Friedkin, starring Nick Nolte, Mary McDonnell, J. T. Walsh, Ed O'Neill, Shaquille O'Neal
• Blue Sky, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Jessica Lange, Tommy Lee Jones, Powers Boothe
• Body Without Soul –
• Brainscan, starring Edward Furlong
• The Broken Journey, directed by Sandip Ray –
• The Browning Version, directed by Mike Figgis, starring Albert Finney and Greta Scacchi –
• Bullets over Broadway, directed by Woody Allen, starring John Cusack, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Tilly, Chazz Palminteri
• Burnt by the Sun – – Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

  C

• A Caixa –
• Camilla, starring Jessica Tandy and Bridget Fonda
• Camp Nowhere, starring Christopher Lloyd and Jonathan Jackson
• Captives, starring Tim Roth –
• C'est la vie, mon chéri –
• The Chase, starring Charlie Sheen and Kristy Swanson
• Chasers, starring Tom Berenger, William McNamara, Erika Eleniak
• China Moon, starring Ed Harris and Madeleine Stowe
• A Chinese Odyssey –
• Chungking Express, directed by Wong Kar-wai, starring Tony Leung –
• , starring Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Jon Lovitz, Jack Palance
• Clean, Shaven
• Clean Slate, starring Dana Carvey and Valeria Golino
• Clear and Present Danger, starring Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe, Harris Yulin, Anne Archer, James Earl Jones, Joaquim de Almeida
• Clerks, directed by Kevin Smith
• The Client, directed by Joel Schumacher, starring Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones, Brad Renfro
• Clifford, starring Martin Short, Charles Grodin, Mary Steenburgen, Dabney Coleman
• Cobb, directed by Ron Shelton, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Wuhl
• Color of Night, directed by Richard Rush, starring Bruce Willis, Jane March, Rubén Blades, Lesley Ann Warren, Scott Bakula, Brad Dourif
• Colonel Chabert, starring Gérard Depardieu and Fanny Ardant –
• The Confessional –
• A Confucian Confusion –
• Cops & Robbersons, starring Chevy Chase and Jack Palance
• Corrina, Corrina, starring Whoopi Goldberg, Ray Liotta, Tina Majorino
• Country Life, starring Sam Neill and Greta Scacchi –
• The Cowboy Way, starring Woody Harrelson, Kiefer Sutherland, Dylan McDermott, Marg Helgenberger
• Crackerjack, starring Nastassja Kinski, Thomas Ian Griffith, Christopher Plummer
• Criminal, directed by Mahesh Bhatt –
• Crooklyn, directed by Spike Lee, starring Alfre Woodard, Delroy Lindo, Isaiah Washington
• The Crow, starring Brandon Lee
• Crumb, a documentary directed by Terry Zwigoff

  D

• ', directed by Sam Weisman, starring Emilio Estevez, Joshua Jackson, Kathryn Erbe
• Dance Me Outside –
• Deadly Advice, starring Jane Horrocks, Imelda Staunton, Jonathan Pryce –
• Deadly Target
• Dear Goddamned Friends, directed by Mario Monicelli –
• Death and the Maiden, directed by Roman Polanski, starring Sigourney Weaver and Ben Kingsley –
• ', starring Charles Bronson, Lesley-Anne Down, Michael Parks
• Dias contados, directed by Imanol Uribe –
• Disclosure, directed by Barry Levinson, starring Michael Douglas, Demi Moore, Donald Sutherland, Rosemary Forsyth, Dennis Miller
• Double Happiness, starring Sandra Oh –
• Dream Lover, starring James Spader and Mädchen Amick
• Drohkaal, starring Om Puri and Naseeruddin Shah –
• Drop Zone, starring Wesley Snipes and Gary Busey
• Drunken Master II, starring Jackie Chan –
• Du Pappa –
• Dumb and Dumber, directed by the Farrelly brothers, starring Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly

  E

• Eat Drink Man Woman, directed by Ang Lee –
• Ed Wood, directed by Tim Burton, starring Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette, Lisa Marie, Bill Murray
• Eden Valley –
• L'Enfer, directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Emmanuelle Béart and François Cluzet –
• Ermo, directed by Zhou Xiaowen –
• Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, directed by Gus Van Sant, starring Uma Thurman, Lorraine Bracco, Angie Dickinson
• Everynight... Everynight –
• Exit to Eden, directed by Garry Marshall, starring Dana Delany, Paul Mercurio, Rosie O'Donnell, Dan Aykroyd
• Exotica, directed by Atom Egoyan, starring Mia Kirshner, Elias Koteas, Bruce Greenwood –

  F

• Farinelli Il Castrato – – Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film
• Faust –
• Fast Getaway II
• The Favor, starring Harley Jane Kozak, Elizabeth McGovern, Bill Pullman, Ken Wahl, Brad Pitt
• Felidae –
• Fist of Legend, starring Jet Li –
• The Flintstones, directed by Brian Levant, starring John Goodman, Elizabeth Perkins, Rick Moranis, Rosie O'Donnell, Kyle MacLachlan, Halle Berry, Elizabeth Taylor
• Forrest Gump, directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, Sally Field – Academy Award for Best Picture and Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture
• Four Weddings and a Funeral, directed by Mike Newell, starring Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell –
• The Fox with Nine Tails –
• Fresh, starring Sean Nelson, Giancarlo Esposito
• From Beijing With Love –
• F.T.W., starring Mickey Rourke and Lori Singer

  G

• Gary Larson's Tales From the Far Side
• The Getaway, starring Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Michael Madsen, Jennifer Tilly, Philip Seymour Hoffman, James Woods
• Getting Even with Dad, starring Macaulay Culkin, Ted Danson, Glenne Headly
• God Wants Me to Forgive Them!?!
• Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla –
• Golden Gate, directed by John Madden, starring Matt Dillon, Joan Chen, Bruno Kirby, Teri Polo
• A Good Man in Africa, starring Sean Connery –
• The Good Old Daze, directed by Cédric Klapisch –
• The Great Conqueror's Concubine –
• Greedy, starring Michael J. Fox, Kirk Douglas, Nancy Travis, Ed Begley Jr., Bob Balaban, Olivia d'Abo
• Guarding Tess, starring Shirley MacLaine, Nicolas Cage, Richard Griffiths, Austin Pendleton, Edward Albert
• , starring James Arness, Bruce Boxleitner, Amy Stoch, Alan Scarfe, Christopher Bradley, Hallie Foote, Don Collier

  H

• '
• He's a Woman, She's a Man, starring Leslie Cheung and Anita Yuen –
• The Heart's Cry –
• Heavenly Creatures, directed by Peter Jackson, starring Melanie Lynskey and Kate Winslet –
• Hello Cinema –
• ' –
• Hoop Dreams, documentary on high school basketball
• The Hudsucker Proxy, directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, starring Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Newman
• Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! –

  I

• I Can't Sleep –
• I Have a Date with Spring –
• I Love Trouble, starring Julia Roberts and Nick Nolte
• I.Q., directed by Fred Schepisi, starring Tim Robbins, Meg Ryan, Walter Matthau, Stephen Fry
• I'll Do Anything, directed by James L. Brooks, starring Nick Nolte, Albert Brooks, Julie Kavner, Joely Richardson, Tracey Ullman
• Illegal In Blue
• Imaginary Crimes, starring Harvey Keitel and Fairuza Balk
• Immortal Beloved, starring Gary Oldman and Jeroen Krabbé –
• In the Heat of the Sun –
• The Inkwell, starring Larenz Tate and Joe Morton
• Intersection, starring Richard Gere, Sharon Stone, Lolita Davidovich
• Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles, starring Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Kirsten Dunst, Antonio Banderas, Christian Slater
• Iron Will, starring Mackenzie Astin and Kevin Spacey
• It Could Happen To You, starring Nicolas Cage, Bridget Fonda, Rosie Perez

  J-K

• Jason's Lyric, starring Jada Pinkett Smith
• Jimmy Hollywood, directed by Barry Levinson, starring Joe Pesci and Christian Slater
• Johnnie Waterman –
• Junior, directed by Ivan Reitman, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Emma Thompson
• Killing Zoe, directed by Roger Avary, starring Julie Delpy and Eric Stoltz
• Krantiveer, starring Nana Patekar and Dimple Kapadia –

  L

• Ladybird, Ladybird, directed by Ken Loach –
• Lamerica –
• '
• Lassie, starring Helen Slater
• The Last Seduction, directed by John Dahl, starring Linda Fiorentino, Peter Berg, Bill Pullman
• The Last Supper, directed by Cynthia Roberts –
• Legends of the Fall, directed by Edward Zwick, starring Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Julia Ormond, Henry Thomas, Aidan Quinn
• ', directed by Luc Besson, starring Jean Reno, Gary Oldman and Natalie Portman –
• Lightning Jack, starring Paul Hogan –
• The Lion King, directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff, voices of Matthew Broderick, Jeremy Irons – Golden Globe Award for Best Picture
• Lisbon Story, directed by Wim Wenders –
• Little Big League, starring Dennis Farina, Timothy Busfield, Luke Edwards, Jason Robards
• Little Buddha, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, starring Keanu Reeves, Chris Isaak, Bridget Fonda
• Little Giants, starring Rick Moranis and Ed O'Neill
• Little Odessa, starring Tim Roth and Edward Furlong
• The Little Rascals, directed by Penelope Spheeris
• Little Women, starring Winona Ryder, Claire Danes, Kirsten Dunst
• Love Affair, starring Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Garry Shandling, Katharine Hepburn
• Love and a.45, starring Gil Bellows and Renée Zellweger
• Love on Delivery, starring Stephen Chow –
• A Low Down Dirty Shame, starring Keenen Ivory Wayans

  M

• Madagascar –
• The Madness of King George, directed by Nicholas Hytner, starring Nigel Hawthorne and Helen Mirren –
• Major League II, directed by David S. Ward, starring Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Corbin Bernsen, Dennis Haysbert, Omar Epps
• A Man of No Importance, starring Albert Finney –
• Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh, with Robert De Niro, Helena Bonham Carter
• The Mask, directed by Chuck Russell, starring Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz
• The Master and Margarita –
• Maverick, directed by Richard Donner, starring Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner, Alfred Molina, James Coburn
• Men of War, starring Dolph Lundgren
• Midnight Man
• Milk Money, starring Melanie Griffith and Ed Harris
• A Million to Juan, starring Polly Draper and Paul Rodriguez
• Miracle on 34th Street, starring Richard Attenborough, Elizabeth Perkins, Dylan McDermott, Mara Wilson
• Mixed Nuts, directed by Nora Ephron, starring Steve Martin, Rita Wilson, Madeline Kahn, Adam Sandler, Anthony LaPaglia, Juliette Lewis
• The Monster, directed by and starring Roberto Benigni –
• Mother's Boys, starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Peter Gallagher, Joanne Whalley
• Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Matthew Broderick, Campbell Scott
• Muriel's Wedding, starring Toni Collette –
• My Girl 2, starring Anna Chlumsky, Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Austin O'Brien

  N

• , starring Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, Fred Ward, O. J. Simpson, Anna Nicole Smith
• Natural Born Killers, directed by Oliver Stone, starring Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr., Tom Sizemore, Tommy Lee Jones, Rodney Dangerfield
• Nell, directed by Michael Apted, starring Jodie Foster, Liam Neeson, Natasha Richardson
• The NeverEnding Story III
• The Next Karate Kid, starring Hilary Swank and Pat Morita
• Nightwatch –
• No Dessert, Dad, till You Mow the Lawn, starring Robert Hays
• No Escape, starring Ray Liotta
• Nobody's Fool, directed by Robert Benton, starring Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Dylan Walsh, Jessica Tandy
• North, directed by Rob Reiner, starring Elijah Wood and Bruce Willis

  O

• Oleanna, directed by David Mamet, starring William H. Macy and Debra Eisenstadt
• On Deadly Ground, starring Steven Seagal, Michael Caine, Joan Chen
• Once Were Warriors, directed by Lee Tamahori –
• Only You, directed by Norman Jewison, starring Marisa Tomei, Robert Downey Jr., Bonnie Hunt
• Orochi, the Eight-Headed Dragon –

  P–Q

• PCU, starring Jeremy Piven, Jon Favreau, David Spade
• The Pagemaster, directed by Joe Johnston, starring Macaulay Culkin and Christopher Lloyd
• The Paper, directed by Ron Howard, starring Michael Keaton, Glenn Close, Randy Quaid, Marisa Tomei, Robert Duvall
• The Patriots –
• '
• Pontiac Moon, starring Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen
• '
• The Postman, directed by Michael Radford, starring Philippe Noiret –
• Prêt-à-Porter, directed by Robert Altman, starring Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Tim Robbins, Julia Roberts, Forest Whitaker
• Priest, starring Linus Roache and Tom Wilkinson –
• Princess Caraboo, starring Phoebe Cates –
• Pulp Fiction, directed by Quentin Tarantino, starring John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames, Uma Thurman – Palme d'Or award
• The Puppet Masters, starring Donald Sutherland
• A Pure Formality, starring Gérard Depardieu and Roman Polanski –
• Queen Margot, starring Isabelle Adjani and Daniel Auteuil –
• The Queen of the Night –
• Quiz Show, directed by Robert Redford, starring Rob Morrow, John Turturro, Ralph Fiennes, Paul Scofield

  R

• Radio Inside, starring William McNamara and Elisabeth Shue
• Radioland Murders, starring Mary Stuart Masterson and Brian Benben
• Rapa-Nui, starring Jason Scott Lee and Esai Morales
• Reality Bites, directed by and starring Ben Stiller, with Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke, Janeane Garofalo, Steve Zahn
• Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker –
• Red Rose White Rose, starring Joan Chen –
• The Ref, directed by Ted Demme, starring Denis Leary, Judy Davis, Kevin Spacey
• Renaissance Man, directed by Penny Marshall, starring Danny DeVito, Gregory Hines, Lillo Brancato, Jr., Mark Wahlberg
• The Return of Jafar
• The Return of Tommy Tricker
• Rice People
• Richie Rich, starring Macaulay Culkin
• The River Wild, directed by Curtis Hanson, starring Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon, David Strathairn, John C. Reilly
• The Road to Wellville, directed by Alan Parker, starring Anthony Hopkins, Matthew Broderick, John Cusack, Lara Flynn Boyle, Bridget Fonda, Dana Carvey
• The Jungle Book, directed by Stephen Sommers, starring Jason Scott Lee

  S

• S.F.W., starring Stephen Dorff and Reese Witherspoon
• Safe Passage, starring Susan Sarandon and Nick Stahl
• ' –
• Sátántangó, directed by Béla Tarr
• The Santa Clause, directed by John Pasquin, starring Tim Allen
• The Scout, directed by Michael Ritchie, starring Albert Brooks, Brendan Fraser, Dianne Wiest
• The Search for One-eye Jimmy, starring Sam Rockwell, John Turturro, Steve Buscemi, Samuel L. Jackson, Jennifer Beals
• Second Best, directed by Chris Menges, starring William Hurt, John Hurt, Jane Horrocks –
• The Secret of Roan Inish, directed by John Sayles –
• La Séparation, starring Isabelle Huppert, Daniel Auteuil –
• Serial Mom, directed by John Waters, starring Kathleen Turner, Sam Waterston, Ricki Lake, Matthew Lillard
• The Shadow, starring Alec Baldwin, John Lone, Penelope Ann Miller
• Shallow Grave, directed by Danny Boyle, starring Christopher Eccleston and Ewan McGregor –
• The Shawshank Redemption, directed by Frank Darabont, starring Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, Clancy Brown, James Whitmore
• Sh'Chur –
• The Silences of the Palace –
• Silent Fall, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Liv Tyler, Linda Hamilton, John Lithgow, J. T. Walsh
• A Simple Twist of Fate, starring Steve Martin, Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney, Catherine O'Hara
• Sioux City, starring Lou Diamond Phillips
• Sirens, starring Hugh Grant, Tara Fitzgerald, Elle Macpherson, Portia de Rossi –
• Sleep with Me, starring Meg Tilly, Craig Sheffer, Eric Stoltz
• Some Folks Call it a Sling Blade, a short film starring Billy Bob Thornton
• A Soul Haunted by Painting, starring Gong Li –
• The Specialist, starring Sylvester Stallone, Sharon Stone, James Woods, Eric Roberts, Rod Steiger
• Speechless, starring Michael Keaton, Geena Davis, Christopher Reeve
• Speed, directed by Jan de Bont, starring Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Jeff Daniels, Sandra Bullock
• '
• Star Trek Generations, starring Patrick Stewart, William Shatner, Malcolm McDowell, Alan Ruck, Whoopi Goldberg
• Stargate, starring Kurt Russell and James Spader
• Street Fighter, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Raul Julia
• Sugar Hill, starring Wesley Snipes
• The Sum of Us, starring Russell Crowe and Jack Thompson –
• Surviving the Game, starring Ice-T, Rutger Hauer, Charles S. Dutton, F. Murray Abraham, Gary Busey
• The Swan Princess, directed by Richard Rich
• Swimming with Sharks, starring Kevin Spacey, Frank Whaley, Michelle Forbes

  T

• The Taebaek Mountains –
• Terminal Velocity, starring Charlie Sheen and Nastassja Kinski
• Thanks for Every New Morning –
• ' – 2nd of the Krzysztof Kieślowski trilogy, starring Julie Delpy –
• ' – 3rd of the Krzysztof Kieślowski trilogy, starring Irène Jacob –
• Threesome, starring Lara Flynn Boyle, Stephen Baldwin and Josh Charles
• Through the Olive Trees, directed by Abbas Kiarostami –
• Thumbelina, directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman
• Time Chasers
• Timecop, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Mia Sara
• To Live, directed by Zhang Yimou, starring Gong Li –
• Tom & Viv, starring Willem Dafoe and Miranda Richardson –
• Total Balalaika Show, a concert film directed by Aki Kaurismäki –
• Trial by Jury, starring Joanne Whalley, Gabriel Byrne, William Hurt, Kathleen Quinlan, Armand Assante
• A Troll in Central Park, directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman
• True Lies, directed by James Cameron, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold

  U–V

• An Unforgettable Summer or, starring Kristin Scott Thomas –
• Vanya on 42nd Street, directed by Louis Malle, starring Julianne Moore, Wallace Shawn, Andre Gregory
• Vive L'Amour – – Golden Lion award

  W

• The War, starring Elijah Wood and Kevin Costner
• War of the Buttons, directed by David Puttnam –
• Wes Craven's New Nightmare, starring Robert Englund
• Whale Music –
• When a Man Loves a Woman, starring Meg Ryan, Andy García, Philip Seymour Hoffman
• White Mile, starring Alan Alda and Peter Gallagher
• Widows' Peak, starring Mia Farrow, Natasha Richardson, Joan Plowright –
• Wild Reeds –
• Wing Chun, starring Michelle Yeoh –
• With Honors, starring Joe Pesci, Brendan Fraser, Moira Kelly, Patrick Dempsey, Josh Hamilton, Gore Vidal
• Without Compassion –
• Wolf, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, James Spader
• The Wooden Man's Bride –
• Wyatt Earp, directed by Lawrence Kasdan, starring Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Dennis Quaid, Isabella Rossellini, Mark Harmon

  Births

• January 19 – Kristi Lauren, actress
• February 10 – Makenzie Vega, actress
• January 21 – Booboo Stewart, actor and singer
• February 14
• * Allie Grant, actress
• * Paul Butcher, actor
• February 21 – Hayley Orrantia, actress
• February 23 – Dakota Fanning, actress
• February 24 – Earl Sweatshirt, rapper
• March 3 – Lee David, South Korean actor
• March 14 – Ansel Elgort, American actor and singer
• April 11 - Dakota Blue Richards, English actress
• April 12 – Saoirse Ronan, Irish actress
• April 18 – Moisés Arias, actor
• May 4 – Alexander Gould, American actor
• May 12 – Ernie Nyguen, actor
• July 6 – Camilla and Rebecca Rosso, English twin actresses
• July 16 – Mark Indelicato, actor
• July 23 – Kelvin Harrison Jr., actor
• August 9 – Forrest Landis, actor
• August 17 – Taissa Farmiga, actress
• August 18 – Jessie Flower, voice actress
• August 25 – Josh Flitter, actor
• September 25 – Jansen Panettiere, actor
• November 1 – Rocky Lynch, singer-songwriter, musician, dancer
• November 10 – Zoey Deutch, actress
• November 11 – Connor Price, actor
• November 17 – Raquel Castro, actress
• November 30 – William Melling, actor
• December 3 – Jake T. Austin, actor
• December 11 – Gabriel Basso, American actor
• December 15 – Emma Lockhart, actress
• December 17 – Nat Wolff, actor and singer
• December 26 – Samantha Boscarino, actress

  Notable deaths

Film debuts

• Jessica Alba – Camp Nowhere
• Elizabeth Berkley – Molly & Gina
• Danny Boyle – Shallow Grave
• Rose Byrne – Dallas Doll
• Marion Cotillard – The Story of a Boy Who Wanted to Be Kissed
• Claire Danes – Little Women
• Cameron Diaz – The Mask
• Rachel Griffiths – Muriel's Wedding
• Salma Hayek – Mi Vida Loca
• Scarlett Johansson – North
• Greg Kinnear – Blankman
• Jude Law – Shopping
• Jason Lee – Mi Vida Loca
• Melanie Lynskey – Heavenly Creatures
• James Marsden – No Dessert, Dad, till You Mow the Lawn
• Ewan McGregor – Being Human
• Jonathan Rhys Meyers – A Man of No Importance
• Sandra Oh – Double Happiness
• Shaquille O'Neal – Blue Chips
• Haley Joel Osment – Forrest Gump
• Michael Peña – Running Free
• Natalie Portman – '
• Portia de Rossi – Sirens
• Mark Ruffalo – There Goes My Baby
• Liev Schreiber – Mixed Nuts
• Andy Serkis – Prince of Jutland
• J. K. Simmons – The Ref
• French Stewart – Stargate
• Kenan Thompson – '
• Chris Tucker – House Party 3
• Liv Tyler – Silent Fall
• Mark Wahlberg – Renaissance Man
• Rachel Weisz – Death Machine
• Mae Whitman – When a Man Loves a Woman
• Michelle Williams – Lassie
• Kate Winslet – Heavenly Creatures