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.

Events

• March 26 - The film version of The Who's Tommy premieres in London.
• July - 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 Rocky Horror Picture Show premieres in London.
• Jaws becomes the first movie to ever gross US$100 million in North America, 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.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Studio	Actors	Gross
1.	Jaws	Universal	Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss	$260,000,000
2.	The Rocky Horror Picture Show*	20th Century Fox	Tim Curry, Barry Bostwick, Susan Sarandon	$112,892,319
3.	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	United Artists	Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Brad Dourif	$108,981,275
4.	Dog Day Afternoon	Warner Brothers	Al Pacino, John Cazale, Chris Sarandon, Charles Durning	$50,000,000
5.	Shampoo	Columbia	Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Jack Warden	$49,407,734
6.	Tommy	Columbia	Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed, Roger Daltrey, Jack Nicholson	$20,170,000
7.	Three Days of the Condor	Paramount	Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson	$20,014,000
8.	Funny Lady	Columbia	Barbra Streisand, James Caan, Omar Sharif	$19,313,000
9.	Nashville	Paramount	Lily Tomlin, Keith Carradine, Ronee Blakley, Karen Black, Michael Murphy, Barbara Harris	$18,012,000
10.	The Day of the Locust	Paramount	Karen Black, Donald Sutherland, William Atherton	$17,793,000

(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)

Awards

Academy Awards

Golden Globe Awards

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

Awards

Category/Organization	33rd Golden Globe Awards January 24, 1976		56th BAFTA Awards February 29, 1977	48th Academy Awards March 29, 1976
	Musical or Comedy	Drama
Best Film	The Sunshine Boys	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Best Director	Miloš Forman One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest		Miloš Forman One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	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	Jack Nicholson One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Jack Nicholson One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Best Actress	Ann-Margret Tommy	Louise Fletcher One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Louise Fletcher One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Louise Fletcher One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Best Supporting Actor	Richard Benjamin The Sunshine Boys		Brad Dourif One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	George Burns The Sunshine Boys
Best Supporting Actress	Brenda Vaccaro Jacqueline Susann		Jodie Foster Taxi Driver & Bugsy Malone	Lee Grant Shampoo
Best Screenplay, Adapted	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman		One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman
Best Screenplay, Original			Dog Day Afternoon Frank Pierson

Films released in 1975

U.S. unless stated

#

• 92 in the Shade, starring Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Elizabeth Ashley, Margot Kidder

A

• Aaron Loves Angela
• Adoption (Örökbefogadás), winner of Golden Bear - (Hungary)
• The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother, directed by and starring Gene Wilder, with Madeline Kahn and Marty Feldman - (U.S./U.K.)
• The Adventures of the Wilderness Family
• Aloha, Bobby and Rose, starring Paul LeMat
• Attilas '74, documentary - (Cyprus)
• The Apple Dumpling Gang, starring Don Knotts and Tim Conway
• At Long Last Love, directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Burt Reynolds and Cybill Shepherd
• Autobiography of a Princess, directed by James Ivory, starring James Mason and Madhur Jaffrey - (U.K.)

B

• Barry Lyndon, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Ryan O'Neal and Marisa Berenson - (U.K./U.S.)
• Bim - (Trinidad)
• Bite the Bullet, directed by Richard Brooks, starring Gene Hackman, James Coburn, Candice Bergen
• The Black Bird, starring George Segal
• Il Bestione (The Beast) - (France/Italy)
• A Boy and His Dog
• Breakheart Pass, starring Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna
• Breakout, starring Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Robert Duvall
• Bugs Bunny Superstar

C

• Carry On Behind - (U.K.)
• Chronicle of the Years of Fire - (Algeria)
• The Claws of Light - (Philippines)
• Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold
• Cooley High
• Coonskin, an animated film by Ralph Bakshi
• Cría cuervos (Raise Ravens), directed by Carlos Saura, starring Geraldine Chaplin - (Spain)
• Conduct Unbecoming, directed by Michael Anderson, starring Michael York, Richard Attenborough, Trevor Howard - (U.K.)

D

• The Day of the Locust, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Donald Sutherland and Karen Black
• Death Race 2000, directed by Paul Bartel, starring David Carradine, Simone Griffeth, Sylvester Stallone
• Deep Red, directed by Dario Argento, starring David Hemmings and Daria Nicolodi - (Italy)
• Dersu Uzala, directed by Akira Kurosawa - (U.S.S.R./Japan)
• Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze
• Dog Day Afternoon, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Al Pacino, John Cazale, Chris Sarandon, Charles Durning
• The Drowning Pool, directed by Stuart Rosenberg, starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Gail Strickland

E

• The Eiger Sanction, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood with George Kennedy and Jack Cassidy
• Escape to Witch Mountain, starring Eddie Albert, Ray Milland, Donald Pleasence

F

• Farewell, My Lovely, starring Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, Jack O'Halloran, Sylvia Miles, John Ireland
• Flame starring Slade - (U.K.)
• The Flower in His Mouth (Gente di rispetto) - (Italy)
• The Fortune, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, Stockard Channing
• Fox (Faustrecht der Freiheit), directed by and starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder - (West Germany)
• French Connection II, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Philippe Leotard
• Funny Lady, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Barbra Streisand, James Caan, Omar Sharif

G

• Galileo, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Topol, Edward Fox, John Gielgud - (U.K.)
• The Giant Spider Invasion (a.k.a. The Land of Spiders)
• Graveyard of Honor (Jingi no hakaba) - (Japan)
• Great, animated short - (U.K.)
• The Great Waldo Pepper, directed by George Roy Hill, starring Robert Redford

H

• Hababam sinifi (Outrageous Class) - (Turkey)
• The Happy Hooker, starring Lynn Redgrave and Jean-Pierre Aumont
• Hard Times, directed by Walter Hill, starring Charles Bronson and James Coburn
• Hearts of the West, starring Jeff Bridges
• Hedda, directed by Trevor Nunn, starring Peter Eyre and Glenda Jackson - (U.K.)
• Hester Street, starring Carol Kane
• The Hiding Place
• The Hindenburg, directed by Robert Wise, starring George C. Scott and Anne Bancroft
• Hustle, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Burt Reynolds, Catherine Deneuve, Ben Johnson

I

• Inserts, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Jessica Harper, Veronica Cartwright, Bob Hoskins - (U.K.)

J

• Jacob, the Liar (Jakob, der Lügner) - (East Germany/Czechoslovakia)
• Jaws, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw
• Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, starring Delphine Seyrig - (France/Belgium)

K

• Karayuki-san, the Making of a Prostitute, documentary by Shohei Imamura - (Japan)
• Kaddu Beykat - (Senegal)

L

• L'important c'est d'aimer (That Most Important Thing: Love), starring Romy Schneider - (France)
• The Land That Time Forgot, starring Doug McClure - (U.K.)
• Legend of the Lawman (a.k.a. Walking Tall Part 2)
• Legend of the Werewolf, starring Peter Cushing - (U.K.)
• Let Joy Reign Supreme (Que la Fete Commence), directed by Bertrand Tavernier - (France)
• Let's Do It Again, directed by and starring Sidney Poitier with Bill Cosby
• Lies My Father Told Me, directed by Jan Kadar - (Canada)
• The Lion Roars Again, documentary short
• Lisztomania, directed by Ken Russell, starring Roger Daltrey, Sara Kestelman, Paul Nicholas - (U.K.)
• The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, directed by Volker Schlondorff and Margarethe von Trotta - (West Germany)
• Love and Death, directed by and starring Woody Allen with Diane Keaton
• Lucky Lady, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Gene Hackman, Liza Minnelli, Burt Reynolds

M

• The Magic Flute, a film version of the Mozart opera directed by Ingmar Bergman - (Sweden)
• Mahogany, directed by Berry Gordy, starring Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Jean-Pierre Aumont
• La Maldicion de la Bestia - (Spain)
• The Man in the Glass Booth, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Maximilian Schell and Lois Nettleton
• The Man Who Would Be King, directed by John Huston, starring Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer, Saeed Jaffrey - (U.K./U.S.)
• Mandingo, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring James Mason, Susan George, Ken Norton, Perry King
• Master of the Flying Guillotine (Du bi quan wang da po xue di zi), directed by Jimmy Wang Yu - (Hong Kong)
• Milestones
• The Mirror, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky - (U.S.S.R.)
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail, directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones, starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Gilliam and Jones - (U.K.)
• Moonrunners
• Mr. Ricco, starring Dean Martin
• My Friends (Amici miei), directed by Mario Monicelli - (Italy)

N

• Nashville directed by Robert Altman, starring Lily Tomlin, Keith Carradine, Ronee Blakley, Karen Black, Michael Murphy, Barbara Harris, Ned Beatty
• Night Moves, directed by Arthur Penn, starring Gene Hackman, Melanie Griffith, Susan Clark, Jennifer Warren
• Nights and Days (Noce i dnie) - (Poland)
• Numéro deux (aka Number Two) directed by Jean-Luc Godard - (France)
• The Noah

O

• The Old Gun (Le vieux fusil) - (France)
• Once Is Not Enough, starring Kirk Douglas, David Janssen, Brenda Vaccaro, Deborah Raffin
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, directed by Milos Forman, starring Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Brad Dourif
• One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing, starring Peter Ustinov and Helen Hayes - (U.K./U.S.)
• Operation Daybreak - (U.S./Czechoslovakia)
• The Other Side of the Mountain, starring Marilyn Hassett and Beau Bridges
• Overlord - (U.K.)

P

• The Passenger, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Steven Berkoff - (Italy/France)
• Picnic at Hanging Rock, directed by Peter Weir, starring Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray, Helen Morse - (Australia)
• Posse
• The Prisoner of Second Avenue, directed by Melvin Frank, starring Jack Lemmon and Anne Bancroft
• The Promised Land (Ziemia Obiecana), directed by Andrzej Wajda - (Poland)

Q

• Queen of the Gypsies - (U.S.S.R.)

R

• Race with the Devil, starring Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Loretta Swit and Lara Parker
• Rancho Deluxe, starring Jeff Bridges, Sam Waterston, Elizabeth Ashley, Slim Pickens
• Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins
• The Reincarnation of Peter Proud
• The Return of the Pink Panther, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Herbert Lom - (U.K.)
• The Return of the Sister Street Fighter - (Japan)
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show, directed by Jim Sharman, starring Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Richard O'Brien, Barry Bostwick - (U.S./U.K.)
• Rollerball, directed by Norman Jewison, starring James Caan, John Houseman, John Beck, Maud Adams
• The Romantic Englishwoman, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Glenda Jackson, Michael Caine, Helmut Berger - (U.K.)
• Rooster Cogburn, starring John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn
• Royal Flash, directed by Richard Lester, starring Malcolm McDowell, Oliver Reed, Alan Bates - (U.K.)

S

• Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (aka Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom), directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini - (Italy/France)
• Le Sauvage (a.k.a. Lovers Like Us), starring Catherine Deneuve and Yves Montand - (France)
• The Sensuous Nurse (L'Infermiera), starring Ursula Andress, Luciana Paluzzi, Jack Palance - (Italy)
• Seven Beauties (Pasqualino Settebellezze), directed by Lina Wertmüller - (Italy)
• Shampoo, directed by Hal Ashby, starring Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Lee Grant, Jack Warden, Carrie Fisher
• Shivers (a.k.a. They Came from Within) - (Canada)
• Sholay, the highest grossing Bollywood film of all time - (India)
• Smile, starring Bruce Dern and Barbara Feldon
• Special Section (Section spéciale), directed by Costa Gavras - (France)
• The Stepford Wives, directed by Bryan Forbes, starring Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson
• The Story of Adele H., directed by François Truffaut, starring Isabelle Adjani and Bruce Robinson - (France)
• The Strongest Man in the World
• Sunday Too Far Away - (Australia)
• The Sunshine Boys, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Walter Matthau, George Burns, Richard Benjamin
• Supervixens, cult adult film directed by Russ Meyer
• Switchblade Sisters

T

• Terror of Mechagodzilla - (Japan)
• They Fought for Their Country (Они сражались за Родину), directed by Sergei Bondarchuk - (U.S.S.R.)
• Three Days of the Condor, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson
• Tommy, directed by Ken Russell, starring Oliver Reed, Ann-Margret, Jack Nicholson, Roger Daltrey - (U.K.)
• The Travelling Players (Ο Θίασος; O Thiassos), directed by Theo Angelopoulos - (Greece)

U

• The Ultimate Warrior

W

• W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings, directed by John G. Avildsen, starring Burt Reynolds and Art Carney
• The Werewolf of Woodstock
• White Line Fever, starring Jan-Michael Vincent and Kay Lenz
• The Wilby Conspiracy - (U.K.)
• The Wind and the Lion, directed by John Milius, starring Sean Connery and Candice Bergen
• A Woman's Decision - (Poland)
• The Wrong Move, directed by Wim Wenders, starring Rudiger Vogler and Hanna Schygulla - (West Germany)

Y

• The Yakuza, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Robert Mitchum and Ken Takakura - (U.S./Japan)

Births

• January 3 - Jason Marsden, actor.
• January 3 - Danica McKellar, American actress
• February 14 - Malik Zidi, French actor
• February 22 - Drew Barrymore, American actress and director
• March 27 - Stacy Ferguson, American actress/singer
• June 4 - Angelina Jolie, American actress
• June 25 - Linda Cardellini, American actress
• July 11 - Bridgette Andersen, American actress (d. 1997)
• July 23 - Surya Sivakumar, Indian actor
• August 7 - Charlize Theron, South African actress
• September 30 - Marion Cotillard, French actress
• October 5 - Kate Winslet, English actress
• October 5 - 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
• December 17 - Milla Jovovich, Ukrainian-American actress
• December 27 - Heather O'Rourke, American actress (d.1988)

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 4 - Renée Björling, Swedish actress
• 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

Film debuts

• Kim Cattrall
• Tim Curry
• Brad Dourif
• Laurence Fishburne
• Richard Griffiths
• Nastassja Kinski
• Christopher Lloyd
• Mary Stuart Masterson
• Bill Murray
• Bill Paxton
• Joe Pesci
• Dennis Quaid
• Chris Sarandon
• Patrick Stewart
• John Travolta
• Fred Ward