


Steven Hilliard Stern (director) David J. NBC Productions / Von Zerneck Sertner Films / Worldwide Media Barry, Randi Brooks, Steven Lambert, Christopher Wynne, Jan McGill, Vicki Wauchope, Melinda Lynch, John Petievich, Dennis Stewart, Annie McEnroe Harris (director/screenplay) James Woods, Lesley Ann Warren, Charles Durning, Charles Haid, Raymond J. ( May 2015)īurt Kennedy (director/screenplay) Willie Nelson, Richard Widmark, Shaun Cassidy, Chuck Connors, Ken Curtis, Royal Dano, Jack Elam, Gene Evans, Kevin McCarthy, Dub Taylor, Stuart Whitman, Angie Dickinson, Red West, Clare Carey, Don Collier, Dennis Fimple, Harry Carey Jr., Hank Worden, Jeb Stuart Adams, David Michael O'Neill, John Calkins This article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards. Golden Bear (Berlin International Film Festival) Red Sorghum ( Hong gao liang), directed by Zhang Yimou, China 1988 Wide-release films Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival) La leggenda del santo bevitore ( The Legend of the Holy Drinker), directed by Ermanno Olmi, Italy / France Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival) Pelle the Conqueror ( Pelle erobreren), directed by Bille August, Denmark

Winning four Academy Awards including Best Picture, it was the last MGM title to be nominated for Best Picture until Licorice Pizza (2021) 33 years later. December 16 – Rain Man is released to critical and commercial success and became the highest grossing film of 1988 worldwide with a gross of $355 million.In North America alone, VHS sales come to $75 million. 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. October 10 – Batman officially commences filming at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire.Hailed as an influential landmark in the action film genre, it influenced a common formula for many action films in the 1990s, featuring a lone everyman against a colorful terrorist character who's usually holding hostages in an isolated setting. July 15 – Die Hard defies low commercial expectations to gross $141.5 million worldwide.The film failed to match the box office earnings from Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985). May 25 – Rambo III was released as the most expensive film ever made with a production budget between $58 and $63 million.

The top 10 films released in 1988 by worldwide gross are as follows: Highest-grossing films of 1988 See also: List of 1988 box office number-one films in the United States
