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The year 1975 in film involved some significant events.
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Events
- January 28 - George Lucas creates the second draft of what would eventually become Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. At this time, the title of the story was Adventures of the Starkiller, Episode One of The Star Wars.
- March - Production begins on Star Wars
- 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, Star Wars, 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
- 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
- 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
- Bugs Bunny Superstar
- Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold
- Cooley High
- Coonskin
- 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 Return of the Sister Street Fighter
- 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 - Jason Marsden, actor.
- January 3 - Danica McKellar, American actress
- February 22 - Drew Barrymore, American actress
- June 4 - Angelina Jolie, American actress
- June 25 - Linda Cardellini, American actress
- August 7 - Charlize Theron, South African actress
- October 5 - Kate Winslet, English actress
- November 19 - Sushmita Sen, Indian actress
Deaths
- January 9 - Pierre Fresnay, French actor
- January 18 - Gertrude Olmstead, American actress
- January 24 - Larry Fine, American actor and comedian, original member of The Three Stooges
- January 27 - Bill Walsh, American film producer and writer
- March 7 - Ben Blue, Canadian-born American actor
- March 14 - Susan Hayward, American actress
- April 3 - Mary Ure, Scottish actress
- April 10 - Marjorie Main, American actress
- April 13 - Larry Parks, American actor
- April 15 - Richard Conte, American actor
- May 4 - Moe Howard, American actor, original member of The Three Stooges
- June 4 - Evelyn Brent, American actress
- October 31 - Joseph Calleia, Maltese actor
- November 2 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director
- November 5 - Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer, and silent film actress, portrayed by Esther Williams
- December 24 - Bernard Herrmann, American film composer
