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The year 1975 in film involved some significant events.
Events
- January 28 - George Lucas creates the second draft of what would eventually become . At this time, the title of the story was Adventures of the Starkiller, Episode One of The Star Wars.
- March - Production begins on
- March 26 - The film version of The Who's Tommy premiers in London
- July - In order to create the necessary special effects for his film,, George Lucas forms Industrial Light and Magic.
- Jaws becomes the first movie to ever gross US$100 million in North America, setting the standard for future blockbusters.
Top grossing films (U.S.)
| Rank |
Title |
Studio |
Gross |
| 1. |
Jaws |
Universal |
$129,549,000 |
| 2. |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
United Artists |
$47,800,000 |
| 3. |
Rocky Horror Picture Show* |
20th Century Fox |
$50,420,000 |
| 4. |
Shampoo |
Columbia |
$23,822,000 |
| 5. |
Dog Day Afternoon |
Warner Brothers |
$22,500,000 |
| 6. |
The Return of the Pink Panther |
United Artists |
$20,170,000 |
| 7. |
Three Days of the Condor |
Paramount |
$20,014,000 |
| 8. |
Funny Lady |
Columbia |
$19,313,000 |
| 9. |
The Other Side of the Mountain |
Universal |
$18,012,000 |
| 10. |
Tommy |
Columbia |
$17,793,000 |
(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1975.shtml
Awards
Academy Awards:
» Best Picture: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Fantasy Films, United Artists
Best Director: Miloš Forman - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest » Best Actor: Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Best Actress: Louise Fletcher - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest » Best Supporting Actor: George Burns - The Sunshine Boys
Best Supporting Actress: Lee Grant - Shampoo » Best Foreign Language Film: Dersu Uzala ( Дерсу Узала), directed by Akira Kurosawa, USSR
Golden Globe Awards:
» Drama:
Best Picture: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest » Best Actor: Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Best Actress: Louise Fletcher - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
» Musical or comedy:
Best Picture: The Sunshine Boys » Best Actor: Walter Matthau - The Sunshine Boys
Best Actress: Ann-Margret - Tommy
» Other
Best Director: Miloš Forman - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest » Best Foreign Film: Lies My Father Told Me, Canada
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival): » Chronicle of the Years of Fire (Chronique des années de braise), directed by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Algeria
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival): » Adoption ( Örökbefogadás), directed by Márta Mészáros, Hungary
Films released in 1975
Aaron Loves Angela
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
The Adventures of the Wilderness Family
Attilas '74
The Apple Dumpling Gang
At Long Last Love
Barry Lyndon
Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold
Cooley High
Cría cuervos (aka ¡Cría!)
Conduct Unbecoming
The Day of the Locust
Death Race 2000
Deep Red, by Dario Argento
Dersu Uzala
Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze
Dog Day Afternoon
The Eiger Sanction
Escape to Witch Mountain
Farewell, My Lovely
Flame
The Fortune
The Four Musketeers
French Connection II
Funny Lady
Great
The Great Waldo Pepper
Hababam sinifi
Hearts of the West
Hester Street
The Hindenburg
Hustle
Jaws
Kaddu Beykat
L'important c'est d'aimer
The Land That Time Forgot
Legend of the Werewolf
Let's Do It Again
The Lion Roars Again (short subject)
Lisztomania
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
Love and Death
Lucky Lady
Mahogany
La Maldicion de la Bestia
The Magic Flute
The Man in the Glass Booth
The Man Who Would Be King
Milestones
The Mirror
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Moonrunners
Nashville
Numéro Deux (aka Number Two)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing
The Other Side of the Mountain
Overlord
The Passenger
Picnic at Hanging Rock
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Race with the Devil
Rancho Deluxe
The Return of the Pink Panther
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Rollerball
The Romantic Englishwoman
Rooster Cogburn
Royal Flash
Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (aka Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom)
Shampoo
Smile
The Stepford Wives
The Story of Adele H.
The Sunshine Boys
Switchblade Sisters
Terror of Mechagodzilla
Three Days of the Condor
Tommy
The Werewolf of Woodstock
The Wind and the Lion
A Woman's Decision
The Yakuza
Births
January 3 - Danica McKellar, actress
February 22 - Drew Barrymore, actress.
June 4 - Angelina Jolie, US actress
June 25 - Linda Cardellini, actress
August 7 - Charlize Theron, South African actress
October 5 - Kate Winslet, actress
November 19 - Sushmita Sen, actress
Deaths
January 9 - Pierre Fresnay, French actor
January 24 - Larry Fine, American actor and comedian, original member of The Three Stooges
January 27 - Bill Walsh, Movie producer and writer
March 7 - Ben Blue, actor
March 14 - Susan Hayward, actress
April 3 - Mary Ure, actress
April 10 - Marjorie Main, actress, made several Ma & Pa Kettle films
April 13 - Larry Parks, actor
April 15 - Richard Conte, actor
May 4 - Moe Howard, actor, original member of The Three Stooges
June 4 - Evelyn Brent, actress
October 31 - Joseph Calleia, actor
November 2 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, film director
November 5 - Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer, and silent film actress, portrayed by Esther Williams
December 24 - Bernard Herrmann, film composer
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