Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Secrets & Lies, directed by Mike Leigh, United Kingdom

Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):

Michael Collins, directed by Neil Jordan, U.K. / Ireland / U.S.A.

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Sense and Sensibility, directed by Ang Lee, United States

Films released in 1996

• 101 Dalmatians
• The Adventures of Pinocchio
• The Arrival, starring Charlie Sheen
• Bad Moon
• Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, with guest voices by Bruce Willis, Demi Moore, Cloris Leachman, Richard Linklater, Robert Stack and David Letterman
• The Birdcage
• Bottle Rocket
• Broken Arrow
• Camping Cosmos
• Carried Away
• Comrades: Almost a Love Story, Hong Kong Film Awards and Golden Space Needle award
• Courage Under Fire, starring Denzel Washington
• The Craft, Fairuza Balk and Neve Campbell are two of four co-stars in movie that helped begin a trend of gothic dressers.
• The Crow: City of Angels
• Cyborg Cop III
• Daylight, starring Sylvester Stallone
• The Dentist
• Different for Girls
• The English Patient - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture
• Eraser, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Escape from L.A., aka John Carpenter's Escape from L.A.
• Evita - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
• Executive Decision
• Fargo
• Fire by Deepa Mehta, starring Shabana Azmi and Nandita Das
• Floating Life
• Fly Away Home
• From Dusk Till Dawn
• Happy Gilmore
• Hard Eight, directed by P. T. Anderson
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Hype!
• I'm Not Rappaport
• Independence Day
• Infinity
• Intimate Relations
• The Island of Dr. Moreau
• Jerry Maguire
• Jingle All the Way, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Kolya, directed by Jan Sverák - Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
• Licántropo
• Matilda
• Michael Collins, directed by Neil Jordan - Golden Lion award
• Mission: Impossible
• Mother
• Muppet Treasure Island
• Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
• The Nutty Professor
• One Fine Day
• The People vs. Larry Flynt - Golden Bear award (for 1997)
• The Phantom
• Ransom
• Ridicule, directed by Patrice Leconte, starring Fanny Ardant, Judith Godrèche
• The Rock
• Scream
• Secrets & Lies - Palm d'Or award
• She's the One
• Shine
• Sling Blade
• Space Jam
• Star Trek: First Contact
• Striptease, starring Demi Moore
• The Spitfire Grill
• The Stupids
• Sunday
• A Time to Kill
• Tin Cup
• Trainspotting, directed by Danny Boyle and starring Ewan McGregor - Golden space Needle award
• The Truth About Cats & Dogs
• Twister
• Up Close & Personal, starring Robert Redford and Michelle Pfeiffer
• Werewolf
• Welcome to the Dollhouse
• William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet
• The Wind in the Willows

Births

Deaths

• February 2 - Gene Kelly, actor
• February 6 - Guy Madison, actor
• February 11 - Phil Regan, singer, actor
• February 13 - Martin Balsam, actor
• February 15 - Tommy Rettig, actor
• February 17 - Evelyn Laye, actress
• February 25 - Haing S. Ngor, actor
• March 2 - Lyle Talbot, actor
• March 9 - George Burns, actor
• March 13 - Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director
• March 17 - René Clément, French film director
• April 6 - Greer Garson, actress
• April 16 - Lucille Bremer, actress
• May 20 - Jon Pertwee, actor
• May 21 - Lash La Rue, cowboy actor
• June 7 - Max Factor, make-up artist and founder of Max Factor Cosmetics
• June 10 - Jo Van Fleet, actress
• June 11 - Brigitte Helm, German actress
• July 2 - Margaux Hemingway, model, actress
• July 30 - Claudette Colbert, actress
• September 7 - Bibi Besch, actress
• September 10 - Joanne Dru, actress
• September 13 - Tupac Shakur, rap singer/songwriter, actor
• September 14 - Juliet Prowse, dancer, actress
• September 18 - Annabella, actress
• September 22 - Dorothy Lamour, actress
• October 14 - Laura La Plante, actress
• October 31 - Marcel Carné, French film director
• November 14 - Virginia Cherrill, actress
• November 19 - Véra Korène, Russian born French actress
• December 8 - Howard E. Rollins Jr, actor
• December 19 - Marcello Mastroianni, actor
• December 30 - Lew Ayres, actor
• December 30 - Jack Nance, actorde:Filmjahr 1996

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