Editing 1990 in film

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The year '''1990 in film''' involved many significant events as shown below. [[Universal Pictures]] celebrated its 75th anniversary in 1990, despite its actual 75th anniversary taking place in 1987.

==Highest-grossing films==
{{see also|Lists of box office number-one films#1990}}
The top 10 films released in 1990 by worldwide gross are as follows:<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/world/1990/?ref_=bo_cso_table_1|title=1990 Worldwide Box Office |website=[[Box Office Mojo]]|publisher=[[IMDb]]|access-date=March 7, 2020}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:auto; margin:auto;"
|+ Highest-grossing films of 1990
|-
!Rank!!Title!!Distributor!!Worldwide gross
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 1
| ''[[Ghost (1990 film)|Ghost]]''
| [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]]
| $505,702,588
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 2
| ''[[Home Alone]]''
| [[20th Century Fox]]
| $476,684,675
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 3
| ''[[Pretty Woman]]''
| [[Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures|Buena Vista]]
| $463,406,268
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 4
| ''[[Dances with Wolves]]''
| [[Orion Pictures|Orion]]
| $424,208,848
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 5
| ''[[Total Recall (1990 film)|Total Recall]]''
| [[TriStar Pictures|TriStar]] / [[Carolco Pictures|Carolco]]
| $261,317,921
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 6
| ''[[Back to the Future Part III]]''
| [[Universal Pictures|Universal]]
| $245,000,000
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 7
| ''[[Die Hard 2]]''
| [[20th Century Studios|20th Century Fox]]
| $240,031,094
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 8
| ''[[Presumed Innocent (film)|Presumed Innocent]]''
| [[Warner Bros.]]
| $221,303,188
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 9
| ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990 film)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]''
| [[New Line Cinema|New Line]]
| $202,084,756
|-
! style="text-align:center;"| 10
| ''[[Kindergarten Cop]]''
|  [[Universal Pictures|Universal]] 
| $201,957,688
|}

==Events==
* March 2 - ''[[The Hunt for Red October (film)|The Hunt for Red October]]'' is released. It is the first film in [[Tom Clancy]]'s ''[[Jack Ryan (franchise)|Jack Ryan]]'' franchise and is met with critical and blockbuster commercial success.
* March 23 – ''[[Pretty Woman]]'' is released and grosses $463 million, making [[Julia Roberts]] a worldwide star.
* March 30 – ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990 film)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' is released to massive box office success. At the time, it is the highest-grossing independent film in history.
* May 25 – [[Universal Pictures]] unveils a new opening logo with music composed by [[James Horner]], which debuts on ''[[Back to the Future Part III]]''. It is the first change to the Universal opening logo in 27 years.
* June 1  – [[Timeline of CGI in film and television|CGI technique]] is expanded with [[motion capture]] for [[Computer-generated imagery|CGI]] characters, used in ''[[Total Recall (1990 film)|Total Recall]]''.
* June 15 – Following a massive media and marketing blitz, ''[[Dick Tracy (1990 film)|Dick Tracy]]'' is released. [[Walt Disney Studios (division)|Walt Disney Studios]] chairman [[Jeffrey Katzenberg]] expressed disappointment in a studio memo that noted that the film had cost about $100 million in total to produce, market and promote and with its disappointing performance claimed "We made demands on our time, talent and treasury that, upon reflection, may not have been worth it".
* June 22 – The use of real-time [[computer graphics]] or "[[digital puppetry]]" to create a character in a motion picture is performed, in ''[[RoboCop 2]]''.
* July 4 – The first digitally-manipulated [[matte painting]] is used, in ''[[Die Hard 2]]''.
* July 13 - ''[[Ghost (1990 film)|Ghost]]'', starring [[Patrick Swayze]], [[Demi Moore]] and [[Whoopi Goldberg]], is released and grosses $506 million, making it the third highest-grossing movie at the time.
* November 9 – [[Kevin Costner]]'s directorial debut, ''[[Dances with Wolves]]'', is released. It later earns twelve [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] nominations and wins seven, including [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]] and [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]] for Costner.
* November 16
** ''[[Home Alone]]'' is released. It spends twelve consecutive weeks at number one on the United States box office, becoming both the highest-grossing film of the year and the [[List of highest-grossing comedy films|highest-grossing comedy of all-time]].
**''[[The Rescuers Down Under]]'' is considered as the first fully digital film ever made.
* December 24 – [[Tom Cruise]] and [[Nicole Kidman]] marry.
* ''[[Buchwald v. Paramount]]'' decided, a leading case on the financial rewards due to writers of [[film treatment]]s.

== Awards ==
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 90%;"
|-
! rowspan="2" style="width:20px;"| Category/Organization !! colspan="2" style="width:250px;"| [[48th Golden Globe Awards]]<br />January 19, 1991 !! rowspan="2" style="width:250px;" | [[44th British Academy Film Awards|44th BAFTA Awards]]<br /> March 17, 1991!! rowspan="2" style="width:250px;" | [[63rd Academy Awards]]<br />March 25, 1991 
|-
! width=200| Drama !! style="width:200px;"| Musical or Comedy
|-
| Best Film || ''[[Dances with Wolves]]'' || ''[[Green Card (film)|Green Card]]'' || ''[[Goodfellas]]''|| ''[[Dances with Wolves]]'' 
|-
| Best Director || colspan="2" | [[Kevin Costner]]<br />''[[Dances with Wolves]]'' || [[Martin Scorsese]]<br />''[[Goodfellas]]''
|[[Kevin Costner]]<br />''[[Dances with Wolves]]''
|-
| Best Actor || [[Jeremy Irons]]<br />''[[Reversal of Fortune]]'' || [[Gérard Depardieu]]<br />''[[Green Card (film)|Green Card]]'' || [[Philippe Noiret]]<br />''[[Cinema Paradiso]]''|| [[Jeremy Irons]]<br />''[[Reversal of Fortune]]'' 
|-
| Best Actress || [[Kathy Bates]]<br />''[[Misery (film)|Misery]]'' || [[Julia Roberts]]<br />''[[Pretty Woman]]'' || [[Jessica Tandy]]<br />''[[Driving Miss Daisy]]''||[[Kathy Bates]]<br />''[[Misery (film)|Misery]]'' 
|-
| Best Supporting Actor || colspan="2"| [[Bruce Davison]]<br />''[[Longtime Companion]]'' || [[Salvatore Cascio]]<br />''[[Cinema Paradiso]]''|| [[Joe Pesci]]<br />''[[Goodfellas]]'' 
|-
| Best Supporting Actress || colspan="4" | [[Whoopi Goldberg]]<br />''[[Ghost (1990 film)|Ghost]]''
|-
| Best Screenplay, Adapted || rowspan="2" colspan="2"| [[Michael Blake (author)|Michael Blake]]<br />''[[Dances with Wolves]]'' || [[Martin Scorsese]] and [[Nicholas Pileggi]]<br />''[[Goodfellas]]''|| [[Michael Blake (author)|Michael Blake]]<br />''[[Dances with Wolves]]'' 
|-
| Best Screenplay, Original || [[Giuseppe Tornatore]]<br />''[[Cinema Paradiso]]''|| [[Bruce Joel Rubin]]<br />''[[Ghost (1990 film)|Ghost]]'' 
|-
| Best Original Score || colspan="2"| ''[[The Sheltering Sky (soundtrack)|The Sheltering Sky]]''<br />[[Ryuichi Sakamoto]] and [[Richard Horowitz]] || ''[[Cinema Paradiso]]''<br />[[Ennio Morricone]] and [[Andrea Morricone]]|| ''[[Dances with Wolves]]''<br />[[John Barry (composer)|John Barry]] 
|-
| Best Original Song || colspan="2"| "[[Blaze of Glory (Jon Bon Jovi song)|Blaze of Glory]]"<br />''[[Young Guns II]]'' ||'''N/A'''|| "[[Sooner or Later (Madonna song)|Sooner or Later]]"<br />''[[Dick Tracy (1990 film)|Dick Tracy]]'' 
|-
| Best Foreign Language Film ||colspan="2"| ''[[Cyrano de Bergerac (1990 film)|Cyrano de Bergerac]]'' ||
''[[Cinema Paradiso]]''
| ''[[Journey of Hope (film)|Journey of Hope]]'' 
|}

== 1990 films ==
=== By country/region ===
* [[List of American films of 1990]]
* [[List of Argentine films of 1990]]
* [[List of Australian films of 1990]]
* [[List of Bangladeshi films of 1990]]
* [[List of British films of 1990]]
* [[List of Canadian films of 1990]]
* [[List of French films of 1990]]
* [[List of Hong Kong films of 1990]]
* List of Indian films of 1990
** [[List of Hindi films of 1990]]
** [[List of Kannada films of 1990]]
** [[List of Malayalam films of 1990]]
** [[List of Marathi films of 1990]]
** [[List of Tamil films of 1990]]
** [[List of Telugu films of 1990]]
* [[List of Japanese films of 1990]]
* [[List of Mexican films of 1990]]
* [[List of Pakistani films of 1990]]
* [[List of Soviet films of 1990]]
* [[List of South Korean films of 1990]]
* [[List of Spanish films of 1990]]

===By genre/medium===
* [[List of action films of the 1990s#1990|List of action films of 1990]]
* [[List of animated feature films of 1990]]
* [[List of avant-garde films of the 1990s|List of avant-garde films of 1990]]
* [[List of crime films of 1990]]
* [[List of comedy films of the 1990s#1990|List of comedy films of 1990]]
* [[List of drama films of the 1990s#1990|List of drama films of 1990]]
* [[List of horror films of 1990]]
* [[List of science fiction films of the 1990s#1990fc|List of science fiction films of 1990]]
* [[List of thriller films of the 1990s#1990|List of thriller films of 1990]]
* [[List of Western films of the 1990s|List of western films of 1990]]

== Births ==
* January 1 - [[Tom Ackerley]], British producer and former assistant director
* January 7 – [[Liam Aiken]], American actor
* January 13 – [[Liam Hemsworth]], Australian actor
* January 14 - [[Grant Gustin]], American actor and singer
* January 15 - [[Chris Warren (actor)|Chris Warren]], American actor
* January 18 - [[Zeeko Zaki]], Egyptian-born American actor
* January 19 - [[Shaunette Renée Wilson]], Guyanese-born American actress
* January 21 - [[Jacob Smith (actor)|Jacob Smith]], American actor
* January 23 - [[Joel Basman]], Swiss actor
* January 25 - [[Dustin Ingram]], American actor and musician
* January 26 – [[Christopher Massey]], American actor, comedian and rapper
* January 29 – [[François Civil]], French actor<ref name="libération">{{Cite web |last=Mauduech |first=Bénédicte |date=18 February 2019 |title=François Civil, jeunesse se place |url=https://www.liberation.fr/cinema/2019/02/18/francois-civil-jeunesse-se-place_1710093/ |website=[[Libération]] |language=fr |access-date=16 February 2023 |archive-date=16 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230216044234/https://www.liberation.fr/cinema/2019/02/18/francois-civil-jeunesse-se-place_1710093/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
* January 30
**[[Eiza González]], Mexican actress and singer
**[[Jake Thomas]], American actor and voice actor
* January 31 - [[Siobhán Cullen]], Irish actress 
* February 1 - [[Toby Onwumere]], Nigerian-American actor
* February 2 - [[Julia Fox]], Italian-American actress
* February 4 - [[Will Denton]], American actor
* February 5
**[[Charlbi Dean]], South African actress and model (died [[2022 in film|2022]])
**[[Anthony Ingruber]], Dutch-Australian actor and impressionist
* February 8 - [[Christian Madsen]], American actor
* February 9 - [[Tyson Houseman]], Canadian actor
* February 10 - [[Trevante Rhodes]], American actor
* February 15 - [[Callum Turner]], British actor and model
* February 16 - [[The Weeknd]], Canadian singer-songwriter
* February 21 – [[Flavio Aquilone]], Italian voice actor
* February 28 - [[Georgina Leonidas]], British actress
* March 1 – [[Harry Eden]], British actor
* March 2 - [[Tiger Shroff]], Indian actor
* March 11 - [[Reiley McClendon]], American actor
* March 12 – [[Jörgen Liik]], Estonian actor
* March 13 - [[Sasha Clements]], Canadian actress
* March 20 - [[Stacy Martin]], French actress
* March 24 – [[Keisha Castle-Hughes]], Australian-New Zealand actress
* March 25 - [[Kiowa Gordon]], American actor of Hualapai descent
* March 26 - [[Choi Woo-shik]], Korean-Canadian actor
* March 28 – [[Laura Harrier]], American actress
* March 29 - [[Josh Blaylock]], American actor
* March 30 - [[Chelsea Harris]], American actress
* April 5 - [[Haruma Miura]], Japanese actor (died 2020)
* April 9 – [[Kristen Stewart]], American actress
* April 10 – [[Alex Pettyfer]], English actor and model
* April 12 - [[Jamie Muscato]], English actor and singer
* April 15 – [[Emma Watson]], English actress<ref>{{cite web |title=Emma Watson {{!}} Biography, Movie, Harry Potter, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Emma-Watson |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=9 January 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
* April 16 – [[Lorraine Nicholson]], American actress
* April 17 – [[Gia Mantegna]], American actress
* April 18 - [[Britt Robertson]], American actress
* April 23 – [[Dev Patel]], British actor
* April 25 - [[Meghann Fahy]], American actress
* May 1 - [[Caitlin Stasey]], Australian actress and singer
* May 2 - [[Kay Panabaker]], American retired actress
* May 3 - [[Harvey Guillén]], American actor
* May 6 - [[Moses Storm]], American writer, actor and comedian
* May 14 
** [[Rea Lest-Liik]], Estonia actress
** [[Sasha Spielberg]], American actress, daughter of producer/director [[Steven Spielberg]] and actress [[Kate Capshaw]]
* May 15 - [[Sophie Cookson]], English actress
* May 16
**[[Deniz Akdeniz]], Australian actor
**[[Thomas Brodie-Sangster]], British actor
**[[Marc John Jefferies]], American actor
* May 17
**[[Ross Butler (actor)|Ross Butler]], American actor
**[[Leven Rambin]], American actress
* May 18 - [[Luke Kleintank]], American actor
* May 20 - [[Josh O'Connor]], British actor
* May 24 - [[Félix Moati]], French actor, director and screenwriter
* May 27 - [[Chris Colfer]], American actor and singer
* May 30
**[[Sai Bennett]], English actress
**[[Im Yoon-ah]], South Korean actress
**[[Mason Lee]], Taiwanese-American actor
* May 31 - [[Phillipa Soo]], American actress and singer
* June 2
**[[Brittany Curran]], American actress
**[[Jack Lowden]], Scottish actor
* June 13 - [[Aaron Taylor-Johnson]], British actor
* June 15 - [[Denzel Whitaker]], American actor
* June 17 - [[Monica Barbaro]], American actress
* June 18 - [[Jeremy Irvine]], English actor
* June 20 - [[Jacob Wysocki]], American actor and comedian
* July 2 – [[Margot Robbie]], Australian actress<ref>{{cite web |title=Margot Robbie {{!}} Biography, Movies, Wolf of Wall Street, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Margot-Robbie |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=2 July 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
* July 4
**[[Melissa Barrera]], Mexican actress and singer
**[[David Kross]], German actor
* July 6 – [[Jeremy Suarez]], American actor
* July 12 – [[Rachel Brosnahan]], American-British actress
* July 13 - [[Nomzamo Mbatha]], South African actress and television personality
* July 15
**[[Olly Alexander]], British musician, actor and screenwriter
**[[Alexander Calvert]], Canadian actor
* July 16
**[[Eddie Hassell]], American actor (died 2020)
**[[James Maslow]], American actor
* July 19 - [[Steven Anthony Lawrence]], American actor
* July 24 – [[Daveigh Chase]], American actress
* July 27 – [[Indiana Evans]], Australian actress and singer-songwriter
* July 29 – [[Matt Prokop]], American actor
* July 30 - [[Eliot Sumner]], English singer-songwriter and actor
* July 31 - [[Ruby Modine]], American actress, model and singer
* August 1 - [[Jack O'Connell (actor)|Jack O'Connell]], English actor
* August 4 - [[Chet Hanks]], American actor and musician
* August 9
**[[Bill Skarsgård]], Swedish actor
**[[Emily Tennant]], Canadian actress
* August 10 – [[Lucas Till]], American actor
* August 15 – [[Jennifer Lawrence]], American actress
* August 17 – [[Rachel Hurd-Wood]], British actress
* August 20 - [[Win Morisaki]], Burmese singer and actor
* August 23 – [[Wesley Singerman]], American record producer, songwriter and guitarist, and voice actor
* August 24 – [[Elizabeth Debicki]], Australian actress
* August 29
**[[Nicole Gale Anderson]], American actress
**[[Erika Harlacher]], American voice actress
* September 1 - [[Aisling Loftus]], English actress
* September 3 - [[Bianca Bin]], Brazilian actress
* September 9 – [[Klaudia Tiitsmaa]], Estonian actress
* September 11 - [[Georgina Terry]], British actress
* September 15 – [[Matt Shively]], American actor
* September 20 – [[Saara Pius]], Estonian actress
* September 21
** [[Christian Serratos]], American actress
** [[Allison Scagliotti]], American actress and director
* September 28 - [[Kirsten Prout]], Canadian actress
* October 2 - [[Samantha Barks]], Manx actress and singer
* October 5
**[[Wesley Morgan (actor)|Wesley Morgan]], Canadian actor and model
**[[Taylour Paige]], American actress and dancer
* October 6 - [[Scarlett Byrne]], English actress and model
* October 8 - [[Tom Rhys Harries]], Welsh actor
* October 13
**[[Florian Munteanu]], German-Romanian actor and model
**[[Himesh Patel]], British actor
* October 18 - [[Carly Schroeder]], American actress
* October 22 – [[Jonathan Lipnicki]], American actor
* October 31 - [[Patti Harrison]], American actress and comedian
* November 2 – [[Kendall Schmidt]], American actor
* November 4 – [[Jean-Luc Bilodeau]], Canadian actor
* November 6 - [[Bowen Yang]], Australian-born American actor, comedian and writer
* November 9 – [[Chris Di Staulo]], Canadian filmmaker
* November 14 - [[Jessica Jacobs]], Australian actress and singer (died [[2008 in film|2008]])
* November 16 - [[Milo Gibson]], American actor
* November 18 - [[Matt Milne]], English actor and director
* November 24 - [[Sarah Hyland]], American actress
* November 26 - [[Rita Ora]], British actress, singer and songwriter
* November 28 - [[Carla Diaz]], Brazilian actress
* November 29 - [[Diego Boneta]], Mexican actor, producer and singer
* December 10 - [[Teyana Taylor]], American singer-songwriter and actress
* December 20 – [[JoJo (singer)|JoJo]], American singer-songwriter and actress
* December 23
**[[Moses J. Moseley]], American actor, writer and model (died [[2022 in film|2022]])
**[[Anna Maria Perez de Tagle]], American actress and singer

==Deaths==
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:90%;"
|- style="background:#dae3e7; text-align:center;"
! Month !! Date !! Name !! Age !! Country !! Profession !! Notable films
|-
| rowspan=13 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| '''[[Deaths in January 1990|January]]'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''2'' || [[Alan Hale Jr.]] || style="text-align:center;"| 68 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Hang 'Em High]]''| ''[[Johnny Dangerously]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''5'' || [[Arthur Kennedy (actor)|Arthur Kennedy]] || style="text-align:center;"| 75 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Lawrence of Arabia (film)|Lawrence of Arabia]]''| ''[[Some Came Running (film)|Some Came Running]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''6'' || [[Ian Charleson]] || style="text-align:center;"| 40 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Chariots of Fire]]''| ''[[Gandhi (film)|Gandhi]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''6'' || [[Peter Cookson]] || style="text-align:center;"| 76 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Swingtime Johnny]]''| ''[[Detective Kitty O'Day]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''8'' || [[Terry-Thomas]] || style="text-align:center;"| 78 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Bachelor Flat]]''| ''[[It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''10'' || [[Lyle R. Wheeler]] || style="text-align:center;"| 84 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Art Director || {{hlist|''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]''| ''[[The Day the Earth Stood Still]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''14'' || [[John Witty]] || style="text-align:center;"| 74 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Frightened City]]''| ''[[The Vault of Horror (film)|The Vault of Horror]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''15'' || [[Gordon Jackson (actor)|Gordon Jackson]] || style="text-align:center;"| 66 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Great Escape (film)|The Great Escape]]''| ''[[The Ipcress File (film)|The Ipcress File]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''20'' || [[John Maxim]] || style="text-align:center;"| 64 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Frightened City]]''| ''[[Dracula: Prince of Darkness]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''20'' || [[Barbara Stanwyck]] || style="text-align:center;"| 82 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Double Indemnity]]''| ''[[Stella Dallas (1937 film)|Stella Dallas]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''25'' || [[Ava Gardner]] || style="text-align:center;"| 67 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[The Barefoot Contessa]]''| ''[[The Killers (1946 film)|The Killers]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''26'' || [[Dodo Abashidze]] || style="text-align:center;"| 66 || style="text-align:center;"| Georgia || style="text-align:center;"| Director || {{hlist|''[[The Legend of Suram Fortress]]''| ''[[Ashik Kerib (film)|Ashik Kerib]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''27'' || [[Helen Jerome Eddy]] || style="text-align:center;"| 92 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Girls Demand Excitement]]''| ''[[A Shot in the Dark (1935 film)|A Shot in the Dark]]''}}
|-
| rowspan=13 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| '''[[Deaths in February 1990|February]]'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''2'' || [[Hans Schumm]] || style="text-align:center;"| 93 || style="text-align:center;"| Germany || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Spy Smasher (serial)|Spy Smasher]]''| ''[[The Great Dictator]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''6'' || [[John Merivale]] || style="text-align:center;"| 72 || style="text-align:center;"| Canada || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The List of Adrian Messenger]]''| ''[[Arabesque (1966 film)|Arabesque]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''6'' || [[Jimmy Van Heusen]] || style="text-align:center;"| 77 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Songwriter || {{hlist|''[[Going My Way]]''| ''[[The Joker Is Wild]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''8'' || [[Frank Ross (producer)|Frank Ross]] || style="text-align:center;"| 85 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Producer || {{hlist|''[[The Devil and Miss Jones]]''| ''[[The Robe (film)|The Robe]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''13'' || [[Ken Lynch]] || style="text-align:center;"| 79 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[North by Northwest]]''| ''[[Anatomy of a Murder]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''14'' || [[Jean Wallace]] || style="text-align:center;"| 66 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Lancelot and Guinevere]]''| ''[[No Blade of Grass (film)|No Blade of Grass]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''15'' || [[Henry Brandon (actor)|Henry Brandon]] || style="text-align:center;"| 77 || style="text-align:center;"| Germany || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The War of the Worlds (1953 film)|The War of the Worlds]]''| ''[[The Searchers]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''15'' || [[Michel Drach]] || style="text-align:center;"| 59 || style="text-align:center;"| France || style="text-align:center;"| Director, Screenwriter, Producer || {{hlist|''[[Amelie or The Time to Love]]''| ''[[The Simple Past (film)|The Simple Past]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''16'' || [[Joshua Shelley]] || style="text-align:center;"| 70 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[All the President's Men (film)|All the President's Men]]''| ''[[Funny Lady]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''17'' || [[Allen Rivkin]] || style="text-align:center;"| 86 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[Dancing Lady]]''| ''[[The Farmer's Daughter (1947 film)|The Farmer's Daughter]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''19'' || [[Gabriel Katzka]] || style="text-align:center;"| 59 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Producer || {{hlist|''[[Kelly's Heroes]]''| ''[[The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974 film)|The Taking of Pelham One Two Three]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''19'' || [[Michael Powell]] || style="text-align:center;"| 84 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Director || {{hlist|''[[Black Narcissus]]''| ''[[A Matter of Life and Death (film)|A Matter of Life and Death]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''28'' || [[Fabia Drake]] || style="text-align:center;"| 86 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[A Room with a View (1986 film)|A Room with a View]]''| ''[[Year of the Dragon (film)|Year of the Dragon]]''}}
|-
| rowspan=5 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| '''[[Deaths in March 1990|March]]'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''5'' || [[Gary Merrill]] || style="text-align:center;"| 74 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[All About Eve]]''| ''[[Twelve O'Clock High]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''17'' || [[Capucine]] || style="text-align:center;"| 62 || style="text-align:center;"| Switzerland || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[The Pink Panther (1963 film)|The Pink Panther]]''| ''[[North to Alaska]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''18'' || [[Robin Harris (comedian)|Robin Harris]] || style="text-align:center;"| 36 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, Comedian || {{hlist|''[[Do the Right Thing]]''| ''[[House Party (film)|House Party]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''20'' || [[Maurice Cloche]] || style="text-align:center;"| 82 || style="text-align:center;"| France || style="text-align:center;"| Director || {{hlist|''[[Monsieur Vincent]]''| ''[[Doctor Laennec]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''28'' || [[Helene Whitney|Helene Reynolds]] || style="text-align:center;"| 75 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Moontide]]''| ''[[The Man Who Wouldn't Die (1942 film)|The Man Who Wouldn't Die]]''}}
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| rowspan=12 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| '''[[Deaths in April 1990|April]]'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''2'' || [[Aldo Fabrizi]] || style="text-align:center;"| 84 || style="text-align:center;"| Italy || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Rome, Open City|Open City]]''| ''[[Cops and Robbers (1951 film)|Cops and Robbers]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''3'' || [[Clair Huffaker]] || style="text-align:center;"| 63 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[The War Wagon]]''| ''[[100 Rifles]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''8'' || [[Ernest Steward]] || style="text-align:center;"| 79 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Cinematographer || {{hlist|''[[Some Girls Do]]''| ''[[Quest for Love (1971 film)|Quest for Love]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''11'' || [[Vanda Godsell]] || style="text-align:center;"| 67 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[This Sporting Life]]''| ''[[A Shot in the Dark (1964 film)|A Shot in the Dark]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''15'' || [[Greta Garbo]] || style="text-align:center;"| 84 || style="text-align:center;"| Sweden || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Grand Hotel (1932 film)|Grand Hotel]]''| ''[[Ninotchka]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''17'' || [[Joseph McMillan Johnson]] || style="text-align:center;"| 77 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Art Director, Production Designer, Visual Effects Artist || {{hlist|''[[Portrait of Jennie]]''| ''[[Rear Window]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''18'' || [[Robert D. Webb]] || style="text-align:center;"| 87 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Director || {{hlist|''[[Beneath the 12-Mile Reef]]''| ''[[Love Me Tender (1956 film)|Love Me Tender]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''20'' || [[Alex McCrindle]] || style="text-align:center;"| 78 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Star Wars (film)|Star Wars]]''| ''[[Eye of the Needle (film)|Eye of the Needle]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''22'' || [[Albert Salmi]] || style="text-align:center;"| 62 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Brothers Karamazov (1958 film)|The Brothers Karamazov]]''| ''[[The Bravados]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''23'' || [[Paulette Goddard]] || style="text-align:center;"| 79 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[So Proudly We Hail!]]''| ''[[Modern Times (film)|Modern Times]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''25'' || [[Dexter Gordon]] || style="text-align:center;"| 67 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Musician, Actor || {{hlist|''[[Round Midnight (film)|Round Midnight]]''| ''[[Awakenings]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''27'' || [[Bella Spewack]] || style="text-align:center;"| 91 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[My Favorite Wife]]''| ''[[Week-End at the Waldorf]]''}}
|-
| rowspan=12 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| '''[[Deaths in May 1990|May]]'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''1'' || [[Sunset Carson]] || style="text-align:center;"| 69 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Sheriff of Cimarron]]''| ''[[Alias Billy the Kid]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''2'' || [[David Rappaport]] || style="text-align:center;"| 38 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Time Bandits]]''| ''[[Turkish Delight (1973 film)|Turkish Delight]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''6'' || [[Charles Farrell]] || style="text-align:center;"| 89 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Lucky Star (1929 film)|Lucky Star]]''| ''[[7th Heaven (1927 film)|7th Heaven]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''10'' || [[Susan Oliver]] || style="text-align:center;"| 58 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[The Disorderly Orderly]]''| ''[[Your Cheatin' Heart (film)|Your Cheatin' Heart]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''12'' || [[Anthony Masters]] || style="text-align:center;"| 70 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Production Designer || {{hlist|''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]''| ''[[Dune (1984 film)|Dune]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''12'' || [[Nate Monaster]] || style="text-align:center;"| 78 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[That Touch of Mink]]''| ''[[How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''14'' || [[Franklyn Seales]] || style="text-align:center;"| 37 || style="text-align:center;"| West Indies || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Onion Field (film)|The Onion Field]]''| ''[[Southern Comfort (1981 film)|Southern Comfort]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''16'' || [[Sammy Davis Jr.]] || style="text-align:center;"| 64 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, Singer || {{hlist|''[[Ocean's 11]]''| ''[[Robin and the 7 Hoods]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''16'' || [[Jim Henson]] || style="text-align:center;"| 53 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Puppeteer, Director, Screenwriter, Producer || {{hlist|''[[The Dark Crystal]]''| ''[[The Muppet Movie]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''18'' || [[Jill Ireland]] || style="text-align:center;"| 54 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Hard Times (1975 film)|Hard Times]]''| ''[[Breakheart Pass (1975 film)|Breakheart Pass]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''22'' || [[Max Wall]] || style="text-align:center;"| 82 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (film)|Chitty Chitty Bang Bang]]''| ''[[Jabberwocky (film)|Jabberwocky]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''25'' || [[Vic Tayback]] || style="text-align:center;"| 60 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore]]''| ''[[All Dogs Go to Heaven]]''}}
|-
| rowspan=10 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| '''[[Deaths in June 1990|June]]'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''1'' || [[Eric Barker]] || style="text-align:center;"| 78 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines]]''| ''[[There's a Girl in My Soup]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''2'' || [[Rex Harrison]] || style="text-align:center;"| 82 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[My Fair Lady (film)|My Fair Lady]]''| ''[[Doctor Dolittle (film)|Doctor Dolittle]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''3'' || [[Tom Brown (actor)|Tom Brown]] || style="text-align:center;"| 70 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Duke of Chicago]]''| ''[[I Killed Wild Bill Hickok]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''4'' || [[Jack Gilford]] || style="text-align:center;"| 81 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (film)|A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum]]''| ''[[Catch-22 (film)|Catch-22]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''6'' || [[Marcel Grignon]] || style="text-align:center;"| 75 || style="text-align:center;"| France || style="text-align:center;"| Cinematographer || {{hlist|''[[Is Paris Burning? (film)|Is Paris Burning?]]''| ''[[The Fixer (1968 film)|The Fixer]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''7'' || [[Barbara Baxley]] || style="text-align:center;"| 67 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[East of Eden (film)|East of Eden]]''| ''[[No Way to Treat a Lady (film)|No Way to Treat a Lady]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''15'' || [[Leonard Sachs]] || style="text-align:center;"| 80 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Thunderball (film)|Thunderball]]''| ''[[John Wesley (film)|John Wesley]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''20'' || [[Ina Balin]] || style="text-align:center;"| 52 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[From the Terrace]]''| ''[[The Patsy (1964 film)|The Patsy]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''23'' || [[Frank Gatliff]] || style="text-align:center;"| 62 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Ipcress File (film)|The Ipcress File]]''| ''[[Operation Daybreak]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''25'' || [[Sydney Boehm]] || style="text-align:Center;"| 82 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[Seven Thieves]]''| ''[[The Big Heat]]''}}
|-
| rowspan=12 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| '''[[Deaths in July 1990|July]]'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''8'' || [[Howard Duff]] || style="text-align:center;"| 76 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Kramer vs. Kramer]]''| ''[[The Naked City]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''13'' || [[Lois Moran]] || style="text-align:center;"| 81 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Words and Music (1929 film)|Words and Music]]''| ''[[Under Suspicion (1930 film)|Under Suspicion]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''14'' || [[Philip Leacock]] || style="text-align:center;"| 74 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Director || {{hlist|''[[The War Lover]]''| ''[[Let No Man Write My Epitaph]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''15'' || [[Margaret Lockwood]] || style="text-align:center;"| 73 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[The Lady Vanishes (1938 film)|The Lady Vanishes]]''| ''[[Night Train to Munich]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''15'' || [[Bud Thackery]] || style="text-align:center;"| 87 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Cinematographer || {{hlist|''[[The Crimson Ghost]]''| ''[[Coogan's Bluff (film)|Coogan's Bluff]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''19'' || [[Eddie Quillan]] || style="text-align:center;"| 83 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film)|Mutiny on the Bounty]]''| ''[[The Big Shot (1931 film)|The Big Shot]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''20'' || [[Sergei Parajanov]] || style="text-align:center;"| 66 || style="text-align:center;"| Georgia || style="text-align:center;"| Director || {{hlist|''[[Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors]]''| ''[[The Color of Pomegranates]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''21'' || [[Stanley Shapiro]] || style="text-align:center;"| 65 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[Pillow Talk (film)|Pillow Talk]]''| ''[[That Touch of Mink]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''23'' || [[Georges Flamant]] || style="text-align:center;"| 86 || style="text-align:center;"| France || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[La Chienne]]''| ''[[The 400 Blows]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''27'' || [[Elizabeth Allan]] || style="text-align:center;"| 80 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[David Copperfield (1935 film)|David Copperfield]]''| ''[[Camille (1936 film)|Camille]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''27'' || [[Ernest Archer (art director)|Ernest Archer]] || style="text-align:center;"| 80 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Art Director || {{hlist|''[[Superman (1978 film)|Superman]]''| ''[[The Pirates of Penzance (film)|The Pirates of Penzance]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''28'' || [[Jill Esmond]] || style="text-align:center;"| 82 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Thirteen Women]]''| ''[[No Funny Business]]''}}
|-
| rowspan=8 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| '''[[Deaths in August 1990|August]]'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''2'' || [[Edwin Richfield]] || style="text-align:center;"| 68 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[Ben-Hur (1959 film)|Ben-Hur]]''| ''[[The Dam Busters (film)|The Dam Busters]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''3'' || [[Betty Amann]] || style="text-align:center;"| 85 || style="text-align:center;"| Germany || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Strictly Business (1931 film)|Strictly Business]]''| ''[[In Old Mexico]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''12'' || [[Dorothy Mackaill]] || style="text-align:center;"| 87 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[No Man of Her Own (1932 film)|No Man of Her Own]]''| ''[[Safe in Hell]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''12'' || [[Sara Seegar]] || style="text-align:center;"| 76 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Dead Men Tell No Tales (1938 film)|Dead Men Tell No Tales]]''| ''[[The Music Man (1962 film)|The Music Man]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''17'' || [[Pearl Bailey]] || style="text-align:center;"| 72 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress, Singer || {{hlist|''[[Carmen Jones (film)|Carmen Jones]]''| ''[[St. Louis Blues (1958 film)|St. Louis Blues]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''23'' || [[Dorothea Kent]] || style="text-align:center;"| 74 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Pin Up Girl (film)|Pin Up Girl]]''| ''[[She Married a Cop]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''27'' || [[Raymond St. Jacques]] || style="text-align:center;"| 60 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Cotton Comes to Harlem]]''| ''[[The Green Berets (film)|The Green Berets]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''28'' || [[Edmund H. North]] || style="text-align:center;"| 79 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[The Day the Earth Stood Still]]''| ''[[Patton (film)|Patton]]''}}
|-
| rowspan=5 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| '''[[Deaths in September 1990|September]]'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''4'' || [[Irene Dunne]] || style="text-align:center;"| 91 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[The Awful Truth]]''| ''[[Cimarron (1931 film)|Cimarron]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''5'' || [[Jack Hildyard]] || style="text-align:center;"| 82 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Cinematographer || {{hlist|''[[The Bridge on the River Kwai]]''| ''[[The Message (1976 film)|The Message]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''19'' || [[Werner Janssen]] || style="text-align:center;"| 91 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Composer || {{hlist|''[[Blockade (1938 film)|Blockade]]''| ''[[The Southerner (film)|The Southerner]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''19'' || [[Hermes Pan]] || style="text-align:center;"| 80 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Choreographer || {{hlist|''[[My Fair Lady (film)|My Fair Lady]]''| ''[[Top Hat]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''20'' || [[Jackie Moran]] || style="text-align:center;"| 67 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938 film)|The Adventures of Tom Sawyer]]''| ''[[Nobody's Darling]]''}}
|-
| rowspan=7 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| '''[[Deaths in October 1990|October]]'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''4'' || [[Jill Bennett (British actress)|Jill Bennett]] || style="text-align:center;"| 58 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[For Your Eyes Only (film)|For Your Eyes Only]]''| ''[[The Sheltering Sky (film)|The Sheltering Sky]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''4'' || [[Roy Charman]] || style="text-align:center;"| 60 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Sound Engineer || {{hlist|''[[Aliens (film)|Aliens]]''| ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''14'' || [[Leonard Bernstein]] || style="text-align:center;"| 72 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Composer || {{hlist|''[[West Side Story (1961 film)|West Side Story]]''| ''[[On the Waterfront]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''15'' || [[Delphine Seyrig]] || style="text-align:center;"| 58 || style="text-align:center;"| France || style="text-align:center;"| Actress, Director || {{hlist|''[[Last Year at Marienbad]]''| ''[[The Day of the Jackal (film)|The Day of the Jackal]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''20'' || [[Joel McCrea]] || style="text-align:center;"| 84 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Sullivan's Travels]]''| ''[[Foreign Correspondent (film)|Foreign Correspondent]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''27'' || [[Jacques Demy]] || style="text-align:center;"| 59 || style="text-align:center;"| France || style="text-align:center;"| Director, Screenwriter, Composer || {{hlist|''[[The Umbrellas of Cherbourg]]''| ''[[The Young Girls of Rochefort]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''27'' || [[Ugo Tognazzi]] || style="text-align:center;"| 68 || style="text-align:center;"| Italy || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[La Cage aux Folles (film)|La Cage aux Folles]]''| ''[[The Conjugal Bed (1963 film)|The Conjugal Bed]]''}}
|-
| rowspan=12 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| '''[[Deaths in November 1990|November]]'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''2'' || [[William Travilla]] || style="text-align:center;"| 70 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Costume Designer || {{hlist|''[[The Seven Year Itch]]''| ''[[Adventures of Don Juan]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''3'' || [[Valerie French (actress)|Valerie French]] || style="text-align:center;"| 62 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Jubal (film)|Jubal]]''| ''[[Decision at Sundown]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''3'' || [[Mary Martin]] || style="text-align:center;"| 76 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress, Singer || {{hlist|''[[Love Thy Neighbor (1940 film)|Love Thy Neighbor]]''| ''[[Night and Day (1946 film)|Night and Day]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''3'' || [[Walter H. Tyler]] || style="text-align:center;"| 81 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Art Director || {{hlist|''[[Samson and Delilah (1949 film)|Samson and Delilah]]''| ''[[The Ten Commandments (1956 film)|The Ten Commandments]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''4'' || [[Carol Sobieski]] || style="text-align:center;"| 51 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[Fried Green Tomatoes]]''| ''[[Annie (1982 film)|Annie]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''10'' || [[Maura McGiveney]] || style="text-align:center;"| 51 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Twist Around the Clock]]''| ''[[Do Not Disturb (1965 film)|Do Not Disturb]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''11'' || [[Alexis Minotis]] || style="text-align:center;"| 90 || style="text-align:center;"| Greece || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Land of the Pharaohs]]''| ''[[Boy on a Dolphin]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''12'' || [[Eve Arden]] || style="text-align:center;"| 82 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Mildred Pierce (film)|Mildred Pierce]]''| ''[[Anatomy of a Murder]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''13'' || [[Don Chaffey]] || style="text-align:center;"| 73 || style="text-align:center;"| New Zealand || style="text-align:center;"| Director || {{hlist|''[[Jason and the Argonauts (1963 film)|Jason and the Argonauts]]''| ''[[Pete's Dragon (1977 film)|Pete's Dragon]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''13'' || [[Maurice Richlin]] || style="text-align:center;"| 70 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[The Pink Panther (1963 film)|The Pink Panther]]''| ''[[Pillow Talk (film)|Pillow Talk]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''23'' || [[Roald Dahl]] || style="text-align:center;"| 74 || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory]]''| ''[[You Only Live Twice (film)|You Only Live Twice]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''27'' || [[David White (actor)|David White]] || style="text-align:center;"| 74 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Sweet Smell of Success]]''| ''[[The Apartment]]''}}
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| rowspan=12 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| '''[[Deaths in December 1990|December]]'''
| style="text-align:center;"| ''1'' || [[Sergio Corbucci]] || style="text-align:center;"| 63 || style="text-align:center;"| Italy || style="text-align:center;"| Director, Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[Django (1966 film)|Django]]''| ''[[Navajo Joe]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''1'' || [[Carla Lehmann]] || style="text-align:center;"| 73 || style="text-align:center;"| Canada || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Candlelight in Algeria]]''| ''[[29 Acacia Avenue]]''}}
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| style="text-align:center;"| ''2'' || [[Robert Cummings]] || style="text-align:center;"| 80 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Dial M for Murder]]''| ''[[Saboteur (film)|Saboteur]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''4'' || [[Edward Binns]] || style="text-align:center;"| 79 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[12 Angry Men (1957 film)|12 Angry Men]]''| ''[[Fail-Safe (1964 film)|Fail-Safe]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''7'' || [[Joan Bennett]] || style="text-align:center;"| 80 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[Father of the Bride (1950 film)|Father of the Bride]]''| ''[[Scarlet Street]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''8'' || [[Martin Ritt]] || style="text-align:center;"| 76 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Director, Actor, Producer || {{hlist|''[[Hud (1963 film)|Hud]]''| ''[[The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (film)|The Spy Who Came in from the Cold]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''9'' || [[Mike Mazurki]] || style="text-align:center;"| 82 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || {{hlist|''[[Some Like It Hot]]''| ''[[Dick Tracy (1945 film)|Dick Tracy]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''18'' || [[Anne Revere]] || style="text-align:center;"| 87 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || {{hlist|''[[National Velvet (film)|National Velvet]]''| ''[[Gentleman's Agreement]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''18'' || [[Connie Russell]] || style="text-align:center;"| 67 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Singer, Actress || {{hlist|''[[Cruisin' Down the River]]''| ''[[Nightmare (1956 film)|Nightmare]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''26'' || [[Gene Callahan]] || style="text-align:center;"| 67 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Production Designer || {{hlist|''[[The Hustler]]''| ''[[Steel Magnolias]]''}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''28'' || [[Warren Skaaren]] || style="text-align:center;"| 44 || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Screenwriter || {{hlist|''[[Batman (1989 film)|Batman]]''| ''[[Beetlejuice]]''}}
|}

==Film debuts==
{{Column list|
*[[Hank Azaria]] – ''[[Pretty Woman]]''
*[[Abraham Benrubi]] – ''[[Diving In]]''
*[[Julie Benz]] – ''[[Two Evil Eyes]]''
*[[Brenda Blethyn]] – ''[[The Witches (1990 film)|The Witches]]''
*[[Andrew Bryniarski]] – ''Dragonfight'' 
*[[Bill Camp]] – ''[[Reversal of Fortune]]''
*[[Robert Carlyle]] – ''[[Silent Scream (1990 film)|Silent Scream]]''
*[[Kyle Chandler]] – ''The Color of Evening''
*[[Nick Chinlund]] – ''[[The Ambulance]]''
*[[Scott Cohen (actor)|Scott Cohen]] – ''[[Jacob's Ladder (1990 film)|Jacob's Ladder]]''
*[[Russell Crowe]] – ''[[Blood Oath (film)|Blood Oath]]''
*[[James Badge Dale]] – ''[[Lord of the Flies (1990 film)|Lord of the Flies]]''
*[[Hope Davis]] – ''[[Flatliners]]''
*[[Andy Dick]] – ''[[The Grifters (film)|The Grifters]]''
*[[Vin Diesel]] – ''[[Awakenings]]''
*[[Ann Dowd]] – ''[[Green Card (film)|Green Card]]''
*[[Denise Dowse]] – ''Coldfire''
*[[Chris Ellis (actor)|Chris Ellis]] – ''[[Days of Thunder]]''
*[[Kerry Fox]] – ''[[An Angel at My Table]]''
*[[Brad Garrett]] – ''[[Jetsons: The Movie]]''
*[[Balthazar Getty]] – ''Lord of the Flies''
*[[Brendan Gleeson]] – ''[[The Field (1990 film)|The Field]]''
*[[John Hannah (actor)|John Hannah]] – ''[[Harbour Beat]]''
*[[Marcia Gay Harden]] – ''[[Miller's Crossing]]''
*[[Damon Herriman]] – ''[[The Big Steal (1990 film)|The Big Steal]]''
*[[Djimon Hounsou]] – ''[[Without You I'm Nothing (film)|Without You I'm Nothing]]''
*[[Ashley Johnson]] – ''[[Lionheart (1990 film)|Lionheart]]''
*[[Jacek Koman]] – ''Hunting''
*[[Valérie Lemercier]] – ''[[May Fools]]''
*[[Nia Long]] – ''[[Buried Alive (1990 theatrical film)|Buried Alive]]''
*[[George Lopez]] – ''[[Ski Patrol (1990 film)|Ski Patrol]]''
*[[Aasif Mandvi]] – ''[[No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers]]''
*[[Margo Martindale]] – ''Days of Thunder''
*[[Debi Mazar]] – ''[[Goodfellas]]''
*[[John McConnell (actor)|John McConnell]] – ''Miller's Crossing''
*[[Neal McDonough]] – ''[[Darkman]]''
*[[Rose McGowan]] – ''[[Class of 1999]]''
*[[Kristin Minter]] – ''[[Home Alone]]''
*[[Julianne Moore]] – ''[[Tales from the Darkside: The Movie]]''
*[[Peter Mullan]] – ''[[The Big Man]]''
*[[Guy Pearce]] – ''[[Heaven Tonight (film)|Heaven Tonight]]''
*[[Luke Perry]] – ''[[Terminal Bliss]]''
*[[Christina Ricci]] – ''[[Mermaids (1990 film)|Mermaids]]''
*[[Rob Schneider]] – ''[[Martians Go Home (film)|Martians Go Home]]''
*[[Nick Searcy]] – ''Days of Thunder''
*[[June Squibb]] – ''[[Alice (1990 film)|Alice]]''
*[[Joe Viterelli]] – ''[[State of Grace (1990 film)|State of Grace]]''
*[[Isiah Whitlock Jr.]] – ''[[Gremlins 2: The New Batch]]''
*[[Jeffrey Wright]] – ''Presumed Innocent''
*[[Catherine Zeta-Jones]] – ''[[Les 1001 Nuits]]''
}}

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
*[https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature,short&release_date=1990-01-01,1990-12-31&adult=include&sort=num_votes,desc List of 1990 films] at [[IMDb]]
* [https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/1990/?grossesOption=calendarGrosses 1990 Domestic Grosses] at [[Box Office Mojo]]
*[https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?death_date=1990-01-01,1990-12-31&adult=include List of 1990 deaths] at [[IMDb]]
* [https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?birth_date=1990-01-01,1990-12-31&adult=include List of 1990 births] at [[IMDb]]

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