2020 in film

2020 in film is an overview of events, including award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, and notable deaths. This year was greatly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Around the world and to varying degrees, cinemas have been closed, film festivals have been canceled or postponed, and film releases have been moved to later dates or delayed indefinitely. As cinemas were closed, global box offices fell by billions of dollars, streaming became more popular, and cinema film inventories dropped dramatically. Many blockbusters that were originally scheduled to be released between March and December were postponed or canceled around the world, with film production also stopped.

Highest-grossing films

The top films released in 2020 by worldwide gross are as follows:

Rank	Title	Distributor	Worldwide gross
1	Bad Boys for Life	Sony	$425,514,702
2	Sonic the Hedgehog	Paramount	$306,766,470
3	Dolittle	Universal	$231,470,292
4	Birds of Prey	Warner Bros.	$201,858,461
5	The Invisible Man	Universal	$125,818,165
6	The Gentlemen	Miramax	$114,996,853
7	Onward	Disney	$108,543,846
8	The Call of the Wild	20th Century Studios	$107,604,626
9	Tanhaji	AA Films	$52,000,000
10	Tolo Tolo	Medusa Film	$51,806,311

2020 box office records

Film records

Sonic the Hedgehog broke Pokemon: Detective Pikachu's record for the highest opening weekend for a film based on a video game, with $70 million domestic gross in the United States and Canada. It went on to become the highest-grossing film based on a video game in the United States and Canada, surpassing Detective Pikachu.
Events

Award ceremonies

Date	Event	Host	Location
January 5	77th Golden Globe Awards	Hollywood Foreign Press Association	Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
January 12	25th Critics' Choice Awards	Broadcast Film Critics Association	Santa Monica, California, U.S.
January 19	26th Screen Actors Guild Awards	SAG-AFTRA	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
January 20	55th Guldbagge Awards	Swedish Film Institute	Stockholm, Sweden
January 25	47th Annie Awards	ASIFA-Hollywood	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
February 1	10th Magritte Awards	Académie André Delvaux	Brussels, Belgium
February 2	73rd British Academy Film Awards	British Academy of Film and Television Arts	London, England
February 8	35th Independent Spirit Awards	Independent Spirit Awards	Santa Monica, California, U.S.
February 9	92nd Academy Awards	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
February 28	45th César Awards	Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma	Paris, France
March 6	43rd Japan Academy Film Prize	Nippon Academy-Sho Association	Tokyo, Japan
March 16	40th Golden Raspberry Awards	Golden Raspberry Awards Foundation	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
May 6	39th Hong Kong Film Awards	Hong Kong Film Awards Association Ltd.	Hong Kong
May 28	8th Canadian Screen Awards	Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television	Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Festivals

for 2020 that have been accredited by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations.

Date	Event	Host	Location
January 23–February 2	2020 Sundance Film Festival	Sundance Film Festival	Park City, Utah, United States
February 20–March 1	70th Berlin International Film Festival	Berlin International Film Festival	Berlin, Germany
TBD	2020 Cannes Film Festival	Cannes Film Festival	Cannes, France
September 2–12	77th Venice International Film Festival	Venice Film Festival	Venice, Italy

2020 films

The list of films set to be released in 2020, arranged by country, are as follows:

Month	Date	Name	Age	Nationality	Profession	Films
January	4	Tom Long	51	Australian	Actor
January	8	Edd Byrnes	86	American	Actor
January	8	Buck Henry	89	American	Actor, Screenwriter, Director
January	9	Ivan Passer	86	Czech	Director, Screenwriter
January	10	Neda Arnerić	66	Serbian	Actress
January	12	Tony Garnett	83	English	Producer
January	14	Jack Kehoe	85	American	Actor
January	17	Derek Fowlds	82	English	Actor
January	20	Joe Shishido	86	Japanese	Actor
January	21	Terry Jones	77	Welsh	Actor, Director, Screenwriter
January	22	John Karlen	86	American	Actor
January	25	Monique van Vooren	92	Belgian-American	Actress
January	26	Kobe Bryant	41	American	Actor, Screenwriter
January	28	Harriet Frank Jr.	96	American	Screenwriter
January	28	Nicholas Parsons	96	English	Actor
January	28	Marj Dusay	83	American	Actress
January	30	Jörn Donner	86	Finnish-Swedish	Director, Screenwriter, Actor
January	31	Andree Melly	87	English	Actress
February	1	Péter Andorai	71	Hungarian	Actor
February	1	Luciano Ricceri	79	Italian	Production Designer
February	3	Gene Reynolds	96	American	Actor
February	4	José Luis Cuerda	72	Spanish	Director, Screenwriter, Producer
February	4	Gianni Minervini	91	Italian	Producer
February	5	Kevin Conway	77	American	Actor
February	5	Kirk Douglas	103	American	Actor, Producer
February	6	Raphaël Coleman	25	English	Actor
February	7	Orson Bean	91	American	Actor, Producer
February	7	Ann E. Todd	88	American	Actress
February	8	Robert Conrad	84	American	Actor
February	8	Volker Spengler	80	German	Actor
February	8	Grazia Volpi	78	Italian	Producer
February	9	Paula Kelly	77	American	Actress, Singer
February	10	Marge Redmond	95	American	Actress, Singer
February	11	Joseph Vilsmaier	81	German	Director
February	13	Rafael Romero Marchent	93	Spanish	Director, Actor
February	14	Lynn Cohen	86	American	Actress
February	14	John Shrapnel	77	English	Actor
February	16	Zoe Caldwell	86	Australian	Actress
February	16	Frances Cuka	83	English	Actress
February	16	Jason Davis	35	American	Actor
February	16	Kellye Nakahara	72	American	Actress
February	17	Ja'Net DuBois	87	American	Actress, Singer, Songwriter
February	18	Tapas Paul	61	Indian	Actor
February	18	Flavio Bucci	72	Italian	Actor
February	19	José Mojica Marins	83	Brazilian	Director, Actor
February	20	Claudette Nevins	82	American	Actress
February	21	Boris Leskin	97	Russian	Actor
February	24	Diana Serra Cary	101	American	Actress
February	24	Ben Cooper	86	American	Actor
February	26	Michael Medwin	96	English	Actor
February	27	Burkhard Driest	80	German	Actor
February	27	Eugene Dynarski	86	American	Actor
February	29	Dieter Laser	78	German	Actor
March	2	James Lipton	93	American	Writer, Actor
March	3	Božidar Alić	65	Croatian	Actor
March	6	David Paul	62	American	Actor
March	7	Mart Crowley	84	American	Screenwriter, Actor
March	8	Max von Sydow	90	Swedish	Actor
March	11	Didier Bezace	74	French	Actor
March	12	Gary B. Kibbe	79	American	Cinematographer
March	12	Tonie Marshall	68	French	Actress, Director, Screenwriter
March	15	Suzy Delair	102	French	Actress, Singer
March	15	Roy Hudd	83	English	Actor
March	16	Stuart Whitman	92	American	Actor
March	17	Lyle Waggoner	84	American	Actor
March	19	Nazzareno Zamperla	82	Italian	Actor, Stuntman
March	20	Kenny Rogers	81	American	Actor, Singer, Songwriter
March	23	Lucia Bosè	89	Italian	Actress
March	23	David Collings	79	English	Actor
March	23	Alfio Contini	92	Italian	Cinematographer
March	24	Stuart Gordon	72	American	Director, Screenwriter
March	24	Terrence McNally	81	American	Screenwriter
March	24	Gerard Schurmann	96	English	Composer
March	24	Albert Uderzo	92	French	Director, Screenwriter
March	26	Mark Blum	69	American	Actor
March	28	Barbara Rütting	92	German	Actress
March	31	Julie Bennett	88	American	Actress, Voice Actress
March	31	Andrew Jack	76	English	Dialect Coach, Actor
April	1	Adam Schlesinger	52	American	Musician, Songwriter
April	3	Hilary Dwyer	74	English	Actress
April	4	Jay Benedict	68	American	Actor
April	4	Carlo Leva	90	Italian	Production Designer
April	5	Shirley Douglas	86	Canadian	Actress
April	5	Lee Fierro	91	American	Actress
April	5	George Ogilvie	89	Australian	Director, Actor
April	6	Honor Blackman	94	English	Actress
April	6	James Drury	85	American	Actor
April	7	Allen Garfield	80	American	Actor
April	9	Malcolm Dixon	66	English	Actor
April	9	Marc Engels	54	Belgian	Sound engineer
April	10	Armando Francioli	100	Italian	Actor
April	10	Nobuhiko Obayashi	82	Japanese	Director, Screenwriter
April	10	Francis Reusser	77	Swiss	Director
April	12	Maurice Barrier	87	French	Actor
April	12	Tim Brooke-Taylor	79	English	Actor
April	12	Danny Goldman	80	American	Actor
April	13	Patricia Millardet	63	French	Actress
April	13	Ann Sullivan	91	American	Animator
April	14	Mario Donatone	86	Italian	Actor
April	15	Sean Arnold	79	English	Actor
April	15	Allen Daviau	77	American	Cinematographer
April	15	Brian Dennehy	81	American	Actor
April	16	Luis Sepúlveda	70	Chilean	Screenwriter, Actor
April	17	Sergio Fantoni	89	Italian	Actor
April	19	Philippe Nahon	81	French	Actor
April	20	Claude Evrard	86	French	Actor
April	22	Shirley Knight	83	American	Actress
April	23	Bruce Allpress	89	New Zealand	Actor
April	26	Peter H. Hunt	81	American	Director
April	28	Jill Gascoine	83	English	Actress
April	29	Irrfan Khan	53	Indian	Actor
April	29	John Lafia	63	American	Director, Screenwriter
April	30	Rishi Kapoor	67	Indian	Actor
April	30	Sam Lloyd	56	American	Actor
May	2	Jan-Olof Strandberg	93	Swedish	Actor
May	3	John Ericson	93	German-American	Actor
May	6	Leslie Pope	65	American	Set Decorator
May	7	Daniel Cauchy	90	French	Actor
May	7	Peque Gallaga	76	Filipino	Director, Screenwriter
May	9	Geno Silva	72	American	Actor
May	9	Little Richard	87	American	Musician
May	11	Jerry Stiller	92	American	Actor
May	12	Michel Piccoli	94	French	Actor
May	15	Ezio Bosso	48	Italian	Composer
May	15	Lynn Shelton	54	American	Director, Screenwriter
May	15	Fred Willard	86	American	Actor
May	16	Pilar Pellicer	82	Mexican	Actress
May	16	Jon Whiteley	75	Scottish	Actor
May	17	Monique Mercure	89	Canadian	Actress
May	22	Denise Cronenberg	81	Canadian	Costume Designer
May	24	Jean-Loup Dabadie	81	French	Screenwriter
May	26	Richard Herd	87	American	Actor
May	26	Irm Hermann	77	German	Actress
May	26	Anthony James	77	American	Actor
May	27	Peggy Pope	91	American	Actress
May	28	Lennie Niehaus	90	American	Composer
May	30	Michael Angelis	76	English	Actor
May	31	Dan van Husen	75	German	Actor
June	2	Mary Pat Gleason	70	American	Actress
June	3	Bruce Jay Friedman	90	American	Screenwriter
June	7	Alan Metter	77	American	Director
June	8	Marion Hänsel	71	Belgian	Director, Screenwriter, Actress
June	11	Mel Winkler	78	American	Actor
June	14	Mohammad-Ali Keshavarz	90	Iranian	Actor
June	14	Sushant Singh Rajput	34	Indian	Actor
June	17	Lewis John Carlino	88	American	Director, Screenwriter
June	18	Vera Lynn	103	English	Actress, Singer
June	19	Ian Holm	88	English	Actor
June	21	Jürgen Holtz	87	German	Actor
June	22	Steve Bing	55	American	Screenwriter
June	22	Joel Schumacher	80	American	Director, Costume Designer
June	26	Kelly Asbury	60	American	Director, Screenwriter
June	26	Stuart Cornfeld	67	American	Producer
June	26	Taryn Power	66	American	Actress
June	27	Linda Cristal	89	Argentine	Actress
June	29	Johnny Mandel	94	American	Composer, Songwriter
June	29	Carl Reiner	98	American	Actor, Director, Screenwriter
June	30	Dan Hicks	68	American	Actor
July	2	Tilo Prückner	79	German	Actor
July	2	Kevin Rafferty	72	American	Director, Cinematographer
July	2	Ronald L. Schwary	76	American	Producer
July	2	Yoon Sam-yook	83	South Korean	Screenwriter, Director
July	3	Earl Cameron	102	Bermudian-English	Actor
July	3	Saroj Khan	71	Indian	Choreographer
July	5	Bettina Gilois	58	American	Screenwriter
July	6	Ennio Morricone	91	Italian	Composer
July	8	Naya Rivera	33	American	Actress
July	12	Kelly Preston	57	American	Actress
July	13	Grant Imahara	49	American	Model Maker
July	14	Galyn Görg	55	American	Actress
July	15	Carlotta Barilli	84	Italian	Actress
July	15	Maurice Roëves	83	English	Actor
July	16	Phyllis Somerville	76	American	Actress
July	17	Zizi Jeanmaire	96	French	Dancer, Actress
July	18	Haruma Miura	30	Japanese	Actor
July	19	Sonia Darrin	96	American	Actress
July	21	Annie Ross	89	English-American	Actress, Singer
July	23	Leida Rammo	96	Estonian	Actress
July	23	Sérgio Ricardo	88	Brazilian	Director, Composer
July	24	Regis Philbin	88	American	Actor
July	25	John Saxon	84	American	Actor
July	26	Olivia de Havilland	104	English-American	Actress
July	27	Gianrico Tedeschi	100	Italian	Actor
July	31	Alan Parker	76	English	Director
August	1	Wilford Brimley	85	American	Actor
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