Film Excess - Free Ukraine - Stop Putin - End the war NOW!!: 1993 in films and TV-series

7/31/2023

1993 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess

The Top 10 of the Year

1. Farewell My Concubine/霸王別姬/Bàwáng Bié Jī - Chen Kaige + Best Historical Drama of the Year + Best Hong Kong Movie of the Year + Best Period Movie of the Year

2. Mrs. Doubtfire - Chris Columbus + Best American Movie of the Year + Best Family Movie of the Year + Best Mega-hit Movie of the Year + Best Poster of the Year + Most Profitable Movie of the Year: 151.48 mil. $ range + Best San Francisco Movie of the Year

3. Frasier - season 1 - David Angell, Peter Casey, David Lee + Breakthrough of the Year, Male: Kelsey Grammer + Best New TV-series of the Year + Shooting Star of the Year, Male: David Hyde Pierce + Best Sitcom of the Year + Best Washington Title of the Year

4. Three Colors: Blue/Trois Couleurs: Bleu - Krzysztof Kieslowski + Breakthrough of the Year, Female: Juliette Binoche + Best Drama of the Year + Best French Movie of the Year

5. Falling Down - Joel Schumacher + Best Los Angeles Movie of the Year + Best Societal Critique of the Year + Best Thriller of the Year

6. The Piano - Jane Campion + Best $ Return of the Year: 20 times the cost + Best Erotic Movie of the Year + Best New Zealand Movie of the Year + Best On-screen Couple of the Year: Holly Hunter & Harvey Keitel + Best Romance of the Year

7. Groundhog Day - Harold Ramis + Best Comedy of the Year + Most Deserved Hit of the Year + Best Pennsylvania Movie of the Year

8. Philadelphia - Jonathan Demme + Best Courtroom Movie of the Year + Best Ensemble of the Year: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Antonio Banderas, Charles Napier, Jason Robards, Roger Corman, Mary Steenburgen + Best Huge Hit Movie of the Year + Best Philadelphia Movie of the Year + Best True-Story Movie of the Year

9. Carlito's Way - Brian De Palma + Best Adaptation of the Year + Best Gangster Movie of the Year + Best New York Movie of the Year + Most Undeserved Flop of the Year

10. Hot Shots! Part Deux - Jim Abrahams + Best Big Hit Movie of the Year + Best Spoof of the Year

Other great titles of the year (in alphabetical order):

Amos & Andrew - E. Max Frye + Best Huge Flop of the Year + Best Satire of the Year

Dazed and Confused - Richard Linklater + Best Texas Movie of the Year

The Scent of Green Papaya/Mùi đu đủ Xanh/L'Odeur de la Papaye Verte - Tran Anh Hung + Best Vietnamese Movie of the Year

Recommendable, good titles of the year (in alphabetical order):

Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman, TV movie - Christopher Guest + Best Arizona Movie of the Year + Most Under-appreciated Title of the Year

Demolition Man - Marco Brambilla + Best Action Movie of the Year

Stolen Spring/Det Forsømte Forår - Peter Schrøder + Best Copenhagen Movie of the Year + Best Danish Movie of the Year + Best Youth Movie of the Year

The Bottom 5 of the Year

1. Body Snatchers - Abel Ferrera

2. Heaven & Earth - Oliver Stone + Most Expensive Flop of the Year: 28.6 mil. $ range + Worst $ Return of the Year: 0.33 times the cost

3. The Firm - Sydney Pollack

4. The Fugitive - Andrew Davis + Most Overrated Movie of the Year

5. The Age of Innocence - Martin Scorsese + Most Deserved Flop of the Year

[21 titles in total]

Notes:

A slim first list of the best and worst of 1993 includes 4 masterpieces and no grade zero slush.

The Top 10 opens with Chen Kaige's rare, beautiful historical drama, Farewell My Concubine. Chris Columbus' family dramedy favorite Mrs. Doubtfire takes silver, and David Angell, Peter Casey and David Lee's new sitcom masterpiece Frasier bronze. The list goes on with Krzysztof Kieslowski's grief drama masterpiece Blue, Joel Schumacher's modern angry man thriller Falling Down, Jane Campion's Maori period romance The Piano, Harold Ramis' high concept comedy masterpiece Groundhog Day, Jonathan Demme's stirring AIDS drama Philadelphia, Brian De Palma's thrilling gangster drama Carlito's Way; and with Jim Abrahams' spoof laugh-fest Hot Shots! Part Deux rounding off the list.

On the Bottom 5 list of the year, master filmmaker Abel Ferrera's Body Snatchers, an uncalled for and un-spectacular update of the sci-fi classic takes gold. Oliver Stone's dubious Vietnam prostitute drama Heaven & Earth gets silver, and Sydney Pollack's groan-worthy, epic-lengthed thriller The Firm bronze. Andrew Davis' massive hit actioner The Fugitive follows, and master filmmaker Martin Scorsese's marriage-inspecting period romance The Age of Innocence rounds off the list.

The year held spectacular hits for Robin Williams and Sally Field (Mrs. Doubtfire), Harrison Ford (The Fugitive), Tom Cruise (The Firm), Tom Hanks & Denzel Washington (Philadelphia), Charlie Sheen (Hot Shots! Part Deux), Jane Campion (The Piano) and Bill Murray (Groundhog Day).

The embarrassing flops of the year cling to Oliver Stone (Heaven & Earth), Nicolas Cage and Samuel L. Jackson (Amos & Andrew) and Martin Scorsese (The Age of Innocence).

Future updates will expand the number of titles on the lists.

Biggest flops of the year:

[The loss is based solely on the cost and box office earnings for the films. Marketing costs and additional revenue (home video, TV rights and other auxiliary profits) are not taken into account]

1. Heaven & Earth - 28.6 mil. $ range

2. The Age of Innocence - 14.04 mil. $ range

3. Amos & Andrew - 11.4 mil. $ range

4. Body Snatchers - 11.04 mil. $ range

5. Carlito's Way - 4.48 mil. $ range

6. Demolition Man - 4.36 mil. $ range

= Combined losses: 73.92 mil. $

Biggest hits of the year:

[The gain is based solely on the cost and box office earnings for the films. Marketing costs and additional revenue (home video, TV rights and other auxiliary profits) are not taken into account]

1. Mrs. Doubtfire - 151.48 mil. $ range

2. The Fugitive - 103.52 mil. $ range

3. The Firm - 66.08 mil. $ range

4. Philadelphia - 56.64 mil. $ range

5. The Piano - 49 mil. $ range

6. Hot Shots! Part Deux - 28.48 mil. $ range

7. Groundhog Day - 27.4 mil. $ range

8. Falling Down - 7.72 mil. $ range

= Combined profits: 490.32 mil. $ range

1993 titles currently on the watch-list:

Carnosaur, Hocus Pocus, M. Butterfly, The Man Without a Face, Body Melt, Fear of a Black Hat, The Good Son, Skinner, Lost in Yonkers, Skin Art, Red Rock West, Loaded Weapon 1

Previous annual lists:

2022 in films - according to Film Excess

2021 in films - according to Film Excess

2020 in films - according to Film Excess

2019 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]

2019 in films - according to Film Excess
2018 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2018 in films - according to Film Excess
2017 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2017 in films - according to Film Excess
2016 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2016 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2016 in films - according to Film Excess

2008 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2008 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
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Donald Sutherland has passed away

Born in Canada, Sutherland battled polio as a child. His first credit was in Suspense (1963, TV-series) and his first film was The Castle of the Living Dead (1964). Later credits in his remarkable career include The Saint (1965-66), The Dirty Dozen (1967), M*A*S*H (1970), Kelly's Heroes (1970), Klute (1971), Don't Look Now (1973), 1900 (1976), Casanova (1976), The Eagle Has Landed (1976), Ordinary People (1980), A Dry White Season (1989), JFK (1991), Outbreak (1995), Fallen (1998), Virus (1999), Fierce People (2005), Pride & Prejudice (2005), Lord of War (2005), The Hunger Games (2012), The Undoing (2020, miniseries) and many more. He passed away at age 88. R.I.P.

Roger Corman has passed away

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Corman had a sprawling, intellectually hungry life as a youth and young man before arriving with his first film in 1955, Five Guns West. He would follow that with titles such as Apache Woman, It Conquered the World, Attack of the Crab Monsters, Teenage Cave Man, A Bucket of Blood, House of Usher, The Little Shop of Horrors, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Intruder, The Raven, The Terror, The Masque of Red Death, The Tomb of Ligeia, The Wild Angels, The Trip, Bloody Mama and many more. As a producer he was behind almost 500 films. Arguably among the most important filmmakers of the 20th century, Corman passed away at age 98. R.I.P.

William Friedkin has died

Born in Chicago, Friedkin accrued TV credits prior to his advance to the big screen as the director of Good TImes (1967), The Birthday Party (1968), The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968) and The Boys in the Band (1970) before his major breakthrough, The French Connection (1971), for which he won his only Oscar. He followed it up with the even bigger smash, The Exorcist (1973), arguably the best horror film of all time, for which he was Oscar-nominated. Later credits include Sorcerer (1977), Cruising (1980), To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), Rampage (1987), Rules of Engagement (2000), Killer Joe (2011) and The Devil and Father Amorth (2017, documentary). Friedkin passed away at age 87. R.I.P.

Louise Fletcher has passed away

Born in Alabama to deaf parents, Fletcher got her first credits in late-1950s TV-series.She took a 10 year-long sabbatical to devote her time to motherhood after the release of A Gathering of Eagles, but then came back and soon saw her career's most important part, as Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), for which she won her sole Oscar. Later credits include Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), The Lucky Star (1980), Brainstorm (1983), Two Moon Junction (1988), Cruel Intentions (1999), A Perfect Man (2013) and many more. Fletcher passed away at age 88. R.I.P.

Jean-Luc Godard has passed away

Born in Paris, France, Godard lived much of his life in Switzerland. He wrote for French film criticism magazine Cahiers du Cinema and became foundational for the New French Wave that inspired new waves in scores of other countries across the world with his Breathless (1960). Later credits include A Woman Is A Woman (1961), Vivre Sa Vie (1962), Le Petit Soldat (1962), Contempt (1963), Alphaville (1965), Pierrot le Fou (1965), 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967), Weekend (1967), Every Man for Himself (1980), King Lear (1987), Century of Cinema (1995, documentary), Goodbye to Language (2014) and many more. Godard died of assisted suicide at age 91. R.I.P.

Wolfgang Petersen has died

James Caan has died

Caan was born the son of Jewish immigrants from Germany in New York. He got his start on TV in the early 1960s. His credits include El Dorado (1966), The Rain People (1969), Brian's Song (1971, TV movie), The Godfather (1972), - for which he earned his only Oscar nomination, - Slither (1973), The Gambler (1974), Funny Lady (1975), Rollerball (1975), Silent Movie (1976), Hide in Plain Sight (1980), - the only film he also directed, - Thief (1981), Misery (1990), Honeymoon in Vegas (1992), Bottle Rocket (1996), Eraser (1996), Dogville (2003), Elf (2003), Las Vegas (2003-07), Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) and many more. Caan passed away at age 82. R.I.P.

Jean-Louis Trintignant has died

Born in Vaucluse, France, Trintignant's theatrical debut as an actor was in If All the Guys in the World... (1955). Later credits include ...And God Created Woman (1956), The Seven Deadly Sins (1961), Inferno (1964), A Man and A Woman (1966), My Love, My Love (1967), A Man to Kill (1967), The Great Silence (1968), Z (1969), The Assassination (1972), Three Colors: Red (1994), Amour (2012), Happy End (2017) and many more. He also wrote and directed two films in the 1970s. Trintignant passed away at age 91. R.I.P.

Ray Liotta has died

Adopted from an orphenage at a young age, Liotta got hooked on acting in high school. He had various TV credits in the late 1970s and early 80s, with his film debut in The Lonely Lady (1983). Later credits include Something Wild (1986), Field of Dreams (1989), Goodfellas (1990), Cop Land (1997), Hannibal (2001), Blow (2001), Narc (2002), John Q (2002), Identity (2003), Observe and Report (2009), Youth in Revolt (2009), The Details (2011), Killing THem Softly (2012), The Place Beyond the Pines (2012), Shades of Blue (2016-18), The Simpsons (2018, TV-series), Marriage Story (2019), The Many Saints of Newark (2021), Black Bird (2022, TV-series) and many more. Liotta passed away at age 67 in his sleep while on production in the Dominican Republic. R.I.P.

Philip Baker Hall has died

Born in Ohio, Hall didn't start acting until he was 30. His long list of credits include Zabriskie Point (1970), Miami Vice (1987, TV-series), Midnight Run (1988), Ghostbusters II (1989), Cheers (1993, TV-series), Hard Eight (1996), The Rock (1996), Air Force One (1997), Boogie Nights (1997), Seinfeld (1991-98), Rush Hour (1998), The Insider (1999), Magnolia (1999), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Bruce Almighty (2003), Dogville (2003), The Zodiac (2005), Zodiac (2007), Curb Your Enthusiasm (2004-09), Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011), Modern Family (2011-12) and many more. Hall passed away at age 90. R.I.P.

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