1975 in film

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The year 1975 in film involved some significant events.

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
Rank	Title	Distributor	Domestic 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 market	Film	Admissions	Revenue		Production country	Ref
International market	Film	Admissions	Local currency	US$	Production country	Ref
Brazil	The Towering Inferno	10,377,230	Unknown	Unknown	United States	^[3]
France	The Towering Inferno	4,466,376	Unknown	Unknown	United States	^[4]
West Germany	Jaws	7,000,000	Unknown	Unknown	United States	^[5]
India	Sholay	150,000,000+	₹350,000,000	$41,790,000	India	^[6]^{[n 1]}
Italy	My Friends	10,467,254	Unknown	Unknown	Italy	^[9]
Japan	The Towering Inferno	Unknown	¥3,640,000,000	Unknown	United States	^[10]
Soviet Union	Bobby	62,600,000	15,650,000 Rbls	$21,440,000	India	^{[n 2]}
Spain	Jaws	5,918,754	Unknown	Unknown	United States	^[15]
United Kingdom	Jaws	16,200,000	£11,800,000	$26,000,000	United States	^[16]^[17]
United States & Canada	Jaws	128,078,800	$260,000,000	$260,000,000	United 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.

Title	Admissions (est.)	Revenue	Country
Jaws	242,800,000^[19]	$470,653,000^[18]	United States
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	78,706,404^{[n 3]}	Unknown	United States
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

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,^[32] setting the standard for future blockbusters.
August 14: The cult classic film The Rocky Horror Picture Show premieres in London.
November 2: Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini is brutally murdered in Ostia (Rome).
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.^[32]

Awards

Awards ceremonies

Academy Awards
BAFTA Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival): Chronicle of the Years of Fire (Chronique des années de braise)
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival): Adoption (Örökbefogadás)

Notable awards

Category/Organization	Golden Globe Awards January 24, 1976		BAFTA Awards February 29, 1976	Academy Awards March 29, 1976
Category/Organization	Comedy or Musical	Drama	BAFTA Awards February 29, 1976	Academy Awards March 29, 1976
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			Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore Robert Getchell	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

January 1
- Sonali Bendre, Indian actress
- Toni Ann Gisondi, American child actress
January 2: Dax Shepard, American actor
January 3
- Jason Marsden, American actor
- Danica McKellar, American actress
January 5: Bradley Cooper, American actor and film director
January 6: Nicole DeHuff, American actress (d. 2005)
January 9: Patrick Sabongui, Canadian actor and stunt performer
January 14: Jordan Ladd, American actress
January 15: Jorge R. Gutierrez, Mexican animator, director, writer and voice actor
January 16: Julie Ann Emery, American actress
January 17: Freddy Rodriguez, American actor
January 22: Balthazar Getty, American actor and musician
January 25: Mia Kirshner, Canadian actress and writer
January 29: Kelly Packard, American actress
January 31: Preity Zinta, Indian actress
February 3: Terry Chen, Canadian actor
February 4: Natalie Imbruglia, Australian-British singer and actress
February 5: Alison Hammond, English television personality and actress
February 7: Dan Green, American voice actor, voice director and screenwriter
February 9: Rawson Marshall Thurber, American filmmaker and actor
February 14: Malik Zidi, French actor
February 17: Raymond S. Persi, American animator, director, screenwriter, producer, storyboard artist and voice actor
February 18: Hristo Zhivkov, Bulgarian actor (d. 2023)
February 22: Drew Barrymore, American actress and director
February 23: Callan Mulvey, Australian actor
February 25: Chelsea Handler, American comedian, actress, writer, television host and producer
February 27: Quentin Kenihan, Australian writer and actor (d. 2018)
March 2: Lee Sun-kyun, South Korean actor (d. 2023)
March 3:
- Patric Chiha, Austrian film director and screenwriter^[33]
- Tiger Chen, Chinese martial artist, actor and stuntman
March 7: Sarayu Rao, American actress
March 9: Chaske Spencer, American actor and producer
March 11: Josh Robert Thompson, American voice actor, actor, comedian and impressionist
March 15:
- Eva Longoria, American actress, director and producer
- Will.i.am, American actor and singer/rapper
March 16: Sienna Guillory, English actress
March 17: Natalie Zea, American actress
March 18: Charles Parnell, American actor
March 21: Justin Pierce, American-British actor and skateboarder (d. 2000)
March 22:
- Guillermo Diaz, American actor
- Nathan Greno, American director and writer
- Cole Hauser, American actor
March 24: Brennan Elliott, Canadian actor
March 27: Stacy Ferguson, American actress and singer-songwriter
April 2:
- Deedee Magno, Filipino-American actress and singer
- Pedro Pascal, Chilean and American actor
- Adam Rodriguez, American actor
April 6: Zach Braff, American actor, director, screenwriter and producer
April 10: David Harbour, American actor
April 11: Gloria Calderón Kellett, American writer, producer, director and actress
April 12: Camila Morgado, Brazilian actress
April 13: Angus MacLane, American director, animator, screenwriter and voice actor
April 14:
- Amy Birnbaum, American voice actress
- Anderson Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist and boxer.
April 15: Elissa Knight, American employee at Pixar and voice actress
April 21: Charlie O'Connell, American actor
April 27: Erica Schroeder, American voice actress
April 30: Johnny Galecki, American actor
May 3:
- Christina Hendricks, American actress
- Dulé Hill, American actor
May 4: Óscar Jaenada, Spanish actor
May 8:
- Wilmer Calderon, Puerto Rican-American actor
- Jodhi May, English actress
May 9: Chris Diamantopoulos, Greek-Canadian actor and voice artist
May 20:
- Juan Minujín, Argentine actor and director
- Marc Thompson, American voice actor
May 22:
- Harriet Toompere, Estonian actress
- Stephen Walters, English actor
May 24: Will Sasso, Canadian-American actor, comedian, voice actor and podcaster
May 26: Nicki Aycox, American actress and musician (d. 2022)
May 27: André 3000, American singer, songwriter, rapper and actor
June 4:
- Russell Brand, English comedian, actor and radio host
- Angelina Jolie, American actress
June 6: Nina Kaczorowski, American actress and stuntwoman
June 8: Shilpa Shetty, Indian actress
June 10: Nicole Bilderback, Korean-born American actress
June 11:
- Nick Kellington, British actor and musician
- John Tui, New Zealand actor of Tungan descent
June 19: Hugh Dancy, English actor
June 22: Jeff Hephner, American actor
June 23: Jeffrey Carlson, American actor and singer (d. 2023)
June 25: Linda Cardellini, American actress
June 27: Tobey Maguire, American actor
June 28: Jeff Geddis, Canadian actor
June 29: Șerban Pavlu, Romanian actor
July 2: Elizabeth Reaser, American actress
July 3: Ryan McPartlin, American actor
July 4: Mirelle Hernández, American makeup artist
July 5: Sope Aluko, Nigerian-born British-American actress
July 6: 50 Cent, American actor and rapper
July 7: Nina Hoss, German film and stage actress
July 9: Nathaniel Marston, American actor and producer (d. 2015)
July 10: Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor and singer (d. 2018)
July 11: Bridgette Andersen, American actress (d. 1997)
July 13: Gareth Edwards, British filmmaker
July 14: Jaime Gomez, American actor and rapper
July 17:
- Elena Anaya, Spanish actress
- Cécile de France, Belgian actress
July 19: Reuben Langdon, American stuntman and voice actor
July 20:
- Judy Greer, American actress
- Jason Raize, American actor, singer and Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme (d. 2004)
July 21: David Dastmalchian, American actor
July 22: Hannah Waterman, English actress
July 23: Suriya, Indian actor
July 28: Ori Pfeffer, Israeli actor
August 5:
- Jabez Olssen, New Zealand editor
- Stéphanie Szostak, French actress
August 7:
- Megan Gale, Australian actress
- Hans Matheson, Scottish actor and musician
- Charlize Theron, South African-American actress
August 9: Anjali Jay, British actress and writer
August 11: Roger Craig Smith, American actor and voice actor
August 12: Casey Affleck, American actor
August 13: James Carpinello, American actor
August 16:
- Brad Morris, American actor
- Taika Waititi, New Zealand filmmaker, actor and comedian
August 18: Kaitlin Olson, American actress, comedian and producer
August 19: Tracie Thoms, American actress and singer
August 21: Alicia Witt, American actress and singer
August 22: Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor
August 24: James D'Arcy, English actor and director
August 25: Raymond Wong Ho-yin, Hong Kong actor^[34]
August 27: Bodie Olmos, American actor
August 28: Eugene Byrd, American actor
August 29:
- Dante Basco, American actor
- Juan Diego Botto, Argentine-Spanish actor
September 1:
- Scott Speedman, Canadian actor
- Jason Zumwalt, American actor, voice actor, comedian and screenwriter
September 2: MC Chris, American rapper, voice actor, comedian and writer
September 10: Kyle Bornheimer, American actor and comedian
September 18: Jason Sudeikis, American actor, comedian and screenwriter
September 20: Moon Bloodgood, American actress
September 22: Mireille Enos, American actress
September 23:
- Alex Karpovsky, American director, actor, screenwriter, producer and editor
- Kip Pardue, American actor and model
September 27: Sam Lee, Hong Kong actor
September 30
- Asia Argento, Italian actress
- Marion Cotillard, French actress
- Christopher Jackson, American actor, singer, musician and composer
October 3 - Alanna Ubach, American actress
October 4 - Reggie Lee, Filipino-American actor
October 5
- Parminder Nagra, English actress
- Monica Rial, American voice actress
- Scott Weinger, American actor
- Kate Winslet, English actress
October 7:
- Tim Minchin, British-Australian comedian, actor, writer and musician
- Kaspars Znotiņš, Latvian actor
October 8: Richard Short, English actor
October 10: Lenn Kudrjawizki, German actor and musician
October 11: Nat Faxon, American actor, comedian, director and screenwriter
October 15: Chukwudi Iwuji, Nigerian-British actor
October 16:
- Alexandra Barreto, Puerto Rican actress
- Nelson Lee, Taiwanese-Canadian actor
- Kellie Martin, American actress
October 26: Lennon Parham, American actress
October 29: Aksel Hennie, Norwegian actor, director and screenwriter
October 31: Keith Jardine, American actor
November 2: Danny Cooksey, American actor and musician
November 8: Tara Reid, American actress
November 10: Halina Reijn, Dutch actress, writer and film director
November 12: Steven Kynman, British actor, puppeteer, writer and voice actor
November 13: Aisha Hinds, American actress
November 15: J. C. Brandy, British-born American actress
November 16: David Leitch, American filmmaker, actor, stunt performer and stunt coordinator
November 17: Diane Neal, American actress
November 19: Sushmita Sen, Indian actress
November 22: James Madio, American actor
November 26: DJ Khaled, American DJ, rapper and actor
November 28: Sunny Mabrey, American actress
December 1: David Hornsby, American actor
December 5: Paula Patton, American actress
December 6: Noel Clarke, British actor and filmmaker
December 12: Mayim Bialik, American actress and game show host
December 14: KaDee Strickland, American actress
December 17
- Milla Jovovich, Ukrainian-American actress
- Hilje Murel, Estonian actress
December 22: Omar Dorsey, American actor
December 27: Heather O'Rourke, American child actress (d. 1988)
December 29: Shawn Hatosy, American actor
December 31: Amy Palant, American voice actress and singer

Deaths

Month	Date	Name	Age	Country	Profession	Notable films
January	1	Arthur Pierson	73	Norway/US	Director, Actor	The Fighting O'Flynn Home Town Story
	9	Pierre Fresnay	77	France	Actor	La Grande Illusion Le Corbeau
	18	Gertrude Olmstead	77	US	Actress	The Boob The Monster
	21	Marie Lohr	84	Australia	Actress	The Winslow Boy Great Catherine
	24	Larry Fine	72	US	Actor	The Three Stooges 4 for Texas
	27	Bill Walsh	61	US	Screenwriter, Producer	Mary Poppins Bedknobs and Broomsticks
February	1	Richard Wattis	62	UK	Actor	The Longest Day The Man Who Knew Too Much
	11	Maria Balcerkiewiczówna	71	Poland	Actress	Vampires of Warsaw Augustus the Strong
	17	George Marshall	83	US	Director	How the West Was Won Destry Rides Again
	20	Robert Strauss	61	US	Actor	Stalag 17 The Seven Year Itch
	20	Lillian Fontaine	88	UK	Actress	The Locket The Lost Weekend
March	3	Edward H. Griffith	86	US	Director	Honeymoon in Bali Virginia
	4	Renée Björling	76	Sweden	Actress	Summer Interlude A Lesson in Love
	7	Ben Blue	73	Canada/US	Actor	The Big Broadcast of 1938 The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
	8	George Stevens	70	US	Director, Producer	A Place in the Sun Giant
	9	Shirley Ross	62	US	Actress	The Big Broadcast of 1938 Thanks for the Memory
	14	Susan Hayward	57	US	Actress	I Want to Live! The Snows of Kilimanjaro
	15	John H. Auer	68	Hungary	Director, Producer	Johnny Trouble City That Never Sleeps
	15	Arthur Crabtree	74	UK	Director, Screenwriter	Caravan Lilli Marlene
	19	Harry Lachman	88	US	Director	Charlie Chan in Rio It Happened in Hollywood
	22	Cass Daley	59	US	Actress, Singer	Riding High Ladies' Man
	25	Michele Girardon	36	France	Actress	The Lovers Hatari!
April	3	Mary Ure	42	UK	Actress	Where Eagles Dare Look Back in Anger
	5	Inez Courtney	67	US	Actress	Clarence The 13th Man
	10	Marjorie Main	85	US	Actress	Meet Me in St. Louis Ma and Pa Kettle
	13	Larry Parks	60	US	Actor	The Jolson Story Down to Earth
	14	Fredric March	77	US	Actor	The Best Years of Our Lives A Star Is Born
	15	Richard Conte	65	US	Actor	The Godfather Ocean's 11
	15	William Hartnell	67	UK	Actor	Hell Drivers Carry On Sergeant
	22	Mary Philips	74	US	Actress	A Farewell to Arms Leave Her to Heaven
May	4	Moe Howard	77	US	Actor	The Three Stooges Men in Black
	9	Philip Dorn	73	Netherlands	Actor	Random Harvest I Remember Mama
	22	Torben Meyer	90	Germany	Actor	Roberta Till We Meet Again
	30	Michel Simon	80	Switzerland	Actor	L'Atalante The Train
June	3	Ozzie Nelson	69	US	Actor	Sweetheart of the Campus The Impossible Years
	4	Evelyn Brent	75	US	Actress	Underworld The Last Command
	6	Larry Blyden	49	US	Actor	On a Clear Day You Can See Forever Kiss Them for Me
	11	Jane Griffiths	45	UK	Actress	The Million Pound Note The Durant Affair
	28	Rod Serling	50	US	Screenwriter	Seven Days in May Planet of the Apes
July	2	James Robertson Justice	68	UK	Actor	The Guns of Navarone Moby Dick
	20	Richard Gaines	70	US	Actor	Double Indemnity The More the Merrier
	28	Alfred L. Werker	78	US	Director	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Repeat Performance
August	2	Jean Yarbrough	73	US	Director	Inside Job Shed No Tears
	7	Phyllis Povah	82	US	Actress	The Women Pat and Mike
	11	Howard Wendell	67	US	Actor	The Fighting Chance The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake
	23	Sidney Buchman	73	US	Screenwriter	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Here Comes Mr. Jordan
	23	Hank Patterson	86	US	Actor	The Arizona Kid Tarantula
	25	Joseph Kane	81	US	Director	King of the Cowboys Flame of Barbary Coast
	29	Bob Baker	64	US	Actor	The Singing Outlaw The Phantom Stage
September	9	John McGiver	61	US	Actor	The Manchurian Candidate Midnight Cowboy
	19	Pamela Brown	58	UK	Actress	Lust for Life Becket
	24	Clive Morton	71	UK	Actor	The Moonraker Kind Hearts and Coronets
	27	Mark Frechette	27	US	Actor	Zabriskie Point Many Wars Ago
October	16	Don Barclay	82	US	Actor	Man Hunt Mary Poppins
	18	Al Lettieri	47	US	Actor	The Godfather The Getaway
	24	Martin Boddey	68	UK	Actor	Carry on Sergeant Carry on Nurse
	31	Joseph Calleia	78	Malta/US	Actor, Singer	After the Thin Man Touch of Evil
November	2	Pier Paolo Pasolini	53	Italy	Director, Screenwriter, Actor	The Hawks and the Sparrows Teorema
	4	Sheila Ryan	54	US	Actress	Dressed to Kill Song of Texas
	5	Annette Kellerman	88	Australia	Actress	Venus of the South Seas A Daughter of the Gods
	17	Kay Johnson	70	US	Actress	Dynamite Of Human Bondage
December	7	Hardie Albright	71	US	Actor	Three-Cornered Moon The Scarlet Letter
	9	William A. Wellman	79	US	Director	Wings Battleground
	13	Cyril Delevanti	88	UK	Actor	Mary Poppins Soylent Green
	14	Arthur Treacher	81	UK	Actor	Thank You, Jeeves! Heidi
	17	Frank Sully	67	US	Actor	The Grapes of Wrath Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch
	20	William Lundigan	61	US	Actor	The House on Telegraph Hill Love Nest
	21	Rowland V. Lee	84	US	Director	Son of Frankenstein Captain Kidd
	24	Bernard Herrmann	64	US	Composer	Psycho Taxi Driver

Film debuts

Jack Angel – Funny Lady
Pernilla August – Giliap
Michael Berryman – Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze
Bruce Boxleitner – Sixpack Annie
Jay Brazeau – The Melting Pot
Bryan Brown – Scobie Malone
Kim Cattrall – Rosebud
Maury Chaykin – Me
George Cheung – The Killer Elite
Tom Conti – Galileo
Robert Costanzo – Dog Day Afternoon
Tim Curry – The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Ken Davitian – Sons of Sassoun
John de Lancie – Legacy
John Debney (film composer) – The Strongest Man in the World
Brad Dourif – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Griffin Dunne – The Other Side of the Mountain
Conchata Ferrell – Deadly Hero
Laurence Fishburne – Cornbread, Earl and Me
Carrie Fisher – Shampoo
M. C. Gainey – Hard Times
Richard Gere – Report to the Commissioner
Patrick Gorman – Three Days of the Condor
Debbie Harry – Deadly Hero
Bernard Hill – It Could Happen to You
Danny Huston – The "Human" Factor
Brion James – Hard Times
James Keane – Three Days of the Condor
Nastassja Kinski – The Wrong Move
Christopher Lloyd – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Mary Stuart Masterson – The Stepford Wives
Richard Masur – Whiffs
Rudy Ray Moore – Dolemite
Chris Mulkey – Loose Ends
Sam Neill – Landfall
Bill Paxton – Crazy Mama
Dennis Quaid – Crazy Mama
Rajinikanth – Apoorva Raagangal
Leo Rossi – Alias Big Cherry
Chris Sarandon – Dog Day Afternoon
Sandra Seacat – Night Moves
Lin Shaye – Hester Street
Don Stark – Switchblade Sisters
Patrick Stewart – Hennessy
John Travolta – The Devil's Rain
Dee Wallace – The Stepford Wives
Steven Williams – Cooley High
Treat Williams – Deadly Hero

Notes

^ ^a ^b Sholay in India: ₹350 million at Indian box office,^[7] 8.3759 Indian rupees per US dollar in 1975^[8]
^ Bobby in the Soviet Union: 15.65 million Rbls^{[nb 1]} (US$21.44 million,^{[nb 2]} ₹19.24 crore)^{[nb 3]} in 1975
^
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]
^
The Rocky Horror Picture Show box office admissions:
- North America – 55,069,400^[24]
- France, Germany – 3,362,170^[25]
^
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]
^
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^[a]
^
Dog Day Afternoon box office admissions:
- North America – 24,390,200^[30]
- France – 471,325^[31]

^ 62.6 million tickets sold,^[11] average ticket price of 25 kopecks^[12]
^ 0.73 Rbl per US dollar in 1975^[13]
^ 8.973 Indian rupees per US dollar in 1975^[14]

^ See List of highest-grossing films in the Soviet Union § Highest-grossing foreign films.

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[Sholay-9] Sholay in India: ₹350 million at Indian box office,^[7] 8.3759 Indian rupees per US dollar in 1975^[8]

[Bobby-19] Bobby in the Soviet Union: 15.65 million Rbls^{[nb 1]} (US$21.44 million,^{[nb 2]} ₹19.24 crore)^{[nb 3]} in 1975

[29] 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] North America – 53,685,400^[20]

[5] United Kingdom – 9.65 million^[21]

[6] France, Germany – 10,374,879^[22]

[7] Spain, Denmark – 4,996,125^[23]

[32] The Rocky Horror Picture Show box office admissions:
North America – 55,069,400^[24]

France, Germany – 3,362,170^[25]

[9] North America – 55,069,400^[24]

[10] France, Germany – 3,362,170^[25]

[36] 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]

[12] North America – $139,876,417^[26]

[13] United Kingdom – £600,000^[27] ($916,667)

[14] Australia, South Korea – $53,303^[28]

[39] 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^[a]

[16] India (1975 release) – ₹350 million ($41.79 million)^{[n 1]}

[17] Soviet Union (1979 release) – $28.2 million^[a]

[42] Dog Day Afternoon box office admissions:
North America – 24,390,200^[30]

France – 471,325^[31]

[19] North America – 24,390,200^[30]

[20] France – 471,325^[31]

[14] 62.6 million tickets sold,^[11] average ticket price of 25 kopecks^[12]

[16] 0.73 Rbl per US dollar in 1975^[13]

[18] 8.973 Indian rupees per US dollar in 1975^[14]

[38] See List of highest-grossing films in the Soviet Union § Highest-grossing foreign films.

[Finler-1] Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 360–361. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.

[1975DomesticRevenue-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Top 20 Films of 1975 by Domestic Revenue

[3] "Les Entrees Au Bresil: 1975" [Entries in Brazil: 1975]. JP's Box-Office (in French). Archived from the original on 2022-04-02. Retrieved 2022-04-02.

[4] "Bilan Annuel France – 1975". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 12 December 2018.

[5] "Bilan Annuel Allemagne – 1975". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 12 December 2018.

[6] "AskIndicine: Live QnA starts at 4:30PM". Indicine. 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-08-16. Retrieved 2022-03-29.

[indiatoday-7] "Sholay emerges as Bollywood's most successful re-run product even after 20 years". India Today. 15 September 1995.

[sauder-8] "Pacific Exchange Rate Service" (PDF). UBC Sauder School of Business. University of British Columbia. p. 3. Retrieved 21 November 2017.

[10] "Bilan Annuel Italie – 1975". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 12 December 2018.

[Japan1975-11] "1975年度日本映画/外国映画業界総決算". Kinema Junpo (in Japanese). No. 1976年（昭和51年）2月下旬号. Kinema Junposha. 1976. p. 117.

[soviet-12] Sergey Kudryavtsev. "Зарубежные популярные фильмы в советском кинопрокате (Индия)".

[moscow7-13] Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire that Lost the Cultural Cold War, page 48, Cornell University Press, 2011

[15] Archive of Bank of Russia http://cbr.ru/currency_base/OldDataFiles/USD.xls

[17] "Reserve Bank of India - Publications".

[20] "Bilan Annuel Espagne – 1975". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 12 December 2018.

[BFI_2013-21] 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.

[22] "Jaws". British Film Institute. 28 November 2004. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 24 November 2013.

[jaws-23] "Jaws (1975)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 12 December 2018.

[Guinness_2015-24] Records, Guinness World (2014). Guinness World Records. Vol. 60 (2015 ed.). pp. 160–161. ISBN 9781908843708.

[25] "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) – Domestic Total Est. Tickets". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 5 January 2019.

[26] "The Ultimate Film Chart". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 5 January 2019.

[27] "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 5 January 2019.

[28] "Пролетая над гнездом кукушки (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1975) – Премьеры". KinoPoisk (in Russian). Retrieved 5 January 2019.

[30] "The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) – Domestic Total Est. Tickets". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 5 January 2019.

[31] "The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 5 January 2019.

[33] Box Office Information for The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The Numbers. Retrieved 25 August 2013.

[34] Hemley, Matthew (18 September 2015). "Rocky Horror Show tops UK cinema box office". The Stage.

[35] "The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) – International". The Numbers. Retrieved 5 January 2019.

[37] 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.

[40] "Dog Day Afternoon (1975) – Domestic Total Est. Tickets". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 5 January 2019.

[41] "Dog Day Afternoon (1975)". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 5 January 2019.

[DaybyDay-43] "Day-By-Day News Summary, Oct. '75-Sept. '76". Daily Variety. October 26, 1976. p. 206.

[44] "Patric Chiha". AlloCiné (in French). Archived from the original on 22 January 2022. Retrieved 14 August 2022.

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