1986 in film

Events

• April 12 - Actor Morgan Mason[?] marries The Go-Go's Belinda Carlisle[?]
• Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger marries television journalist Maria Shriver[?].
• Turner Broadcasting[?] begins to colorize black and white movie classics.
• Jason Marsden's film career begins

Top Grossing Films of the Year

1. Top Gun, starring Tom Cruise
2. Crocodile Dundee[?]
3. Platoon
4. The Karate Kid, Part II[?]
5. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home[?]
6. Back to School[?]
7. Aliens, starring Sigourney Weaver
8. The Golden Child[?], starring Eddie Murphy
9. Ruthless People[?], starring Bette Midler and Danny DeVito
10. Ferris Bueller's Day Off, starring Matthew Broderick

Births

Deaths

• March 10 - Ray Milland, British actor
• November 29 - Cary Grant, actor
• December 28 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian movie director
• Benny Goodman, musician, actor

Other Movies Released

• Blue Velvet
• Children of a Lesser God
• Crossroads[?], starring Ralph Macchio[?]
• Hannah and Her Sisters
• Labyrinth, starring David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly
• Le Déclin de l'empire américain[?], (The Decline of the American Empire), written and directed by Denys Arcand[?]