1975 in film

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
RankTitleStudioBox-office gross rental
1 Jaws Universal Pictures $133,400,000[1]
2 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest United Artists/Fantasy Films $59,200,000[1]
3 The Return of the Pink Panther United Artists/ITC Entertainment $25,400,000[1]
4 Dog Day Afternoon Warner Bros. $22,500,000[1]
5 Shampoo Columbia Pictures $22,000,000[2]
6 Three Days of the Condor Paramount Pictures $20,014,000[3]
7 Funny Lady Columbia Pictures $19,313,000[3]
8 Tommy $17,793,000[3]
9 The Apple Dumpling Gang Walt Disney/Buena Vista Distribution $16,580,000[3]
10 The Hindenburg Universal Pictures $14,517,000[3]

International

The highest-grossing 1975 films in countries outside of North America.

International marketFilmRevenueAdmissionsRefProduction country
France The Towering Inferno N/A 4,466,376 [4] United States
Germany Jaws N/A 7,000,000 [5]
India Sholay $41,790,000 100,000,000+ [n 1][8] India
Italy My Friends N/A 10,467,254 [9] Italy
Soviet Union Bobby $21,440,000 62,600,000 [n 2] (US$21.44 million,[nb 2] ₹19.24 crore)[nb 3] in 1975</ref> India
Spain Jaws N/A 5,918,754 [13] United States
United Kingdom Jaws £11,800,000 16,200,000 [14][15]
United States and Canada Jaws $260,000,000 128,078,800 [16]

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.

TitleRevenueAdmissions (est.)Country
Jaws $470,653,000[16] 242,800,000[17] United States
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest N/A 78,706,404[n 3]
The Rocky Horror Picture Show $140,846,387[n 4] 58,431,570[n 5] United Kingdom
United States
Sholay $65,080,000[n 7] ($23.29 million)[n 8]

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 250,000,000[28] India
Dog Day Afternoon N/A 24,861,525[n 9] United States

Events
  • March 26: The film version of The Who's Tommy premieres in London.
  • May: In order to create the necessary special effects for his film, Star Wars, George Lucas forms Industrial Light and Magic.
  • June 20: Jaws is released and becomes the highest-grossing movie of all-time and the highest-grossing movie of the year and the first movie to earn $100 million in US and Canadian theatrical rentals,[31] setting the standard for future blockbusters.
  • August 14: The cult classic film The Rocky Horror Picture Show premieres in London.
  • 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.
  • December: Warner Bros. reorganize following John Calley's decision to step down as president-COO. Frank Wells becomes president again and shares CEO duties with Ted Ashley who also returns as chairman.[31]

Awards

Awards ceremonies

Notable awards
Category/OrganizationGolden Globe Awards
January 24, 1976		BAFTA Awards
February 29, 1976		Academy Awards
March 29, 1976
Comedy or MusicalDrama
Best FilmThe Sunshine BoysOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestAlice Doesn't Live Here AnymoreOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Best DirectorMiloš Forman
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest		Stanley Kubrick
Barry Lyndon		Miloš Forman
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Best ActorWalter Matthau
The Sunshine Boys		Jack Nicholson
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest		Al Pacino
Dog Day Afternoon /
The Godfather Part II		Jack Nicholson
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Best ActressAnn-Margret
Tommy		Louise Fletcher
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest		Ellen Burstyn
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore		Louise Fletcher
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Best Supporting ActorRichard Benjamin
The Sunshine Boys		Fred Astaire
The Towering Inferno		George Burns
The Sunshine Boys
Best Supporting ActressBrenda Vaccaro
Once Is Not Enough		Diane Ladd
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore		Lee Grant
Shampoo
Best Screenplay, AdaptedOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman		Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Robert Getchell		One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman
Best Screenplay, OriginalDog Day Afternoon
Frank Pierson
Best Original ScoreJohn Williams
Jaws		John Williams
Jaws
The Towering Inferno		John Williams
Jaws
Leonard Rosenman
Barry Lyndon
Best Original Song"I'm Easy"
Nashville		N/A"I'm Easy"
Nashville
Best Foreign Language FilmLies My Father Told MeN/ADersu Uzala

Films released 1975
Note: US releases unless stated.

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Births

Deaths
MonthDateNameAgeCountryProfessionNotable films
January 1Arthur Pierson73Norway/USDirector, Actor
9Pierre Fresnay77FranceActor
18Gertrude Olmstead77USActress
21Marie Lohr84AustraliaActress
24Larry Fine72USActor
27Bill Walsh61USScreenwriter, Producer
February 1Richard Wattis62UKActor
11Maria Balcerkiewiczówna71PolandActress
17George Marshall83USDirector
20Robert Strauss61USActor
20Lillian Fontaine88UKActress
March 3Edward H. Griffith86USDirector
4Renée Björling76SwedenActress
7Ben Blue73Canada/USActor
8George Stevens70USDirector, Producer
9Shirley Ross62USActress
14Susan Hayward57USActress
15John H. Auer68HungaryDirector, Producer
15Arthur Crabtree74UKDirector, Screenwriter
19Harry Lachman88USDirector
22Cass Daley59USActress, Singer
25Michele Girardon36FranceActress
April 3Mary Ure42UKActress
5Inez Courtney67USActress
10Marjorie Main85USActress
13Larry Parks60USActor
14Fredric March77USActor
15Richard Conte65USActor
15William Hartnell67UKActor
22Mary Philips74USActress
May 4Moe Howard77USActor
9Philip Dorn73NetherlandsActor
30Michel Simon80SwitzerlandActor
June 3Ozzie Nelson69USActor
4Evelyn Brent75USActress
6Larry Blyden49USActor
28Rod Serling50USScreenwriter
July 2James Robertson Justice68UKActor
20Richard Gaines70USActor
28Alfred L. Werker78USDirector
August 2Jean Yarbrough73USDirector
7Phyllis Povah82USActress
23Sidney Buchman73USScreenwriter
23Hank Patterson86USActor
25Joseph Kane81USDirector
29Bob Baker64USActor
September 9John McGiver61USActor
19Pamela Brown58UKActress
24Clive Morton71UKActor
27Mark Frechette27USActor
October 18Al Lettieri47USActor
24Martin Boddey68UKActor
  • Carry on Sergeant
  • Carry on Nurse
31Joseph Calleia78Malta/USActor, Singer
November 2Pier Paolo Pasolini53ItalyDirector, Screenwriter, Actor
4Sheila Ryan54USActress
5Annette Kellerman88AustraliaActress
17Kay Johnson70USActress
December 7Hardie Albright71USActor
9William A. Wellman79USDirector
13Cyril Delevanti88UKActor
14Arthur Treacher81UKActor
20William Lundigan61USActor
21Rowland V. Lee84USDirector
24Bernard Herrmann64USComposer

Film debuts

Notes
  1. Sholay in India: ₹350 million at Indian box office,[6] 8.3759 Indian rupees per US dollar in 1975[7]
  2. Bobby in the Soviet Union: 15.65 million SUR[nb 1] average ticket price of 25 kopecks[10]
  3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest box office admissions:
    • North America – 53,685,400[18]
    • United Kingdom – 9.65 million[19]
    • France, Germany – 10,374,879[20]
    • Spain, Denmark – 4,996,125[21]
  4. The Rocky Horror Picture Show gross revenue:
    • North America – $139,876,417[22]
    • United Kingdom – £600,000[23] ($916,667)
    • Australia, South Korea – $53,303[24]
  5. The Rocky Horror Picture Show box office admissions:
    • North America – 55,069,400[25]
    • France, Germany – 3,362,170[26]
  6. 60 million tickets sold, average ticket price of 25 kopecks<ref name='moscow7'>Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire that Lost the Cultural Cold War, page 48, Cornell University Press, 2011
  7. Sholay gross revenue:
    • India – ₹350 million ($41.79 million)[n 1]
    • Soviet Union – 15 million руб[n 6]
  8. 64.4 руб per $100 in 1979[27]
  9. Dog Day Afternoon box office admissions:
    • North America – 24,390,200[29]
    • France – 471,325[30]
  1. 62.6 million tickets sold,<ref name='soviet'>Sergey Kudryavtsev. "Зарубежные популярные фильмы в советском кинопрокате (Индия)".
  2. 0.73 Soviet rubles per US dollar in 1975[11]
  3. 8.973 Indian rupees per US dollar in 1975[12]

References
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  2. Dawson, Nick (2009). Being Hal Ashby: Life of a Hollywood Rebel. ISBN 978-0-8131-2538-1. Ironically, the film Ashby was least invested in as a director was his biggest hit by far: Shampoo performed astronomically at the box office, where its saucy sensationalism rapidly earned it $22 million and made it Columbia's most successful film of all time. As a result, Ashby was no longer associated with worthy small-scale pictures that underachieved financially but came to be seen instead as a director who could deliver big films with mass appeal.
  3. Top 20 Films of 1975 by Domestic Revenue
  4. "Bilan Annuel France – 1975". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
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  6. "Sholay emerges as Bollywood's most successful re-run product even after 20 years". India Today. 15 September 1995.
  7. "Pacific Exchange Rate Service" (PDF). UBC Sauder School of Business. University of British Columbia. p. 3. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
  8. Bahubali 2 Is The Biggest Hindi Blockbuster This Century Archived 24 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine, Box Office India, 8 June 2017
  9. "Bilan Annuel Italie – 1975". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  11. Archive of Bank of Russia http://cbr.ru/currency_base/OldDataFiles/USD.xls
  12. https://www.rbi.org.in/scripts/PublicationsView.aspx?id=15268
  13. "Bilan Annuel Espagne – 1975". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  14. BFI Statistical Yearbook (PDF) (2012 ed.). London: British Film Institute. 2013. pp. 22 & 32. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 December 2013. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
  15. "Jaws". British Film Institute. 28 November 2004. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
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  17. Records, Guinness World (2014). Guinness World Records. 60 (2015 ed.). pp. 160–161. ISBN 9781908843708.
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  19. "The Ultimate Film Chart". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  20. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  21. "Пролетая над гнездом кукушки (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1975) – Премьеры". KinoPoisk (in Russian). Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  22. Box Office Information for The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The Numbers. Retrieved 25 August 2013.
  23. Hemley, Matthew (18 September 2015). "Rocky Horror Show tops UK cinema box office". The Stage.
  24. "The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) – International". The Numbers. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
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  27. "Archive". Central Bank of Russia. Archived from the original on 29 December 2009. Retrieved 29 December 2009.
  28. Mitra, Sumit (31 July 1985). "After series of box-office duds, Ramesh Sippy strikes back with romantic venture Saagar". India Today. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
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  31. "Day-By-Day News Summary, Oct. '75-Sept. '76". Daily Variety. October 26, 1976. p. 206.
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