2025 in film


2025 in film is an overview of events, including award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country- and genre-specific lists of films released, and notable deaths. Shochiku and Gaumont celebrated their 130th anniversaries; 20th Century Studios and Republic Pictures celebrated their 90th anniversaries; and Studio Ghibli celebrated its 40th anniversary. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's first musical film The Broadway Melody, known for being the first sound film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, entered the public domain this year.

Highest-grossing films

RankTitleDistributorWorldwide gross
1Ne Zha 2Beijing Enlight$
2Zootopia 2 Disney$1,776,957,359
3Avatar: Fire and Ash 20th Century$1,413,826,673
4Lilo & StitchDisney$1,038,027,526
5Warner Bros.$958,149,195
6Jurassic World RebirthUniversal$869,146,189
7Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity CastleAniplex / Toho / Crunchyroll$795,709,000
8How to Train Your DragonUniversal$636,351,148
9F1Warner Bros. / Apple$631,842,436
10SupermanWarner Bros.$616,823,803

Box office records

  • Ne Zha 2 surpassed The Battle at Lake Changjin to become the highest-grossing non-English language film. It became the 57th film overall, and 14th animated film to pass $1billion and the seventh film to pass $2billion. It became the highest-grossing animated film of all time as well as the 5th highest-grossing film overall. It became the second ever non-Hollywood film production to become the highest-grossing film of the year, following Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Mugen Train in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • * It surpassed Inside Out 2 as the highest-grossing animated film, breaking Disney's 14-year streak with the title after regaining it with Toy Story 3. Doing so, Enlight Pictures became the first non-Hollywood studio to hold this distinction.
  • * It became the first non-English language film to gross $1billion and $2billion worldwide.
  • * It surpassed Star Wars: The Force Awakens to become the highest-grossing film ever in a single market. It also became the first film to earn $1billion and $2billion in a single market.
  • * On March 2, thirty-three days after release, Ne Zha 2 surpassed $2billion, the first animated film in history to do so. It is the seventh film overall to achieve this milestone.
  • * It set the records of highest-grossing worldwide opening for an animated film and highest-grossing worldwide opening of the year, up until these records were surpassed by Zootopia 2 later the same year.
  • Zootopia 2 became the 59th film overall, the 15th animated film, and the second-fastest animated film to gross $1 billion worldwide.
  • * It claimed the fourth highest-grossing worldwide opening of all time, placing behind Avengers: Endgame, Avengers: Infinity War, and Spider-Man: No Way Home.
  • * It set the records of highest-grossing worldwide opening for an animated film, and highest-grossing worldwide opening of the year, surpassing Ne Zha 2 in both instances. It is also the highest-grossing worldwide opening of any animated film in Disney history, surpassing Moana 2.
  • * On 12 December, seventeen days after release, Zootopia 2 became the fastest MPA animated film, and PG-rated film, to reach $1billion, surpassing Inside Out 2’s 19 days in both instances.
  • * On 31 December, thirty-six days after release, Zootopia 2 surpassed Frozen 2 to become Walt Disney Animation Studios' highest-grossing film.
  • * On 18 January, fifty-four days after release, Zootopia 2 surpassed Inside Out 2 to become Disney's highest-grossing animated film of all time, the highest-grossing MPA animated film of all time, and the highest-grossing PG-rated film of all time.
  • * The Zootopia film franchise surpassed $2.5billion with the release of Zootopia 2.
  • Avatar: Fire and Ash became the 60th film overall to gross $1billion worldwide.
  • * The Avatar film series surpassed $6billion with the release of Avatar: Fire and Ash.
  • Lilo & Stitch became the 58th film overall, and the first MPA film of 2025 to gross $1billion worldwide.
  • * It became the second best first-day ticket pre-seller for a Disney live-action remake, behind the 2019 photorealistic animated The Lion King.
  • * It also set the record for the biggest opening weekend for a live-action animated film, surpassing Detective Pikachu.
  • * It became the highest-grossing live-action animated film, surpassing The Smurfs, as well as the first live-action animated film to globally gross at least $1billion.
  • * The Lilo & Stitch film series has grossed more than $1.3billion with the release of the live-action remake, with the latter contributing roughly 79% of that figure.
  • Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle grossed about $780million worldwide to become the highest-grossing Japanese film of all time, surpassing its predecessor Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Mugen Train.
  • *Worldwide, it became the highest-grossing Japanese film and the highest-grossing anime film of all time. It is also the first Japanese film to cross $600million worldwide.
  • *In Japan, it had the biggest opening weekend of all time with ¥5.52billion in three days. It passed ¥10billion in eight days, becoming the fastest‑grossing film ever in Japan.
  • *In the US, its $70million opening weekend was the biggest opening for an international film, R‑rated animated film, and September animated release. It went on to set US records for the highest-grossing anime film, highest-grossing Japanese film, first anime film to cross $100million, and highest-grossing international film.
  • *In other international markets, the film had the biggest opening weekend for an animated film in the Philippines, South Korea, and India. It became the all-time highest-grossing anime film in Brazil, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Spain, and Thailand.
  • *The Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba franchise became the first R-rated animated film series to surpass $1billion with the release of Infinity Castle.
  • *It became the highest-grossing hand drawn animated film in its initial release, surpassing the initial gross of The Lion King, which grossed $763million in its initial release and held the record for 31 years.
  • The How to Train Your Dragon franchise surpassed $2billion with the release of the live-action remake of the same name.
  • F1 achieved Apple Studios's highest-grossing opening weekend at $144million worldwide, and passed Napoleon to become the producer's highest-grossing film worldwide.
  • With the release of Superman, the Superman franchise surpassed $3billion.
  • The Marvel Cinematic Universe became the first film franchise to gross $32billion with the releases of Captain America: Brave New World, Thunderbolts*, and The Fantastic Four: First Steps.
  • * With the release of The Fantastic Four: First Steps, the Fantastic Four franchise surpassed $1billion.
  • The Wicked film series surpassed $1billion with the release of Wicked: For Good.
  • The Conjuring: Last Rites had a $194million opening weekend worldwide, surpassing Its record for the largest opening weekend for a horror film.
  • Nobody became the highest-grossing 2D animated film in China and the highest-grossing Chinese 2D animated film.

    Events

Scheduled award ceremonies

Film festivals

Awards

Golden Bear :
Palme d'Or :
Golden Lion :
'''People's Choice Award :'''

2025 films

By country/region

MonthDateNameAgeCountryProfessionNotable films
January1Nora Orlandi91ItalyComposer
January2Jytte Abildstrøm90DenmarkActress
January3Jeff Baena47USDirector, Screenwriter
January4Emilio Echevarría80MexicoActor
January4Julien Poulin78CanadaActor, Director, Screenwriter
January4Ronnie Yeskel76USCasting Director
January8Charles Kay94UKActor
January8Pritish Nandy73IndiaProducer
January9Bill Byrge92USActor
January9Phyllis Dalton99UKCostume Designer
January9Jorge Luis Sánchez64CubaDirector
January9Otto Schenk94AustriaActor
January10Christopher Benjamin90UKActor
January10Yevgenia Dobrovolskaya60RussiaActress
January11James McEachin94USActor
January12Leslie Charleson79USActress
January12Claude Jarman Jr.90USActor
January12Robert Machray79USActor
January12Lynne Taylor-Corbett78USChoreographer
January12Kim Yaroshevskaya101CanadaActress
January14Tony Slattery65UKActor, Comedian
January15Anna Maria Ackermann92ItalyActress
January15Tommy Dix101USActor
January15Diane Langton80UKActress
January15David Lynch78USDirector, Screenwriter, Producer
January15Jeannot Szwarc85FranceDirector
January16Jack De Mave91USActor
January16Joan Plowright95UKActress
January16Bob Uecker90USActor
January16Shoji Ueda87JapanCinematographer
January17Jules Feiffer95USScreenwriter
January17Jan Shepard96USActress
January17Robert Verrall97CanadaAnimator, Producer, Director
January18Ze'ev Revach84IsraelActor, Comedian
January20Bertrand Blier85FranceDirector, Screenwriter
January20Harald Paalgard74NorwayCinematographer
January22Barry Michael Cooper67USScreenwriter
January22Nicholas Eadie67AustraliaActor
January22Jim Tauber74USProducer
January25Gloria Romero91PhilippinesActress
January26Shafi56IndiaDirector
January27Alma Rosa Aguirre95MexicoActress
January28Horst Janson89GermanyActor
January29Joe Hale99USAnimator, Layout Artist, Producer
January29Atomu Shimojō78JapanActor
January30Marianne Faithfull78UKActress, Singer
January31Táňa Radeva67SlovakiaActress
January31Kärt Tomingas57EstoniaActress, Singer
February2Barbie Hsu48TaiwanActress, Singer
February2Lee Joo-sil80South KoreaActress
February2P. H. Moriarty86UKActor
February2Brian Murphy92UKActor
February4Pushpalatha87IndiaActress
February7Bruce French79USActor
February7Tony Roberts85USActor
February9Mara Corday95USActress
February9Oleg Strizhenov95RussiaActor
February10Peter Tuiasosopo61USActor
February11Moses Lim75SingaporeActor
February11Norma Mora82MexicoActress
February12Niké Arrighi80FranceActress
February12Jerry Eisenberg87USLayout Artist
February13John Lawlor83USActor
February14Carlos Diegues84BrazilDirector, Producer, Screenwriter
February14Alice Hirson95USActress
February14Kevyn Major Howard69CanadaActor
February14Geneviève Page97FranceActress
February15George Armitage82USDirector
February16Julian Holloway80UKActor
February16Kim Sae-ron24South KoreaActress
February16Krishnaveni100IndiaActress
February16Yolanda Montes93MexicoActress
February19Souleymane Cissé84MaliDirector
February19Olive Sturgess91CanadaActress
February20Peter Jason80USActor
February21Lynne Marie Stewart78USActress
February23Pilar Del Rey95USActress
February25Roberto Orci51USScreenwriter, Producer
February26Gene Hackman95USActor
February26Lis Nilheim80SwedenActress
February26Renen Schorr72IsraelDirector, Screenwriter, Producer
February26Michelle Trachtenberg39USActress
February26Monika Lundi82GermanyActress
February27Michael Preece88USScript Supervisor, Director
February28David Johansen75USActor, Singer
February28Joseph Wambaugh88USScreenwriter
March1Angie Stone63USActress, Singer
March2Juan Margallo84SpainActor
March3Eleonora Giorgi71ItalyActress, Director
March4Gene Winfield97USAutomotive Designer
March5Edesio Alejandro66CubaComposer
March5Denise Alexander85USActress
March5Pamela Bach61USActress
March6Crystal-Donna Roberts40South AfricaActress
March6Árpád Sopsits72HungaryDirector
March8Athol Fugard92South AfricaActor, Screenwriter
March9Eileen Bennett105UKActress
March9Simon Fisher-Becker63UKActor
March9Hans Peter Korff82GermanyActor
March10Stanley R. Jaffe84USProducer
March11Ayumi Ishida76JapanActress, Singer
March11Dave Mallow76USActor, Voice Actor
March11Clive Revill94New ZealandActor
March11Robert Trebor71USActor
March12Bruce Glover92USActor
March13Sofia Gubaidulina93RussiaComposer
March13Maria Grazia Spina88ItalyActress
March14Deb Mukherjee83IndiaActor
March15Wings Hauser78USActor
March15Delia Razon94PhilippinesActress
March16Émilie Dequenne43BelgiumActress
March16Bindu Ghosh76IndiaActress
March18Nadia Cassini76ItalyActress
March18Antonio Gasalla84ArgentinaActor
March21Štefan Kvietik90SlovakiaActor
March21Filiz Akın82TurkeyActress
March22Larisa Golubkina85RussiaActress
March23Gianfranco Barra84ItalyActor
March25Denis Arndt86USActor
March25Maria Gustafsson79SwedenActress
March25Shihan Hussaini60IndiaActor
March25Masahiro Shinoda94JapanDirector, Screenwriter
March26Aleksei Veselkin63RussiaActor
March27Ku Feng94Hong KongActor
March28Richard Norton75AustraliaActor, Stuntman
March29Ángel del Pozo90SpainActor
March29Richard Chamberlain90USActor, Singer
March30Lee Montague97UKActor
March31Sian Barbara Allen78USActress
March31Yves Boisset86FranceDirector, Screenwriter
March31Patty Maloney89USActress
April1Alfi Kabiljo89CroatiaComposer
April1Val Kilmer65USActor
April2Alois Švehlík85Czech RepublicActor
April3John Saint Ryan72UKActor
April4Paul Karo89AustraliaActor
April4Manoj Kumar87IndiaActor, Director
April4Ravikumar71IndiaActor
April5Antonello Fassari72ItalyActor
April5Colin Fox86CanadaActor
April6Jay North73USActor
April6Marlene Warfield83USActress
April7Marvin Levy96USPublicist
April7Joey D. Vieira80USActor
April8Nicky Katt54USActor
April9Mel Novak90USActor
April10Ted Kotcheff94CanadaDirector
April10Bruce Logan78USVisual Effects Artist, Cinematographer
April10Mario Ernesto Sánchez78CubaActor
April12Pilita Corrales85PhilippinesActress, Singer
April12Andrea Blaugrund Nevins63USDirector, Producer
April13Paddy Higson83UKProducer
April13Jean Marsh90UKActress
April14Sophie Nyweide24USActress
April15Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak74PolandActress
April16Patrick Adiarte81PhilippinesActor
April16Nora Aunor71PhilippinesActress, Singer
April16Joanne Gilbert92USActress
April17Mizuki Itagaki24JapanActor
April18Damien Thomas83UKActor
April20Kimble Rendall67AustraliaDirector
April21Will Hutchins94USActor
April21Gerard Kennedy93AustraliaActor
April22Lar Park Lincoln63USActress
April22Erik Ruus62EstoniaActor
April23Chris Cauwenberghs78BelgiumActor
April23Waltraut Haas97AustriaActress, Singer
April27Jiggly Caliente44PhilippinesDrag Performer, Actress, Singer
April27Cora Sue Collins98USActress
April28Andrew Karpen59USProducer
April28Shaji N. Karun73IndiaDirector
April28Priscilla Pointer100USActress
April30Park Hee-gon56South KoreaDirector
May1Ruth Buzzi88USActress, Singer, Comedian
May1Charley Scalies84USActor
May1Ricky Davao63PhilippinesActor, Director
May3Humaira Ali65PakistanActress
May3Greg Cannom74USMakeup Effects Artist
May5Joan O'Brien89USActress, Singer
May6James Foley71USDirector
May7Joe Don Baker89USActor
May7Rosanna Norton80USCostume Designer
May7Madhav Vaze85IndiaActor
May8Jiří Bartoška78Czech RepublicActor
May10Nina Grebeshkova94RussiaActress
May11Robert Benton92USDirector, Screenwriter
May11Leila Negra95GermanyActress, Singer
May12Lorna Raver81USActress
May13Yaak Karsunke90GermanyActor
May15Taina Elg95FinlandActress
May15Federica Ranchi86ItalyActress
May15Charles Strouse96USComposer
May16Meta Velander100SwedenActress
May16Gerard Soeteman88NetherlandsScreenwriter
May17Gawn Grainger87UKActor
May17Franco Merli68ItalyActor
May19Aurora Clavel88MexicoActress
May19Kathleen Hughes96USActress
May20Nino Benvenuti87ItalyActor
May20Leslie Dilley84UKArt Director, Production Designer
May20Michael Roemer97USDirector, Producer, Screenwriter
May20George Wendt76USActor
May21Mariano Ozores98SpainDirector, Screenwriter
May21Billy Williams96UKCinematographer
May22Pippa Scott90USActress
May23Mukul Dev54IndiaActor
May23Barbara Ferris88UKActress
May23Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina91AlgeriaDirector, Screenwriter
May24Marcel Ophuls97GermanyDocumentarian
May24Teresita Reyes75ChileActress
May25Monna Tandberg85NorwayActress
May25Marie Tomášová96Czech RepublicActress
May26Frances Doel83UKProducer, Screenwriter
May26Co Hoedeman84CanadaAnimator, Director, Screenwriter
May27Freddie Aguilar72PhilippinesComposer, Singer
May27Choi Jung-woo68South KoreaActor
May27Presley Chweneyagae40South AfricaActor
May27Vasily Funtikov62RussiaActor
May27Ed Gale61USActor, Stunt Performer
May27Peter Kwong73USActor
May29Alf Clausen84USComposer, Orchestrator
May29Rajesh75IndiaActor
May30Prentis Hancock83UKActor
May30Valerie Mahaffey71USActress
May30Loretta Swit87USActress
May30Renée Victor86USActress, Singer
June1Jonathan Joss59USActor
June1Ilselil Larsen90DenmarkActress
June1Monica Nielsen87SwedenActress, Singer
June3Eugen Doga88MoldovaComposer
June4Nicole Croisille88FranceActress, Singer
June4Philippe Labro88FranceDirector
June4Pietro Ghislandi68ItalyActor
June4Enzo Staiola85ItalyActor
June6Marise Wipani61New ZealandActress
June7Vladimír Smutný82Czech RepublicCinematographer
June8Ewa Dałkowska78PolandActress
June9Partho Ghosh75IndiaDirector, Producer, Screenwriter
June9Pik-Sen Lim80MalaysiaActress
June9Chris Robinson86USActor, Director, Screenwriter
June10Harris Yulin87USActor
June11Ayumu Saito60JapanActor
June13Betsy Gay96USActress
June13Katerina Yioulaki87GreeceActress
June14Topsy Küppers93AustriaActress
June16Dave Scott52USChoreographer
June16Manuel Zarzo93SpainActor
June18Mark Peploe82UKScreenwriter
June19Jack Betts96USActor
June19Lynn Hamilton95USActress
June19Gailard Sartain81USActor
June21Valentina Talyzina90RussiaActress
June22Aki Aleong90USActor
June22Joe Marinelli68USActor
June23Lea Massari91ItalyActress
June24Serge Fiori73CanadaComposer
June24Bobby Sherman81USActor, Singer
June24Alvaro Vitali75ItalyActor
June26Monika Hansen83GermanyActress
June26Rick Hurst79USActor
June26Lalo Schifrin93ArgentinaComposer
June27Shefali Jariwala42IndiaActress
June28Bob Elmore65USActor, Stuntman
June29Maureen Hingert88Sri LankaActress
June30Kenneth Colley87UKActor
July1Florence Delay84FranceActress
July2Gerald Harper96UKActor
July2Julian McMahon56AustraliaActor
July3Michael Madsen67USActor, Producer
July3Lolit Solis78PhilippinesTalent Manager
July4Chow Chung92Hong KongActor
July4Rob Houwer87NetherlandsProducer
July4Mark Snow78USComposer
July8James Carter Cathcart71USVoice Actor
July9Ioana Bulcă89RomaniaActress
July11David Kaff79UKActor, Musician
July11Rene Kirby70USActor
July12Rudolf van den Berg76NetherlandsDirector, Screenwriter
July13Kota Srinivasa Rao83IndiaActor
July14B. Saroja Devi87IndiaActress
July14Alexander Mitta92RussiaDirector, Screenwriter
July14Eileen Fulton91USActress
July15Dheeraj Kumar80IndiaActor, Producer
July16Connie Francis87USActress, Singer
July16Yuri Kara70RussiaDirector, Producer, Screenwriter
July16Taylor Wong75Hong KongDirector
July17Alan Bergman99USSongwriter
July18Homayun88IranActor
July18Jimmy Hunt85USActor
July18Michael Melski56CanadaDirector, Screenwriter, Producer
July18Velu Prabhakaran68IndiaActor, Cinematographer, Director
July18Harry Standjofski66CanadaActor
July18Fish Venkat53IndiaActor, Comedian
July18Kenneth Washington89USActor
July20Malcolm-Jamal Warner54USActor
July20Tom Troupe97USActor
July21Tatyana Yegorova81RussiaActress
July21Dan Ziskie80USActor
July22Tsunehiko Kamijō85JapanActor, Singer, Voice Actor
July22Chuck Mangione84USComposer
July22Ozzy Osbourne76UKActor, Singer
July23Ron Silverman92USActor, Producer
July23Tony Peers78UKActor
July23Henri Szeps81AustraliaActor
July23Alfie Wise81USActor
July24Hulk Hog