1975 in film

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The year 1975 in film involved some significant events, with Steven Spielberg's thriller Jaws topping the box office.

Highest-grossing films (U.S.)[]

The top ten 1975 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1975
Rank	Title	Studio	Domestic gross
1	Jaws	Universal Pictures	$260,000,000^[1]
2	The Rocky Horror Picture Show	20th Century Fox	$112,892,319^[2]
3	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	United Artists	$108,981,275^[3]
4	Dog Day Afternoon	Warner Bros.	$50,000,000^[4]
5	Shampoo	Columbia Pictures	$49,407,734^[5]
6	The Return of the Pink Panther	United Artists	$41,833,347^[6]
7	Funny Lady	Columbia Pictures	$39,000,000^[7]
8	The Apple Dumpling Gang	Walt Disney Productions	$36,853,000^[8]
9	Aloha, Bobby and Rose	Columbia Pictures	$35,000,000^[9]
10	The Other Side of the Mountain	Universal Pictures	$34,673,100^[10]

Events[]

March 26: The film version of The Who's Tommy premieres in London.
May: In order to create the necessary special effects for his film, Star Wars, George Lucas forms Industrial Light and Magic.
August 14: The cult classic film The Rocky Horror Picture Show premieres in London.
Jaws becomes the first movie to gross $100 million in US theatrical rentals,^{[citation needed]} setting the standard for future blockbusters.
November 23: Sneak Previews, the first American film review show, premieres and launches the careers of critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert. They will remain a team, and a staple among film critics, through various programs for the next twenty-four years.

Awards[]

Awards ceremonies[]

Academy Awards
BAFTA Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival): Chronicle of the Years of Fire (Chronique des années de braise)
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival): Adoption (Örökbefogadás)

Notable awards[]

Category/Organization	Golden Globe Awards January 24, 1976		BAFTA Awards February 29, 1976	Academy Awards March 29, 1976
Category/Organization	Musical or Comedy	Drama	BAFTA Awards February 29, 1976	Academy Awards March 29, 1976
Best Film	The Sunshine Boys	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Best Director	Miloš Forman One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest		Stanley Kubrick Barry Lyndon	Miloš Forman One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Best Actor	Walter Matthau The Sunshine Boys	Jack Nicholson One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Al Pacino Dog Day Afternoon / The Godfather Part II	Jack Nicholson One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Best Actress	Ann-Margret Tommy	Louise Fletcher One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Ellen Burstyn Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore	Louise Fletcher One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Best Supporting Actor	Richard Benjamin The Sunshine Boys		Fred Astaire The Towering Inferno	George Burns The Sunshine Boys
Best Supporting Actress	Brenda Vaccaro Once Is Not Enough		Diane Ladd Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore	Lee Grant Shampoo
Best Screenplay, Adapted	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman		Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore Robert Getchell	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman
Best Screenplay, Original			Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore Robert Getchell	Dog Day Afternoon Frank Pierson

Films released[]

Tommy

Births[]

January 3
- Danica McKellar, American actress
- Jason Marsden, actor
January 5: Bradley Cooper, American actor
February 14: Malik Zidi, French actor
February 22: Drew Barrymore, American actress and director
March 15: Will.i.am, American actor and singer/rapper
March 22: Guillermo Diaz, American actor
March 27: Stacy Ferguson, American actress/singer
April 2:
- Adam Rodriguez, American actor
- Deedee Magno, Filipino-American actress and singer
May 3: Christina Hendricks, American actress
May 22: Harriet Toompere, Estonian actress
June 4: Angelina Jolie, American actress
June 25: Linda Cardellini, American actress
June 27: Tobey Maguire, American actor
July 6: 50 Cent, American actor and rapper
July 11: Bridgette Andersen, American actress (d. 1997)
July 17: Cécile de France, Belgian actress
July 23: Suriya, Indian actor
August 7: Charlize Theron, South African actress
August 12: Casey Affleck, American actor
August 29: Dante Basco, American actor
September 30
- Asia Argento, Italian actress
- Marion Cotillard, French actress
October 5
- Kate Winslet, English actress
- Parminder Nagra, English actress
October 7: Kaspars Znotiņš, Latvian actor
November 6: Sean Patrick Maclam, Scottish Grindhouse film director
November 19: Sushmita Sen, Indian actress
November 22: James Madio, American actor
December 17
- Milla Jovovich, Ukrainian-American actress
- Hilje Murel, Estonian actress
December 27: Heather O'Rourke, American actress (d. 1988)

Deaths[]

Month	Date	Name	Age	Country	Profession	Notable films
January	1	Arthur Pierson	73	Norway/USA	Director, Actor	The Fighting O'Flynn Home Town Story
	9	Pierre Fresnay	77	France	Actor	La Grande Illusion Le Corbeau
	18	Gertrude Olmstead	77	USA	Actress	The Boob The Monster
	24	Larry Fine	72	USA	Actor	It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World 4 for Texas
	27	Bill Walsh	61	USA	Screenwriter, Producer	Mary Poppins Bedknobs and Broomsticks
February	1	Richard Wattis	62	UK	Actor	The Longest Day The Man Who Knew Too Much
	11	Maria Balcerkiewiczówna	71	Poland	Actress	Vampires of Warsaw Augustus the Strong
	17	George Marshall	83	USA	Director	How the West Was Won Destry Rides Again
	20	Robert Strauss	61	USA	Actor	Stalag 17 The Seven Year Itch
	20	Lillian Fontaine	88	UK	Actress	The Locket The Lost Weekend
March	4	Renée Björling	76	Sweden	Actress	Summer Interlude A Lesson in Love
	7	Ben Blue	73	Canada/USA	Actor	It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
	8	George Stevens	70	USA	Director, Producer	A Place in the Sun Giant
	9	Shirley Ross	62	USA	Actress	The Big Broadcast of 1938 Thanks for the Memory
	14	Susan Hayward	57	USA	Actress	I Want to Live! The Snows of Kilimanjaro
April	3	Mary Ure	42	UK	Actress	Where Eagles Dare Look Back in Anger
	10	Marjorie Main	85	USA	Actress	Meet Me in St. Louis Heaven Can Wait
	13	Larry Parks	60	USA	Actor	The Jolson Story Jolson Sings Again
	14	Fredric March	77	USA	Actor	The Best Years of Our Lives A Star Is Born
	15	Richard Conte	65	USA	Actor	The Godfather Ocean's 11
	15	William Hartnell	67	UK	Actor	Hell Drivers Carry On Sergeant
May	4	Moe Howard	77	USA	Actor	Punch Drunks Men in Black
June	4	Evelyn Brent	75	USA	Actress	Underworld The Last Command
	6	Larry Blyden	49	USA	Actor	On a Clear Day You Can See Forever Kiss Them for Me
	28	Rod Serling	50	USA	Screenwriter	Seven Days in May Planet of the Apes
July	2	James Robertson Justice	68	UK	Actor	The Guns of Navarone Moby Dick
August	23	Hank Patterson	86	USA	Actor	The Arizona Kid Tarantula
September	9	John McGiver	61	USA	Actor	The Manchurian Candidate Midnight Cowboy
	24	Clive Morton	71	UK	Actor	The Moonraker Kind Hearts and Coronets
	27	Mark Frechette	27	USA	Actor	Zabriskie Point Many Wars Ago
October	18	Al Lettieri	47	USA	Actor	The Godfather The Getaway
	24	Martin Boddey	68	UK	Actor	Carry on Sergeant Carry on Nurse
	31	Joseph Calleia	78	Malta/USA	Actor, Singer	After the Thin Man Touch of Evil
November	2	Pier Paolo Pasolini	53	Italy	Director, Screenwriter, Actor	The Hawks and the Sparrows Teorema
	4	Sheila Ryan	54	USA	Actress	Dressed to Kill Song of Texas
	5	Annette Kellerman	88	Australia	Actress	Venus of the South Seas A Daughter of the Gods
December	9	William A. Wellman	79	USA	Director	Wings Battleground
	13	Cyril Delevanti	88	UK	Actor	Mary Poppins Soylent Green
	20	William Lundigan	61	USA	Actor	The House on Telegraph Hill Love Nest
	24	Bernard Herrmann	64	USA	Composer	Psycho Taxi Driver

Film debuts[]

Kim Cattrall – Rosebud
Tim Curry – The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Brad Dourif – W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings
Laurence Fishburne – Cornbread, Earl and Me
Nastassja Kinski – The Wrong Move
Christopher Lloyd – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Mary Stuart Masterson – The Stepford Wives
Bill Murray – Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle
Bill Paxton – Crazy Mama
Dennis Quaid – Crazy Mama
Chris Sarandon – Dog Day Afternoon
Patrick Stewart – Hennessy
John Travolta – The Devil's Rain
Treat Williams – Deadly Hero (filmed in 1975, released in May 1976)

References[]

↑ "Jaws, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 22, 2012.
↑ "The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 26, 2014.
↑ "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 22, 2012.
↑ "Dog Day Afternoon, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 22, 2012.
↑ "Shampoo, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 22, 2012.
↑ "The Return of the Pink Panther, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 22, 2012.
↑ "Funny Lady, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 26, 2014.
↑ "The Apple Dumpling Gang, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved July 7, 2012.
↑ "Aloha, Bobby and Rose, Worldwide Box Office". Worldwide Box Office. Retrieved January 22, 2012.
↑ "The Other Side of the Mountain, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved July 7, 2012.

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[1] "Jaws, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 22, 2012.

[2] "The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 26, 2014.

[3] "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 22, 2012.

[4] "Dog Day Afternoon, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 22, 2012.

[5] "Shampoo, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 22, 2012.

[6] "The Return of the Pink Panther, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 22, 2012.

[7] "Funny Lady, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 26, 2014.

[8] "The Apple Dumpling Gang, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved July 7, 2012.

[9] "Aloha, Bobby and Rose, Worldwide Box Office". Worldwide Box Office. Retrieved January 22, 2012.

[10] "The Other Side of the Mountain, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved July 7, 2012.

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