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The year 1975 in film involved some significant events.


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Rank Title Studio Gross
1. Jaws
Jaws (film)

Jaws is a 1975 in film Cinema of the United States horror film thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's best-selling Jaws ....
Universal $260,000,000
2.Rocky Horror Picture Show* 20th Century Fox $112,892,319
3.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is an Cinema of the United States drama film film director by Milo? Forman. The film is an adaptation of the 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey....
United Artists $108,981,275
4. Dog Day Afternoon
Dog Day Afternoon

Dog Day Afternoon is a 1975 in film American crime film drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and written by Frank Pierson. The film stars Al Pacino, John Cazale, Chris Sarandon, James Broderick, and Charles Durning....
Warner Brothers $50,000,000
5. Shampoo
Shampoo (film)

Shampoo is a 1975 in film film that is directed by Hal Ashby and stars Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Lee Grant, Jack Warden, Carrie Fisher and Tony Bill....
Columbia $49,407,734
6.The Return of the Pink Panther
The Return of the Pink Panther

The Return of the Pink Panther is the fourth film in the Pink Panther series, released in . The film stars Peter Sellers in the role of Inspector Clouseau in his third Panther appearance, after the original The Pink Panther and A Shot in the Dark ....
United Artists $20,170,000
7. Three Days of the Condor
Three Days of the Condor

Three Days of the Condor is a 1975 in film United States thriller film produced by Stanley Schneider and directed by Sydney Pollack. The screenplay, by Lorenzo Semple Jr....
Paramount $20,014,000
8. Funny Lady
Funny Lady

Funny Lady is a 1975 in film film starring Barbra Streisand, James Caan, Omar Sharif, Roddy McDowall, and Ben Vereen.A sequel to the 1964 Broadway musical and subsequent 1968 in film film version of Funny Girl , it is a highly fictionalized account of the later life and career of comedienne Fanny Brice and her marriage to songwrite...
Columbia $19,313,000
9. The Other Side of the Mountain
The Other Side of the Mountain

The Other Side of the Mountain is a 1975 in film USA film based on a true story of Alpine skiing champion Jill Kinmont.In early 1955, Kinmont was the national champion in Slalom skiing and was a top U.S....
Universal $18,012,000
10. Tommy
Tommy (film)

Tommy is a 1975 in film musical film, based on The Who 1969 in music rock opera album musical Tommy . It was directed by Ken Russell and featured a star-studded cast, including the band members themselves....
Columbia $17,793,000


(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)







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The year 1975 in film involved some significant events.

Events

  • January 28 - George Lucas
    George Lucas

    George Walton Lucas, Jr. is an Academy Award-nominated United States film director, film producer, screenwriter and chairman of Lucasfilm Ltd. He is best known for being the creator of the Epic film Sci-Fi franchise Star Wars and the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones....
     creates the second draft of what would eventually become Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
    Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

    Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is an Cinema of the United States 1977 in film space opera film, written and directed by George Lucas. It was the first of six films released in the Star Wars saga: Star Wars#Original trilogy continue the story, while a Star Wars#Prequel trilogy contributes backstory, primarily for the troubled charac...
    . 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
    Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

    Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is an Cinema of the United States 1977 in film space opera film, written and directed by George Lucas. It was the first of six films released in the Star Wars saga: Star Wars#Original trilogy continue the story, while a Star Wars#Prequel trilogy contributes backstory, primarily for the troubled charac...
  • March 26 - The film version of The Who
    The Who

    The Who are an England Rock music band formed in 1964. The primary lineup was guitarist Pete Townshend, vocalist Roger Daltrey, bassist John Entwistle and drummer Keith Moon....
    's Tommy
    Tommy (film)

    Tommy is a 1975 in film musical film, based on The Who 1969 in music rock opera album musical Tommy . It was directed by Ken Russell and featured a star-studded cast, including the band members themselves....
     premiers in London
    London

    London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
  • July - In order to create the necessary special effects for his film, Star Wars
    Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

    Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is an Cinema of the United States 1977 in film space opera film, written and directed by George Lucas. It was the first of six films released in the Star Wars saga: Star Wars#Original trilogy continue the story, while a Star Wars#Prequel trilogy contributes backstory, primarily for the troubled charac...
    , George Lucas
    George Lucas

    George Walton Lucas, Jr. is an Academy Award-nominated United States film director, film producer, screenwriter and chairman of Lucasfilm Ltd. He is best known for being the creator of the Epic film Sci-Fi franchise Star Wars and the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones....
     forms Industrial Light and Magic
    Industrial Light and Magic

    Industrial Light & Magic is a Film visual effects company that was founded in 1975 in film by George Lucas and is owned by Lucasfilm. Lucas created the company when he discovered that the special effects department at 20th Century Fox was shut down after he was given the green light for his production of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope...
    .
  • Jaws
    Jaws (film)

    Jaws is a 1975 in film Cinema of the United States horror film thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's best-selling 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
Jaws (film)

Jaws is a 1975 in film Cinema of the United States horror film thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's best-selling Jaws ....
Universal $260,000,000
2.Rocky Horror Picture Show* 20th Century Fox $112,892,319
3.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is an Cinema of the United States drama film film director by Milo? Forman. The film is an adaptation of the 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey....
United Artists $108,981,275
4. Dog Day Afternoon
Dog Day Afternoon

Dog Day Afternoon is a 1975 in film American crime film drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and written by Frank Pierson. The film stars Al Pacino, John Cazale, Chris Sarandon, James Broderick, and Charles Durning....
Warner Brothers $50,000,000
5. Shampoo
Shampoo (film)

Shampoo is a 1975 in film film that is directed by Hal Ashby and stars Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Lee Grant, Jack Warden, Carrie Fisher and Tony Bill....
Columbia $49,407,734
6.The Return of the Pink Panther
The Return of the Pink Panther

The Return of the Pink Panther is the fourth film in the Pink Panther series, released in . The film stars Peter Sellers in the role of Inspector Clouseau in his third Panther appearance, after the original The Pink Panther and A Shot in the Dark ....
United Artists $20,170,000
7. Three Days of the Condor
Three Days of the Condor

Three Days of the Condor is a 1975 in film United States thriller film produced by Stanley Schneider and directed by Sydney Pollack. The screenplay, by Lorenzo Semple Jr....
Paramount $20,014,000
8. Funny Lady
Funny Lady

Funny Lady is a 1975 in film film starring Barbra Streisand, James Caan, Omar Sharif, Roddy McDowall, and Ben Vereen.A sequel to the 1964 Broadway musical and subsequent 1968 in film film version of Funny Girl , it is a highly fictionalized account of the later life and career of comedienne Fanny Brice and her marriage to songwrite...
Columbia $19,313,000
9. The Other Side of the Mountain
The Other Side of the Mountain

The Other Side of the Mountain is a 1975 in film USA film based on a true story of Alpine skiing champion Jill Kinmont.In early 1955, Kinmont was the national champion in Slalom skiing and was a top U.S....
Universal $18,012,000
10. Tommy
Tommy (film)

Tommy is a 1975 in film musical film, based on The Who 1969 in music rock opera album musical Tommy . It was directed by Ken Russell and featured a star-studded cast, including the band members themselves....
Columbia $17,793,000


(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1975.shtml

Awards


Academy Awards
48th Academy Awards

The 48th Academy Awards were presented March 29, 1976 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw , George Segal, Goldie Hawn, and Gene Kelly....
:

Best Picture
Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the film industry....
: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is an Cinema of the United States drama film film director by Milo? Forman. The film is an adaptation of the 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey....
- Fantasy Films, United Artists
Best Director: Miloš Forman
Miloš Forman

Jan Tom? Forman , better known as Milo? Forman , is a Czech-American film director, screenwriter, actor and professor. Two of his films, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus are among the most celebrated in the History of Motion Picture....
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Best Actor
Academy Award for Best Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
:
Jack Nicholson
Jack Nicholson

John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson is an United States actor, film director, film producer, and screenwriter, Movie star for his often dark-themed portrayals of Neurosis Fictional character....
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Best Actress
Academy Award for Best Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
:
Louise Fletcher
Louise Fletcher

Louise Fletcher is an Academy Awards- and Golden Globe-winning United States actress....
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Best Supporting Actor
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
:
George Burns
George Burns

George Burns was an United States comedy, actor, and comedy writer.His career spanned vaudeville, film, radio, and television, with and without his wife, Gracie Allen....
- The Sunshine Boys
Best Supporting Actress
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
:
Lee Grant
Lee Grant

Lee Grant is an United States Academy Awards-winning, Golden Globe-nominated theater, film and television actor, and film director who was Hollywood ten by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s....
- Shampoo
Shampoo (film)

Shampoo is a 1975 in film film that is directed by Hal Ashby and stars Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Lee Grant, Jack Warden, Carrie Fisher and Tony Bill....
Best Foreign Language Film
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Award, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ....
: Dersu Uzala
Dersu Uzala (1975 film)

Dersu Uzala is a 1975 joint Soviet-Japanese film production directed by Akira Kurosawa. The film won the Grand Prix at the Moscow Film Festival and the 1975 Academy Awards for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film....
(????? ?????), directed by Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa

was a prominent Japanese people filmmaker, film producer, screenwriter and film editing. His first credited film as director, , was released in 1943, his last as director, , in 1993....
, USSR


Golden Globe Awards
33rd Golden Globe Awards

The 33rd Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1975, were held on January 24, 1976....
:

Drama:
Best Picture
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama

This page lists the winners and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture ? Drama, since its institution in 1951....
: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Best Actor
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
:
Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Best Actress
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
:
Louise Fletcher - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest


Musical or comedy:
Best Picture
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy has been awarded annually since 1952 in film by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association....
: The Sunshine Boys
The Sunshine Boys (film)

The Sunshine Boys is a 1975 Academy Award-winning film produced by Ray Stark and directed by Herbert Ross, based on the play of the The Sunshine Boys....
Best Actor
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
:
Walter Matthau
Walter Matthau

Walter John Matthau was an United States award-winning actor best known for his role as Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple and his frequent collaborations with fellow Odd Couple star Jack Lemmon....
- The Sunshine Boys
Best Actress
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1950 in film....
:
Ann-Margret
Ann-Margret

Ann-Margret is a Sweden-born American actress, singer and dancer. She has won the Golden Globe Award five times, and has been nominated for the Academy Award, Emmy Award and Grammy....
- Tommy
Tommy (film)

Tommy is a 1975 in film musical film, based on The Who 1969 in music rock opera album musical Tommy . It was directed by Ken Russell and featured a star-studded cast, including the band members themselves....


Other
Best Director
Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture

This page lists the winners of and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director. Since its inception in 1943, it has been presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, an organization comprised of journalists who cover the United States film industry for publications based outside North America....
:
Miloš Forman - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Best Foreign Film
Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the awards presented at the Golden Globe Awards, an American film awards ceremony....
: Lies My Father Told Me
Lies My Father Told Me

Lies My Father Told Me is a 1975 Canadian film made in Montreal Quebec. It was directed by J?n Kad?r and stars Jeffrey Lynas as an orthodox Jewish boy growing up in 1920s Montreal....
, Canada


Palme d'Or
Palme d'Or

The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded to competing films at the Cannes Film Festival. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee....
 (Cannes Film Festival):
Chronicle of the Years of Fire
Chronicle of the Years of Fire

Chronique des Ann?es de Braise is a 1975 film directed by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina. It depicts the Algerian War of Independence as seen through the eyes of a peasant....
(Chronique des années de braise), directed by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina

Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina is an Algerian movie director....
, Algeria


Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
Adoption
Adoption (film)

Adoption is a 1975 Hungarian film directed by M?rta M?sz?ros. It tells the story of a Kata, an unmarried female factory worker, who becomes interested in neglected children and tries to adopt one....
(Örökbefogadás), directed by Márta Mészáros
Márta Mészáros

M?rta M?sz?ros is a Hungary film director.She worked as an English Teachers filmmaker in the 1960s, but in the following decade began making films drawing on the oppression of both state and gender....
, Hungary


Films released in 1975

  • Aaron Loves Angela
    Aaron Loves Angela

    Aaron Loves Angela is a 1975 in film blaxploitation film, written by Gerald Sanford, and film director by Gordon Parks, Jr. This film stars Moses Gunn, Kevin Hooks and Irene Cara....
  • The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
    The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother

    The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother is a 1975 Anglo-American comedy film with Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Dom De Luise and Leo McKern....
  • The Adventures of the Wilderness Family
    The Adventures of the Wilderness Family

    The Adventures of the Wilderness Family is a 1975 in film family movie that stars Robert Logan, George Buck Flower and Susan Damante-Shaw. The movie was followed by two Wilderness Family sequels in 1978 and 1979....
  • Aloha, Bobby and Rose
  • Attilas '74
    Attilas '74

    Attila '74: The Rape of Cyprus is an award-winning 1974 documentary film by Michael Cacoyannis about the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974 It was filmed on location in Cyprus and Greece in the immediate aftermath of the two Turkish invasions and subsequent occupation of approximately the northern third of the island....
  • The Apple Dumpling Gang
    The Apple Dumpling Gang (film)

    The Apple Dumpling Gang is a 1975 in film Walt Disney Pictures film about slick gambler Russel Donavan who is duped into taking care of a group of orphan children who eventually strike gold during the California Gold Rush....
  • At Long Last Love
    At Long Last Love

    At Long Last Love is an United States Film musical film that was released in 1975 in film and was directed by Peter Bogdanovich.The film, with a screenplay by Bogdanovich, is a homage to the great Hollywood, Los Angeles, California musicals of the 1930s such as Swing Time and Top Hat, and features 16 songs with music and lyrics...
  • Barry Lyndon
    Barry Lyndon

    Barry Lyndon is a period film by Stanley Kubrick loosely based on the novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray. It recounts the exploits of unscrupulous 18th century Ireland adventurer Barry Lyndon, particularly his rise and fall in England society....
  • Bite the Bullet
  • The Black Bird
    The Black Bird

    The Black Bird is a 1975 in film film released December 25, 1975 starring George Segal and Stephane Auran. It is a comedy sequel to the well-regarded 1941 film version of The Maltese Falcon with Segal playing Sam Spade's son, Sam Spade Jr and Elisha Cook Jr....
  • Breakheart Pass
  • Breakout
    Breakout (film)

    Breakout is a 1975 action film starring Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Robert Duvall, John Huston, Sheree North and Randy Quaid.The character portrayed by John Huston frames the character portrayed by Robert Duvall - in order to keep him silent, Duvall is incarcerated in a Mexican prison....
  • Bugs Bunny Superstar
  • Carry On Behind
    Carry On Behind

    Carry On Behind is a 1975 in film film in the United Kingdom Carry On films series of comedy.As with all the films in the series, it was directed by Gerald Thomas and produced by Peter Rogers....
  • Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold
    Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold

    Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold is an Adventure film Blaxploitation movie starring Tamara Dobson as Cleopatra, was released in 1975....
  • Cooley High
    Cooley High

    Cooley High is a 1975 in film feature film produced and released by American International Pictures and written by Eric Monte . The film, set in 1964 Chicago, Illinois, stars Glynn Turman and Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, and featuring a soundtrack primarily comprised of 1960s Motown Records hits....
  • Coonskin
    Coonskin (film)

    Coonskin is a 1975 film written and directed by Ralph Bakshi, about an African American rabbit, fox, and bear who rise to the top of the organized crime racket in Harlem, encountering Police corruption, con artists and the Mafia....
  • Cría cuervos
    Cria Cuervos

    Cr?a cuervos is a 1976 in film Spain film directed by Carlos Saura. The film is an allegoric drama about an eight year old girl dealing with loss....
     (aka ĄCría!)
  • Conduct Unbecoming
    Conduct Unbecoming (film)

    Conduct Unbecoming is a 1975 British drama film, an adaptation of the Barry England play Conduct Unbecoming first staged in 1969. It was directed by Michael Anderson and starred an esemble cast of actors....
  • The Day of the Locust
    The Day of the Locust (film)

    The Day of the Locust is a 1975 in film Cinema of the United States drama film directed by John Schlesinger. The screenplay by Waldo Salt is based on the The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West....
  • Death Race 2000
    Death Race 2000

    Death Race 2000 is a Cult film action movie film directed by Paul Bartel, and starring David Carradine, Simone Griffeth and Sylvester Stallone....
  • Deep Red
    Deep Red

    Profondo Rosso is a 1975 giallo thriller film directed by Dario Argento and starring David Hemmings. The soundtrack was entirely composed by Goblin ....
    , by Dario Argento
    Dario Argento

    Dario Argento is an Italy film director, film producer and screenwriter. He is best known for his work in the horror film genre, particularly in the subgenre known as giallo, and for his influence on modern horror film and slasher film....
  • Dersu Uzala
    Dersu Uzala (1975 film)

    Dersu Uzala is a 1975 joint Soviet-Japanese film production directed by Akira Kurosawa. The film won the Grand Prix at the Moscow Film Festival and the 1975 Academy Awards for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film....
  • Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze
  • Dog Day Afternoon
    Dog Day Afternoon

    Dog Day Afternoon is a 1975 in film American crime film drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and written by Frank Pierson. The film stars Al Pacino, John Cazale, Chris Sarandon, James Broderick, and Charles Durning....
  • The Drowning Pool
    The Drowning Pool (film)

    The Drowning Pool is a 1975 in film film directed by Stuart Rosenberg, and based upon Ross Macdonald's novel The Drowning Pool. The film stars Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, and Anthony Franciosa, and is a sequel to Harper ....
  • The Eiger Sanction
    The Eiger Sanction (film)

    The Eiger Sanction is a 1975 in film Action film thriller based on a The Eiger Sanction by American author Dr. Rodney William Whitaker, under the pen name Trevanian....
  • Escape to Witch Mountain
    Escape to Witch Mountain

    Escape to Witch Mountain is a science fiction novel written by Alexander Key in 1968. It was adapted into a Escape to Witch Mountain by The Walt Disney Company in 1975, directed by John Hough....
  • Farewell, My Lovely
    Farewell, My Lovely

    Farewell, My Lovely is a 1940 in literature novel by Raymond Chandler, the second novel he wrote featuring Los Angeles, California private investigator Philip Marlowe....
  • Flame
  • The Fortune
    The Fortune

    The Fortune is a 1975 American comedy film directed by Mike Nichols and starring Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson and Stockard Channing, in which two con men compete for the millionaire heiress to a sanitary napkin fortune....
  • The Four Musketeers
    The Four Musketeers (film)

    The Four Musketeers is the title of a 1974 in film Richard Lester film, which follows upon his film of the previous year, The Three Musketeers , and covers the second half of Alexandre Dumas, p?re' novel The Three Musketeers....
  • French Connection II
    French Connection II

    French Connection II is a 1975 in film crime film drama film starring Gene Hackman and directed by John Frankenheimer. It is the sequel to The French Connection ....
  • Funny Lady
    Funny Lady

    Funny Lady is a 1975 in film film starring Barbra Streisand, James Caan, Omar Sharif, Roddy McDowall, and Ben Vereen.A sequel to the 1964 Broadway musical and subsequent 1968 in film film version of Funny Girl , it is a highly fictionalized account of the later life and career of comedienne Fanny Brice and her marriage to songwrite...
  • Great
    Great (film)

    Great is a 25-minute animated film, telling a humorous version of the life of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. It was directed by Bob Godfrey and produced by Grantstern Films/British Lion....
  • The Great Waldo Pepper
    The Great Waldo Pepper

    The Great Waldo Pepper is a 1975 in film drama film about a discontented Aviator played by Robert Redford....
  • Hababam sinifi
    Hababam Sinifi

    Hababam Sinifi is a 1975 in film Turkey comedy film directed by Ertem Egilmez and starring Kemal Sunal. The film is based on a novel by Rifat Ilgaz....
  • Hard Times
    Hard Times

    Hard Times- For These Times. is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book is a state-of-the-nation novel, which aimed to highlight the social and economic pressures that some people were experiencing....
  • Hearts of the West
  • Hester Street
  • The Hindenburg
    The Hindenburg (film)

    The Hindenburg is a movie based on the Hindenburg disaster of the Germany airship LZ 129 Hindenburg. The film was produced and directed by Robert Wise, and was written by Nelson Gidding, Richard Levinson and William Link based on the book of the same name by Michael M....
  • Hustle
    Hustle (1975 film)

    Hustle is a 1975 film film director by Robert Aldrich and starring Burt Reynolds, Catherine Deneuve, Ben Johnson, Paul Winfield, Eileen Brennan, Eddie Albert and Ernest Borgnine, released December 25, 1975....
  • Jaws
    Jaws (film)

    Jaws is a 1975 in film Cinema of the United States horror film thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's best-selling Jaws ....
  • Kaddu Beykat
    Kaddu Beykat

    Kaddu Beykat is a 1975 in film Senegalese film directed by Safi Faye. It was the first feature film made by a Sub-Saharan African woman to be commercially distributed and brought international recognition for its director....
  • L'important c'est d'aimer
    L'important c'est d'aimer

    L'important c'est d'aimer was the breakthrough movie in France for Polish filmmaker Andrzej Zulawski. It tells the story of a passionate love relationship between Nadine Chevalier, a B-List actress and Servais Mont, a photographer in the violent and unforgiving French show biz....
  • The Land of Spiders
  • The Land That Time Forgot
    The Land That Time Forgot (film)

    The Land That Time Forgot is a 1975 in film fantasy/adventure film based upon the The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The screenplay was written by Michael Moorcock....
  • Legend of the Werewolf
    Legend of the Werewolf

    Legend of the Werewolf is a 1975 in film film directed by Freddie Francis. It stars Peter Cushing....
     Starring Peter Cushing
    Peter Cushing

    Peter Wilton Cushing, Order of the British Empire was an English people actor, known for his many appearances in Hammer Films, in which he played Victor Frankenstein and Abraham Van Helsing, amongst many other roles, often appearing opposite his close friend Christopher Lee....
  • Let's Do It Again
    Let's Do It Again (1975 film)

    Let's Do It Again is a 1975 film starring Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby. Poitier also directed. This was the second film pairing of Poitier and Cosby following Uptown Saturday Night....
  • Lies My Father Told Me
    Lies My Father Told Me

    Lies My Father Told Me is a 1975 Canadian film made in Montreal Quebec. It was directed by J?n Kad?r and stars Jeffrey Lynas as an orthodox Jewish boy growing up in 1920s Montreal....
  • The Lion Roars Again
    The Lion Roars Again

    The Lion Roars Again is a short film that documents an event that was hosted by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The event was the International Press Conclave of 1975....
  • Lisztomania
    Lisztomania

    Lisztomania is a 1975 in film film by Ken Russell, drawn from a biography of Franz Liszt.Depicting the flamboyant Liszt as the first classical pop star, Lisztomania features then-contemporary rock star Roger Daltrey in the leading role....
  • The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
    The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (film)

    The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum is a 1975 film adaptation by Volker Schl?ndorff and Margarethe von Trotta of the The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum by Heinrich B?ll....
  • Love and Death
    Love and Death

    Love and Death is a 1975 comedy by Woody Allen. Starring Woody Allen and Diane Keaton, Love and Death is a satire take on Russian literatures....
  • Lucky Lady
    Lucky Lady

    Lucky Lady is a 1975 in film American film starring Gene Hackman, Liza Minelli and Burt Reynolds.External links...
     Starring
  • The Magic Flute
    The Magic Flute (1975 film)

    The Magic Flute is Ingmar Bergman's 1975 in film highly acclaimed film version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Die Zauberfl?te. It was intended as a TV-production and was first shown on Swedish television but was followed by a cinema release later that year....
  • Mahogany
    Mahogany (1975 film)

    Mahogany is a 1975 feature film, produced by Motown Productions and released to theaters by Paramount Pictures on October 8, 1975. Directed by Motown founder Berry Gordy , Mahogany stars Diana Ross as a poor African-American woman who rises to become a popular fashion designer in Rome....
  • La Maldicion de la Bestia
    La Maldicion de la Bestia

    La Maldicion de la Bestia , is a 1975 in film Spanish horror film film that is the eighth in a long series about the werewolf Count Waldemar Daninsky, played by Paul Naschy....
  • The Man in the Glass Booth
    The Man in the Glass Booth

    The Man in the Glass Booth is a 1975 in film United States drama film directed by Arthur Hiller. It was adapted from the novel and stage play of the same name by Robert Shaw ....
  • The Man Who Would Be King
    The Man Who Would Be King (film)

    The Man Who Would Be King is a 1975 in film film adapted from the Rudyard Kipling The Man Who Would Be King. It was adapted and directed by John Huston and starred Sean Connery as Daniel Dravot, Michael Caine as Peachey Carnehan, Saeed Jaffrey as Billy Fish, and Christopher Plummer as Kipling ....
  • Mandingo
    Mandingo (film)

    Mandingo is a 1975 in film, based on the book Mandingo by Kyle Onstott. The film was directed by Richard Fleischer and featured James Mason, Susan George , Perry King, Lillian Hayman, boxing-turned-actor Ken Norton and bodybuilder and pro wrestling-turned-actor Earl Maynard....
  • Milestones
  • The Mirror
    The Mirror (1975 film)

    The Mirror is a 1975 in film Russian film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. It is loosely autobiographical, blending childhood memories, newsreel footage and poems by his father Arseny Tarkovsky....
  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail
    Monty Python and the Holy Grail

    Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a 1975 in film film written and performed by the comedy group Monty Python , and directed by Gilliam and Jones....
  • Moonrunners
    Moonrunners

    Moonrunners is a 1975 film, and the precursor to The Dukes of Hazzard television series.The movie was written and directed by Gy Waldron, based on the life and stories of Jerry Rushing....
  • Nashville
    Nashville (1975 film)

    Nashville is a 1975 in film Cinema of the United States musical film directed by Robert Altman. A winner of many awards, selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, Nashville is generally considered to be one of Altman's best films....
  • Numéro Deux
    Numero Deux

    Numero Deux is an album by The Dining Rooms released on August 21, 2001 through Guidance Recordings. The group credits Jean-Luc Godard as having been the inspiration for the album....
     (aka Number Two)
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is an Cinema of the United States drama film film director by Milo? Forman. The film is an adaptation of the 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey....
  • One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing
    One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing

    One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing is a 1975 in film United Kingdom comedy film, which is set in the early 1920s, about the theft of a dinosaur skeleton from the Natural History Museum....
  • The Other Side of the Mountain
    The Other Side of the Mountain

    The Other Side of the Mountain is a 1975 in film USA film based on a true story of Alpine skiing champion Jill Kinmont.In early 1955, Kinmont was the national champion in Slalom skiing and was a top U.S....
  • Overlord
    Overlord (film)

    Overlord is a 1975 in film film by Stuart Cooper. Set around the Battle of Normandy invasion , it's a war film about a young soldier's meditations on being part of the war machinery, and his premonitions of death....
  • The Passenger
    The Passenger (film)

    The Passenger is a film directed and co-written by Michelangelo Antonioni, released in 1975 in film, in which Jack Nicholson stars as a reporter in Africa who assumes the identity of a dead stranger....
  • Picnic at Hanging Rock
    Picnic at Hanging Rock (film)

    Picnic at Hanging Rock is a 1975 Australian mystery film directed by Peter Weir, adapted from the Picnic at Hanging Rock. It premiered at the Hindley Cinema Complex in Adelaide, South Australia on 8 August 1975....
  • The Prisoner of Second Avenue
    The Prisoner of Second Avenue

    The Prisoner of Second Avenue is an United States comedic Play written by famed playwright Neil Simon. The play was later made into a movie that was released in 1975....
  • Race with the Devil
    Race with the Devil

    Race with the Devil is a 1975 in film occult thriller and action film starring Peter Fonda , Warren Oates , Loretta Swit and Lara Parker ....
  • Rancho Deluxe
    Rancho Deluxe

    Rancho Deluxe is a comedy western film that was directed by Frank Perry and released in 1975. Jeff Bridges and Sam Waterston star as two cattle rustlers in modern-day Montana who plague a wealthy ranch owner, played by Clifton James....
  • The Return of the Pink Panther
    The Return of the Pink Panther

    The Return of the Pink Panther is the fourth film in the Pink Panther series, released in . The film stars Peter Sellers in the role of Inspector Clouseau in his third Panther appearance, after the original The Pink Panther and A Shot in the Dark ....
  • The Return of the Sister Street Fighter
  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show
    The Rocky Horror Picture Show

    The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a 1975 in film Cinema of the United Kingdom-Cinema of the United States musical film comedy film that parodies science fiction and horror films....
  • Rollerball
    Rollerball (1975 film)

    Rollerball is a 1975 utopian and dystopian fiction film directed by Norman Jewison from a screenplay by William Harrison , who adapted his own short story "Roller Ball Murder", which first appeared in 1973 in Esquire magazine....
  • The Romantic Englishwoman
    The Romantic Englishwoman

    The Romantic Englishwoman is a 1975 in film United Kingdom film directed by Joseph Losey. It stars Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson and marks the feature-length screen debut for Kate Nelligan....
  • Rooster Cogburn
    Rooster Cogburn

    Rooster Cogburn is a 1975 in film sequel to the 1969 in film Western , True Grit, and stars John Wayne, in his penultimate film, who reprises his role as United States Marshals Service Rooster Cogburn ....
  • Royal Flash
    Royal Flash (film)

    Royal Flash is a 1975 film based on George MacDonald Fraser's second Harry Paget Flashman novel, Royal Flash. It starred Malcolm McDowell as Flashman....
  • Salň o le 120 giornate di Sodoma
    Salň o le 120 giornate di Sodoma

    Sal? o le 120 giornate di Sodoma is a controversial 1975 in film film written and directed by Italian film director Pier Paolo Pasolini with uncredited writing contributions by Pupi Avati....
    (aka Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom)
  • Shampoo
    Shampoo (film)

    Shampoo is a 1975 in film film that is directed by Hal Ashby and stars Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Lee Grant, Jack Warden, Carrie Fisher and Tony Bill....
  • Smile
    Smile (1975 film)

    Smile is a 1975 in film film directed by American director Michael Ritchie , with a screenplay by Jerry Belson, about a beauty pageant in Santa Rosa, California....
  • The Stepford Wives
    The Stepford Wives (1975 film)

    The Stepford Wives is a 1975 science fiction film/horror film based on the 1972 in literature Ira Levin novel The Stepford Wives. It was directed by Bryan Forbes with a screenplay by William Goldman....
  • The Story of Adele H.
    The Story of Adele H.

    The Story of Adele H. is a 1975 in film film in French language and English language which tells the story of the real-life Ad?le Hugo, the daughter of writer Victor Hugo, whose obsessive unrequited love for a naval officer led to her downfall....
  • The Strongest Man in the World
    The Strongest Man in the World

    The Strongest Man in the World is a Walt Disney film released in 1975 in film, starring Kurt Russell, still a student in the fictional Medfield College....
  • The Sunshine Boys
    The Sunshine Boys (film)

    The Sunshine Boys is a 1975 Academy Award-winning film produced by Ray Stark and directed by Herbert Ross, based on the play of the The Sunshine Boys....
  • Switchblade Sisters
    Switchblade Sisters

    Switchblade Sisters is a 1975 action film and exploitation film detailing the lives of high school-aged female gang members. It was directed by Jack Hill and stars Joanne Nail, Robbie Lee and Monica Gayle....
  • Terror of Mechagodzilla
    Terror of Mechagodzilla

    Terror of Mechagodzilla, released in Japan as , is a 1975 tokusatsu kaiju film. The film was titled The Terror of Godzilla in its original United States of America theatrical release....
  • Three Days of the Condor
    Three Days of the Condor

    Three Days of the Condor is a 1975 in film United States thriller film produced by Stanley Schneider and directed by Sydney Pollack. The screenplay, by Lorenzo Semple Jr....
  • Tommy
    Tommy (film)

    Tommy is a 1975 in film musical film, based on The Who 1969 in music rock opera album musical Tommy . It was directed by Ken Russell and featured a star-studded cast, including the band members themselves....
  • Ultimate Warrior
  • The Werewolf of Woodstock
    The Werewolf of Woodstock

    The Werewolf of Woodstock is a 1975 in film film directed by John Moffitt ....
  • White Line Fever
    White Line Fever (film)

    White Line Fever is a popular American B grade movie about truck drivers released in 1975. Jan-Michael Vincent plays the hero who returns from Vietnam and takes over his father's trucking business in Tucson, Arizona....
  • The Wind and the Lion
    The Wind and the Lion

    The Wind and the Lion is a 1975 adventure film. It was directed by John Milius and starred Sean Connery, Candice Bergen, Brian Keith and John Huston....
  • A Woman's Decision
    A Woman's Decision

    A Woman's Decision is a 1975 in film Poland drama film written and directed by Krzysztof Zanussi....
  • The Yakuza
    The Yakuza

    The Yakuza is a 1975 in film post?film noir gangster film directed by Sydney Pollack, written by Leonard Schrader, Paul Schrader, and Robert Towne....


Births

  • January 3 - Jason Marsden
    Jason Marsden

    Jason Christopher Marsden is an United States screen and voice actor largely known for numerous voice roles in animated films, as well as various television series....
    , actor.
  • January 3 - Danica McKellar
    Danica McKellar

    Danica Mae McKellar is an United States actor and mathematics author and education advocate. She is best known for her role as Winnie Cooper in the television show The Wonder Years, and now as author of the two New York Times bestsellers, Math Doesn't Suck, and Kiss My Math, which encourage and empower middle-school girls wit...
    , American actress
  • February 14 - Malik Zidi
    Malik Zidi

    Malik Zidi is a French people film, television and theater actor. Zidi is a four time nominated and one time C?sar Award recipient for C?sar Award for Most Promising Actor....
    , French actor
  • February 22 - Drew Barrymore
    Drew Barrymore

    Drew Blyth Barrymore is an American actor and film producer. She is the youngest member of the Barrymore family of American actors. She began acting when she was eleven months old....
    , American actress
  • June 4 - Angelina Jolie
    Angelina Jolie

    Angelina Jolie is an American film actor and a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador for the UNHCR. She has been cited as one of the world's most beautiful women and her off-screen life is widely reported....
    , American actress
  • June 25 - Linda Cardellini
    Linda Cardellini

    Linda Edna Cardellini is an United States television and film actor. She is perhaps best known for her roles as high school student List of Freaks and Geeks characters#Lindsay Weir on Freaks and Geeks, as Velma Dinkley in the live-action Scooby-Doo films, as Samantha in the comedy Grandma's Boy, and as Samantha Taggart on ER ...
    , American actress
  • August 7 - Charlize Theron
    Charlize Theron

    Charlize Theron is an Academy Award-winning South African-American actress, film producer, and former fashion model. She rose to fame in the late 1990s following her roles in 2 Days in the Valley, Mighty Joe Young , The Devil's Advocate , and The Cider House Rules ....
    , South African actress
  • October 5 - Kate Winslet
    Kate Winslet

    'Kate Elizabeth Winslet' is an English people Actor and occasional singing. She is noted for having played diverse characters over her career, but probably best-known for her critically acclaimed performances as Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility , Titanic #Cast in Titanic , Clementine Kruczynski in Eternal Sunshine of the Sp...
    , English actress
  • November 19 - Sushmita Sen
    Sushmita Sen

    Sushmita Sen was born on November 19, 1975 in Hyderabad, India, India. She is a well-known Bollywood actress who has also appeared in few Tamil cinema films and a former beauty queen, who was crowned Miss Universe 1994....
    , Indian actress


Deaths

January 9 - Pierre Fresnay
Pierre Fresnay

Pierre Fresnay was a French stage and film actor.Born Pierre Jules Louis Laudenbach in Paris, France, France he was encouraged by his uncle, the actor Claude Garry, to pursue a career in theater and film....
, French actor January 18 - Gertrude Olmstead
Gertrude Olmstead

Gertrude Olmstead , was an American actress of the silent film.Olmstead was born in Chicago, Illinois, and appeared in her first credited film role in the 1921 film The Fox, when she was only 17....
, American actress January 24 - Larry Fine
Larry Fine (actor)

Larry Fine was an American comedy and actor, who is best-known as a member of the comedy act The Three Stooges....
, American actor and comedian, original member of The Three Stooges
Three Stooges

The Three Stooges was an American vaudeville and comedy act of the early to mid?20th century best known for their numerous short subject films....
January 27 - Bill Walsh
Bill Walsh (producer)

Bill Walsh was a film producer and screenwriter who primarily worked on live-action films for The Walt Disney Company. He was born in New York City....
, American film producer and writer March 7 - Ben Blue
Ben Blue

Ben Blue , born Benjamin Bernstein, was a Canadian-American actor and comedian.In the 1920s Bernstein joined a popular orchestra, Jack White and His Montrealers....
, Canadian-born American actor March 14 - Susan Hayward
Susan Hayward

Susan Hayward was an American actress.After working as a fashion model in New York, Hayward travelled to Hollywood in 1937 in the hope of playing the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind ....
, American actress April 3 - Mary Ure
Mary Ure

Eileen Mary Ure was a Scotland actress of stage and film....
, Scottish actress April 10 - Marjorie Main
Marjorie Main

Marjorie Main was an Academy Awards-nominated United States Character actor mainly at MGM, perhaps best known for her role as Ma Kettle in a series of ten Ma and Pa Kettle movies....
, American actress April 13 - Larry Parks
Larry Parks

Larry Parks , was an United States Theater and movie actor. His birth name is believed to have been Samuel Klusman Lawrence Parks. His career was virtually ended when he admitted to having once been a member of a Communist Party USA cell, an admission that led to his blacklisting by all Hollywood studios....
, American actor April 15 - Richard Conte
Richard Conte

Richard Conte was an United States actor who appeared in numerous films from the 1940s through 1970s, including I'll Cry Tomorrow and The Godfather....
, American actor May 4 - Moe Howard
Moe Howard

Moe Howard was an United States comedian, best known as the leader of the Three Stooges, the slapstick comedy team who starred in motion pictures and television for four decades....
, American actor, original member of The Three Stooges
Three Stooges

The Three Stooges was an American vaudeville and comedy act of the early to mid?20th century best known for their numerous short subject films....
June 4 - Evelyn Brent
Evelyn Brent

Evelyn Brent, , was an United States film and stage actress....
, American actress October 31 - Joseph Calleia
Joseph Calleia

Joseph Calleia , was a Maltese people singer, composer, and actor, both on Broadway theatre and in film. Calleia played against some Hollywood greats, including John Wayne, William Holden, Errol Flynn, Rita Hayworth, Mae West, Bette Davis, Jane Russell, Mario Lanza, Charlton Heston, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Orson Welles, Tyrone Power, Al...
, Maltese actor November 2 - Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini

Pier Paolo Pasolini was an Italy poet, intellectual, film director, and writer. Pasolini distinguished himself as a journalist, philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and magazine columnist, actor, Painting and political figure....
, Italian film director November 5 - Annette Kellerman
Annette Kellerman

Annette Kellerman was an Australian professional swimmer, vaudeville and film star, writer, and advocate for the change of women's swimwear.She is often credited for inventing the sport of synchronised swimming after her 1907 performance of the first water ballet in a glass tank at the New York Hippodrome....
, Australian swimmer, and silent film actress, portrayed by Esther Williams
Esther Williams

Esther Jane Williams is a retired United States competitive swimmer and legendary MGM feature film movie star, famous for her musical films that featured elaborate performances with swimming and diving....
December 24 - Bernard Herrmann
Bernard Herrmann

Bernard Herrmann was an United States composer noted for his work in motion pictures.An Academy Award-winner , Herrmann is particularly known for collaboration with director Alfred Hitchcock, most famously Psycho , North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo ....
, American film composer