2008 in movies
Below is a list of movies released in 2008, ordered by release date.
Highest-grossing movies
| Rank | Title | Studio | Worldwide | North America | UK | Australia |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Dark Knight | Warner Bros. | $1,001,921,825 | $533,345,358 | $89,066,002 | $39,880,001 |
| 2 | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | Paramount/Lucasfilm | $786,636,033 | $317,101,110 | $79,283,312 | $27,981,873 |
| 3 | Kung Fu Panda | Paramount/DreamWorks | $631,744,560 | $215,434,591 | $39,405,501 | $24,764,811 |
| 4 | Hancock | Columbia | $624,386,746 | $227,946,274 | $49,170,891 | $19,636,856 |
| 5 | Mamma Mia! | Universal | $609,827,661 | $144,130,063 | $132,342,643 | $29,287,466 |
| 6 | Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa | Paramount/DreamWorks | $603,900,354 | $180,010,950 | $35,471,617 | $15,093,421 |
| 7 | Quantum of Solace | MGM/Columbia | $586,090,727 | $168,368,427 | $80,805,643 | $20,645,336 |
| 8 | Iron Man | Paramount/Marvel Studios | $585,174,222 | $318,412,101 | $33,822,889 | $18,880,106 |
| 9 | WALL-E | Disney/Pixar | $521,311,860 | $223,808,164 | $41,215,600 | $14,165,390 |
| 10 | The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian | Disney/Walden | $419,665,568 | $141,621,490 | $21,581,030 | $13,181,570 |
Events
| Month | Day | Event |
| January | 7 | Due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America Strike, NBC and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association scrap plans to hold its 65th Golden Globe Awards ceremony and instead hold a press conference announcing the winners |
| 13 | The 65th Golden Globe Awards winners were announced. | |
| 16 | The 61st BAFTA Awards nominations were announced with Atonement the leading movie with 14 nominations closely followed by No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood, both with 7 nominations | |
| 17 – 27 | The 26th Sundance Film Festival is opened with the world premiere of Martin McDonagh's In Bruges and screens over 120 movies. The Grand Jury and Audience Award prizes are awarded to Frozen River and The Wackness respectively. The festival is closed by the world premiere of Bernard Shakey's CSNY/Déjà Vu | |
| 22 | The 80th Academy Awards nominations were announced with No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood the leading movies with 8 nominations each, closely followed by Atonement and Michael Clayton, both with 7 | |
| The Oscar nominated actor Heath Ledger, 28, is found dead at his home in Manhattan, New York City, from an accidental prescription pills overdose | ||
| 23 – 3 | The 37th Rotterdam International Film Festival is opened with the world premiere of Lucía Cedrón's narrative feature-movie debut Lamb of God (Cordero de Dios). | |
| 26 | The 60th Directors Guild of America Award dinner is held in the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, Los Angeles. The Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film prize is awarded to Joel and Ethan Coen | |
| 27 | The 14th Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony is held in the Shrine Exposition Center, Los Angeles. | |
| February | 7 – 17 | The 58th Berlin International Film Festival is opened with the world premiere of Martin Scorsese's Shine A Light and screens over 350 movies. The Golden Bear prize is awarded to Elite Squad. The Silver Bear prizes are awarded to Paul Thomas Anderson, Best Director, Reza Naji, Best Actor and Sally Hawkins, Best Actress. The festival is closed by the international premiere of Michel Gondry's Be Kind Rewind |
| 8 | The 35th Annie Awards ceremony is held in the UCLA's Royce Hall, Los Angeles. The Best Animated Feature prize is awarded to Ratatouille | |
| 9 | The 60th Writers Guild of America Awards are announced in a brief statement. The Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Screenplay prizes are awarded to Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men) and Diablo Cody (Juno), respectively | |
| 10 | The 61st BAFTA Awards ceremony is held in the Royal Opera House, London. Anthony Hopkins is honoured with the Academy Fellowship. | |
| 12 | The members of the WGA agree a three-year deal with the AMPTP and vote to end the 3-month 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America Strike | |
| 23 | The 28th Golden Raspberry Awards ceremony is held in Santa Monica, California. | |
| The 23rd Independent Spirit Awards ceremony is broadcast. The Best Film award is given to Juno. The Best Actor and Best Actress awards are given to Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ellen Page respectively | ||
| 24 | The 80th Academy Awards ceremony is held in the Kodak Theater, Hollywood. | |
| March | 3 | The 28th Genie Awards |
| 9 | The 13th Empire Awards is held in the Grosvenor House Hotel in London, England. | |
| 13 – 21 | 7th Tiburon International Film Festival | |
| April | 4 – 13 | 10th Sarasota Film Festival |
| 23 – 4 | 7th Tribeca Film Festival
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| 24 – 8 | 51st San Francisco International Film Festival | |
| May | ? - ? | 8th Silver Lake Film Festival |
| 14 – 25 | Entre les murs wins the Palme d'Or while Gomorrah receives the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. | |
| 22 – 15 | 34th Seattle International Film Festival | |
| 26 | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull earns $126 million in the United States and Canada, becoming the highest-grossing debut of 2008 and the second-highest-grossing for a Memorial Day weekend debut behind Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. | |
| June | 1 | The 2008 MTV Movie Awards winners were announced |
| A massive fire destroys portions of facilities at Universal Studios in Universal City near Los Angeles, California. | ||
| 14 – 22 | 11th Shanghai International Film Festival | |
| 18 | Iron Man becomes the first movie of 2008 to earn $300 million in the United States and Canada. | |
| 18 – 29 | 62nd Edinburgh International Film Festival. The festival launches a new sidebar celebrating the spirit of discovery, including selections Bigga Than Ben, Blood Car, Crack Willow, Spike, Strange Girls, and The Third Pint.[3] | |
| July | 17 – 26 | 8th Era New Horizons Film Festival |
| August | 4 | The Dark Knight reached $400 million in record time at 18 days. The previous record was held by Shrek 2, which reached it in 43 days. |
| 6 – 16 | 61st Locarno International Film Festival | |
| 21 – 1 | 32nd Montreal World Film Festival | |
| 27 – 6 | 65th Venice International Film Festival | |
| September | 4 – 13 | 33rd Toronto International Film Festival |
| 15 -20 | 33rd Polish Film Festival in Gdynia | |
| 18 – 27 | 56th San Sebastián International Film Festival | |
| 23 -30 | 6th Bangkok International Film Festival | |
| October | 1 – 12 | 16th Raindance Film Festival |
| 15 – 30 | 52nd London Film Festival | |
| 18 – 26 | 21st Tokyo International Film Festival | |
| November | 18 – 28 | 32nd Cairo International Film Festival |
| December | 5 – 14 | 10th Jakarta International Film Festival |
| 4 – 14 | 23rd Mar del Plata International Film Festival |
Awards
| Category/Organization | 14th Critics' Choice Awards January 8, 2009 |
66th Golden Globe Awards January 11, 2009 |
Producers, Directors, Screen Actors, and Writers Guild Awards | 62nd BAFTA Awards February 8, 2009 |
81st Academy Awards February 22, 2009 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | Musical or Comedy | |||||
| Best Film | Slumdog Millionaire | Vicky Cristina Barcelona | Slumdog Millionaire | |||
| Best Director | Danny Boyle Slumdog Millionaire | |||||
| Best Actor | Sean Penn Milk |
Mickey Rourke The Wrestler |
Colin Farrell In Bruges |
Sean Penn Milk |
Mickey Rourke The Wrestler |
Sean Penn Milk |
| Best Actress | Anne Hathaway Rachel Getting Married Meryl Streep Doubt |
Kate Winslet Revolutionary Road |
Sally Hawkins Happy-Go-Lucky |
Meryl Streep Doubt |
Kate Winslet The Reader | |
| Best Supporting Actor | Heath Ledger The Dark Knight | |||||
| Best Supporting Actress | Kate Winslet The Reader |
Penélope Cruz Vicky Cristina Barcelona | ||||
| Best Screenplay, Adapted | Simon Beaufoy Slumdog Millionaire |
Simon Beaufoy Slumdog Millionaire | ||||
| Best Screenplay, Original | Dustin Lance Black Milk |
Martin McDonagh In Bruges |
Dustin Lance Black Milk | |||
| Best Animated Film | WALL•E | N/A | WALL•E | |||
| Best Original Score | Slumdog Millionaire A. R. Rahman |
N/A | Slumdog Millionaire A. R. Rahman | |||
| Best Original Song | "The Wrestler" The Wrestler |
N/A | N/A | "Jai Ho" Slumdog Millionaire | ||
| Best Foreign Language Film | Waltz with Bashir | N/A | I've Loved You So Long | Departures | ||
2008 wide-release movies
January–March
| Opening | Title | Studio | Cast and crew | Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| J A N U A R Y |
4 | One Missed Call | Warner Bros. Pictures / Alcon Entertainment / Kadokawa Pictures | Shannyn Sossamon, Edward Burns, Ana Claudia Talancón, Azura Skye, Ray Wise, Margaret Cho | |
| 11 | First Sunday | Screen Gems / Cube Vision | Ice Cube, Katt Williams, Tracy Morgan, Loretta Devine, Michael Beach, Keith David, Regina Hall | ||
| In the Name of the King | Freestyle Releasing / Boll KG / Brightlight Pictures | Jason Statham, Leelee Sobieski, Ron Perlman, John Rhys-Davies, Claire Forlani, Matthew Lillard, Kristanna Loken, Brian J. White | |||
| The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie | Universal Pictures / Big Idea Productions | Mike Nawrocki, Phil Vischer, Cam Clarke, Yuri Lowenthal | |||
| 18 | 27 Dresses | Fox 2000 Pictures / Spyglass Entertainment | Katherine Heigl, James Marsden, Malin Åkerman, Judy Greer, Edward Burns | ||
| Cassandra's Dream | The Weinstein Company | Woody Allen (director); Hayley Atwell, Colin Farrell, Sally Hawkins, Ewan McGregor, Tom Wilkinson | |||
| Cloverfield | Paramount Pictures / Bad Robot Productions | Michael Stahl-David, Mike Vogel, Odette Yustman, Lizzy Caplan, Jessica Lucas | |||
| Mad Money | Overture Films / Millennium Films | Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah, Katie Holmes, Ted Danson, Stephen Root, Christopher McDonald, Roger Cross | |||
| Teeth | Roadside Attractions | Mitchell Lichtenstein (director); Jess Weixler, John Hensley, John Pais, Hale Appleman, Ashley Springer, Lenny Von Dohlen | |||
| 25 | How She Move | Paramount Vantage / MTV Films | Kevin Duhaney, Shawn Desman, Kardinal Offishall, Djanet Sears, Mýa | ||
| Meet the Spartans | 20th Century Fox / Regency Enterprises | Sean Maguire, Ken Davitian, Carmen Electra, Kevin Sorbo, Jareb Dauplaise, Travis Van Winkle, Diedrich Bader | |||
| Minutemen | Salty Pictures | Jason Dolley, Luke Benward | |||
| Rambo | Lionsgate / The Weinstein Company / Millennium Films / Equity Pictures | Sylvester Stallone, Julie Benz, Paul Schulze, Matthew Marsden, Graham McTavish, Ken Howard, Jake La Botz | |||
| Untraceable | Screen Gems / Lakeshore Entertainment | Diane Lane, Colin Hanks, Billy Burke, Joseph Michael Cross, Mary Beth Hurt | |||
| 30 | Asterix at the Olympic Games | Pathé | |||
| F E B R U A R Y |
1 | The Eye | Lionsgate / Paramount Vantage | Jessica Alba, Alessandro Nivola, Parker Posey, Rade Šerbedžija, Rachel Ticotin, Chloë Grace Moretz | |
| Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert | Walt Disney Pictures | Miley Cyrus, Jonas Brothers, Kenny Ortega, Billy Ray Cyrus | |||
| Over Her Dead Body | New Line Cinema / Gold Circle Films | Eva Longoria, Paul Rudd, Lake Bell, Lindsay Sloane, Jason Biggs | |||
| Strange Wilderness | Paramount Pictures / Level 1 Entertainment / Happy Madison Productions | Steve Zahn, Allen Covert, Jonah Hill, Kevin Heffernan, Ashley Scott, Peter Dante, Harry Hamlin, Robert Patrick | |||
| 6 | How to Rob a Bank ‡ | IFC First Take | Nick Stahl, Erika Christensen, Gavin Rossdale, Terry Crews, Adriano Aragon, David Carradine | ||
| 8 | Fool's Gold | Warner Bros. Pictures | Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Donald Sutherland, Tiffany Grant, Ray Winstone, Kevin Hart, Ewen Bremner, Brian Hooks, David Roberts, Alexis Dziena, Rohan Nichol, Adam LeFevre | ||
| In Bruges ‡ | Focus Features | Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, Clémence Poésy, Jérémie Renier | |||
| Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins | Universal Pictures / Spyglass Entertainment | Martin Lawrence, Margaret Avery, Joy Bryant, Louis C.K., Michael Clarke Duncan, Mike Epps, Mo'Nique, Nicole Ari Parker, Cedric the Entertainer, James Earl Jones | |||
| Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights – Hollywood to the Heartland | Picturehouse Entertainment | Ahmed Ahmed, Sean Fitzgerald, Peter Billingsley, John Caparulo, Bret Ernst, Justin Long, Sebastian Maniscalco, Keir O'Donnell, Vince Vaughn | |||
| 14 | Definitely, Maybe | Universal Pictures / Working Title Films | Ryan Reynolds, Isla Fisher, Derek Luke, Abigail Breslin, Elizabeth Banks, Rachel Weisz | ||
| Jumper | 20th Century Fox / Regency Enterprises | Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson, Rachel Bilson, Jamie Bell, Diane Lane, Michael Rooker, Jesse James, Tom Hulce, Kristen Stewart, Teddy Dunn, AnnaSophia Robb, Max Thieriot, Barbara Garrick, Shawn Roberts, Meredith Henderson, Nathalie Cox, Tony Nappo, Clark Beasley Jr. | |||
| The Spiderwick Chronicles | Paramount Pictures / Nickelodeon Movies | Freddie Highmore, Mary-Louise Parker, Nick Nolte, Joan Plowright, David Strathairn | |||
| Step Up 2: The Streets | Touchstone Pictures / Summit Entertainment | Robert Hoffman, Briana Evigan, Channing Tatum, Cassie Ventura | |||
| 15 | Diary of the Dead | The Weinstein Company / Dimension Films | Michelle Morgan, Josh Close, Shawn Roberts, Amy Lalonde, Joe Dinicol, Scott Wentworth, Philip Riccio, Chris Violette, Tatiana Maslany | ||
| 22 | Be Kind Rewind | New Line Cinema / Partizan Films | Jack Black, Mos Def, Danny Glover, Mia Farrow, Melonie Diaz, Chandler Parker, Quinton Aaron, Gio Perez, Marcus Carl Franklin, Irv Gooch, Blake Hightower, Amir Ali Said, Karolina Wydra, Marc Alan Austen, Kid Creole, Jon Glaser, P. J. Byrne, Marceline Hugot, John Tormey, Matt Walsh, Paul Dinello, Sigourney Weaver | ||
| Charlie Bartlett | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Sidney Kimmel Entertainment | Robert Downey Jr., Hope Davis, Anton Yelchin, Kat Dennings | |||
| U2 3D ‡ | National Geographic Entertainment / 3ality Digital | Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jr. | |||
| Vantage Point | Columbia Pictures / Relativity Media / Original Film | Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt, Zoe Saldana | |||
| Witless Protection | Lionsgate / Parallel Entertainment | Larry the Cable Guy, Ivana Miličević, Peter Stormare, Eric Roberts, Jenny McCarthy, Yaphet Kotto | |||
| 29 | Bonneville ‡ | SenArt Films | Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Joan Allen, Tom Skerritt, Christine Baranski | ||
| City of Men ‡ | Miramax Films | Douglas Silva, Darlan Cunha, Jonathan Haagensen, Rodrigo dos Santos | |||
| The Other Boleyn Girl | Columbia Pictures / Focus Features / BBC Films / Relativity Media | Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana, Jim Sturgess, Kristin Scott Thomas | |||
| Penelope | Summit Entertainment / Stone Village Pictures / Type A Films | Christina Ricci, James McAvoy, Catherine O'Hara, Reese Witherspoon, Richard E. Grant | |||
| Semi-Pro | New Line Cinema | Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson, André 3000, Maura Tierney, Will Arnett, David Koechner, Andrew Daly | |||
| M A R C H |
7 | 10,000 BC | Warner Bros. Pictures / Legendary Pictures / Centropolis Entertainment | Steven Strait, Camilla Belle, Cliff Curtis | |
| The Bank Job | Lionsgate / Mosaic Media Group / Relativity Media / Omnilab Media | Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Richard Lintern, David Suchet | |||
| College Road Trip | Walt Disney Pictures | Raven-Symoné, Martin Lawrence, Brenda Song, Donny Osmond | |||
| Married Life | Sony Pictures Classics | Ira Sachs (director); Chris Cooper, Patricia Clarkson, Pierce Brosnan, Rachel McAdams | |||
| Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day | Focus Features | Bharat Nalluri (director); Frances McDormand, Amy Adams, Ciarán Hinds, Lee Pace | |||
| Paranoid Park | IFC Films | Gus Van Sant (director); Gabe Nevins, Taylor Momsen, Jake Miller, Daniel Liu, Lauren McKinney, Scott Patrick Green | |||
| Snow Angels | Warner Independent Pictures | David Gordon Green (director/screenplay); Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell, Michael Angarano, Olivia Thirlby, Amy Sedaris, Connor Paolo | |||
| 14 | Doomsday | Rogue Pictures / Intrepid Pictures / Crystal Sky Pictures | Malcolm McDowell, Bob Hoskins, Rhona Mitra, Neil Marshall | ||
| Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! | 20th Century Fox Animation / Blue Sky Studios | Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, Carol Burnett, Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Jesse McCartney, Amy Poehler, Isla Fisher, Will Arnett, Dan Fogler, Jaime Pressly | |||
| Funny Games | Warner Independent Pictures | Michael Haneke (director); Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, Brady Corbet, Devon Gearhart | |||
| Never Back Down | Summit Entertainment / Mandalay Independent Productions | Sean Faris, Amber Heard, Djimon Hounsou, Cam Gigandet, Evan Peters | |||
| Sleepwalking | Overture Films | William Maher (director); AnnaSophia Robb, Nick Stahl, Charlize Theron, Dennis Hooper, Woody Harrelson | |||
| 21 | Drillbit Taylor | Paramount Pictures | Owen Wilson, Troy Gentile, Nate Hartley, David Dorfman, Alex Frost, Josh Peck | ||
| The Grand | Anchor Bay Entertainment | Zak Penn (director); Woody Harrelson, Cheryl Hines, David Cross, Chris Parnell, Richard Kind, Dennis Farina, Werner Herzog, Ray Romano | |||
| Meet the Browns | Lionsgate / Tyler Perry Studios | Tyler Perry, Angela Bassett, Sofía Vergara, David Mann, Tamela Mann | |||
| Shutter | 20th Century Fox / Regency Enterprises | Joshua Jackson, Rachael Taylor, John Hensley | |||
| Under the Same Moon | Fox Searchlight Pictures / The Weinstein Company | Patricia Riggen (director); Adrián Alonso, Kate del Castillo, Eugenio Derbez, America Ferrera, Jesse Garcia | |||
| 28 | 21 | Columbia Pictures / Relativity Media | Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey, Laurence Fishburne, Aaron Yoo | ||
| Chapter 27 | Peace Arch Entertainment | Jared Leto, Judah Friedlander, Lindsay Lohan | |||
| Run Fatboy Run | New Line Cinema / Picturehouse / Material Entertainment | Simon Pegg, Thandie Newton, Dylan Moran, Hank Azaria | |||
| Stop-Loss | Paramount Pictures / MTV Films | Ryan Phillippe, Channing Tatum, Abbie Cornish, Joseph Gordon-Levitt | |||
| Superhero Movie | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Dimension Films | Drake Bell, Sara Paxton, Leslie Nielsen, Kevin Hart, Christopher McDonald | |||
April–June
July–September
October–December
Notable deaths
| Month | Date | Name | Age | Country | Profession | Notable movies |
| January | 1 | Peter Caffrey | 58 | UK | Actor |
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| 2 | George MacDonald Fraser | 82 | UK | Screenwriter |
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| 2 | Brice Mack | 90 | USA | Background Artist | ||
| 10 | Vampira | 86 | USA | Actress |
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| 15 | Brad Renfro | 25 | USA | Actor |
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| 18 | Lois Nettleton | 80 | USA | Actress |
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| 19 | Suzanne Pleshette | 70 | USA | Actress |
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| 22 | Roberto Gari | 88 | USA | Actor | ||
| 22 | Heath Ledger | 28 | Australia | Actor |
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| 22 | Kevin Stoney | 87 | UK | Actor |
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| 25 | Christopher Allport | 60 | USA | Actor |
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| 25 | Louisa Horton | 87 | USA | Actress |
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| February | 2 | Barry Morse | 89 | Canada | Actor |
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| 3 | Charles Fawcett | 92 | UK | Actor |
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| 4 | Augusta Dabney | 89 | USA | Actress |
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| 6 | John Alvin | 59 | USA | Poster Artist | ||
| 7 | Tamara Desni | 94 | Germany-UK | Actress |
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| 8 | Eva Dahlbeck | 87 | Sweden | Actress |
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| 8 | Jane Lumb | 65 | UK | Actress |
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| 9 | Robert DoQui | 73 | USA | Actor |
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| 10 | Roy Scheider | 75 | USA | Actor |
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| 11 | James Quinn | 88 | UK | Producer |
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| 12 | Oscar Brodney | 100 | USA | Screenwriter |
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| 12 | David Groh | 68 | USA | Actor |
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| 13 | Kon Ichikawa | 92 | Japan | Director |
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| 13 | Lionel Mark Smith | 62 | USA | Actor |
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| 14 | Perry Lopez | 76 | USA | Actor | ||
| 18 | Alain Robbe-Grillet | 85 | France | Screenwriter, Director | Last Year at Marienbad | |
| 19 | Mary Barclay | 91 | UK | Actress |
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| 19 | David Watkin | 82 | UK | Cinematographer | ||
| 21 | Ben Chapman | 82 | USA | Actor | Creature from the Black Lagoon | |
| 22 | Dennis Letts | 73 | USA | Actor | ||
| 28 | John Bliss | 77 | USA | Actor |
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| 29 | Gayne Rescher | 83 | USA | Cinematographer | ||
| March | 4 | Leonard Rosenman | 83 | USA | Composer |
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| 6 | Gustaw Holoubek | 84 | Poland | Actor | ||
| 6 | Alex Sharp | 86 | USA | Stuntman, Actor | ||
| 7 | Kay Callard | 84 | Canada | Actress |
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| 8 | Carol Barnes | 63 | UK | Actress | Shaun of the Dead | |
| 11 | David Nettheim | 83 | Australia | Actor | Paws | |
| 11 | Dave Stevens | 52 | USA | Illustrator, Producer | The Rocketeer | |
| 12 | Erwin Geschonneck | 101 | Germany | Actor | Jacob the Liar | |
| 16 | Ivan Dixon | 76 | USA | Actor, Director |
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| 18 | Philip Jones Griffiths | 72 | UK | Photographer | The Deer Hunter | |
| 18 | Anthony Minghella | 54 | UK | Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
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| 19 | Arthur C. Clarke | 90 | Sri Lanka | Writer, Actor | ||
| 19 | Paul Scofield | 86 | UK | Actor |
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| 24 | Rafael Azcona | 81 | Spain | Screenwriter |
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| 24 | Richard Widmark | 93 | USA | Actor | ||
| 25 | Art Aragon | 80 | USA | Actor |
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| 25 | Tony Church | 77 | UK | Actor |
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| 25 | Abby Mann | 80 | USA | Screenwriter |
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| 31 | Jules Dassin | 96 | USA | Director |
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| April | 1 | Floyd Simmons | 84 | USA | Actor |
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| 3 | Frosty Freeze | 44 | USA | Singer, Actor | Flashdance | |
| 5 | Alex Grasshoff | 79 | USA | Director | Young Americans | |
| 5 | Charlton Heston | 84 | USA | Actor |
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| 8 | Stanley Kamel | 65 | USA | Actor |
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| 9 | Lloyd Lamble | 94 | Australia | Actor | The Belles of St Trinian's | |
| 11 | Willoughby Goddard | 81 | UK | Actor |
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| 14 | Ollie Johnston | 95 | USA | Animator | ||
| 14 | June Travis | 93 | USA | Actress |
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| 15 | Hazel Court | 93 | UK | Actress |
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| 18 | Kay Linaker | 94 | USA | Actress |
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| 18 | Joy Page | 83 | USA | Actress |
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| 20 | Bebe Barron | 82 | USA | Composer | Forbidden Planet | |
| 23 | Dave Atkins | 67 | UK | Actor |
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| 24 | Tristram Cary | 82 | UK | Composer |
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| 29 | Lewis Croft | 88 | USA | Actor | The Wizard of Oz | |
| 29 | Julie Ege | 64 | Norway | Actress |
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| May | 1 | Bernard Archard | 91 | UK | Actor | |
| 1 | Terry Duggan | 76 | UK | Actor, Wrangler |
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| 2 | Beverlee McKinsey | 72 | USA | Actress |
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| 4 | Fred Haines | 72 | USA | Screenwriter, Director |
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| 12 | Robert Russell | 71 | UK | Actor |
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| 12 | Claudio Undari | 73 | Italy | Actor |
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| 13 | Jill Adams | 77 | UK | Actress |
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| 13 | John Phillip Law | 70 | USA | Actor |
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| 14 | John Forbes-Robertson | 80 | UK | Actor |
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| 15 | Alexander Courage | 88 | USA | Composer, Orchestrator | ||
| 16 | Sandy Howard | 80 | USA | Director, Producer |
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| 16 | David Mitton | 69 | UK | Writer, Director |
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| 18 | Irma Córdoba | 94 | Argentina | Actor |
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| 18 | Joseph Pevney | 96 | USA | Director |
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| 19 | Vijay Tendulkar | 80 | India | Screenwriter |
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| 22 | Harry Lange | 77 | Germany | Production Designer | ||
| 24 | Rob Knox | 18 | UK | Actor | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | |
| 24 | Dick Martin | 86 | USA | Actor |
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| 26 | Sydney Pollack | 73 | USA | Actor, Director, Producer |
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| 28 | Earle Hagen | 88 | USA | Composer, Orchestrator |
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| 29 | Harvey Korman | 81 | USA | Actor |
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| June | 1 | Ted Manson | 81 | USA | Actor |
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| 2 | Bo Diddley | 79 | USA | Actor, Musician |
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| 2 | Mel Ferrer | 90 | USA | Actor, Director |
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| 5 | Bruce Purchase | 69 | UK | Actor | Macbeth | |
| 6 | Bobby Anderson | 75 | USA | Actor | It's a Wonderful Life | |
| 7 | Dino Risi | 91 | Italy | Director, Writer |
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| 11 | Jean Desailly | 87 | France | Actor |
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| 15 | Stan Winston | 62 | USA | Director, Makeup Artist | ||
| 17 | Henry Beckman | 86 | Spain | Actor |
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| 17 | Cyd Charisse | 86 | USA | Actress, Dancer |
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| 18 | Jean Delannoy | 100 | France | Director |
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| 21 | Kermit Love | 91 | USA | Puppeteer, Costume Designer | The Muppet Movie | |
| 22 | George Carlin | 71 | USA | Actor, Comedian |
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| 22 | Dody Goodman | 93 | USA | Actress | ||
| 23 | John Furlong | 75 | USA | Actor |
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| 24 | William Vince | 45 | Canada | Producer | ||
| 26 | Lilyan Chauvin | 82 | France | Actress |
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| 29 | Don S. Davis | 67 | USA | Actor |
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| July | 2 | Elizabeth Spriggs | 78 | UK | Actress | |
| 4 | Evelyn Keyes | 91 | USA | Actress | ||
| 6 | Nonna Mordyukova | 82 | Russia | Actress | ||
| 7 | Bruce Conner | 74 | USA | Director |
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| 9 | Charles H. Joffe | 78 | USA | Producer | ||
| 11 | Breno Mello | 76 | Brazil | Actor | Black Orpheus | |
| 14 | Hugh Lloyd | 85 | UK | Actor | Quadrophenia | |
| 17 | Paul Sorensen | 82 | USA | Actor | ||
| 22 | Patrick Connor | 81 | UK | Actor |
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| 22 | Estelle Getty | 84 | USA | Actress |
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| 25 | Randy Pausch | 47 | USA | Professor, Actor | Star Trek | |
| 25 | Mikhail Pugovkin | 85 | Russia | Actor |
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| 27 | Youssef Chahine | 82 | Egypt | Director |
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| 27 | Marisa Merlini | 84 | Italy | Actress |
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| 29 | Luther Davis | 91 | USA | Screenwriter |
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| August | 1 | Gertan Klauber | 76 | Actor |
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| 7 | Bernie Brillstein | 77 | USA | Producer | ||
| 9 | Bernie Mac | 50 | USA | Actor |
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| 10 | Isaac Hayes | 65 | USA | Actor, Songwriter |
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| 11 | George Furth | 75 | USA | Actor | ||
| 11 | Terence Rigby | 71 | UK | Actor | ||
| 15 | Molly McClure | 89 | USA | Actress | ||
| 21 | Fred Crane | 90 | USA | Actor | Gone with the Wind | |
| 24 | Peter Sutton | 65 | British | Sound Mixer |
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| 25 | Marpessa Dawn | 74 | USA | Actor |
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| 25 | Rita Quigley | 85 | USA | Actress |
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| 31 | Ken Campbell | 66 | UK | Actor, Writer |
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| 31 | Jerry Reed | 71 | USA | Actor, Singer, Songwriter |
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| September | 1 | Don LaFontaine | 68 | USA | Voice actor | Prolific and iconic voice-over actor featured in over 5,000 movie trailers |
| 1 | Michael Pate | 88 | Australia | Actor, Director |
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| 2 | Bill Melendez | 91 | Mexico | Animator, Director | ||
| 6 | Anita Page | 98 | USA | Actress | ||
| 8 | Celia Gregory | 58 | UK | Actress |
| |
| 17 | Humberto Solás | 67 | Cuba | Director | Lucía | |
| 18 | Florestano Vancini | 82 | Italy | Director, Writer |
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| 19 | Jun Ichikawa | 59 | Japan | Director | Tony Takitani | |
| 19 | David Jones | 74 | UK | Director |
| |
| 20 | William Fox | 97 | UK | Actor |
| |
| 26 | Paul Newman | 83 | USA | Actor, Director |
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| 27 | Mahendra Kapoor | 74 | India | Playback Artist |
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| 29 | Louis Guss | 90 | USA | Actor |
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| October | 1 | Robert Arthur | 87 | USA | Actor |
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| 5 | Kim Chan | 90 | USA | Actor, Producer | ||
| 5 | Ken Ogata | 71 | Japan | Actor |
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| 7 | Peter Copley | 93 | UK | Actor |
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| 8 | Bob Friend | 70 | UK | Actor |
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| 8 | Eileen Herlie | 90 | UK | Actress |
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| 11 | Neal Hefti | 85 | USA | Composer | ||
| 11 | Mark Shivas | 70 | UK | Producer |
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| 11 | Gil Stratton | 86 | USA | Actor |
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| 13 | Guillaume Depardieu | 37 | France | Actor |
| |
| 15 | Edie Adams | 81 | USA | Actress | ||
| 15 | Nathan Davis | 91 | USA | Actor | ||
| 18 | Peter Gordeno | 69 | UK | Actor, Choreographer | Carry On Columbus | |
| 18 | Xie Jin | 84 | China | Director |
| |
| 19 | Rudy Ray Moore | 81 | USA | Actor |
| |
| 20 | John Ringham | 80 | UK | Actor | V for Vendetta | |
| 22 | John Axon | 48 | UK | Actor | ||
| 24 | Milton Katselas | 75 | USA | Director |
| |
| 26 | Delmar Watson | 82 | USA | Actor | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | |
| 27 | Roy Stewart | 83 | UK | Actor |
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| 31 | Jonathan Bates | 68 | UK | Supervising Sound Editor | ||
| 31 | John Daly | 71 | UK | Producer | ||
| November | 1 | Yma Sumac | 85 | Peru | Singer, Actress |
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| 5 | Michael Crichton | 66 | USA | Writer, Director |
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| 5 | Michael Higgins | 88 | USA | Actor | ||
| 16 | Reg Varney | 92 | UK | Actor |
| |
| 17 | Ennio de Concini | 84 | Italy | Screenwriter |
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| 19 | John Michael Hayes | 89 | USA | Screenwriter |
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| 20 | June Vincent | 89 | USA | Actress |
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| 26 | De'Angelo Wilson | 29 | USA | Actor |
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| December | 1 | Paul Benedict | 70 | USA | Actor | |
| 1 | James Bree | 85 | UK | Actor | On Her Majesty's Secret Service | |
| 5 | Nina Foch | 84 | Netherlands–USA | Actress |
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| 5 | Beverly Garland | 82 | USA | Actress |
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| 8 | Robert Prosky | 77 | USA | Actor |
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| 8 | Bob Spiers | 63 | UK | Director, Producer |
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| 11 | Maddie Blaustein | 48 | USA | Actress |
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| 12 | Van Johnson | 92 | USA | Actor |
| |
| 16 | Sam Bottoms | 53 | USA | Actor, Producer, Soundtrack | ||
| 16 | Richard Coleman | 78 | France | Actor |
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| 18 | Majel Barrett-Roddenberry | 76 | USA | Actress |
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| 18 | John Costelloe | 47 | USA | Actor |
| |
| 18 | Jack Douglas | 81 | UK | Actor |
| |
| 20 | Robert Mulligan | 83 | USA | Director | ||
| 24 | Harold Pinter | 78 | UK | Writer, Actor, Director | ||
| 25 | Eartha Kitt | 81 | USA | Actress, Singer |
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| 25 | Ann Savage | 87 | USA | Actress |
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| 27 | Patricia Kneale | 83 | UK | Actress | A for Andromeda | |
| 30 | Bernie Hamilton | 80 | USA | Actor |
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| 31 | Brad Sullivan | 77 | USA | Actor |
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| 31 | Donald E. Westlake | 75 | Mexico | Writer |
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Movie debuts
- Chadwick Boseman – The Express
- Jessica Chastain – Jolene
- Felicity Jones – Flashbacks of a Fool
- Jennifer Lawrence – Garden Party
- Rooney Mara – Dream Boy
- Margot Robbie – Vigilante
Sources
References
- ↑ "2008 Worldwide Grosses". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved July 9, 2012.
- ↑ "2008 Yearly Box Office Results". Box Office Mojo.
- ↑ Adam Dawtrey (2008-04-28). "Edinburgh Launches Cult Film Sidebar". Variety. Retrieved 2010-04-14.