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The year 1992 in film involved many significant films. (For more about films in foreign languages, check sources in those languages.)

Highest-grossing films

See also: List of 1992 box office number-one films in the United States

The top ten films released in 1992 by worldwide gross are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1992

Rank	Title	Distributor	Worldwide gross
1.	Aladdin	Disney	$504,050,219
2.	The Bodyguard	Warner Bros.	$411,006,740
3.	Home Alone 2: Lost in New York	20th Century Fox	$358,994,850
4.	Basic Instinct	TriStar	$352,927,224
5.	Lethal Weapon 3	Warner Bros.	$321,731,527
6.	Batman Returns		$266,822,354
7.	A Few Good Men	Columbia	$243,240,178
8.	Sister Act	Touchstone	$231,605,150
9.	Bram Stoker's Dracula	Columbia	$215,862,692
10.	Wayne's World	Paramount	$183,097,323

Awards

Category/Organization	50th Golden Globe Awards January 23, 1993		46th BAFTA Awards February 19, 1993	65th Academy Awards March 29, 1993
	Drama	Musical or Comedy
Best Film	Scent of a Woman	The Player	Howards End	Unforgiven
Best Director	Clint Eastwood Unforgiven		Robert Altman The Player	Clint Eastwood Unforgiven
Best Actor	Al Pacino Scent of a Woman	Tim Robbins The Player	Robert Downey, Jr. Chaplin	Al Pacino Scent of a Woman
Best Actress	Emma Thompson Howards End	Miranda Richardson Enchanted April	Emma Thompson Howards End
Best Supporting Actor	Gene Hackman Unforgiven
Best Supporting Actress	Joan Plowright Enchanted April		Miranda Richardson Damage	Marisa Tomei My Cousin Vinny
Best Screenplay, Adapted	Bo Goldman Scent of a Woman		Michael Tolkin The Player	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Howards End
Best Screenplay, Original			Woody Allen Husbands and Wives	Neil Jordan The Crying Game
Best Original Score	Aladdin Alan Menken		Strictly Ballroom David Hirschfelder	Aladdin Alan Menken
Best Original Song	"A Whole New World" Aladdin		N/A	"A Whole New World" Aladdin
Best Foreign Language Film	Indochine		Raise the Red Lantern	Indochine

Romance films released in 1992

1. La Vie de Bohème

Births

• January 19 - Logan Lerman, actor
• February 11
  • Taylor Lautner, actor
  • Georgia Groome, actress
• February 14 - Freddie Highmore, actor
• February 15 - Greer Grammer, actress
• March 13 - Kaya Scodelario, actress
• March 17
  • John Boyega, actor
  • Gabriel Liotta, actor
• April 4 - Alexa Nikolas, actress
• April 10 - Daisy Ridley, actress
• April 23 - Syd tha Kyd, singer and DJ
• May 4
  • Ashley Rickards, actress
  • Courtney Jines, actress
• May 7 - Alexander Ludwig, actor
• May 18 - Spencer Breslin, actor
• June 14 - Daryl Sabara, actor
• June 26 - Jennette McCurdy, actress and singer
• July 3 - Nathalia Ramos, actress
• July 9 - Douglas Booth, actor
• July 22 - Selena Gomez, actress and singer
• August 4 - Dylan and Cole Sprouse, actors
• August 20 - Demi Lovato, actress and singer
• September 16 - Nick Jonas, singer (Jonas Brothers)
• September 30 - Ross Hinde, Photographer
• October 9 - Tyler James Williams, actor
• October 12 - Josh Hutcherson, actor
• October 13 - Aaron Dismuke, voice actor
• November 18 - Nathan Kress, actor
• November 23 - Miley Cyrus, actress and singer
• December 3 - Martina Tuzza, Photographer
• December 18 - Bridgit Mendler, actress

Notable deaths

Month	Date	Name	Age	Country	Profession	Notable films
January	2	Virginia Field	74	UK	Actress	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Dream Girl
	3	Judith Anderson	94	Australia	Actress	Rebecca Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
	7	Andrew Marton	87	Hungary	Director	The Longest Day The Thin Red Line
	8	Anthony Dawson	75	UK	Actor	Dr. No From Russia with Love
	9	Steve Brodie	72	USA	Actor	Out of the Past Donovan's Brain
	15	Hari Rhodes	59	USA	Actor	Detroit 9000 Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
	23	Freddie Bartholomew	67	UK	Actor	Captains Courageous Little Lord Fauntleroy
	23	Ian Wolfe	95	USA	Actor	Rebel Without a Cause Dick Tracy
	26	José Ferrer	79	Puerto Rico	Actor, Director	Cyrano de Bergerac The Caine Mutiny
	27	Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies	101	UK	Actress	The Devil Rides Out The Witches
February	1	Dick York	63	USA	Actor	Inherit the Wind They Came to Cordura
	4	John Dehner	76	USA	Actor	Man of the West The Left Handed Gun
	11	Ray Danton	60	USA	Actor	The Spoilers The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
March	?	Marne Maitland	77	Italy	Actor	The Reptile The Man with the Golden Gun
	2	Sandy Dennis	54	USA	Actress	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Sweet November
	3	Robert Beatty	82	Canada	Actor	2001: A Space Odyssey Where Eagles Dare
	4	Néstor Almendros	61	Spain	Cinematographer	Days of Heaven Kramer vs Kramer
	11	László Benedek	87	Hungary	Director	Death of a Salesman The Wild One
	11	Richard Brooks	85	USA	Director	Elmer Gantry Blackboard Jungle
	17	Jack Arnold	79	USA	Director	Creature from the Black Lagoon The Mouse That Roared
	18	Arnold Diamond	76	UK	Actor	The Italian Job Omen III: The Final Conflict
	19	Cesare Danova	66	Italy	Actor	Viva Las Vegas National Lampoon's Animal House
	20	Georges Delerue	67	France	Composer	A Little Romance Anne of the Thousand Days
	21	John Ireland	82	Canada	Actor	All the King's Men Red River
	25	Nancy Walker	69	USA	Actress, Director	Murder by Death Can't Stop the Music
	28	Wendell Mayes	72	USA	Screenwriter	Anatomy of a Murder Von Ryan's Express
	29	Paul Henreid	84	Hungary	Actor	Casablanca Now, Voyager
April	5	Molly Picon	94	USA	Actress	Fiddler on the Roof Come Blow Your Horn
	10	Cec Linder	71	Canada	Actor	Goldfinger Lolita
	11	James Brown	72	USA	Actor	Going My Way Objective, Burma!
	14	David Miller	82	USA	Director	Lonely Are the Brave Captain Newman, M.D.
	16	Neville Brand	71	USA	Actor	D.O.A. Stalag 17
	19	Frankie Howerd	75	UK	Actor	The Ladykillers Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
	20	Benny Hill	68	UK	Writer, Actor	The Italian Job Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
	20	Mae Clarke	81	USA	Actress	The Public Enemy Frankenstein
	23	Satyajit Ray	70	India	Director, Writer	Aparajito The World of Apu
May	3	George Murphy	89	USA	Actor	Broadway Melody of 1938 Show Business
	6	Marlene Dietrich	90	Germany	Actress	The Blue Angel Destry Rides Again
	10	John Lund	81	USA	Actor	A Foreign Affair High Society
	12	Robert Reed	59	USA	Actor	Star! Bloodlust!
	15	Bartlett Mullins	87	UK	Actor	Frankenstein Created Woman Tales from the Crypt
	18	Marshall Thompson	66	USA	Actor	It! The Terror from Beyond Space Dial 1119
June	3	Robert Morley	84	UK	Actor, Writer	The African Queen Around the World in 80 Days
	5	Laurence Naismith	83	UK	Actor	Diamonds Are Forever Kind Hearts and Coronets
	6	Larry Riley	38	USA	Actor	A Soldier's Story Long Gone
	27	Allan Jones	84	UK	Actor, Singer	A Night at the Opera Show Boat
July	23	Arletty	94	France	Actress	The Longest Day Thunder Over Paris
	23	Maxine Audley	69	UK	Actress	Peeping Tom The Vikings
	30	Brenda Marshall	76	USA	Actress	Captains of the Clouds Whispering Smith
August	7	John Anderson	69	USA	Actor	Ride the High Country Psycho
	16	Malcolm Atterbury	85	USA	Actor	North by Northwest The Birds
	18	John Sturges	82	USA	Director	Bad Day at Black Rock The Great Escape
	29	Teddy Turner	75	UK	Actor	Dracula
September	6	Henry Ephron	81	USA	Screenwriter	Carousel Daddy Long Legs
	6	Mervyn Johns	76	UK	Actor	Dead of Night Scrooge
	12	Ruth Nelson	87	USA	Actress	Humoresque The Late Show
	12	Ed Peck	75	USA	Actor	Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory Bullitt
	12	Anthony Perkins	60	USA	Actor, Director	Psycho Murder on the Orient Express
	15	Michael Luciano	83	USA	Film Editor	The Dirty Dozen Stripes
	17	Feodor Chaliapin, Jr.	86	Russia	Actor	The Name of the Rose Moonstruck
	27	Bill Williams	77	USA	Actor	Deadline at Dawn The Stratton Story
	29	Bill Rowe	61	UK	Sound Re-Recording	The Shining Alien
October	6	Denholm Elliott	70	Spain	Actor	Raiders of the Lost Ark Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
	6	Natalie Moorhead	91	USA	Actress	The Thin Man The Women
	9	Ben Maddow	83	USA	Screenwriter	The Asphalt Jungle Johnny Guitar
	15	Richard Mathews	77	UK	Actor	The Satanic Rites of Dracula
	16	Shirley Booth	87	USA	Actress	Come Back, Little Sheba The Matchmaker
	22	Cleavon Little	53	USA	Actor	Blazing Saddles Vanishing Point
November	2	Hal Roach	100	USA	Director, Producer	Our Gang Laurel and Hardy
	7	Jack Kelly	65	USA	Actor	A Fever in the Blood She Devil
	10	Chuck Connors	71	USA	Actor	The Big Country Move Over, Darling
	12	Eddie Mayehoff	83	USA	Actor	How to Murder Your Wife Artists and Models
	19	Diane Varsi	54	USA	Actress	Peyton Place Wild in the Streets
	22	Sterling Holloway	87	USA	Actor	Bambi The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
	26	John Sharp	72	UK	Actor	Barry Lyndon Top Secret!
	26	Joby Blanshard	73	UK	Actor	Doomwatch
	29	Robert Shayne	92	USA	Actor	Christmas in Connecticut Nobody Lives Forever
	29	Robert F. Simon	83	USA	Actor	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Operation Petticoat
December	2	Michael Gothard	53	UK	Actor	For Your Eyes Only Lifeforce
	6	Percy Herbert	72	UK	Actor	The Bridge on the River Kwai The Guns of Navarone
	9	Vincent Gardenia	71	Italy	Actor	Moonstruck Little Shop of Horrors
	9	Franco Franchi	64	Italy	Actor	War Italian Style Kaos
	11	Michael Robbins	62	UK	Actor	On the Buses Mutiny on the Buses
	17	Dana Andrews	83	USA	Actor	The Best Years of Our Lives Laura
	22	Milo Sperber	81	UK	Actor	Billion Dollar Brain The Spy Who Loved Me

Film debuts

• David Arquette - Where the Day Takes You
• Jack Black - Bob Roberts
• Toni Collette - Spotswood
• Daniel Craig - The Power of One
• Penélope Cruz - Jamón Jamón
• Alan Cumming - Prague
• Eliza Dushku - That Night
• Omar Epps - Juice
• Ralph Fiennes - Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights
• Claire Forlani - Gypsy Eyes
• Jamie Foxx - Toys
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Beethoven
• Maggie Gyllenhaal - Waterland
• Cole Hauser - School Ties
• Lena Headey - Waterland
• Jennifer Love Hewitt - Munchie
• Whitney Houston - The Bodyguard
• Famke Janssen - Fathers & Sons
• Ashley Judd - Kuffs
• Ang Lee (director) - Pushing Hands
• Heath Ledger - Clowning Around
• Laura Linney - Lorenzo's Oil
• Baz Luhrmann (director) - Strictly Ballroom
• Bernie Mac - Mo' Money
• Rose McGowan - Encino Man
• Mike Myers - Wayne's World
• Tim Blake Nelson - This Is My Life
• Rosie O'Donnell - A League of Their Own
• Robert Rodriguez (director) - El Mariachi
• Gary Sinise - A Midnight Clear (actor)
• Will Smith - Where the Day Takes You
• Hilary Swank - Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Quentin Tarantino (director) - Reservoir Dogs
• Jeanne Tripplehorn - Basic Instinct
• Robin Tunney - Encino Man
• Steve Zahn - Rain Without Thunder

References

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