Overview of the events of 1975 in film
The year 1975 in film involved some significant events.
Highest-grossing films
North America
The top ten 1975 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
Highest-grossing films of 1975
Rank
Title
Distributor
Domestic rentals
1
Jaws
Universal
$133,400,000[ 1]
2
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
United Artists
$59,200,000[ 1]
3
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
20th Century Fox
$50,420,000[ 2]
4
Shampoo
Columbia
$23,822,000[ 2]
5
Dog Day Afternoon
Warner Bros.
$22,500,000[ 1]
6
The Return of the Pink Panther
United Artists
$20,017,000[ 2]
7
Three Days of the Condor
Paramount
$20,014,000[ 2]
8
Funny Lady
Columbia
$19,313,000[ 2]
9
The Other Side of the Mountain
Universal
$18,012,000[ 2]
10
Tommy
Columbia
$17,793,000[ 2]
International
The highest-grossing 1975 films in countries outside of North America.
International market
Film
Admissions
Revenue
Production country
Ref
Local currency
US$
Brazil
The Towering Inferno
10,377,230
Unknown
Unknown
United States
[ 3]
France
The Towering Inferno
4,466,376
Unknown
Unknown
United States
[ 4]
West Germany
Jaws
7,000,000
Unknown
Unknown
United States
[ 5]
India
Sholay
150,000,000+
₹350,000,000
$41,790,000
India
[ 6] [ n 1]
Italy
My Friends
10,467,254
Unknown
Unknown
Italy
[ 9]
Japan
The Towering Inferno
Unknown
¥3,640,000,000
Unknown
United States
[ 10]
Soviet Union
Bobby
62,600,000
15,650,000 Rbls
$21,440,000
India
[ n 2]
Spain
Jaws
5,918,754
Unknown
Unknown
United States
[ 15]
United Kingdom
Jaws
16,200,000
£11,800,000
$26,000,000
United States
[ 16] [ 17]
United States & Canada
Jaws
128,078,800
$260,000,000
$260,000,000
United States
[ 18]
Worldwide gross
The following table lists known worldwide gross figures for several high-grossing films that originally released in 1975. Note that this list is incomplete and is therefore not representative of the highest-grossing films worldwide in 1975. This list also includes gross revenue from later re-releases.
Title
Admissions (est. )
Revenue
Country
Jaws
242,800,000[ 19]
$470,653,000[ 18]
United States
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
78,706,404[ n 3]
Unknown
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
58,431,570[ n 4]
$140,846,387[ n 5]
United Kingdom United States
Sholay
250,000,000[ 29]
$70,000,000[ n 6]
India
Dog Day Afternoon
24,861,525[ n 7]
Unknown
United States
Events
Awards
Awards ceremonies
Notable awards
1975 films
By country/region
By genre/medium
Births
January 1
January 2: Dax Shepard , American actor
January 3
January 5: Bradley Cooper , American actor and film director
January 6: Nicole DeHuff , American actress (d. 2005)
January 9: Patrick Sabongui , Canadian actor and stunt performer
January 14: Jordan Ladd , American actress
January 15: Jorge R. Gutierrez , Mexican animator, director, writer and voice actor
January 16: Julie Ann Emery , American actress
January 17: Freddy Rodriguez , American actor
January 22: Balthazar Getty , American actor and musician
January 25: Mia Kirshner , Canadian actress and writer
January 29: Kelly Packard , American actress
January 31: Preity Zinta , Indian actress
February 3: Terry Chen , Canadian actor
February 4: Natalie Imbruglia , Australian-British singer and actress
February 5: Alison Hammond , English television personality and actress
February 7: Dan Green , American voice actor, voice director and screenwriter
February 9: Rawson Marshall Thurber , American filmmaker and actor
February 14: Malik Zidi , French actor
February 17: Raymond S. Persi , American animator, director, screenwriter, producer, storyboard artist and voice actor
February 18: Hristo Zhivkov , Bulgarian actor (d. 2023)
February 22: Drew Barrymore , American actress and director
February 23: Callan Mulvey , Australian actor
February 25: Chelsea Handler , American comedian, actress, writer, television host and producer
February 27: Quentin Kenihan , Australian writer and actor (d. 2018)
March 2: Lee Sun-kyun , South Korean actor (d. 2023)
March 3:
March 7: Sarayu Rao , American actress
March 9: Chaske Spencer , American actor and producer
March 11: Josh Robert Thompson , American voice actor, actor, comedian and impressionist
March 15:
March 16: Sienna Guillory , English actress
March 17: Natalie Zea , American actress
March 18: Charles Parnell , American actor
March 21: Justin Pierce , American-British actor and skateboarder (d. 2000)
March 22:
March 24: Brennan Elliott , Canadian actor
March 27: Stacy Ferguson , American actress and singer-songwriter
April 2:
April 6: Zach Braff , American actor, director, screenwriter and producer
April 10: David Harbour , American actor
April 11: Gloria Calderón Kellett , American writer, producer, director and actress
April 12: Camila Morgado , Brazilian actress
April 13: Angus MacLane , American director, animator, screenwriter and voice actor
April 14:
April 15: Elissa Knight , American employee at Pixar and voice actress
April 21: Charlie O'Connell , American actor
April 27: Erica Schroeder , American voice actress
April 30: Johnny Galecki , American actor
May 3:
May 4: Óscar Jaenada , Spanish actor
May 8:
May 9: Chris Diamantopoulos , Greek-Canadian actor and voice artist
May 20:
May 22:
May 24: Will Sasso , Canadian-American actor, comedian, voice actor and podcaster
May 26: Nicki Aycox , American actress and musician (d. 2022)
May 27: André 3000 , American singer, songwriter, rapper and actor
June 4:
June 6: Nina Kaczorowski , American actress and stuntwoman
June 8: Shilpa Shetty , Indian actress
June 10: Nicole Bilderback , Korean-born American actress
June 11:
June 19: Hugh Dancy , English actor
June 22: Jeff Hephner , American actor
June 23: Jeffrey Carlson , American actor and singer (d. 2023)
June 25: Linda Cardellini , American actress
June 27: Tobey Maguire , American actor
June 28: Jeff Geddis , Canadian actor
June 29: Șerban Pavlu , Romanian actor
July 2: Elizabeth Reaser , American actress
July 3: Ryan McPartlin , American actor
July 4: Mirelle Hernández , American makeup artist
July 5: Sope Aluko , Nigerian-born British-American actress
July 6: 50 Cent , American actor and rapper
July 7: Nina Hoss , German film and stage actress
July 9: Nathaniel Marston , American actor and producer (d. 2015)
July 10: Stefán Karl Stefánsson , Icelandic actor and singer (d. 2018)
July 11: Bridgette Andersen , American actress (d. 1997)
July 13: Gareth Edwards , British filmmaker
July 14: Jaime Gomez , American actor and rapper
July 17:
July 19: Reuben Langdon , American stuntman and voice actor
July 20:
Judy Greer , American actress
Jason Raize , American actor, singer and Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme (d. 2004)
July 21: David Dastmalchian , American actor
July 22: Hannah Waterman , English actress
July 23: Suriya , Indian actor
July 28: Ori Pfeffer , Israeli actor
August 5:
August 7:
August 9: Anjali Jay , British actress and writer
August 11: Roger Craig Smith , American actor and voice actor
August 12: Casey Affleck , American actor
August 13: James Carpinello , American actor
August 16:
August 18: Kaitlin Olson , American actress, comedian and producer
August 19: Tracie Thoms , American actress and singer
August 21: Alicia Witt , American actress and singer
August 22: Rodrigo Santoro , Brazilian actor
August 24: James D'Arcy , English actor and director
August 25: Raymond Wong Ho-yin , Hong Kong actor[ 34]
August 27: Bodie Olmos, American actor
August 28: Eugene Byrd , American actor
August 29:
September 1:
September 2: MC Chris , American rapper, voice actor, comedian and writer
September 10: Kyle Bornheimer , American actor and comedian
September 18: Jason Sudeikis , American actor, comedian and screenwriter
September 20: Moon Bloodgood , American actress
September 22: Mireille Enos , American actress
September 23:
September 27: Sam Lee , Hong Kong actor
September 30
October 3 - Alanna Ubach , American actress
October 4 - Reggie Lee , Filipino-American actor
October 5
October 7:
October 8: Richard Short , English actor
October 10: Lenn Kudrjawizki , German actor and musician
October 11: Nat Faxon , American actor, comedian, director and screenwriter
October 15: Chukwudi Iwuji , Nigerian-British actor
October 16:
October 26: Lennon Parham , American actress
October 29: Aksel Hennie , Norwegian actor, director and screenwriter
October 31: Keith Jardine , American actor
November 2: Danny Cooksey , American actor and musician
November 8: Tara Reid , American actress
November 10: Halina Reijn , Dutch actress, writer and film director
November 12: Steven Kynman, British actor, puppeteer, writer and voice actor
November 13: Aisha Hinds , American actress
November 15: J. C. Brandy , British-born American actress
November 16: David Leitch , American filmmaker, actor, stunt performer and stunt coordinator
November 17: Diane Neal , American actress
November 19: Sushmita Sen , Indian actress
November 22: James Madio , American actor
November 26: DJ Khaled , American DJ, rapper and actor
November 28: Sunny Mabrey , American actress
December 1: David Hornsby , American actor
December 5: Paula Patton , American actress
December 6: Noel Clarke , British actor and filmmaker
December 12: Mayim Bialik , American actress and game show host
December 14: KaDee Strickland , American actress
December 17
December 22: Omar Dorsey , American actor
December 27: Heather O'Rourke , American child actress (d. 1988)
December 29: Shawn Hatosy , American actor
December 31: Amy Palant , American voice actress and singer
Deaths
Film debuts
Notes
^ a b Sholay in India: ₹350 million at Indian box office ,[ 7] 8.3759 Indian rupees per US dollar in 1975[ 8]
^ Bobby in the Soviet Union : 15.65 million Rbls [ nb 1] (US$21.44 million,[ nb 2] ₹ 19.24 crore)[ nb 3] in 1975
^ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest box office admissions:
North America – 53,685,400[ 20]
United Kingdom – 9.65 million[ 21]
France, Germany – 10,374,879[ 22]
Spain, Denmark – 4,996,125[ 23]
^ The Rocky Horror Picture Show box office admissions:
North America – 55,069,400[ 24]
France, Germany – 3,362,170[ 25]
^ The Rocky Horror Picture Show gross revenue:
North America – $139,876,417[ 26]
United Kingdom – £600,000[ 27] ($916,667 )
Australia, South Korea – $53,303[ 28]
^ Sholay estimated gross revenue – ₹540 million ($65.08 million )
India (1975 release) – ₹350 million ($41.79 million )[ n 1]
Soviet Union (1979 release) – $28.2 million [ a]
^ Dog Day Afternoon box office admissions:
North America – 24,390,200[ 30]
France – 471,325[ 31]
^ 62.6 million tickets sold,[ 11] average ticket price of 25 kopecks [ 12]
^ 0.73 Rbl per US dollar in 1975[ 13]
^ 8.973 Indian rupees per US dollar in 1975[ 14]
References
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