Deaths[]
- January 3 — Todd Lasswell
- January 8 — Juan Piquer Simon
- January 11 — Russell Vreeland
- January 26 — Robert J. Gurney Jr.
- January 27 — Joe Lanza
- January 27 — Anthony La Penna
- January 30 — John Barry
- January 31 — Charles E. Sellier Jr.
- February 11 — Myrna Dell
- February 20 — Eddie Brandt
- February 23 — John Alese
- February 27 — Robert Feero
- March 1 — Hitoshi Ômae
- March 11 — Jorge Cherques
- March 15 — Mary Ann Bricker
- March 20 — Johnny Pearson
- April 29 — Russell A. Mosser
- May 2 — Aleksandr Lazarev
- May 7 — Ross Hagen
- May 9 — Dolores Fuller
- May 12 — Charles Haas
- May 17 — Silvia Solar
- May 21 — Tallie Cochrane
- May 23 — Tom Hennesy
- May 25 — Lillian Adams
- May 25 — Betty Luster
- June 23 — Fred Steiner
- June 24 — Alvaro Mancori
- July 23 — Marc Hannibal
- August 3 — Bubba Smith
- August 6 — John Wood
- August 19 — Jimmy Sangster
- August 26 — Taldo Kenyon
- August 27 — Tae-jeong Kim
- August 28 — Mel Curtis
- September 17 — Richard L. Huff
- October 4 — Muzaffer Tema
- November 1 — Richard Gordon
- November 2 — Bud Hoffman
- November 2 — Sid Melton
- November 6 — Margaret Field
- November 20 — Russell Garcia
- November 30 — Stefano Fava
- December 1 — Bill McKinney
- December 7 — Tom Kennedy
- December 11 — Susan Gordon
- December 16 — Robert Easton
- December 19 — Margherita Horowitz
- December 31 — Sue Dwiggins
Home Media Releases[]
- February 15 — Beginning off the End
- February 15 — The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies
- March 8 — Mystery Science Theater 3000: Volume XX
- June 21 — Gunslinger
- June 21 — Hamlet
- August 2 — MST3K vs. Gamera: Volume XXI
- August 16 — Red Zone Cuba
- August 16 — The Unearthly
- September 13 — "Manos" The Hands of Fate: Special Edition
- October 18 — The Atomic Brain
- October 18 — The Touch of Satan
- December 6 — Mystery Science Theater 3000: Volume XXII
Events[]
- January 22 — Timothy Van Patten is one of the recipients of the Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television PGA Award for The Pacific.
- February 5 — Timothy Van Patten shares a Best New Series Writers Guild of America Award for Boardwalk Empire.
- February 27 — At the 83rd Academy Awards, the following awards are presented:
- Rick Baker and Dave Elsey win the Best Makeup Award for their work in The Wolfman.
- Francis Ford Coppola receives the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.
- April 27 — The mummified remains of Yvette Vickers are found. It's believed that she may have been dead for approximately a year.
- September 15 — Neil Patrick Harris receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6243 Hollywood Blvd.