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2005 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, notable deaths and film debuts.

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Highest-grossing films

The top 10 films released in 2005 by worldwide gross are as follows: [1]

Highest-grossing films of 2005
RankTitleDistributorWorldwide gross
1 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Warner Bros. $895,921,036
2 Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith 20th Century Fox $868,352,530
3 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Buena Vista $745,013,115
4 War of the Worlds Paramount / DreamWorks $603,873,119
5 King Kong Universal $562,363,449
6 Madagascar DreamWorks $542,063,846
7 Mr. & Mrs. Smith 20th Century Fox $487,287,646
8 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Warner Bros. $474,968,763
9 Batman Begins $371,853,783
10 Hitch Sony Pictures / Columbia $371,594,210

Events

MonthDayEvent
January6The Directors Guild of America nominates directors Martin Scorsese ( The Aviator ), Marc Forster ( Finding Neverland ), Taylor Hackford ( Ray ), Clint Eastwood ( Million Dollar Baby ) and Alexander Payne ( Sideways ) for its Directors Guild Awards.
8The National Society of Film Critics awards go to Million Dollar Baby (film), Zhang Yimou (director, for: House of Flying Daggers ), Imelda Staunton and Hilary Swank (tied for best actress), Jamie Foxx (actor), Thomas Haden Church (supporting actor) and Virginia Madsen (supporting actress).
9The People's Choice Awards go to Fahrenheit 9/11 (favorite motion picture), The Passion of the Christ for favorite drama, and Shrek 2 (favorite comedy, animated film, sequel, animated character: Eddie Murphy as "donkey", and movie villain: Jennifer Saunders as "Fairy Godmother").
16 Golden Globes awards film winners included three for The Aviator (Picture-Drama, Actor and Score), two for Sideways (Picture-comedy and Screenplay), two for Million Dollar Baby (Director and Actress), and two for Closer (Supporting Actor and Supporting actress for Clive Owen and Natalie Portman).
22The Producers Guild of America picks The Aviator as its choice for best picture of 2004.
24The Golden Raspberry Awards picks for worst film achievement in 2004 had Catwoman leading with seven nominations, Alexander , Fahrenheit 9/11 and White Chicks each with five and four nominations for Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 .
25The Academy Awards picks for best film achievement in 2004 had The Aviator leading nominations with 11, followed by Million Dollar Baby and Finding Neverland with seven, Ray with six, and Sideways with five.
February2 Pierce Brosnan officially announces that he will be resigning from the role of James Bond. Brosnan last appeared as Bond in Die Another Day (2002).
12 BAFTA Awards: Major winners include Imelda Staunton, Best Actress, Jamie Foxx, Best Actor and The Aviator , Best Film.
26 Catwoman and Fahrenheit 9/11 dominate the Golden Raspberry Awards, walking away with 4 awards each, even though the latter wasn't nominated for worst picture. Four special awards were also handed out to commemorate the Razzies' 25th anniversary. Arnold Schwarzenegger was named the biggest loser of the previous 25 years, Battlefield Earth , Gigli , and From Justin to Kelly collected the worst film awards.
27 77th Academy Awards: Million Dollar Baby wins the awards for Best Picture and Best Director.
March13 10th Empire Awards: The Bourne Supremacy wins the awards for Best Film and Best Actor for Matt Damon.
May19 Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith reaches a record high at the box offices on opening day with US$50 million on 9,400 screens at 3,661 theaters worldwide, edging out Spider-Man 2 's top opening day record of $40.4 million and Shrek 2 's top single day record of $44.8 million. [2]
22The Golden Palm in the 58th Edition of the Cannes Film Festival is awarded to L'enfant , directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. The Grand Prix is awarded to Broken Flowers by Jim Jarmusch, while the prize for best director is awarded to Michael Haneke for Caché .
June4The 2005 MTV Movie Awards winners were announced.
15After an 8-year absence from cinema screens, the Batman films are rebooted with Batman Begins , directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Christian Bale as Batman.
21The American Film Institute holds its 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes. The greatest film quote is "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" from Gone with the Wind .
August11 Roger Ebert publishes the list of his most hated films, distilled down from reviews he has written which date back to the 1960s. The list includes 2005 releases such as Constantine , Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo , and A Lot like Love .
October14It is announced that Daniel Craig will be the new James Bond in the forthcoming Casino Royale .
December10The Los Angeles Film Critics Association gives its awards for the most outstanding motion pictures of 2005. Brokeback Mountain won best picture and best director for Ang Lee. Capote won best actor for Philip Seymour Hoffman. Best actress went to Vera Farmiga for Down to the Bone .
11The Boston Society of Film Critics gives its awards for the most outstanding motion pictures of 2005. Brokeback Mountain won best picture and best director for Ang Lee. Capote won best actor for Philip Seymour Hoffman. Best actress went to Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line .
The American Film Institute gives its picks for the ten most outstanding motion pictures of 2005, which are Brokeback Mountain , Capote , Crash , The 40-Year-Old Virgin , Good Night, and Good Luck , A History of Violence , King Kong , Munich , The Squid and the Whale , and Syriana .
12The New York Film Critics Circle gives its awards for the most outstanding motion pictures of 2005. Brokeback Mountain won best picture, best director for Ang Lee and best actor for Heath Ledger. Best actress went to Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line .
13The Hollywood Foreign Press Association nominations for the Golden Globe Awards included Brokeback Mountain , The Constant Gardener , Good Night, and Good Luck , A History of Violence , and Match Point for best drama film.

Awards

Category/Organization 11th Critics' Choice Awards
January 9, 2006		 63rd Golden Globe Awards
January 16, 2006		 Producers, Directors, Screen Actors, and Writers Guild Awards 59th BAFTA Awards
February 19, 2006		 78th Academy Awards
March 5, 2006
DramaMusical or Comedy
Best Film Brokeback Mountain Walk the Line Brokeback Mountain Crash
Best Director Ang Lee
Brokeback Mountain
Best Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman
Capote 		Joaquin Phoenix
Walk the Line 		Philip Seymour Hoffman
Capote
Best Actress Reese Witherspoon
Walk the Line 		Felicity Huffman
Transamerica 		Reese Witherspoon
Walk the Line
Best Supporting Actor Paul Giamatti
Cinderella Man 		George Clooney
Syriana 		Paul Giamatti
Cinderella Man 		Jake Gyllenhaal
Brokeback Mountain 		George Clooney
Syriana
Best Supporting Actress Amy Adams
Junebug
Michelle Williams
Brokeback Mountain 		Rachel Weisz
The Constant Gardener 		Thandiwe Newton
Crash 		Rachel Weisz
The Constant Gardener
Best Screenplay, Adapted Paul Haggis and Robert Moresco
Crash 		Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana
Brokeback Mountain 		Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana
Brokeback Mountain
Best Screenplay, Original Paul Haggis and Robert Moresco
Crash
Best Animated Film Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit N/AN/A Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit N/A Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Best Original Score Memoirs of a Geisha
John Williams 		N/A Memoirs of a Geisha
John Williams 		Brokeback Mountain
Gustavo Santaolalla
Best Original Song"Hustle & Flow (It Ain't Over)"
Hustle & Flow 		"A Love That Will Never Grow Old"
Brokeback Mountain 		N/AN/A"It's Hard out Here for a Pimp"
Hustle & Flow
Best Foreign Language Film Kung Fu Hustle Paradise Now N/A The Beat That My Heart Skipped Tsotsi

2005 films

By country/region

By genre/medium

Births

Deaths

MonthDateNameAgeCountryProfessionNotable films
January 2 C. M. Pennington-Richards 93UKProducer
5 Gabrielle Daye 93UKActress
8 Badja Djola 56USActor
9 Gonzalo Gavira 79MexicoSound Engineer
10 Erwin Hillier 93GermanyCinematographer
11 Thelma White 94USActress
12 Amrish Puri 72IndiaActor
15 Dan Lee 35CanadaAnimator
15 Ruth Warrick 88USActress
17 Virginia Mayo 84USActress
21 Steve Susskind 62USActor
22 Patsy Rowlands 74UKActress
26 Josie MacAvin 85-86IrelandSet Decorator
February 1 John Vernon 72CanadaActor
2 Goffredo Lombardo 84ItalyProducer
4 Ossie Davis [3] 87USActor, Director
10 Arthur Miller [4] 89USScreenwriter
10 Leonard Trolley 87UKActor
12 Brian Kelly 73USActor, Producer
13 Harry Baird 73GuyanaActor
14 Otto Plaschkes 75AustriaProducer
16 Nicole DeHuff 30USActress
17 Peter Foy 79UKSpecial Effects Artist
17 Dan O'Herlihy [5] 85IrelandActor
20 Sandra Dee [6] 62USActress
22 Simone Simon [7] 94FranceActress
March 3 Guylaine St-Onge 39CanadaActress
5 Morris Engel 84USDirector, Screenwriter, Cinematographer
6 Teresa Wright 86USActress
7 John Box 85UKProduction Designer, Art Director
7 Debra Hill 54USScreenwriter, Producer
9 Sheila Gish 62UKActress
13 Jason Evers 83USActor
21 Gemini Ganesan [8] 84IndiaActor
21 Barney Martin 82USActor
25 Paul Henning 93USScreenwriter
29 Mitch Hedberg [9] 37USActor, Comedian
April 5 Debralee Scott 52USActress
8 Onna White 83CanadaChoreographer
11 John Bennett 76UKActor
15 Margaretta Scott 93UKActress
16 Kay Walsh 94UKActress
19 George P. Cosmatos 64ItalyDirector
19 Ruth Hussey 90USActress
22 Norman Bird 80UKActor
23 Robert Farnon 87CanadaComposer
23 John Mills [10] 97UKActor
26 Mason Adams 86USActor
26 Michael Coles 68UKActor
26 Maria Schell 79AustriaActress
26Robert Schiffer88USMakeup Artist
May 4Edward McAvoy55USProduction Designer
5 Elisabeth Fraser 85USActress
5 June MacCloy 95USActress
16 Joe Grant 96USAnimator, Screenwriter
16 June Lang 88USActress
17 Frank Gorshin 72USActor
19 Henry Corden 85CanadaActor
20 J. D. Cannon 83USActor
21 Stephen Elliott 86USActor
21 Howard Morris 85USActor, Director
22 Thurl Ravenscroft 91USSinger, Voice Actor
25 Graham Kennedy 71AustraliaActor
25 Ismail Merchant 68IndiaProducer
26 Eddie Albert 99USActor
June 1 Fernando Ghia 69ItalyProducer
1 Geoffrey Toone 94IrelandActor
2 Vittorio Duse 89ItalyActor, Director, Screenwriter
3 Leon Askin 97AustriaActor
3 Michael Billington 63UKActor
3 Harrison Young 75USActor
4 Lorna Thayer 86USActor
6 Anne Bancroft 73USActress
6 Dana Elcar 77USActor
8 Ed Bishop 72USActor
11 Lon McCallister 82USActor
11 Ron Randell 86AustraliaActor
13 Jonathan Adams 69UKActor
13 Lane Smith 69USActor
15 Suzanne Flon 87FranceActress
24 Paul Winchell 82USActor
25 John Fiedler 80USActor
29 Bruce Malmuth 71USDirector, Actor
July 2 Ernest Lehman 89USScreenwriter
3 Alberto Lattuada 90ItalyDirector
3 Charles Okun 80USProducer
4 June Haver 79USActress, Singer
7 Jocelyn Rickards 80AustraliaCostume Designer
10 Freddy Soto 35USActor, Comedian
11 Frances Langford 92USSinger, Actress
17 Geraldine Fitzgerald 91IrelandActress
17 Gavin Lambert 80UKScreenwriter
19 Edward Bunker 71USActor, Screenwriter
20 James Doohan 85CanadaActor
22 George D. Wallace 88USActor
25 Alf Joint 77UKStuntman, Actor
25 Ford Rainey 96USActor
25 David Jackson 71UKActor
26 Alexander Golitzen 87RussiaArt Director, Production Designer
29 Pat McCormick 78USActor
August 1 Donald Brooks 77USCostume Designer
4 Ileen Getz 43USActress
8 Barbara Bel Geddes 82USActress
9 Dorris Bowdon 90USActress
9 Stanley DeSantis 51USActor
9 Matthew McGrory 32USActor
11 James Booth 77UKActor
15 Herta Ware 88USActress
16 Tonino Delli Colli 81ItalyCinematographer
16 Joe Ranft 45USAnimator, Voice Actor, Screenwriter
16 Eva Renzi 60GermanyActress
19 Mel Welles 81USActor
23 Brock Peters 78USActor
25 Terence Morgan 83UKActor
31 Michael Sheard 67UKActor
September 2 Bob Denver 70USActor
12 Ronald Leigh-Hunt 84UKActor
14 Robert Wise 91USDirector, Film Editor
15 Guy Green 91UKDirector, Cinematographer
15 Josephine Griffin 76UKActress
15 Sidney Luft 89USProducer
16 Constance Moore 84USActress
17 Joel Hirschhorn 67USSongwriter
19 John Bromfield 83USActor
20 Gordon Carroll 77USProducer
22Joseph Wolf78USProducer
23 John Brabourne 80UKProducer
23 Roger Brierley 70UKActor
25 Don Adams 82USActor
25 Jerry Juhl 67USScreenwriter
October 2 Hamilton Camp 70UKActor
2 Nipsey Russell 87USActor
3 Ronnie Barker 76UKActor, Screenwriter
3 Louis A. Garfinkle 77USScreenwriter
7 Charles Rocket 56USActor
9 Louis Nye 92USActor
11 Sergio Citti 72ItalyDirector, Screenwriter
15 Mildred Shay 94USActress
16 Ursula Howells 83UKActress
16 John Larch 91USActor
18 John Hollis 77UKActor
19 Wolf Rilla 85GermanyDirector, Screenwriter
22 Tony Adams 52IrelandProducer
23 William Hootkins 57USActor
28 Barbara Keogh 76UKActress
29 Lloyd Bochner 81CanadaActor
November 2 Jean Carson 82USActress
3 Geoffrey Keen 89UKActor
4 Sheree North 85USActress
6 Stevan Larner 75USCinematographer
11 Moustapha Akkad 75SyriaProducer, Director
11 Keith Andes 89USActor
11 Pamela Duncan 80USActress
15 Agenore Incrocci 86ItalyScreenwriter
18 Harold J. Stone 94USActor
20 Nora Denney 78USActress
23 Constance Cummings 95USActress
23 Beverly Tyler 78USActress
24 Pat Morita 73USActor
27 Jocelyn Brando 86USActress
27 Marc Lawrence 95USActor
29 Joseph Furst 89AustriaActor
29 Macon McCalman 72USActor
29 Wendie Jo Sperber 47USActress
30 Jean Parker 90USActress
30 Herbert L. Strock 87USDirector
December 1 Jack Colvin 71USActor
4 Gregg Hoffman 42USProducer
7 Adrian Biddle 53UKCinematographer
10 Mary Jackson 95USActress
10 Richard Pryor 65USActor, Comedian
12 Robert Newmyer 49USProducer
12 Annette Stroyberg 69DenmarkActress
15 Giuseppe Patroni Griffi 84ItalyDirector
16 John Spencer 58USActor
18 Belita 82UKActress
19 Don McKillop 77UKActor
20 Argentina Brunetti 98ArgentinaActress
22 Aurora Miranda 90BrazilSinger, Actress
25 Roy Stuart 78USActor
26 Vincent Schiavelli 57USActor
28 Patrick Cranshaw 86USActor

Film debuts

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