2024 in film


2024 in film is an overview of events, including award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country- and genre-specific lists of films, and notable deaths. Columbia Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer celebrated their 100th anniversaries; Toei Company celebrated its 75th anniversary; DreamWorks Pictures and DreamWorks Animation celebrated their 30th anniversaries; and the first Mickey Mouse films, including Steamboat Willie, entered the public domain this year.
Alongside new releases, multiple popular films like The Lion King, Les Misérables, Alien, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, The Mummy, Whiplash, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Shrek 2, Twister, Saw, Coraline, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Hocus Pocus, Interstellar, and Tenet were re-released to either celebrate their anniversaries and/or fill in the gaps left by films that had their original release dates affected by the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes. These disputes, including the Writers Guild of America strike and SAG-AFTRA strike, had a significant impact on the 2024 release schedule, with many films being postponed due to productions being halted mid-filming or before commencement.

Highest-grossing films

RankTitleDistributorWorldwide gross
1Inside Out 2Disney$1,698,863,816
2Deadpool & WolverineDisney$1,338,073,645
3Moana 2Disney$1,059,242,164
4Despicable Me 4Universal$971,315,095
5WickedUniversal$756,535,681
6Mufasa: The Lion KingDisney$723,060,982
7Dune: Part TwoWarner Bros.$715,409,065
8Godzilla x Kong: The New EmpireWarner Bros.$572,505,338
9Kung Fu Panda 4Universal$547,689,492
10Sonic the Hedgehog 3Paramount$492,162,604

Box office records

Studio records

Inside Out 2 became the highest-grossing Pixar film of all time, surpassing Incredibles 2.

Other records

Deadpool & Wolverine became the most viewed trailer of all time, surpassing Spider-Man: No Way Home.Wicked became the best PG-rated first-day ticket pre-seller of the year and the number 3 best PG-rated first-day ticket pre-seller of all time, behind Frozen 2 and The Lion King.Terrifier 3 became the highest-grossing unrated film of all time.
  • 2024 is the first year since 2019 in which the top ten highest-grossing films were Hollywood productions.
  • All of the top ten highest-grossing films of 2024 are a part of different movie franchises.

Awards

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

2024 films

By country/region

By genre/medium

Deaths

MonthDateNameAgeCountryProfessionNotable films
January1Mickey Cottrell79USProducer, Publicist, Actor
January1René Verzier89CanadaCinematographer
January2Peter Berkos101USSound Editor
January3Lillian Crombie66AustraliaActress
January3Germana Dominici77ItalyActress
January4Georgina Hale80UKActress
January4Glynis Johns100UKActress, Singer
January4Christian Oliver51GermanyActor
January4David Soul80USActor, Singer
January4Tracy Tormé64USScreenwriter, Producer
January5Brian McConnachie81USActor
January7Menachem Daum77USDirector, Producer
January8Adan Canto42MexicoActor
January8Ventura Pons78SpainDirector, Producer
January8Gian Franco Reverberi89ItalyComposer
January10Roy Battersby87UKDirector
January10Peter Crombie71USActor
January10Tisa Farrow72USActress
January10Conrad Palmisano75USStuntman, Second Unit Director, Actor
January11Laurence Badie95FranceActress
January11April Ferry91USCostume Designer
January11Lynne Marta78USActress, Singer
January11Yury Solomin88RussiaActor
January12Bill Hayes98USActor, Singer
January12Marek Litewka75PolandActor
January12Alec Musser50USActor, Producer
January13Juli Mira75SpainActor
January14Mo Henry67USFilm Negative Cutter
January14Elisabeth Trissenaar79AustriaActress
January15William O'Connell94USActor
January16David Gail58USActor
January16Laurie Johnson96UKComposer
January16José Lifante80SpainActor
January16Lahcen Zinoun79MoroccoChoreographer, Director
January17Benedict Fitzgerald74USScreenwriter
January19Héctor Bidonde86ArgentinaActor
January19Lee Doo-yong81South KoreaDirector, Screenwriter, Producer
January20David Emge77USActor
January20Norman Jewison97CanadaDirector, Producer
January22Gary Graham73USActor
January23Margaret Riley58USProducer
January27Enrique Liporace82ArgentinaActor
January27Sreela Majumdar65IndiaActress
January29Sandra Milo90ItalyActress
January30Hinton Battle67USActor, Singer
January30Chita Rivera91USActress, Singer
January30Michael Trcic63USSpecial Effects Artist, Puppeteer
February1Mark Gustafson63USAnimator, Director
February1Carl Weathers76USActor
February2Ian Lavender77UKActor
February2Sadhu Meher84IndiaActor
February2Don Murray94USActor
February2Gregory Charles Rivers58Hong KongActor
February3Helena Rojo79MexicoActress
February5Mickey Gilbert87USStuntman, Second Unit Director, Actor
February5Michael Jayston88UKActor
February5Toby Keith62USActor, Screenwriter, Singer
February5Namkoong Won89South KoreaActor
February6Robert M. Young99USDirector, Cinematographer, Producer
February7Mojo Nixon66USActor
February9Frank Howson72AustraliaDirector, Producer, Screenwriter
February10Johanna von Koczian90GermanyActress
February12Sam Mercer69USProducer, Location Manager
February12Alec Mills91UKCinematographer, Camera Operator
February13Aletta Bezuidenhout74South AfricaActress
February13Alain Dorval77FranceActor
February15Gérard Barray92FranceActor
February15Anne Whitfield85USActress
February16Ileen Maisel68USProducer
February17Anjana Bhowmick79IndiaActress
February18Roger Dicken84UKSpecial Effects Artist
February18Lanny Flaherty81USActor
February18Ira von Fürstenberg83ItalyActress
February18Tony Ganios64USActor
February19Roland Bertin93FranceActor
February19Paul D'Amato75USActor
February19Ewen MacIntosh50UKActor, Comedian
February19Matt Sweeney75USSpecial Effects Artist
February20Yoko Yamamoto81JapanActress
February21Micheline Presle101FranceActress
February21Pamela Salem80UKActress
February21John Savident86UKActor
February22Kent Melton68USAnimation Sculptor
February23Chris Gauthier48CanadaActor
February23Lynda Gravátt76USActress
February23Jackie Loughery93USActress
February24Kenneth Mitchell49CanadaActor
February24Kumar Shahani83IndiaDirector, Screenwriter
February25Charles Dierkop87USActor
February27Michael Culver85UKActor
February27Richard Lewis76USActor
February28Jean Allison94USActress
February28Werner Nold90CanadaFilm Editor
February29Paolo Taviani92ItalyDirector, Screenwriter
March1Akira Toriyama68JapanCharacter Designer, Screenwriter
March2Mark Dodson64USVoice Actor
March2Paul Houde69CanadaActor
March2Jaclyn Jose60PhilippinesActress
March3Edward Bond89UKScreenwriter
March3Betty Brodel104USActress
March4Tarako63JapanActress, Singer
March4Jean-Pierre Bourtayre82FranceComposer
March4Michael Jenkins77AustraliaDirector, Screenwriter
March4Juan Verduzco78MexicoActor
March5Roberto Leoni83ItalyScreenwriter, Director
March5Misha Suslov84RussiaCinematographer
March7Steve Lawrence88USActor, Comedian, Singer
March10Percy Adlon88GermanyDirector, Screenwriter, Producer
March10Gigio Morra78ItalyActor
March11Malachy McCourt92USActor
March11Surya Kiran49IndiaActor, Director
March12Robyn Bernard64USActress
March12Maria Richwine71USActress
March13Julius Kohanyi91CanadaDirector, Screenwriter, Producer
March14David Breashears68USDirector, Producer, Camera Operator
March14Grant Page85AustraliaStuntman, Actor
March14Minori Terada81JapanActor
March15Joe Camp84USDirector, Screenwriter, Producer
March15Aleksandr Shirvindt89RussiaActor
March16David Seidler86UKScreenwriter
March18Jennifer Leak76CanadaActress
March19Dianne Crittenden82USCasting Director
March19M. Emmet Walsh88USActor
March20Winai Kraibutr54ThailandActor
March21Ron Harper91USActor
March22Partha Sarathi Deb68IndiaActor
March23Daniel Beretta77FranceActor
March23Eli Noyes81USDirector, Animator
March23Abdulah Sidran79BosniaScreenwriter
March23Silvia Tortosa77SpainActress
March25Paula Weinstein78USProducer
March25Fritz Wepper82GermanyActor
March29Louis Gossett Jr.87USActor
March29Chance Perdomo27UKActor
March30Tim McGovern68USVisual Effects Artist
March31Barbara Baldavin85USActress, Casting Director
March31Rob Kaman63NetherlandsActor
March31Barbara Rush97USActress
April1Joe Flaherty82USActor, Comedian
April2Christopher Durang75USActor
April2Tatyana Konyukhova92RussiaActress
April3Adrian Schiller60UKActor
April3Vera Tschechowa83GermanyActress, Producer
April4Bruce Kessler88USDirector
April5R. F. Lucchetti94BrazilScreenwriter
April5Peter Sodann87GermanyActor
April6Ernesto Gómez Cruz90MexicoActor
April7Edgar Burcksen76NetherlandsFilm Editor
April9Jaime de Armiñán97SpainDirector, Screenwriter
April9Patti Astor74USActress
April9Carla Balenda98USActress
April9Eckart Dux97GermanyActor
April10O. J. Simpson76USActor
April10Dan Wallin97USSound Engineer
April12Eleanor Coppola87USDirector, Screenwriter
April13Richard Horowitz75USComposer
April13Rochelle Oliver86USActress
April13Ron Thompson83USActor, Singer
April14Vincent Friell64UKActor
April14Jacques Lussier64CanadaActor
April16Barbara O. Jones82USActress
April18James Laurenson84New ZealandActor
April18Spencer Milligan86USActor
April20Antonio Cantafora80ItalyActor
April20Roman Gabriel83USActor
April20Lourdes Portillo80MexicoDirector, Producer
April22Hana Brejchová77Czech RepublicActress
April22Philippe Laudenbach88FranceActor
April22Michael Verhoeven85GermanyDirector, Screenwriter
April23Terry Carter95USActor
April23Ray Chan56UKArt Director, Production Designer
April24Margaret Lee80UKActress
April25Marla Adams85USActress
April25Ferenc András81HungaryDirector, Screenwriter
April25Laurent Cantet63FranceDirector, Screenwriter
April27Roy Boyd85UKActor
April28Brian McCardie59UKActor
April28Zack Norman83USActor, Comedian, Producer
April28Alan Scarfe77UKActor
April30Paul Auster77USDirector, Screenwriter
May2Roxanne95USActress
May2Susan Buckner72USActress
May2Edgar Lansbury94UKProducer
May4Anna Panagiotopoulou76GreeceActress
May5Jeannie Epper83USActress, Stuntwoman
May5Bernard Hill79UKActor
May5Gloria Stroock99USActress
May6Ian Gelder74UKActor
May6Harikumar68IndiaDirector
May6Kanakalatha63IndiaActress
May6Robert Logan Jr.82USActor
May6Brian Wenzel94AustraliaActor, Comedian, Singer
May7Evald Aavik83EstoniaActor
May7John Charles83New ZealandComposer
May8Sangeeth Sivan65IndiaDirector, Screenwriter
May9Roger Corman98USDirector, Producer, Actor
May10Sam Rubin64USActor
May10Hans Wahlgren86SwedenActor
May11Susan Backlinie77USActress
May11Kevin Brophy70USActor
May12Paulo César Pereio83BrazilActor
May12Mark Damon91USActor, Producer
May13Samm-Art Williams78USActor, Screenwriter
May14Baiba Indriksone92LatviaActress
May14Gudrun Ure98UKActress
May15Barbra Fuller102USActress
May15Elda Peralta91MexicoActress
May16Dabney Coleman92USActor
May16Zari Khoshkam76IranActress
May17Stephen J. Rivele75USScreenwriter, Producer
May17Hideyuki Umezu68JapanActor
May18Fred Roos89USProducer, Casting Director
May19Richard Foronjy86USActor
May21Jan A. P. Kaczmarek71PolandComposer
May22Darryl Hickman92USActor
May23Morgan Spurlock53USDocumentarian
May24Jan Kačer87Czech RepublicActor
May25Johnny Ngan71Hong KongActor
May25Albert S. Ruddy94CanadaProducer
May25Richard M. Sherman95USComposer, Songwriter
May25Johnny Wactor37USActor
May27Elizabeth MacRae88USActress
May29Margot Benacerraf97VenezuelaDirector
May29Anastasia Zavorotnyuk53RussiaActress
May30Mitchell Block73USDirector, Producer
May30Tom Bower86USActor
May30Dorothy Bromiley93UKActress
May31Martin Starger92USProducer
May31Kátya Tompos41HungaryActress
June1Erich Anderson67USActor
June1Ruth Maria Kubitschek92GermanyActress
June1Philippe Leroy93FranceActor
June2Jeannette Charles96UKActress
June2Janis Paige101USActress, Singer
June2Armando Silvestre98USActor
June3William Russell99UKActor
June4Nicholas Ball78UKActor
June4Hubert Taczanowski63UKCinematographer
June5Rosalina Neri96ItalyActress
June8Ramoji Rao87IndiaProducer
June9Marzena Kipiel-Sztuka58PolandActress
June9Yoshiko Kuga93JapanActress
June11Françoise Hardy80FranceSinger, Actress
June11Tony Lo Bianco87USActor
June11Tony Mordente88USActor, Choreographer, Dancer
June12Ron Simons63USActor, Producer
June13Benji Gregory46USActor
June15Érik Canuel63CanadaDirector
June16Evans Evans91USActress
June18Anouk Aimée92FranceActress
June18Anthea Sylbert84USCostume Designer, Producer
June20Donald Sutherland88CanadaActor
June23Tamayo Perry49USActor
June23Bud S. Smith88USFilm Editor, Producer
June24Shifty Shellshock49USSinger, Actor
June24Joan Benedict Steiger96USActress
June25Bill Cobbs90USActor
June26Pat Heywood92UKActress
June26Taiki Matsuno56JapanActor
June27Martin Mull80USActor
June28Txema Blasco82SpainActor
June30Maria Rosaria Omaggio67ItalyActress
July1Robert Towne89USScreenwriter, Director
July5Yvonne Furneaux98FranceActress
July5Jon Landau63USProducer
July6Angela Pagano87ItalyActress
July7Bruno Zanin73ItalyActor
July9David Loughery71USScreenwriter, Producer
July9Jerzy Stuhr77PolandActor
July11Aparna57IndiaActress
July11Shelley Duvall75USActress
July13Shannen Doherty53USActress
July13James B. Sikking90USActor
July14M. Mani77IndiaProducer
July15Jacques Boudet89FranceActor
July15Whitney Rydbeck79USActor
July17Cheng Pei-pei78ChinaActress
July18Bob Newhart94USActor
July19Aldo Puglisi89ItalyActor
July21Salvatore Piscicelli76ItalyDirector, Screenwriter
July23Teresa Gimpera87SpainActress
July26Janet Andrewartha72AustraliaActress
July27Edna O'Brien93IrelandScreenwriter
July28Erica Ash46USActress, Comedian, Singer
July28Chino XL50USActor
July29Robert Banas90USActor, Choreographer
July30Onyeka Onwenu72NigeriaActress, Singer
July30Lisa Westcott76UKMakeup Artist
July31Roberto Herlitzka87ItalyActor
July31Genco Erkal86TurkeyActor
August1Pina Bottin91ItalyActress
August1Rainer Brandt88GermanyActor
August1Leonard Engelman83USMakeup Artist
August3George Schenck82USScreenwriter
August4Charles Cyphers85USActor
August4Lily Monteverde84PhilippinesProducer
August5John Aprea83USActor
August5Patti Yasutake70USActress
August6Connie Chiume72South AfricaActress
August6Jay Kanter97USProducer
August7Margaret Ménégoz83HungaryProducer
August8Mitzi McCall91USActress, Comedian
August10Rachael Lillis55USVoice Actress
August10Peggy Moffitt86USActress
August11Ángel Salazar68CubaActor, Comedian
August12Kim Kahana94USStuntman, Actor
August13Sergio Donati91ItalyScreenwriter
August14Denise Gagnon87CanadaActress
August14Gena Rowlands94USActress
August15Peter Marshall98USActor
August15Ľubomír Paulovič71SlovakiaActor
August16Robert Sidaway82UKActor, Producer
August16Norman Spencer110UKProducer, Production Manager
August18Boris Bystrov79RussiaActor, Voice Actor
August18Alain Delon88FranceActor, Producer
August18Vladislav Gostishchev83RussiaActor
August20Atsuko Tanaka61JapanVoice Actress
August21John Amos84USActor
August23Catherine Ribeiro82FranceActress
August24Karel Heřmánek76Czech RepublicActor
August27Ron Hale78USActor
August27Jim Houghton75USActor
August28K. C. Fox70USSet Decorator
August30Jean-Charles Tacchella98FranceDirector, Screenwriter
September1Norman Chui73Hong KongActor
September1Eric Gilliland62USActor
September1Ahu Tuğba69TurkeyActress
September2James Darren88USActor, Singer
September5Laurent Tirard57FranceDirector, Screenwriter
September6Will Jennings80USLyricist
September8Henny Moan88NorwayActress
September8Peter Renaday89USActor, Voice Actor
September8Emi Shinohara61JapanVoice Actress
September9James Earl Jones93USActor
September10Maria Politseymako86RussiaActress
September11Kenneth Cope93UKActor
September11Chad McQueen63USActor
September13Franca Bettoia88ItalyActress
September13Lex Marinos75AustraliaActor
September14Jean-Michel Dupuis69FranceActor
September16Barbara Leigh-Hunt88UKActress
September17C. I. D. Sakunthala84IndiaActress
September20Kathryn Crosby90USActress, Singer
September20David Graham99UKActor
September20Cleo Sylvestre79UKActress
September23Tomris Giritlioğlu67TurkeyDirector
September24Pierre-William Glenn80FranceCinematographer, Director
September25Roman Madyanov62RussiaActor
September26John Ashton76USActor
September27Maggie Smith89UKActress
September28Kris Kristofferson88USActor, Singer
September28Glauco Mauri93ItalyActor
September29Ron Ely86USActor
September30Park Ji-ah52South KoreaActress
September30Ken Page70USActor
September30Robert Watts86UKProducer
October1Bob Yerkes92USStuntman
October2Emily Richard76UKActress
October3Keerikkadan Jose72IndiaActor
October4Michel Blanc72FranceActor, Screenwriter, Director
October4John Lasell95USActor
October7Cissy Houston91USSinger, Actress
October7Nicholas Pryor89USActor
October8Jorge Arriagada81FranceComposer
October9Elisa Montés89SpainActress
October9Pierre Vernier93FranceActor
October11Roger Browne94USActor
October11Mario Morra89ItalyFilm Editor
October12Alvin Rakoff97CanadaDirector
October16Liam Payne31UKSinger, Actor
October16Joe Viola86USDirector, Screenwriter
October17Mitzi Gaynor93USActress
October17Aaron Kaufman51USProducer, Director
October17Toshiyuki Nishida76JapanActor
October20Adamo Dionisi59ItalyActor
October21Christine Boisson68FranceActress
October22Lynda Obst74USProducer
October22Dick Pope77UKCinematographer
October24John F. Burnett90USFilm Editor
October25David Harris75USActor
October25Kim Soo-mi75South KoreaActress
October26Stephanie Collie60UKCostume Designer
October27Lily Li74Hong KongActress
October28Paul Morrissey86USDirector
October29Teri Garr79USActress
October29Suzanne Osten80SwedenDirector, Screenwriter
October29Ragne Veensalu37EstoniaActress
October30Giovanni Cianfriglia89ItalyActor, Stuntman
October30Erik Clausen82DenmarkActor, Director
November2Jonathan Haze95USActor
November2Alan Rachins82USActor
November3Paul Engelen75UKMakeup Artist
November3Huckleberry Fox50USActor
November3Quincy Jones91USComposer, Producer
November6Fabio Sartor70ItalyActor
November6Tony Todd69USActor
November8Geneviève Grad80FranceActress
November9Delhi Ganesh80IndiaActor
November11Richard D. James88USArt Director
November12Manoj Mitra86IndiaActor
November12Song Jae-rim39South KoreaActor
November12Timothy West90UKActor
November13Dan Hennessey82CanadaActor, Voice Actor
November14Shōhei Hino75JapanActor, Singer
November15Jon Kenny66IrelandActor, Comedian
November15Paul Teal35USActor
November16Svetlana Svetlichnaya84RussiaActress
November17Allan Svensson73SwedenActor
November18Junko Hori89JapanActress
November18Colin Petersen78AustraliaActor
November19Colin Chilvers79UKSpecial Effects Artist
November20Andy Paley72USComposer
November21Meghanathan60IndiaActor
November22Mark Withers77USActor
November23Michael Villella84USActor
November23Chuck Woolery83USActor
November24Helen Gallagher98USActress
November25Earl Holliman96USActor, Singer
November26Jim Abrahams80USDirector, Screenwriter
November26Katinka Faragó87SwedenProducer, Production Manager
November26Scott L. Schwartz65USActor
November27Morgan Lofting84USActress
November27Adam Somner57USAssistant Director, Producer
November28Silvia Pinal93MexicoActress
November29Marshall Brickman85USScreenwriter, Director
November29Christian Juttner60USActor
December1Niels Arestrup75FranceActor
December2Paul Maslansky91USProducer, Screenwriter
December4Chiung Yao86TaiwanProducer, Screenwriter
December5Thom Christopher84USActor
December6Miho Nakayama54JapanActress, Singer
December6Stanisław Tym87PolandActor, Comedian, Screenwriter
December8Şerif Gören80TurkeyDirector
December8Jill Jacobson70USActress
December9Arnold Yarrow104UKActor, Screenwriter
December10Michael Cole84USActor
December10María Socas65ArgentinaActress
December11Michio Mamiya95JapanComposer
December12Wolfgang Becker70GermanyDirector, Screenwriter
December12David Weatherley85New ZealandActor
December13Diane Delano67USActress
December14John R. Countryman91USActor
December14Mircea Diaconu74RomaniaActor
December15Zakir Hussain73IndiaActor, Musician
December15Fada Santoro100BrazilActress
December16Thomas Berly92IndiaActor, Director, Producer
December17Marisa Paredes78SpainActress
December19Gwen Van Dam96USActress
December19Meena Ganesh81IndiaActress
December19Xie Fang89ChinaActress
December20John Erwin88USActor, Voice Actor
December21Jack Bond87UKDirector, Screenwriter
December21Michelle Botes62South AfricaActress
December21Art Evans82USActor
December21Hannelore Hoger82GermanyActress
December21Hudson Meek16USActor
December22Geoffrey Deuel81USActor
December23Shyam Benegal90IndiaDirector, Screenwriter
December23Angus MacInnes77CanadaActor
December25M. T. Vasudevan Nair91IndiaDirector, Screenwriter
December26Dick Capri93USActor, Comedian
December26Ney Latorraca80BrazilActor
December27Dayle Haddon76CanadaActress
December27Olivia Hussey73UKActress
December27Charles Shyer83USDirector, Producer, Screenwriter
December28Jana Synková80Czech RepublicActress
December29George Folsey Jr.85USProducer, Film Editor
December29Linda Lavin87USActress, Singer
December30John Capodice83USActor
December31Roger Pratt77UKCinematographer

Film debuts