Overview of the events of 1997 in film
The year 1997 in film involved many significant films, including Titanic, The Full Monty, Gattaca, Donnie Brasco, Good Will Hunting, L.A. Confidential, The Fifth Element, Nil by Mouth, The Spanish Prisoner, and the beginning of the film studio DreamWorks.
Highest-grossing films
The top 10 films released in 1997 by worldwide gross are as follows:[1]
- ^ Excluding the gross from subsequent re-releases.
Box office records
- Titanic became the first film in history to pass $1 billion at the box office on March 1, 1998. Titanic held the record for the highest-grossing film of all time for 12 years until it was surpassed by Avatar (also directed by James Cameron) on January 25, 2010.
- The Jurassic Park franchise became the sixth film franchise to gross $1 billion with the release of The Lost World: Jurassic Park.[3]
- Sony Pictures became the year's highest-grossing distributor in the United States and Canada, with $1.3 billion in domestic gross. It was the first time Sony Pictures topped the domestic box office, after Disney was the top-grossing domestic distributor for the previous three years.[4]
Events
Academy Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
- Taste of Cherry (طعم گيلاس, Ta'm-e gilass), directed by Abbas Kiarostami, Iran / France
- The Eel (うなぎ, Unagi), directed by Shohei Imamura, Japan
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
- Hana-bi (Fireworks), directed by Takeshi Kitano, Japan
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
- The People vs. Larry Flynt, directed by Miloš Forman, Canada / United States
Award ceremonies
Awards
1997 films
By country/region
By genre/medium
Births
- January 2 – Melis Sezen, Turkish actress
- January 17 – Jake Paul, Boxer
- January 21 – Jeremy Shada, American actor and musician
- January 24
- February 2 – Ellie Bamber, English actress
- February 8
- February 10 – Chloë Grace Moretz, American actress
- February 12 – Shane Baumel, American former teen actor
- February 14 – Madison Iseman, American actress
- February 23 – Pallavi Dey, Indian actress (d. 2022)
- February 25 – Isabelle Fuhrman, American actress
- March 2 – Becky G, American singer and actress
- March 3 – Camila Cabello, Cuban singer and actress
- March 6 – Alisha Boe, Norwegian-American actress
- March 9 – Niamh Wilson, Canadian actress
- March 10 – Madeleine Arthur, Canadian actress
- March 18 – Ciara Bravo, American actress
- March 28 – Annabelle Davis, English actress
- April 1 – Asa Butterfield, English actor
- April 5 – Henry Hunter Hall, American actor
- April 15 – Maisie Williams, English actress
- April 23 – Alex Ferris, Canadian actor
- April 25 – Tony Poljan, American Football Player
- April 26 – Amber Midthunder, American actress
- May 2 – Perla Haney-Jardine, Brazilian-American actress
- May 11 – Lana Condor, American actress
- May 12 – Odeya Rush, Israeli actress
- May 30
- June 13 – Theodore Pellerin, Canadian actor
- June 16 – Camila Morrone, American model and actress
- June 17 – KJ Apa, New Zealand actor
- June 18 – Max Records, American actor
- June 26 – Jacob Elordi, Australian actor
- July 13 – Leo Howard, American actor and martial artist
- July 18 – Fionn Whitehead, British actor
- July 19 – Amita Suman, Nepali-British actress
- July 22 – Field Cate, American actor
- July 23 – Chloé Hayden, Australian actress
- August 5
- August 13 – Yeo Jin-goo, South Korean actor
- August 18 – Josephine Langford, Australian actress
- August 25
- August 28 – Emilia McCarthy, Canadian actress
- August 30 – Dana Gaier, American actress
- September 7 – Dean-Charles Chapman, English actor
- September 9 - Tallulah Haddon, British actress
- September 12 – Sydney Sweeney, American actress
- September 16 – Elena Kampouris, American actress
- September 19 – Jayme Lawson, American actress
- September 30 – Havana Rose Liu, American actress, model, dancer, activist and designer
- October 6 – Honor Swinton Byrne, British actress
- October 7 – Kira Kosarin, American actress
- October 8 – Bella Thorne, American actress
- October 10 – Grace Rolek, American actress and voice actress
- October 20 – John Bell, Scottish actor
- October 23 – Zach Callison, American actor and voice actor
- October 26 – Rhenzy Feliz, American actor and singer
- October 28 – Sierra McCormick, American actress
- November 1
- November 6 – Hero Fiennes Tiffin, English actor, model and producer
- November 8 – Dominique Thorne, American actress
- November 13 – Brent and Shane Kinsman, American twin child actors
- November 18 – Noah Ringer, American actor
- November 26
- December 11
- December 15 – Maude Apatow, American actress
- December 16 - Spence Moore II, American actor
- December 27 – Vachirawit Chivaaree "Bright", Thai actor
- December 29 – Kiera Allen, American actress
Deaths
Film debuts
References
- ^ "1997 Worldwide Box Office". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved March 7, 2020.
- ^ "Titanic (1997)". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on March 21, 2012.
- ^ "The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on May 9, 2021. Retrieved May 27, 2021.
- ^ McNary, Dave (31 December 1997). "Sony's slew of hit movies exterminates Disney out of top spot". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. p. 10. Retrieved 16 April 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
External links
- List of 1997 films at IMDb
- 1997 Domestic Grosses at Box Office Mojo
- List of 1997 deaths at IMDb
- List of 1997 births at IMDb
