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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.

Highest-grossing films

{{See also|List of 1988 box office number-one films in the United States}}

The top 10 films released in 1988 by worldwide gross are as follows:{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/world/1988/?ref_=bo_cso_table_1|title=1988 Worldwide Box Office |website=Box Office Mojo|publisher=IMDb|access-date=March 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028230957/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/world/1988/ |archive-date=October 28, 2020 |url-status=dead}}

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|+ Highest-grossing films of 1988

RankTitleDistributorWorldwide gross
style="text-align:center;"| 1

| Rain Man

| MGM

| $354,825,435

style="text-align:center;"| 2

|Who Framed Roger Rabbit

| Buena Vista

| $329,803,958

style="text-align:center;"| 3

| Coming to America

| rowspan="2"|Paramount

| $288,752,301

style="text-align:center;"| 4

|Crocodile Dundee II

| $239,606,210

style="text-align:center;"| 5

| Twins

| Universal

| $216,614,388

style="text-align:center;"| 6

| Rambo III

| TriStar / Carolco

| $189,015,611

style="text-align:center;"| 7

| A Fish Called Wanda

| MGM

| $188,597,000{{cite web |url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=fishcalledwanda.htm |title=A Fish Called Wanda (1988) |website=Box Office Mojo|access-date=April 7, 2020|quote=A Fish Called Wanda domestic gross $62,493,712}}{{cite magazine|magazine=Variety|date=August 9, 1989|last=Groves|first=Don|page=11|title=UIP Up, Up and Away For Year; Rentals Take Off|quote=UIP Top 10 Grossers, 1988–89
Rain Man $233 million
Crocodile Dundee 2 $126 million
Coming to America $122 million
A Fish Called Wanda $115 million
Willow $80 million
Twins $75 million
The Naked Gun $61 million}}{{cite magazine|magazine=Variety|date=September 11, 1995|page=92|title=UIP's $25M-Plus Club|quote=A Fish Called Wanda $126,103,000; The Naked Gun $73,689,000}}

style="text-align:center;"| 8

| Cocktail

| Buena Vista

| $171,504,781

style="text-align:center;"| 9

| Big

|rowspan="2"|20th Century Fox

| $151,668,774

style="text-align:center;"| 10

| Die Hard

| $141,500,000

Events

  • May 25 – Rambo III 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).
  • June 26 – Michael Keaton is first announced{{cite news |last= |first= |date=June 26, 1988|title=Keaton Set For Beetlejuice II. - Page 23|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AZ4zAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA23&dq=Batman+Michael+Keaton&article_id=5358,3594548&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjjnIuc-uKLAxX5AzQIHav2KTUQ6AF6BAgIEAM#v=onepage&q=Batman%20Michael%20Keaton&f=false|work=Gainesville Sun|location= |publisher= |access-date=February 26, 2025}} to play comic book superhero Batman in a forthcoming feature film to be directed by Tim Burton and co–starring Jack Nicholson as Batman's arch nemesis, The Joker.{{cite news |last= |first= |date=June 27, 1988|title=Herald-Journal - Page 8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jKceAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA8&dq=Batman+Michael+Keaton&article_id=5298,4915200&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjjnIuc-uKLAxX5AzQIHav2KTUQ6AF6BAgOEAM#v=onepage&q=Batman%20Michael%20Keaton&f=false|work=Herald-Journal|location= |publisher= |access-date=February 26, 2025}}
  • July 15 – Die Hard 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.
  • September 19 – English character actor Roy Kinnear suffers a fall from a horse which will prove fatal while filming The Return of the Musketeers in Toledo, Spain.{{cite news|title=Roy Kinnear Is Dead At 54 After Falling From Horse in Film|work=The New York Times|date=23 September 1988|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/23/obituaries/roy-kinnear-is-dead-at-54-after-falling-from-horse-in-film.html|access-date=2020-05-24}}
  • October 10 – Batman officially commences filming at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, England.
  • October 27 – E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 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{{nbsp}}million.{{Cite news| first = Nancy | last = Griffin | title = Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | work = Premiere |date=June 1988}}
  • December 16 – Rain Man 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. Giancarlo Parretti and Max Théret acquire a 52% stake in Pathé.{{cite magazine|title=After lengthy battle, Pathé falls into hands of Parretti, Théret|magazine=Variety|date=December 21, 1988|page=9|last=Alderman|first=Bruce}}

Awards

class="wikitable"
rowspan="2" style="width:20px;"| Category/Organizationcolspan="2" style="width:250px;"| 46th Golden Globe Awards
January 28, 1989		rowspan="2" style="width:250px;"| 42nd BAFTA Awards
March 19, 1989		rowspan="2" style="width:250px;"| 61st Academy Awards
March 29, 1989
width=200| Dramastyle="width:200px;"| Musical or Comedy
Best FilmRain ManWorking GirlThe Last EmperorRain Man
Best Directorcolspan="2" | Clint Eastwood
Bird		Louis Malle
Au revoir les enfants		Barry Levinson
Rain Man
Best ActorDustin Hoffman
Rain Man		Tom Hanks
Big		John Cleese
A Fish Called Wanda		Dustin Hoffman
Rain Man
Best ActressJodie Foster
The Accused
Shirley MacLaine
Madame Sousatzka
Sigourney Weaver
Gorillas in the Mist		Melanie Griffith
Working Girl		Maggie Smith
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne		Jodie Foster
The Accused
Best Supporting Actorcolspan="2" | Martin Landau
Tucker: The Man and His Dream		Michael Palin
A Fish Called Wanda		Kevin Kline
A Fish Called Wanda
Best Supporting Actresscolspan="2" | Sigourney Weaver
Working Girl		Judi Dench
A Handful of Dust		Geena Davis
The Accidental Tourist
Best Screenplay, Adaptedcolspan="2" rowspan="2" | Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal
Running on Empty		Jean-Claude Carrière and Philip Kaufman
The Unbearable Lightness of Being		Christopher Hampton
Dangerous Liaisons
Best Screenplay, OriginalShawn Slovo

A World Apart

| Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow
Rain Man

Best Original Scorecolspan="2" | Maurice Jarre
Gorillas in the Mist		John Williams
Empire of the Sun		Dave Grusin
The Milagro Beanfield War
Best Original Songcolspan="2" | "Two Hearts"
Buster
"Let the River Run"
Working Girl		N/A"Let the River Run"
Working Girl
Best Foreign Language Filmcolspan="2" | Pelle the ConquerorBabette's FeastPelle the Conqueror

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival)

:Pelle the Conqueror (Pelle erobreren), directed by Bille August, Denmark

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival)

:La leggenda del santo bevitore (The Legend of the Holy Drinker), directed by Ermanno Olmi, Italy / France

Golden Bear (Berlin International Film Festival)

:Red Sorghum (Hong gao liang), directed by Zhang Yimou, China

1988 films

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! Month !! Date !! Name !! Age !! Country !! Profession !! Notable films

rowspan=9 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| January

| style="text-align:center;"| 1

Marcel Hillairestyle="text-align:center;"| 79style="text-align:center;"| Germanystyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|Sabrina| Murderers' Row}}
style="text-align:center;"| 7Michel Auclairstyle="text-align:center;"| 65style="text-align:center;"| Francestyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|The Day of the Jackal| Beauty and the Beast}}
style="text-align:center;"| 7Trevor Howardstyle="text-align:center;"| 74style="text-align:center;"| UKstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|Brief Encounter| Mutiny on the Bounty}}
style="text-align:center;"| 8Boyd Morganstyle="text-align:center;"| 72style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Stuntman, Actor{{hlist|Dirty Harry| Spartacus}}
style="text-align:center;"| 10Hugh A. Robertsonstyle="text-align:center;"| 55style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Film Editor, Director{{hlist|Midnight Cowboy| Shaft}}
style="text-align:center;"| 16Ballard Berkeleystyle="text-align:center;"| 83style="text-align:center;"| UKstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|National Lampoon's European Vacation| Stage Fright}}
style="text-align:center;"| 19Bridget Bolandstyle="text-align:center;"| 75style="text-align:center;"| UKstyle="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter{{hlist|War and Peace| Anne of the Thousand Days}}
style="text-align:center;"| 19Cary Odellstyle="text-align:center;"| 77style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Art Director{{hlist|From Here to Eternity| Cool Hand Luke}}
style="text-align:center;"| 25Colleen Moorestyle="text-align:center;"| 88style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Actress{{hlist|The Power and the Glory| The Scarlet Letter}}
rowspan=7 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| February

| style="text-align:center;"| 1

Marcel Bozzuffistyle="text-align:center;"| 58style="text-align:center;"| Frenchstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|The French Connection| Z}}
style="text-align:center;"| 1Heather O'Rourkestyle="text-align:center;"| 12style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Actress{{hlist|Poltergeist| Poltergeist II: The Other Side}}
style="text-align:center;"| 5Emeric Pressburgerstyle="text-align:center;"| 85style="text-align:center;"| Hungarystyle="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter, Director{{hlist|The Red Shoes| Black Narcissus}}
style="text-align:center;"| 8Allan Cuthbertsonstyle="text-align:center;"| 67style="text-align:center;"| Australiastyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|The Guns of Navarone| Performance}}
style="text-align:center;"| 14Frederick Loewestyle="text-align:center;"| 86style="text-align:center;"| Germanystyle="text-align:center;"| Composer{{hlist|Gigi| The Little Prince}}
style="text-align:center;"| 28Asakazu Nakaistyle="text-align:center;"| 86style="text-align:center;"| Japanstyle="text-align:center;"| Cinematographer{{hlist|Seven Samurai| Ran}}
style="text-align:center;"| 29Sidney Harmonstyle="text-align:center;"| 80style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Producer, Screenwriter{{hlist|Man Crazy| The Talk of the Town}}
rowspan=13 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| March

| style="text-align:center;"| 1

Joe Besserstyle="text-align:center;"| 80style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|Africa Screams| Let's Make Love}}
style="text-align:center;"| 3Lois Wilsonstyle="text-align:center;"| 93style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Actress{{hlist|The Covered Wagon| Miss Lulu Bett}}
style="text-align:center;"| 5Alberto Olmedo{{cite book|author=David K. Frasier|title=Suicide in the Entertainment Industry: An Encyclopedia of 840 Twentieth-century Cases|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I7tkAAAAMAAJ|year=2002|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-1038-5|page=244}}style="text-align:center;"| 54style="text-align:center;"| Argentinastyle="text-align:center;"| Actor, Comedian{{hlist|Los caballeros de la cama redonda| Las Aventuras del Capitán Piluso en el Castillo del Terror}}
style="text-align:center;"| 6Jeanne Aubertstyle="text-align:center;"| 82style="text-align:center;"| Francestyle="text-align:center;"| Actress{{hlist|La Possession| Mirages}}
style="text-align:center;"| 7Divinestyle="text-align:center;"| 42style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|Pink Flamingos| Hairspray}}
style="text-align:center;"| 7Robert Livingstonstyle="text-align:center;"| 83style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|The Three Mesquiteers| The Lone Ranger Rides Again}}
style="text-align:center;"| 12DeWitt Bodeenstyle="text-align:center;"| 79style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter{{hlist|Cat People| I Remember Mama}}
style="text-align:center;"| 12Karen Steelestyle="text-align:center;"| 56style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Actress{{hlist|Marty| Ride Lonesome}}
style="text-align:center;"| 13Stenostyle="text-align:center;"| 71style="text-align:center;"| Italystyle="text-align:center;"| Director, Screenwriter{{hlist|An American in Rome| Banana Joe}}
style="text-align:center;"| 13John Holmesstyle="text-align:center;"| 43style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|Insatiable| Fantasm}}
style="text-align:center;"| 13Olive Careystyle="text-align:center;"| 92style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Actress{{hlist|The Searchers| The Alamo}}
style="text-align:center;"| 27Renato Salvatoristyle="text-align:center;"| 55style="text-align:center;"| Italystyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|Big Deal on Madonna Street| Two Women}}
style="text-align:center;"| 31Manuel Silosstyle="text-align:center;"| 82style="text-align:center;"| Philippinesstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor, Director{{hlist|Blessings of the Land}}
rowspan=10 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| April

| style="text-align:center;"| 1

Jim Jordanstyle="text-align:center;"| 91style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|Look Who's Laughing| The Rescuers}}
style="text-align:center;"| 5Alf Kjellinstyle="text-align:center;"| 68style="text-align:center;"| Swedenstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor, Director{{hlist|Assault on a Queen| Ice Station Zebra}}
style="text-align:center;"| 6John Clementsstyle="text-align:center;"| 77style="text-align:center;"| UKstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|Gandhi| Things to Come}}
style="text-align:center;"| 7Albert S. Rogellstyle="text-align:center;"| 86style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Director{{hlist|In Old Oklahoma| The Black Cat}}
style="text-align:center;"| 11Jeff Donnellstyle="text-align:center;"| 66style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Actress{{hlist|In a Lonely Place| Gidget Goes Hawaiian}}
style="text-align:center;"| 11Jesse L. Lasky Jr.style="text-align:center;"| 77style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter{{hlist|The Ten Commandments| Samson and Delilah}}
style="text-align:center;"| 15Kenneth Williamsstyle="text-align:center;"| 62style="text-align:center;"| UKstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|Carry On| The Hound of the Baskervilles}}
style="text-align:center;"| 21I. A. L. Diamondstyle="text-align:center;"| 67style="text-align:center;"| Moldoviastyle="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter{{hlist|Some Like It Hot| The Apartment}}
style="text-align:center;"| 22Irene Richstyle="text-align:center;"| 96style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Actress{{hlist|They Had to See Paris| The Champ}}
style="text-align:center;"| 28Andrew Cruickshankstyle="text-align:center;"| 80style="text-align:center;"| UKstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|El Cid| The Cruel Sea}}
rowspan=13 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| May

| style="text-align:center;"| 1

Paolo Stoppastyle="text-align:center;"| 81style="text-align:center;"| Italystyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|The Leopard| Once Upon a Time in the West}}
style="text-align:center;"| 4Tom Overtonstyle="text-align:center;"| 58style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Sound Engineer{{hlist|Star Trek: The Motion Picture| A Star Is Born}}
style="text-align:center;"| 5George Rose{{cite news|title=Dominican Police Say 4 Men Killed George Rose|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/13/world/dominican-police-say-4-men-killed-george-rose.html|author=Dennis Hevesi|date=13 May 1988|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-07-05}}style="text-align:center;"| 68style="text-align:center;"| UKstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|A Night to Remember | Hamlet}}
style="text-align:center;"| 12Paul Osbornstyle="text-align:center;"| 86style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter{{hlist|East of Eden| Sayonara}}
style="text-align:center;"| 15Andrew Dugganstyle="text-align:center;"| 64style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?| Seven Days in May}}
style="text-align:center;"| 15Greta Nissenstyle="text-align:center;"| 82style="text-align:center;"| Norwaystyle="text-align:center;"| Actress{{hlist|Red Wagon| The Luck of a Sailor}}
style="text-align:center;"| 18Daws Butlerstyle="text-align:center;"| 71style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Voice Actor{{hlist|Mary Poppins| Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!}}
style="text-align:center;"| 18Anthony Forwoodstyle="text-align:center;"| 72style="text-align:center;"| UKstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.| Knights of the Round Table}}
style="text-align:center;"| 18Christopher Gorestyle="text-align:center;"| 43style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter{{hlist|Fame}}
style="text-align:center;"| 21Barbara Laagestyle="text-align:center;"| 67style="text-align:center;"| Francestyle="text-align:center;"| Actress{{hlist|The Happy Road| Paris Blues}}
style="text-align:center;"| 22Tom Adairstyle="text-align:center;"| 74style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Lyricist{{hlist|Julie| Sleeping Beauty}}
style="text-align:center;"| 29Vladimír Menšíkstyle="text-align:center;"| 59style="text-align:center;"| Czech Republicstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|September Nights| Three Wishes for Cinderella}}
style="text-align:center;"| 30Ella Raines{{cite book|title=Newsweek|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H_fjAAAAMAAJ|year=1988|publisher=Newsweek|page=72}}style="text-align:center;"| 67style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Actress{{hlist|Brute Force| Hail the Conquering Hero}}
rowspan=6 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| June

| style="text-align:center;"| 2

Raj Kapoor{{cite book|author1=Ritu Nanda|author2=Rāja Kapūra|title=Raj Kapoor Speaks|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FnyaW9L6cKYC&pg=PP14|year=2002|publisher=Penguin Books India|isbn=978-0-670-04952-3|pages=14}}style="text-align:center;"| 63style="text-align:center;"| Indiastyle="text-align:center;"| Actor, Director, Producer{{hlist|Awaara| Mera Naam Joker}}
style="text-align:center;"| 16Kim Milfordstyle="text-align:center;"| 37style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|Laserblast| Corvette Summer}}
style="text-align:center;"| 18Wilford Leachstyle="text-align:center;"| 58style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Director, Screenwriter{{hlist|The Wedding Party| The Pirates of Penzance}}
style="text-align:center;"| 19Teru Shimadastyle="text-align:center;"| 82style="text-align:center;"| Japanstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|You Only Live Twice| Tokyo Joe}}
style="text-align:center;"| 22Dennis Daystyle="text-align:center;"| 77style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Singer, Actor{{hlist|I'll Get By| Golden Girl}}
style="text-align:center;"| 22Stuart Randallstyle="text-align:center;"| 78style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|Pony Soldier| Naked Alibi}}
rowspan=10 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| July

| style="text-align:center;"| 1

Alice Nunnstyle="text-align:center;"| 60style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Actress{{hlist|Pee-wee's Big Adventure| Mommie Dearest}}
style="text-align:center;"| 2Aldo Tontistyle="text-align:center;"| 78style="text-align:center;"| Italystyle="text-align:center;"| Cinematographer{{hlist|Nights of Cabiria| Reflections in a Golden Eye}}
style="text-align:center;"| 7Jimmy Edwardsstyle="text-align:center;"| 68style="text-align:center;"| UKstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|The Bed-Sitting Room| The Plank}}
style="text-align:center;"| 12Joshua Loganstyle="text-align:center;"| 79style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Director, Screenwriter{{hlist|Mister Roberts| Paint Your Wagon}}
style="text-align:center;"| 22Milton Krasnerstyle="text-align:center;"| 84style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Cinematographer{{hlist|All About Eve| An Affair to Remember}}
style="text-align:center;"| 22Patrick Newellstyle="text-align:center;"| 56style="text-align:center;"| UKstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|Young Sherlock Holmes| Becket}}
style="text-align:center;"| 25Judith Barsistyle="text-align:center;"| 10style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Actress{{hlist|The Land Before Time| Jaws: The Revenge}}
style="text-align:center;"| 25Douglas Hickoxstyle="text-align:center;"| 59style="text-align:center;"| UKstyle="text-align:center;"| Director{{hlist|Theatre of Blood| Zulu Dawn}}
style="text-align:center;"| 27Larry Clemmonsstyle="text-align:center;"| 81style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Animator, Screenwriter{{hlist|The Jungle Book| The Aristocats}}
style="text-align:center;"| 31Trinidad Silvastyle="text-align:center;"| 38style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|Colors| UHF}}
rowspan=14 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| August

| style="text-align:center;"| 1

Florence Eldridgestyle="text-align:center;"| 86style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Actress{{hlist|Inherit the Wind| Les Misérables}}
style="text-align:center;"| 2Robert Emmet Smithstyle="text-align:center;"| 73style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Art Director{{hlist|King Rat| Operation Petticoat}}
style="text-align:center;"| 5Colin Higginsstyle="text-align:center;"| 47style="text-align:center;"| Francestyle="text-align:center;"| Director, Producer, Screenwriter{{hlist|Harold and Maude| 9 to 5}}
style="text-align:center;"| 5Ralph Meekerstyle="text-align:center;"| 65style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|Kiss Me Deadly| The Dirty Dozen}}
style="text-align:center;"| 7Wilfred Jacksonstyle="text-align:center;"| 82style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Animator{{hlist|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs| Fantasia}}
style="text-align:center;"| 8Alan Napierstyle="text-align:center;"| 85style="text-align:center;"| UKstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|Joan of Arc| Batman}}
style="text-align:center;"| 10Adela Rogers St. Johnsstyle="text-align:center;"| 94style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter{{hlist|What Price Hollywood?| A Free Soul}}
style="text-align:center;"| 11Anne Ramseystyle="text-align:center;"| 59style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Actress{{hlist|The Goonies| Throw Momma from the Train}}
style="text-align:center;"| 17Victoria Shawstyle="text-align:center;"| 53style="text-align:center;"| Australiastyle="text-align:center;"| Actress{{hlist|The Eddy Duchin Story| Edge of Eternity}}
style="text-align:center;"| 19Don Haggertystyle="text-align:center;"| 74style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|Cause for Alarm!| Footsteps in the Night}}
style="text-align:center;"| 23Jack Sherstyle="text-align:center;"| 75style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter, Director{{hlist|The Kid from Left Field| Four Girls in Town}}
style="text-align:center;"| 24Leonard Freystyle="text-align:center;"| 49style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|Fiddler on the Roof| Where the Buffalo Roam}}
style="text-align:center;"| 26Milton Sperlingstyle="text-align:center;"| 76style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter{{hlist|Battle of the Bulge| The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell}}
style="text-align:center;"| 27Charles Farrellstyle="text-align:center;"| 88style="text-align:center;"| Irelandstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|Night and the City| The Crimson Pirate}}
rowspan=10 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| September

| style="text-align:center;"| 1

Hugh Huntstyle="text-align:center;"| 86style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Set Decorator{{hlist|Ben-Hur| Julius Caesar}}
style="text-align:center;"| 5Gert Fröbestyle="text-align:center;"| 75style="text-align:center;"| Germanystyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|Goldfinger| The Longest Day}}
style="text-align:center;"| 6Harold Rossonstyle="text-align:center;"| 93style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Cinematographer{{hlist|The Wizard of Oz| Singin' in the Rain}}
style="text-align:center;"| 12Stephen B. Grimesstyle="text-align:center;"| 61style="text-align:center;"| UKstyle="text-align:center;"| Production Designer{{hlist|The Way We Were| Out of Africa}}
style="text-align:center;"| 14Louis Quinnstyle="text-align:center;"| 73style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|All the President's Men| Ocean's 11}}
style="text-align:center;"| 15Samuel E. Beetleystyle="text-align:center;"| 74style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Film Editor{{hlist|The Longest Day| Doctor Dolittle}}
style="text-align:center;"| 20Roy Kinnearstyle="text-align:center;"| 54style="text-align:center;"| UKstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory| Watership Down}}
style="text-align:center;"| 21Henry Kosterstyle="text-align:center;"| 83style="text-align:center;"| Germanystyle="text-align:center;"| Director, Screenwriter{{hlist|Harvey| The Bishop's Wife}}
style="text-align:center;"| 21Christine Nordenstyle="text-align:center;"| 63style="text-align:center;"| UKstyle="text-align:center;"| Actress{{hlist|Mine Own Executioner| The Black Widow}}
style="text-align:center;"| 30Chick Chandlerstyle="text-align:center;"| 83style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|Seven Doors to Death| Hideout}}
rowspan=15 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| October

| style="text-align:center;"| 1

Lucien Ballard{{cite book|author=John A. Willis|title=Screen World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=osszAQAAIAAJ|year=1989|publisher=Crown Publishers|isbn=978-0-517-57332-7|page=235}}style="text-align:center;"| 84style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Cinematographer{{hlist|The Wild Bunch| The Killing}}
style="text-align:center;"| 1Pavle Vuisićstyle="text-align:center;"| 62style="text-align:center;"| Serbiastyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|Battle of Neretva| Doktor Mladen}}
style="text-align:center;"| 4Margaret Laceystyle="text-align:center;"| 76style="text-align:center;"| UKstyle="text-align:center;"| Actress{{hlist|Diamonds Are Forever| The Ruling Class}}
style="text-align:center;"| 6Don Terrystyle="text-align:center;"| 86style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|Who Killed Gail Preston?| Unseen Enemy}}
style="text-align:center;"| 9Edward Chodorovstyle="text-align:center;"| 84style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter{{hlist|Road House| Kind Lady}}
style="text-align:center;"| 11Morgan Farleystyle="text-align:center;"| 90style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|The Winner's Circle | High Noon}}
style="text-align:center;"| 11Bonita Granvillestyle="text-align:center;"| 65style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Actress{{hlist|Nancy Drew... Detective| These Three}}
style="text-align:center;"| 12Ken Murraystyle="text-align:center;"| 85style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor, Producer{{hlist|The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance| Son of Flubber}}
style="text-align:center;"| 13Melvin Frankstyle="text-align:center;"| 75style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter, Director{{hlist|Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House| Road to Utopia}}
style="text-align:center;"| 14Mary Morrisstyle="text-align:center;"| 72style="text-align:center;"| Fijistyle="text-align:center;"| Actress{{hlist|The Thief of Bagdad| Undercover}}
style="text-align:center;"| 19Lawrence W. Butlerstyle="text-align:center;"| 80style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Special Effects Artist{{hlist|Casablanca| The Caine Mutiny}}
style="text-align:center;"| 24Valerie Taylorstyle="text-align:center;"| 85style="text-align:center;"| UKstyle="text-align:center;"| Actress{{hlist|Repulsion| Went the Day Well?}}
style="text-align:center;"| 25Eric Larsonstyle="text-align:center;"| 83style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Animator{{hlist|Alice in Wonderland| The Jungle Book}}
style="text-align:center;"| 27Charles Hawtreystyle="text-align:center;"| 73style="text-align:center;"| UKstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|Sabotage| The Ghost of St. Michael's}}
style="text-align:center;"| 31John Housemanstyle="text-align:center;"| 86style="text-align:center;"| Romaniastyle="text-align:center;"| Actor, Producer{{hlist|The Paper Chase| Rollerball}}
rowspan=8 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| November

| style="text-align:center;"| 1

George J. Folseystyle="text-align:center;"| 90style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Cinematographer{{hlist|Forbidden Planet| Adam's Rib}}
style="text-align:center;"| 2Lukas Hellerstyle="text-align:center;"| 58style="text-align:center;"| Germanystyle="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter{{hlist|The Dirty Dozen| What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?}}
style="text-align:center;"| 3Sidney Carrollstyle="text-align:center;"| 75style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter{{hlist|The Hustler| A Big Hand for the Little Lady}}
style="text-align:center;"| 6John Hubbardstyle="text-align:center;"| 74style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|One Million B.C.| The Tall T}}
style="text-align:center;"| 9Billy Curtisstyle="text-align:center;"| 79style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|The Wizard of Oz| High Plains Drifter}}
style="text-align:center;"| 15Mona Washbournestyle="text-align:center;"| 84style="text-align:center;"| UKstyle="text-align:center;"| Actress{{hlist|My Fair Lady| Casino Royale}}
style="text-align:center;"| 27Angela Aamesstyle="text-align:center;"| 32style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Actress{{hlist|Scarface| Bachelor Party}}
style="text-align:center;"| 27John Carradinestyle="text-align:center;"| 82style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|Stagecoach| The Grapes of Wrath}}
rowspan=17 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| December

| style="text-align:center;"| 7

Christopher Connellystyle="text-align:center;"| 47style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|Benji| Move Over, Darling}}
style="text-align:center;"| 7Dorothy Jordanstyle="text-align:center;"| 82style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Actress{{hlist|The Searchers| 70,000 Witnesses}}
style="text-align:center;"| 8Anne Seymourstyle="text-align:center;"| 79style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Actress{{hlist|All the King's Men| Field of Dreams}}
style="text-align:center;"| 15Maria De Matteisstyle="text-align:center;"| 90style="text-align:center;"| Italystyle="text-align:center;"| Costume Designer{{hlist|War and Peace| The Bible: In the Beginning...}}
style="text-align:center;"| 10Richard S. Castellanostyle="text-align:center;"| 55style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|The Godfather| Love with the Proper Stranger}}
style="text-align:center;"| 10Dennis Arundellstyle="text-align:center;"| 90style="text-align:center;"| UKstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor, Composer{{hlist|The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp| "Pimpernel" Smith}}
style="text-align:center;"| 17Jerry Hopperstyle="text-align:center;"| 81style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Director{{hlist|The Private War of Major Benson| Pony Express}}
style="text-align:center;"| 21Bob Steelestyle="text-align:center;"| 81style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|The Big Sleep| The Colorado Kid}}
style="text-align:center;"| 22Tucker Smithstyle="text-align:center;"| 52style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor, Dancer{{hlist|West Side Story| The Producers}}
style="text-align:center;"| 24Noel Willmanstyle="text-align:center;"| 70style="text-align:center;"| Irelandstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|Doctor Zhivago| The Man Who Knew Too Much}}
style="text-align:center;"| 26Julanne Johnstonstyle="text-align:center;"| 88style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Actress{{hlist|The Thief of Bagdad| Dame Chance}}
style="text-align:center;"| 26John Loderstyle="text-align:center;"| 90style="text-align:center;"| UKstyle="text-align:center;"| Actor{{hlist|Now, Voyager| Sabotage}}
style="text-align:center;"| 27Hal Ashbystyle="text-align:center;"| 59style="text-align:center;"| USstyle="text-align:center;"| Director, Film Editor{{hlist|Harold and Maude| Being There}}

Film debuts

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References

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External links

  • [https://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?page=1&view=releasedate&view2=domestic&yr=1988&p=.htm 1988 Domestic Grosses] at Box Office Mojo
  • [https://the-numbers.com/box-office-records/domestic/all-movies/cumulative/released-in-1988 Top 1988 Movies at the Domestic Box Office] at The Numbers
  • [https://the-numbers.com/box-office-records/international/all-movies/cumulative/released-in-1988 Top 1988 Movies at the International Box Office] at The Numbers
  • [https://the-numbers.com/box-office-records/worldwide/all-movies/cumulative/released-in-1988 Top 1988 Movies at the Worldwide Box Office] at The Numbers
  • [https://www.imdb.com/search/title?year=1988,1988&sort=boxoffice_gross_us,desc Top-US-Grossing Titles Released 1988-01-01 to 1988-12-31] at IMDb
  • [https://www.imdb.com/search/title?year=1988,1988&title_type=feature&sort=moviemeter,asc Most Popular Feature Films Released 1988-01-01 to 1988-12-31] at IMDb
  • [https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature,short&release_date=1988-01-01,1988-12-31&adult=include&sort=num_votes,desc List of 1988 films] at IMDb
  • [https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?death_date=1988-01-01,1988-12-31&adult=include List of 1988 deaths] at IMDb
  • [https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?birth_date=1988-01-01,1988-12-31&adult=include List of 1988 births] at IMDb

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