January–March OpeningĬhris Warfield (director/screenplay) George Buck Flower, John F.

Notable awards Category/Organizationįilms released 1975 Note: US releases unless stated. Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival): Adoption ( Örökbefogadás).Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival): Chronicle of the Years of Fire (Chronique des années de braise).Frank Wells becomes president again and shares CEO duties with Ted Ashley who also returns as chairman. reorganize following John Calley's decision to step down as president-COO. They will remain a team, and a staple among film critics, through various programs for the next twenty-four years. November 23: Sneak Previews, the first American film review show, premieres and launches the careers of critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert.August 14: The cult classic film The Rocky Horror Picture Show premieres in London.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, setting the standard for future blockbusters.May: In order to create the necessary special effects for his film, Star Wars, George Lucas forms Industrial Light and Magic.March 26: The film version of The Who's Tommy premieres in London.This list also includes gross revenue from later re-releases. Note that this list is incomplete and is therefore not representative of the highest-grossing films worldwide in 1975.

The following table lists known worldwide gross figures for several high-grossing films that originally released in 1975. The highest-grossing 1975 films in countries outside of North America. The top ten 1975 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: See also: List of 1975 box office number-one films in the United States

The Last Summer by Judith Kinghorn