Top Box Office in 1993


1	Jurassic Park (1993)
2	Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
3	The Fugitive (1993)
4	The Firm (1993)
5	Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
6	Indecent Proposal (1993)
7	In the Line of Fire (1993)
8	The Pelican Brief (1993)
9	Schindler's List (1993)
10	Cliffhanger (1993)
11	Free Willy (1993)
12	Philadelphia (1993)
13	Groundhog Day (1993)
14	Grumpy Old Men (1993)
15	Cool Runnings (1993)

Best Picture in 1993:
Schindler's List

Best Actor: Tom Hanks, Philadelphia
Best Actress: Holly Hunter, The Piano
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1	Sammy Cahn
2	Federico Fellini
3	Lillian Gish
4	Stewart Granger
5	Helen Hayes
6	Audrey Hepburn
7	Brandon Lee
8	Rudolf Nureyev
9	Mary Philbin
10	River Phoenix
11	Claude Renoir

Highest Rated in 1993


1	Schindler's List (1993)
2	Wallace & Gromit in The Wrong Trousers (1993)
3	Groundhog Day (1993)
4	The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
5	Trois couleurs: Bleu (1993)
6	The Remains of the Day (1993)
7	Ba wang bie ji (1993)
8	In the Name of the Father (1993)
9	Jûbei ninpûchô (1993)
10	True Romance (1993)
11	The Fugitive (1993)
12	And the Band Played On (1993) (TV)
13	"The X Files: Pilot (#1.0)" (1993)
14	Short Cuts (1993)
15	Carlito's Way (1993)

More films of note for 1993


1	Naked (1993)
2	What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
3	Army of Darkness (1992)
4	Falling Down (1993)
5	Romeo Is Bleeding (1993)
6	Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
7	Mad Dog and Glory (1993)
8	This Boy's Life (1993)
9	The Meteor Man (1993)
10	Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
11	King of the Hill (1993)
12	Trois couleurs: Bleu (1993)
13	Money for Nothing (1993)
14	Dazed and Confused (1993)
15	A Perfect World (1993)

Michael Jackson faces child molestation charges.

After the box-office failure of Joe vs. The Volcano, Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan redeem their popular romantic comedy chemistry with Sleepless In Seattle.

The Bodyguard soundtrack is buoyed by Whitney Houston's cover of "I Will Always Love You", with the song topping the charts for 14 weeks.

Jurassic Park has the biggest opening weekend to date, earning $50.2 million.

Robin Williams cross-dresses his way to the top of the box office and a Golden Globe with Mrs. Doubtfire.

Free Willy, the story of a boy's friendship with a killer whale, is one the top family hits of the year, and almost immediately spawns a campaign to have Keiko, the killer whale in the movie, freed.

Disney decides to create an independent film division, and does so by buying an small indie company called Miramax from two brothers named Bob and Harvey Weinstein.

Prince changes his name to a completely incomprehensible symbol.

The first web interface to the database is launched at Cardiff University in Wales.

The first e-mail interface to the database is launched. Users can query the database by sending an e-mail message and receive a reply within the hour.

New lists are started including trivia, plot summaries, genres, and biographies. The first two biography entries are for Linda Hamilton and Alfred Hitchcock

The database contains over 25,000 movies and contains nearly 300,000 entries.

Julia Roberts and Lyle Lovett are married.

Loni Anderson and Burt Reynolds divorce.

Anna Paquin's performance in The Piano helps her to become the second youngest Oscar winner ever with her award for Best Supporting Actress (Tatum O'Neal was younger when she won the same award for Paper Moon).

Ted Danson is criticized for paying tribute to his then-girlfriend Whoopi Goldberg by dressing in blackface at the Friars Club.

The X-Files debuts, convincing its audience that "the truth is out there."

Chevy Chase's talk show debuts...and is cancelled in 29 days.

Over 93 million viewers tune in for last call at Cheers, which ends its 11-year run.

Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins use their time as presenters at the Academy Awards to go off script and plead for the rights of Haitian immigrants held at Guantanamo Bay.