[edit] Events [edit] Top grossing films (U.S.) | Rank | Title | Studio | Gross | | 1. | Top Gun | Paramount | $176,786,701 | | 2. | Crocodile Dundee | Paramount | $174,803,506 | | 3. | Platoon | Orion | $138,530,565 | | 4. | The Karate Kid Part II | Columbia | $115,103,979 | | 5. | Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home | Paramount | $109,713,132 | | 6. | Back to School | Orion | $91,258,000 | | 7. | Aliens | Fox | $86,160,248 | | 8. | The Golden Child | Paramount | $79,817,937 | | 9. | Ruthless People | Touchstone | $71,624,879 | | 10. | Ferris Bueller's Day Off | Paramount | $70,136,369 | [edit] Awards 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
- Best Supporting Actor: Michael Caine - Hannah and Her Sisters
- Best Supporting Actress: Dianne Wiest - Hannah and Her Sisters
- Best Foreign Language Film: The Assault (De Aanslag), directed by Fons Rademakers, Netherlands
Golden Globe Awards: - Drama:
- Best Picture: Platoon
- Best Actor: Bob Hoskins - Mona Lisa
- Best Actress: Marlee Matlin - Children of a Lesser God
- Musical or comedy:
- Best Picture: Hannah and Her Sisters
- Best Actor: Paul Hogan - Crocodile Dundee
- Best Actress: Sissy Spacek - Crimes of the Heart
- Other
- Best Director: Oliver Stone, Platoon
- Best Foreign Language Film: The Assault, Netherlands
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival): - The Mission, directed by Roland Joffé, United Kingdom
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival): - The Green Ray (Le Rayon vert), directed by Éric Rohmer, France
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival): - Stammheim, directed by Reinhard Hauff, West Germany
[edit] Films released in 1986 - 3:15
- 37°2 le matin (Betty Blue), directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix, Golden Needle award for 1992
- 52 Pick-Up
- 8 Million Ways to Die
- 9½ Weeks
- About Last Night
- The Adventures of the American Rabbit
- The AIDS Show
- Aliens
- Armed and Dangerous
- Armed Response
- An American Tail
- Amorosa
- The Assault - Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, Golden Space Needle award
- As Is, directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, starring Colleen Dewhurst, Robert Carradine and Jonathan Hadary
- At Close Range
- Attention! Bandits!, aka Bandits, directed by Claude Lelouch (France)
- Avenging Force
- Back to School
- Band Of The Hand
- Big Trouble in Little China, starring Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun, James Hong and Victor Wong
- Black Moon Rising, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Linda Hamilton
- Blue City, starring Judd Nelson and Ally Sheedy
- Blue Velvet
- The Boy Who Could Fly
- Bullies
- By Touch
- Captain EO
- The Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation (a prequel to the original Care Bears Movie from 1985), starring Alyson Court, Cree Summer and Hadley Kay
- Casper's Wonderful Island
- Castaway, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring Amanda Donohoe and Oliver Reed
- Children of a Lesser God
- Choke Canyon
- Club Paradise, starring Robin Williams, Jimmy Cliff, Peter O'Toole, Rick Moranis and Eugene Levy
- The Color of Money, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Paul Newman and Tom Cruise
- Cobra
- Crocodile Dundee
- Dangerously Close
- Le Déclin de l'empire américain, (The Decline of the American Empire), written and directed by Denys Arcand
- The Delta Force
- Down and Out in Beverly Hills
- Down by Law, directed by Jim Jarmusch, starring Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni
- Eliminators
- Equalizer 2000
- Extremities
- Eye Of The Tiger
- F/X, starring Bryan Brown and Brian Dennehy
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off
- Firewalker
- Flight of the Navigator
- The Fly
- Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
- The Fringe Dwellers
- Genesis, starring Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, M.K. Raina (India / Switzerland / Belgium / France)
- Ghost Warrior
- GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords
- The Golden Child
- Good to Go
- The Great Mouse Detective
- The Green Ray (Le Rayon vert) - Golden Lion award
- Gung Ho!
- Hannah and Her Sisters - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
- Heartbreak Ridge
- Heathcliff: The Movie
- Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
- Highlander
- The Hitcher
- Hoosiers
- Hôtel du Paradis
- Howard the Duck
- Invaders from Mars
- Iron Eagle
- Jake Speed
- Jean de Florette, starring Gérard Depardieu and Yves Montand
- The Jet Benny Show
- Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
- Jumpin' Jack Flash, starring Whoopi Goldberg, Annie Potts, Jon Lovitz, Carol Kane
- The Karate Kid, Part II
- Laputa: Castle in the Sky (August 2 - Japan)
- Labyrinth, starring David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly
- Let's Get Harry
- Little Shop of Horrors
- Low Blow
- Loyalties
- Lucas
- Luxo Jr.
- Malcolm
- The Manhattan Project
- Manhunter, directed by Michael Mann and starring William Petersen.
- Manon des Sources starring Emmanuelle Beart and Yves Montand
- Maximum Overdrive
- The Messenger
- The Morning After
- Miracles
- The Mosquito Coast
- The Mission - Palme d'Or award
- Modern Girls
- Mona Lisa, directed by Neil Jordan
- The Money Pit, starring Tom Hanks and Shelley Long
- Murphy's Law
- My Little Pony: The Movie (a feature-length adaptation of the TV series and toy line)
- 'night, Mother, starring Sissy Spacek and Anne Bancroft
- The Name of the Rose, starring Sean Connery and Christian Slater
- Never Too Young To Die
- Nomads
- No Mercy, starring Kim Basinger and Richard Gere
- Off Beat
- One More Saturday Night
- Out of Bounds
- The Patriot
- Peggy Sue Got Married directed by Francis Ford Coppola starring Kathleen Turner
- Pirates, directed by Roman Polanski, starring Walter Matthau
- Platoon, directed by Oliver Stone - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture
- P.O.W.: The Escape
- Pretty in Pink, directed by Howard Deutch, starring Molly Ringwald, Jon Cryer, James Spader
- Project A-ko
- Psycho III, directed by Anthony Perkins, starring Anthony Perkins, Diana Scarwid, Jeff Fahey
- Quiet Cool
- Quicksilver
- Rad
- Raw Deal, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
- River's Edge(1986 film), starring Crispin Glover
- Robotech: The Movie, directed by Carl Macek and Noboru Ishiguro
- Round Midnight
- Ruthless People
- Shanghai Surprise, starring Madonna and Sean Penn
- Short Circuit, starring Steve Guttenberg
- Sid and Nancy, starring Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb
- Something Wild, starring Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith and Ray Liotta
- Stammheim - Golden Bear award
- Stand by Me
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
- Stoogemania
- Streets of Gold
- That's Life!
- ¡Three Amigos!, starring Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Chevy Chase
- Thunder Run
- Toby McTeague
- Top Gun
- Tough Guys
- Trick or Treat, starring Marc Price, Gene Simmons, and Ozzy Osbourne
- The Transformers: The Movie, starring Eric Idle, Judd Nelson, and Orson Welles
- Troll
- True Stories
- Under The Cherry Moon, starring Prince
- Wildcats, starring Goldie Hawn, Nipsey Russell, Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson and LL Cool J
- Wisdom
- X :The Unheard Music
[edit] Births - January 24 - Mischa Barton, English-born American actress
- February 19 - Maria Mena, Norwegian singer
- March 9 - Brittany Snow, American actress
- March 14 - Jamie Bell, English actor
- April 3 - Amanda Bynes, American actress and variety show host
- May 13- Robert Pattinson, English-born American actor
- May 16 - Megan Fox, American actress
- June 11 - Shia LaBeouf, American actor
- June 13 - Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, American actresses and entrepreneurs
- June 28 - Kellie Pickler, American singer and songwritter
- July 2 - Lindsay Lohan, American actress
- August 16 - Shawn Pyfrom, American actor
- September 12 - Emmy Rossum, American actress and singer
- September 27 - Travis Helwig, American Hero
- October 2 - Camilla Belle, American actress
[edit] Deaths - March 10 - Ray Milland, British actor
- March 30 - James Cagney, actor
- April 13 - Stephen Stucker, comedy actor
- June 13 - Benny Goodman, musician, actor
- September 27 - Cliff Burton, American musician, Metallica
- 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 film director
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