Events in Film & TV
People's Choice Awards
Mar 5 21st People's Choice Awards: Tom Hanks & Jodie Foster win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Tim Allen & Roseanne Barr win (TV)
Film & TV History
Mar 6 9th American Comedy Award: Rodney Dangerfield
Film & TV History
Mar 21 New Jersey officially dedicates the Howard Stern Rest Area along Route 295
- Mar 26 15th Golden Raspberry Awards: "Color of Night" wins
Academy Awards
Mar 27 67th Academy Awards: "Forrest Gump", Jessica Lange & Tom Hanks win
Birthdays in Film & TV
Divorces in Film & TV
Julia Roberts & Lyle Lovett
Mar 28 American actress Julia Roberts (26) and American singer-songwriter Lyle Lovett (37) divorce after less than 2 years of marriage
Deaths in Film & TV
- Mar 3 Jean Marin, French broadcaster (one of the voices of free France WWII), dies at 86
- Mar 5 Ed Flanders, American actor (St Elsewhere - "Dr. Westphal"), takes his own life at 60
- Mar 5 Marguerite Kelsey, English model for artsist (Haunting), dies at 86
- Mar 12 Juanin Clay, American actress (The Legend of the Lone Ranger), dies at 45
- Mar 16 Albert Hackett, American actor, playwright and screenwriter (It's A Wonderrful Life; The Diary of Anne Frank), dies at 95
- Mar 17 Donald Baverstock, British television Producer (Tonight), dies at 71
- Mar 17 Rick Aviles, US comic/actor (Ghost), dies of AIDS
- Mar 20 John Minton [Big John Studd], American pro wrestler (Royal Rumble 1989), dies from liver cancer and Hodgkin's disease at 47
- Mar 21 Robert Urquhart, Scottish actor (Dunkirk, Bulldog Breed), dies at 72
- Mar 23 Irving Shulman, American author & screenwriter, dies at 81
- Mar 27 Rene Allio, film Director, dies at 70
- Mar 28 Hugh O'Connor, American actor (In the Heat of the Night), shoots himself while battling cocaine addiction at 32
- Mar 28 Jack Regan, broadcaster, dies at 53