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The year 1975 in film involved some significant events, most notably the release of Steven Spielberg's Jaws, as well as the releases of two highly acclaimed films, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The 20th Century-Fox company celebrated its 40th anniversary.

Events

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Highest-grossing films

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North America

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The top ten 1975 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

† Indicates films currently in theatrical release in the week commencing 7 August 2026.
Highest-grossing films of 1975
RankTitleDistributorDomestic rentals
1 Jaws Universal $133,400,000[7]
2 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest United Artists $59,200,000[7]
3 The Rocky Horror Picture Show † 20th Century Fox $50,420,000[8][a]
4 Shampoo Columbia $23,822,000[8]
5 Dog Day Afternoon Warner Bros. $22,500,000[7]
6 The Return of the Pink Panther United Artists $20,017,000[8]
7 Three Days of the Condor Paramount $20,014,000[8]
8 Funny Lady Columbia $19,313,000[8]
9 The Other Side of the Mountain Universal $18,012,000[8]
10 Tommy Columbia $17,793,000[8]

International

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

International market Film Admissions Revenue Production
country		 Ref
Local currency US$
Brazil The Towering Inferno 10,377,230 Unknown Unknown United States [9]
France The Towering Inferno 4,466,376 Unknown Unknown United States [10]
West Germany Jaws 7,000,000 Unknown Unknown United States [11]
India Sholay 150,000,000+ ₹350,000,000 $41,790,000 India [12][n 1]
Italy My Friends 10,467,254 Unknown Unknown Italy [15]
Japan The Towering Inferno Unknown ¥3,640,000,000 Unknown United States [16]
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 [21]
United Kingdom Jaws 16,200,000 £11,800,000 $26,000,000 United States [22][23]
United States & Canada Jaws 128,078,800 $260,000,000 $260,000,000 United States [24]

Worldwide gross

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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[25] $470,653,000[24] 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] $166,000,000[n 5] United Kingdom
United States
Sholay 250,000,000[36] $70,000,000[n 6] India
Dog Day Afternoon 24,861,525[n 7] Unknown United States

Awards

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Awards ceremonies

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Notable awards

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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

1975 films

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By country/region

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By genre/medium

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Births

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Deaths

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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
3Therese Giehse76GermanyActress
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
22Torben Meyer90GermanyActor
30Michel Simon80SwitzerlandActor
June 3Ozzie Nelson69USActor
4Evelyn Brent75USActress
6Larry Blyden49USActor
11Jane Griffiths45UKActress
28Rod Serling50USScreenwriter
July 2James Robertson Justice68UKActor
2Audrey Maas40USProducer
14Madan Mohan[42]51IndiaMusic director
20Richard Gaines70USActor
28Alfred L. Werker78USDirector
August 2Jean Yarbrough73USDirector
7Phyllis Povah82USActress
11Howard Wendell67USActor
23Sidney Buchman73USScreenwriter
23Hank Patterson86USActor
25Joseph Kane81USDirector
29Bob Baker64USActor
31Pierre Blaise20FranceActor
September 9John McGiver61USActor
19Pamela Brown58UKActress
24Clive Morton71UKActor
27Mark Frechette27USActor
October 16Don Barclay82USActor
18Al Lettieri47USActor
19Cesare Bettarini74ItalyActor
24Martin Boddey68UKActor
31Joseph Calleia78Malta/USActor, Singer
November 2Pier Paolo Pasolini[5]53ItalyDirector, Screenwriter, Actor
4Sheila Ryan54USActress
5Annette Kellerman88AustraliaActress
17Kay Johnson70USActress
December 7Hardie Albright71USActor
9William A. Wellman79USDirector
13Cyril Delevanti88UKActor
14Arthur Treacher81UKActor
17Frank Sully67USActor
20William Lundigan61USActor
21Rowland V. Lee84USDirector
24Bernard Herrmann64USComposer

Film debuts

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Notes

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  1. 1 2 Sholay in India: ₹350 million at Indian box office,[13] 8.3759 Indian rupees per US dollar in 1975[14]
  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:
    • United States and Canada – 53,685,400[26]
    • United Kingdom – 9.65 million[27]
    • France, Germany – 10,374,879[28]
    • Spain, Denmark – 4,996,125[29]
  4. ↑ The Rocky Horror Picture Show box office admissions:
    • North America – 55,069,400[30]
    • France, Germany – 3,362,170[31]
  5. ↑ The Rocky Horror Picture Show gross revenue:
    • North America – $139,876,417[32]
    • International to 1990 – $24,324,290 [33]
    • International since 2007 – $2,628,789[34]
    • United Kingdom – £600,000[35] ($916,667) included above
  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[b]
  7. ↑ Dog Day Afternoon box office admissions:
    • North America – 24,390,200[37]
    • France – 471,325[38]
  1. ↑ 62.6 million tickets sold,[17] average ticket price of 25 kopecks[18]
  2. ↑ 0.73 Rbl per US dollar in 1975[19]
  3. ↑ 8.973 Indian rupees per US dollar in 1975[20]
  1. ↑ Due to The Rocky Horror Picture Show's unusually long theatrical run, this figure may not accurately reflect its 1975 gross.
  2. ↑ See List of highest-grossing films in the Soviet Union § Highest-grossing foreign films.

References

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  1. ↑ Gene Brown, ed. (1984). The New York Times Encyclopedia of Film: 1975-1976. Times Books. p. 33.
  2. ↑ Bertram, Colin (July 11, 2015). "'Star Wars' and Industrial Light & Magic: 40 Years of 'Magic' Moments". NBC Chicago. Retrieved November 9, 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Day-By-Day News Summary, Oct. '75-Sept. '76". Daily Variety. October 26, 1976. p. 206.
  4. ↑ "The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved March 8, 2024.
  5. 1 2 "The violent death of "inconvenient" intellect, Pier Paolo Pasolini — Italianmedia". ilglobo.com.au. Archived from the original on August 11, 2020. Retrieved October 20, 2019.
  6. ↑ "Bernard Herrmann, Composer, Oscar Winner for Score, Dead". The New York Times. 1975-12-24. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  7. 1 2 3 Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 360–361. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Top 20 Films of 1975 by Domestic Revenue
  9. ↑ "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.
  10. ↑ "Bilan Annuel France – 1975". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  11. ↑ "Bilan Annuel Allemagne – 1975". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  12. ↑ "AskIndicine: Live QnA starts at 4:30PM". Indicine. 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-08-16. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
  13. ↑ "Sholay emerges as Bollywood's most successful re-run product even after 20 years". India Today. 15 September 1995.
  14. ↑ "Pacific Exchange Rate Service" (PDF). UBC Sauder School of Business. University of British Columbia. p. 3. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
  15. ↑ "Bilan Annuel Italie – 1975". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  16. ↑ "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.
  17. ↑ Sergey Kudryavtsev. "Зарубежные популярные фильмы в советском кинопрокате (Индия)".
  18. ↑ Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire that Lost the Cultural Cold War, page 48, Cornell University Press, 2011
  19. ↑ Archive of Bank of Russia http://cbr.ru/currency_base/OldDataFiles/USD.xls
  20. ↑ "Reserve Bank of India - Publications".
  21. ↑ "Bilan Annuel Espagne – 1975". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  22. ↑ 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.
  23. ↑ "Jaws". British Film Institute. 28 November 2004. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
  24. 1 2 "Jaws (1975)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  25. ↑ Records, Guinness World (2014). Guinness World Records. Vol. 60 (2015 ed.). pp. 160–161. ISBN 9781908843708.
  26. ↑ "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) – Domestic Total Est. Tickets". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  27. ↑ "The Ultimate Film Chart". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  28. ↑ "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  29. ↑ "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.
  32. ↑ Box Office Information for The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The Numbers. Retrieved 25 August 2013.
  33. ↑ "The long, Rocky road to profit". Screen International. 27 March 1993. p. 23.
  34. ↑ "The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved March 8, 2024.
  35. ↑ Hemley, Matthew (18 September 2015). "Rocky Horror Show tops UK cinema box office". The Stage.
  36. ↑ 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.
  37. ↑ "Dog Day Afternoon (1975) – Domestic Total Est. Tickets". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  38. ↑ "Dog Day Afternoon (1975)". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  39. ↑ "Patric Chiha". AlloCiné (in French). Archived from the original on 22 January 2022. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
  40. ↑ Lubna, Khan (9 August 2025). "Jr NTR On Mahesh Babu's Birthday: 'Wishing You All The Love And Success'". News18. Retrieved 10 August 2025.
  41. ↑ "黃浩然44歲生日 老婆坐大髀搞驚喜". Archived from the original on 2020-09-26. Retrieved 2022-10-24.
  42. ↑ ""King of Gazals" Mahan Mohan is dead" (PDF). Retrieved 23 March 2026.
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