2017 in film


2017 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of films released, and notable deaths in 2017.

Evaluation of the year

of The New Yorker observed that for 2017, "the most important event in the world of movies was the revelation, in The New York Times and The New Yorker, of sexual abuse by Harvey Weinstein, and the resulting liberation of the long-stifled voices of the people who had been abused by him or other powerful figures in the movie business, and, for that matter, in other arts and industries, too." He emphasizes that in effect, "hat's missing from the year-end list, and from the era in movies, isn't only the unmade work by these filmmakers but the artistry and the careers of cast and crew members who would have been in their unrealized films."

Highest-grossing films

The top films released in 2017 by worldwide gross are as follows:
RankTitleDistributorWorldwide gross
1'Disney$1,332,539,889
2Beauty and the BeastDisney$1,263,521,126
3The Fate of the Furious Universal$1,236,005,118
4Despicable Me 3Universal$1,034,799,409
5'Sony$962,077,546
6'Sony$880,166,924
7Wolf Warrior 2United Entertainment$870,325,439
8Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2Disney$863,756,051
9'Disney$854,977,126
10Wonder WomanWarner Bros.$821,847,012

, Beauty and the Beast, The Fate of the Furious, and Despicable Me 3 have each grossed over $1 billion, and are ranked as the 14th-, 17th-, 19th-, and 38th-highest-grossing films of all time, with the latter being the 8th-highest-grossing animated film.
Wolf Warrior 2, a Chinese film, became the first non-Hollywood film to be listed on the all-time worldwide top 100 box office.
Split, by M. Night Shyamalan, was the year's most profitable film in terms of return on investment, having generated over 2,000% ROI. It is the 11th film to cross 2,000% ROI, and the first film to do so since 2015.

2017 box office records

Award ceremonies

Awards

Notes

Festivals

for 2017 that have been accredited by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations.

2017 films

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

List of films released in 2017

MonthDateNameAgeNationalityProfessionFilms
January6Les Lazarowitz75AmericanSound Mixer
January6Om Puri66IndianActor
January6Francine York80AmericanActress
January9Teresa Ann Savoy61EnglishActress
January10Manlio Rocchetti73ItalianMake-Up Artist
January12William Peter Blatty89AmericanScreenwriter, Director
January13Dick Gautier85AmericanActor
January19Miguel Ferrer61AmericanActor
January23Gorden Kaye75EnglishActor
January25Kevin Geer64AmericanActor
January25John Hurt77EnglishActor
January25Mary Tyler Moore80AmericanActress
January26Mike Connors91AmericanActor
January26Hal Geer100AmericanProducer, Studio Executive
January26Barbara Hale94AmericanActress
January27Robert Ellis Miller89AmericanDirector
January27Emmanuelle Riva89FrenchActress
January27Gisella Sofio85ItalianActress
January27Frank Tidy84EnglishCinematographer
January28Richard Portman82AmericanSound Mixer
January31Frank Pellegrino72AmericanActor
February5Björn Granath70SwedishActor
February6Irwin Corey102AmericanActor
February6Alec McCowen91EnglishActor
February6Roy Forge Smith87EnglishProduction Designer
February7Richard Hatch71AmericanActor
February7Gianfranco Plenizio76ItalianComposer
February13Gerald Hirschfeld95AmericanCinematographer
February13Seijun Suzuki93JapaneseDirector, Screenwriter
February18Pasquale Squitieri78ItalianDirector, Screenwriter
February21Brunella Bovo84ItalianActress
February22Nikos Koundouros90GreekDirector, Screenwriter
February25Neil Fingleton36EnglishActor, Stuntman
February25Bill Paxton61AmericanActor
February28Euel Box88AmericanComposer
March3Míriam Colón80Puerto RicanActress
March6Robert Osborne84AmericanFilm Historian, Actor
March9Bobby Byrne85AmericanCinematographer, Camera Operator
March10John Forgeham75EnglishActor
March10Tony Haygarth72EnglishActor
March14Jack H. Harris98AmericanProducer
March17Robert Day94EnglishDirector
March17Lawrence Montaigne86AmericanActor
March18Tony Russel91AmericanActor
March21Chuck Barris87AmericanActor, Producer, Director
March22Tomas Milian84Cuban-ItalianActor
March23Lola Albright92AmericanActress, Singer
March24Jean Rouverol100AmericanScreenwriter, Actress
March25Giorgio Capitani89ItalianDirector, Screenwriter
March28Christine Kaufmann72German-AustrianActress
April5Memè Perlini69ItalianActor, Director
April6Armand Gatti93FrenchFilmmaker
April6Don Rickles90AmericanActor
April7Tim Pigott-Smith70EnglishActor
April9Peter Hansen95AmericanActor
April11Michael Ballhaus81GermanCinematographer
April12Charlie Murphy57AmericanActor, Screenwriter
April15Clifton James96AmericanActor
April18Yvonne Monlaur77FrenchActress
April21Enrico Medioli92ItalianScreenwriter
April22Erin Moran56AmericanActress
April22Gustavo Rojo93UruguayanActor
April23Kathleen Crowley87AmericanActress
April24Don Gordon90AmericanActor
April26Jonathan Demme73AmericanDirector, Producer
April27Vinod Khanna70IndianActor, Producer
May1Pierre Gaspard-Huit99FrenchDirector, Screenwriter
May2Moray Watson88EnglishActor
May3Daliah Lavi74IsraeliActress, Singer
May4Victor Lanoux80FrenchActor
May8Curt Lowens91GermanActor
May8Mary Tsoni29GreekActress
May9Michael Parks77AmericanActor
May10Geoffrey Bayldon93EnglishActor
May13John Cygan63AmericanVoice Actor
May13Manuel Pradal53FrenchDirector, Screenwriter
May14Powers Boothe68AmericanActor
May14Brad Grey59AmericanStudio Executive, Producer
May18Reema Lagoo58IndianActress
May22Dina Merrill93AmericanActress
May23Roger Moore89EnglishActor
May24Jared Martin75AmericanActor
May26Toni Bertorelli69ItalianActor
May30Molly Peters75EnglishActress
May31Tino Insana69AmericanActor
May31Fred J. Koenekamp94AmericanCinematographer
June2Peter Sallis96EnglishActor, Voice Actor
June4Bill Butler83EnglishFilm Editor
June4Roger Smith84AmericanActor
June7Thierry Zéno67BelgianDirector
June8Glenne Headly62AmericanActress
June9Adam West88AmericanActor, Voice Actor
June13Anita Pallenberg75Italian-GermanActress
June15Aleksey Batalov88RussianActor, Director
June16John G. Avildsen81AmericanDirector
June16Stephen Furst62AmericanActor
June21Howard Witt85AmericanActor
June22Keith Loneker46AmericanActor
June24Loren Janes85AmericanStuntman
June25Skip Homeier86AmericanActor
June27Michael Nyqvist56SwedishActor
July3Paolo Villaggio84ItalianActor, Screenwriter
July4David Yewdall66AmericanSound Editor
July6Thomas E. Sanders63AmericanProduction Designer, Art Director
July8Nelsan Ellis39AmericanActor
July8Elsa Martinelli82ItalianActress
July9Wally Burr93AmericanVoice Actor
July9Paquita Rico87SpanishActress
July10Isabelle Sadoyan89French-ArmenianActress
July13John Bernecker33AmericanStunt Performer
July15William Hoyland73EnglishActor
July15Martin Landau89AmericanActor
July16Trevor Baxter84EnglishActor
July16George A. Romero77American-CanadianDirector, Screenwriter, Film Editor
July17Harvey Atkin74CanadianActor
July17Evan Helmuth40AmericanActor
July18Red West81AmericanActor, Stuntman
July20Chester Bennington41AmericanSinger, Actor
July20Claude Rich88FrenchActor
July21John Heard72AmericanActor
July26Patti Deutsch73AmericanVoice Actress
July26June Foray99AmericanVoice Actress
July27Sam Shepard73AmericanActor, Screenwriter
July31Jeanne Moreau89FrenchActress
August1Eric Zumbrunnen52AmericanFilm Editor
August3Ty Hardin87AmericanActor
August3Robert Hardy91EnglishActor
August4Bruno Canfora92ItalianComposer
August7Haruo Nakajima88JapaneseActor
August8Glen Campbell81AmericanSinger, Actor
August10Patrick O'Connell83IrishActor
August13Joseph Bologna82AmericanActor, Screenwriter
August17Sonny Landham76AmericanActor
August18Bruce Forsyth89EnglishActor
August20Jerry Lewis91AmericanActor, Director, Screenwriter
August20Nati Mistral88SpanishActress
August21Thomas Meehan88AmericanPlaywright, Screenwriter
August23Viola Harris91AmericanActress
August24Jay Thomas69AmericanActor
August26Tobe Hooper74AmericanDirector, Screenwriter
August28Mireille Darc79FrenchActress
August30Alan MacDonald61EnglishProduction Designer
August31Richard Anderson91AmericanActor
September1Shelley Berman92AmericanComedian, Actor
September4Gastone Moschin88ItalianActor
September5Yoshio Tsuchiya90JapaneseActor
September8Blake Heron35AmericanActor
September10Hans Alfredson86SwedishActor, Director
September10Luigi Maria Burruano68ItalianActor
September11Peter Hall86EnglishDirector
September13Frank Vincent80AmericanActor
September15Harry Dean Stanton91AmericanActor
September15Albert Moses79Sri LankanActor
September18Chuck Low89AmericanActor
September19Bernie Casey78AmericanActor
September25Tony Booth85EnglishActor
September25Jan Tříska80CzechActor
September26Barry Dennen79AmericanActor
September28Benjamin Whitrow80EnglishActor
October5Anne Wiazemsky70FrenchActress
October5Trevor Martin87EnglishActor
October6Terry Downes81EnglishActor
October8Gianni Bonagura91ItalianActor
October9Jean Rochefort87FrenchActor
October16Roy Dotrice94EnglishActor
October16John Dunsworth71CanadianActor
October17Danielle Darrieux100FrenchActress, Singer
October17Harry Stradling Jr.92AmericanCinematographer
October18Brent Briscoe56AmericanActor
October19Umberto Lenzi86ItalianDirector, Screenwriter
October20Ugo Fangareggi79ItalianActor
October20Federico Luppi81Argentine-SpanishActor
October21Robert Getchell80AmericanScreenwriter
October23Walter Lassally90German-EnglishCinematographer
October24Robert Guillaume89AmericanActor
October25Jack Bannon77AmericanActor
October25Peter MacGregor-Scott69AmericanProducer
October25John Mollo86EnglishCostume Designer
October30Kim Joo-hyuk45South KoreanActor
November1Brad Bufanda34AmericanActor
November6Karin Dor79GermanActress
November6Scott Fredericks74IrishActor
November7Paul Buckmaster71EnglishComposer, Arranger
November7Brad Harris84AmericanActor, Stuntman
November9John Hillerman84AmericanActor
November10Ray Lovelock67ItalianActor
November15Luis Bacalov84Argentine-ItalianComposer
November15Keith Barron83EnglishActor
November16Ann Wedgeworth83AmericanActress
November19Peter Baldwin86AmericanActor, Director
November19Della Reese86AmericanActress
November20Peter Berling83GermanActor
November21Rodney Bewes79EnglishActor
November21David Cassidy67AmericanActor, Singer
November23Anthony Harvey87EnglishDirector, Film Editor
November25Rance Howard89AmericanActor
November25Julio Oscar Mechoso62AmericanActor
November29Heather North71AmericanActress
November30Jim Nabors87AmericanActor
November30Alfie Curtis87EnglishActor
December2Ulli Lommel72GermanDirector, Actor, Producer
December4Shashi Kapoor79IndianActor, Producer
December6Conrad Brooks86AmericanActor
December6Johnny Hallyday74Belgian-FrenchActor, Singer
December7Steve Reevis55AmericanActor
December9Leonid Bronevoy88RussianActor
December11Keith Chegwin60EnglishActor
December11Suzanna Leigh72EnglishActress
December13Bruce Gray81CanadianActor
December13Martin Ransohoff90AmericanProducer
December19Thérèse DePrez52AmericanProduction Designer
December19Hiep Thi Le46Vietnamese-AmericanActress
December19Jeremy Wilkin87English-CanadianActor
December21Dominic Frontiere86AmericanComposer
December22Gerald B. Greenberg81AmericanFilm Editor
December24Heather Menzies68CanadianActress
December27Thomas Hunter85AmericanActor, Screenwriter
December28Rose Marie94AmericanActress
December29Peggy Cummins92EnglishActress