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The following is an overview of events in 1987 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. Paramount Pictures celebrated its 75th anniversary in 1987.

Highest-grossing films (U.S.)

See also: List of 1987 box office number-one films in the United States

The top ten 1987 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1987

Rank	Title	Distributor	Box-office gross
1	Three Men and a Baby	Buena Vista	$167,780,960
2	Fatal Attraction	Paramount	$156,645,693
3	Beverly Hills Cop II		$153,665,036
4	Good Morning, Vietnam	Buena Vista	$123,922,370
5	Moonstruck	MGM	$80,640,528
6	The Untouchables	Paramount	$76,270,454
7	The Secret of My Success	Universal	$66,995,000
8	Stakeout	Buena Vista	$65,673,233
9	Lethal Weapon	Warner Bros.	$65,207,127
10	The Witches of Eastwick		$63,766,510

Events

• January 31 – The Cure for Insomnia premieres at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois, to officially become the world's longest film according to Guinness World Records.
• February - Blue Sky Studios is founded by Chris Wedge.
• May 23 – Starlog Salutes Star Wars is held in Los Angeles, California, the first officially sponsored Star Wars convention to commemorate the franchise's 10th anniversary.
• June 29 – The James Bond franchise celebrates its 25th anniversary and premieres its 15th film, The Living Daylights
• July 17 – Walt Disney's classic masterpiece Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is re-released worldwide for its 50th anniversary.
• 1987 – Paramount Pictures launches a new on-screen logo to celebrate its 75th anniversary, a variant used until 1989, and the standard variant of this logo was used from 1989 to 2002.

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: The Last Emperor - Hemdale, Columbia

Best Director: Bernardo Bertolucci - The Last Emperor

Best Actor: Michael Douglas - Wall Street

Best Actress: Cher - Moonstruck

Best Supporting Actor: Sean Connery - The Untouchables

Best Supporting Actress: Olympia Dukakis - Moonstruck

Best Foreign Language Film: Babette's Feast (Babettes Gæstebud), directed by Gabriel Axel, Denmark

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: The Last Emperor

Best Actor: Michael Douglas – Wall Street

Best Actress: Sally Kirkland – Anna

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: Hope and Glory

Best Actor: Robin Williams – Good Morning, Vietnam

Best Actress: Cher – Moonstruck

Other

Best Director: Bernardo Bertolucci – The Last Emperor

Best Foreign Language Film: My Life as a Dog, Sweden

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Under the Sun of Satan (Sous le soleil de Satan), directed by Maurice Pialat, France

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Au revoir les enfants (Goodbye, Children), directed by Louis Malle, France / W. Germany

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Tema (1979) (The Theme), directed by Gleb Panfilov, USSR

1987 films

By country/region

• List of American films of 1987
• List of Argentine films of 1987
• List of Australian films of 1987
• List of Bangladeshi films of 1987
• List of British films of 1987
• List of Canadian films of 1987
• List of French films of 1987
• List of Hong Kong films of 1987
• List of Indian films of 1987
  • List of Hindi films of 1987
  • List of Kannada films of 1987
  • List of Malayalam films of 1987
  • List of Marathi films of 1987
  • List of Tamil films of 1987
  • List of Telugu films of 1987
• List of Japanese films of 1987
• List of Mexican films of 1987
• List of Pakistani films of 1987
• List of South Korean films of 1987
• List of Soviet films of 1987
• List of Spanish films of 1987

By genre/medium

• List of action films of 1987
• List of animated feature films of 1987
• List of avant-garde films of 1987
• List of comedy films of 1987
• List of drama films of 1987
• List of horror films of 1987
• List of science fiction films of 1987
• List of thriller films of 1987
• List of western films of 1987

Births

• January 1 – Gia Coppola, American director and screenwriter
• January 2 – Shelley Hennig, American actress and model
• January 5
  • Fabiola Guajardo, Mexican actress and model
  • Jason Mitchell, American actor
• January 7 – Lyndsy Fonseca, American actress
• January 8
  • Cynthia Erivo, British actress
  • Freddie Stroma, British actor and model
• January 9 - Nicola Coughlan, Irish actress
• January 12 – Naya Rivera, American actress, singer, and model (died 2020)
• January 13 – Max Van Ville, American DJ, producer, and actor
• January 16 – Carrie Keranen, voice actress, production manager, producer, and voice director
• January 18
  • Ingvild Deila, Norwegian actress
  • Zane Holtz, Canadian actor and model
• January 20 – Evan Peters, American actor and producer
• February 1
  • Heather Morris, American actress, dancer, singer, and model
  • Ronda Rousey, American professional wrestler and actress
• February 4 – Lewis Tan, English actor and martial artist
• February 5
  • Adassa, American singer-songwriter and voice actress
  • Darren Criss, American actor, singer, and songwriter
  • Henry Golding, Malaysian-British actor and television host
  • Raymond Lee, American actor
• February 6 - Natalia Reyes, Colombian actress
• February 7 – Doua Moua, American actor
• February 9 – Michael B. Jordan, American actor and film producer
• February 11 – Julio Torres, Salvadoran writer, comedian, and actor
• February 17 – Ísis Valverde, Brazilian actress
• February 20
  • Cortney Palm, American actress
  • Daniella Pineda, American actress
  • Miles Teller, American actor
• February 21
  • Ashley Greene, actress
  • Elliot Page, Canadian actor
• February 28 – Michelle Horn, American actress
• March 4 – Tamzin Merchant, English actress and author
• March 8
  • Tobe Nwigwe, American rapper, singer and actor
  • Milana Vayntrub, American actress and comedian
• March 9 - Bow Wow, American rapper and actor
• March 10 – Ser'Darius Blain, Haitian-American actor
• March 20 – Rollo Weeks, British former actor
• March 22 – Billy Kametz, American voice actor (died 2022)
• March 26 – Josh Herdman, English actor and mixed martial artist
• March 28 – Jimmy Wong, American actor and musician
• April 1 – Mackenzie Davis, Canadian actress, producer and model
• April 3 – Rachel Bloom, American actress, comedian, writer, singer-songwriter, and producer
• April 4 – Sarah Gadon, actress
• April 6 - Jerrod Carmichael, American stand-up comedian, actor, writer and filmmaker
• April 7 - Richard Pyros, British-Australian actor
• April 9 – Jesse McCartney, actor, singer-songwriter and voice actor
• April 10 – Shay Mitchell, Canadian actress and model
• April 12
  • Brooklyn Decker, American actress and model
  • Ilana Glazer, American stand-up comedian, actress, writer, producer and director
• April 16 - Jack Cutmore-Scott, English actor
• April 18 - Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, British actress and model
• April 19
  • Oksana Akinshina, Russian actress
  • Courtland Mead, American actor
• April 20 – John Patrick Amedori, American actor and musician
• April 21 - Meng'er Zhang, Chinese actress
• April 27 – William Moseley, English actor
• April 28 – Tonia Sotiropoulou, Greek actress
• May 5 – Jessie Cave, English actress and comedian
• May 7 - Maya Erskine, American actress
• May 8 – Aneurin Barnard, Welsh actor
• May 13 – Hunter Parrish, American actor and singer
• May 27 – Bella Heathcote, Australian actress and model
• May 28 – Jessica Rothe, American actress
• May 31 – Meredith Hagner, American actress
• June 3 - Lalaine, American actress and singer-songwriter
• June 6 – Daniel Logan, New Zealand-born American actor
• June 11 – Jimmy O. Yang, Hong Kong-American actor, stand-up comedian and writer
• June 12 - Abbey Lee, Australian actress and musician
• June 19 - Beattie Edmondson, English actress
• June 22 – Joe Dempsie, English actor
• June 23 - Edward Holcroft, English actor
• June 25 – Mary Tsoni, Greek actress and singer (d. 2017)
• June 26 – Valerie Pachner, Austrian actress
• June 27 – Ed Westwick, English film and television actor
• July 6 – Matt O'Leary, American actor
• July 7 – Julianna Guill, American actress
• July 11 – Cristina Vee, American voice actress
• July 15 – Jimmy Rees, Australian entertainer
• July 25 – Michael Welch, American actor
• July 26
  • Miriam McDonald, Canadian actress
  • Hallie Meyers-Shyer, American actress and filmmaker
• July 27 – Mara Wilson, actress and writer
• July 29 – Genesis Rodriguez, American actress and model
• July 31 – Brittany Byrnes, Australian actress
• August 2 - Hannah Hoekstra, Dutch actress
• August 8 – Katie Leung, Scottish film, television, and stage actress
• August 18
  • Mika Boorem, American actress and filmmaker
  • Óscar Catacora, Peruvian director, screenwriter and cinematographer (died 2021)
• August 19 – Manny Jacinto, Canadian actor
• August 21 – Cody Kasch, American actor
• August 25
  • Stacey Farber, Canadian actress
  • Blake Lively, American actress, model, and director
  • Chloe Pirrie, Scottish actress
  • Liu Yifei, Chinese-American actress, singer, and model
• August 30 - Johanna Braddy, American actress
• September 7 – Evan Rachel Wood, American actress, model, and musician
• September 8
  • Ray Fisher, American actor
  • Domee Shi, Chinese-Canadian animator, storyboard artist and director
• September 11
  • Tyler Hoechlin, American actor
  • Elizabeth Henstridge, English actress
• September 14
  • Jessica Brown Findlay, English actress
  • Davide Tucci, Maltese-Italian actor
• September 17 – Augustus Prew, English actor
• September 19 – Danielle Panabaker, American actress
• September 20 – Sarah Natochenny, American voice actress
• September 21 – Ryan Guzman, American actor
• September 22
  • Tom Felton, English actor
  • Teyonah Parris, American actress
• September 23 – Skylar Astin, American actor and singer
• September 24
  • Spencer Treat Clark, American actor
  • Grey Damon, American actor
• September 28 – Hilary Duff, actress, singer, songwriter, and businesswoman
• September 29
  • David Del Rio, American actor, director and producer
  • Anaïs Demoustier, French actress
• September 30 - Mahaley Patel, American actress
• October 1 – Michaela Coel, British actress and screenwriter
• October 9 - Melissa Villaseñor, American stand-up comedian, actress, writer and musician
• October 14 – Jay Pharoah, American actor and stand-up comedian
• October 16 – Zhao Liying, Chinese actress
• October 18 – Zac Efron, actor and singer
• October 24 – Lincoln Lewis, Australian actor
• November 1 - Jamie Demetriou, English comedian, actor and screenwriter
• November 5 – Kevin Jonas, American singer-songwriter and actor (Jonas Brothers)
• November 9 – Jennifer Holland, American actress
• November 10 - Andrew Koji, British actor and martial artist
• November 11 – Ludi Lin, Chinese-born Canadian actor and model
• November 12 – Kengo Kora, Japanese actor
• November 14 – Brian Gleeson, Irish actor
• November 18 – Jake Abel, American actor and singer
• November 23 – Vallo Kirs, Estonian actor
• November 27 – Lashana Lynch, Jamaican-British actress
• November 28 – Karen Gillan, Scottish actress and filmmaker
• December 1 - Sarah Snook, Australian actress
• December 3 – Michael Angarano, American actor
• December 8 – Aria Curzon, American actress
• December 11 – Moe Dunford, Irish actor
• December 21 – Khris Davis, American actor
• December 28 – Adam Gregory, American actor

Deaths

Month	Date	Name	Age	Country	Profession	Notable films
January	3	David Maysles	55	US	Documentarian	Gimme Shelter Grey Gardens
	9	Arthur Lake	81	US	Actor	Blondie Dance Hall
	14	Douglas Sirk	89	Germany	Director	Imitation of Life Written on the Wind
	15	Ray Bolger	83	US	Actor, Singer	The Wizard of Oz Babes in Toyland
	15	George Markstein	60	UK	Screenwriter	Robbery The Odessa File
	16	Joyce Jameson	54	US	Actress	The Apartment Death Race 2000
	27	Norman McLaren	72	UK	Animator, Director	Neighbours Pas de deux
February	1	Alessandro Blasetti	86	Italy	Director, Screenwriter	1860 The Countess of Parma
	22	David Susskind	66	US	Producer	A Raisin in the Sun Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
	23	William Rose	68	US	Screenwriter	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner The Ladykillers
	23	Esmond Knight	80	UK	Actor	Henry V The Red Shoes
	25	James Coco	56	US	Actor	Only When I Laugh Wholly Moses!
	25	John Collin	58	UK	Actor	Tess Star!
	28	Joan Greenwood	65	UK	Actress	He Found a Star The October Man
March	2	Randolph Scott	89	US	Actor	The Texans The Walking Hills
	3	Danny Kaye	74	US	Actor, Singer	White Christmas The Court Jester
	7	Henri Decaë	71	France	Cinematographer	The Boys from Brazil The 400 Blows
	7	Waldo Salt	72	US	Screenwriter	Midnight Cowboy Serpico
	21	Dean Paul Martin	35	US	Actor	Players Heart Like a Wheel
	21	Robert Preston	68	US	Actor	The Music Man Victor Victoria
	22	Morton Haack	62	US	Costume Designer	Planet of the Apes The Unsinkable Molly Brown
	27	William Bowers	71	US	Screenwriter	The Gunfighter Support Your Local Sheriff
	28	Patrick Troughton	67	UK	Actor	Jason and the Argonauts Scars of Dracula
April	6	Philip M. Jefferies	61	US	Production Designer	Grease An Officer and a Gentleman
	11	Kent Taylor	79	US	Actor	Half Past Midnight Payment on Demand
	17	Dick Shawn	63	US	Actor	The Producers It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
	19	Milt Kahl	78	US	Animator	The Jungle Book One Hundred and One Dalmatians
May	2	Michael Gover	73	UK	Actor	A Clockwork Orange Superman
	4	Paul Groesse	81	US	Art Director	Little Women In the Heat of the Night
	7	Colin Blakely	56	Ireland	Actor	A Man for All Seasons The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
	14	Rita Hayworth	68	US	Actress	Gilda The Lady from Shanghai
	21	Alejandro Rey	57	Argentina	Actor	Fun in Acapulco Moscow on the Hudson
	24	Hermione Gingold	89	UK	Actress	The Music Man Gigi
	29	Howard Shoup	83	US	Costume Designer	Cool Hand Luke The Young Philadelphians
June	1	Khwaja Ahmad Abbas	72	India	Director, Screenwriter	Mera Naam Joker Awaara
	3	Will Sampson	53	US	Actor	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest The Outlaw Josey Wales
	6	Fulton Mackay	64	UK	Actor	Local Hero Gumshoe
	8	Daniel Mandell	91	US	Film Editor	The Apartment The Best Years of Our Lives
	10	Elizabeth Hartman	43	US	Actress	A Patch of Blue The Secret of NIMH
	11	Dan Vadis	49	China	Actor	Every Which Way But Loose High Plains Drifter
	13	Geraldine Page	62	US	Actress	Sweet Bird of Youth The Trip to Bountiful
	22	Fred Astaire	88	US	Actor	Swing Time The Towering Inferno
	24	Jackie Gleason	71	US	Actor	The Hustler Smokey and the Bandit
July	1	Jerry Livingston	78	US	Songwriter	Cinderella Cat Ballou
	3	Viola Dana	90	US	Actress	That Certain Thing The Show of Shows
	5	Phil Abramson	54	US	Set Decorator	Close Encounters of the Third Kind Bullitt
	7	Hannelore Schroth	65	Germany	Actress	Sweetheart of the Gods Beloved Corinna
	12	Harold Goodwin	84	US	Actor	All Quiet on the Western Front The Wyoming Bandit
	15	Alfie Bass	71	UK	Actor	The Fearless Vampire Killers Moonraker
	17	Yūjirō Ishihara	52	Japan	Actor, Singer	Season of the Sun Crazed Fruit
	20	Richard Egan	65	US	Actor	The 300 Spartans A Summer Place
	22	Adele Comandini	89	US	Screenwriter	Three Smart Girls Christmas in Connecticut
	31	Joseph E. Levine	81	US	Producer	A Bridge Too Far The Lion in Winter
August	1	Pola Negri	90	Poland	Actress	Madame DuBarry Carmen
	17	Clarence Brown	97	US	Director	National Velvet The Yearling
	17	Shaike Ophir	58	Israel	Actor	The Policeman Blaumilch Canal
	19	Hayden Rorke	76	US	Actor	Pillow Talk The Barefoot Executive
	21	Bombolo	56	Italy	Actor	Squadra antitruffa Little Italy
	22	Ted Sherdeman	78	US	Screenwriter	Them! A Dog of Flanders
	28	John Huston	81	US	Actor, Director, Screenwriter	The Maltese Falcon The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
	29	Lee Marvin	63	US	Actor	The Dirty Dozen The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
September	1	Philip Friend	72	UK	Actor	Buccaneer's Girl The Son of Robin Hood
	4	Richard Marquand	49	UK	Director	Return of the Jedi Jagged Edge
	5	Bill Fraser	79	UK	Actor	Up Pompeii Up the Chastity Belt
	11	Lorne Greene	72	Canada	Actor	Earthquake The Buccaneer
	12	John Qualen	87	US	Actor	His Girl Friday The Grapes of Wrath
	13	Mervyn LeRoy	86	US	Director	Quo Vadis Mister Roberts
	23	Bob Fosse	60	US	Director, Screenwriter	Cabaret All That Jazz
	23	Erland Van Lidth De Jeude	34	Netherlands	Actor	The Running Man Stir Crazy
	25	Mary Astor	81	US	Actress	The Maltese Falcon Meet Me in St. Louis
	25	Emlyn Williams	81	UK	Actor, Screenwriter	The Man Who Knew Too Much The Citadel
October	2	Madeleine Carroll	81	UK	Actress	The 39 Steps Secret Agent
	21	Bob Simmons	64	UK	Stuntman	James Bond A Touch of Class
	22	Lino Ventura	68	Italy	Actor	Illustrious Corpses The Dictator's Guns
November	4	Danielle Gaubert	44	France	Actress	Flight from Ashiya Camille 2000
	5	Georges Franju	75	France	Director, Screenwriter	Judex Nuits Rouges
	11	John 'Dusty' King	78	US	Actor, Singer	The Range Busters Law of the Jungle
	23	Marcia Henderson	58	US	Actress	All I Desire Back to God's Country
	26	Morton Lowry	73	UK	Actor	How Green Was My Valley The Hound of the Baskervilles
	29	Irene Handl	85	UK	Actress	The Italian Job I'm All Right Jack
December	4	Rouben Mamoulian	90	Georgia	Director	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde The Mark of Zorro
	8	Fay Baker	70	US	Actress	Notorious She Devil
	14	Clinton Sundberg	84	US	Actor	Annie Get Your Gun Easter Parade
	21	Robert Paige	76	US	Actor	Son of Dracula Bye Bye Birdie
	21	Ralph Nelson	71	US	Director	Charly Lilies of the Field

Film debuts

• Patricia Arquette – A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
• Obba Babatundé – Leonard Part 6
• Dylan Baker – Ishtar
• Alec Baldwin – Forever, Lulu
• Christian Bale – Mio in the Land of Faraway
• Jason Bateman – Teen Wolf Too
• Paul Ben-Victor – Pass the Ammo
• Gil Birmingham – House II: The Second Story
• Doug Bradley – Hellraiser
• Sandra Bullock – Hangmen
• Vanessa Bell Calloway – Number One with a Bullet
• Patricia Clarkson – The Untouchables
• Robert Clohessy – The Believers
• George Clooney – Return to Horror High
• Chris Cooper – Matewan
• Courteney Cox – Down Twisted
• Bryan Cranston – Amazon Women on the Moon
• Raymond Cruz – Maid to Order
• Stacey Dash – Enemy Territory
• Stephen Dorff – The Gate
• Illeana Douglas – Hello Again
• Edie Falco – Sweet Lorraine
• Thierry Frémont – Travelling avant
• Kurt Fuller – The Running Man
• James Gandolfini – Shock! Shock! Shock!
• Aidan Gillen – The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
• Beth Grant – Under Cover
• Richard E. Grant – Withnail and I
• Peter Jackson (director) – Bad Taste
• Thomas Jane – Padamati Sandhya Ragam
• Cherry Jones – Light of Day
• Doug Jones – The Newlydeads
• Nathan Lane – Ironweed
• Anthony LaPaglia – Cold Steel
• Robert LaSardo – China Girl
• Gong Li – Red Sorghum
• Steven Mackintosh – Prick Up Your Ears
• Eddie Marsan – Empire State
• Holt McCallany – Creepshow 2
• Dylan McDermott – Hamburger Hill
• Paul McGann – Withnail and I
• Colm Meaney – The Dead
• Penelope Ann Miller – Hotshot
• Robert Patrick – Equalizer 2000
• Sean Pertwee – Prick Up Your Ears
• Robert Peters – Pass the Ammo
• Brad Pitt – No Man's Land
• Glenn Plummer – Who's That Girl
• Tara Reid – A Return to Salem's Lot
• Joan Severance – Lethal Weapon
• David Spade – Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
• Ben Stiller – Hot Pursuit
• Noah Taylor – The Year My Voice Broke
• David Thewlis – Little Dorrit
• Uma Thurman – Kiss Daddy Goodnight
• Nancy Travis – Three Men and a Baby
• Courtney B. Vance – Hamburger Hill
• Jesse Ventura – Predator
• Patrick Warburton – Dragonard
• Frank Whaley – Ironweed
• Luis Zahera – Divinas palabras

External links

• 1987 Domestic Grosses at Box Office Mojo
• List of 1987 films at IMDb
• List of 1987 deaths at IMDb
• List of 1987 births at IMDb