1986 in film - Definition and Overview

See also: 1985 in film, other events of 1986, 1987 in film, list of 'years in film'.

Events

• April 12 - Actor Morgan Mason marries The Go-Go's Belinda Carlisle
• Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger marries television journalist Maria Shriver.
• Turner Broadcasting begins to colorize black and white movie classics.
• Dar Robinson, considered the greatest stuntman ever, is killed on the set of the film Million Dollar Mystery.

Top grossing films

1. Top Gun, starring Tom Cruise
2. Crocodile Dundee
3. Platoon
4. The Karate Kid, Part II
5. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
6. Back to School
7. Aliens, starring Sigourney Weaver
8. The Golden Child, starring Eddie Murphy
9. Ruthless People
10. Ferris Bueller's Day Off, starring Matthew Broderick
11. Hoosiers

Academy Awards

• Best Picture: Platoon - Hemdale, Orion
• Best Director: Oliver Stone - Platoon
• Best Actor: Paul Newman - The Color of Money
• Best Actress: Marlee Matlin - Children of a Lesser God

Births

• January 24 - Mischa Barton

Deaths

• March 10 - Ray Milland, British actor
• June 13 - Benny Goodman, musician, actor
• October 5 - Hal B. Wallis, major American film producer
• November 21 – Dar Robinson, film stuntman
• November 29 - Cary Grant, actor
• December 13 - Heather Angel, actress
• December 28 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian movie director

Other movies released

• Blue Velvet, directed by David Lynch
• Children of a Lesser God
• The Color of Money, starring Paul Newman and Tom Cruise
• Hannah and Her Sisters
• The Great Mouse Detective
• Le Déclin de l'empire américain, (The Decline of the American Empire), written and directed by Denys Arcand
• Short Circuit, starring Steve Guttenberg
• Sid and Nancy, starring Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb
• Jean de Florette, starring Gerard Depardieu and Yves Montand
• Manon des sources starring Emmanuelle Beart and Yves Montand