A Year in Film History: 1993

the year is 1993 and we're about to

embark on an adventure 65 million years

in the making welcome to a year in film

history a series where we go year by

year and take a look at the interesting

controversial and sometimes wacky things

that happened in the film industry and

in this video we're setting our sights

on the year where the box office broke

records a passion project swept the

Oscars and our favorite plumber made his

debut on the big screen 1993.

thank you

we're starting off the movie section

strong with what became the highest

grossing film of all time when it

released Jurassic Park directed by

Steven Spielberg Jurassic Park took

Blockbusters to the next level earning

over 900 million dollars at the box

office worldwide which actually replaced

another movie directed by Steven

Spielberg E.T the Extraterrestrial as

the highest grossing film to that point

this film is regularly cited as one of

the greatest action thriller movies and

regularly appears on list of the most

influential films and most magical

moments from movies it was so beloved by

many that it gave rise to the Jurassic

Park generation which is a generation of

young people inspired to become

paleontologists which resulted in a rise

of discoveries about dinosaurs in the

years to come it also inspired the name

of a team that is really close to my

home the Toronto Raptors when the NBA

created a basketball team in Toronto in

1995 they adopted the name the Toronto

Raptors and the outdoor park where

people watch the the games on the big

screen is actually called Jurassic Park

but why was it so successful well

because of its storytelling and how it

pushed boundaries and special effects

specifically CGI we'll talk more about

visual effects in the technology section

of this video but I wanted to mention

that they were so impressive at the time

that the movie went on to win the Oscar

for best visual effects as well as sound

editing and sound mixing honestly just

that night scene with the T-Rex in it

roaring is enough for me to cast the

vote for all three this movie also took

product marketing to the next level

Universal Pictures wasted no time during

the film's pre-production which was very

lengthy might I add and carefully plan

the marketing campaign for the movie The

Campaign cost 65 million dollars and

included deals with 100 companies to

Market it alongside 1 000 products which

of course included McDonald's this movie

had one of the most successful marketing

campaigns to this day although some

people claim it was too much but then

again the movie was super successful

which means it probably worked and you'd

think that having a single movie

especially Jurassic Park released in one

year is enough but this wasn't the only

Steven Spielberg movie released in 1993.

we also got Schindler's List based on

the humanitarian acts of German

industrial Nazi party member Oscar

Schindler this movie brought to light a

story that had gone mostly under the

radar since the tragic events of the

Holocaust Schindler uses influence

within the party to save the lives of

more than 1 000 Jewish people by

recruiting them to work in his polish

factories this film was a project that

Spielberg was very passionate about and

one that he originally didn't want to

take on because he felt that he wasn't

prepared enough or mature enough to

direct a film about the Holocaust before

finally taking the project on he offered

it to a few other directors Roman

Polanski who was a holocaust Survivor

and whose mother was killed in Auschwitz

but he declined Sidney Pollock who also

passed until he finally proposed it to

Martin Scorsese who accepted but after

some time Spielberg had a change in

heart and ended up trading Scorsese the

rights to a movie he'd been developing

that would later become the remake of

Cape Fear after learning about this I

actually wonder how different the film

would have been if Scorsese was the one

to direct it this was a very risky

project for Universal who ended up

getting cold feed about making it they

agreed to let Spielberg go forward with

it but struck a deal that he would make

Jurassic Park first and after that he

could go on and work on his passion

project this is why two Spielberg

directed films came out in the same year

Jurassic Park released in June for the

Blockbuster season and Schindler's List

released in December Spielberg took this

movie very seriously he did his own

research and traveled to Poland before

principal photography to interview

Holocaust Survivors and visit the

real-life locations he planned to show

in the film Spielberg didn't want any

big name stars to portray Schindler as

to not take away from the film's message

which is why he cast Liam Neeson a then

unknown Irish actor in the main role

Kevin Costner and Mel Gibson both

auditioned for this role he also didn't

think that a movie on this topic should

be made for financial reward so he

relinquished his salary in any proceeds

he would make in perpetuity calling the

gains he would have made blood money all

of the profits were used to found the

USC showa Foundation which was

established in 1994 to honor and

remember the survivors of the Holocaust

by collecting personal Recollections and

audio visual interviews and the fact

that the movie was shot in black and

white was also controversial with almost

everyone pushing back against the idea

the only person who supported it was

ianush Kaminsky the Director of

Photography the reason for all this

pushback was because people thought it

would stylize the Holocaust but

Spielberg went on to say that it's

entirely appropriate because I've only

experienced the Holocaust through other

people's testimonies and through

archival footage which is of course

black and white and as we know he ended

up getting his way the film went on to

win seven of the 12 Oscars was nominated

for at the Academy Awards including best

picture and a Best Director award for

Spielberg I'd say this was a pretty good

but very busy year for him the 90s were

a time where movies with odd Concepts

shined and there's no better movie to

talk about than Mrs Doubtfire starring

Robin Williams in agent 007 Mrs

Doubtfire burst onto the scene in 1993.

this is one of those movies that I think

of when I think of the 90s and how

different they are than today a studio

taking a risk on a funny man who

disguises himself as a female

housekeeper just so he can interact with

his children that kind of idea is

straight for from the 90s and it

actually went on to be the second

highest grossing film of 1993. it made a

whopping

441.3 million dollars at the box office

on a budget of only 25 million but even

though it did really well at the box

office it didn't do nearly as well with

the critics with an average rating of

5.9 on Rotten Tomatoes and 53 on

Metacritic what made this film so

special is how it touched on topics that

were traditionally considered taboo

especially in children's films such as

that of divorce and instead of showing a

happy ending of the children's story

where the parents would be reunited the

film went on to teach a valuable lesson

of what a family in this situation could

look like it went on to win the Academy

Award for best makeup which seems like a

no-brainer and then we have everybody's

favorite video game movie 1993's Super

Mario Bros directed by the husband and

wife team of Rocky Morton and Annabelle

jenkel this was the first video game

film released ever but just because

you're the first doesn't mean you're the

best the film grossed only 38.9 million

dollars on a budget of 42 to 48 million

it was received very poorly by both

critics and audiences sitting at a 29 on

Rotten Tomatoes and a score of 35 on

Metacritic it appears on several lists

of the worst films ever made but over

time the movie has become somewhat of a

cult classic but how could something

that is so different from the original

Source material have ever been made it

was because producer Roland Jaffe

obtained the Mario film rights from

Nintendo and was given a creative

freedom license because Nintendo

believed that the Mario brand was so

strong and well known that it could hold

up to experimentation but boy oh boy

were they wrong but let's move on to

another movie originated from a poem

that was written by Tim Burton in 1982

while working as an animator at Walt

Disney Productions The Nightmare Before

Christmas came out this year and

contrary to popular belief it was not

directed by Tim Burton but instead Henry

Selleck the film was a hit with the

critics and fairly successful at the box

office it earned praise for its

characters song score and animation

especially for how it innovated the

stop-motion art form it was the first

animated film to be nominated at the

Academy Awards for Best visual effects

but ended up losing to Jurassic Park to

create this film a develop deal was made

with Walt Disney Studios but it ended up

being released through Touchstone

pictures because the studio thought the

film was too dark and scary for kids

this movie is now a classic and has had

many different forms of media created

around it ranging from concerts to video

games to books to comics and mangas and

it also sparked the debate of whether

this is a Christmas or Halloween film

but we're not going to chime in on this

topic so we'll let you dish it out in

the comments below some other notable

films that came out this year are

Groundhog Day Dazed and Confused A Bronx

Tale which was Robert De Niro's first of

two films directed by him but this

wasn't it so many great films came out

this year and you could see some of them

on screen now

foreign

we're going to go over the 1994 Oscars

for movies that came out in 1993 and

finally we have someone new hosting this

time around after hosting four years in

a row with declining ratings Billy

Crystal announced that he will not be

hosting this year's Oscars instead we

had Whoopi Goldberg hosting and the

reception was overall positive when

Whoopi was announced as the host there

was some media backlash and concerns

that are raunchy and outspoken sense of

humor wouldn't be appropriate for the

general audience but Gil Cates who was

the producer at the time reassured

everyone that Whoopi was really smart

passionate about this and that

everything would be appropriate Goldberg

said that going from watching to winning

to hosting in a single lifetime is Major

she was the first woman as well as the

first African-American to host the

awards ceremony solo during this year's

ceremony we saw Tom Hanks win his first

ever Oscar which was for best actor in

Philadelphia this was his second time

being nominated with the first being for

his role in 1989's big we also had Anna

Paquin win the Oscar for best supporting

actress for her role in the piano the

crazy part was that she was 11 making

her this second youngest winner for a

competitive acting Oscar if you're

wondering who the youngest was it was

Tatum O'Neill who won for her role in

1973's Paper Moon at the age of 10. we

also saw Schindler's List go on to win

seven of its 12 nominations including

best picture best director and best

cinematography among a few more and

you'd probably think that I'd say this

film dominated the Oscars but I actually

think Steven Spielberg dominated the

Oscars this year 10 of the little golden

men trophies went to films he directed

Seven for Schindler's List and three for

Jurassic Park this year we also saw the

first of many future nominations for

Leonardo DiCaprio unlike many of his

others where he was nominated for best

actor this time it was for supporting

actor for his role in What's Eating

Gilbert Grape and similar to last video

I want to talk about therazis it's not

specifically related to the Oscars but

it's still fun to talk about we had Burt

Reynolds win or maybe lose depending on

how you look at it the worst actor award

for his role in cop and a half we also

saw Arnold Schwarzenegger nominated for

worst actor for Last Action Hero Madonna

won or again la cost for Worse actress

in body of evidence and Janet Jackson

scooped up the award for worst new star

for her role in Poetic Justice

talking about how Jurassic Park pushed

boundaries of filmtech alone could fill

up an entire video but we wanted to

focus on a few of the more important

aspects of how it did this after

Terminator 2 Judgment Day I'm sure many

people saw what was possible with CGI

but Steven Spielberg still wasn't

convinced that it could be used to

generate dinosaurs with all their

movement and variety of textures he was

actually planning on using a technology

called go Motion which was a form of

stop-motion to show the dinosaurs moving

on the big screen but a keen pair of ilm

animators were adamant on showing

Spielberg what was possible with CGI

Mark dipp and Steve Williams were so

convinced that CGI was the way to go for

this film that Williams ended up going

behind the creative director's back to

create an animation of the T-Rex walking

yada yada yada some stuff happened but

it all ended up with Steven Spielberg

being so impressed by this animation

that he immediately changed his mind and

moved away from using go Motion this

movie was a perfect example of how to

use CGI to enhance the experience versus

being the main thing to create the

experience it combines CGI and practical

effects to create a world we could have

only dreamed about in years before this

was a land Mark and visual effects and

made many filmmakers realize that their

Visions which were previously thought

impossible or too expensive were now

possible I even read that Peter Jackson

began to re-explore his childhood love

of fantasy films because of Jurassic

Park which led him to create the Lord of

the Rings and King Kong there are even

rumors that this movie inspired George

Lucas to make the Star Wars prequels

after seeing what was possible so we

have Steven Spielberg to thank for jar

jar Jurassic Park still mostly holds up

to this day especially that night scene

with the T-Rex it's still fear-inducing

with the way it combines its visuals and

sound effects

as I already mentioned the movie went on

to win all three of its Academy Award

nominations for Best visual effects best

sound and best sound editing which were

all very well deserved also on the topic

of technology we wanted to talk about an

independent film documentary called wax

or the discovery of Television among

bees it was directed by underground film

director David Blair on a low budget and

wasn't even released in 1993. it

actually came out in 1991 so you may be

wondering why are we talking about it

well in May of 1993 this was the first

ever film to be transmitted over the

Internet it was played on a vcr and fed

into a computer that converted it into

digital form transmitting it over the

internet at a whopping two frames per

second it doesn't seem impressive by

today's standards but this was basically

the beginning of online streaming as we

know it today which we think is a pretty

big technological event almost our

entire world these days is digital and

we can stream almost any piece of

content over the Internet with ease and

it can all be traced back to this so

thank you for making film stack possible

1993 was the year where Disney agreed to

change some very controversial and

racist lyrics in the opening song

Arabian Nights from 1992's Aladdin the

song was describing the film's Arabian

setting and originally had the lyrics

where they cut off your ears if they

don't like your face it's barbaric but

hey it's home it received a lot of

complaints from the American Arab

anti-discrimination committee and was

changed to where it's flat and immense

and the heat is intense it's barbaric

but hey it's home in mid-1993. this year

we also saw the arrest of Heidi Fleiss

also known as the Hollywood Madam she

was responsible for arranging high-class

hookers in the early 90s for some High

rolling celebrities shakes and corporate

Executives she was arrested by the LAPD

and charged with narcotics possession of

cocaine pimping and pandering in 1997

she was sentenced to three years in

prison for tax evasion but ended up

serving less than two and then in 2004

she went on to sell her life story to

Paramount Pictures for five million

dollars which ended up spawning the made

for TV film call me the rise and fall of

Heidi Fleiss in June of 1992 3 we also

saw Woody Allen denied the custody of

his three children with Mia Farrow and

then to put the cherry on top in

September of 1993 a Connecticut State

Attorney announced that he had probable

cause to prosecute him on charges of

inappropriate behavior on his adopted

daughter Dylan these charges were later

dropped to spare her from the trauma of

appearing in court Woody Allen denounced

the entire investigation and a month

later the New York State Department of

Social Services dropped its

investigation concluding that no

credible evidence was found I also

wanted to talk about the class of 1993.

but before we do I have to admit

something to everyone I lied about

something in our last video I said that

as we go through the years we're

starting to see less and less big name

Stars being born but on July 1st of 1993

one of the world's biggest stars was

born me Dominic oh and we also had some

other smaller names such as Pete

Davidson Will Poulter Miranda Cosgrove

Ariana Grande and Victoria Justice among

a few others and on a sadder side we

also saw some film related deaths this

year the most notable of which were

Brandon Lee and River Phoenix next

Brandon Lee son of Bruce Lee was killed

during the filming of the crow on March

31 1993 while filming a scene for the

film where Brandon's character is

supposed to be killed by thugs one of

the thug actors fired a revolver at

least character as he walked into the

room because of an improperly managed

prop gun a projectile was shot out of

the gun hitting Brandon causing him to

fall backwards instead of forwards as he

was supposed to after the director

yelled cut Lee didn't stand up and the

crew thought he was either still acting

or kidding around unfortunately he

wasn't and when that became apparent he

was rushed to a medical center after six

hours of emergency surgery he was

pronounced dead he was 28 years old at

the time this year we also saw the death

of River Phoenix who was a 23 year old

Hollywood heartthrob at the time he

collapsed outside A W Hollywood

nightclub and died from drug-induced

heart failure due to a cocaine and

morphine overdose this happened during

the filming of dark blood which was

later completed and released in 2012.

the most popular TV show of 1993 was yet

again cbs's 60 Minutes it was followed

by Abc's Home Improvement then NBC

Seinfeld in November of this year TV

Food Network now known as Food Network

premiered on television it was owned by

television Food Network GP which was a

joint venture between Warner Brothers

Discovery networks and nexstart Media

Group also this year Britney Spears

Justin Timberlake Christina Aguilera and

Ryan Gosling joined the cast of the

Disney Channel series the new Mickey

Mouse Club yes if you didn't already

know this all of them are Disney Channel

stars and another fun fact about TV for

everyone watching do you remember those

got milk commercials do you remember the

first Scott milk commercial the one

where the guy tried to answer a question

over the phone but couldn't because he

had peanut butter in his mouth and

couldn't wash it down because he ran out

of milk well that was directed by

Michael Bay yes that Michael Bay

Armageddon Pearl Harbor Transformers

director Michael Bay this commercial is

often regarded as one of the best

commercials and kicked off the entire

got milk commercial Mania which went on

to include celebrities such as Britney

Spears Beyonce Rihanna and even

fictional characters were included such

as The Simpsons Batman and Mario this

year we also saw some new shows

premiering Beavis and Butthead Frazier

and maniacs and X-Files among many more

but we also saw a few shows ending the

most notable of which were Doogie Howser

MD Saved by the Bell and cheers and

there we have it we've blasted through

1993. lots of interesting stuff happened

this year in the TV and film industry

but was there anything we missed what

was your favorite movie of 1993 leave a

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