The year 1997 in film involved some significant events.

Events

• The Star Wars original trilogy's 20th Anniversary Special Editions are released.

• Production begins on Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.

• Titanic becomes the first film to gross US$1,000,000,000 at the box office making it the highest grossing film in history even today.

• The Lost World: Jurassic Park grosses a record $90,161,880 on Memorial Weekend.

• The Spice Girls release Spice World, their first feature-length film.

Top grossing films

Following the tradition of the English language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the United States and Canada in 1997; because they may have made most of their income in a later year, they may not be the top-grossing films for the calendar year. The top ten films of 1997 as of January 26, 2006 (U.S. and Canada), January 26, 2006 (UK), and January 26, 2006 (Australia) are as follows:

As of November 7, 2008, forty-one films released in 1997 have grossed more than $100 million, reaching blockbuster status. Three films have grossed more than $400 million, reaching "international blockbuster" status. One film (Titanic) has grossed more than $1,800,000,000 , making it the highest grossing film in history. On February 22, 1998, Titanic reached a $400 million domestic gross in a record time of 66 days. On March 26, 1998 after 98 days in release, Titanic reached $500 million domestically, becoming the first film in history to cross the half-billion-dollar domestic milestone. On August 27, 1998 Titanic reached $600 million domestically becoming the most successful box office film in history.

For a complete list of 1997's top-grossing films, follow these links:

• Worldwide: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=1997&p=.htm

• *U.S. & Canada: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1997&p=.htm

• *United Kingdom: http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/statistics/boxoffice/

• *Australia: http://www.moviemarshal.com.au/

Awards

Academy Awards:

Golden Globe Awards:



Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Films released in 1997

#

• …First Do No Harm

A

• Absolute Power, starring and directed by Clint Eastwood

• Addicted to Love

• Air Force One

• The Alarmist

• Alien Resurrection

• All Over Me

• Amistad

• An American Werewolf in Paris

• Anaconda

• Anastasia, directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman

• Another Day in Paradise

• The Apostle

• As Good as It Gets - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)

• The Assignment

• Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, directed by Jay Roach

B

• Batman & Robin

• Bean, starring Rowan Atkinson, directed by Mel Smith

• Bent, starring Clive Owen

• Best Man

• Beverly Hills Ninja

• Boogie Nights

• Booty Call

• The Borrowers

• The Boxer

• Breakdown, starring Kurt Russell

• Buddy

• The Butcher Boy, directed by Neil Jordan

• Buud Yam

C

• Campfire Tales

• Cats Don't Dance, directed by Mark Dindal, In Memory Of Gene Kelly

• Character (Karakter) - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

• Chasing Amy, directed by Kevin Smith

• Children of Heaven

• City of Industry

• Clockwatchers

• Commandments, starring Courteney Cox

• Con Air

• Conspiracy Theory, starring Mel Gibson and directed by Richard Donner

• Contact, starring Jodie Foster and directed by Robert Zemeckis

• Cop Land

• Cube

D

• Dakan (Destiny) (Guinea)

• Dangerous Ground

• Dante's Peak

• Deconstructing Harry

• Defying Gravity

• The Devil's Advocate

• The Devil's Own

• Dogtown

• Donnie Brasco

• Double Team

E

• The Edge, starring Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin

• The Eel - Palme d'Or award

• The End of Evangelion (July 19 - Japan)

• Evangelion: Death and Rebirth (Japan)

• Event Horizon, starring Laurence Fishburne

• Eve's Bayou, starring Lynn Whitfield and Samuel L. Jackson

• Excess Baggage

F

• Face

• Face/Off

• Fathers' Day, starring Robin Williams and Billy Crystal

• Fierce Creatures

• FernGully 2: The Magical Rescue

• The Fifth Element, directed by Luc Besson

• Fire Down Below

• First Time Felon

• Flubber, starring Robin Williams, Christopher McDonald and Clancy Brown, voices by Jodi Benson, directed by Les Mayfield

• Fools Rush In

• For Richer or Poorer

• Free Willy 3: The Rescue, directed by Sam Pillsbury

• The Full Monty

G

• The Game, starring Michael Douglas and directed by David Fincher

• Gang Related

• Gattaca

• George of the Jungle, starring Brendan Fraser, Leslie Mann, Thomas Haden Church, Richard Roundtree, Holland Taylor, and Kelly Miller, voices by John Cleese, based on the characters by Jay Ward, directed by Sam Weisman

• Ghosts

• Gone Fishin'

• Good Burger

• Goodbye America

• Good Will Hunting

• Gridlock'd

• Grosse Pointe Blank

H

• Hacks

• Hamam

• Hana-bi (Fireworks) - Palme d'Or award

• Heaven's Burning, starring Russel Crowe and Youki Kudoh

• Hercules

• Highball

• Hold You Tight

• Home Alone 3

• Hoodlum

• The Hound

• Hurricane Streets

I

• I Know What You Did Last Summer

• The Ice Storm

• In & Out

• Into Thin Air -(film only mentioned in article)

• Inventing the Abbotts

J

• The Jackal, starring Bruce Willis

• Jackie Brown, directed by Quentin Tarantino

• Jackie Chan's First Strike

• Jungle 2 Jungle

• Just Write

K

• Kini and Adams

• Kiss the Girls

• Kull the Conqueror

• Kundun, directed by Martin Scorsese

L

• L.A. Confidential

• Lawn Dogs

• Lewis and Clark and George

• Liar Liar

• A Life Less Ordinary

• Lost Highway

• The Lost World: Jurassic Park

• Love and Death on Long Island

• Love Jones

M

• Ma vie en rose (My Life in Pink) - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film

• The Man Who Knew Too Little

• Masterminds

• The MatchMaker

• Meet Wally Sparks

• Men in Black

• Metro

• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

• Mimic

• Money Talks

• Mortal Kombat: Annihilation

• Most Wanted

• MouseHunt

• Murder at 1600

• My Best Friend's Wedding

• Myself in the Distant Future

N

• Night Falls on Manhattan

• Nothing to Lose

• Nowhere

O

• 187

• Operation Condor

• Orgazmo

• Out to Sea, starring Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon

P

• The Peacemaker

• Picture Perfect

• Pippi Longstocking

• Playing God

• The Postman, starring and directed by Kevin Costner

• Pride Divide

• Princess Mononoke (Mononoke Hime) (Japan)

• Private Parts

Q
R

• The Rainmaker

• Red Corner

• The Relic

• A River Made to Drown In

• RocketMan

• Romy and Michele's High School Reunion

• Rosewood, directed by John Singleton

S

• The Saint, starring Val Kilmer

• Scream 2

• The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo

• Selena

• Seven Years in Tibet

• She's So Lovely

• The Sixth Man

• Soul Food, starring Vanessa L. Williams and Vivica A. Fox

• Space Marines

• Spaceman

• Spawn

• Speed 2: Cruise Control

• Spice World

• Star Wars Trilogy (Special Edition)

• Starship Troopers

• Steel

• Strawberry Fields

• Suicide Kings

• Sunday

• Super Speedway

• The Sweet Hereafter

T

• Taste of Cherry - Palme d'Or award

• That Old Feeling

• Titanic - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture

• Tomorrow Never Dies

• Trojan War

• Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie

• Turbulence

U

• U Turn

• Under the Lighthouse Dancing

V

• Vegas Vacation

• Volcano starring Tommy Lee Jones

W

• Wag the Dog

• Waiting for Guffman

• Warriors of Virtue

• Wild America

• Wishmaster

• The Wrong Guy

X
Y

• Year of the Horse

Z

• Zeus and Roxanne

Wide-release movies

January-March

• January 1997

• January 5

• January 10 - The Relic

• January 17

• January 24

• January 31

• February 1997

• February 7 - Dante's Peak

• February 14- Fools Rush In

• February 21

• February 28

• March 1997

• March 7 - Jungle 2 Jungle

• March 14

• March 21- Liar Liar

• March 28

April-June

• April 1997

• April 4- Double Team

• April 11 - Anaconda

• April 18 - 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag, McHale's Navy, Murder at 1600

• April 25 - Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion, Volcano

• May 1997

• May 2 - Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Breakdown, Warriors of Virtue

• May 9 - The Fifth Element

• May 16

• May 23 - The Lost World: Jurassic Park

• May 30

• June 1997

• June 6 - Con Air

• June 13 - Speed 2: Cruise Control

• June 20

• June 27 - Hercules, Face/Off

July-September

• July 1997

• July 4 - Men in Black

• July 11

• July 18

• July 25 - Air Force One

• August 1997

• August 1 - Spawn, Air Bud

• August 8

• August 15

• August 22 - G.I. Jane

• August 29

• September 1997

• September 5

• September 12 - The Game

• September 19

• September 26

October-December

• October 1997

• October 3 - Kiss the Girls

• October 10

• October 17 - I Know What You Did Last Summer

• October 24 - Gattaca

• October 31

• November 1997

• November 7 - Starship Trooopers, Bean

• November 14

• November 21 - Anastasia

• November 28

• December 1997

• December 5 - Good Will Hunting

• December 12 - Scream 2, Amistad

• December 17 - Wag the Dog

• December 19 - Titanic

• December 26 - As Good as It Gets, Jackie Brown''

Births

• January 24 - Jonah Bobo, American actor

Deaths

• January 10 - Sheldon Leonard, producer, actor, director

• January 18 - Diana Lewis, actress

• February 11 - Don Porter, actor

• March 15 - Gail Davis, actress

• May 5 - Walter Gotell, actor

• June 14 - Richard Jaeckel, actor

• July 1 - Robert Mitchum, actor

• July 2 - James Stewart, actor

• July 23 – David Warbeck, actor

• August 27 - Brandon Tartikoff, studio executive

• September 9 - Burgess Meredith, actor

• September 17 - Red Skelton, actor

• September 21 - Jennifer Holt, actress

• October 12 - John Denver, singer/songwriter, poet, actor

• October 24 - Don Messick, actor

• December 18 - Chris Farley, comedian, actor

• December 24 - Toshirō Mifune, actor

• December 31 - Billie Dove, actress

Film debuts

• Heath Ledger

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