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. Rain Man was awarded the Academy Award for Best Picture, marking one of the few instances where the top-grossing film of the year was also the winner of such an award that year. Important animated feature films of that year include The Land Before Time, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Daffy Duck's Quackbusters, Akira, Grave of the Fireflies and My Neighbor Totoro.
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The top ten 1988 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Rank | Title | Distributor | Domestic gross |
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1. | Rain Man | United Artists | $172,825,435 |
2. | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Disney | $156,452,370 |
3. | Coming to America | Paramount | $128,152,301 |
4. | Big | 20th Century Fox | $114,968,774 |
5. | Twins | Universal | $111,938,388 |
6. | Crocodile Dundee II | Paramount | $109,306,210 |
7. | Die Hard | 20th Century Fox | $83,008,852 |
8. | The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! | Paramount | $78,756,177 |
9. | Cocktail | Disney | $78,222,753 |
10. | Beetlejuice | Warner Bros. | $73,707,461 |
Academy Awards
- Best Picture: Rain Man - Mirage Entertainment, Star Partners II, United Artists
- Best Director: Barry Levinson - Rain Man
- Best Actor: Dustin Hoffman - Rain Man
- Best Actress: Jodie Foster - The Accused
- Best Supporting Actor: Kevin Kline - A Fish Called Wanda
- Best Supporting Actress: Geena Davis - The Accidental Tourist
- Best Foreign Language Film: Pelle the Conqueror (Pelle erobreren), directed by Bille August, Denmark
Golden Globe Awards
Drama
- Best Picture: Rain Man
- Best Actor: Dustin Hoffman – Rain Man
- Best Actress (tie): Jodie Foster – The Accused
- Best Actress (tie): Sigourney Weaver – Gorillas in the Mist
- Best Actress (tie): Shirley MacLaine - Madame Sousatzka
Musical or comedy
- Best Picture: Working Girl
- Best Actor: Tom Hanks – Big
- Best Actress: Melanie Griffith – Working Girl
Other
- Best Director: Clint Eastwood – Bird
- Best Foreign Language Film: Pelle the Conqueror, Denmark
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
Golden Raspberry Awards
- Worst Picture: Cocktail (Touchstone)
- Worst Actor: Sylvester Stallone in Rambo III
- Worst Actress: Liza Minnelli in Arthur 2: On the Rocks and Rent-a-Cop
- Worst Supporting Actor: Dan Aykroyd in Caddyshack II
- Worst Supporting Actress: Kristy McNichol in Two Moon Junction
- Worst Director: Blake Edwards for Sunset, and Stewart Raffill for Mac and Me (tie)
- Worst Screenplay: Cocktail, screenplay by Heywood Gould, based on his book
- Worst New Star: Ronald McDonald (as himself) in Mac and Me
- Worst Original Song: "Jack Fresh" from Caddyshack II, written and performed by Full Force
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January–March
- January 1988
- January 8
- Cop
- January 15 - Cousin Thomas in the Fearless Vampire Killers
- The Couch Trip
- For Keeps
- January 22
- Braddock: Missing in Action III
- January 29
- And God Created Woman
- Puss in Boots
- January 8
- February 1988
- February 5 - I Love You Fievel
- She's Having a Baby
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- February 12
- Action Jackson
- Shoot to Kill
- February 16
- Hairspray
- February 26
- Bloodsport
- Frantic
- February 5 - I Love You Fievel
- March 1988
- March 4
- Moving
- Prison
- Switching Channels
- March 11
- Masquerade
- Off Limits
- Stand and Deliver
- March 18
- D.O.A.
- The Milagro Beanfield War
- Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach
- Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw
- Stars and Bars
- March 23
- The BFG (U.K.)
- March 25
- Biloxi Blues
- The Fox and the Hound (re-release)
- Johnny Be Good
- March 30
- Beetlejuice
- March 4
April–June
- April 1988
- April 1
- Bright Lights, Big City
- The Seventh Sign
- April 8
- 18 Again!
- Above the Law
- Bad Dreams
- April 15
- Appointment with Death
- Brain Damage
- Colors
- The Moderns
- Plain Clothes
- Return to Snowy River
- April 22
- Casual Sex?
- Return of the Killer Tomatoes
- The Unholy
- April 29
- Critters 2: The Main Course
- Powaqqatsi
- Sunset
- April 1
- May 1988
- May 4
- The House on Carroll Street
- May 6
- Dead Heat
- Salsa
- Shakedown
- May 13
- Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
- Maniac Cop
- The Nest
- Not of This Earth
- May 20
- Call Me
- Crocodile Dundee II (Australia; North America 25 May 1988; UK 23 Jun 1988)
- Willow
- May 25
- Rambo III
- May 27
- Killer Klowns from Outer Space
- May 4
- June 1988
- June 3
- Big
- Funny Farm
- June 10
- Big Business
- Poltergeist III
- The Presidio
- June 15
- Bull Durham
- June 17
- The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
- The Great Outdoors
- Red Heat
- Waxwork
- June 22
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit
- June 29
- Coming to America
- June 3
July–September
- July 1988
- July 6
- License to Drive
- Short Circuit 2
- July 8
- Arthur 2: On the Rocks
- It Couldn't Happen Here
- July 13
- The Dead Pool
- July 15
- Bambi (re-release)
- Die Hard
- A Fish Called Wanda
- July 20
- Midnight Run
- July 22
- Big Top Pee-wee
- Caddyshack II
- Mr. North
- July 29
- Cocktail
- Monkey Shines
- The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking
- July 6
- August 1988
- August 5
- The Blob
- The Rescue
- Vibes
- August 10
- Clean and Sober
- Red Riding Hood
- August 12
- The Last Temptation of Christ
- Mac and Me
- Tucker: The Man and His Dream
- Young Guns
- August 19
- Married to the Mob
- A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
- August 24
- Crossing Delancey
- August 26
- Betrayed
- Hero and the Terror
- Hot to Trot
- Stealing Home
- August 5
- September 1988
- September 2
- The Deceivers
- Eight Men Out
- September 8
- Earth Girls Are Easy
- September 9
- Moon over Parador
- Running on Empty
- September 12
- Miles from Home
- September 15
- War Party
- September 16
- Messenger of Death
- Tougher Than Leather (NYC premiere)
- September 23
- Gorillas in the Mist
- Kansas
- Patty Hearst
- Sweet Hearts Dance
- September 24
- Daffy Duck's Quackbusters
- Katy and the Katerpillar Kids
- September 30
- Bird
- Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
- Heartbreak Hotel
- September 2
October–December
- October 1988
- October 7
- Alien Nation
- Clara's Heart
- Memories of Me
- Punchline
- October 14
- The Accused
- The Kiss
- Another Woman
- Night of the Demons
- Pumpkinhead
- October 21
- Bat*21
- Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
- Little Dorrit (wide-release)
- Mystic Pizza
- Tapeheads
- October 28
- Feds
- October 29
- Moonwalker
- October 7
- November 1988
- November 4
- Everybody's All-American
- The Good Mother
- Rattle and Hum (U.S.)
- They Live
- November 9
- Child's Play
- November 11
- A Cry in the Dark
- Distant Thunder
- Ernest Saves Christmas
- Iron Eagle II
- Split Decisions
- November 18
- 1969
- The Chocolate War
- Fresh Horses
- High Spirits
- The Land Before Time
- Oliver & Company
- November 23
- Buster
- Cocoon: The Return
- Full Moon in Blue Water
- Hanna's War
- Scrooged
- November 4
- December 1988
- December 2
- The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
- Tequila Sunrise
- Watchers
- December 8
- The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (West Germany)
- December 9
- Mississippi Burning
- My Stepmother Is an Alien
- Twins
- December 14
- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
- I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
- Torch Song Trilogy
- December 16
- Dangerous Liaisons
- Purple People Eater
- Rain Man
- December 21
- Beaches
- Talk Radio
- Working Girl
- December 23
- The Accidental Tourist
- Dominick and Eugene
- Hellbound: Hellraiser II
- December 28
- The Boost
- December 2
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