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The year 2005 saw the release of many significant and successful films. The highest-grossing films of this year are listed below, as well as a complete list of every film released this year.

Highest-grossing films

Highest-grossing films of 2005^[1]

Rank	Title	Distributor	Worldwide gross
1.	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	Warner Bros.	$896,911,078
2.	Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith	20th Century Fox	$848,754,768
3.	The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe	Disney	$745,013,115
4.	War of the Worlds	Paramount / DreamWorks	$591,745,540
5.	King Kong	Universal	$550,517,357
6.	Madagascar	DreamWorks	$532,680,671
7.	Mr. & Mrs. Smith	20th Century Fox	$478,207,520
8.	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	Warner Bros	$474,968,763
9.	Batman Begins		$374,218,673
10.	Hitch	Columbia	$368,100,420

Events

Month	Day	Event
January	6	The 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.
	8	The 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).
	9	The 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).
	22	The Producers Guild of America picks The Aviator as its choice for best picture of 2004.
	24	The 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.
	25	The 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.
February	2	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.
March	13	10th Empire Awards: The Bourne Supremacy wins the awards for Best Film and Best Actor for Matt Damon.
May	20	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.
	22	The 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.
June	4	The 2005 MTV Movie Awards winners were announced.
	21	The 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.
August	11	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.
October	14	It is announced that Daniel Craig will be the new James Bond in the forthcoming Casino Royale.
December	10	The 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.
	11	The 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.
	12	The 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.
	13	The 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		12th Screen Actors Guild Awards January 29, 2006	59th BAFTA Awards February 19, 2006	78th Academy Awards March 5, 2006
		Drama	Musical or Comedy
Best Film	Brokeback Mountain		Walk the Line	N/A	Brokeback Mountain	Crash
Best Director	Ang Lee Brokeback Mountain			N/A	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			Thandie Newton Crash	Rachel Weisz The Constant Gardener
Best Screenplay, Adapted	Paul Haggis and Robert Moresco Crash	Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana Brokeback Mountain		N/A	Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana Brokeback Mountain
Best Screenplay, Original				N/A	Paul Haggis and Robert Moresco Crash
Best Animated Film	Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit	N/A	N/A	N/A	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/A	N/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

January–March

Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew
J A N U A R Y	7	Vaada	Puja Films	Arjun Rampal, Amisha Patel, Zayed Khan, Satish Kaushik (director)
		White Noise	Universal Studios	Michael Keaton, Deborah Kara Unger
	8	Fetching Cody	Panorama Entertainment	Jay Baruchel, Sarah Lind
	10	Cages	Golden Village Theaters	Mako Iwamatsu, Tan Kheng Hua
	14	Coach Carter	Paramount Pictures / MTV Films	Samuel L. Jackson, Channing Tatum
		Elektra	20th Century Fox	Jennifer Garner, Terence Stamp, Goran Višnjić; Rob Bowman (director)
		Racing Stripes	Warner Bros.	Frankie Muniz, Dustin Hoffman, Snoop Dogg, Mandy Moore, Hayden Panettiere, Joe Pantoliano, Jeff Foxworthy, Michael Clarke Duncan, Bruce Greenwood, Whoopi Goldberg, Fred Dalton Thompson, Joshua Jackson, M. Emmet Walsh, David Spade, Steve Harvey, Frederik Du Chau (director)
	19	Assault on Precinct 13	Rogue	Ethan Hawke, Laurence Fishburne
	21	Are We There Yet?	Columbia Pictures	Ice Cube, Nia Long
	23	The Jacket	Warner Independent Pictures	Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson, Kelly Lynch
		The Upside of Anger	New Line Cinema	Kevin Costner, Joan Allen, Mike Binder
	26	Because of Winn-Dixie	20th Century Fox	AnnaSophia Robb, Jeff Daniels, Dave Matthews, Eva Marie Saint
	27	Hide and Seek	20th Century Fox	Robert De Niro, Dakota Fanning
	28	Alone in the Dark	Lions Gate Entertainment	Christian Slater, Tara Reid, Stephen Dorff; Uwe Boll (director)
F E B R U A R Y	2	Unleashed	Focus Features	Jet Li, Morgan Freeman, Bob Hoskins, Kerry Condon
	1	Mulan II	Walt Disney Pictures, DisneyToon Studio,	Ming-Na When, B. D. Wong, Mark Moseley, Lucy Liu, Harvey Fierstein, Sandra Oh, Gedde Watanabe, Lauren Tom, Jerry Tondo, Frank Welker
	4	Boogeyman	Screen Gems	Barry Watson, Emily Deschanel, Lucy Lawless
		The Wedding Date	Universal Studios	Debra Messing, Dermot Mulroney
	10	Hitch	Columbia Pictures	Will Smith, Eva Mendes, Kevin James; Andy Tennant (director)
	11	Pooh's Heffalump Movie	Walt Disney Pictures	Jim Cummings, John Fiedler, Ken Sansom, Peter Cullen, Kath Soucie, Brenda Blethyn
		Son of the Mask	New Line Cinema	Jamie Kennedy, Alan Cumming; Lawrence Guterman (director)
	17	Constantine	Warner Bros.	Dir., Francis Lawrence; Keanu Reeves, Shia LaBeouf, Rachel Weisz, Tilda Swinton, Peter Stormare
	25	Diary of a Mad Black Woman	Lions Gate Entertainment	Kimberly Elise, Steve Harris, Tyler Perry
		Man of the House	Columbia Pictures	Tommy Lee Jones, Cedric the Entertainer
M A R C H	4	The Pacifier	Spyglass Entertainment	Vin Diesel, Lauren Graham; Adam Shankman (director)
	7	Be Cool	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Vince Vaughn, Cedric the Entertainer, Harvey Keitel; F. Gary Gray (director)
	9	Hostage	Miramax Films	Bruce Willis, Jonathan Tucker, Kevin Pollak
	11	Robots	20th Century Fox / Blue Sky	Ewan McGregor, Robin Williams, Julia Sawalha, Amanda Bynes, Greg Kinnear
	17	The Ring Two	DreamWorks	Naomi Watts, David Dorfman, Simon Baker
	18	Ice Princess	Walt Disney Pictures	Michelle Trachtenberg, Joan Cusack, Kim Cattrall, Hayden Panettiere
	24	Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous	Warner Bros.	Sandra Bullock, Regina King, William Shatner, Treat Williams, Ernie Hudson
	25	Guess Who	Columbia Pictures	Bernie Mac, Ashton Kutcher, Zoe Saldana
		Valiant	Walt Disney Pictures	Ewan McGregor, Tim Curry, Jim Broadbent
	28	Sin City	Dimension Films	Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson, Benicio del Toro, Carla Gugino, Rutger Hauer, Jaime King, Michael Madsen, Brittany Murphy, Clive Owen, Mickey Rourke, Nick Stahl, Bruce Willis, Elijah Wood; Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez (directors)
	30	Beauty Shop	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Queen Latifah, Alicia Silverstone, Ice Cube

April–June

Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew
A P R I L	4	Sahara	Paramount Pictures / Summit Entertainment	Matthew McConaughey, Steve Zahn, Penélope Cruz
	8	Fever Pitch	20th Century Fox	Drew Barrymore, Jimmy Fallon; Peter and Bobby Farrelly (directors)
		The Interpreter	Universal Studios	Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener; Sydney Pollack (director)
	14	The Amityville Horror	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Dimension Films / Platinum Dunes	Ryan Reynolds, Melissa George, Rachel Nichols
	21	A Lot like Love	Touchstone Pictures	Ashton Kutcher, Amanda Peet, Kal Penn
	22	King's Ransom	New Line Cinema	Anthony Anderson, Jay Mohr, Regina Hall
	28	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Touchstone Pictures	Martin Freeman, Sam Rockwell, Mos Def
	29	Monster-in-Law	New Line Cinema	Jennifer Lopez, Jane Fonda, Michael Vartan, Wanda Sykes; Robert Luketic (director)
		XXX: State of the Union	Columbia Pictures / Revolution Studios	Ice Cube, Samuel L. Jackson, Willem Dafoe
	30	House of Wax	Warner Bros.	Elisha Cuthbert, Paris Hilton, Chad Michael Murray, Brian Van Holt, Jared Padalecki
M A Y	2	Kingdom of Heaven	20th Century Fox	Orlando Bloom, Liam Neeson, Eva Green, Jeremy Irons, Edward Norton; Ridley Scott (director)
	3	Boo
	13	Kicking & Screaming	Universal Studios	Will Ferrell, Robert Duvall
	15	Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith	20th Century Fox	Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, Ian McDiarmid, Frank Oz, Samuel L. Jackson; George Lucas (director)
	25	Madagascar	DreamWorks	Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer, Andy Richter
	27	The Longest Yard	Paramount Pictures / Columbia Pictures / MTV Films	Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, James Cromwell, William Fichtner, Burt Reynolds, Cloris Leachman, Rob Schneider; Peter Segal (director)
J U N E	1	Demon Hunter	New Arc Entertainment	Sean Patrick Flanery
		The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants	Warner Bros.	Amber Tamblyn, Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera, Blake Lively; Ken Kwapis (director)
	3	Cinderella Man	Universal Studios / Miramax Films	Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger, Paul Giamatti, Bruce McGill, Craig Bierko; Ron Howard (director)
		Lords of Dogtown	Columbia Pictures	Heath Ledger, Emile Hirsch, John Robinson, Johnny Knoxville, Rebecca De Mornay
		The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse	Universal Studios	Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith
	7	Mr. & Mrs. Smith	20th Century Fox	Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Vince Vaughn; Doug Liman (director)
	10	Batman Begins	Warner Bros.	Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Katie Holmes, Liam Neeson, Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman, Cillian Murphy, Ken Watanabe, Tom Wilkinson; Christopher Nolan (director)
		The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D	Dimension Films	Cayden Boyd, Taylor Dooley, Taylor Lautner
		The Honeymooners	Paramount Pictures	Cedric the Entertainer, Mike Epps, Gabrielle Union, Regina Hall, John Leguizamo
	17	The Perfect Man	Universal Studios	Hilary Duff, Heather Locklear, Chris Noth
	18	Land of the Dead	Universal Studios	Simon Baker, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper, George A. Romero (director)
	20	Camp Slaughter	Screamkings Productions	Kyle Lupo, Matt Dallas
	22	Herbie: Fully Loaded	Walt Disney Pictures	Lindsay Lohan, Michael Keaton, Breckin Meyer, Matt Dillon, Cheryl Hines
		March of the Penguins	Warner Independent Pictures	Morgan Freeman, Amitabh Bachchan
	24	Bewitched	Columbia Pictures	Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell, Michael Caine, Shirley MacLaine, Jason Schwartzman; Nora Ephron (director)
	28	War of the Worlds	DreamWorks Pictures / Paramount Pictures	Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Tim Robbins, Miranda Otto, Justin Chatwin; Steven Spielberg (director)

July–September

Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew
J U L Y	1	Rebound	20th Century Fox	Martin Lawrence, Breckin Meyer
		Yakeen	Shreya Creations P R Films	Arjun Rampal, Priyanka Chopra, Kim Sharma, Ankur Nayyar, Sudhanshu Pandey, Girish Dhamija (director)
	8	Dark Water	Touchstone Pictures	Jennifer Connelly, Tim Roth, John C. Reilly
		Fantastic Four	20th Century Fox	Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Michael Chiklis, Chris Evans; Tim Story (director)
	15	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	Warner Bros.	Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, Helena Bonham Carter, David Kelly, Noah Taylor, Missi Pyle, James Fox, Deep Roy, Christopher Lee; Tim Burton (director)
		Wedding Crashers	New Line Cinema	Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Christopher Walken, Rachel McAdams, Bradley Cooper, Jane Seymour; David Dobkin (director)
	20	The Island	DreamWorks Pictures / Warner Bros.	Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Sean Bean; Michael Bay (director)
	22	Bad News Bears	Paramount Pictures	Billy Bob Thornton, Greg Kinnear, Marcia Gay Harden
		The Devil's Rejects	Lions Gate Entertainment	Rob Zombie (director)
		Hustle & Flow	Paramount Pictures	Terrence Howard, Anthony Anderson, Taryn Manning
	27	Stealth	Columbia Pictures	Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel, Jamie Foxx; Rob Cohen (director)
	29	Must Love Dogs	Warner Bros.	John Cusack, Diane Lane, Dermot Mulroney, Elizabeth Perkins, Stockard Channing, Christopher Plummer
		The Skeleton Key	Universal Studios	Kate Hudson, Peter Sarsgaard, Gena Rowlands
		Sky High	Walt Disney Pictures	Michael Angarano, Kurt Russell, Kelly Preston, Lynda Carter, Danielle Panabaker, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Bruce Campbell, Cloris Leachman, Kevin McDonald
A U G U S T	3	Transporter 2	20th Century Fox	Jason Statham, François Berléand, Amber Valletta; Louis Leterrier (director)
	5	The Dukes of Hazzard	Warner Bros.	Johnny Knoxville, Seann William Scott, Jessica Simpson, Burt Reynolds, Willie Nelson
		Bailey's Billion$	Echo Bridge Entertainment	Dean Cain, Laurie Holden, Jennifer Tilly, Tim Curry, Jon Lovitz
	10	The Great Raid	Miramax Films	Benjamin Bratt, James Franco
	12	Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo	Columbia Pictures	Rob Schneider, Eddie Griffin
		Four Brothers	Paramount Pictures	Mark Wahlberg, André 3000, Tyrese Gibson, Garrett Hedlund, Josh Charles, Sofía Vergara, Chiwetel Ejiofor; John Singleton (director)
	17	Supercross	20th Century Fox	Daryl Hannah, Mike Vogel, Robert Patrick
	19	The 40-Year-Old Virgin	Universal Studios	Steve Carell, Catherine Keener, Paul Rudd; Judd Apatow (director)
		Red Eye	DreamWorks	Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy; Wes Craven (director)
	26	The Brothers Grimm	Dimension Films	Matt Damon, Heath Ledger; Terry Gilliam (director)
		The Cave	Screen Gems	Cole Hauser, Morris Chestnut, Eddie Cibrian
		A Sound of Thunder	Warner Bros.	Ben Kingsley, Catherine McCormack, Edward Burns; Peter Hyams (director)
		Undiscovered	Lions Gate Entertainment	Ashlee Simpson, Carrie Fisher, Shannyn Sossamon
	31	The Constant Gardener	Focus Features	Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz; Fernando Meirelles (director)
S E P T E M B E R	2	Underclassman	Miramax Films	Nick Cannon, Cheech Marin, Roselyn Sánchez
	9	The Exorcism of Emily Rose	Screen Gems	Tom Wilkinson, Laura Linney, Campbell Scott, Jennifer Carpenter
		The Man	New Line Cinema	Samuel L. Jackson, Eugene Levy
		An Unfinished Life	Miramax Films	Robert Redford, Morgan Freeman, Jennifer Lopez
	16	Corpse Bride	Warner Bros.	Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson, Tracey Ullman, Albert Finney, Paul Whitehouse, Joanna Lumley, Christopher Lee, Jane Horrocks; Tim Burton (director)
		Cry Wolf	Universal Pictures	Lindy Booth, Jon Bon Jovi, Jared Padalecki
		Good Night, and Good Luck	Warner Independent Pictures	George Clooney, David Strathairn, Robert Downey Jr., Patricia Clarkson, Frank Langella
		Just Like Heaven	DreamWorks	Reese Witherspoon, Mark Ruffalo, Jon Heder
		Lord of War	Lions Gate Entertainment	Nicolas Cage, Jared Leto, Ethan Hawke, Monica Bellucci, Bridget Moynahan, Jeffrey Wright
		Pride and Prejudice	Focus Features	Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Brenda Blethyn, Donald Sutherland; Joe Wright (director)
		Wolf Creek	The Weinstein Company	John Jarratt, Nathan Phillips, Cassandra Magrath
	22	Flightplan	Touchstone Pictures	Jodie Foster, Sean Bean, Peter Sarsgaard, Marlene Lawston
	23	Dirty Love	First Look Pictures	Jenny McCarthy, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Carmen Electra, Kam Heskin, Victor Webster
		A History of Violence	New Line Cinema	Viggo Mortensen, Ed Harris, Maria Bello, William Hurt; David Cronenberg (director)
		Oliver Twist	R.P. Productions	Ben Kingsley, Barney Clark, Jamie Foreman; Roman Polanski (director)
		Roll Bounce	Fox Searchlight	Bow Wow, Chi McBride, Meagan Good
	29	Serenity	Universal Studios	Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Adam Baldwin
	30	Capote	Sony Pictures Classics	Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Chris Cooper, Bob Balaban
		The Greatest Game Ever Played	Walt Disney Pictures	Shia LaBeouf; Bill Paxton (director)
		Into the Blue	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Columbia Pictures	Paul Walker, Jessica Alba, Ashley Scott

October–December

Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew
O C T O B E R	7	In Her Shoes	20th Century Fox	Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, Shirley MacLaine; Curtis Hanson (director)
		Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit	DreamWorks/Aardman	Peter Sallis, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, Peter Kay, Liz Smith
		Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God
		The Gospel	Screen Gems	Boris Kodjoe, Clifton Powell, Yolanda Adams
		Two for the Money	Universal Studios	Al Pacino, Matthew McConaughey, Rene Russo; D. J. Caruso (director)
		Waiting...	Lions Gate Entertainment	Ryan Reynolds, Anna Faris, Justin Long
	14	Domino	New Line Cinema	Keira Knightley, Christopher Walken, Mickey Rourke
		Elizabethtown	Paramount Pictures	Kirsten Dunst, Orlando Bloom, Susan Sarandon, Alec Baldwin; Cameron Crowe (director)
		The Fog	Columbia Pictures / Revolution Studios	Tom Welling, Maggie Grace, Selma Blair
	15	Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave
	20	Doom	Universal Studios	Karl Urban, The Rock, Rosamund Pike
	21	Dreamer	DreamWorks Pictures	Kurt Russell, Dakota Fanning, Kris Kristofferson
		Kids in America	Slowhand Cinema	Gregory Smith
		North Country	Warner Bros.	Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand
		Stay	20th Century Fox	Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Ryan Gosling
	24	The Legend of Zorro	Columbia Pictures	Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones; Martin Campbell (director)
	28	Prime	Universal Studios	Meryl Streep, Uma Thurman
		Saw II	Lions Gate Entertainment	Donnie Wahlberg
		The Weather Man	Paramount Pictures	Nicolas Cage, Hope Davis, Michael Caine
	31	American Pie Presents: Band Camp
N O V E M B E R	4	Chicken Little	Walt Disney Pictures	Zach Braff, Joan Cusack, Steve Zahn, Garry Marshall, Don Knotts, Fred Willard, Catherine O'Hara
		Jarhead	Universal Studios	Jake Gyllenhaal, Lucas Black, Jamie Foxx; Sam Mendes (director)
	6	Zathura	Columbia Pictures	Josh Hutcherson, Jonah Bobo, Dax Shepard, Tim Robbins, Kristen Stewart
	7	Fuck	Mudflap Films / Rainstorm Entertainment	Steven Bochco, Pat Boone, Ben Bradlee, Drew Carey, Billy Connolly
	9	Get Rich or Die Tryin'	Paramount Pictures	Joy Bryant, Terrence Howard, 50 Cent
	11	Derailed	The Weinstein Company	Clive Owen, Jennifer Aniston
	16	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	Warner Bros.	Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, Brendan Gleeson, Maggie Smith, Robbie Coltrane, Alan Rickman, Miranda Richardson, Timothy Spall, Gary Oldman, Eric Sykes, Jason Isaacs, David Tennant, David Bradley, Tom Felton, Bonnie Wright, Robert Pattinson, Devon Murray, Frances de la Tour
		The Matador	The Weinstein Company	Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear, Hope Davis
	18	Walk the Line	20th Century Fox	Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon; James Mangold (director)
	23	The Ice Harvest	Focus Features	John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Connie Nielsen
		In the Mix	Lions Gate Entertainment	Usher, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Chazz Palminteri
		Just Friends	New Line Cinema	Ryan Reynolds, Amy Smart, Anna Faris, Chris Klein
		Rent	Columbia Pictures / Revolution Studios	Anthony Rapp, Rosario Dawson; Chris Columbus (director)
		Syriana	Warner Bros.	George Clooney, Michelle Monaghan, Matt Damon, Chris Cooper; Stephen Gaghan (director)
		Yours, Mine and Ours	Paramount Pictures / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Nickelodeon Movies / Columbia Pictures	Dennis Quaid, Rene Russo, Rip Torn, Linda Hunt, Drake Bell, Danielle Panabaker, Miranda Cosgrove
D E C E M B E R	1	Æon Flux	Paramount Pictures / MTV Films	Charlize Theron, Marton Csokas, Pete Postlethwaite; Karyn Kusama (director)
	2	Transamerica	The Weinstein Company	Felicity Huffman, Kevin Zegers
	7	The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe	Walt Disney Pictures / Walden Media	William Mosely, Anna Popplewell, Skandar Keynes, Georgie Henley, Tilda Swinton, James McAvoy, Jim Broadbent, Liam Neeson, Ray Winstone, Dawn French
	9	Brokeback Mountain	Focus Features	Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway, Randy Quaid, Linda Cardellini, Roberta Maxwell; Ang Lee (director)
		Memoirs of a Geisha	Columbia Pictures / DreamWorks Pictures	Zhang Ziyi, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh, Gong Li, Mako, Tsai Chin, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Randall Duk Kim, Karl Yune, Ted Levine, Kenneth Tsang, Kaori Momoi, Suzuka Ohgo, Thomas Ikeda; Rob Marshall (director)
	12	King Kong	Universal Pictures	Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Kyle Chandler, Colin Hanks, Thomas Kretschmann; Peter Jackson (director)
	16	Hoodwinked!	The Weinstein Company	Anne Hathaway, Glenn Close, James Belushi, Patrick Warburton, Andy Dick, Xzibit, David Ogden Stiers,
		The Producers	Universal Pictures / Columbia Pictures	Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Uma Thurman, Will Ferrell, John Barrowman, Mel Brooks
	21	Cheaper by the Dozen 2	20th Century Fox	Steve Martin, Bonnie Hunt, Hilary Duff, Tom Welling, Piper Perabo, Eugene Levy, Carmen Electra, Jaime King, Taylor Lautner
		Fun with Dick and Jane	Columbia Pictures	Jim Carrey, Téa Leoni, Alec Baldwin
	23	Munich	Universal Pictures / DreamWorks Pictures	Eric Bana, Geoffrey Rush, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ayelet Zurer, Mathieu Amalric; Steven Spielberg (director)
		The Ringer	Fox Searchlight Pictures	Johnny Knoxville, Katherine Heigl
	25	Casanova	Touchstone Pictures	Heath Ledger, Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons
		The New World	New Line Cinema	Colin Farrell, Q'orianka Kilcher, Christian Bale, Christopher Plummer
		Rumor Has It	Warner Bros.	Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner, Shirley MacLaine, Mark Ruffalo; Rob Reiner (director)
	31	Dragon Squad	Hong Kong Legends	Vanness Wu, Xia Yu, Sammo Hung

Films released in 2005

• American films
• Argentine films
• Australian films
• Bengali films
• Bollywood films
• Brazilian films
• British films
• French films
• German films
• Hong Kong films
• Italian films
• Japanese films
• Mexican films
• Pakistani films
• Russian films
• South Korean films
• Spanish films
• Tamil films
• Telugu films

Notable deaths

Month	Date	Name	Age	Country	Profession	Notable films
January	2	C. M. Pennington-Richards	93	UK	Producer	A Challenge for Robin Hood Dentist on the Job
	5	Gabrielle Daye	93	UK	Actress	Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 10 Rillington Place
	8	Aksella Luts	99	Estonia	Actress, Screenwriter	Noored kotkad
	9	Gonzalo Gavira	79	Mexico	Sound Technician	The Exorcist The Towering Inferno
	11	Thelma White	94	USA	Actress	Reefer Madness The Moon's Our Home
	12	Amrish Puri	72	India	Actor	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Gandhi
	15	Ruth Warrick	88	USA	Actress	Citizen Kane The Great Bank Robbery
	15	Dan Lee	35	Canada	Animator	Finding Nemo A Bug's Life
	17	Virginia Mayo	84	USA	Actress	White Heat The Best Years of Our Lives
	18	Lamont Bentley	31	USA	Actor	The Wash
	20	Parveen Babi	55	India	Actress	Namak Halaal Amar Akbar Anthony
	21	Steve Susskind	62	USA	Actor	Monsters, Inc. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
	22	Patsy Rowlands	74	UK	Actress	Tom Jones A Stitch in Time
February	1	John Vernon	72	Canada	Actor	Dirty Harry Charley Varrick
	4	Ossie Davis	87	USA	Actor, Director	Do the Right Thing I'm Not Rappaport
	10	Arthur Miller	89	USA	Screenwriter	The Crucible The Misfits
	10	Leonard Trolley	87	UK	Actor	One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
	12	Brian Kelly	73	USA	Actor	Around the World Under the Sea
	13	Harry Baird	73	UK	Actor, Miscellaneous	The Italian Job The Count of Monte Cristo
	14	Otto Plaschkes	75	Austria	Producer	Georgy Girl Hopscotch
	16	Nicole DeHuff	30	USA	Actress	Meet the Parents Suspect Zero
	17	Peter Foy	79	UK	Special Effects Artist	The Wiz Fantastic Voyage
	17	Dan O'Herlihy	85	Ireland	Actor	RoboCop Fail Safe
	26	Sandra Dee	62	USA	Actress	Gidget Imitation of Life
March	3	Guylaine St-Onge	39	USA	Actress	Angel Eyes Highwaymen
	5	Morris Engel	84	USA	Director, Cinematographer	Little Fugitive Weddings and Babies
	5	Tony Romano	89	USA	Actor, Soundtrack, Composer	Adventures of Don Juan The Man I Love
	6	Teresa Wright	86	USA	Actress	The Pride of the Yankees Mrs. Miniver
	7	John Box	85	UK	Production Designer, Art Director	Lawrence of Arabia Doctor Zhivago
	7	Debra Hill	54	USA	Screenwriter, Producer, Actress	Halloween The Fog
	9	Sheila Gish	62	UK	Actress	Highlander Mansfield Par
	21	Barney Martin	82	USA	Actor	Arthur The Producers
	29	Mitch Hedberg	37	USA	Actor	Almost Famous Lords of Dogtown
April	5	Debralee Scott	52	USA	Actress	American Graffiti Police Academy
	11	John Bennett	76	UK	Actor	Minority Report The Pianist
	15	Margaretta Scott	93	UK	Actress	The Man from Morocco Calling Paul Temple
	16	Kay Walsh	94	Latvia	Actress	Scrooge The Rainbow Jacket
	19	George P. Cosmatos	64	Italy	Director	Tombstone Rambo: First Blood Part II
	19	Ruth Hussey	90	USA	Actress	The Philadelphia Story The Great Gatsby
	21	Jimmy Thompson	79	UK	Actor	Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines Carry On Cruising
	22	Norman Bird	80	UK	Actor	The League of Gentlemen Omen III: The Final Conflict
	23	John Mills	97	UK	Actor	Ryan's Daughter Bean
	26	Mason Adams	86	USA	Actor	Toy Soldiers F/X
	26	Maria Schell	79	Austria	Actress	Superman Cimarron
	26	Michael Coles	68	UK	Actor	Dr. Who and the Daleks Sweeney!
May	5	Elizabeth Fraser	85	USA	Actress	A Patch of Blue All My Sons
	5	June MacCloy	95	USA	Actress	June Moon Go West
	16	Joe Grant	96	USA	Animator, Screenwriter	Mulan Dumbo
	16	June Lang	88	UK	Actress	Bonnie Scotland International Settlement
	17	Frank Gorshin	72	USA	Actor	12 Monkeys Batman
	19	Henry Corden	85	Canada	Actor, Voice of Fred Flintstone	Modern Problems Hook, Line & Sinker
	20	J. D. Cannon	83	USA	Actor	Cool Hand Luke Death Wish II
	21	Stephen Elliott	86	USA	Actor	Beverly Hills Cop Arthur
	21	Howard Morris	85	USA	Actor, Director	High Anxiety Boys' Night Out
	22	Thurl Ravenscroft	91	USA	Singer, Actor	Peter Pan The Hobbit
	25	Ismail Merchant	68	India	Producer	A Room with a View Howards End
	26	Eddie Albert	99	USA	Actor	The Heartbreak Kid The Longest Yard
June	1	Geoffrey Toone	94	Ireland	Actor	The King and I Dr. Who and the Daleks
	2	Vittorio Duse	89	Italy	Actor, Director, Screenwriter	The Godfather Part III The Leopard
	3	Michael Billington	63	UK	Actor, Screenwriter	The Spy Who Loved Me Alfred the Great
	3	Leon Askin	97	Austria	Actor, Writer	Young Frankenstein Airplane II: The Sequel
	3	Harrison Young	75	USA	Actor	Saving Private Ryan The Game
	4	Lorna Thayer	86	USA	Actor	Five Easy Pieces Frankie and Johnny
	6	Anne Bancroft	73	USA	Actress	The Graduate The Miracle Worker
	8	Ed Bishop	72	USA	Actor	2001: A Space Odyssey The Mouse on the Moon
	11	Ron Randell	86	Australia	Actor	The Longest Day King of Kings
	13	Jonathan Adams	69	USA	Actor	The Rocky Horror Picture Show Adventures of a Private Eye
	13	Lane Smith	69	USA	Actor	My Cousin Vinny Network
	24	Paul Winchell	82	USA	Actor, Voice of Tigger	The Fox and the Hound Everything's on Ice
	25	John Fiedler	80	USA	Actor	12 Angry Men True Grit
	29	Bruce Malmuth	71	USA	Director, Actor	Nighthawks Hard to Kill
July	1	Luther Vandross	54	USA	Actor, Singer	The Meteor Man
	2	Ernest Lehman	89	USA	Screenwriter	North by Northwest The Sound of Music
	3	Alberto Lattuada	90	Italy	Director	Stay as You Are The Mandrake
	10	Freddy Soto	35	USA	Actor, Comedian	Spanglish Pauly Shore Is Dead
	11	Frances Langford	92	USA	Actress, Singer	Yankee Doodle Dandy The Glenn Miller Story
	12	Scott Paul	24	USA	Actor	Wyatt Earp
	17	Gavin Lambert	80	UK	Screenwriter	Inside Daisy Clover I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
	19	Edward Bunker	71	USA	Actor	Reservoir Dogs Tango & Cash
	20	James Doohan	85	Canada	Actor	Star Trek Generations Star Trek: The Motion Picture
	21	Long John Baldry	64	Canada	Actor, Singer	Up the Chastity Belt
	22	George Wallace	88	USA	Actor	Minority Report Bicentennial Man
	25	Ford Rainey	96	USA	Actor	White Heat The Sand Pebbles
	25	Alf Joint	77	UK	Stuntman, Actor, Miscellaneous	Return of the Jedi Goldfinger
	25	David Jackson	71	UK	Actor	10 Rillington Place
	26	Alexander Golitzen	87	Russia	Art Director	To Kill a Mockingbird Spartacus
	27	Tungia Baker	63	New Zealand	Actress	The Piano
	29	Pat McCormick	78	USA	Actor	Smokey and the Bandit A Wedding
August	4	Ileen Getz	43	USA	Actress	Changing Lanes Celebrity
	8	Barbara Bel Geddes	82	USA	Actress	Vertigo Panic in the Streets
	9	Dorris Bowdon	90	USA	Actress	The Grapes of Wrath Drums Along the Mohawk
	9	Stanley DeSantis	51	USA	Actor	The Aviator I Am Sam
	9	Matthew McGrory	32	USA	Actor	Big Fish The Devil's Rejects
	11	James Booth	77	UK	Actor	Zulu Keeping Mum
	15	Herta Ware	88	USA	Actress	Cocoon Cruel Intentions
	16	Joe Ranft	45	USA	Animator, Voice Actor	Toy Story Cars
	16	Tonino Delli Colli	81	Italy	Cinematographer	Life Is Beautiful Once Upon a Time in America
	23	Brock Peters	78	USA	Actor	To Kill a Mockingbird Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
	25	Terence Morgan	83	UK	Actor	Hamlet Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
	31	Michael Sheard	67	UK	Actor	The Empire Strikes Back Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
September	?	Irene Sunters	77	UK	Actress	The Wicker Man
	2	Bob Denver	70	USA	Actor	Take Her, She's Mine Who's Minding the Mint?
	12	Ronald Leigh-Hunt	84	UK	Actor	The Omen Where the Bullets Fly
	14	Robert Wise	91	USA	Director, Film Editor	The Sound of Music West Side Story
	15	Sidney Luft	89	USA	Producer	A Star is Born Kilroy Was Here
	20	Gordon Carroll	77	USA	Producer, Miscellaneous	Alien Aliens
	23	Roger Brierley	70	UK	Actor, Soundtrack, Composer	About a Boy A Fish Called Wanda
	25	Don Adams	82	USA	Actor	Inspector Gadget The Nude Bomb
October	2	Hamilton Camp	70	UK	Actor	The Little Mermaid Joe Dirt
	2	Nipsey Russell	87	USA	Actor	The Wiz Car 54, Where Are You?
	3	Ronnie Barker	76	UK	Actor, Screenwriter	Robin and Marian The Gathering Storm
	7	Charles Rocket	56	USA	Actor	Dumb and Dumber Dances with Wolves
	11	Sergio Citti	72	Italy	Director, Screenwriter	Beach House We Free Kings
	15	Mildred Shay	94	USA	Actress	Little Shop of Horrors Death Wish 3
	15	Rik Van Nutter	76	USA	Actor	Thunderball
	16	John Larch	91	USA	Actor	Dirty Harry Airplane II: The Sequel
	16	Ursula Howells	83	UK	Actress	Dr. Terror's House of Horrors Torture Garden
	18	John Hollis	77	UK	Actor	The Empire Strikes Back Superman
	23	William Hootkins	57	USA	Actor	Star Wars Batman
	28	Barbara Keogh	76	UK	Actress	The Abominable Dr. Phibes Paperhouse
	29	Lloyd Bochner	81	Canada	Actor	Point Blank The Detective
November	2	Jean Carson	82	USA	Actress	I Married a Monster from Outer Space The Party
	3	Geoffrey Keen	89	UK	Actor	Doctor Zhivago The Spy Who Loved Me
	4	Sheree North	85	USA	Actress	The Shootist Charley Varrick
	11	Keith Andes	89	USA	Actor	Tora! Tora! Tora! Blackbeard the Pirate
	11	Pamela Duncan	80	USA	Actress	My Gun Is Quick Attack of the Crab Monsters
	15	Agenore Incrocci	86	Italy	Screenwriter	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Casanova 70
	20	Nora Denney	78	USA	Actress	Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory Splash
	20	Harold J. Stone	94	USA	Actor	Spartacus The Wrong Man
	24	Pat Morita	73	USA	Actor	The Karate Kid Mulan
	27	Marc Lawrence	95	USA	Actor	The Man with the Golden Gun This Gun for Hire
	29	Macon McCalman	72	USA	Actor	Smokey and the Bandit The Client
	29	Wendie Jo Sperber	47	USA	Actress	Back to the Future Back to the Future Part III
	29	Joseph Furst	89	Australia	Actor	Diamonds Are Forever Exodus
	30	Jean Parker	90	USA	Actress	The Gunfighter The Ghost Goes West
December	1	Jack Colvin	71	USA	Actor	Jeremiah Johnson Child's Play
	4	Gregg Hoffman	42	USA	Producer	Saw Dead Silence
	7	Adrian Biddle	53	UK	Cinematographer	Alien Aliens
	10	Richard Pryor	65	USA	Actor	The Mack Hit!
	12	Robert Newmyer	49	USA	Producer	Breach The Santa Clause 2
	16	John Spencer	58	USA	Actor	Cop Land WarGames
	19	Don McKillop	76	Spain	Actor	Otley An American Werewolf in London
	20	Argentina Brunetti	98	Argentina	Actress	It's a Wonderful Life The Money Trap
	25	Roy Stuart	78	USA	Actor	The Love God? Prime Risk
	26	Vincent Schiavelli	57	USA	Actor	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ghost
	28	Patrick Cranshaw	86	USA	Actor	Bonnie and Clyde Old School
	28	Richard De Angelis	72	USA	Actor	Chances Are A Dirty Shame

Notes

1. "2005 Worldwide Grosses". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved September 8, 2009.

External links

• Internet Movie Database - Release dates for movies scheduled for release in 2005 in various countries:
  • Canada
  • United Kingdom
  • United States