2019 in film

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2019 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, critics' lists of the best films of 2019, festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, and notable deaths.

Evaluation of the year

In his article highlighting the best movies of 2019, Richard Brody of The New Yorker said, "It's the year of apocalyptic cinema of the highest order, the year in which three of our best filmmakers have responded with vast ambition, invention, and inspiration to the crises at hand, including the threats to American democracy, the catastrophic menaces arising from global warming, the corrosive cruelty of ethnic hatreds and nationalist prejudices, and the poisonous overconcentration of money and power. At the same time, it’s a year of inside-movies practicalities, of special attention to the business at hand, because of the structural threats to the movie business from new and powerful players. The major crisis specific to cinema outleaps even the great merits of individual movies and invokes basic and comprehensive questions of which movies can be seen and how those movies are acknowledged. It's a terrific year for movies, but it would seem much less so if we only considered movies in wide release. Versions of that refrain come up every year, but what used to be merely a gap between the multiplexes and limited releases has now become an abyss."[1][excessive quote]

Highest-grossing films

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See also: Lists of box office number-one films § 2019

The top films released in 2019 by worldwide gross are as follows:[2]

Highest-grossing films of 2019
Rank Title Distributor Worldwide gross
1 Avengers: Endgame Disney $2,797,800,564
2 The Lion King $1,656,943,394
3 Frozen II $1,450,026,933
4 Spider-Man: Far From Home Sony Pictures $1,131,927,996
5 Captain Marvel Disney $1,128,462,972
6 Joker Warner Bros. $1,074,251,311
7 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Disney $1,074,144,248
8 Toy Story 4 $1,073,394,593
9 Aladdin $1,050,693,953
10 Jumanji: The Next Level Sony $800,059,707

Avengers: Endgame became the fifth film to gross $2 billion worldwide and the highest-grossing film of all time. The Lion King, Frozen II, Spider-Man: Far From Home, Captain Marvel, Joker, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Toy Story 4, and Aladdin all grossed $1 billion, with the second, third, and eighth as the first, second, and fifth highest-grossing animated films, respectively. Joker became the first R-rated film in history to surpass $1 billion.

2019 box office records

Studio records

  • Walt Disney Studios became the first studio in history to surpass $10 billion in worldwide box office grosses.[5]
  • Spider-Man: Far From Home became Sony Pictures' highest-grossing film.
  • With Toy Story 4, Pixar became the first animation studio to have four animated films (along with Toy Story 3, Finding Dory, and Incredibles 2) each surpass $1 billion at the worldwide box office, and also the second animated film series to have two installments that have surpass $1 billion at the worldwide box office, after the Despicable Me franchise in 2017.

Film records

  • The Wandering Earth set the all-time opening record in China, grossing $349 million in its first seven days, which also made it the second biggest opening in any territory (after Star Wars: The Force Awakens in North America).[6]
  • Pokémon Detective Pikachu earned the best North American opening for a film based on a video game, with a $58 million debut.[7] By June 14, 2019, Detective Pikachu became the highest-grossing video game film adaptation in North America, surpassing Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001).[8][9]
  • Avengers: Endgame set numerous box office records,[10][11] including becoming the highest-grossing film of all time.[12]
  • Capernaum became the highest-grossing Middle-Eastern film of all time, having earned more than $50 million worldwide (including $43.5 million in China) by 16 May 2019.[13]
  • Aladdin became the highest-grossing release of all time in the Middle East,[14] and had the year's biggest opening weekend for a foreign film as well as this year's highest-grossing foreign film in Japan to date. The film has also surpassed Independence Day (1996) to become the highest-grossing film of Will Smith's career.[15] The film also has become highest-grossing Disney film ever in South Korea, not including films from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
  • In June, Toy Story 4 set the record for the biggest opening for an animated film, with $244.5 million. However, the record was surpassed the following month by The Lion King, which grossed $246 million. The latter then became the fastest animated film to gross $1 billion worldwide, doing so in 21 days, surpassing Incredibles 2 (46 days). The Lion King then surpassed Frozen (2013) to become the highest-grossing animated film and highest-grossing musical film of all time in only 31 days.[16] On the other hand, Toy Story 4 surpassed Toy Story 3 to become the highest-grossing film of the series.
  • The Lion King set the record for the widest opening weekend and widest release ever for North American film history, with 4,725 and 4,802 theaters, respectively.[17] On August 11, the film surpassed Beauty and the Beast (2017) as the highest-grossing remake of all time worldwide.[18] On August 26, the film become the first animated film to grossed $1 billion at overseas box office outside North America.
  • Ne Zha set the record for the biggest opening for an animated film in China, with $91.5 million, this was also the highest for a non-Hollywood animated film. It later became the first non-Hollywood animated film to earn $500 million (in 17 days), $600 million (in 25 days), and $700 million (in 46 days) and the first animated film not released by Universal, Disney, or Fox to do so.
  • Joker became the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time, and the first R-rated film to pass the billion-dollar mark at the worldwide box office.[19]
  • In November, Frozen II surpassed the record set by The Lion King earlier in July, as the biggest opening weekend for an animated and musical film with $358.5 million worldwide.
  • 2019 is the first year to have nine films cross the billion-dollar milestone, surpassing 2015's and 2018's record of five billion-dollar films. Additionally, Disney (not counting Marvel Studios or Lucasfilm) saw four films cross $1 billion, the studio's highest amount in any calendar year.

Events

Award ceremonies

Date Event Host Location
January 6 76th Golden Globe Awards Hollywood Foreign Press Association Beverly Hills, California, U.S.[23]
January 13 24th Critics' Choice Awards Broadcast Film Critics Association Santa Monica, California, U.S.
January 19 Producers Guild of America Awards 2018 Producers Guild of America Beverly Hills, California, U.S.[24]
January 27 25th Screen Actors Guild Awards SAG-AFTRA Los Angeles, California, U.S.[25]
January 28 54th Guldbagge Awards Swedish Film Institute Stockholm, Sweden
February 2 46th Annie Awards International Animated Film Association Los Angeles, California, U.S.
71st Directors Guild of America Awards Directors Guild of America Los Angeles, California, U.S.
33rd Goya Awards Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain Seville, Spain
9th Magritte Awards Académie André Delvaux Brussels, Belgium[26]
February 10 72nd British Academy Film Awards British Academy of Film and Television Arts London, England, UK
February 22 23rd Satellite Awards International Press Academy Century City, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
February 23 39th Golden Raspberry Awards Golden Raspberry Award Foundation Los Angeles, California, U.S.[27]
34th Independent Spirit Awards Independent Spirit Awards Santa Monica, California, U.S.[28]
February 24 91st Academy Awards Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Hollywood, California, U.S.[29]
March 1 42nd Japan Academy Film Prize Nippon Academy-shō Association Tokyo, Japan
March 23 64th Filmfare Awards Filmfare Mumbai, India
April 14 38th Hong Kong Film Awards Hong Kong Film Awards Association Ltd. Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong
April 28 2019 FAMAS Awards Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Pasig, Philippines
September 13 45th Saturn Awards Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films Burbank, California, U.S.[30]
November 21 40th Blue Dragon Film Awards Sports Chosun Incheon, South Korea
November 23 56th Golden Horse Awards Motion Picture Development Foundation R.O.C. Taipei, Taiwan
December 23 66th National Film Awards Directorate of Film Festivals

Festivals

List of some of the film festivals for 2019 that have been accredited by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF).

Date Event Host Location
January 14–February 3 2019 Sundance Film Festival Sundance Institute Park City, Utah, United States
February 9–14 69th Berlin International Film Festival Berlin International Film Festival Berlin, Germany
May 14–25 2019 Cannes Film Festival Cannes Film Festival Cannes, France
August 28–September 7 76th Venice International Film Festival Venice Film Festival Venice, Italy
September 5–15 2019 Toronto International Film Festival Toronto International Film Festival Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Awards

Category/Organization 77th Golden Globe Awards
January 5, 2020		 25th Critics' Choice Awards
January 12, 2020		 Producers, Directors, Screen Actors, and Writers Guild Awards
January 18-February 1, 2020		 73rd BAFTA Awards
February 2, 2020		 92nd Academy Awards
February 9, 2020
Drama Musical or Comedy
Best Film 1917 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 1917 Parasite
Best Director Sam Mendes
1917		 Sam Mendes
1917 (tie)
Bong Joon-ho
Parasite (tie)		 Sam Mendes
1917		 Bong Joon-ho
Parasite
Best Actor Joaquin Phoenix
Joker		 Taron Egerton
Rocketman		 Joaquin Phoenix
Joker
Best Actress Renée Zellweger
Judy		 Awkwafina
The Farewell		 Renée Zellweger
Judy
Best Supporting Actor Brad Pitt
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Best Supporting Actress Laura Dern
Marriage Story
Best Screenplay, Adapted Quentin Tarantino
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood		 Greta Gerwig
Little Women		 Taika Waititi
Jojo Rabbit
Best Screenplay, Original Quentin Tarantino
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood		 Bong Joon-ho & Han Jin-won
Parasite
Best Animated Film Missing Link Toy Story 4 Klaus Toy Story 4
Best Original Score Hildur Guðnadóttir
Joker		 N/A Hildur Guðnadóttir
Joker
Best Original Song "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again"
Rocketman		 "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again"
Rocketman (tie)
"Glasgow (No Place Like Home)"
Wild Rose (tie)		 N/A N/A "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again"
Rocketman
Best Foreign Language Film Parasite N/A Parasite
Best Documentary[lower-alpha 1] N/A N/A Apollo 11 For Sama American Factory

List of 2019 films

The list of films released in 2019, arranged by country, are as follows:

Deaths

Month Date Name Age Nationality Profession Films
January 1 Ivo Gregurević 66 Croatian Actor
2 Bob Einstein 76 American Actor, Director
4 Ivan Bortnik 79 Russian Actor
4 Louisa Moritz 82 Cuban-American Actress
6 Gregg Rudloff 63 American Sound Mixer
6 W. Morgan Sheppard 86 English Actor
9 Verna Bloom 80 American Actress
9 Paul Koslo 74 German-Canadian Actor
9 Paolo Paoloni 89 Italian Actor
11 Fernando Luján 79 Mexican Actor
12 Etsuko Ichihara 82 Japanese Actress
15 Bill Anagnos 60 American Stuntman
15 Carol Channing 97 American Actress
15 Miodrag Radovanović 89 Serbian Actor
17 Windsor Davies 88 Welsh Actor
17 Daniel C. Striepeke 88 American Makeup Artist
19 Muriel Pavlow 97 English Actress
21 Kaye Ballard 93 American Actress
22 James Frawley 82 American Director, Actor
23 Jonas Mekas 96 Lithuanian-American Documentarian
24 Dušan Makavejev 86 Serbian Director, Screenwriter
26 Michel Legrand 86 French Composer
30 Dick Miller 90 American Actor
February 1 Clive Swift 82 English Actor
3 Julie Adams 92 American Actress
3 Carmen Duncan 76 Australian Actress
3 Kristoff St. John 52 American Actor
4 Nita Bieber 92 American Actress
7 Albert Finney 82 English Actor
9 Ron W. Miller 85 American Producer, Executive
10 Carmen Argenziano 75 American Actor
10 Mario Bernardo 99 Italian Cinematographer
10 Jan-Michael Vincent 74 American Actor
12 Vijaya Bapineedu 82 Indian Director
13 Marisa Solinas 79 Italian Actress, Singer
16 Bruno Ganz 77 Swiss Actor
19 Giulio Brogi 83 Italian Actor
20 Chelo Alonso 85 Cuban Actress
20 Claude Goretta 89 Swiss Director
20 Vinny Vella 72 American Actor
21 Stanley Donen 94 American Director
21 Peter Tork 77 American Actor, Singer
22 Morgan Woodward 93 American Actor
23 Katherine Helmond 89 American Actress
24 Paul Blackwell 64 Australian Actor
27 Nathaniel Taylor 80 American Actor
28 André Previn 89 German-American Composer
March 2 Med Hondo 82 Mauritanian Director, Actor
4 Luke Perry 52 American Actor
5 Susan Harrison 80 American Actress
5 Jacques Loussier 84 French Composer
7 Pino Caruso 84 Italian Actor
7 William J. Creber 87 American Production Designer
7 Sidney Sheinberg 84 American Producer, Executive
9 Vladimir Etush 96 Russian Actor
16 Richard Erdman 93 American Actor
16 Barbara Hammer 79 American Director, Documentarian
16 Tom Hatten 92 American Actor
18 John Carl Buechler 66 American Director, Makeup Artist
21 Pyotr Zaychenko 75 Russian Actor
23 Larry Cohen 82 American Director, Screenwriter
23 Denise DuBarry 63 American Actress
24 Joseph Pilato 70 American Actor
29 Shane Rimmer 89 Canadian Actor
29 Agnès Varda 90 Belgian-French Director, Screenwriter
April 2 Mahendran 79 Indian Director, Screenwriter
3 Jerzy Wójcik 88 Polish Cinematographer
4 Barry Malkin 80 American Film Editor
4 Roberta Haynes 91 American Actress
5 Nadja Regin 87 Serbian Actress
7 Seymour Cassel 84 American Actor
12 Georgia Engel 70 American Actress
12 John McEnery 75 English Actor
13 Norman Garwood 73 English Production Designer
14 Bibi Andersson 83 Swedish Actress
16 Fay McKenzie 101 American Actress
20 David V. Picker 87 American Producer, Executive
21 Steve Golin 64 American Producer
21 Ken Kercheval 83 American Actor
23 Mark Medoff 79 American Screenwriter
23 Terry Rawlings 85 English Film Editor
23 David Winters 80 English-American Actor, Director
24 Jean-Pierre Marielle 87 French Actor
26 Jessie Lawrence Ferguson 76 American Actor
28 John Singleton 51 American Director, Screenwriter
30 Anémone 68 French Actress
30 Peter Mayhew 74 English-American Actor
May 1 Alessandra Panaro 79 Italian Actress
2 Chris Reccardi 54 American Animator
5 Barbara Perry 97 American Actress
9 Allene Roberts 90 American Actress
9 Alvin Sargent 92 American Screenwriter
11 Jean-Claude Brisseau 74 French Director, Screenwriter
11 Peggy Lipton 72 American Actress
12 Machiko Kyō 95 Japanese Actress
13 Doris Day 97 American Actress, Singer
14 Tim Conway 85 American Actor
17 Rallapalli 73 Indian Actor
18 Analía Gadé 87 Argentine Actress
26 Stephen Thorne 84 English Actor
28 Carmine Caridi 85 American Actor
29 Peggy Stewart 95 American Actress
June 2 Alistair Browning 65 New Zealand Actor
3 Paul Darrow 78 English Actor
7 Narciso Ibáñez Serrador 83 Spanish Director, Screenwriter
9 Ma Ju-lung 80 Taiwanese Actor
11 Valeria Valeri 97 Italian Actress
12 Sylvia Miles 94 American Actress
13 Edith González 54 Mexican Actress
15 Franco Zeffirelli 96 Italian Director, Screenwriter
20 Eddie Garcia 90 Filipino Actor
21 William Simons 78 Welsh Actor
24 Billy Drago 73 American Actor
25 Bruno de Keyzer 69 French Cinematographer
25 Bryan Marshall 81 English Actor
26 Édith Scob 81 French Actress
26 Max Wright 75 American Actor
28 Paul Benjamin 81 American Actor
29 Jeon Mi-seon 48 South Korean Actress
July 1 Ennio Guarnieri 88 Italian Cinematographer
3 Glyn Houston 93 Welsh Actor
3 Arte Johnson 90 American Actor
4 Eduardo Fajardo 94 Spanish Actor
4 Arturo Fernández 90 Spanish Actor
5 Ugo Gregoretti 88 Italian Actor, Director
5 Pierre Lhomme 89 French Cinematographer
6 Cameron Boyce 20 American Actor
7 Artur Brauner 100 German Producer
9 Freddie Jones 91 English Actor
9 Rip Torn 88 American Actor
10 Valentina Cortese 96 Italian Actress
10 Denise Nickerson 62 American Actress
13 Richard Carter 65 Australian Actor
18 David Hedison 92 American Actor
19 Rutger Hauer 75 Dutch Actor
19 Jeremy Kemp 84 English Actor
20 Ilaria Occhini 85 Italian Actress
25 Giorgio Arlorio 90 Italian Screenwriter
26 Russi Taylor 75 American Voice Actress
28 Ruth de Souza 98 Brazilian Actress
28 George Hilton 85 Uruguayan Actor
31 Raffaele Pisu 94 Italian Actor
31 Harold Prince 91 American Director, Producer
August 1 D. A. Pennebaker 94 American Documentarian
1 Barrington Pheloung 65 Australian Composer
8 Jean-Pierre Mocky 86 French Director, Actor, Screenwriter
10 Piero Tosi 92 Italian Costume Designer
11 Gordan Mihić 80 Serbian Screenwriter
16 Peter Fonda 79 American Actor, Screenwriter
16 Anna Quayle 86 English Actress
16 Richard Williams 86 Canadian Animator, Animation Director
18 Encarna Paso 88 Spanish Actress
23 Carlo Delle Piane 83 Italian Actor
25 Mona Lisa 97 Filipina Actress
28 Michel Aumont 82 French Actor
30 Valerie Harper 80 American Actress
September 3 Carol Lynley 77 American Actress
7 Robert Axelrod 70 American Actor
7 Al Carmichael 90 American Stuntman
8 John Wesley 72 American Actor
11 Mardik Martin 82 American Screenwriter
13 Eddie Money 70 American Musician
15 Phyllis Newman 86 American Actress
15 Ric Ocasek 75 American Musician
19 Charles Gérard 92 French Actor
20 Jan Merlin 94 American Actor
21 Sid Haig 80 American Actor
22 Boriss Teterevs 63 Latvian Producer
27 Rob Garrison 59 American Actor
28 Mark Zakharov 85 Russian Director, Playwright
30 Wayne Fitzgerald 89 American Title Designer
October 1 Eric Pleskow 95 Austrian Producer, Executive
4 Diahann Carroll 84 American Actress, Singer
4 Stephen Moore 81 English Actor
6 Vlasta Chramostová 92 Czech Actress
6 Rip Taylor 84 American Actor
9 John W. Corso 89 American Production Designer
10 Marie-José Nat 79 French Actress
11 Robert Forster 78 American Actor
12 Carlo Croccolo 92 Italian Actor
17 Bill Macy 97 American Actor
22 Raymond Leppard 92 English Composer
26 Robert Evans 89 American Producer, Executive
26 Pascale Roberts 89 French Actress
28 Annick Alane 94 French Actress
29 John Witherspoon 77 American Actor
30 Bernard Slade 89 Canadian Screenwriter
31 Florence Giorgetti 75 French Actress
November 2 Marie Laforêt 80 French-Swiss Actress, Singer
2 Brian Tarantina 60 American Actor
5 Omero Antonutti 84 Italian Actor
7 Nik Powell 69 English Producer, Executive
8 Fred Bongusto 84 Italian Composer
10 Lawrence G. Paull 81 American Production Designer
12 Luciano Marin 87 Italian Actor
13 Niall Tóibín 89 Irish Actor
14 María Baxa 73 Serbian Actress
14 Branko Lustig 87 Croatian Producer
15 Jorge Vergara 64 Mexican Producer
16 Vojtěch Jasný 93 Czech Director
18 Laure Killing 60 French Actress
20 Michael J. Pollard 80 American Actor
26 Vittorio Congia 89 Italian Actor
December 1 Michael Lai 73 Hong Kong Composer
1 Shelley Morrison 83 American Actress
4 Leonard Goldberg 85 American Producer
5 Robert Walker 79 American Actor
6 Ron Leibman 82 American Actor
8 René Auberjonois 79 American Actor
8 Caroll Spinney 85 American Puppeteer
12 Danny Aiello 86 American Actor
14 Anna Karina 79 Danish-French Actress
14 Bernard Lavalette 93 French Actor
15 Nicky Henson 74 English Actor
18 Claudine Auger 78 French Actress
22 Tony Britton 95 English Actor
26 Jerry Herman 88 American Composer, Lyricist
26 Sue Lyon 73 American Actress
27 Jack Sheldon 88 American Singer, Musician, Actor
29 Neil Innes 75 English Composer, Actor
30 Jan Fedder 64 German Actor
30 Jack Garfein 89 American Director
30 Syd Mead 86 American Concept Artist
30 Elizabeth Sellars 98 Scottish Actress

Notes

  1. ↑ From 2016 onward, the category was shifted from the Critics' Choice Awards to the ancillary Critics' Choice Documentary Awards.

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