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2015 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, and a list of films released and notable deaths.

Evaluation of the year[]

Richard Brody of The New Yorker described 2015 as, "one of Hollywood’s worst years" but also stated that it was also "a terrific year for movies over all". He emphasized that, "The anticipated Oscarizables have mainly ranged from the blandly enjoyable to the droningly disastrous. Partly, the problem is merely one of scheduling: most of Hollywood’s inspired directors, the ones whose images have a natural musical sublimity and complexity, weren’t on call this year. My list reflects the unfortunate accident of a calendar year with no release by many of the best American directors working in or out of the Hollywood system, such as Martin Scorsese, Sofia Coppola, Wes Anderson, Miranda July, Terrence Malick, James Gray, David Fincher, Steven Soderbergh, and Paul Thomas Anderson."^[1]

Highest-grossing films[]

The top 10 films released in 2015 by worldwide gross are as follows:^[2]

Highest-grossing films of 2015

Rank	Title	Distributor	Worldwide gross
1	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	Disney	$2,068,223,624
2	Jurassic World	Universal	$1,670,400,637
3	Furious 7		$1,515,047,671
4	Avengers: Age of Ultron	Disney	$1,402,809,540
5	Minions	Universal	$1,159,398,397
6	Spectre	Sony Pictures / MGM	$880,674,609
7	Inside Out	Disney	$857,611,174
8	Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation	Paramount	$682,714,267
9	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2	Lionsgate	$658,344,137
10	The Martian	Fox	$630,161,890

Star Wars: The Force Awakens grossed over $2 billion, the third film to surpass that milestone, and the third highest-grossing film of all time. Jurassic World, Furious 7, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and Minions have each grossed over $1 billion, making them among the highest-grossing films of all time. Spectre and Inside Out grossed more than $850 million.

Minions became the first non-Disney animated film and the third animated film overall after Toy Story 3 (2010) and Frozen (2013) to gross over $1 billion, and is currently the fifth highest-grossing animated film of all time.

2015 notable box office records[]

Studio records[]

2015 is the first year that a single studio (Universal Pictures) released three films that each grossed over $1 billion,^[3] the first year that a single studio released two films that both grossed over $1.5 billion, and the first year that a single studio released two films that both grossed over $1 billion outside of North America.

• Universal also generated $2 billion and $3 billion in a single year at the international box office faster than any studio before, doing so on June 10, June 14, and July 17, 2015 respectively. The previous records was held by 20th Century Fox when it reached $2 and $3 billion on June 15 and July 30, 2010 respectively. Universal previously grossed $2 billion in 2013, reaching the milestone on September 17 of that year.^[4][5] Furthermore, the studio also broke the record for fastest studio to generate $1 billion in the United States and Canada (on June 14, 2015), beating the previous record ascendance achieved by Paramount Pictures on June 22, 2008,^[5] and $2 billion (on August 16, 2015), beating the previous speed record of December 25, 2009 held by Warner Bros.,^[6] and the fastest to $3, $4, and $5 billion worldwide (It achieved the $5 billion milestone on July 17, 2015, breaking the record previously held by Fox near the end of November 2014).^[7][8][9] Universal is also the first studio to achieve $6 billion at the global box office in one year.
• Walt Disney Studios became the first studio to release three films within a single franchise — the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) — that each grossed over $1 billion, with Avengers: Age of Ultron joining 2012's The Avengers and 2013's Iron Man 3. The MCU also became the highest-grossing film franchise with the release of Avengers: Age of Ultron, surpassing the Harry Potter film franchise ($7.723 billion, 2001–2011), and becoming the first franchise to gross over $8 billion. With the subsequent release of Ant-Man, the MCU also became the first franchise to gross over $9 billion.

Film records[]

• Furious 7 became the fastest film to reach $1 billion in ticket sales worldwide, doing so in 17 days; this record was later surpassed by Universal's own Jurassic World two months later, accruing the same amount in 13 days; this record was in turn surpassed six months later by Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which accrued $1 billion in 12 days. Furious 7 also became the first American film ever to gross over ¥2 billion (amassing ¥2.426 billion) at the Chinese box office.
• Jurassic World grossed $524.4 million worldwide in its opening weekend, making it the highest-grossing worldwide opening of all time, surpassing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 ($483.2 million in 2011). Jurassic World also grossed $208.8 million in North America in its opening weekend, beating the previous record held by The Avengers ($207.4 million in 2012). Both records were later surpassed by Star Wars: The Force Awakens in the same year. It also became the highest-grossing film that was not the highest-grossing film of its year, surpassing Iron Man 3.
• Terminator Genisys became the first American film to earn $400 million worldwide without also grossing $100 million in North America. The only other production to hit that threshold before was the French film The Intouchables (2012).^[10]
• Minions became the fastest animated film to $1 billion in 49 days, surpassing Toy Story 3 (75 days). It also becomes the first Non-Disney animated film to gross over $1 billion, and is the highest-grossing spinoff film, as well as the highest-grossing prequel.
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens broke all pre-sale ticket records and grossed $529 million in its opening weekend, making it the highest-grossing worldwide opening of all time, surpassing Jurassic World ($524.4 million on 12–14 June 2015). The Force Awakens also grossed $248 million in North America in its opening weekend, beating the previous record held by Jurassic World ($208.8 million).^[11][12] The film subsequently became the first to exceed $800 million in the domestic box office on January 9 and $900 million on February 5. It also became Disney's first film to gross over $1 billion at the foreign box office, as well as the third film to ever gross over $2 billion worldwide. This makes it the third highest-grossing film of all time.
• 2015 is tied with 2018 for the greatest number of films to gross more than $1 billion with five, surpassing 2012's record of four, but later was surpassed in 2019 to have nine films with that milestone. It has also set the record for the greatest number of films crossing the $1.5 billion mark with three.

Events[]

Award ceremonies[]

Date	Event	Host	Location	Source
January 11	72nd Golden Globe Awards	Hollywood Foreign Press Association	Beverly Hills, California	[13]
January 15	20th Critics' Choice Awards	Broadcast Film Critics Association	Santa Monica, California	[14]
January 24	Producers Guild of America Awards 2014	Producers Guild of America	Beverly Hills, California	[15]
January 25	21st Screen Actors Guild Awards	Screen Actors Guild‐American Federation of Television and Radio Artists	Los Angeles, California	[16]
January 26	50th Guldbagge Awards	Swedish Film Institute	Djurgården, Sweden	[17]
January 31	4th AACTA International Awards	Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts	Los Angeles, California	[18]
	60th Filmfare Awards	Filmfare	Mumbai, India
February 2	20th Lumières Awards	Académie des Lumières	Paris, France	[19]
February 4	African-American Film Critics Association Awards 2014	African-American Film Critics Association	Hollywood, California	[20]
February 7	29th Goya Awards	Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain	Madrid, Spain	[21]
	5th Magritte Awards	Académie André Delvaux	Brussels, Belgium	[22]
February 8	68th British Academy Film Awards	British Academy of Film and Television Arts	London, England	[23]
February 15	19th Satellite Awards	International Press Academy	Los Angeles, California	[24]
February 20	40th César Awards	Academy of Cinema Arts and Techniques	Paris, France	[25]
February 21	30th Independent Spirit Awards	Independent Spirit Awards		[26]
	35th Golden Raspberry Awards	Golden Raspberry Awards	Hollywood, California
February 22	87th Academy Awards	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences	Hollywood, California	[27]
April 12	2015 MTV Movie Awards	MTV	Los Angeles, California	[28]
May 3	62nd National Film Awards	Directorate of Film Festivals	India	[29][30]
June 25	41st Saturn Awards	Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films	Burbank, California	[31]
September 20	2015 FAMAS Awards	Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Awards	Newport City, Metro Manila	[32]
December 12	28th European Film Awards	European Film Academy	Berlin, Germany	[33]

Festivals[]

Date	Event	Host	Location	Source
January 22 – February 1	2015 Sundance Film Festival	Sundance Institute	Park City, Utah	[34]
February 5–15	65th Berlin International Film Festival	Berlin International Film Festival	Berlin, Germany	[35]
May 13–24	2015 Cannes Film Festival	Cannes Film Festival	Cannes, France	[36]
July 3–11	50th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival	Karlovy Vary International Film Festival	Karlovy Vary, Czechia
September 2–12	72nd Venice International Film Festival	Venice Film Festival	Venice, Italy
September 4–13	2015 Deauville American Film Festival	Deauville American Film Festival	Deauville, France
September 10–20	2015 Toronto International Film Festival	Toronto International Film Festival	Toronto, Ontario
September 25 – October 11	53rd New York Film Festival	New York Film Festival	New York City, New York
November 13–29	19th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival	Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival	Tallinn, Estonia	[37]
November 21–28	26th Carthage Film Festival	Carthage Film Festival	Tunis, Tunisia
December 25 – January 7, 2016	2015 Metro Manila Film Festival	Metro Manila Film Festival	Manila, Philippines

Awards[]

Category/Organization	73rd Golden Globe Awards January 10, 2016		21st Critics' Choice Awards January 17, 2016	Producers, Directors, Screen Actors, and Writers Guild Awards	69th BAFTA Awards February 14, 2016	88th Academy Awards February 28, 2016
	Drama	Musical or Comedy
Best Film	The Revenant	The Martian	Spotlight	The Big Short	The Revenant	Spotlight
Best Director	Alejandro G. Iñárritu The Revenant		George Miller Mad Max: Fury Road	Alejandro G. Iñárritu The Revenant
Best Actor	Leonardo DiCaprio The Revenant	Matt Damon The Martian	Leonardo DiCaprio The Revenant
Best Actress	Brie Larson Room	Jennifer Lawrence Joy	Brie Larson Room
Best Supporting Actor	Sylvester Stallone Creed			Idris Elba Beasts of No Nation	Mark Rylance Bridge of Spies
Best Supporting Actress	Kate Winslet Steve Jobs		Alicia Vikander The Danish Girl		Kate Winslet Steve Jobs	Alicia Vikander The Danish Girl
Best Screenplay, Adapted	Aaron Sorkin Steve Jobs		Adam McKay and Charles Randolph The Big Short
Best Screenplay, Original			Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer Spotlight
Best Animated Film	Inside Out
Best Original Score	The Hateful Eight Ennio Morricone			N/A	The Hateful Eight Ennio Morricone
Best Original Song	"Writing's on the Wall" Spectre		"See You Again" Furious 7	N/A	N/A	"Writing's on the Wall" Spectre
Best Foreign Language Film	Son of Saul			N/A	Wild Tales	Son of Saul
Best Documentary	N/A	N/A	Amy

2015 films[]

The list of films released in 2015, arranged by country, are as follows:

• American films
• Argentine films
• Australian films
• Bangladeshi films
• Bengali films
• Bollywood films
• Brazilian films
• British films
• French films
• Hong Kong films
• Italian films
• Japanese films
• Mexican films
• Pakistani films
• Russian films
• South Korean films
• Spanish films
• Tamil films
• Telugu films

Notable deaths[]

Month	Date	Name	Age	Nationality	Profession	Notable films
January	1	Donna Douglas	81	American	Actress, Singer	Frankie & Johnny Lover Come Back
	4	Stuart Scott	49	American	Actor	The Longest Yard Enchanted
	4	Bernard Williams	72	English	Producer, Production Manager	Daredevil Star Trek Generations
	5	Khan Bonfils	42	English	Actor	Batman Begins Skyfall
	6	Lance Percival	81	English	Actor, Singer	Yellow Submarine Darling Lili
	7	Rod Taylor	84	Australian	Actor	The Birds The Time Machine
	8	Patsy Garrett	93	American	Actress, Singer	Benji The Parallax View
	9	Samuel Goldwyn Jr.	88	American	Director, Producer	The Secret Life of Walter Mitty The Preacher's Wife
	9	Sarah Kemp	69	Australian	Actress	Yesterday's Hero A Touch of the Other
	10	Brian Clemens	83	English	Screenwriter, Producer	Highlander II: The Quickening The Tell-Tale Heart
	10	George Dickerson	81	American	Actor	Psycho II Blue Velvet
	10	Taylor Negron	57	American	Actor	The Last Boy Scout Stuart Little
	10	Francesco Rosi	92	Italian	Director, Screenwriter	The Truce Lucky Luciano
	11	Anita Ekberg	83	Swedish-Italian	Actress	La Dolce Vita War and Peace
	11	Chic Littlewood	84	English-New Zealand	Actor	King Kong 30 Days of Night
	13	Robert Boon	98	Dutch-American	Actor	The Diary of Anne Frank The Flying Saucer
	13	Frank Mazzola	79	American	Actor, Editor	Rebel Without a Cause The Hunchback of Notre Dame
	14	Darren Shahlavi	42	English	Actor, Stuntman, Choreographer	Ip Man 2 300
	14	Layne Tom Jr.	87	American	Actor	Charlie Chan Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
	16	Walter Peregoy	89	American	Animator	Sleeping Beauty One Hundred and One Dalmatians
	17	Faten Hamama	83	Egyptian	Actress	Empire M Cairo
	17	Don Harron	90	Canadian	Actor	The Best of Everything The Sound Barrier
	17	Greg Plitt	37	American	Actor	Watchmen Terminator Salvation
	21	Pauline Yates	85	English	Actress	Darling Identity Unknown
	23	Joe Franklin	88	American	Actor	Ghostbusters Broadway Danny Rose
	23	Barrie Ingham	82	English-American	Actor	The Great Mouse Detective The Day of the Jackal
	24	Lisa Daniely	84	English	Actress	Tiger by the Tail Hindle Wakes
	29	Rod McKuen	81	American	Composer	A Boy Named Charlie Brown Joanna
	30	Geraldine McEwan	82	English	Actress, Singer	Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves Henry V
	31	Robert Blees	96	American	Screenwriter	Magnificent Obsession Dr. Phibes Rises Again
	31	Lizabeth Scott	92	American	Actress, Singer	The Strange Love of Martha Ivers Too Late for Tears
February	2	Stewart Stern	92	American	Screenwriter	Rebel Without a Cause Rachel, Rachel
	3	Mary Healy	96	American	Actress, Singer	The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T Hard Guy
	4	Richard Bonehill	67	English	Actor, Stuntman	Star Wars Flash Gordon
	4	Monica Scattini	59	Italian	Actress	Nine One from the Heart
	4	Norman Yemm	81	Australian	Actor, Singer	Night of Fear The Fourth Wish
	11	Roger Hanin	89	Algerian-French	Actor, Director, Screenwriter	Tamango Breathless
	11	Ricardo Palacios	74	Spanish	Actor	Black Beauty Once Upon a Time in the West
	12	Movita Castaneda	98	American	Actress, Singer	Mutiny on the Bounty Fort Apache
	12	Gary Owens	80	American	Actor	National Lampoon's European Vacation Spy Hard
	13	Hugh Walters	75	English	Actor	Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon George and Mildred
	14	Pamela Cundell	95	English	Actress	Half a Sixpence Love Thy Neighbour
	14	Alan Howard	77	English	Actor	The Lord of the Rings The V.I.P.s
	14	Louis Jourdan	93	French	Actor, Singer	Octopussy Gigi
	15	Eileen Essell	92	English	Actress	Finding Neverland Duplex
	16	Lesley Gore	68	American	Actress, Singer	Ski Party The Girls on the Beach
	17	June Fairchild	68	American	Actress	Head Drive, He Said
	19	Frank Ramírez	65	Colombian	Actor	The Wrath of God Smith!
	20	Patricia Norris	83	American	Costume Designer, Production Designer	12 Years a Slave Scarface
	21	Paul Napier	84	American	Actor	The Secret Life of an American Wife Fireball 500
	21	Bruce Sinofsky	58	American	Director, Producer	Metallica: Some Kind of Monster Brother's Keeper
	25	Terry Gill	75	English-Australian	Actor	"Crocodile" Dundee High Rolling
	27	Richard Bakalyan	84	American	Actor	The Fox and the Hound Chinatown
	27	Leonard Nimoy	83	American	Actor, Director	Star Trek Invasion of the Body Snatchers
	28	Anthony Mason	48	American	Actor	Eddie Celebrity
March	1	Daniel von Bargen	64	American	Actor	Super Troopers Crimson Tide
	4	Emory Bass	89	American	Actor	18 Again! 1776
	5	Albert Maysles	88	American	Director, Cinematographer	Gimme Shelter The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit
	5	Dirk Shafer	52	American	Actor, Director, Screenwriter	Man of the Year Circuit
	9	Windell Middlebrooks	36	American	Actor	Miss March Road Hard
	10	Richard Glatzer	63	American	Director, Screenwriter	Still Alice The Last of Robin Hood
	10	Stuart Wagstaff	90	English-Australian	Actor	A Night to Remember For Pete's Sake
	11	Ralph Taeger	78	American	Actor	X-15 The Carpetbaggers
	13	Vincent Wong	87	English	Actor	Die Another Day Batman
	14	Ib Melchior	97	Danish-American	Director, Screenwriter	Robinson Crusoe on Mars The Angry Red Planet
	15	Sally Forrest	86	American	Actress, Dancer	Son of Sinbad While the City Sleeps
	16	Buddy Elias	89	German-Swiss	Actor	The Monuments Men Sunshine
	17	Shaw Taylor	90	English	Actor	The Medusa Touch X the Unknown
	20	Walter Grauman	93	American	Director, Producer	633 Squadron Lady in a Cage
	20	Gregory Walcott	87	American	Actor	The Eiger Sanction Plan 9 from Outer Space
	21	Alberta Watson	60	Canadian	Actress	Away from Her The Sweet Hereafter
	25	Ivo Garrani	91	Italian	Actor	The Giant of Marathon Holocaust 2000
	27	Rik Battaglia	88	Italian	Actor	Treasure Island Esther and the King
	28	Richard L. Bare	101	American	Director, Producer, Screenwriter	This Side of the Law Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend
	28	Miroslav Ondříček	80	Czech	Cinematographer	Amadeus Ragtime
	28	Gene Saks	93	American	Actor, Director	The Odd Couple Cactus Flower
	30	Robert Z'Dar	64	American	Actor, Producer	Maniac Cop Tango & Cash
April	1	Robert Walker	54	Canadian-American	Animator, Director	The Lion King Brother Bear
	2	Manoel de Oliveira	106	Portuguese	Director, Screenwriter	A Talking Picture Belle Toujours
	3	Vivian Nathan	98	American	Actress	Klute Teacher's Pet
	3	Robert Rietti	91	English	Actor	James Bond The Omen
	4	Ira Lewis	82	American	Actor	The Flesh Eaters Rollover
	5	Richard Dysart	86	American	Actor	Being There The Thing
	5	Richard LaSalle	97	American	Composer, Conductor	The Time Travelers Diary of a Madman
	5	Tom Towles	65	American	Actor	House of 1000 Corpses Miami Vice
	5	Julie Wilson	90	American	Actress, Singer	This Could Be the Night The Strange One
	6	James Best	88	American	Actor	Sounder Verboten!
	6	Milton DeLugg	96	American	Composer	Santa Claus Conquers the Martians The Gong Show Movie
	6	Ben Powers	64	American	Actor	Cheech & Chong's Next Movie Things Are Tough All Over
	7	Eugene Louis Faccuito	90	American	Dancer	Annie Get Your Gun An American in Paris
	7	Stan Freberg	88	American	Actor, Singer	Lady and the Tramp Stuart Little
	7	Geoffrey Lewis	79	American	Actor	Thunderbolt and Lightfoot High Plains Drifter
	7	Betty Lucas	90	Australian	Actress	Jindabyne Between Wars
	7	Dickie Owen	88	English	Actor	Chitty Chitty Bang Bang The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
	10	Paul Almond	83	Canadian	Director, Producer, Screenwriter	Isabel Captive Hearts
	10	Judith Malina	88	German-American	Actress	The Addams Family Dog Day Afternoon
	13	Claire Gordon	74	English	Actress	Konga Beat Girl
	15	Jonathan Crombie	48	Canadian	Actor	Bullies Class of 1984
	20	Peter Howell	95	English	Actor	Tarzan the Magnificent Shadowlands
	22	Aideen O'Kelly	74	Irish-American	Actress	A Perfect Murder Family Business
	22	Gennadi Vengerov	55	Belarusian-German	Actor	Enemy at the Gates Soldiers of Fortune
	25	Don Mankiewicz	93	German-English	Screenwriter	House of Numbers The Chapman Report
	26	Jayne Meadows	95	American	Actress	City Slickers Lady in the Lake
	27	Andrew Lesnie	59	Australian	Cinematographer	The Lord of the Rings King Kong
	30	Nigel Terry	69	English	Actor	The Lion in Winter Excalibur
May	1	Stephen Milburn Anderson	67	American	Director, Producer, Screenwriter	South Central Cash
	1	Grace Lee Whitney	85	American	Actress	Star Trek Irma la Douce
	2	Michael Blake	69	American	Director, Screenwriter	Dances with Wolves Stacy's Knights
	2	Norman Thaddeus Vane	86	American	Director, Producer, Screenwriter	Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter Lola
	4	William Bast	83	American	Screenwriter	The Valley of Gwangi The Betsy
	4	Ellen Albertini Dow	101	American	Actress	Patch Adams Sister Act
	6	William Bronder	84	American	Actor	Stand by Me Yes, Giorgio
	9	Johnny Gimble	88	American	Actor	Honeysuckle Rose Songwriter
	9	Elizabeth Wilson	94	American	Actress	The Graduate The Addams Family
	9	Christopher Wood	79	English	Screenwriter	James Bond Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
	10	Rachel Rosenthal	88	French-American	Actress	Games The New Age
	13	Gill Dennis	74	American	Screenwriter	Walk the Line Return to Oz
	13	Robert Drasnin	87	American	Composer	The Candy Snatchers Ride in the Whirlwind
	14	B.B. King	89	American	Actor, Singer	Blues Brothers 2000 Spies Like Us
	15	Michael Campus	80	American	Director, Screenwriter	Z.P.G. The Mack
	15	John Stephenson	91	American	Actor	The Man Called Flintstone Charlotte's Web
	16	Jackie Basehart	63	American-Italian	Actor	The Inglorious Bastards Tea with Mussolini
	17	Claude Carliez	90	French	Actor, Stuntman	James Bond Valmont
	20	Mary Ellen Trainor	62	American	Actress	The Goonies Die Hard
	23	John Carter	87	American	Actor	Scarface Badlands
	23	Anne Meara	85	American	Actress	Fame Sex and the City
	26	Claudio Caligari	67	Italian	Director, Screenwriter	Toxic Love Don't Be Bad
	26	Bob Hornery	83	Australian	Actor	Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome Ground Zero
	28	Johnny Keating	87	Scottish	Composer	Innocent Bystanders Robbery
	28	Reynaldo Rey	75	American	Actor	House Party 3 Harlem Nights
	29	Betsy Palmer	88	American	Actress	Friday the 13th Mister Roberts
	30	Jake D'Arcy	60	Scottish	Actor	Gregory's Girl The Little Vampire
	30	Julie Harris	94	English	Costume Designer	Live and Let Die Darling
June	1	Katherine Chappell	29	American	Visual Effects	Captain America: The Winter Soldier Godzilla
	2	Alberto De Martino	85	Italian	Director, Screenwriter	Holocaust 2000 The Pumaman
	5	Giacomo Furia	90	Italian	Actor	The Gold of Naples The Band of Honest Men
	5	Richard Johnson	87	English	Actor	The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
	5	Seth Winston	64	American	Director, Producer, Screenwriter	She's Out of Control Session Man
	6	Ronnie Gilbert	88	American	Actress, Singer	Running on Empty Isadora
	7	Christopher Lee	93	English	Actor, Singer	Dracula The Lord of the Rings
	9	Jean Gruault	90	French	Screenwriter, Actor	The Story of Adele H. Two English Girls
	10	Robert Chartoff	81	American	Producer	Rocky Raging Bull
	11	Ornette Coleman	85	American	Composer, Actor	Naked Lunch Chappaqua
	11	Ron Moody	91	English	Actor	Oliver! The Twelve Chairs
	12	Rick Ducommun	62	Canadian	Actor	Scary Movie Groundhog Day
	12	Monica Lewis	93	American	Actress, Singer	Earthquake Affair with a Stranger
	13	Buddy Boudreaux	97	American	Actor	The Toy Blaze
	13	Junix Inocian	64	Filipino-English	Actor	Mortdecai The 51st State
	13	George Winslow	69	American	Actor	My Pal Gus Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
	16	Stephen Blauner	81	American	Producer	Drive, He Said Richard Pryor: Live in Concert
	17	Nicola Badalucco	86	Italian	Screenwriter	The Damned Death in Venice
	18	Jack Rollins	100	American	Producer	Annie Hall Manhattan
	18	John M. Stephens	82	American	Cinematographer	Billy Jack Blacula
	20	Anthony Sydes	74	American	Actor	Miracle on 34th Street Cheaper by the Dozen
	21	Tony Longo	53	American	Actor	Angels in the Outfield The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
	21	Remo Remotti	90	Italian	Actor	The Godfather Part III Nine
	22	Laura Antonelli	73	Italian	Actress	The Innocent Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs
	22	James Horner	61	American	Composer	Titanic Braveheart
	23	Elizabeth MacLennan	77	Scottish-English	Actress	Hands of the Ripper Joanna
	23	Magali Noël	83	Turkish-French	Actress, Singer	La Dolce Vita Amarcord
	23	Dick Van Patten	86	American	Actor	Spaceballs High Anxiety
	25	Patrick Macnee	93	English-American	Actor	The Avengers A View to a Kill
	28	Jack Carter	93	American	Actor	The Horizontal Lieutenant History of the World, Part I
	30	Edward Burnham	98	English	Actor	The Abominable Dr. Phibes Little Dorrit
July	1	Sergio Sollima	94	Italian	Director, Screenwriter	The Big Gundown Città violenta
	3	Diana Douglas	92	Bermudian-American	Actress	Planes, Trains and Automobiles It Runs in the Family
	3	Amanda Peterson	43	American	Actress	Can't Buy Me Love Annie
	3	Jacques Sernas	89	Lithuanian-French	Actor	Helen of Troy 55 Days at Peking
	6	Jerry Weintraub	77	American	Producer, Actor	Ocean's Trilogy The Karate Kid
	8	Irwin Keyes	63	American	Actor	The Flintstones Intolerable Cruelty
	8	Lloyd Reckord	86	Jamaican	Actor	Thunderball What a Whopper
	10	Roger Rees	71	Welsh-American	Actor	Robin Hood: Men in Tights Frida
	10	Omar Sharif	83	Egyptian	Actor, Producer, Screenwriter	Lawrence of Arabia Doctor Zhivago
	12	D'Army Bailey	73	American	Actor	How Stella Got Her Groove Back The People vs. Larry Flynt
	14	Olaf Pooley	101	English	Actor	The Assassination Bureau The Lost People
	15	Aubrey Morris	89	English	Actor	A Clockwork Orange The Wicker Man
	17	Nova Pilbeam	95	English	Actress	The Man Who Knew Too Much Young and Innocent
	18	George Coe	86	American	Actor, Producer	Kramer vs. Kramer The Stepford Wives
	18	Alex Rocco	79	American	Actor	The Godfather A Bug's Life
	19	Van Alexander	100	American	Composer	The Atomic Kid Tarzan and the Valley of Gold
	19	Douglas S. Cook	56	American	Screenwriter	The Rock Double Jeopardy
	21	Theodore Bikel	91	Austrian-American	Actor, Singer	My Fair Lady The Defiant Ones
	22	Natasha Parry	84	English	Actress	Romeo and Juliet Oh! What a Lovely War
	25	Robin Phillips	75	English-Canadian	Actor	Tales from the Crypt Two Gentlemen Sharing
	27	Tony Vogel	73	English	Actor	Raiders of the Lost Ark Mission: Impossible
	29	Antony Holland	95	English-Canadian	Actor	McCabe & Mrs. Miller The Accused
	30	Clifford Earl	81	English	Actor	Tales from the Crypt The Sea Wolves
	31	Roddy Piper	61	Canadian-American	Actor	They Live The One and Only
August	3	Coleen Gray	92	American	Actress	Red River The Killing
	5	George Cole	90	English	Actor	Cleopatra Henry V
	5	Joyce Ingalls	65	American	Actress	Lethal Weapon 4 Paradise Alley
	7	Terrence Evans	81	American	Actor	Terminator 2: Judgment Day The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
	7	Uggie	13	American	Actor	The Artist Water for Elephants
	8	Susan Sheridan	68	English	Actress	The Black Cauldron Eisenstein
	9	Frank Gifford	84	American	Actor	Jerry Maguire The All American
	9	Jack Gold	85	English	Director	Aces High Man Friday
	12	Stephen Lewis	88	English	Actor, Screenwriter	On the Buses Staircase
	13	Danford B. Greene	87	American	Film Editor	MASH Blazing Saddles
	16	Anna Kashfi	80	Indian-American	Actress	The Mountain Cowboy
	17	Yvonne Craig	78	American	Actress, Singer	Gidget Kissin' Cousins
	18	Bud Yorkin	89	American	Director, Producer	Inspector Clouseau Divorce American Style
	20	Melody Patterson	66	American	Actress	Bye Bye Birdie The Harrad Experiment
	26	Peter Kern	66	Austrian	Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter	Hitler: A Film from Germany Despair
	30	Wes Craven	76	American	Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter	A Nightmare on Elm Street Scream
September	1	Dean Jones	84	American	Actor	The Love Bug Beethoven
	3	Judy Carne	76	English	Actress	A Pair of Briefs The Americanization of Emily
	4	Jean Darling	93	American	Actress	Our Gang Babes in Toyland
	4	Warren Murphy	81	American	Screenwriter	Lethal Weapon 2 The Eiger Sanction
	5	Frederick "Dennis" Greene	66	American	Actor, Singer	Grease Dynamite Chicken
	5	Setsuko Hara	95	Japanese	Actress	Tokyo Story Late Spring
	5	Alan Steel	79	Italian	Actor	The Giant of Marathon Samson and the Slave Queen
	6	Martin Milner	83	American	Actor	Sweet Smell of Success Valley of the Dolls
	7	Merv Adelson	85	American	Producer	Twilight's Last Gleaming The Choirboys
	7	Dickie Moore	89	American	Actor	Our Gang Sergeant York
	10	John Connell	91	American	Actor	Fail Safe Three Days of the Condor
	10	Franco Interlenghi	83	Italian	Actor	The Barefoot Contessa Shoeshine
	12	Frank D. Gilroy	89	American	Director, Producer, Screenwriter	The Subject Was Roses The Fastest Gun Alive
	17	D. M. Marshman Jr.	92	American	Screenwriter	Sunset Boulevard Second Chance
	18	Nancy Bernstein	55	American	Visual Effects, Producer	Rise of the Guardians Armageddon
	19	Jackie Collins	77	English-American	Actress, Screenwriter	Barnacle Bill Intent to Kill
	20	Jack Larson	87	American	Actor, Producer	Superman Returns Johnny Trouble
	21	Yoram Gross	88	Polish-Australian	Director, Producer, Screenwriter	Blinky Bill the Movie The Little Convict
	22	Derek Ware	77	English	Actor, Stuntman	The Italian Job Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
	26	Tino García	80	Nicaraguan-Puerto Rican	Actor	Bananas Thunder Island
	27	Howard A. Anderson, Jr.	95	American	Visual Effects	Some Like It Hot Superman
	27	John Guillermin	89	English-American	Director, Producer	King Kong The Towering Inferno
	28	Catherine E. Coulson	71	American	Actress	Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me Another You
	29	Pat Woodell	71	American	Actress, Singer	The Big Doll House The Woman Hunt
October	4	Yves Barsacq	84	French	Actor	Love and Death Hit!
	5	Chantal Akerman	65	Belgian	Director, Producer, Screenwriter	A Couch in New York Almayer's Folly
	5	Larry Brezner	73	American	Producer	Throw Momma from the Train Good Morning, Vietnam
	5	Andrew Rubin	69	American	Actor	Police Academy Little Miss Marker
	6	Kevin Corcoran	66	American	Actor, Producer	Old Yeller Pete's Dragon
	7	Gene Allen	97	American	Art Director, Production Designer	My Fair Lady A Star Is Born
	8	Richard Davies	89	Welsh	Actor	Please Sir! Zulu
	9	Jean Badal	88	Hungarian	Cinematographer	What's New Pussycat? Playtime
	10	Tex Rudloff	89	American	Sound Editor	The Buddy Holly Story Halloween
	11	Bob Minkler	78	American	Sound Editor	Star Wars Tron
	12	Hal Hackady	93	American	Screenwriter	Hey, Let's Twist! Let's Rock
	12	Joan Leslie	90	American	Actress, Singer	Yankee Doodle Dandy Sergeant York
	21	Marty Ingels	79	American	Actor	If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium For Singles Only
	23	Leon Bibb	93	American	Actor, Singer	For Love of Ivy Stage Struck
	24	Christopher Chapman	88	Canadian	Visual Effects	Airport The Thomas Crown Affair
	24	Maureen O'Hara	95	Irish-American	Actress, Singer	Miracle on 34th Street The Parent Trap
	26	Sam Sarpong	40	English-American	Actor	Anchor Baby American History X
	27	Betsy Drake	92	French-American	Actress, Singer	Intent to Kill Dancing in the Dark
	29	Kenneth Gilbert	84	English	Actor	Twins of Evil Tomorrow at Ten
	31	Charles Herbert	66	American	Actor	The Fly Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
November	1	Fred Thompson	73	American	Actor	Die Hard 2 The Hunt for Red October
	2	Colin Welland	81	English	Actor, Screenwriter	Chariots of Fire Straw Dogs
	3	David Graham	91	American	Casting Director	Purple Rain The Turning Point
	3	Fred J. Scollay	92	American	Actor	Death Wish Stanley & Iris
	4	Melissa Mathison	65	American	Screenwriter	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial The Black Stallion
	5	George Barris	89	American	Designer	Jurassic Park Batman
	5	Ritch Brinkley	71	American	Actor	Breakdown Cabin Boy
	5	José Ángel Espinoza	96	Mexican	Actor	House of Evil Two Mules for Sister Sara
	7	Gunnar Hansen	68	Icelandic-American	Actor, Screenwriter	The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Campfire Tales
	8	Angad Paul	45	English	Producer	The Tournament Snatch
	9	Carol Doda	78	American	Actress, Dancer	Head Machine Gun McCain
	10	Allen Toussaint	77	American	Composer, Actor	Black Samson Eve's Bayou
	11	Nathaniel Marston	40	American	Actor	The Craft Love Is All There Is
	14	Warren Mitchell	89	English	Actor	Till Death Us Do Part Help!
	15	Dora Doll	93	German-French	Actress	Julia The Young Lions
	15	Saeed Jaffrey	86	Indian-English	Actor	Gandhi The Man Who Would Be King
	15	Nicoletta Machiavelli	71	Italian-American	Actress	Monte Carlo or Bust! Candy
	15	Moira Orfei	83	Italian	Actress	Under Ten Flags Samson and the Slave Queen
	16	David Canary	77	American	Actor	The St. Valentine's Day Massacre Hombre
	16	Nando Gazzolo	87	Italian	Actor	Django Shoots First The Hills Run Red
	16	Michael C. Gross	86	American	Producer	Ghostbusters Beethoven
	19	Rex Reason	86	German-American	Actor	This Island Earth The Creature Walks Among Us
	20	Keith Michell	88	Australian-English	Actor	Henry VIII and His Six Wives The Executioner
	21	Tayva Patch	62	American	Actress	Little Secrets Brigham City
	22	Hazel Adair	95	English	Actress, Producer	My Brother Jonathan Game for Vultures
	22	Robin Stewart	69	Indian-English	Actor	The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires The Haunted House of Horror
	25	Kerry Casey	61	Australian	Actor	Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie Moulin Rouge!
	25	Beth Rogan	84	English	Actress	Mysterious Island Compelled
	25	Elmo Williams	102	American	Director, Producer, Editor	High Noon 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
	27	Barbro Hiort af Ornäs	94	Swedish	Actress	The Touch What the Swedish Butler Saw
	28	Doug Lennox	77	Canadian	Actor	X-Men Police Academy
	28	Marjorie Lord	97	American	Actress	Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! Sherlock Holmes in Washington
	30	Eldar Ryazanov	88	Russian	Director, Screenwriter	Hussar Ballad Office Romance
December	2	Gabriele Ferzetti	90	Italian	Actor	On Her Majesty's Secret Service Once Upon a Time in the West
	2	Anthony Valentine	76	English	Actor	Escape to Athena Jefferson in Paris
	4	Robert Loggia	85	American	Actor, Director	Scarface Jagged Edge
	6	Nicholas Smith	81	English	Actor, Singer	Are You Being Served? Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
	6	Holly Woodlawn	69	Puerto Rican-American	Actress	Trash Women in Revolt
	7	Martin E. Brooks	90	American	Actor	Colossus: The Forbin Project The Man
	7	Shirley Stelfox	74	English	Actress	Carry On at Your Convenience Nineteen Eighty-Four
	10	Denis Héroux	75	Canadian	Director, Producer	The Uncanny Naked Massacre
	14	Edmund Lyndeck	90	American	Actor, Singer	Big Daddy Enchanted
	15	Ken Pogue	81	Canadian	Actor	The Dead Zone The Hitman
	19	Louis DiGiaimo	77	American	Casting Director, Producer	The Godfather The Exorcist
	20	Patricia Elliott	77	American	Actress	The Green Slime Somebody Killed Her Husband
	20	Angela McEwan	81	American	Actress	Nebraska Radio Free Albemuth
	21	Carol Burns	68	Australian	Actress	Starstruck Tracks
	22	Brooke McCarter	52	American	Actor	The Lost Boys Fast Getaway
	23	Michael Earl	53	American	Actor, Singer, Puppeteer	The Muppet Movie Men in Black II
	25	George Clayton Johnson	86	American	Screenwriter, Actor	Twilight Zone: The Movie The Intruder
	25	Jason Wingreen	95	American	Actor	The Empire Strikes Back Airplane!
	27	Franco Giacobini	89	Italian	Actor	Erik the Conqueror The Mercenary
	27	Haskell Wexler	93	American	Cinematographer, Director	Bound for Glory Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
	28	Lemmy	70	English	Actor, Singer	Airheads Hardware
	29	Billie Allen	90	American	Actress, Dancer	The Wiz Black Like Me
	31	Natalie Cole	65	American	Actress, Singer	De-Lovely Cats Don't Dance
	31	Wayne Rogers	82	American	Actor, Producer, Screenwriter	Cool Hand Luke The Hot Touch

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