List of years in film

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

• 19th century in film
• 20th century in film:
  • 1900s - 1910s - 1920s - 1930s - 1940s - 1950s - 1960s - 1970s - 1980s - 1990s
• 21st century in film:
  • 2000s

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[edit] 19th century in film

See also: 19th century in film

• 1886 - Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince is granted an American dual-patent on a 16-lens device that combined a motion picture camera with a projector.
• 1887
• 1888 - The Roundhay Garden Scene, shot in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England by Le Prince, is credited as the first film. It is recorded at a groundbreaking 20 frames per second and is the earliest surviving film. Thomas Edison describes the concept of the Kinetoscope, an early motion picture exhibition device.
• 1889 - Eastman Kodak is the first company to begin commercial production of film on a flexible transparent base, celluloid. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film are made in Hyde Park, London by William Friese Greene.
• 1890
• 1891 - Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.
• 1892 - The Kinetoscope is completed by W.K. Dickson, at the employ of Thomas Edison.
• 1893 - Thomas Edison builds "America's First Movie Studio", the Black Maria, in West Orange, New Jersey. The premiere of the completed Kinetoscope is held not at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences: The first film publicly shown on the system was Blacksmith Scene (aka Blacksmiths);
• 1894 - W.K. Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film. Thomas Edison records Fred Ott's sneeze. Auguste and Louis Lumière patent the Cinématographe, a combination movie camera and projector.
• 1895 - The cinématographe is patented. First footage ever to be shot using it is recorded on March 19. The Lumière brothers hold their first private screening of projected motion pictures on March 22. The Lumières give the first public screening at L'Eden, the world's first and oldest cinéma (theater), located in La Ciotat, France, on September 28. Gaumont Pictures is founded by the engineer-turned-inventor, Léon Gaumont. In the US, the Dickson Experimental Sound Film presents two men dancing to the sound of a violin player, in what the The Celluloid Closet calls the first gay cinema reference. The first screening of movies at which admission was charged takes place on December 28, in Paris, at the Salon Indien du Grand Café. This historical screening is based on ten short films, in the following order (and respective length): Sortie de l'usine Lumière à Lyon (Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory), 46 seconds; La Voltige ("Horse Trick Riders"), 46 seconds: La Pêche aux Poissons Rouges ("Fishing for Goldfish"), 42 seconds; Le Débarquement du Congrès de Photographie à Lyon ("The Disembarkment of the Congress of Photographers in Lyon"), 48 seconds; Les Forgerons ("Blacksmiths"), 49 seconds; Le Jardinier (l'Arroseur Arrosé) ("The Gardener, [The Sprinkler Sprinkled]"), 49 seconds; Le Repas (de Bébé) ("Baby's Meal"), 41 seconds; Le Saut à la Couverture ("Jumping Onto the Blanket"), 41 seconds; La Place des Cordeliers à Lyon ("Cordeliers Square in Lyon - a Street Scene"), 44 seconds; La Mer (Baignade en Mer) ("The Sea [Bathing in the Sea]"), 38 seconds .
• 1896 - Pathé Frères is founded. Georges Méliès buys an English projector from Robert William Paul and shoots his first films. A projector called the Vitascope is designed by Charles Francis Jenkins. The first theater in the US dedicated exclusively to showing motion pictures is Vitascope Hall, established on Canal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana. The first screen kiss takes place between between May Irwin and John Rice in The Kiss. The first female film director, Alice Guy-Blaché, presents The Cabbage Fairy. Cinema reaches India by way of The Lumière brothers ' Cinematography, unveiling six silent short films at the Watson Hotel in Bombay, namely Entry of Cinematographe, La Mer (Baignade en Mer), L'Arrivée d'un Train en Gare de la Ciotat, A Demolition, Ladies & Soldiers on Wheels and Sortie de l'usine Lumière à Lyon. The tour of the Lumière brothers covers also London and New York.
• 1897 - Vitagraph is founded in New York. In England, the Prestwich Camera is patented. Harischandra Sakharam Bhatvadekar, alias Save Dada, imports a cine-camera from London at a price of 21 guineas and films the first Indian documentary film, a wrestling match in Hanging Gardens, Bombay. Daily screenings of films commence in Bombay by Clifton and Co.'s Meadows Street Photography Studio.
• 1898 - Méliès starts producing under the brand Star Film and directs brief commercials. Hiralal Sen starts filming scenes of theatre productions at the Classic Theatre in Calcutta.
• 1899 - The first film version of Cinderella is released.

[edit] 1900s

See also: 1900s in film

• 1900 - The first French Union Cinematography Chamber is founded by Georges Méliès.
• 1901 - Edison's Black Maria shuts down.
• 1902 - A Trip to the Moon by George Méliès is released. Pathé acquires the Lumière brothers patents. The first permanent structure designed for screening of movies in the US is Tally's Electric Theater, in Los Angeles, California.
• 1903 - The Great Train Robbery by Edwin S. Porter, has a cowboy firing a gun at the camera. The movie is a breakthrough in techniques: cross cutting, double exposure composite editing, camera movement and on location shooting. The three elder Warner Bros. begin in the exhibition business. Gaston Méliès, Georges' brother, opens a branch of Star Film in New York to defend its production's copyrights.
• 1904 - The Great Train Robbery, a remake by Siegmund Lubin. Loews Theaters is founded by Marcus Loew; it will be the oldest theater chain operating in North America by the time it merges with AMC in 2006. Touring cinema begins in India, as Manek Sethna starts the Touring Cinema Co. in Bombay. All Méliès films begin being made with two negatives, the second of which is sent to New York to serve the American market.
• 1905 - The first "Nickelodeon" is born when Harry Davis and John P. Harris open their small, storefront theatre under that name on Smithfield Street in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Swamikannu Vincent, a draughtsman for the railways in India, sets up a touring cinema going around small towns and villages in the South of India.
• 1906 - The world's first feature film, The Story of the Kelly Gang, released in Australia.
• 1907 - Ben Hur, directed by Sidney Olcott. Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Pathé opens an office in India.
• 1908 - Thomas Edison forms the Motion Picture Patents Company, also known as the Edison Trust, also known as the First Oligopoly, a trust of all the major film companies (Edison, Biograph, Vitagraph, Essanay, Selig, Lubin, Kalem, American Star -Méliès-, American Pathé), the leading distributor (George Kleine) and the biggest supplier of raw film, Eastman Kodak. Pathé invents the newsreel that was shown in theaters prior to the feature film. In [[Paris)), Méliès presides over the first International Cinema Congress, attended by all major producers in the world.
• 1909 - Matsunosuke Onoe, who would become the first superstar of Japanese cinema, appears in his first film, Goban Tadanobu. Carl Laemmle starts the Yankee Film Company with partners Abe and Julius Stern, the seed to what will be Universal Studios. Again in Paris, Méliès presides over the second International Cinema Congress, obtaining the landmark decision of standard perfuration for film, enabling international projection.

[edit] 1910s

• 1910 - The first film shot in Hollywood is D. W. Griffith's In Old California, starring Mack Sennett in a supporting role. The first film version of Frankenstein is released. Florence Lawrence, then known as the "Biograph girl", is promoted by Carl Laemmle in what may be the first instance of a studio using a film star in its marketing.
• 1911 - Nestor Films opens the first motion picture studio in Hollywood. The distribution of the Méliès productions is given to Pathé.
• 1912 - Lillian Gish, who would be hailed as "The First Lady of the Silent Screen", stars in her first movie. From the Manger to the Cross, directed by Sidney Olcott, is shot on location in Palestine. It earned a reported $ 1 million vs. its $ 35,000 production cost. The first American feature film, Oliver Twist, is made. Laemmle merges IMP with eight smaller companies to form the Universal Film Manufacturing Company (the name will be soon shortened to Universal Pictures Company). The Famous Players Film Company is launched by Adolph Zukor. Jesse L. Lasky opens his Lasky Feature Play Company with money borrowed from his brother-in-law, Samuel Goldfish (later to be known as Samuel Goldwyn). Lasky hires a stage director with no film experience, Cecil B. DeMille, who shoots his first film, The Squaw Man in Hollywood. The United States Supreme Court cancels the patent on raw film, dealing a blow to the MPPC. Enrico Guazzoni's Quo Vadis?, often regarded as the first successful feature-length motion picture, is released in Italy, with over 60 minutes.
• 1913 - The first Charlie Chaplin movies are made. D. G. Phalke's Raja Harishchandra is the earliest Indian fiction film made by an Indian director. Traffic in Souls is the first feature released on Broadway not based on a famous novel or play and also the first film of more than three reels produced by IMP (it was a six-reel movie). This year is called the highpoint in European cinema: Victor Sjöström's masterpiece Ingeborg Holm is released in Sweden; Mario Caserini's Ma l'amor mio non muore, Léonce Perret's L'Enfant de Paris and Stellan Rye and Paul Wegener's Der Student von Prag, are released across Europe.
• 1914 - W. W. Hodkinson starts Paramount Pictures, the first successful nation-wide distributor. Pathé launches the very popular silent Perils of Pauline cliffhanger serial, shown in weekly installments and featuring Pearl White. Its success prompts The Exploits of Elaine, another film serial in the genre of The Perils of Pauline, also featuring Pearl White, that will outgross that serial in ticket sales. Tillie's Punctured Romance produced by Mack Sennett, stars Marie Dressler, Charlie Chaplin, and Mabel Normand. Gloria Swanson begins her career as an extra in The Song of Soul. A masterpiece of European cinema, Giovanni Pastrone's Cabiria, is released.
• 1915 - The Clansman, based on the novel and play by Thomas W. Dixon and directed by D.W. Griffith, premieres in Los Angeles. Later, Dixon suggests that the film be retitled The Birth of a Nation. Charles Chaplin signs with Essanay, releasing thirteen films featuring Charlie and becoming a star. The Country Girl, starring Florence LaBadie. Louis B. Mayer and Richard A. Rowland create Metro Pictures Corporation based in New York City. The world's largest motion picture production facility, Universal City Studios is opened in Hollywood. Again, the United States Supreme Court deals a blow to the MPPC, cancelling all MPPC patents
• 1916 - D. W. Griffith's second monumental production, Intolerance is released. Zukor maneuvers a three-way merger of his Famous Players, the Lasky company, and Paramount, in what will be the company of the stars, Paramount Pictures. Universal Pictures sets up Hollywood's first Indian agency. The first South Indian feature is Rangaswamy Nataraja Mudaliar's Keechaka Vadham.
• 1917 - Technicolor is introduced. Final blow to the MPPC, as the United States Supreme Court under the Sherman Antitrust Act ends the oligopoly. Ufa, Germany's largest film studio in the 1920s, is founded. Charles Pathé, distressed with the relatively artisanal stage of French movies, writes an article called "La crise du cinéma". Rangaswamy Nataraja Mudaliar makes Draupadi Vastrapaharanam, featuring Anglo-Indian actress Marian Hill.
• 1918 - The Warner Bros. studio opens on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. My Four Years in Germany is the first Warner Brothers production. First National releases the first Tarzan film, starring Elmo Lincoln. Sid Grauman begins the trend of theatre-as-destination with his ornate Million Dollar Theater, which opens on Broadway in downtown Los Angeles.
• 1919 - United Artists is founded by Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin and D. W. Griffith. Emelka, a German film studio who would become the second largest in the 1920s, is founded.

[edit] 1920s

See also: 1920s in film

• 1920 - Buster Keaton begins starring in shorts and in The Saphead, his first feature and his last smile ever on screen, at Metro. Erich Von Stroheim's The Devil's Passkey stars Mae Busch at Goldwyn. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, one of the earliest, most influential and most artistically acclaimed German Expressionist films, is released in Germany. Irving Thalberg becomes in charge of production at Universal City.
• 1921 - Laurel and Hardy's first film together, A Lucky Dog. Charles Chaplin directs, produces and stars in The Kid. Rudolph Valentino stars in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and The Sheik, appealing almost exclusively to women audiences, and into stardom.
• 1922 - F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu, the first vampire film, is released in Germany. Also, Our Gang series begins at Hal Roach. studios. Nanook of the North, considered the first feature-length documentary, is released. Rin Tin Tin has its first big break in The Man From Hell's River.
• 1923 - Harold Lloyd's Safety Last produced by Hal Roach, released by Pathe. Charles Chaplin releases A Woman of Paris. In Germany, Erich Pommer becomes head of production at Ufa.
• 1924 - Irving Thalberg leaves Universal to join the Mayer venture. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer begins with Louis B. Mayer at the helm, as a result of Marcus Loew's acquisitions of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures and Mayer Pictures. Erich von Stroheim's magnum opus, Greed, is released. In Sweden, a star is born when Mauritz Stiller directs Greta Garbo in The Story of Gösta Berling. In Germany, Ufa releases Michael/Chained and Der letzte Mann/The Last Laugh. Fritz Lang's two-part epic The Nibelungs premieres in February and April, in Berlin. Léonce Perret's Madame Sans-Gêne, an adaptation of the eponymous stage play starring Gloria Swanson, is the first joint Franco-American film production.
• 1925 - Lon Chaney's The Phantom of the Opera is released by Universal with color sequences. Sergei Eisenstein directs Strike! and The Battleship Potemkin in the Soviet Union. Warner Bros. buys Vitagraph. The Big Parade), directed by King Vidor, is Thalberg's first major triumph at MGM. Ufa premieres Tartuffe and Variety. In financial stress, Ufa borrows 4 million dollars from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Paramount, in exchange of 50% of the screen time of its cinemas.
• 1926 - First Vitaphone feature, Don Juan starring John Barrymore, released by Warner Brothers. Greta Garbo begins her American career with The Torrent, The Temptress and Flesh and the Devil. Valentino's last film, The Son of the Sheik, is released posthumously. Ufa releases F. W. Murnau's Faust. Grauman's Chinese Theater opens its doors. Pudovkin's Mother is released in the Soviet Union.
• 1927 - Al Jolson movie The Jazz Singer popularizes sound motion pictures. Buster Keaton stars in The General. In Germany, Fritz Lang's groundbreaking Metropolis is released by Ufa; at the time, it was the most expensive movie ever made. The Hugenberg group takes over Ufa and reorganizes it to meet customer demand, effectively ending "the centre of creative filmmaking".
• 1928 - First talkie cartoon, Dinner Time is produced. The second talkie cartoon, Steamboat Willie, by Walt Disney, is released a month later. The first all-talking feature, Lights of New York, is released by Warner. MGM releases the first all-color sound feature (in Technicolor and including a synchronized score and sound effects but no spoken dialogue), entitled The Viking. Sergei Eisenstein releases October. The First Party Conference on Cinema is held in the Soviet Union, as a first step to a Five Year Plan for Cinema.
• 1929 - The first Academy Awards, or Oscars, are distributed: Wings wins the Best Production or Best Picture and Sunrise the Academy Award for Unique and Artistic Production. In France, Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí make Un chien andalou (An Andalusian Dog), the most famous of surrealist movies. In Germany, Louise Brooks stars in G. W. Pabst's Pandora's Box. On with the Show, the first all-color, all-sound movie is released by Warner Bros.; it's soon followed by Gold Diggers of Broadway, that became the most successful film of the year and went on to play in theatres until 1939. In the Soviet Union, Eisenstein releases Old and New.

[edit] 1930s

See also: 1930s in film

• 1930 - The first Busby Berkeley musical film, Whoopee! starring Eddie Cantor, is released by Goldwyn in color. The Motion Pictures Producers and Distributors Association (MPPDA), which later became the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), adopts the Production Code. Marlene Dietrich stars in Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel, the first German-language talkie. At Warner Bros., the Looney Tunes cartoons begin, starring Bosko. MGM releases The Rogue Song, which becomes their first all color all-talking feature (in Technicolor). They purchase the rights to distribute a series of cartoons that star a character named Flip the Frog - the first cartoon in this series (entitled Fiddlesticks) was also the first sound cartoon to be produced in Technicolor.
• 1931 - Laurel and Hardy's first feature, Pardon Us, is released by MGM. Fritz Lang's M starring Peter Lorre is released in Germany. Darryl F. Zanuck becomes head of production at Warner Bros.. The Merrie Melodies cartoons begin. Manoel de Oliveira, still active in 2007, directs his first film, Douro, Faina Fluvial, a silent documentary. The first Portuguese sound film, is Leitão de Barros's A Severa.
• 1932 - Shirley Temple's film career begins. Katharine Hepburn, to date (2007) the holder of the Academy Award for Best Actress record with four golden statuettes, stars in her first movie, George Cukor's A Bill of Divorcement.
• 1933 - Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees premieres, the first film produced in the three-strip Technicolor process. The film Ecstasy, which shows simulated sex, shocks audiences. Fred Astaire's first acting role pairs him with Ginger Rogers in Flying Down to Rio. King Kong is released. Twentieth Century Pictures is founded by Darryl F. Zanuck. The first Portuguese sound comedy film, Cottinelli Telmo's A Canção de Lisboa, is released and its success sparks the "Golden Age of Portuguese cinema". To battle the Great Depression's effect on box office attendance (shrunk by one third from 1930), the studios begin the double-bill: the B-movie is born.
• 1934 - Samuel Goldwyn purchases the film rights to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from Frank J. Baum. Shirley Temple becomes a star. The Production Code is amended to require all films to obtain a certificate of approval. The code is effectively enforced for the first time with the removal of nude scenes from the movie Tarzan and His Mate.
• 1935 - The first feature-length motion picture in three-strip Technicolor, RKO's Becky Sharp. Twentieth Century Pictures buys Fox Studios to become Twentieth Century-Fox.
• 1936 - Thelma Todd's An All-American Toothache, co-starring Patsy Kelly and Mickey Daniels.
• 1937 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, first feature-length animated movie.
• 1938 - Spencer Tracy stars in Boys Town and Bette Davis is Jezebel. They both earn Academy Awards for their performances. The Adventures of Robin Hood, a Technicolor extravaganza starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, and Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky are released. Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn star together in both Howard Hawks's Bringing Up Baby, released to a cold box-office reception, and George Cukor's Holiday. A poll taken by motion picture exhibitors elects performers as "box office poison": Katharine Hepburn, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Fred Astaire, Marlene Dietrich and Mae West make the list.
• 1939 - Hollywood's Annus Mirabilis: Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh star in what is arguably the most popular film of all time, Gone with the Wind; Judy Garland sings Over The Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz; John Wayne rides the Stagecoach; Jimmy Stewart stars in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; Garbo laughs in Ninotchka; Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon star in Wuthering Heights; Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers tell The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle; Jean Renoir directs The Rules of the Game (La Règle du Jeu); Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Paulette Goddard and Joan Fontaine are The Women for director of women George Cukor; and Bette Davis achieves a Dark Victory.

[edit] 1940s

See also: 1940s in film

• 1940 - Columbia releases Charley Chase's last film, South of the Boudoir.
• 1941 - Orson Welles' Citizen Kane premieres.
• 1942 - Bambi released. Casablanca, starring Humprey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, released.
• 1943 - Lassie Come Home introduces Lassie.
• 1944 - Last Our Gang shorts, produced by MGM.
• 1945 - National Velvet brings Elizabeth Taylor to prominence.
• 1946 - Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life premieres.
• 1947 - Miracle on 34th Street.
• 1948 - Joan of Arc, starring Ingrid Bergman, Edgar Kennedy's final short for RKO.
• 1949 - Sands of Iwo Jima, directed by Allan Dwan.

[edit] 1950s

See also: 1950s in film

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

[edit] 1960s

See also: 1960s in film

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

[edit] 1970s

See also: 1970s in film

• 1970 - Patton and M*A*S*H are released
• 1971 - The French Connection premieres
• 1972 - The Godfather premieres
• 1973 - The Sting and The Exorcist are released
• 1974 - Blazing Saddles
• 1975 - Steven Spielberg's Jaws, the first summer blockbuster movie is released
• 1976 - Rocky premieres
• 1977 - George Lucas' science fiction film Star Wars is released and The Bee Gees sing in Saturday Night Fever
• 1978 - National Lampoon's Animal House, Dawn of the Dead, The Lord of the Rings, Superman
• 1979 - Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now

[edit] 1980s

See also: 1980s in film

• 1980 - Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and Caddyshack are released
• 1981 - The George Lucas/Steven Spielberg collaboration, Raiders of the Lost Ark, premieres
• 1982 - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial premieres
• 1983 - Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, The Big Chill, and The Right Stuff are released
• 1984 - Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Ghost Busters and Amadeus are released
• 1985 - Steven Spielberg's film version of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple premieres
• 1986 - Fatal Attraction premieres
• 1987 - Three Men and a Baby is released
• 1988 - Rain Man starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise
• 1989 - Batman, directed by Tim Burton, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade starring Sean Connery

[edit] 1990s

See also: 1990s in film

• 1990 - The first Home Alone is released. Dances with Wolves takes Best Picture
• 1991 - The Silence of the Lambs is released
• 1992 - Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Aladdin, Alien 3 and Batman Returns are released
• 1993 - Schindler's List and Jurassic Park are released
• 1994 - Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction, and The Lion King
• 1995 - Mel Gibson directs and stars in Braveheart
• 1996 - Fargo and The English Patient are released
• 1997 - Titanic and Men in Black
• 1998 - Tom Hanks stars in Saving Private Ryan
• 1999 - Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, The Matrix, and The Sixth Sense are released

[edit] 2000s

See also: 2000s in film

• 2000 - Gladiator, Cast Away and O Brother, Where Art Thou? are released
• 2001 - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Peter Jackson's The Fellowship of the Ring, and Shrek
• 2002 - Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Spider-Man, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
• 2003 - Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich, Finding Nemo (Pixar
• 2004 - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11
• 2005 - Batman Begins, Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, The Chronicles of Narnia, Peter Jackson's King Kong, Brokeback Mountain
• 2006 - Borat, Superman Returns, The Departed, Pan's Labyrinth
• 2007 - films scheduled to be released in 2007
• 2008 - films scheduled to be released in 2008
• 2009 - films scheduled to be released in 2009

[edit] 2010s

• 2010 - films scheduled to be released in 2010

[edit] References

• The Silent Cinema Reader edited by Lee Grieveson and Peter Kramer
• Movies of the 30s, edited by Jürgen Müller, Taschen
• The Magic of Méliès, documentary by Jacques Mény, special collector's edition DVD, Spain

[edit] External links

• Box office grosses 1900-2006
• IMDb: In This Year ...

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