1975 in film

Years in film:	1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
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Years:	1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978

Events

• January 28 - George Lucas creates the second draft of what would eventually become Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. At this time, the title of the story was Adventures of the Starkiller, Episode One of The Star Wars.
• March - Production begins on Star Wars
• 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.
• Jaws becomes the first movie to ever gross US$100 million in North America, setting the standard for future blockbusters.

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

Films released in 1975

• Aaron Loves Angela
• The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
• Attilas '74
• The Apple Dumpling Gang
• At Long Last Love
• Barry Lyndon
• Cria cuervos (aka Cria!)
• Conduct Unbecoming
• The Day of the Locust
• Death Race 2000
• Dersu Uzala
• Dog Day Afternoon
• Escape to Witch Mountain
• Farewell, My Lovely
• Flame
• The Fortune
• French Connection II
• Great
• The Great Waldo Pepper
• Hearts of the West
• Hester Street
• Hustle
• Jaws
• Legend of the Werewolf
• Lisztomania
• The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
• Love and Death
• Lucky Lady
• Mahogany
• La Maldicion de la Bestia
• The Man Who Would Be King
• Milestones
• The Mirror
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Moonrunners
• Nashville
• Numéro Deux (aka Number Two)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing
• Overlord
• The Passenger
• Picnic at Hanging Rock
• The Prisoner of Second Avenue
• Race with the Devil
• Rancho Deluxe
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Rollerball
• The Romantic Englishwoman
• Royal Flash
• 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 Sunshine Boys
• Switchblade Sisters
• Terror of Mechagodzilla
• Three Days of the Condor
• Tommy
• The Werewolf of Woodstock
• The Wind and the Lion
• The Yakuza

Births

• January 3 - Danica McKellar, actress
• February 22 - Drew Barrymore, actress.
• June 4 - Angelina Jolie, US actress
• June 25 - Linda Cardellini, actress
• August 7 - Charlize Theron, South African actress
• October 5 - Kate Winslet, actress
• November 19 - Sushmita Sen, actress

Deaths

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