2018 in film


2018 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, critics' lists of the best films of 2018, festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.

Evaluation of the year

of The New Yorker said, "2018 has been a banner year for movies, but you’d never know it from a trip to a local multiplex—or from a glimpse at the Oscarizables. The gap between what’s good and what’s widely available in theatres—between the cinema of resistance and the cinema of consensus—is wider than ever." He also stated, "In some cases, streaming has filled the gap. Several of the year’s best movies, such Shirkers and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, are being released by Netflix at the same time as a limited theatrical run. Others, which barely qualified as having theatrical releases, are now available to stream online, on demand, and are more widely accessible to viewers than films playing at thousands of multiplexes. Yet an impermanence, a threat of disappearance with the flick of a switch, hangs threateningly over independent films that are sent out on streaming."

Highest-grossing films

The top films released in 2018 by worldwide gross are as follows:
RankTitleDistributorWorldwide gross
1'Disney$2,048,359,754
2Black PantherDisney$1,346,913,161
3'Universal$1,308,467,944
4Incredibles 2Disney$1,242,805,359
5AquamanWarner Bros.$1,148,461,807
6Bohemian RhapsodyFox$903,655,259
7VenomSony$856,085,151
8'Paramount$791,115,104
9Deadpool 2Fox$785,794,179
10'Warner Bros.$654,855,901

' grossed $2 billion worldwide, becoming the fourth movie to surpass the milestone, and 4th highest-grossing film of all time. Black Panther, ', Incredibles 2, and Aquaman each grossed $1 billion worldwide, and became the 9th, 12th, 15th, and 20th highest-grossing films, with Incredibles 2 becoming the 2nd highest-grossing animated film of all time.

2018 box office records

Award ceremonies

Festivals

for 2018 that have been accredited by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations.
DateEventHostLocationSource
January 18–282018 Sundance Film FestivalSundance InstitutePark City, Utah, United States
February 15–2568th Berlin International Film FestivalBerlin International Film FestivalBerlin, Germany
May 8–192018 Cannes Film FestivalCannes Film FestivalCannes, France
August 29 – September 875th Venice International Film FestivalVenice Film FestivalVenice, Italy
September 6–162018 Toronto International Film FestivalToronto International Film FestivalToronto, Ontario, Canada

Awards

2018 films

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

List of films released in 2018

MonthDateNameAgeNationalityProfessionFilms
January1Jon Paul Steuer33AmericanActor
January5Jerry Van Dyke86AmericanActor
January8Donnelly Rhodes80CanadianActor
January9Terence Marsh86EnglishProduction Designer
January13Jean Porter95AmericanActress
January14Hugh Wilson74AmericanDirector, Screenwriter
January14Yosuke Natsuki81JapaneseActor
January16Bradford Dillman87AmericanActor
January19Anna Campori100ItalianActress
January19Olivia Cole75AmericanActress
January19Dorothy Malone93AmericanActress
January19Allison Shearmur54AmericanProducer
January21Connie Sawyer105AmericanActress
January23Ezra Swerdlow64AmericanProducer
January23Lari White52AmericanSinger, Actress
January25John Morris91AmericanComposer
January30Louis Zorich93AmericanActor
January31Ann Gillis90AmericanActress
January31Alf Humphreys64CanadianActor
February3Ilse Petri99GermanActress
February3Rolf Zacher76GermanActor
February4Kenneth Haigh86EnglishActor
February4John Mahoney77English-AmericanActor
February7Mickey Jones76AmericanActor, Musician
February7Jill Messick50AmericanProducer
February9Reg E. Cathey59AmericanActor
February9John Gavin86AmericanActor
February9JĂłhann JĂłhannsson48IcelandicComposer
February11Vic Damone89AmericanSinger, Entertainer, Actor
February12Louise Latham95AmericanActress
February13Edward M. Abroms82AmericanFilm Editor
February15Pier Paolo Capponi79ItalianActor
February18Idrissa Ouedraogo64BurkinabéDirector, Screenwriter
February21Ren Osugi66JapaneseActor
February22Nanette Fabray97AmericanActress
February23James Colby56AmericanActor
February23Lewis Gilbert97EnglishDirector, Screenwriter
February24Bud Luckey83AmericanAnimator, Voice Actor
February24Sridevi54IndianActress
February26Benjamin Melniker104AmericanProducer
March3David Ogden Stiers75AmericanActor, Voice Actor, Conductor
March5André S. Labarthe86FrenchActor
March6Donna Butterworth62AmericanActress
March11Siegfried Rauch85GermanActor
March12Oleg Tabakov82RussianActor
March17Geneviève Fontanel81FrenchActress
March17Mike MacDonald63CanadianActor, Comedian
March20Katie Boyle91Italian-EnglishActress
March22Morgana King87AmericanActress, Singer
March23DuShon Monique Brown49AmericanActress
March23Delores Taylor85AmericanActress, Screenwriter, Producer
March24Debbie Lee Carrington58AmericanActress
March27Stéphane Audran85FrenchActress
March30Bill Maynard89EnglishActor
March31Luigi De Filippo87ItalianActor
April2Susan Anspach75AmericanActress
April4Soon-Tek Oh85Korean-AmericanActor
April5Isao Takahata82JapaneseDirector, Screenwriter
April8Chuck McCann83AmericanActor, Voice Actor
April13Miloš Forman86CzechDirector
April14Isabella Biagini74ItalianActress
April15Philip D'Antoni89AmericanProducer, Director
April15R. Lee Ermey74AmericanActor
April15Vittorio Taviani88ItalianDirector, Screenwriter
April16Harry Anderson65AmericanActor
April16Pamela Gidley52AmericanActress
April20John Stride81EnglishActor
April21Verne Troyer49AmericanActor
April23Arthur B. Rubinstein80AmericanComposer
April25Michael Anderson98EnglishDirector
April26Gianfranco Parolini93ItalianDirector
April27Paul Junger Witt77AmericanProducer
April29Robert Mandan86AmericanActor
April29Lester James Peries99Sri LankanDirector, Screenwriter
May5Ermanno Olmi86ItalianDirector, Screenwriter
May8Anne V. Coates92EnglishFilm Editor
May13Margot Kidder69Canadian-AmericanActress
May16Joseph Campanella93AmericanActor
May16Hugh Dane75AmericanActor
May16Lucian Pintilie84RomanianDirector, Screenwriter
May19Vincent McEveety88AmericanDirector
May20Bill Gold97AmericanGraphic Designer
May20Patricia Morison103AmericanActress, Singer
May21Anna Maria Ferrero84ItalianActress
May21Allyn Ann McLerie91AmericanActress
May21Clint Walker90AmericanActor
May24Jerry Maren98AmericanActor
May25Sergio Graziani87ItalianActor
May28Cornelia Frances77English-AustralianActress
May31Michael D. Ford90EnglishProduction Designer
June1William Edward Phipps96AmericanActor
June6Kira Muratova83UkrainianDirector, Screenwriter
June6Alan O'Neill47IrishActor
June8Eunice Gayson90EnglishActress
June9Françoise Bonnot78FrenchFilm Editor
June9Zhang Junzhao65ChineseDirector, Screenwriter
June11Roman KĹ‚osowski89PolishActor
June16Martin Bregman92AmericanProducer
June18Maria Rohm72AustrianActress
June22Deanna Lund81AmericanActress
June26Daniel Pilon77CanadianActor
June27Steven Hilliard Stern80CanadianDirector, Screenwriter
June29Liliane Montevecchi85French-ItalianActress, Singer
June29Derrick O'Connor77IrishActor
July1Gillian Lynne92EnglishChoreographer, Musical Stager
July4Robby MĂĽller78DutchCinematographer
July5Claude Lanzmann92FrenchDocumentarian
July8Tab Hunter86AmericanActor, Singer
July8Alan Johnson81AmericanDirector, Choreographer
July8Carlo Vanzina67ItalianDirector, Screenwriter
July12Roger Perry85AmericanActor
July12Robert Wolders81DutchActor
July17Gary Beach70AmericanActor
July17Yvonne Blake78English-SpanishCostume Designer
July17David Stevens77AustralianScreenwriter
July18Hugh Whitemore82EnglishScreenwriter
July19Shinobu Hashimoto100JapaneseScreenwriter
July21Elmarie Wendel89AmericanActress, Singer
July23Harry Gulkin90CanadianProducer, Director, Project Manager
July25Patrick Williams79AmericanComposer
July27Bernard Hepton92EnglishActor, Director
August1Mary Carlisle104AmericanActress
August2Winston Ntshona76South AfricanActor
August3Moshé Mizrahi86IsraeliDirector
August3Ronnie Taylor93EnglishCinematographer
August5Charlotte Rae92AmericanActress
August5Piotr Szulkin68PolishDirector
August7Étienne Chicot69FrenchActor, Composer
August7Richard H. Kline91AmericanCinematographer
August13Salvatore Cantalupo59ItalianActor
August13John Carter95AmericanFilm Editor
August13UnshĹŤ Ishizuka67JapaneseVoice Actor
August15Albert Millaire83CanadianActor
August16Aretha Franklin76AmericanSinger, Actress
August20Craig Zadan69AmericanProducer
August20Brian Murray80South AfricanActor, Director
August21Barbara Harris83AmericanActress
August24Lindsay Kemp80EnglishActor, Choreographer
August24Antonio Pennarella58ItalianActor
August26Neil Simon91AmericanScreenwriter
August27Fredd Wayne93AmericanActor
August30Vanessa Marquez49AmericanActress
August31Gloria Jean92AmericanActress, Singer
August31Carole Shelley79EnglishActress
September3Lydia Clarke95AmericanActress
September3Jacqueline Pearce74EnglishActress
September4Thomas Rickman78AmericanScreenwriter
September5Christopher Lawford63AmericanActor
September6Liz Fraser88EnglishActress
September6Burt Reynolds82AmericanActor
September10Peter Donat90AmericanActor
September11Fenella Fielding90EnglishActress
September13Zienia Merton72EnglishActress
September15Kirin Kiki75JapaneseActress
September15Dudley Sutton85EnglishActor
September15Zhu Xu88ChineseActor
September18Marceline Loridan-Ivens90FrenchDirector, Actress, Screenwriter
September19Denis Norden96EnglishScreenwriter
September19Gamil Ratib91Egyptian-FrenchActor
September23Gary Kurtz78AmericanProducer
September23Al Matthews75AmericanActor
September26Roger Robinson78AmericanActor
October1Charles Aznavour94Armenian-FrenchActor, Singer
October1Stelvio Cipriani81ItalianComposer
October4Will Vinton70AmericanAnimator, Director
October4Audrey Wells58AmericanScreenwriter, Director
October6Scott Wilson76AmericanActor
October7Peggy McCay90AmericanActress
October7Celeste Yarnall74AmericanActress
October8Arnold Kopelson83AmericanProducer
October8Venantino Venantini88ItalianActor
October10Raymond Danon88FrenchProducer
October14Milena Dravić78SerbianActress
October18Danny Leiner57AmericanDirector
October19Diana Sowle88AmericanActress
October23James Karen94AmericanActor
November1Carlo Giuffrè89ItalianActor
November1Ken Swofford85AmericanActor
November3Sondra Locke74AmericanActress, Director
November7Francis Lai86FrenchComposer
November11Douglas Rain90CanadianActor, Voice Actor
November12Stan Lee95AmericanActor, Producer, Comic Book Creator
November16William Goldman87AmericanScreenwriter
November19Dominique Blanchar91FrenchActress
November19Witold Sobociński89PolishCinematographer
November23Nicolas Roeg90EnglishDirector, Cinematographer
November24Ricky Jay72AmericanActor
November25Giuliana Calandra82ItalianActress
November25Gloria Katz76AmericanScreenwriter, Producer
November26Bernardo Bertolucci77ItalianDirector, Screenwriter
November26Stephen Hillenburg57AmericanScreenwriter, Director, Producer
December1Ken Berry85AmericanActor, Singer
December1Ennio Fantastichini63ItalianActor
December3Philip Bosco88AmericanActor
December3Geoff Murphy80New ZealandDirector, Screenwriter
December6Tim Rossovich72AmericanActor
December12Ferenc KĂłsa81HungarianDirector, Screenwriter
December14Matti Kassila94FinnishDirector, Screenwriter
December17Galt MacDermot89CanadianComposer
December17Penny Marshall75AmericanDirector, Actress
December19Norman Gimbel91AmericanLyricist
December19Peter Masterson84AmericanActor, Director
December20Donald Moffat87English-AmericanActor
December26Jorge Grau88SpanishDirector, Screenwriter
December27Børge Ring97DanishAnimator
December28Iaia Fiastri84ItalianScreenwriter
December28June Whitfield93EnglishActress
December29Agneta Eckemyr68SwedishActress
December29Ringo Lam63Hong KongDirector
December29Rosenda Monteros83MexicanActress
December30Don Lusk105AmericanAnimator
December30Mrinal Sen95IndianDirector
December31Kader Khan81Indian-CanadianDirector, Comedian, Actor, Screenwriter
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