1935 in film

The top ten 1935 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

• February 23 – Gene Autry stars as himself as the Singing Cowboy in the serial The Phantom Empire. He would later be voted the number one Western star from 1937 to 1942.
• February 27 – Seven-year-old Shirley Temple wins the first special Academy Juvenile Award.
• March – The Bantu Educational Kinema Experiment is started in order to educate the Bantu peoples.[6]
• May – Formation of Republic Pictures following merger of smaller companies including Monogram Pictures, Mascot Pictures, Liberty Pictures and Majestic Pictures.
• May 31 – Fox Film and Twentieth Century Pictures merge to form 20th Century Fox.
• August 15 – Will Rogers who the previous year was voted the Top Money Making Star dies in a plane crash.
• August 25 – William Boyd appears in his first of 66 films as Hopalong Cassidy in Hop-Along Cassidy.
• September – Judy Garland signs a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).
• September 5 – Gene Autry appears in his first film for the newly formed Republic Pictures – Tumbling Tumbleweeds, named after his second million-selling record.
• November 30 – The British-made film Scrooge, the first all-talking film version of Charles Dickens' novel A Christmas Carol, opens in the U.S. after its U.K. release on November 26. Seymour Hicks plays Ebenezer Scrooge, a role he has played onstage hundreds of times. The film is criticized by some for not showing all of the ghosts physically, and quickly fades into obscurity. Widespread interest does not surface until the film is shown on television in the 1980s, in very shabby-looking prints. It is eventually restored on DVD.

The 8th Academy Awards were held on March 5, 1936, at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by Frank Capra. This was the first year in which the gold statuettes were called "Oscars".

Most nominations: Mutiny on the Bounty (MGM) – 8

Major Awards

• Best Picture: Mutiny on the Bounty – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Best Director: John Ford – The Informer
• Best Actor: Victor McLaglen – The Informer
• Best Actress: Bette Davis – Dangerous

Most Awards: The Informer (RKO) – 4 (Actor, Director, Adaptation, Scoring)

Exhibitors selected the following as the Top Ten Money Making Stars of the Year in Quigley Publishing Company's annual poll.[7]

United States unless stated.

See also: United States unless stated.

• The Adventures of Rex and Rinty, starring Rex the Wonder Horse and Rin Tin Tin
• The Call of the Savage, directed by Lew Landers
• The Fighting Marines
• The Lost City
• The Miracle Rider, starring Tom Mix
• The New Adventures of Tarzan, starring Herman Brix
• The Phantom Empire, starring Gene Autry
• Queen of the Jungle, directed by Robert F. Hill
• The Roaring West
• Rustlers of Red Dog, directed by Lew Landers
• Tailspin Tommy in the Great Air Mystery

• Harold Lloyd (1913–1938)
• Charlie Chaplin (1914–1940)
• Lupino Lane (1915–1939)
• Buster Keaton (1917–1944)
• Laurel and Hardy (1921–1945)
  • Thicker than Water
• Our Gang (1922–1944)
• Harry Langdon (1924–1936)
• Wheeler and Woolsey (1929–1937)
• Marx Brothers (1929–1946)
• The Three Stooges (1933–1962)

• Krazy Kat (1925–1940)
• Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1927–1938)
• Mickey Mouse (1928–1953)
• Screen Songs (1929–1938)
• Silly Symphonies (1929–1939)
  • The Tortoise and the Hare
  • The Golden Touch
  • The Robber Kitten
  • Water Babies
  • The Cookie Carnival
  • Who Killed Cock Robin?
  • Music Land
  • Three Orphan Kittens
  • Cock o' the Walk
  • Broken Toys
• Looney Tunes (1930–1969)
• Terrytoons (1930–1964)
• Merrie Melodies (1931–1969)
• Scrappy (1931–1941)
• Betty Boop (1932–1939)
• Popeye (1933–1957)
• ComiColor Cartoons (1933–1936)
• Happy Harmonies (1934–1938)
• Cartune Classics (1934–1935)
• Color Rhapsodies (1934–1949)
• Rainbow Parades (1935–1936)

• January 1 – Brian G. Hutton, American actor and director (died 2014)
• January 8 – Elvis Presley, American rock singer and actor (died 1977)
• January 9 – Bob Denver, American comic actor (died 2005)
• January 22 – Seymour Cassel, American actor (died 2019)
• January 30 – Elsa Martinelli, Italian actress (died 2017)
• March 18 – Oumarou Ganda, Nigerien director and actor (died 1981)
• March 27 – Julian Glover, English actor
• April 5 – Enrique Álvarez Félix, Mexican actor (died 1996)
• April 10 – Álvaro de Luna, Spanish actor (died 2018)
• April 19 – Dudley Moore, English-born comic actor and musician (died 2002)
• April 21 – Charles Grodin, American actor
• May 11 – Doug McClure, American actor (died 1995)
• May 26 – Sheila Steafel, British actress (died 2019)
• May 27 – Carole Lesley, English actress (died 1974)
• June 27 – Ramon Zamora, Filipino martial arts actor (died 2007)
• July 1 – David Prowse, English bodybuilder, weightlifter and character actor
• July 5 – Christian Doermer, German actor
• July 13 – Gregorio Casal, Mexican actor (died 2018)
• July 15 – Gianni Garko, Croatian-born Italian actor
• July 17
  • Diahann Carroll, African American singer and actress (died 2019)
  • Donald Sutherland, Canadian-born actor
• August 2 – Amidou, Moroccan-French actor (died 2013)
• August 5 – Michael Ballhaus, German cinematographer (died 2017)
• August 7 – Yoná Magalhães, Brazilian actress (died 2015)
• August 31 – Rosenda Monteros, Mexican actress (died 2018)
• October 1 – Julie Andrews, English-born singer and actress
• November 29 – Diane Ladd, American actress
• December 1 – Woody Allen, American comedian, director and actor
• December 8 – Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, German director
• December 10 – Jaromil Jireš, Czechoslovak director (died 2001)
• December 14 – Lee Remick, American actress (died 1991)

• March 8 – Ruan Lingyu, Chinese silent film actress, committed suicide (born 1910)
• March 23 – Florence Moore, American singer and silent film actress (born 1886)
• May 4 – Junior Durkin, American actor, in a road accident (born 1915)
• August 15 – Will Rogers, American humorist, actor (born 1879)
• September 28 – William Kennedy Dickson, British film pioneer, cancer (born 1860)
• December 16 – Thelma Todd, American actress, carbon monoxide poisoning (born 1906)

• Don Ameche – Dante's Inferno
• Pedro Armendáriz – Rosario
• Joan Davis – Millions in the Air
• Buddy Ebsen – Broadway Melody of 1936
• Henry Fonda – The Farmer Takes of Wife
• Joan Fontaine – No More Ladies
• Jon Hall – Women Must Dress
• Olivia de Havilland – Alibi Ike
• Danny Kaye – Moon Over Manhattan
• Frances Langford – Every Night at Eight
• Vivien Leigh – Look Up and Laugh
• James Mason – Late Extra
• Burgess Meredith – The Scoundrel
• Roy Rogers – Slightly Static