1996 in film



The year 1996 involved many significant films. The major releases this year included Scream, Independence Day, Fargo, Trainspotting, The Rock, The English Patient, Twister, Mars Attacks!, Jerry Maguire and a film version of the musical, Evita.

Highest-grossing films
The top ten films released in 1996 by worldwide gross are as follows:

Events

 * Mid-July - Production begins on Titanic.
 * 20 September - 75-year-old English actor Sir Dirk Bogarde suffers a severe stroke. He continued to need a wheelchair until his death in 1999.

Award ceremonies

 * 1st Empire Awards

Sports films released in 1996

 * 1) Kids Return

Births

 * February 21 - Sophie Turner, British actress
 * February 28 – Bobb'e J. Thompson, actor
 * March 18 - Madeline Carroll, American actress
 * April 14 – Abigail Breslin, actress
 * April 17 – Dee Dee Davis, actress
 * June 1 - Tom Holland, actor
 * July 23 - Rachel G. Fox, actress
 * August 21 – Jamia Simone Nash, actress
 * August 26 - Bishop Nehru, rapper
 * September 1 - Zendaya, American actress, singer, and dancer
 * December 6 - Stefanie Scott, American actress
 * December 8 - Teala Dunn, American actress
 * December 11 - Hailee Steinfeld, American actress

Film debuts

 * Will Arnett - Close Up
 * Billy Crudup - Sleepers
 * Viola Davis - The Substance of Fire
 * Kimberly Elise - Set It Off
 * Godfrey - Original Gangstas
 * Mila Kunis - Santa with Muscles
 * Kelly Macdonald - Trainspotting
 * Natascha McElhone - Surviving Picasso
 * Gretchen Mol - Girl 6
 * Emily Mortimer - The Ghost and the Darkness
 * Edward Norton - Primal Fear
 * Timothy Olyphant - The First Wives Club
 * Freddie Prinze, Jr. - To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
 * Tom Everett Scott - That Thing You Do!
 * Octavia Spencer - A Time to Kill
 * Julia Stiles - I Love You, I Love You Not
 * Justin Theroux - I Shot Andy Warhol
 * Michelle Trachtenberg - Harriet the Spy
 * Donnie Wahlberg - Bullet
 * Emily Watson - Breaking the Waves
 * Owen Wilson - Bottle Rocket
 * Luke Wilson - Bottle Rocket