List of 'years in film'

This page indexes the individual year in film pages. Each year is annotated with a significant event as a reference point.

2000s

• 2003 in film - Irreversible is released in North America.
• 2002 in film - Signs, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and Men in Black II are released
• 2001 in film - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring are released
• 2000 in film - Gladiator and O Brother, Where Art Thou? premiere

1990s

• 1999 in film - The Sixth Sense (directed by M. Night Shyamalan), Star Wars, Episode I - The Phantom Menace and The Matrix are released
• 1998 in film - Tom Hanks stars in Saving Private Ryan
• 1997 in film - Titanic, As Good As It Gets and Men in Black are released
• 1996 in film - Fargo is released
• 1995 in film - Mel Gibson directs and stars in Braveheart
• 1994 in film - Tom Hanks stars in Forrest Gump
• 1993 in film - Schindler's List and Jurassic Park are released
• 1992 in film - The second Home Alone[?] is released
• 1991 in film - The Silence of the Lambs is released
• 1990 in film - The first Home Alone is released

1980s

• 1989 in film - Batman, directed by Tim Burton
• 1988 in film - Eddie Murphy's Coming to America is released
• 1987 in film - Rain Man starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise
• 1986 in film - Fatal Attraction premieres
• 1985 in film - Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple premieres
• 1984 in film - Ghost Busters[?] and Amadeus are released
• 1983 in film - The Big Chill and The Right Stuff are released
• 1982 in film - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial premieres
• 1981 in film - The George Lucas/Steven Spielberg collaboration, Raiders of the Lost Ark, premieres
• 1980 in film - The first Caddyshack is released

1970s

• 1979 in film - Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now
• 1978 in film - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
• 1977 in film - George Lucas' science fiction film Star Wars is released and The Bee Gees sing in Saturday Night Fever
• 1976 in film - Rocky premieres
• 1975 in film - Steven Spielberg's Jaws is released
• 1974 in film - Jesus Christ Superstar
• 1973 in film - The Sting and The Exorcist are released
• 1972 in film - The Godfather premieres
• 1971 in film - The French Connection premieres
• 1970 in film - Patton and M*A*S*H are released

1960s

• 1969 in film - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• 1968 in film - Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey
• 1967 in film - The Graduate
• 1966 in film - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• 1965 in film - The Sound of Music premieres
• 1964 in film - The Beatles star in A Hard Day's Night
• 1963 in film - Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds
• 1962 in film - Lawrence of Arabia and To Kill a Mockingbird premiere
• 1961 in film - West Side Story premieres
• 1960 in film - Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho

1950s

• 1959 in film - Ben-Hur premieres
• 1958 in film - Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo
• 1957 in film - Jailhouse Rock, starring Elvis Presley
• 1956 in film - The Ten Commandments[?], starring Charlton Heston
• 1955 in film - East of Eden, starring James Dean
• 1954 in film - On the Waterfront, A Star Is Born and Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window
• 1953 in film - Disney's Peter Pan
• 1952 in film - Cinerama-system is introduced
• 1951 in film - An American in Paris
• 1950 in film - Disney's CinderellaAlso, Laurel & Hardy's[?] final film, "Atoll K[?]" is made in Europe.

1940s

• 1949 in film - Sands of Iwo Jima, directed by Allan Dwan
• 1948 in film - Joan of Arc, starring Ingrid Bergman,Edgar Kennedy's[?] final short for RKO.
• 1947 in film - Miracle on 34th Street
• 1946 in film - Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life premieres
• 1945 in film -
• 1944 in film - Last "Our Gang" shorts, produced by MGM.
• 1943 in film -
• 1942 in film - Bambi[?]
• 1941 in film - Citizen Kane, starring Orson Welles, premieres
• 1940 in film - Columbia releases Charley Chase's[?] last film, "South of the Boudoir[?]"

1930s

• 1939 in film - Gone With the Wind premiers in Atlanta
• 1938 in film - Casting begins on The Wizard of Oz
• 1937 in film - Snow White, first feature-length animated movie
• 1936 in film - Thelma Todd's[?] final short subject "An All-American Toothache[?]" co-starring Patsy Kelly[?] and Mickey Daniels[?].
• 1935 in film - Laurel & Hardy's[?] last short subject, "Thicker than water[?]".
• 1934 in film - Samuel Goldwyn[?] purchases the film rights to The Wizard of Oz from Frank J. Baum[?] Also, the first Columbia Three Stooges short.
• 1933 in film - The film Ecstacy[?], which shows simulated sex, shocks audiences. Also, First Popeye cartoon, "Popeye the Sailor" debuts.
• 1932 in film - Shirley Temple's film career begins
• 1931 in film - Laurel & Hardy's[?] first feature, "Pardon Us[?]" is released by MGM.
• 1930 in film - The first Busby Berkely[?] musical film, "Whoopee[?]" starring Eddie Cantor, is released by Goldwyn in colour. Also, Max Fleischer's[?] animated star "Betty Boop" debuts.

• 1929 in film - The first Academy Awards, or Oscars, are distributed. Also, Laurel & Hardy make their talkie debut in "Unaccustomed As we are[?]" co-starring Thelma Todd[?] at Hal Roach Studios. Rko-Radio[?] studio is established.
• 1928 in film - First talkie cartoon,"Dinner Time[?]" is produced by VanBuren Studios, the second talkie cartoon, "Steamboat Willie" by Walt Disney is released a month later.
• 1927 in film - Al Jolson movie The Jazz Singer popularizes sound motion pictures. First talkie newsreel,"Fox Movietone News[?]".
• 1926 in film - First Vitaphone feature, "Don Juan" starring John Barrymore, released by Warner Brothers. Posthumously released, "The Son Of the Shiek[?]" is Rudolph Valentino's[?] biggest grossing film.
• 1925 in film - Lon Chaney's[?] greatest film, "The Phantom Of The Opera[?]" is released by Universal with colour sequences. Eric VonStrohiem[?]'s magnum opus, "Greed"
• 1924 in film - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio established.
• 1923 in film - Harold Lloyd's[?] greatest movie "Safety Last" produced by Hal Roach, released by Pathe.
• 1922 in film - Nosferatu, first ever vampire film released. Also, "Our Gang" series begins at Hal Roach studios.
• 1921 in film -Laurel ad Hardy[?]'s first film together is "A Lucky Dog[?]".
• 1920 in filmBuster Keaton begins starring in shorts and his first feature, "The Saphead[?]" at Metro.Von Strohiem's[?] "The Devil's Passkey[?]" stars Mae Busch[?] at Goldwyn.

1910s

• 1919 in film - United Artisted founded by Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin[?] and D.W.Griffith[?].
• 1918 in film - "My Four Years in Germany[?]" is the first Warner Brothers production. First National releases the first Tarzan film, starring Elmo Lincoln[?].
• 1917 in film - Technicolor is introduced
• 1916 in film - D.W.Griffith[?]'s second monumental production, "Intolerence[?]" released.
• 1915 in film - The Country Girl, starring Florence LaBadie[?]. The first great epic of American film, "The Birth Of A Nation[?]" is produced by David Wark Griffith.
• 1914 in film - "Tillie's Punctured Romance" produced by Mack Sennett, stars Marie Dressler, Charlie Chaplin, and Mabel Normand[?].
• 1913 in film - The first Charlie Chaplin movies are made
• 1912 in film - From the Manger To the Cross, directed by Sidney Olcott
• 1911 in film -
• 1910 in film - First filmed "Frankenstein" by Edison studios.

1900s

• 1909 in film -
• 1908 in film - Thomas Edison formed the Motion Picture Patents Company[?]
• 1907 in film -
• 1906 in film - Ben Hur[?], directed by Sidney OlcottAlso, The world's first feature film, "The Story of the Kelly Gang" released in Australia.
• 1905 in film -
• 1904 in film - The Great Train Robbery, remake by Siegmund Lubin[?]
• 1903 in film - The Great Train Robbery, by Edwin S. Porter[?]
• 1902 in film
• 1901 in film
• 1900 in film

19th century

• 1899 in film - Cinderella
• 1898 in film
• 1897 in film
• 1896 in film
• 1895 in film
• 1894 in film
• See also: 19th century in film

External link

• Box office grosses 1950-2003 (http://www.teako170.com/statsamania)