1988 in film
The following is an overview of events in 1988 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.
May 25 – is released as the most expensive film ever made with a production budget between $58 and $63 million. The film fails to match the box office earnings from Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985).
Rambo III
July 15 – defies low commercial expectations to gross $141.5 million worldwide. Hailed as an influential landmark in the action film genre, it influences a common formula for many action films in the 1990s, featuring a lone everyman against a colorful terrorist character who is usually holding hostages in an isolated setting.
Die Hard
September 19 – English character actor suffers a fall from a horse which will prove fatal while filming The Return of the Musketeers in Toledo, Spain.[5]
Roy Kinnear
October 27 – is released on VHS and laserdisc; to combat piracy, the tapeguards and tape hubs on the videocassettes are colored green, and the tape itself is affixed with a small, holographic sticker of the 1963 Universal logo (much like the holograms on a credit card), and encoded with Macrovision. In North America alone, VHS sales come to $75 million.[6]
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
December 16 – is released to critical and commercial success and becomes the highest grossing film of 1988 worldwide with a gross of $355 million. Winning four Academy Awards including Best Picture, it is the last MGM title to be nominated for Best Picture until Licorice Pizza (2021) 33 years later.
Rain Man
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January 3 - , American actor
Karl Glusman
January 6 - , Pakistani actress
Mehwish Hayat
January 7 – , American actress and singer
Haley Bennett
January 12 – , American actor
Andrew Lawrence
January 14 - , English actor, comedian and writer
Tom Rosenthal
January 21 - , American comedian and actor
John Early
Amadou Ly
February 8 - , American actor
Ryan Pinkston
February 11 - , American actress
Jazz Raycole
Afshan Azad
Ferdinand Kingsley
February 16 - , American director, producer and screenwriter
Steven Caple Jr.
February 17 – , Indonesian actress, television host, film producer, and singer
Nagita Slavina
February 18 - , Canadian-American actress
Sarah Sutherland
February 20 – , Barbadian singer, songwriter and actress
Rihanna
Reilly Dolman
Josh Bowman
March 14 – , American basketball player
Stephen Curry
March 21 - , Scottish actor
Kevin Guthrie
March 22 - , American actress
Tania Raymonde
March 24 - , English actor
Finn Jones
March 25 - , Canadian actor
Erik Knudsen
March 27 – , American actress, singer and model
Brenda Song
March 27 – , English actress
Holliday Grainger
April 2 - , American actor
Jesse Plemons
April 3 - , English actress
Ruby Bentall
April 4 - , American actress and model
Maggie Geha
April 6 – , English actor
Mike Bailey
April 10 – , American actor
Haley Joel Osment
Allison Williams
Ben Lloyd-Hughes
April 18 – , American actress
Allison Williams
April 18 – , English actress
Vanessa Kirby
April 21 - , Canadian actor and producer
Robbie Amell
April 23 – , Argentine actress
Carla Quevedo
Jonathan Bailey
Lizzo
April 30 – , Cuban actress
Ana de Armas
Nicholas Braun
May 2 - , Australian actress
Laura Brent
May 7 - , American actor, producer and musician
Brandon Jones
May 16 - , American actor, comedian, producer and writer
Jermaine Fowler
May 17 – , American actress and writer
Nikki Reed
June 2 – , American actress, comedian, writer, producer and rapper
Awkwafina
June 4 – , Chinese actress
Li Man
June 5 – , Pakistani writer and director
Nuh Omar
June 7 – , Canadian actor
Michael Cera
Lauren Landa
June 13 - , American actor
Cody Walker
June 14 - , Nigerian-American actor
Dayo Okeniyi
June 16 - , American actor
Jonny Weston
June 22 - , British actress
Shefali Chowdhury
Pippa Bennett-Warner
June 25 - , Australian actor
Daniel Webber
July 2 - , English musician and actor
Edward Randell
July 7 - , English actor, comedian, presenter and writer
Jack Whitehall
July 10 - , Ukrainian actor (died 2022)
Pavlo Lee
July 12 – , American voice actress
Christine Marie Cabanos
July 13 - , American actor
Chris Sheffield
July 14 - , Canadian actress
Elise Gatien
July 15 - , Dominican-born American actress
Aimee Carrero
July 18 - , Chinese-American actor
Chen Tang
July 19 – , American voice actress
Cherami Leigh
July 20 - , American dancer, actress, singer and songwriter
Julianne Hough
July 24 - , American comedian, writer and actor
Joe Pera
July 25 - , Mauritanian-American actor and producer
Mamoudou Athie
July 26 - , American actress
Francia Raisa
July 30 - , American actor and model
Nico Tortorella
July 31 - , American actor
Charlie Carver
August 1 - , American actor
Max Carver
Kevin Schmidt
August 17 - , American rapper and actor
Joyner Lucas
Evan Ross
August 27 – , American actress and singer
Alexa PenaVega
September 6 – , English actor
Jovan Adepo
Matt Martians
September 17 - , English actress
Ritu Arya
September 22 – , Indian actress
Sana Saeed
September 26 - , Canadian comedian, former talk show host and YouTuber
Lilly Singh
Olivia Jordan
October 1 - , American actor
Nick Whitaker
October 3 – , Swedish actress
Alicia Vikander
October 4 – , American actress, singer and dancer
Melissa Benoist
October 5 - , American actor and singer
Bobby Edner
October 6 - , Australian actress
Everlyn Sampi
October 17 - , American former actor
Dee Jay Daniels
October 18 – , Dutch actress and director
Tessa Schram
Glen Powell
Corey Hawkins
October 23 - , American actor
Ritesh Rajan
October 28 - , British animator, artist, writer, director and voice actor (died 2012)
Edd Gould
October 29 – , Irish actor
Devon Murray
November 6 – , American actress
Emma Stone
Nikki Blonsky
November 17 - , American producer and former child actor
Justin Cooper
November 20 - , American actor
Demetrius Shipp Jr.
Jamie Campbell Bower
November 26 - , English actress
Tamsin Egerton
November 30 - , American actress
Rebecca Rittenhouse
Nadia Hilker
December 2 – , English actor
Alfred Enoch
Emily Browning
December 14 – , American actress and singer
Vanessa Hudgens
December 15 - , English actor and writer
Gregg Chillin
Anna Popplewell
December 17 – , Japanese actress and model
Rin Takanashi
December 21 - , American actress and singer
Shelley Regner
December 27 - , Icelandic actress
Hera Hilmar
unknown - ,Korean-Canadian director, playwright, and screenwriter