2019 in film

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2019 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, critics' lists of the best films of 2019, festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, and movie programming. Avengers: Endgame was the year's highest grossing film and became the highest-grossing film of all-time until Avatar regained the top spot in 2021. United Artists celebrated its 100th anniversary.

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Evaluation of the year

In his article highlighting the best movies of 2019, Richard Brody of The New Yorker said, "It's the year of apocalyptic cinema of the highest order, the year in which three of our best filmmakers have responded with vast ambition, invention, and inspiration to the crises at hand, including the threats to American democracy, the catastrophic menaces arising from global warming, the corrosive cruelty of ethnic hatreds and nationalist prejudices, and the poisonous overconcentration of money and power. At the same time, it's a year of inside-movies practicalities, of special attention to the business at hand, because of the structural threats to the movie business from new and powerful players. The major crisis specific to cinema outleaps even the great merits of individual movies and invokes basic and comprehensive questions of which movies can be seen and how those movies are acknowledged. It's a terrific year for movies, but it would seem much less so if we only considered movies in wide release. Versions of that refrain come up every year, but what used to be merely a gap between the multiplexes and limited releases has now become an abyss."[1]

Highest-grossing films

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The top films released in 2019 by worldwide gross are as follows:[2]

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Highest-grossing films of 2019
RankTitleDistributorWorldwide gross
1 Avengers: Endgame Disney $2,799,439,100
2 The Lion King $1,656,943,394
3 Frozen 2 $1,450,026,933
4 Spider-Man: Far From Home Sony Pictures $1,131,927,996
5 Captain Marvel Disney $1,128,274,794
6 Joker Warner Bros. $1,078,751,311
7 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Disney $1,074,144,248
8 Toy Story 4 $1,073,394,593
9 Aladdin $1,050,693,953
10 Jumanji: The Next Level Sony Pictures $801,693,929
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Avengers: Endgame became the fifth film to gross $2 billion worldwide and the highest-grossing film of all time. The Lion King, Frozen II, Spider-Man: Far From Home, Captain Marvel, Joker, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Toy Story 4, and Aladdin all grossed $1 billion, with the second, third, and eighth as the first, second, and fifth highest-grossing animated films, respectively. Joker became the first R-rated film in history to surpass $1 billion.

2019 box office records

Studio records

  • Walt Disney Studios became the first studio in history to surpass $10 billion in worldwide box office grosses in a year.[5]
  • Spider-Man: Far From Home became Sony Pictures' highest-grossing film. The record would be surpassed by 2021's Spider-Man: No Way Home.
  • With Toy Story 4, Pixar became the first animation studio to have four animated films (along with Toy Story 3, Finding Dory, and Incredibles 2) each surpass $1 billion at the worldwide box office,[6] and also the second animated film series to have two installments surpass $1 billion at the worldwide box office, after the Despicable Me franchise in 2017.

Film records

  • The Wandering Earth set the all-time opening record in China, grossing $349 million in its first seven days, which also made it the second biggest opening in any territory (after Star Wars: The Force Awakens in North America).[7]
  • Pokémon Detective Pikachu earned the best North American opening for a film based on a video game, with a $58 million debut.[8] By June 14, 2019, Detective Pikachu became the highest-grossing video game film adaptation in North America, surpassing Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001).[9][10]
  • Avengers: Endgame set numerous box office records,[11][12] including becoming the highest-grossing film of all time.[13]
  • Capernaum became the highest-grossing Middle-Eastern film of all time, having earned more than $50 million worldwide (including $43.5 million in China) by 16 May 2019.[14]
  • Aladdin became the highest-grossing release of all time in the Middle East,[15] and had the year's biggest opening weekend for a foreign film as well as this year's highest-grossing foreign film in Japan to date. The film has also surpassed Independence Day (1996) to become the highest-grossing film of Will Smith's career.[16] The film also became the highest-grossing Disney film ever in South Korea, not including films from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
  • In June, Toy Story 4 set the record for the biggest opening for an animated film, with $244.5 million. However, the record was surpassed the following month by The Lion King, which grossed $246 million.[dubious discuss] The latter then became the fastest animated film to gross $1 billion worldwide, doing so in 21 days, surpassing Incredibles 2 (46 days). The Lion King then surpassed Frozen (2013) to become the highest-grossing animated film and highest-grossing musical film of all time in only 31 days.[17] On the other hand, Toy Story 4 surpassed Toy Story 3 to become the highest-grossing film of the series.
  • The Lion King set the record for the widest opening weekend and widest release ever for North American film history, with 4,725 and 4,802 theaters, respectively.[18] On August 11, the film surpassed Beauty and the Beast (2017) as the highest-grossing remake of all time worldwide.[19] On August 26, the film become the first animated film to grossed $1 billion at overseas box office outside North America.
  • Ne Zha set the record for the biggest opening for an animated film in China, with $91.5 million, this was also the highest for a non-Hollywood animated film. It later became the first non-Hollywood animated film to earn $500 million (in 17 days), $600 million (in 25 days), and $700 million (in 46 days) and the first animated film not released by Universal, Disney, or Fox to do so.
  • Joker became the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time, and the first R-rated film to pass the billion-dollar mark at the worldwide box office.[20]
  • In November, Frozen II surpassed the record set by The Lion King earlier in July, as the biggest opening weekend for an animated and musical film with $358.5 million worldwide.
  • 2019 is the first year to have nine films cross the billion-dollar milestone, surpassing 2015's and 2018's record of five billion-dollar films.[6][21][22][23]

Events

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Award ceremonies

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Date Event Host Location
January 6 76th Golden Globe Awards Hollywood Foreign Press Association Beverly Hills, California, U.S.[28]
January 12 24th Forqué Awards EGEDA Zaragoza, Spain[29]
January 13 24th Critics' Choice Awards Broadcast Film Critics Association Santa Monica, California, U.S.
January 19 Producers Guild of America Awards 2018 Producers Guild of America Beverly Hills, California, U.S.[30]
January 27 25th Screen Actors Guild Awards SAG-AFTRA Los Angeles, California, U.S.[31]
January 28 54th Guldbagge Awards Swedish Film Institute Stockholm, Sweden
February 2 46th Annie Awards International Animated Film Association Los Angeles, California, U.S.
71st Directors Guild of America Awards Directors Guild of America Los Angeles, California, U.S.
33rd Goya Awards Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain Seville, Spain
9th Magritte Awards Académie André Delvaux Brussels, Belgium[32]
February 10 72nd British Academy Film Awards British Academy of Film and Television Arts London, England, UK
February 22 23rd Satellite Awards International Press Academy Century City, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
February 23 39th Golden Raspberry Awards Golden Raspberry Award Foundation Los Angeles, California, U.S.[33]
34th Independent Spirit Awards Independent Spirit Awards Santa Monica, California, U.S.[34]
February 24 91st Academy Awards Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Hollywood, California, U.S.[35]
March 1 42nd Japan Academy Film Prize Nippon Academy-shō Association Tokyo, Japan
March 23 64th Filmfare Awards Filmfare Mumbai, India
March 27 64th David di Donatello Accademia del Cinema Italiano Rome, Italy
April 14 38th Hong Kong Film Awards Hong Kong Film Awards Association Ltd. Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong
April 28 2019 FAMAS Awards Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Pasig, Philippines
September 13 45th Saturn Awards Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films Burbank, California, U.S.[36]
November 21 40th Blue Dragon Film Awards Sports Chosun Incheon, South Korea
November 23 56th Golden Horse Awards Motion Picture Development Foundation R.O.C. Taipei, Taiwan
December 23 66th National Film Awards Directorate of Film Festivals
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Festivals

List of some of the film festivals for 2019 that have been accredited by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF).

Awards

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Palme d'Or (72nd Cannes Film Festival):

Parasite (기생충), directed by Bong Joon-ho, South Korea

Golden Lion (76th Venice International Film Festival):

Joker, directed by Todd Phillips, United States

Golden Bear (69th Berlin International Film Festival):

Synonyms (Synonymes), directed by Nadav Lapid, Israel

2019 films

By country/region

By genre/medium

Deaths

More information Month, Date ...
MonthDateNameAgeCountryProfessionNotable films
January 1Ivo Gregurević66CroatiaActor
4Ivan Bortnik79RussiaActor
4Louisa Moritz82CubaActress
6Gregg Rudloff63USSound Engineer
6W. Morgan Sheppard86UKActor
9Verna Bloom80USActress
9Paul Koslo74GermanyActor
9Paolo Paoloni89ItalyActor
11Fernando Luján79MexicoActor
12Etsuko Ichihara82JapanActress
15Bill Anagnos60USStuntman
15Carol Channing97USActress
17Daniel C. Striepeke88USMakeup Artist
19Muriel Pavlow97UKActress
20Andrew G. Vajna74HungaryProducer
21Kaye Ballard93USActress
22James Frawley82USDirector, Actor
23Jonas Mekas96LithuaniaDocumentarian
25Dušan Makavejev86SerbiaDirector, Screenwriter
26Michel Legrand86FranceComposer
30Dick Miller90USActor
February 1Clive Swift82UKActor
2Catherine Burns73USActress
3Julie Adams92USActress
3Carmen Duncan76AustraliaActress
4Nita Bieber92USActress
7Albert Finney82UKActor
9Ron W. Miller85USProducer, Executive
10Carmen Argenziano75USActor
10Mario Bernardo99ItalyCinematographer
10Jan-Michael Vincent74USActor
13Marisa Solinas79ItalyActress, Singer
16Bruno Ganz77SwitzerlandActor
19Giulio Brogi83ItalyActor
20Chelo Alonso85CubaActress
20Claude Goretta89SwitzerlandDirector
20Vinny Vella72USActor
21Stanley Donen94USDirector, Choreographer
21Peter Tork77USActor, Singer
22Kodi Ramakrishna69IndiaDirector
22Morgan Woodward93USActor
23Katherine Helmond89USActress
23Shmuel Wolf85IsraelActor
28André Previn89GermanyComposer
March 2Med Hondo83MauritaniaDirector, Actor
4Luke Perry52USActor
5Susan Harrison80USActress
5Jacques Loussier84FranceComposer
7Pino Caruso84ItalyActor
7William J. Creber87USProduction Designer
7Sidney Sheinberg84USProducer, Executive
16Richard Erdman93USActor
16Barbara Hammer79USDirector, Documentarian
16Tom Hatten92USActor
18John Carl Buechler66USDirector, Makeup Artist
21Pyotr Zaychenko75RussiaActor
23Larry Cohen82USDirector, Screenwriter
23Denise DuBarry63USActress
24Nancy Gates93USActress
24Michael Lynne77USStudio Executive
24Joseph Pilato70USActor
29Shane Rimmer89CanadaActor
29Agnès Varda90FranceDirector, Screenwriter
April 2Mahendran79IndiaDirector, Screenwriter
3Jerzy Wójcik88PolandCinematographer
4Barry Malkin80USFilm Editor
4Roberta Haynes91USActress
5Nadja Regin87SerbiaActress
7Seymour Cassel84USActor
12Georgia Engel70USActress
12John McEnery75UKActor
13Gerry Becker68USActor
13Norman Garwood73UKProduction Designer
14Bibi Andersson83SwedenActress
16Fay McKenzie101USActress
20David V. Picker87USProducer, Executive
21Steve Golin64USProducer
21Ken Kercheval83USActor
23Mark Medoff79USScreenwriter
23Terry Rawlings85UKFilm Editor
23David Winters80UKActor, Director, Choreographer
24Jean-Pierre Marielle87FranceActor
26Jessie Lawrence Ferguson76USActor
28John Singleton51USDirector, Screenwriter
29George Litto88USProducer
30Anémone68FranceActress
30Peter Mayhew74UKActor
May 1Alessandra Panaro79ItalyActress
2Chris Reccardi54USAnimator
5Barbara Perry97USActress
9Allene Roberts90USActress
9Alvin Sargent92USScreenwriter
11Jean-Claude Brisseau74FranceDirector, Screenwriter
11Peggy Lipton72USActress
12Machiko Kyō95JapanActress
13Doris Day97USActress, Singer
14Tim Conway85USActor
17Rallapalli73IndiaActor
18Analía Gadé87ArgentinaActress
28Carmine Caridi85USActor
29Peggy Stewart95USActress
June 2Alistair Browning65New ZealandActor
7Narciso Ibáñez Serrador83SpainDirector, Screenwriter
9Ma Ju-lung80TaiwanActor
9William D. Wittliff79USScreenwriter
11Valeria Valeri97ItalyActress
12Sylvia Miles94USActress
13Edith González54MexicoActress
13Sean McCann83CanadaActor
15Franco Zeffirelli96ItalyDirector, Screenwriter
20Eddie Garcia90PhilippinesActor
21William Simons78UKActor
24Billy Drago73USActor
25Bruno de Keyzer69FranceCinematographer
25Bryan Marshall81UKActor
26Édith Scob81FranceActress
26Max Wright75USActor
27Ben Barenholtz83PolandProducer, Executive
27Vijaya Nirmala73IndiaDirector, Actor
28Paul Benjamin81USActor
29Jeon Mi-seon48South KoreaActress
30Glyn Houston93UKActor
July 1Ennio Guarnieri88ItalyCinematographer
1Sid Ramin100USComposer, Arranger
2Pat Crawford Brown90USActress
3Arte Johnson90USActor
4Eduardo Fajardo94SpainActor
4Arturo Fernández90SpainActor
5Ugo Gregoretti88ItalyDirector, Actor
5Pierre Lhomme89FranceCinematographer
6Cameron Boyce20USActor
6Eddie Jones84USActor
7Artur Brauner100GermanyProducer
9Freddie Jones91UKActor
9Rip Torn88USActor
10Valentina Cortese96ItalyActress
10Denise Nickerson62USActress
13Richard Carter65AustraliaActor
13Stephen Verona78DirectorDirector
18David Hedison92USActor
19Rutger Hauer75NetherlandsActor
19Jeremy Kemp84UKActor
20Ilaria Occhini85ItalyActress
25Giorgio Arlorio90ItalyScreenwriter
26Russi Taylor75USVoice Actress
27Edward Lewis99USProducer
28George Hilton85UruguayActor
31Raffaele Pisu94ItalyActor
31Harold Prince91USDirector, Producer
August 1D. A. Pennebaker94USDocumentarian
1Barrington Pheloung65AustraliaComposer
8Jean-Pierre Mocky86FranceDirector, Actor, Screenwriter
10Piero Tosi92ItalyCostume Designer
11Gordan Mihić80SerbiaScreenwriter
16Peter Fonda79USActor, Screenwriter, Director
16Anna Quayle86UKActress
16Richard Williams86CanadaAnimator, Director
18Encarna Paso88SpainActress
19James R. Alexander88USSound Engineer
23Carlo Delle Piane83ItalyActor
25Mona Lisa97PhilippinesActress
28Michel Aumont82FranceActor
30Valerie Harper80USActress
September 3Carol Lynley77USActress
7Robert Axelrod70USActor
8John Wesley72USActor
11Mardik Martin82USScreenwriter
15David Hurst93GermanyActor
15Phyllis Newman86USActress
19Charles Gérard92FranceActor
20Jan Merlin94USActor
21Sid Haig80USActor
22Boriss Teterevs63LatviaProducer
25Venu Madhav39 or 50IndiaActor
27Rob Garrison59USActor
28Mark Zakharov85RussiaDirector, Screenwriter
30Marshall Efron81USActor
30Wayne Fitzgerald89USTitle Designer
October 1Eric Pleskow95AustriaStudio Executive
2Paul LeBlanc73CanadaHairstylist
4Diahann Carroll84USActress, Singer
4Stephen Moore81UKActor
5Dolores Dorn85USActress
6Vlasta Chramostová92Czech RepublicActress
6Rip Taylor88USActor
9John W. Corso89USProduction Designer
10Marie-José Nat79FranceActress
11Robert Forster78USActor
17Zev Braun90USProducer
17Bill Macy97USActor
17Victor Mohica86USActor
22Raymond Leppard92UKComposer
26Robert Evans89USProducer, Executive
26Pascale Roberts89FranceActress
28Annick Alane94FranceActress
29John Witherspoon77USActor
30Bernard Slade89CanadaScreenwriter
31Florence Giorgetti75FranceActress
November 2Marie Laforêt80FranceActress, Singer
2Brian Tarantina60USActor
4Virginia Leith94USActress
5Omero Antonutti84ItalyActor
7Nik Powell69UKProducer
8Fred Bongusto84ItalyComposer
10Lawrence G. Paull81USProduction Designer
13Arthur Marks92USDirector
13Niall Tóibín89IrelandActor
14Branko Lustig87CroatiaProducer
15Jorge Vergara64MexicoProducer
16Vojtěch Jasný93Czech RepublicDirector
18Laure Killing60FranceActress
20Michael J. Pollard80USActor
24Joan Staley79USActress
27Godfrey Gao35TaiwanActor
28Gene Warren Jr.78USVisual Effects Artist
December 1Michael Lai73Hong KongComposer
1Shelley Morrison83USActress
4Leonard Goldberg85USProducer
5Robert Walker79USActor
6Ron Leibman82USActor
6Natalie Trundy79USActress
8René Auberjonois79USActor
8Caroll Spinney85USPuppeteer
12Danny Aiello86USActor
12Gollapudi Maruti Rao80IndiaActor, Screenwriter
14John Briley94USScreenwriter
14Anna Karina79DenmarkActress
15Nicky Henson74UKActor
16Peter Larkin93USProduction Designer
18Claudine Auger78FranceActress
22Tony Britton95UKActor
23David Foster90USProducer
25Lee Mendelson86USProducer
26Jerry Herman88USComposer, Lyricist
26Sue Lyon73USActress
27Jack Sheldon88USSinger, Actor
29Neil Innes75UKComposer, Actor
30Jan Fedder64GermanyActor
30Jack Garfein89USDirector
30Syd Mead86USConcept Artist
30Elizabeth Sellars98UKActress
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Film debuts

Notes

  1. From 2016 onward, the category was shifted from the Critics' Choice Awards to the ancillary Critics' Choice Documentary Awards.

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