1997 in film

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1997 in film

The year 1997 in film involved many significant films, including Titanic, The Full Monty, Gattaca, Donnie Brasco, Good Will Hunting, Boogie Nights, L.A. Confidential, The Fifth Element, Nil by Mouth, and the beginning of the film studio DreamWorks.

Highest-grossing films

The top 10 films released in 1997 by worldwide gross are as follows:^[1]

Highest-grossing films of 1997
Rank	Title	Distributor	Worldwide gross (USD)
1	Titanic	Paramount / 20th Century Fox	$1,843,201,268^{[nb 1]}^[2]
2	The Lost World: Jurassic Park	Universal	$618,638,999
3	Men in Black	Sony Pictures / Columbia	$589,390,539
4	Tomorrow Never Dies	MGM / UIP	$333,011,068
5	Air Force One	Sony Pictures / Columbia / Buena Vista	$315,156,409
6	As Good as It Gets	Sony Pictures / TriStar	$314,178,011
7	Liar Liar	Universal	$302,710,615
8	My Best Friend's Wedding	Sony Pictures / TriStar	$299,288,605
9	The Fifth Element	Sony Pictures / Columbia / Gaumont	$263,920,180
10	The Full Monty	20th Century Fox	$257,938,649

↑ Excluding the gross from subsequent re-releases.

Box office records

Titanic became the first film in history to pass $1 billion at the box office on March 1, 1998. Titanic held the record for the highest-grossing film of all time for 12 years until it was surpassed by Avatar (also directed by James Cameron) on January 25, 2010.
The Jurassic Park franchise became the sixth film franchise to gross $1 billion with the release of The Lost World: Jurassic Park.^[3]
Sony Pictures became the year's highest-grossing distributor in the United States and Canada, with $1.3 billion in domestic gross. It was the first time Sony Pictures topped the domestic box office, after Disney was the top-grossing domestic distributor for the previous three years.^[4]

Events

The Star Wars Special Editions, a theatrical anniversary edition of the original Star Wars trilogy, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the release of Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, are released.
The Fifth Element is released, becoming a global box office success. It will go on to become the top-grossing French film of all time, a record it will hold for 14 years until the release of The Intouchables in 2011.
Titanic becomes the first film to gross US$1 billion at the box office, making it the highest-grossing film in history until Avatar broke the record in 2010.
The Lost World: Jurassic Park grosses a record $90,161,880 on Memorial Day Weekend.

Academy Awards

Golden Globe Awards

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Taste of Cherry (طعم گيلاس, Ta'm-e gilass), directed by Abbas Kiarostami, Iran / France

The Eel (うなぎ, Unagi), directed by Shohei Imamura, Japan

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Hana-bi (Fireworks), directed by Takeshi Kitano, Japan

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

The People vs. Larry Flynt, directed by Miloš Forman, Canada / United States

Award ceremonies

Awards

Category/Organization	55th Golden Globe Awards January 18, 1998		3rd Critics' Choice Awards January 20, 1998	Producers, Directors, Screen Actors, and Writers Guild Awards	70th Academy Awards March 23, 1998	51st BAFTA Awards April 18, 1998
Category/Organization	Drama	Musical or Comedy	3rd Critics' Choice Awards January 20, 1998		70th Academy Awards March 23, 1998	51st BAFTA Awards April 18, 1998
Best Film	Titanic	As Good as It Gets	L.A. Confidential	Titanic		The Full Monty
Best Director	James Cameron Titanic					Baz Luhrmann Romeo + Juliet
Best Actor	Peter Fonda Ulee's Gold	Jack Nicholson As Good as It Gets				Robert Carlyle The Full Monty
Best Actress	Judi Dench Mrs Brown	Helen Hunt As Good as It Gets	Helena Bonham Carter The Wings of the Dove	Helen Hunt As Good as It Gets		Judi Dench Mrs Brown
Best Supporting Actor	Burt Reynolds Boogie Nights		Anthony Hopkins Amistad	Robin Williams Good Will Hunting		Tom Wilkinson The Full Monty
Best Supporting Actress	Kim Basinger L.A. Confidential		Joan Cusack In & Out	Kim Basinger L.A. Confidential Gloria Stuart Titanic	Kim Basinger L.A. Confidential	Sigourney Weaver The Ice Storm
Best Screenplay, Adapted	Good Will Hunting Ben Affleck and Matt Damon		L.A. Confidential Brian Helgeland and Curtis Hanson			Romeo + Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce
Best Screenplay, Original	Good Will Hunting Ben Affleck and Matt Damon		Good Will Hunting Ben Affleck and Matt Damon	Mark Andrus and James L. Brooks As Good As It Gets	Good Will Hunting Ben Affleck and Matt Damon	Nil by Mouth Gary Oldman
Best Original Score	Titanic James Horner		N/A	N/A	Titanic James Horner	Romeo + Juliet Nellee Hooper
Best Original Song	"My Heart Will Go On" Titanic		N/A	N/A	"My Heart Will Go On" Titanic	N/A
Best Foreign Language Film	My Life in Pink		Shall We Dance?	N/A	Character	Ridicule

1997 films

By genre/medium

Births

January 2 – Melis Sezen, Turkish actress
January 17 – Jake Paul, American YouTuber, actor and boxer
January 21 – Jeremy Shada, American actor and musician
January 24
- Jonah Bobo, American actor
- Dylan Riley Snyder, American actor
February 2 – Ellie Bamber, English actress
February 8
- Kathryn Newton, American actress
- Quintessa Swindell, American actor
February 10 – Chloë Grace Moretz, American actress
February 12 – Shane Baumel, American former teen actor
February 14 – Madison Iseman, American actress
February 23 – Pallavi Dey, Indian actress (d. 2022)
February 25 – Isabelle Fuhrman, American actress
March 2 – Becky G, American singer and actress
March 3 – Camila Cabello, Cuban singer and actress
March 6 – Alisha Boe, Norwegian-American actress
March 9 – Niamh Wilson, Canadian actress
March 10 – Madeleine Arthur, Canadian actress
March 18 – Ciara Bravo, American actress
March 28 – Annabelle Davis, English actress
April 1 – Asa Butterfield, English actor
April 5 – Henry Hunter Hall, American actor
April 15
- Toheeb Jimoh, English actor
- Maisie Williams, English actress
April 23 – Alex Ferris, Canadian actor
April 25 – Tony Poljan, American Football Player
April 26 – Amber Midthunder, American actress
May 2 – Perla Haney-Jardine, Brazilian-American actress
May 11 – Lana Condor, American actress
May 12 – Odeya Rush, Israeli actress
May 24 - Aysha Joy Samuel, German actress
May 30
- Zoe Renee, American actress
- Jake Short, American actor
June 13 – Theodore Pellerin, Canadian actor
June 16 – Camila Morrone, American model and actress
June 17 – KJ Apa, New Zealand actor
June 18 – Max Records, American actor
June 19 - Molly Windsor, English actress
June 21 - Sam Buchanan, English actor
June 26 – Jacob Elordi, Australian actor
July 13 – Leo Howard, American actor and martial artist
July 18 – Fionn Whitehead, British actor
July 19 – Amita Suman, Nepali-British actress
July 22 – Field Cate, American actor
July 23 – Chloé Hayden, Australian actress
August 5
- Olivia Holt, American actress and singer
- Adam Irigoyen, American actor
August 13 – Yeo Jin-goo, South Korean actor
August 18 – Josephine Langford, Australian actress
August 25
- Holly Gibbs, English child actress
- Bryana Salaz, American actress and singer
August 28 – Emilia McCarthy, Canadian actress
August 30 – Dana Gaier, American actress
September 7 – Dean-Charles Chapman, English actor
September 9 - Tallulah Haddon, British actress
September 12 – Sydney Sweeney, American actress
September 16 – Elena Kampouris, American actress
September 19 – Jayme Lawson, American actress
September 30 – Havana Rose Liu, American actress, model, dancer, activist and designer
October 6 – Honor Swinton Byrne, British actress
October 7 – Kira Kosarin, American actress
October 8 – Bella Thorne, American actress
October 10 – Grace Rolek, American actress and voice actress
October 20 – John Bell, Scottish actor
October 23 – Zach Callison, American actor and voice actor
October 26 – Rhenzy Feliz, American actor and singer
October 28 – Sierra McCormick, American actress
November 1
- Max Burkholder, American actor
- Alex Wolff, American actor and musician
November 6 – Hero Fiennes Tiffin, English actor, model and producer
November 8 – Dominique Thorne, American actress
November 13 – Brent and Shane Kinsman, American twin child actors
November 18 – Noah Ringer, American actor
November 26
- Aubrey Joseph, American actor and rapper
- Luka Sabbat, American actor and model
December 11
- Ben Cook, American actor, singer and dancer
- Taylor Hickson, Canadian actress
December 15 – Maude Apatow, American actress
December 16 - Spence Moore II, American actor
December 27 – Vachirawit Chivaaree "Bright", Thai actor
December 29 – Kiera Allen, American actress

Deaths

Month	Date	Name	Age	Country	Profession	Notable films
January	1	Joan Rice	66	UK	Actress	The Steel Key His Majesty O'Keefe
	4	Bill Lancaster	49	US	Screenwriter	The Thing The Bad News Bears
	5	Burton Lane	84	US	Composer, Lyricist	Royal Wedding On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
	6	Catherine Scorsese	84	US	Actress	Goodfellas The Godfather Part III
	9	Jesse White	80	US	Actor	Harvey It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
	10	Sheldon Leonard	89	US	Actor, Director, Producer	It's a Wonderful Life To Have and Have Not
	18	Diana Lewis	77	US	Actress	Go West It's a Gift
	19	Adriana Caselotti	80	US	Actress	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs The Wizard of Oz
	19	James Dickey	73	US	Screenwriter	Deliverance
	19	Charles Nelson	95	Sweden	Film Editor	Picnic The Big Heat
	21	Marcello Danon	76	Bulgaria	Producer, Screenwriter	La Cage aux Folles OSS 117 Is Unleashed
	21	Polly Ann Young	88	US	Actress	The Man from Utah The Crimson Trail
	23	David Waller	76	UK	Actor	Lady Jane The Secret Garden
	23	Bill Zuckert	81	US	Actor	Ace Ventura: Pet Detective Hang 'Em High
	27	Bill Kennedy	88	US	Actor	Now, Voyager Mr. Skeffington
	27	Richard X. Slattery	71	US	Actor	The Boston Strangler Herbie Rides Again
	31	Eve Lister	83	UK	Actress	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street No Limit
February	1	Marjorie Reynolds	79	US	Actress	Gone with the Wind Holiday Inn
	4	Robert Clouse	68	US	Director	Enter the Dragon Ironheart
	5	Harry Essex	86	US	Screenwriter, Director	Creature from the Black Lagoon The Sons of Katie Elder
	7	Mary Wills	82	US	Costume Designer	The Diary of Anne Frank Cape Fear
	8	Robert Ridgely	65	US	Actor	Philadelphia Boogie Nights
	11	Barry Evans	53	UK	Actor	Alfred the Great Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
	11	Don Porter	84	US	Actor	The Candidate Mame
	12	James Cossins	63	UK	Actor	The Man with the Golden Gun Gandhi
	19	Frank Delfino	86	US	Actor	Planet of the Apes Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
	23	Frank Launder	91	UK	Screenwriter, Director	I See a Dark Stranger Night Train to Munich
	23	Oscar Lewenstein	80	UK	Producer	Tom Jones The Bride Wore Black
	25	Scott Forbes	76	UK	Actor	The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel Operation Pacific
	25	Arthur Hewlett	89	UK	Actor	Man About the House Little Dorrit
	26	David Doyle	67	US	Actor	Capricorn One Loving
	26	Wende Wagner	55	US	Actress	Rosemary's Baby Guns of the Magnificent Seven
March	4	Carey Loftin	83	US	Stuntman, Actor	The Deer Hunter Patton
	5	William Roberts	83	US	Screenwriter	The Magnificent Seven The Last American Hero
	8	Alexander Salkind	75	Poland	Producer	Superman The Three Musketeers
	9	Terry Nation	66	UK	Screenwriter	And Soon the Darkness Dr. Who and the Daleks
	13	Ronald Fraser	66	UK	Actor	The Flight of the Phoenix The Wild Geese
	14	Fred Zinnemann	89	Austria	Director, Producer	From Here to Eternity High Noon
	15	Gail Davis	71	US	Actress	Six Gun Mesa The Far Frontier
	16	Leda Gloria	84	Italy	Actress	Le Petit Monde de Don Camillo Le Retour de Don Camillo
	22	John Hoesli	78	UK	Art Director	The African Queen 2001: A Space Odyssey
	29	Ellen Pollock	94	UK	Actress	Piccadilly Horror Hospital
	30	Jack Bernhard	82	US	Director	Blonde Ice Decoy
April	2	Anthony Bushell	92	UK	Actor	A Night to Remember The Battle of the River Plate
	2	Tomoyuki Tanaka	86	Japan	Producer	Godzilla Kagemusha
	4	Mike Raven	72	UK	Actor	Lust for a Vampire I, Monster
	6	Barbara Yu Ling	58	Singapore	Actress	The Satanic Rites of Dracula Hardware
	14	Michael Stroka	58	US	Actor	King Rat House of Dark Shadows
	15	David Dockendorf	73	US	Sound Engineer	Chinatown Planet of the Apes
	16	Roland Topor	59	France	Screenwriter, Actor	The Tenant Fantastic Planet
	20	Jean Louis	89	France	Costume Designer	The Caine Mutiny A Star Is Born
	24	Pat Paulsen	69	Mexico	Actor	Night Patrol Harper Valley PTA
	25	Brian May	62	Australia	Composer	Mad Max Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
	26	John Beal	87	US	Actor	Alimony My Six Convicts
	26	Joey Faye	87	US	Actor	Top Banana The Tender Trap
	26	Neil Robinson	61	US	Actor	8½ Samson and Delilah
	27	Gabriel Figueroa	90	Mexico	Cinematographer	Kelly's Heroes The Exterminating Angel
	27	Paul Lambert	74	US	Actor	Planet of the Apes Spartacus
	28	Steve Conte	77	Italy	Actor	The Onion Field The Wild World of Batwoman
May	1	Bo Widerberg	66	Sweden	Director, Screenwriter	Raven's End Elvira Madigan
	3	Hughie Green	77	UK	Actor, Producer	Hills of Home Tom Brown's School Days
	4	Alvy Moore	75	US	Actor, Producer	A Boy and His Dog 5 Against the House
	5	Walter Gotell	73	UK	Actor	From Russia with Love The Spy Who Loved Me
	6	Jorge Martínez de Hoyos	76	Mexico	Actor	The Magnificent Seven Cronos
	9	Marco Ferreri	68	Italy	Director, Screenwriter	Dillinger Is Dead La Grande Bouffe
	9	Paul Zastupnevich	75	US	Costume Designer	The Towering Inferno The Poseidon Adventure
	10	John P. Austin	90	US	Set Decorator	Touch of Evil Diamonds Are Forever
	11	Catherine McLeod	75	US	Actress	I've Always Loved You That's My Man
	11	Howard Morton	71	US	Actor	The Mechanic The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
	14	Thelma Carpenter	75	US	Singer, Actress	The Wiz The Cotton Club
	15	Bridgette Andersen	21	US	Actress	Nightmares Savannah Smiles
	16	Giuseppe De Santis	80	Italy	Director, Screenwriter	Bitter Rice Attack and Retreat
	20	John Rawlins	94	US	Director, Film Editor	Dick Tracy's Dilemma Fort Defiance
	22	Renzo Montagnani	66	Italy	Actor	The Date The Trade Unionist
	23	Frances E. Nealy	78	US	Actress	Ghostbusters WarGames
	24	Edward Mulhare	74	Ireland	Actor	Von Ryan's Express Out to Sea
	28	Sydney Guilaroff	89	US	Makeup Artist	The Wizard of Oz North by Northwest
	29	George Fenneman	77	US	Actor	The Thing from Another World Ocean's 11
June	14	Marjorie Best	94	US	Costume Designer	Rio Bravo Giant
	14	Richard Jaeckel	70	US	Actor	The Dirty Dozen Sometimes a Great Notion
	16	Elizabeth McBride	42	US	Costume Designer	Driving Miss Daisy The Shawshank Redemption
	17	Maurice Rootes	80	UK	Film Editor	Jason and the Argonauts First Men in the Moon
	19	Olga Georges-Picot	57	France	Actress	The Day of the Jackal Love and Death
	22	Don Henderson	65	UK	Actor	Star Wars Brazil
	23	Rosina Lawrence	84	Canada	Actress	Way Out West The Great Ziegfeld
	24	Brian Keith	75	US	Actor	The Parent Trap Nevada Smith
	25	Jacques Cousteau	87	France	Documentarian	The Silent World World Without Sun
	26	George Bassman	83	US	Composer, Orchestrator	The Wizard of Oz Gone with the Wind
	28	Gary DeVore	69	US	Screenwriter	The Dogs of War Raw Deal
	29	William Hickey	69	US	Actor	Prizzi's Honor National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
July	1	Robert Mitchum	79	US	Actor	Cape Fear Out of the Past
	2	James Stewart	89	US	Actor	It's a Wonderful Life Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
	9	Carol Forman	79	US	Actress	The Black Widow The Feathered Serpent
	15	Rosamund Greenwood	90	UK	Actress	Village of the Damned The Witches
	16	William Reynolds	87	US	Film Editor	The Godfather The Sound of Music
	17	Gene Warren	80	US	Visual Effects Artist	The Time Machine Black Sunday
	20	Linda Stirling	75	US	Actress	The Tiger Woman The Mysterious Mr. Valentine
	23	David Warbeck	55	New Zealand	Actor	Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood Duck, You Sucker!
	24	Brian Glover	63	UK	Actor	Alien 3 An American Werewolf in London
	27	Isabel Dean	79	UK	Actor	Oh! What a Lovely War The Passionate Friends
	28	Rosalie Crutchley	77	UK	Actress	Four Weddings and a Funeral The Haunting
August	4	Dick Bush	65	UK	Cinematographer	Tommy Victor Victoria
	5	Don Steele	61	US	Actor	Gremlins Grand Theft Auto
	15	Glenn Corbett	74	US	Actor	Fixed Bayonets! The Violent Years
	18	Don Knight	64	UK	Actor	Swamp Thing The Apple Dumpling Gang
	18	Jeep Swenson	40	US	Actor	Batman & Robin Bulletproof
	19	Cathleen Cordell	82	US	Actress	MASH The Return of the Living Dead
	20	Leo Jaffe	88	US	Studio Executive
	25	Camilla Spira	81	Germany	Actor	Die Buntkarierten Morgenrot
	25	William H. Tuntke	90	Germany	Art Director, Production Designer	Mary Poppins The Andromeda Strain
	27	Sally Blane	87	US	Actress	I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang The Sheik
	27	Dick N. Lucas	77	US	Animator	The Jungle Book One Hundred and One Dalmatians
	27	Brandon Tartikoff	48	US	Studio Executive
	28	Eve Smith	91	US	Actress	Romancing the Stone Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
	31	Dodi Fayed	42	Egypt	Producer	Hook Chariots of Fire
	31	Will Hare	81	US	Actor	Back to the Future The Rose
September	5	Eddie Little Sky	71	US	Actor	A Man Called Horse Paint Your Wagon
	7	Elisabeth Brooks	46	Canada	Actress	The Howling Family Plot
	8	Helen Shaw	100	US	Actress	Parenthood Twilight Zone: The Movie
	9	Burgess Meredith	89	US	Actor	Rocky Batman
	13	Audrey Fildes	74	UK	Actress	Kind Hearts and Coronets While I Live
	13	Georges Guétary	82	France	Actor	An American in Paris The Road to Paradise
	16	Terence Cooper	64	Ireland	Actor	No Way Out Casino Royale
	16	Gerry Turpin	72	UK	Cinematographer	The Last of Sheila Séance on a Wet Afternoon
	17	Jerry Gershwin	71	US	Producer	Harper Blood In Blood Out
	17	Brian Hall	59	UK	Actor	The Long Good Friday The Land That Time Forgot
	17	Red Skelton	84	US	Actor, Comedian	DuBarry Was a Lady The Fuller Brush Man
	19	Jack May	75	UK	Actor	The Man Who Would Be King The Bounty
	21	Jennifer Holt	76	US	Actress	Stick to Your Guns Gun Smoke
	21	Maurice Kaufmann	70	UK	Actor	A Shot in the Dark The Abominable Dr. Phibes
	26	Dorothy Kingsley	87	US	Screenwriter	Angels in the Outfield Valley of the Dolls
	26	Samuel W. Taylor	90	US	Screenwriter	The Man with My Face Bait
October	3	John Ashley	62	US	Actor, Producer	Muscle Beach Party Young Dillinger
	3	Verna Hillie	83	US	Actress	The Star Packer The Trail Beyond
	3	Jarl Kulle	70	Sweden	Actor, Director, Screenwriter	Fanny and Alexander Babette's Feast
	5	Andrew Keir	71	UK	Actor	Cleopatra Rob Roy
	5	Debbie Linden	36	UK	Actress	Eat the Rich Bloodbath at the House of Death
	9	Arch Johnson	75	US	Actor	The Sting Niagara
	10	Stella Bonheur	92	UK	Actress	The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone Intent to Kill
	12	John Denver	53	US	Singer, Actor	Oh, God! Fire and Ice
	13	Joyce Compton	90	US	Actress	The Best Years of Our Lives Mildred Pierce
	14	Hy Averback	76	US	Director, Producer, Actor	I Love You, Alice B. Toklas Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
	16	Audra Lindley	79	US	Actress	The Heartbreak Kid Best Friends
	17	Ben Welden	96	US	Actor	The Big Sleep The Roaring Twenties
	18	Milt Neil	83	US	Animator	Fantasia Dumbo
	19	Arthur Ibbetson	75	UK	Cinematographer	Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory Where Eagles Dare
	20	Ron Tarr	60	UK	Actor	Willow A View to a Kill
	24	Michael Balfour	79	UK	Actor	Batman Fahrenheit 451
	24	Don Messick	71	US	Voice Actor	Jetsons: The Movie The Transformers: The Movie
	28	Paul Jarrico	82	US	Screenwriter	Tom, Dick and Harry The Girl Most Likely
	30	Samuel Fuller	85	US	Director, Screenwriter	The Big Red One Shock Corridor
November	5	Louise Campbell	86	US	Actress	Emergency Squad Night Club Scandal
	6	William Watson	59	US	Actor	In the Heat of the Night Chato's Land
	8	Michael Ward	88	UK	Actor	Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell Revenge of the Pink Panther
	10	Ave Ninchi	82	Italy	Actress	Lacombe Lucien Murmur of the Heart
	11	William Alland	81	US	Producer, Actor	Citizen Kane Creature from the Black Lagoon
	12	Sándor Szabó	82	Hungary	Actor	Topaz Bluebeard
	13	Dietrich Lohmann	54	Germany	Cinematographer	Deep Impact The Peacemaker
	15	Saul Chaplin	85	US	Musical Director, Producer	West Side Story Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
	15	Warren Douglas	86	US	Actor, Screenwriter	Homicide Incident
	15	David Toguri	64	Canada	Choreographer, Actor	Who Framed Roger Rabbit The Rocky Horror Picture Show
	16	David K. Stewart	60	??	Visual Effects Artist	Blade Runner Alien 3
	17	Peter James	73	UK	Set Decorator, Art Director	Lolita The Parent Trap
	17	Wilfred Josephs	70	UK	Composer, Orchestrator	The Deadly Bees Frantic
	19	Alfred Roome	88	UK	Film Editor, Director	Carry On The Lady Vanishes
	21	Jack Purvis	60	UK	Actor	Star Wars Time Bandits
	22	Joanna Moore	63	US	Actress	Follow That Dream Walk on the Wild Side
	23	Robert Lewis	88	US	Director, Actor	Anything Goes Ziegfeld Follies
	25	Charles Hallahan	54	US	Actor	The Thing Dante's Peak
	30	Glyn Dearman	57	UK	Actor	Scrooge The Flesh and the Fiends
December	2	Marge Kotlisky	70	US	Actress	Sixteen Candles Major Dundee
	4	Richard Vernon	72	UK	Actor	Goldfinger A Hard Day's Night
	14	Stubby Kaye	79	US	Actor	Guys and Dolls Cat Ballou
	16	Richard Warwick	52	UK	Actor	Romeo and Juliet Hamlet
	17	Peter Taylor	75	UK	Film Editor	The Bridge on the River Kwai Summertime
	18	Chris Farley	33	US	Actor, Comedian	Tommy Boy Beverly Hills Ninja
	19	Michael Alldredge	56	US	Actor	Scarface Iron Eagle
	20	Dawn Steel	51	US	Producer, Executive	City of Angels Cool Runnings
	23	Stanley Cortez	89	US	Cinematographer	Chinatown The Night of the Hunter
	24	Toshiro Mifune	77	Japan	Actor, Producer	Seven Samurai Rashomon
	25	Denver Pyle	77	US	Actor	Bonnie and Clyde The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
	28	Bill Anderson	86	US	Producer	Swiss Family Robinson Old Yeller
	31	Billie Dove	94	US	Actress	The Black Pirate Beyond the Rainbow

Film debuts

Simon Baker – L.A. Confidential
Eric Bana – The Castle
Mischa Barton – Lawn Dogs
Paul Bettany – Bent
Leslie Bibb – Private Parts
Jessica Biel – Ulee's Gold
Cate Blanchett – Paradise Road
Orlando Bloom – Wilde
Gerard Butler – Mrs. Brown
John Cho – Shopping for Fangs
Jason Clarke – Dilemma
James D'Arcy – Wilde
Jack Davenport – Fierce Creatures
Chiwetel Ejiofor – Amistad
Shannon Elizabeth – Jack Frost
Mike Epps – Strays
Tom Felton – The Borrowers
Jennifer Garner – Deconstructing Harry
Vahina Giocante – Marie Baie des Anges
Judy Greer – Stricken
Ioan Gruffudd – Wilde
Katie Holmes – The Ice Storm
Sanaa Lathan – Drive
Method Man – One Eight Seven
Ken Marino – Gattaca
Samantha Morton – This Is the Sea
Alessandro Nivola – Inventing the Abbotts
Nick Offerman – Going All the Way
Cheri Oteri – Liar Liar
Sarah Paulson – Levitation
Sara Paxton – Liar Liar
Norman Reedus – Floating
Matthew Rhys – House of America
Maya Rudolph – Gattaca
Amy Sedaris – Commandments
Amy Smart – Campfire Tales
Scott Speedman – Kitchen Party
Mena Suvari – Nowhere
Dominique Swain – Lolita
Alan Tudyk – 35 Miles from Normal
Tristán Ulloa – Memorias del ángel caído
Leonor Varela – Le ciel est à nous
Milo Ventimiglia – Boys Life 2
Olivia Williams – Gaston's War
Dean Winters – Conspiracy Theory
Evan Rachel Wood – Digging to China
Jose Yenque – Fall

References

↑ "1997 Worldwide Box Office". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved March 7, 2020.
↑ "Titanic (1997)". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on March 21, 2012.
↑ "The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on May 9, 2021. Retrieved May 27, 2021.
↑ McNary, Dave (31 December 1997). "Sony's slew of hit movies exterminates Disney out of top spot". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. p. 10. Retrieved 16 April 2022 – via Newspapers.com.

External links

List of 1997 films at IMDb
1997 Domestic Grosses at Box Office Mojo
List of 1997 deaths at IMDb
List of 1997 births at IMDb

View original on Wikipedia

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[1] "1997 Worldwide Box Office". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved March 7, 2020.

[3] "Titanic (1997)". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on March 21, 2012.

[4] "The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on May 9, 2021. Retrieved May 27, 2021.

[5] McNary, Dave (31 December 1997). "Sony's slew of hit movies exterminates Disney out of top spot". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. p. 10. Retrieved 16 April 2022 – via Newspapers.com.

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