

Golden Bear (Berlin International Film Festival) Red Sorghum ( Hong gao liang), directed by Zhang Yimou, China 1988 Wide-release films Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival) La leggenda del santo bevitore ( The Legend of the Holy Drinker), directed by Ermanno Olmi, Italy / France Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival) Pelle the Conqueror ( Pelle erobreren), directed by Bille August, Denmark Winning four Academy Awards including Best Picture, it was the last MGM title to be nominated for Best Picture until Licorice Pizza (2021) 33 years later. December 16 – Rain Man is released to critical and commercial success and became the highest grossing film of 1988 worldwide with a gross of $355 million.

In North America alone, VHS sales come to $75 million. the Extra-Terrestrial is released on VHS and laserdisc to combat piracy, the tapeguards and tape hubs on the videocassettes are colored green, and the tape itself is affixed with a small, holographic sticker of the 1963 Universal logo (much like the holograms on a credit card), and encoded with Macrovision. October 10 – Batman officially commences filming at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire.Hailed as an influential landmark in the action film genre, it influenced a common formula for many action films in the 1990s, featuring a lone everyman against a colorful terrorist character who's usually holding hostages in an isolated setting. July 15 – Die Hard defies low commercial expectations to gross $141.5 million worldwide.The film failed to match the box office earnings from Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985). May 25 – Rambo III was released as the most expensive film ever made with a production budget between $58 and $63 million.The top 10 films released in 1988 by worldwide gross are as follows: Highest-grossing films of 1988 Her books have been translated into German, French, Spanish, and Bulgarian.See also: List of 1988 box office number-one films in the United States She is a contributing writer for and is currently working on her next book.Īngie has a Journalism degree from the University of Wisconsin. In her spare time, she loves to venture off to Broadway.

All of her books have been Amazon top 100 bestsellers.Ī daydreamer at heart, Angie puts her talent to use writing contemporary fiction about life, love, and the adventures that follow.

Waking in Time won the Midwest Book Award and was a finalist in the National Readers Choice Awards. If Ever is the recipient of the National Readers Choice Award, The Holt Medallion, and the Write Touch Reader’s Award. Angie Stanton is the award winning, best selling author of ten novels including Don’t Call Me Greta: Stolen at Birth, If Ever, a Broadway love story, and Waking in Time, an epic time-jumping romance.
