Top Box Office in 1995


1	Batman Forever (1995)
2	Pocahontas (1995)
3	Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995)
4	GoldenEye (1995)
5	Casper (1995)
6	Jumanji (1995)
7	Se7en (1995)
8	Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)
9	Crimson Tide (1995)
10	Waterworld (1995)
11	Dangerous Minds (1995)
12	While You Were Sleeping (1995)
13	Congo (1995)
14	Father of the Bride Part II (1995)
15	Braveheart (1995)

Best Picture in 1995:
Braveheart

Best Actor: Nicolas Cage, Leaving Las Vegas
Best Actress: Susan Sarandon, Dead Man Walking
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1	Elisha Cook Jr.
2	Peter Cook
3	Howard Cosell
4	Ed Flanders
5	Eva Gabor
6	John Howard
7	Louis Malle
8	Dean Martin
9	Donald Pleasence
10	Ginger Rogers

Highest Rated in 1995


1	"Pride and Prejudice" (1995)
2	The Usual Suspects (1995)
3	Se7en (1995)
4	Braveheart (1995)
5	Wallace and Gromit in A Close Shave (1995)
6	Twelve Monkeys (1995)
7	Underground (1995)
8	Heat (1995)
9	Toy Story (1995)
10	Mimi wo sumaseba (1995)
11	Before Sunrise (1995)
12	Haine, La (1995)
13	Cité des enfants perdus, La (1995)
14	Casino (1995)
15	Memorîzu (1995)

More films of note for 1995


1	Cité des enfants perdus, La (1995)
2	Kids (1995)
3	Home for the Holidays (1995)
4	The American President (1995)
5	The Crossing Guard (1995)
6	The Secret of Roan Inish (1994)
7	Living in Oblivion (1995)
8	Muriel's Wedding (1994)
9	Dead Man (1995)
10	Heavy (1995)
11	Kicking and Screaming (1995)
12	Georgia (1995)
13	Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
14	Party Girl (1995)
15	Mallrats (1995)

Babe the talking pig charms his way into the hearts of theatergoers to the tune of $56 million, before earning a surprise Oscar nomination for Best Picture.

Toy Story, the first completely CGI film, is released and dominates the holiday box office.

Charlie Sheen admits to spending $53,000 on the services of Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss' girls.

Tom Hanks wins the Best Actor Oscar for the second year in a row, for his work in Forrest Gump.

Director Amy Heckerling turns Jane Austen's Emma into Clueless, spawning a slew of catch phrases like "As if!" and "a total Baldwin."

Joe Eszterhas's now cult-classic Showgirls is released, garnering a record 13 Razzie nominations.

Christopher Reeve is paralyzed after being thrown from a horse during a jumping competition.

Nicolas Cage and Patricia Arquette are married.

February 10th: It is offcially announced on rec.arts.movies, that IMDb switches its movie title notation to contain the year of release in brackets. e.g. 'Vertigo' will become 'Vertigo (1958)'. This notation was formerly used, but only for movies of the same title.

February 17th: The Internet Movie Database has four WWW mirrors (replications of our data residing on other servers) besides the main UK site at http://www.cm.cf.ac.uk/Movies/welcome.html. They are in Germany (http://www.leo.org/), USA (http://www.msstate.edu/), Australia (http://ballet.cit.gu.edu.au/) and Japan (http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/).

New lists added: alternate versions, technical data, literature, LaserDiscs.

November 1st: The IMDb web site is redesigned.

December 31st: IMDb covers nearly 63,000 movie titles and credits for individuals total 840,000.

Kevin Costner's much-maligned Waterworld finally opens and is classified as one of the great box office bombs, despite grossing $255 million worldwide.

British stage and screen power couple Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson divorce.

The UPN and WB television networks are born.

Alec Baldwin sprays shaving cream on the car of a paparazzi who is videotaping Baldwin's then-wife, Kim Basinger, and their new daughter as they arrive home from the hospital.

Hugh Grant shatters his stutteringly shy image forever when he is caught canoodling with prostitute Divine Brown.

In an impromptu celebration of David Letterman's birthday, Drew Barrymore dances on his desk and flashes him.

The O.J. Simpson trial dominates television for nearly 9 months, ending with Simpson's aquittal. One of the most powerful men in Hollywood, CAA agent/chairman Michael Ovitz is persuaded by his best friend, Disney CEO and chairman Michael Eisner, to join Disney. His hiring is announced on August 14th.