Editing 1996 in film (section)

==Film debuts==
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*[[Wes Anderson]] (director) – ''[[Bottle Rocket]]''
*[[Michael Angarano]] – ''[[Childhood's End (film)|Childhood's End]]''
*[[Will Arnett]] – ''Close Up''
*[[Carlos Bardem]] – ''[[Not Love, Just Frenzy]]''
*[[Dee Bradley Baker]] – ''[[Space Jam]]''
*[[Eric Balfour]] – ''Shattered Image''
*[[Boyd Banks]] – ''[[Black Sheep (1996 film)|Black Sheep]]''
*[[Selma Blair]] – ''The Broccoli Theory''
*[[Marc Blucas]] – ''[[Eddie (film)|Eddie]]''
*[[Bobby Cannavale]] – ''[[Night Falls on Manhattan]]''
*[[Billy Crudup]] – ''[[Sleepers (film)|Sleepers]]''
*[[Viola Davis]] – ''The Substance of Fire''
*[[Clea DuVall]] – ''[[Little Witches]]''
*[[Joel Edgerton]] – ''[[Race the Sun (film)|Race the Sun]]''
*[[Kimberly Elise]] – ''[[Set It Off (film)|Set It Off]]''
*[[Aunjanue Ellis]] – ''[[Girls Town (1996 film)|Girls Town]]''
*[[Anna Faris]] – ''Eden''
*[[Joseph Fiennes]] – ''[[Stealing Beauty]]''
*[[Ben Foster (actor)|Ben Foster]] – ''[[Kounterfeit]]''
*[[Laura Fraser]] – ''[[Small Faces (film)|Small Faces]]''
*[[Ryan Gosling]] – ''Frankenstein and Me''
*[[Olivier Gourmet]] – ''[[La Promesse]]''
*[[Tom Hollander]] – ''[[Some Mother's Son]]''
*[[Nicholas Hoult]] – ''[[Intimate Relations (1996 film)|Intimate Relations]]''
*[[Rhys Ifans]] – ''[[August (1996 film)|August]]''
*[[Eddie Izzard]] – ''[[The Secret Agent (1996 film)|The Secret Agent]]''
*[[Mila Kunis]] – ''[[Santa with Muscles]]''
*[[Kelly Macdonald]] – ''[[Trainspotting (film)|Trainspotting]]''
*[[Heike Makatsch]] – ''[[Jailbirds (1996 film)|Jailbirds]]''
*[[Fele Martínez]] – ''[[Thesis (1996 film)|Thesis]]''
*[[Natascha McElhone]] – ''[[Surviving Picasso]]''
*[[Kevin McKidd]] – ''Trainspotting''
*[[Mads Mikkelsen]] – ''[[Pusher (1996 film)|Pusher]]''
*[[Radha Mitchell]] – ''[[Love and Other Catastrophes]]''
*[[Gretchen Mol]] – ''[[Girl 6]]''
*[[Joel David Moore]] – ''[[Foxfire (1996 film)|Foxfire]]''
*[[Tracy Morgan]] – ''[[A Thin Line Between Love and Hate]]''
*[[Emily Mortimer]] – ''[[The Ghost and the Darkness]]''
*[[Edward Norton]] – ''[[Primal Fear (film)|Primal Fear]]''
*[[Timothy Olyphant]] – ''[[The First Wives Club]]''
*[[Patton Oswalt]] – ''[[Down Periscope]]''
*[[Chris Parnell]] – ''[[Jingle All the Way]]''
*[[Jaime Pressly]] – ''Mercenary''
*[[Freddie Prinze, Jr.]] – ''[[To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday]]''
*[[Missi Pyle]] – ''The Cottonwood''
*[[Mary Lynn Rajskub]] – ''[[The Truth About Cats & Dogs]]''
*[[Tom Everett Scott]] – ''[[That Thing You Do!]]''
*[[John Slattery]] – ''[[City Hall (1996 film)|City Hall]]''
*[[Octavia Spencer]] – ''[[A Time to Kill (1996 film)|A Time to Kill]]''
*[[Julia Stiles]] – ''[[I Love You, I Love You Not]]''
*[[Oleg Taktarov]] – ''Total Force''
*[[David Tennant]] – ''[[Jude (film)|Jude]]''
*[[Justin Theroux]] – ''[[I Shot Andy Warhol]]''
*[[Sam Trammell]] – ''Childhood's End''
*[[Donnie Wahlberg]] – ''[[Bullet (1996 film)|Bullet]]''
*[[Emily Watson]] – ''[[Breaking the Waves]]''
*[[Billy West]] - ''[[Joe's Apartment]]''
*[[Michael Kenneth Williams]] – ''Bullet''
*[[Luke Wilson]] – ''Bottle Rocket''
*[[Owen Wilson]] – ''Bottle Rocket''
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