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The year 1975 in film involved some significant events.

Events

• March 26 - The film version of The Who's Tommy premiers in London.
• July - In order to create the necessary special effects for his film, Star Wars, George Lucas forms Industrial Light and Magic.
• August - The cult classic film Rocky Horror Picture Show is released.
• Jaws becomes the first movie to ever gross US$100 million in North America, setting the standard for future blockbusters.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Fantasy Films, United Artists

Best Director: Miloš Forman - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Best Actor: Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Best Actress: Louise Fletcher - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Best Supporting Actor: George Burns - The Sunshine Boys

Best Supporting Actress: Lee Grant - Shampoo

Best Foreign Language Film: Dersu Uzala (Дерсу Узала), directed by Akira Kurosawa, USSR

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Best Actor: Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Best Actress: Louise Fletcher - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: The Sunshine Boys

Best Actor: Walter Matthau - The Sunshine Boys

Best Actress: Ann-Margret - Tommy

Other

Best Director: Miloš Forman - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Best Foreign Film: Lies My Father Told Me, Canada

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Chronicle of the Years of Fire (Chronique des années de braise), directed by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Algeria

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Adoption (Örökbefogadás), directed by Márta Mészáros, Hungary

Films released in 1975

A

• Aaron Loves Angela
• The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
• The Adventures of the Wilderness Family
• Aloha, Bobby and Rose
• Attilas '74
• The Apple Dumpling Gang
• At Long Last Love

B

• Barry Lyndon
• Bite the Bullet
• The Black Bird
• La Bête (aka The Beast)
• Breakheart Pass
• Breakout
• Bugs Bunny Superstar

C

• Carry On Behind
• Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold
• Cooley High
• Coonskin
• Cría cuervos (aka ¡Cría!)
• Conduct Unbecoming

D

• The Day of the Locust
• Death Race 2000
• Deep Red, by Dario Argento
• Dersu Uzala
• Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze
• Dog Day Afternoon
• The Drowning Pool

E

• The Eiger Sanction
• Escape to Witch Mountain

F

• Farewell, My Lovely
• Flame
• The Flower in His Mouth
• The Fortune
• The Four Musketeers
• French Connection II
• Funny Lady

G

• Great
• The Great Waldo Pepper

H

• Hababam sinifi
• The Happy Hooker
• Hard Times
• Hearts of the West
• Hester Street
• The Hindenburg
• Hustle

J

• Jaws

K

• Kaddu Beykat

L

• L'important c'est d'aimer
• The Land of Spiders
• The Land That Time Forgot
• Legend of the Werewolf Starring Peter Cushing
• Let's Do It Again
• Lies My Father Told Me
• The Lion Roars Again
• Lisztomania
• The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
• Love and Death
• Lucky Lady Starring

M

• The Magic Flute
• Mahogany
• La Maldicion de la Bestia
• The Man in the Glass Booth
• The Man Who Would Be King
• Mandingo
• Milestones
• The Mirror
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Moonrunners

N

• Nashville
• Night Moves
• Numéro deux (aka Number Two)
• The Noah

O

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing
• The Other Side of the Mountain
• Overlord

P

• The Passenger
• Picnic at Hanging Rock
• The Prisoner of Second Avenue

R

• Race with the Devil
• Rancho Deluxe
• Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins
• The Reincarnation of Peter Proud
• The Return of the Pink Panther
• The Return of the Sister Street Fighter
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Rollerball
• The Romantic Englishwoman
• Rooster Cogburn
• Royal Flash

S

• Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (aka Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom)
• Shampoo
• Smile
• The Stepford Wives
• The Story of Adele H.
• The Strongest Man in the World
• The Sunshine Boys
• Switchblade Sisters

T

• Terror of Mechagodzilla
• Three Days of the Condor
• Tommy

U

• Ultimate Warrior

W

• W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings
• The Werewolf of Woodstock
• White Line Fever
• The Wind and the Lion
• A Woman's Decision

Y

• The Yakuza

Births

• January 3 - Jason Marsden, actor.
• January 3 - Danica McKellar, American actress
• February 14 - Malik Zidi, French actor
• February 22 - Drew Barrymore, American actress birth as half-sister.
• June 4 - Angelina Jolie, American actress
• June 25 - Linda Cardellini, American actress
• July 23 - Surya Sivakumar, Indian actor
• August 7 - Charlize Theron, South African actress
• September 30 - Marion Cotillard, French actress
• October 5 - Kate Winslet, English actress
• October 5 - Parminder Nagra, English actress
• November 6 - Sean Patrick Maclam, Scottish Grindhouse film director
• November 19 - Sushmita Sen, Indian actress
• December 17 - Milla Jovovich, Ukrainian-American actress
• December 27 - Heather O'Rourke, American actress (d.1988)

Deaths

• January 9 - Pierre Fresnay, French actor
• January 18 - Gertrude Olmstead, American actress
• January 24 - Larry Fine, American actor and comedian, original member of The Three Stooges
• January 27 - Bill Walsh, American film producer and writer
• March 7 - Ben Blue, Canadian-born American actor
• March 14 - Susan Hayward, American actress
• April 3 - Mary Ure, Scottish actress
• April 10 - Marjorie Main, American actress
• April 13 - Larry Parks, American actor
• April 15 - Richard Conte, American actor
• May 4 - Moe Howard, American actor, original member of The Three Stooges
• June 4 - Evelyn Brent, American actress
• October 31 - Joseph Calleia, Maltese actor
• November 2 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director
• November 5 - Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer, and silent film actress, portrayed by Esther Williams
• December 24 - Bernard Herrmann, American film composer

Film debuts

• Stockard Channing
• Bill Murray