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2020 in film is an overview of events, including award ceremonies, festivals, and a list of country-specific lists of films released.

Highest-grossing films

The top films released in 2020 by worldwide gross are as follows:[1]

Highest-grossing films of 2020
Rank	Title	Distributor	Worldwide gross
1	Bad Boys for Life	Sony	$419,074,646
2	Sonic the Hedgehog	Paramount	$306,766,470
3	Dolittle	Universal	$223,343,452
4	Birds of Prey	Warner Bros.	$201,858,461
5	The Invisible Man	Universal	$125,818,165
6	The Gentlemen	Miramax	$114,996,853
7	The Call of the Wild	20th Century Studios	$107,604,626
8	Onward	Disney	$104,128,230
9	Tanhaji	AA Films	$52,000,000
10	Tolo Tolo	Medusa Film	$50,347,705

2020 box office records

Film records

Sonic the Hedgehog broke Pokemon: Detective Pikachu's record for the highest opening weekend for a film based on a video game, with $70 million domestic gross in the United States and Canada.[2] It went on to become the highest-grossing film based on a video game in the United States and Canada, surpassing Detective Pikachu.[3]

Events

Award ceremonies

2020 film awards ceremonies
Date	Event	Host	Location
January 5	77th Golden Globe Awards	Hollywood Foreign Press Association	Beverly Hills, California, U.S.[4]
January 12	25th Critics' Choice Awards	Broadcast Film Critics Association	Santa Monica, California, U.S.
January 19	26th Screen Actors Guild Awards	SAG-AFTRA	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
January 20	55th Guldbagge Awards	Swedish Film Institute	Stockholm, Sweden[5]
January 25	47th Annie Awards	ASIFA-Hollywood	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
February 1	10th Magritte Awards	Académie André Delvaux	Brussels, Belgium
February 2	73rd British Academy Film Awards	British Academy of Film and Television Arts	London, England
February 8	35th Independent Spirit Awards	Independent Spirit Awards	Santa Monica, California, U.S.
February 9	92nd Academy Awards	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
February 28	45th César Awards	Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma	Paris, France
March 6	43rd Japan Academy Film Prize	Nippon Academy-Sho Association	Tokyo, Japan
March 16	40th Golden Raspberry Awards	Golden Raspberry Awards Foundation	Los Angeles, California, U.S.[lower-alpha 1]
May 6	39th Hong Kong Film Awards	Hong Kong Film Awards Association Ltd.	Hong Kong[lower-alpha 2]
TBA	46th Saturn Awards	Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films	Burbank, California
May 28	8th Canadian Screen Awards	Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television	Toronto, Ontario, Canada[lower-alpha 1]

Festivals

List of some of the film festivals for 2020 that have been accredited by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF).

2020 film festivals
Date	Event	Host	Location
January 23–February 2	2020 Sundance Film Festival	Sundance Film Festival	Park City, Utah, United States
February 20–March 1	70th Berlin International Film Festival	Berlin International Film Festival	Berlin, Germany
TBD	2020 Cannes Film Festival	Cannes Film Festival	Cannes, France
September 2–12	77th Venice International Film Festival	Venice Film Festival	Venice, Italy

2020 films

The list of films set to be released in 2020, arranged by country, are as follows:

Deaths


Month	Date	Name	Age	Nationality	Profession	Films
January	4	Tom Long	51	Australian	Actor	The Dish The Book of Revelation
	8	Edd Byrnes	86	American	Actor	Grease The Secret Invasion
	8	Buck Henry	89	American	Actor, Screenwriter, Director	The Graduate Heaven Can Wait
	9	Ivan Passer	86	Czech	Director, Screenwriter	Born to Win Cutter's Way
	10	Neda Arnerić	66	Serbian	Actress	Shaft in Africa The Sensual Man
	12	Tony Garnett	83	English	Producer	Kes Earth Girls Are Easy
	14	Jack Kehoe	85	American	Actor	The Sting The Untouchables
	17	Derek Fowlds	82	English	Actor	Frankenstein Created Woman Hotel Paradiso
	20	Joe Shishido	86	Japanese	Actor	Branded to Kill Gate of Flesh
	21	Terry Jones	77	Welsh	Actor, Director, Screenwriter	Monty Python's The Meaning of Life Labyrinth
	22	John Karlen	86	American	Actor	House of Dark Shadows Racing with the Moon
	25	Monique van Vooren	92	Belgian-American	Actress	Flesh for Frankenstein The Decameron
	26	Kobe Bryant	41	American	Actor, Screenwriter	Daddy's Home Dear Basketball
	28	Harriet Frank Jr.	96	American	Screenwriter	Norma Rae Hud
	28	Nicholas Parsons	96	English	Actor	The Long Arm Eyewitness
	28	Marj Dusay	83	American	Actress	Breezy MacArthur
	30	Jörn Donner	86	Finnish-Swedish	Director, Screenwriter, Actor	To Love A Sunday in September
	31	Andree Melly	87	English	Actress	The Brides of Dracula The Big Day
February	1	Péter Andorai	71	Hungarian	Actor	Mephisto My 20th Century
	1	Luciano Ricceri	79	Italian	Production Designer	A Special Day Captain Fracassa's Journey
	3	Gene Reynolds	96	American	Actor	The Country Girl Boys Town
	4	José Luis Cuerda	72	Spanish	Director, Screenwriter, Producer	El bosque animado The Blind Sunflowers
	4	Gianni Minervini	91	Italian	Producer	Mediterraneo Berlinguer, I Love You
	5	Kevin Conway	77	American	Actor	F.I.S.T. The Quick and the Dead
	5	Kirk Douglas	103	American	Actor, Producer	Spartacus The Bad and the Beautiful
	6	Raphaël Coleman	25	English	Actor	Nanny McPhee The Fourth Kind
	7	Orson Bean	91	American	Actor, Producer	Anatomy of a Murder Being John Malkovich
	7	Ann E. Todd	88	American	Actress	Intermezzo How Green Was My Valley
	8	Robert Conrad	84	American	Actor	Wrong Is Right Jingle All the Way
	8	Volker Spengler	80	German	Actor	The Third Generation In a Year of 13 Moons
	8	Grazia Volpi	78	Italian	Producer	Caesar Must Die Fiorile
	9	Paula Kelly	77	American	Actress, Singer	The Andromeda Strain Sweet Charity
	10	Marge Redmond	95	American	Actress, Singer	The Trouble with Angels Family Plot
	11	Joseph Vilsmaier	81	German	Director	Stalingrad Comedian Harmonists
	13	Rafael Romero Marchent	93	Spanish	Director, Actor	Hands of a Gunfighter Ringo the Lone Rider
	14	Lynn Cohen	86	American	Actress	Sex and the City Munich
	14	John Shrapnel	77	English	Actor	Nicholas and Alexandra Notting Hill
	16	Zoe Caldwell	86	Australian	Actress	Lilo & Stitch The Purple Rose of Cairo
	16	Frances Cuka	83	English	Actress	Scrooge Oliver Twist
	16	Jason Davis	35	American	Actor	Recess: School's Out Rush Hour
	16	Kellye Nakahara	72	American	Actress	Clue She's Having a Baby
	17	Ja'Net DuBois	87	American	Actress, Singer, Songwriter	I'm Gonna Git You Sucka Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
	18	Tapas Paul	61	Indian	Actor	Dadar Kirti Guru Dakshina
	18	Flavio Bucci	72	Italian	Actor	Suspiria Il Divo
	19	José Mojica Marins	83	Brazilian	Director, Actor	At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul Coffin Joe
	20	Claudette Nevins	82	American	Actress	Sleeping with the Enemy Tuff Turf
	21	Boris Leskin	97	Russian	Actor	The Falcon and the Snowman The Package
	24	Diana Serra Cary	101	American	Actress	Prisoners of the Storm The Darling of New York
	24	Ben Cooper	86	American	Actor	The Rose Tattoo Johnny Guitar
	26	Michael Medwin	96	English	Actor	Scrooge A Countess from Hong Kong
	27	Burkhard Driest	80	German	Actor	Querelle Cross of Iron
	27	Eugene Dynarski	86	American	Actor	Earthquake Close Encounters of the Third Kind
	29	Dieter Laser	78	German	Actor	The Human Centipede (First Sequence) The Ogre
March	2	James Lipton	93	American	Writer, Actor	Bewitched Bolt
	3	Božidar Alić	65	Croatian	Actor	Operation Stadium The Third Key
	6	David Paul	62	American	Actor	The Barbarians D.C. Cab
	7	Mart Crowley	84	American	Screenwriter, Actor	The Boys in the Band The Celluloid Closet
	8	Max von Sydow	90	Swedish	Actor	The Exorcist The Seventh Seal
	11	Didier Bezace	74	French	Actor	Thieves The Minister
	12	Gary B. Kibbe	79	American	Cinematographer	Escape from L.A. They Live
	12	Tonie Marshall	68	French	Actress, Director, Screenwriter	Venus Beauty Institute The Missionaries
	15	Suzy Delair	102	French	Actress, Singer	Quai des Orfèvres Rocco and His Brothers
	15	Roy Hudd	83	English	Actor	The Blood Beast Terror Up the Chastity Belt
	16	Stuart Whitman	92	American	Actor	The Comancheros The Longest Day
	17	Lyle Waggoner	84	American	Actor	Love Me Deadly Catalina Caper
	19	Nazzareno Zamperla	82	Italian	Actor, Stuntman	Blood for a Silver Dollar Sandokan the Great
	20	Kenny Rogers	81	American	Actor, Singer, Songwriter	Six Pack Longshot
	23	Lucia Bosè	89	Italian	Actress	Story of a Love Affair Chronicle of a Death Foretold
	23	David Collings	79	English	Actor	Scrooge The Thirty Nine Steps
	23	Alfio Contini	92	Italian	Cinematographer	Zabriskie Point The Night Porter
	24	Stuart Gordon	72	American	Director, Screenwriter	Re-Animator Fortress
	24	Terrence McNally	81	American	Screenwriter	Frankie and Johnny The Ritz
	24	Gerard Schurmann	96	English	Composer	The Bedford Incident The Lost Continent
	24	Albert Uderzo	92	French	Director, Screenwriter	Asterix and Cleopatra The Twelve Tasks of Asterix
	26	Mark Blum	69	American	Actor	Crocodile Dundee Desperately Seeking Susan
	28	Barbara Rütting	92	German	Actress	Operation Crossbow Neues vom Hexer
	31	Julie Bennett	88	American	Actress, Voice Actress	Gay Purr-ee Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!
	31	Andrew Jack	76	English	Dialect Coach, Actor	Star Wars: The Force Awakens The Lord of the Rings
April	1	Adam Schlesinger	52	American	Musician, Songwriter	That Thing You Do! Music and Lyrics
	3	Hilary Dwyer	74	English	Actress	Witchfinder General Wuthering Heights
	4	Jay Benedict	68	American	Actor	Victor/Victoria Aliens
	4	Carlo Leva	90	Italian	Production Designer	The Cat o' Nine Tails The Witness
	5	Shirley Douglas	86	Canadian	Actress	Lolita Dead Ringers
	5	Lee Fierro	91	American	Actress	Jaws Jaws: The Revenge
	5	George Ogilvie	89	Australian	Director, Actor	Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome The Water Diviner
	6	Honor Blackman	94	English	Actress	Goldfinger Jason and the Argonauts
	6	James Drury	85	American	Actor	Pollyanna Ride the High Country
	7	Allen Garfield	80	American	Actor	The Conversation Nashville
	9	Malcolm Dixon	66	English	Actor	Time Bandits Return of the Jedi
	9	Marc Engels	54	Belgian	Sound engineer	Largo Winch II Our Futures
	10	Armando Francioli	100	Italian	Actor	Everybody in Jail La Horse
	10	Nobuhiko Obayashi	82	Japanese	Director, Screenwriter	House Hanagatami
	10	Francis Reusser	77	Swiss	Director	The Big Night War in the Highlands
	12	Maurice Barrier	87	French	Actor	Coup de tête Flic Story
	12	Tim Brooke-Taylor	79	English	Actor	The Statue The Thirteen Chairs
	12	Danny Goldman	80	American	Actor	Young Frankenstein MASH*
	13	Patricia Millardet	63	French	Actress	P'tit Con The Sun Also Shines at Night
	13	Ann Sullivan	91	American	Animator	The Little Mermaid Pocahontas
	14	Mario Donatone	86	Italian	Actor	The Godfather Part III John Wick: Chapter 2
	15	Sean Arnold	79	English	Actor	North Sea Hijack Speaking of the Devil
	15	Allen Daviau	77	American	Cinematographer	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial The Color Purple
	15	Brian Dennehy	81	American	Actor	First Blood Ratatouille
	16	Luis Sepúlveda	70	Chilean	Screenwriter, Actor	Lucky and Zorba Tierra del fuego
	17	Sergio Fantoni	89	Italian	Actor	Senso Esther and the King
	19	Philippe Nahon	81	French	Actor	I Stand Alone High Tension
	20	Claude Evrard	86	French	Actor	Le Distrait If the Sun Never Returns
	22	Shirley Knight	83	American	Actress	Sweet Bird of Youth Juggernaut
	23	Bruce Allpress	89	New Zealand	Actor	Nate and Hayes The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
	26	Peter H. Hunt	81	American	Director	1776 Give 'em Hell, Harry!
	28	Jill Gascoine	83	English	Actress	Confessions of a Pop Performer Red Hot
	29	Irrfan Khan	53	Indian	Actor	Slumdog Millionaire Life of Pi
	29	John Lafia	63	American	Director, Screenwriter	Child's Play Child's Play 2
	30	Rishi Kapoor	67	Indian	Actor	Kapoor & Sons 102 Not Out
	30	Sam Lloyd	56	American	Actor	Galaxy Quest Flubber
May	2	Jan-Olof Strandberg	93	Swedish	Actor	Faithless Flight of the Eagle
	3	John Ericson	93	German-American	Actor	Bad Day at Black Rock 7 Faces of Dr. Lao
	6	Leslie Pope	65	American	Set Decorator	The Amazing Spider-Man Django Unchained
	7	Daniel Cauchy	90	French	Actor	Bob le flambeur When You Read This Letter
	7	Peque Gallaga	76	Filipino	Director, Screenwriter	Shake, Rattle & Roll Scorpio Nights
	9	Geno Silva	72	American	Actor	Scarface Amistad
	9	Little Richard	87	American	Musician	Why Do Fools Fall in Love Purple People Eater
	11	Jerry Stiller	92	American	Actor	Zoolander Airport 1975
	12	Michel Piccoli	94	French	Actor	La Grande Bouffe Contempt
	15	Ezio Bosso	48	Italian	Composer	The Invisible Boy I'm Not Scared
	15	Lynn Shelton	54	American	Director, Screenwriter	Humpday Laggies
	15	Fred Willard	86	American	Actor	Best in Show Silver Streak
	16	Pilar Pellicer	82	Mexican	Actress	Day of the Evil Gun Zorro, The Gay Blade
	16	Jon Whiteley	75	Scottish	Actor	The Kidnappers Moonfleet
	17	Monique Mercure	89	Canadian	Actress	The Red Violin Naked Lunch
	22	Denise Cronenberg	81	Canadian	Costume Designer	Dead Ringers Naked Lunch
	24	Jean-Loup Dabadie	81	French	Screenwriter	Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me Parisian Life
	26	Richard Herd	87	American	Actor	All the President's Men Get Out
	26	Irm Hermann	77	German	Actress	The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant Effi Briest
	26	Anthony James	77	American	Actor	Unforgiven High Plains Drifter
	27	Peggy Pope	91	American	Actress	9 to 5 The Last Starfighter
	28	Lennie Niehaus	90	American	Composer	Unforgiven Bird
	31	Dan van Husen	75	German	Actor	Nosferatu the Vampyre Salon Kitty
June	2	Mary Pat Gleason	70	American	Actress	Why Him? The Crucible
	3	Bruce Jay Friedman	90	American	Screenwriter	Splash Stir Crazy
	7	Alan Metter	77	American	Director	Girls Just Want to Have Fun Back to School
	8	Marion Hänsel	71	Belgian	Director, Screenwriter, Actress	Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea Le Lit
	11	Mel Winkler	78	American	Actor	Devil in a Blue Dress Doc Hollywood
	14	Mohammad-Ali Keshavarz	90	Iranian	Actor	Through the Olive Trees Caravans
	14	Sushant Singh Rajput	34	Indian	Actor	M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story Chhichhore
	17	Lewis John Carlino	88	American	Director, Screenwriter	The Great Santini I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
	18	Vera Lynn	103	English	Actress, Singer	We'll Meet Again Rhythm Serenade
	19	Ian Holm	88	English	Actor	The Lord of the Rings Alien
	21	Jürgen Holtz	87	German	Actor	Good Bye, Lenin! Rosa Luxemburg
	22	Steve Bing	55	American	Screenwriter	Kangaroo Jack Missing in Action
	22	Joel Schumacher	80	American	Director, Costume Designer	The Lost Boys Falling Down
	26	Kelly Asbury	60	American	Director, Screenwriter	Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron Gnomeo & Juliet
	26	Stuart Cornfeld	67	American	Producer	Zoolander Tropic Thunder
	26	Taryn Power	66	American	Actress	House of Pleasure for Women Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger

Notes

The ceremony was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, winners announced online.
The ceremony was held and broadcast live online due to the coronavirus pandemic.

References

"2020 Worldwide Box Office". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved March 19, 2020.
D'Alessandro, Anthony (February 17, 2020). "'Sonic The Hedgehog' Breaks Videogame Game Pic Opening Record With $70M & Reps 4th Best Presidents' Weekend Debut – Monday Update". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved February 17, 2020.
Mendelson, Scott. "'Sonic The Hedgehog' Just Raced Past A Major Box Office Milestone". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
Andreeva, Nellie (September 14, 2018). "NBC To Remain Golden Globes Home With New 8-Year Deal". Deadline. Archived from the original on December 3, 2018. Retrieved December 2, 2018.
"45 kulturhändelser du inte får missa 2020". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). 2 January 2020. Retrieved 5 January 2020.

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[cancelled-6] The ceremony was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, winners announced online.

[7] The ceremony was held and broadcast live online due to the coronavirus pandemic.

[1] "2020 Worldwide Box Office". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved March 19, 2020.

[2] D'Alessandro, Anthony (February 17, 2020). "'Sonic The Hedgehog' Breaks Videogame Game Pic Opening Record With $70M & Reps 4th Best Presidents' Weekend Debut – Monday Update". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved February 17, 2020.

[3] Mendelson, Scott. "'Sonic The Hedgehog' Just Raced Past A Major Box Office Milestone". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-03-15.

[4] Andreeva, Nellie (September 14, 2018). "NBC To Remain Golden Globes Home With New 8-Year Deal". Deadline. Archived from the original on December 3, 2018. Retrieved December 2, 2018.

[5] "45 kulturhändelser du inte får missa 2020". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). 2 January 2020. Retrieved 5 January 2020.