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The year 1975 in film involved some significant events.

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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
RankTitleDistributorDomestic 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 marketFilmAdmissionsRevenueProduction
country		Ref
Local currencyUS$
Brazil The Towering Inferno 10,377,230Un­knownUn­known United States [3]
France The Towering Inferno 4,466,376Un­knownUn­knownUnited States [4]
Germany Jaws 7,000,000Un­knownUn­knownUnited States [5]
India Sholay 150,000,000+₹350,000,000$41,790,000 India [6] [n 1]
Italy My Friends 10,467,254Un­knownUn­known Italy [9]
Japan The Towering Inferno Un­known¥3,640,000,000Un­knownUnited States [10]
Soviet Union Bobby 62,600,00015,650,000 Rbls $21,440,000 India [n 2]
Spain Jaws 5,918,754Un­knownUn­knownUnited States [15]
United Kingdom Jaws 16,200,000£11,800,000$26,000,000United States [16] [17]
United States & Canada Jaws 128,078,800$260,000,000$260,000,000United 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.

TitleAdmissions (est.)RevenueCountry
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

Category/Organization Golden Globe Awards
January 24, 1976		 BAFTA Awards
February 29, 1976		 Academy Awards
March 29, 1976
Comedy or MusicalDrama
Best Film The Sunshine Boys One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Best Director Miloš Forman
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 		Stanley Kubrick
Barry Lyndon 		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 		Al Pacino
Dog Day Afternoon /
The Godfather Part II 		Jack Nicholson
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Best Actress Ann-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 Actor Richard Benjamin
The Sunshine Boys 		Fred Astaire
The Towering Inferno 		George Burns
The Sunshine Boys
Best Supporting Actress Brenda Vaccaro
Once Is Not Enough 		Diane Ladd
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore 		Lee Grant
Shampoo
Best Screenplay, Adapted One 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, Original Dog Day Afternoon
Frank Pierson
Best Original Score John 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 Film Lies My Father Told Me N/A Dersu Uzala

1975 films

By country/region

By genre/medium

Births

Deaths

MonthDateNameAgeCountryProfessionNotable films
January1 Arthur Pierson 73Norway/USDirector, Actor
9 Pierre Fresnay 77FranceActor
18 Gertrude Olmstead 77USActress
21 Marie Lohr 84AustraliaActress
24 Larry Fine 72USActor
27 Bill Walsh 61USScreenwriter, Producer
February1 Richard Wattis 62UKActor
11 Maria Balcerkiewiczówna 71PolandActress
17 George Marshall 83USDirector
20 Robert Strauss 61USActor
20 Lillian Fontaine 88UKActress
March3 Edward H. Griffith 86USDirector
4 Renée Björling 76SwedenActress
7 Ben Blue 73Canada/USActor
8 George Stevens 70USDirector, Producer
9 Shirley Ross 62USActress
14 Susan Hayward 57USActress
15 John H. Auer 68HungaryDirector, Producer
15 Arthur Crabtree 74UKDirector, Screenwriter
19 Harry Lachman 88USDirector
22 Cass Daley 59USActress, Singer
25 Michele Girardon 36FranceActress
April3 Mary Ure 42UKActress
5 Inez Courtney 67USActress
10 Marjorie Main 85USActress
13 Larry Parks 60USActor
14 Fredric March 77USActor
15 Richard Conte 65USActor
15 William Hartnell 67UKActor
22 Mary Philips 74USActress
May4 Moe Howard 77USActor
9 Philip Dorn 73NetherlandsActor
22 Torben Meyer 90GermanyActor
30 Michel Simon 80SwitzerlandActor
June3 Ozzie Nelson 69USActor
4 Evelyn Brent 75USActress
6 Larry Blyden 49USActor
11 Jane Griffiths 45UKActress
28 Rod Serling 50USScreenwriter
July2 James Robertson Justice 68UKActor
20 Richard Gaines 70USActor
28 Alfred L. Werker 78USDirector
August2 Jean Yarbrough 73USDirector
7 Phyllis Povah 82USActress
11 Howard Wendell 67USActor
23 Sidney Buchman 73USScreenwriter
23 Hank Patterson 86USActor
25 Joseph Kane 81USDirector
29 Bob Baker 64USActor
September9 John McGiver 61USActor
19 Pamela Brown 58UKActress
24 Clive Morton 71UKActor
27 Mark Frechette 27USActor
October16 Don Barclay 82USActor
18 Al Lettieri 47USActor
24 Martin Boddey 68UKActor
31 Joseph Calleia 78Malta/USActor, Singer
November2 Pier Paolo Pasolini 53ItalyDirector, Screenwriter, Actor
4 Sheila Ryan 54USActress
5 Annette Kellerman 88AustraliaActress
17 Kay Johnson 70USActress
December7 Hardie Albright 71USActor
9 William A. Wellman 79USDirector
13 Cyril Delevanti 88UKActor
14 Arthur Treacher 81UKActor
17 Frank Sully 67USActor
20 William Lundigan 61USActor
21 Rowland V. Lee 84USDirector
24 Bernard Herrmann 64USComposer

Film debuts

Notes

  1. 1 2 Sholay in India: ₹350 million at Indian box office, [7] 8.3759 Indian rupees per US dollar in 1975 [8]
  2. ↑ Bobby in the Soviet Union: 15.65 million Rbls [nb 1] (US$21.44 million, [nb 2] ₹19.24 crore) [nb 3] in 1975
  3. ↑ 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]
  4. ↑ The Rocky Horror Picture Show box office admissions:
    • North America – 55,069,400 [24]
    • France, Germany – 3,362,170 [25]
  5. ↑ 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]
  6. ↑ 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 [lower-alpha 1]
  7. ↑ Dog Day Afternoon box office admissions:
    • North America – 24,390,200 [30]
    • France – 471,325 [31]
  1. ↑ 62.6 million tickets sold, [11] average ticket price of 25 kopecks [12]
  2. ↑ 0.73 Rbl per US dollar in 1975 [13]
  3. ↑ 8.973 Indian rupees per US dollar in 1975 [14]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Top 20 Films of 1975 by Domestic Revenue
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  12. ↑ Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire that Lost the Cultural Cold War, page 48, Cornell University Press, 2011
  13. ↑ Archive of Bank of Russia http://cbr.ru/currency_base/OldDataFiles/USD.xls
  14. ↑ "Reserve Bank of India - Publications".
  15. ↑ "Bilan Annuel Espagne – 1975". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  16. ↑ 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.
  17. ↑ "Jaws". British Film Institute. 28 November 2004. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
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  30. ↑ "Dog Day Afternoon (1975) – Domestic Total Est. Tickets". Box Office Mojo . Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  31. ↑ "Dog Day Afternoon (1975)". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  32. 1 2 "Day-By-Day News Summary, Oct. '75-Sept. '76". Daily Variety. October 26, 1976. p. 206.
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