2015 in film

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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.

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Fox Film (now 20th Century Fox), Universal City, California and Universal Studios Lot celebrated their 100th anniversaries; The Sound of Music and Dolby celebrated their 50th anniversaries.

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

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

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Highest-grossing films of 2015
RankTitleDistributorWorldwide 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 $880,674,609
7 Inside Out Disney $858,811,174
8 Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation Paramount $682,714,267
9 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 Lionsgate $653,428,261
10 The Martian 20th Century Fox $630,161,890
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens grossed over $2 billion, becoming 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 sixth 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, 20012011), 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.
  • Furious 7 became the highest-grossing film ever distributed by Universal, surpassing the 22-year-old record set by Jurassic Park in 1993. However it shortly lost the record to Jurassic World in June, just two months later. It was also the first film distributed by Universal to gross $1 billion in its initial release, since Jurassic Park did so after it was re-released in 2013.

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,[13][14] surpassing 2012's record of four,[15] but later was surpassed in 2019 to have nine films with that milestone.[16] It has also set the record for the greatest number of films crossing the $1.5 billion mark with three.

Events

Award ceremonies

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Date Event Host Location Source
January 11 72nd Golden Globe Awards Hollywood Foreign Press Association Beverly Hills, California [17]
January 15 20th Critics' Choice Awards Broadcast Film Critics Association Santa Monica, California [18]
January 24 Producers Guild of America Awards 2014 Producers Guild of America Beverly Hills, California [19]
January 25 21st Screen Actors Guild Awards Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists Los Angeles, California [20]
January 26 50th Guldbagge Awards Swedish Film Institute Djurgården, Sweden [21]
January 31 4th AACTA International Awards Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Los Angeles, California [22]
60th Filmfare Awards Filmfare Mumbai, India
February 2 20th Lumières Awards Académie des Lumières Paris, France [23]
February 4 African-American Film Critics Association Awards 2014 African-American Film Critics Association Hollywood, California [24]
February 7 29th Goya Awards Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain Madrid, Spain [25]
5th Magritte Awards Académie André Delvaux Brussels, Belgium [26]
67th Directors Guild of America Awards Directors Guild of America Los Angeles, California, U.S.
February 8 68th British Academy Film Awards British Academy of Film and Television Arts London, England [27]
February 14 67th Writers Guild of America Awards Writers Guild of America Manhattan, New York, U.S. & Los Angeles, California, U.S.
February 15 19th Satellite Awards International Press Academy Los Angeles, California [28]
February 20 40th César Awards Academy of Cinema Arts and Techniques Paris, France [29]
February 21 30th Independent Spirit Awards Independent Spirit Awards [30]
35th Golden Raspberry Awards Golden Raspberry Awards Hollywood, California
February 22 87th Academy Awards Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Hollywood, California [31]
April 12 2015 MTV Movie Awards MTV Los Angeles, California [32]
May 3 62nd National Film Awards Directorate of Film Festivals India [33][34]
June 25 41st Saturn Awards Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films Burbank, California [35]
September 20 2015 FAMAS Awards Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Awards Newport City, Metro Manila [36]
December 12 28th European Film Awards European Film Academy Berlin, Germany [37]
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Festivals

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Date Event Host Location Source
January 22 – February 1 2015 Sundance Film Festival Sundance Institute Park City, Utah [38]
February 5–15 65th Berlin International Film Festival Berlin International Film Festival Berlin, Germany [39]
May 13–24 2015 Cannes Film Festival Cannes Film Festival Cannes, France [40]
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, New York
November 13–29 19th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Tallinn, Estonia [41]
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
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Awards

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Palme d'Or (68th Cannes Film Festival):

Dheepan, directed by Jacques Audiard, France

Golden Lion (72nd Venice International Film Festival):

From Afar (Desde allá), directed by Lorenzo Vigas, Venezuela

Golden Bear (65th Berlin International Film Festival):

Taxi (تاکسی), directed by Jafar Panahi, Iran

2015 films

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By genre/medium

Deaths

More information Month, Date ...
MonthDateNameAgeCountryProfessionNotable films
January 1Donna Douglas81USActress
4Bernard Williams72UKProducer
5Khan Bonfils42UKActor
6Lance Percival81UKActor
7Rod Taylor84AustraliaActor
9Samuel Goldwyn Jr.88USProducer, Director
10Brian Clemens83UKScreenwriter
10George Dickerson81USActor
10Taylor Negron57USActor
10Francesco Rosi92ItalyDirector, Screenwriter
11Anita Ekberg83SwedenActress
13Frank Mazzola79USActor, Film Editor
14Darren Shahlavi42UKActor, Stuntman
14Layne Tom Jr.87USActor
15Alan Hirschfield79USStudio Executive
16Walter Peregoy89USAnimator
17Faten Hamama83EgyptActress
17Don Harron90CanadaActor
23Barrie Ingham82UKActor
29Rod McKuen81USComposer, Singer
30Geraldine McEwan82UKActress
31Robert Blees96USScreenwriter
31Lizabeth Scott92USActress, Singer
February 2Stewart Stern92USScreenwriter
3Mary Healy96USActress, Singer
4Monica Scattini59ItalyActress
11Roger Hanin89FranceActor, Director, Screenwriter
12Movita Castaneda98USActress
14Louis Jourdan93FranceActor, Singer
15Eileen Essell92UKActress
16Lesley Gore68USSinger, Songwriter
17June Fairchild68USActress
19Frank Ramírez65ColombiaActor
20Patricia Norris83USCostume Designer, Production Designer
21Bruce Sinofsky58USDocumentarian
27Richard Bakalyan84USActor
27Leonard Nimoy83USActor, Director
March 1Daniel von Bargen64USActor
3Lynn Borden77USActress
5Albert Maysles88USDocumentarian
10Richard Glatzer63USDirector, Screenwriter
11Ralph Taeger78USActor
13Vincent Wong87UKActor
14Ib Melchior97DenmarkDirector, Screenwriter
15Sally Forrest86USActress, Dancer
20Walter Grauman93USDirector, Producer
20Gregory Walcott87USActor
21Alberta Watson60CanadaActress
24Monte Merrick65USScreenwriter
25Ivo Garrani91ItalyActor
27Rik Battaglia88ItalyActor
28Richard L. Bare101USDirector, Screenwriter
28Miroslav Ondříček80Czech RepublicCinematographer
28Gene Saks93USActor, Director
30Robert Z'Dar64USActor
April 1Robert Walker54CanadaAnimator, Director
2Manoel de Oliveira106PortugalDirector, Screenwriter
3Vivian Nathan98USActress
3Robert Rietti91UKActor
5Richard Dysart86USActor
5Richard LaSalle97USComposer
5Tom Towles65USActor
5Julie Wilson90USActress, Singer
6James Best88USActor
7Eugene Louis Faccuito90USDancer
7Stan Freberg88USVoice Actor
7Geoffrey Lewis79USActor
10Paul Almond83CanadaDirector
10Judith Malina88USActress
13Claire Gordon74UKActress
22Gennadi Vengerov55BelarusActor
23Richard Corliss71USFilm CriticNone; critiqued films for Time Magazine
25Don Mankiewicz93GermanyScreenwriter
26Jayne Meadows95USActress
27Andrew Lesnie59AustraliaCinematographer
30Nigel Terry69UKActor
May 1Stephen Milburn Anderson67USDirector, Screenwriter
1Grace Lee Whitney85USActress
2Michael Blake69USScreenwriter
2Norman Thaddeus Vane86USDirector, Screenwriter
4William Bast83USScreenwriter
4Ellen Albertini Dow101USActress
6William Bronder84USActor
7Arieh Elias94IsraelActor
9Elizabeth Wilson94USActress
9Christopher Wood79UKScreenwriter
13Gill Dennis74USScreenwriter
14B.B. King89USSinger, Actor
15Michael Campus80USDirector
15John Stephenson91USActor
15Donald Wrye80USDirector
16Jackie Basehart63USActor
17Claude Carliez90FranceStuntman
20Mary Ellen Trainor62USActress
23John Carter87USActor
23Anne Meara85USActress
26Vicente Aranda[42]88SpainDirector
26Claudio Caligari67ItalyDirector, Screenwriter
25Russell Wolfe50USProducer
28Reynaldo Rey75USActor
29Betsy Palmer88USActress
30Jake D'Arcy60UKActor
30Julie Harris94UKCostume Designer
June 2Alberto De Martino85ItalyDirector, Screenwriter
4Hugh Johnson69IrelandCinematographer, Director
5Richard Johnson87UKActor
5Seth Winston64USDirector, Producer, Screenwriter
7Christopher Lee93UKActor
9Jean Gruault90FranceScreenwriter
10Robert Chartoff81USProducer
10Julie Kirkham61USProducer
11Ron Moody91UKActor
12Rick Ducommun62CanadaActor
12Monica Lewis93USActress, Singer
13Junix Inocian64PhilippinesActor
13George Winslow69USActor
15Kirk Kerkorian98USStudio Executive
16Stephen Blauner81USProducer
17Nicola Badalucco86ItalyScreenwriter
18Jack Rollins100USProducer
18John M. Stephens82USCinematographer
21Tony Longo53USActor
22Laura Antonelli73ItalyActress
22James Horner61USComposer
23Magali Noël83FranceActress, Singer
23Dick Van Patten86USActor
25Patrick Macnee93UKActor
28Jack Carter93USActor
30Edward Burnham98UKActor
July 1Sergio Sollima94ItalyDirector, Screenwriter
3Diana Douglas92USActress
3Amanda Peterson43USActress
3Jacques Sernas89LithuaniaActor
6Jerry Weintraub77USProducer
8Irwin Keyes63USActor
9Michael Masser74USComposer, Songwriter
10Roger Rees71UKActor
10Omar Sharif83EgyptActor
15Aubrey Morris89UKActor
17Nova Pilbeam95UKActress
18George Coe86USActor
18Alex Rocco79USActor
19Van Alexander100USComposer
19Douglas S. Cook56USScreenwriter
21Theodore Bikel91AustriaActor, Singer
22Natasha Parry84UKActress
25Robin Phillips75UKActor
27Tony Vogel73UKActor
28Shawn Robinson41USStuntman
29Antony Holland95UKActor
31Roddy Piper61CanadaActor
August 3Coleen Gray92USActress
5George Cole90UKActor
5Joyce Ingalls65USActress
7Terrence Evans81USActor
7Uggie13USActor
9Jack Gold85UKDirector
13Danford B. Greene87USFilm Editor
16Anna Kashfi80IndiaActress
17Yvonne Craig78USActress, Singer
18Bud Yorkin89USDirector, Producer
20Melody Patterson66USActress
26Peter Kern66AustriaActor, Director, Screenwriter
30Wes Craven76USDirector, Producer, Screenwriter
September 1Dean Jones84USActor
4Jean Darling93USActress
4Warren Murphy81USScreenwriter
5Setsuko Hara95JapanActress
5Alan Steel79ItalyActor
6Martin Milner83USActor
7Merv Adelson85USProducer
7Dickie Moore89USActor
10Franco Interlenghi83ItalyActor
12Frank D. Gilroy89USDirector, Screenwriter
17D. M. Marshman Jr.92USScreenwriter
18Nancy Bernstein55USVisual Effects Artist, Producer
20Jack Larson87USActor, Producer
21Yoram Gross88PolandDirector
22Derek Ware77UKActor, Stuntman
27Howard A. Anderson, Jr.95USVisual Effects Artist
27John Guillermin89UKDirector, Producer
29Pat Woodell71USActress
October 4Yves Barsacq84FranceActor
5Chantal Akerman65BelgiumDirector, Screenwriter
5Larry Brezner73USProducer
5Andrew Rubin69USActor
6Kevin Corcoran66USActor, Producer
7Gene Allen97USArt Director, Production Designer
8Richard Davies89UKActor
9Jean Badal88HungaryCinematographer
10Penelope Houston88UKFilm Critic
10Tex Rudloff89USSound Engineer
11Bob Minkler78USSound Engineer
12Joan Leslie90USActress
21Marty Ingels79USActor
23Leon Bibb93USSinger, Actor
24Christopher Chapman88CanadaDirector
24Maureen O'Hara95IrelandActress
27Betsy Drake92USActress
31Charles Herbert66USActor
November 1Fred Thompson73USActor
2Colin Welland81UKActor, Screenwriter
3David Graham91USCasting Director
4Melissa Mathison65USScreenwriter
5Ritch Brinkley71USActor
7Gunnar Hansen68IcelandActor
8Angad Paul45UKProducer
14Warren Mitchell89UKActor
15Dora Doll93FranceActress
15Saeed Jaffrey86IndiaActor
15Nicoletta Machiavelli71ItalyActress
15Moira Orfei83ItalyActress
16Michael C. Gross86USProducer
19Rex Reason86USActor
20Keith Michell88AustraliaActor
25Beth Rogan84UKActress
25Elmo Williams102USFilm Editor, Director, Producer
27Barbro Hiort af Ornäs94SwedenActress
28Marjorie Lord97USActress
30Eldar Ryazanov88RussiaDirector, Screenwriter
30Steve Shagan88USScreenwriter
December 2Gabriele Ferzetti90ItalyActor
4Robert Loggia85USActor
5Marília Pêra72BrazilActress
6Nicholas Smith81UKActor
6Holly Woodlawn69USActress
7Shirley Stelfox74UKActress
10Denis Héroux75CanadaProducer, Director
14Edmund Lyndeck90USActor
15Ken Pogue81CanadaActor
19Louis DiGiaimo77USCasting Director, Producer
22Brooke McCarter52USActor
25Jason Wingreen95USActor
27Franco Giacobini89ItalyActor
27Haskell Wexler93USCinematographer, Director
31Wayne Rogers82USActor
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