
December 15 – Schindler's List, directed by Steven Spielberg, is released and goes on to win seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and Spielberg's first for Best Director. The film was later completed and released in 2012.
October 31 – actor River Phoenix accidentally dies of an overdose during the filming of Dark Blood.July 16 – Jurassic Park opens in Mexico and the United Kingdom and on July 17 in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, setting opening records in each market.June 18 – Arnold Schwarzenegger's film career falters with the commercial disappointment of Last Action Hero.June 11 – The filmed version of Michael Crichton's novel Jurassic Park, a dinosaur epic with groundbreaking special effects directed by Steven Spielberg, breaks box-office records with a record $50 million opening weekend and goes on to become the highest-grossing film ever made with a worldwide gross of over $900 million.
The film would unfortunately end up grossing only $20.9 million domestically and receive negative reviews from critics. opens, marking the first video game film released, starring Bob Hoskins as Mario and John Leguizamo as Luigi.
May 28 – Produced by Hollywood Pictures, Super Mario Bros. As a result, Basinger loses the town that she purchased in 1989, Braselton, Georgia, to her partner in the deal, the pension fund of Chicago-based Ameritech. May 27 – actress Kim Basinger files for bankruptcy after a California judge initially orders her to pay $8.9 million for refusing to honor a verbal contract to star in the film Boxing Helena. March 31 – actor Brandon Lee is accidentally killed during the filming of The Crow. January 29 – Bram Stoker's Dracula opens in the United Kingdom setting an opening weekend record of £2,633,635 million. January 1 – China Film Import & Export Corporation ends its 40-year monopoly distributing all films in China, with 16 other Chinese film studios now responsible for distributing their own films. The top 10 films released in 1993 by worldwide gross are as follows: Highest-grossing films of 1993
See also: Lists of box office number-one films § 1993