The top films released in 2020

The top films released in 2020 by worldwide gross are listed below. The  pandemic caused severe disruption to the industry, with lower than usual box office returns than previous years and a reduced selection of contenders.

 

Highest-grossing films of 2020

Rank	Title	Distributor	Worldwide gross
1	The Eight Hundred	CMC Pictures Holdings	$461,339,528
2	Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train	Toho / Aniplex (Sony Music Japan)	$435,000,000[3]
3	My People, My Homeland	China Lion Film Distribution	$433,241,288[4]
4	Bad Boys for Life	Sony Pictures / Columbia	$426,505,244
5	Tenet	Warner Bros.	$363,129,000
6	Sonic the Hedgehog	Paramount	$319,715,683
7	Dolittle	Universal	$245,521,062
8	Jiang Ziya	Beijing Enlight Pictures	$240,661,689
9	A Little Red Flower	HG Entertainment	$238,600,000[5][6]
10	Shock Wave 2	Universe Films Distribution	$226,320,000[a]

After being re-released in 4K in China, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone grossed over $1 billion, becoming the second billion-dollar film in the Wizarding World franchise.

2020 box office records

• China overtook North America as the world's largest box office market for the first time in 2020. China generated $2.7 billion in theatrical revenue compared to North America's $2.3 billion, the lowest for the North American box office in at least 40 years.^[7] This has been largely attributed to the 9 pandemic having a greater negative impact in North America than in China.^[8]
• Because of the relatively smaller impact of the pandemic on Asian film markets, the majority of the top ten highest-grossing films of the year are non-Hollywood (Chinese and Japanese) productions for the first time in history, as the rankings were previously always dominated by North American productions.^[9]

Film records

• The Eight Hundred, a Chinese film, became the first ever non-Hollywood film production to become the highest-grossing film of the year. In previous years, the highest-grossing film of the year was always a Hollywood production. ^[10]
• Sonic the Hedgehog broke Pokémon: 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.^[11] It went on to become the highest-grossing film based on a video game in the United States and Canada, surpassing Detective Pikachu, although it did not beat it in the worldwide box office.^[12] Sonic the Hedgehog is also the highest-grossing superhero film of 2020, ending the Marvel Cinematic Universe's decade-long run of having the highest-grossing superhero film of the year (from 2010 to 2019).^[13][14]
• Demon Slayer: Mugen Train, a Japanese anime film based on the manga series Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, broke a number of box office records in several Asian countries.
  • In Japan, Mugen Train set the first-day opening record with ¥1.2 billion ($11.3 million),^[15] before breaking the opening weekend record with ¥4.6 billion ($43.8 million) over three days.^[16] It went on to have the highest-grossing second weekend, and in ten days became the fastest film to cross ¥10 billion ($96.7 million), surpassing Spirited Away (2001) which had previously crossed the ¥10 billion milestone in 19 days and held the record for 19 years.^[17] Mugen Train also became the fastest film to cross ¥20 billion in Japan, again faster than Spirited Away.^[18] It also set the record for the highest-grossing IMAX release in Japan, surpassing the previous record holder Bohemian Rhapsody (2018).^[19] In 59 days, Mugen Train set another record as the fastest film to cross the ¥30 billion milestone,^[20] faster than Spirited Away which took 253 days to reach the same milestone.^[21] In 66 days, the film set another record as the first film to top the Japanese box office charts for ten straight weekends (since the charts began publication in 2004).^[22] In 73 days, Mugen Train grossed ¥32.48 billion to become the highest-grossing film of all time in Japan, surpassing Spirited Away which held the record for 19 years.^[23]
  • In Taiwan, Mugen Train grossed NT$360 million (US$12.6 million) in 17 days, setting the record for the highest-grossing animated film of all time in Taiwan, surpassing the previous record holders Frozen 2 (2019) and Your Name (2016).^[24][25] In 20 days, Mugen Train became the first animated film to cross NT$400 million in Taiwan,^[26] before later crossing the NT$500 million milestone.^[27]
• For the first time in box office history, two non-American animated film productions (Asian films), Demon Slayer: Mugen Train from Japan and Jiang Ziya from China, have become the highest-grossing animated films of the year. This has also been partly attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[28] It is also the first time since 1987 that a non-American animated film (Japanese anime), Demon Slayer: Mugen Train, became the highest-grossing animated film of the year, and the first time an anime has made the top 10 highest grossing films of the year worldwide.

Notable deaths in 2020

January	4	Tom Long	51	Australian	Actor	The Dish The Book of Revelation
	8	Edd Byrnes	86	American	Actor	Grease The Secret Invasion
	8	Buck Henry	89	American	Actor, Screenwriter, Director	The Graduate Heaven Can Wait
	9	Ivan Passer	86	Czech	Director, Screenwriter	Born to Win Cutter's Way
	10	Neda Arnerić	66	Serbian	Actress	Shaft in Africa The Sensual Man
	12	Tony Garnett	83	English	Producer	Kes Earth Girls Are Easy
	14	Jack Kehoe	85	American	Actor	The Sting The Untouchables
	17	Derek Fowlds	82	English	Actor	Frankenstein Created Woman Hotel Paradiso
	20	Joe Shishido	86	Japanese	Actor	Branded to Kill Gate of Flesh
	21	Terry Jones	77	Welsh	Actor, Director, Screenwriter	Monty Python's Life of Brian Labyrinth
	22	John Karlen	86	American	Actor	House of Dark Shadows Racing with the Moon
	25	Monique van Vooren	92	Belgian-American	Actress	Flesh for Frankenstein The Decameron
	26	Kobe Bryant	41	American	Actor, Screenwriter	Daddy's Home Dear Basketball
	28	Harriet Frank Jr.	96	American	Screenwriter	Norma Rae Hud
	28	Nicholas Parsons	96	English	Actor	The Long Arm Eyewitness
	28	Marj Dusay	83	American	Actress	Breezy MacArthur
	30	Jörn Donner	86	Finnish-Swedish	Director, Screenwriter, Actor	To Love A Sunday in September
	31	Andree Melly	87	English	Actress	The Brides of Dracula The Big Day
February	1	Péter Andorai	71	Hungarian	Actor	Mephisto My 20th Century
	1	Luciano Ricceri	79	Italian	Production Designer	A Special Day Captain Fracassa's Journey
	3	Gene Reynolds	96	American	Actor	The Country Girl Boys Town
	4	José Luis Cuerda	72	Spanish	Director, Screenwriter, Producer	El bosque animado The Blind Sunflowers
	4	Gianni Minervini	91	Italian	Producer	Mediterraneo Berlinguer, I Love You
	5	Kevin Conway	77	American	Actor	F.I.S.T. The Quick and the Dead
	5	Kirk Douglas	103	American	Actor, Producer	Spartacus The Bad and the Beautiful
	6	Raphaël Coleman	25	English	Actor	Nanny McPhee The Fourth Kind
	7	Orson Bean	91	American	Actor, Producer	Anatomy of a Murder Being John Malkovich
	7	Ann E. Todd	88	American	Actress	Intermezzo How Green Was My Valley
	8	Robert Conrad	84	American	Actor	Wrong Is Right Jingle All the Way
	8	Volker Spengler	80	German	Actor	The Third Generation In a Year of 13 Moons
	8	Grazia Volpi	78	Italian	Producer	Caesar Must Die Fiorile
	9	Paula Kelly	77	American	Actress, Singer	The Andromeda Strain Sweet Charity
	10	Marge Redmond	95	American	Actress, Singer	The Trouble with Angels Family Plot
	11	Joseph Vilsmaier	81	German	Director	Stalingrad Comedian Harmonists
	13	Rafael Romero Marchent	93	Spanish	Director, Actor	Hands of a Gunfighter Ringo the Lone Rider
	14	Lynn Cohen	86	American	Actress	Sex and the City Munich
	14	John Shrapnel	77	English	Actor	Nicholas and Alexandra Notting Hill
	16	Zoe Caldwell	86	Australian	Actress	Lilo & Stitch The Purple Rose of Cairo
	16	Frances Cuka	83	English	Actress	Scrooge Oliver Twist
	16	Jason Davis	35	American	Actor	Recess: School's Out Rush Hour
	16	Kellye Nakahara	72	American	Actress	Clue She's Having a Baby
	17	Ja'Net DuBois	87	American	Actress, Singer, Songwriter	I'm Gonna Git You Sucka Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
	18	Flavio Bucci	72	Italian	Actor	Suspiria Il Divo
	18	Tapas Paul	61	Indian	Actor	Dadar Kirti Guru Dakshina
	19	José Mojica Marins	83	Brazilian	Director, Actor	At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul Coffin Joe
	20	Claudette Nevins	82	American	Actress	Sleeping with the Enemy Tuff Turf
	21	Boris Leskin	97	Russian	Actor	The Falcon and the Snowman The Package
	24	Diana Serra Cary	101	American	Actress	Prisoners of the Storm The Darling of New York
	24	Ben Cooper	86	American	Actor	The Rose Tattoo Johnny Guitar
	26	Michael Medwin	96	English	Actor	Scrooge A Countess from Hong Kong
	27	Burkhard Driest	80	German	Actor	Querelle Cross of Iron
	27	Eugene Dynarski	86	American	Actor	Earthquake Close Encounters of the Third Kind
	29	Dieter Laser	78	German	Actor	The Human Centipede (First Sequence) The Ogre
March	2	James Lipton	93	American	Writer, Actor	Bewitched Bolt
	3	Božidar Alić	65	Croatian	Actor	Operation Stadium The Third Key
	6	David Paul	62	American	Actor	The Barbarians D.C. Cab
	7	Mart Crowley	84	American	Screenwriter, Actor	The Boys in the Band The Celluloid Closet
	8	Max von Sydow	90	Swedish	Actor	The Exorcist The Seventh Seal
	11	Didier Bezace	74	French	Actor	Thieves The Minister
	12	Gary B. Kibbe	79	American	Cinematographer	Escape from L.A. They Live
	12	Tonie Marshall	68	French	Actress, Director, Screenwriter	Venus Beauty Institute The Missionaries
	15	Suzy Delair	102	French	Actress, Singer	Quai des Orfèvres Rocco and His Brothers
	15	Roy Hudd	83	English	Actor	The Blood Beast Terror Up the Chastity Belt
	16	Stuart Whitman	92	American	Actor	The Comancheros The Longest Day
	17	Lyle Waggoner	84	American	Actor	Love Me Deadly Catalina Caper
	19	Nazzareno Zamperla	82	Italian	Actor, Stuntman	Blood for a Silver Dollar Sandokan the Great
	20	Johnny Harris	87	Scottish	Composer, Arranger, Musician	Man in the Wilderness Bloomfield
	20	Kenny Rogers	81	American	Actor, Singer, Songwriter	Six Pack Longshot
	23	Lucia Bosè	89	Italian	Actress	Story of a Love Affair Chronicle of a Death Foretold
	23	David Collings	79	English	Actor	Scrooge The Thirty Nine Steps
	23	Alfio Contini	92	Italian	Cinematographer	Zabriskie Point The Night Porter
	24	Stuart Gordon	72	American	Director, Screenwriter	Re-Animator Fortress
	24	Terrence McNally	81	American	Screenwriter	Frankie and Johnny The Ritz
	24	Gerard Schurmann	96	English	Composer	The Bedford Incident The Lost Continent
	24	Albert Uderzo	92	French	Director, Screenwriter	Asterix and Cleopatra The Twelve Tasks of Asterix
	26	Mark Blum	69	American	Actor	Crocodile Dundee Desperately Seeking Susan
	28	Barbara Rütting	92	German	Actress	Operation Crossbow Neues vom Hexer
	29	Krzysztof Penderecki	86	Polish	Composer, Conductor	The Saragossa Manuscript The Codes
	31	Julie Bennett	88	American	Actress, Voice Actress	Gay Purr-ee Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!
	31	Andrew Jack	76	English	Dialect Coach, Actor	Star Wars: The Force Awakens The Lord of the Rings
April	1	Adam Schlesinger	52	American	Musician, Songwriter	That Thing You Do! Music and Lyrics
	3	Hilary Dwyer	74	English	Actress	Witchfinder General Wuthering Heights
	3	Hans Meyer	94	South African	Actor	Red Sonja Mauvais Sang
	4	Jay Benedict	68	American	Actor	Victor/Victoria Aliens
	4	Carlo Leva	90	Italian	Production Designer	The Cat o' Nine Tails The Witness
	5	Shirley Douglas	86	Canadian	Actress	Lolita Dead Ringers
	5	Lee Fierro	91	American	Actress	Jaws Jaws: The Revenge
	5	George Ogilvie	89	Australian	Director, Actor	Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome The Water Diviner
	5	Honor Blackman	94	English	Actress	Goldfinger Jason and the Argonauts
	6	James Garbutt	94	English	Actor	The Thirty Nine Steps Superman
	6	James Drury	85	American	Actor	Pollyanna Ride the High Country
	7	Allen Garfield	80	American	Actor	The Conversation Nashville
	9	Malcolm Dixon	66	English	Actor	Time Bandits Return of the Jedi
	9	Marc Engels	54	Belgian	Sound engineer	Largo Winch II Our Futures
	10	Armando Francioli	100	Italian	Actor	Everybody in Jail La Horse
	10	Nobuhiko Obayashi	82	Japanese	Director, Screenwriter	House Hanagatami
	10	Francis Reusser	77	Swiss	Director	The Big Night War in the Highlands
	12	Maurice Barrier	87	French	Actor	Coup de tête Flic Story
	12	Tim Brooke-Taylor	79	English	Actor	The Statue The Thirteen Chairs
	12	Danny Goldman	80	American	Actor	Young Frankenstein M*A*S*H
	13	Patricia Millardet	63	French	Actress	P'tit Con The Sun Also Shines at Night
	13	Ann Sullivan	91	American	Animator	The Little Mermaid Pocahontas
	14	Mario Donatone	86	Italian	Actor	The Godfather Part III John Wick: Chapter 2
	15	Sean Arnold	79	English	Actor	North Sea Hijack Speaking of the Devil
	15	Allen Daviau	77	American	Cinematographer	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial The Color Purple
	15	Brian Dennehy	81	American	Actor	First Blood Ratatouille
	16	Luis Sepúlveda	70	Chilean	Screenwriter, Actor	Lucky and Zorba Tierra del fuego
	17	Filipe Duarte	46	Portuguese	Actor	The Invisible Life The Death of Louis XIV
	17	Sergio Fantoni	89	Italian	Actor	Senso Esther and the King
	19	Philippe Nahon	81	French	Actor	I Stand Alone High Tension
	20	Claude Evrard	86	French	Actor	Le Distrait If the Sun Never Returns
	22	Shirley Knight	83	American	Actress	Sweet Bird of Youth Juggernaut
	22	Marcos Mundstock	77	Argentine	Actor, Comedian	Roma It's Not You, It's Me
	23	Bruce Allpress	89	New Zealand	Actor	Nate and Hayes The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
	26	Peter H. Hunt	81	American	Director	1776 Give 'em Hell, Harry!
	28	Jill Gascoine	83	English	Actress	Confessions of a Pop Performer Red Hot
	29	Irrfan Khan	53	Indian	Actor	Slumdog Millionaire Life of Pi
	29	John Lafia	63	American	Director, Screenwriter	Child's Play Child's Play 2
	30	Rishi Kapoor	67	Indian	Actor	Kapoor & Sons 102 Not Out
	30	Sam Lloyd	56	American	Actor	Galaxy Quest Flubber
May	2	Jan-Olof Strandberg	93	Swedish	Actor	Faithless Flight of the Eagle
	3	John Ericson	93	German-American	Actor	Bad Day at Black Rock 7 Faces of Dr. Lao
	6	Leslie Pope	65	American	Set Decorator	The Amazing Spider-Man Django Unchained
	7	Daniel Cauchy	90	French	Actor	Bob le flambeur When You Read This Letter
	7	Peque Gallaga	76	Filipino	Director, Screenwriter	Shake, Rattle & Roll Scorpio Nights
	9	Geno Silva	72	American	Actor	Scarface Amistad
	9	Little Richard	87	American	Musician	Why Do Fools Fall in Love Purple People Eater
	11	Jerry Stiller	92	American	Actor	Zoolander Airport 1975
	12	Michel Piccoli	94	French	Actor	La Grande Bouffe Contempt
	15	Ezio Bosso	48	Italian	Composer	The Invisible Boy I'm Not Scared
	15	Lynn Shelton	54	American	Director, Screenwriter	Humpday Laggies
	15	Fred Willard	86	American	Actor	Best in Show Silver Streak
	16	Pilar Pellicer	82	Mexican	Actress	Day of the Evil Gun Zorro, The Gay Blade
	16	Jon Whiteley	75	Scottish	Actor	The Kidnappers Moonfleet
	17	Monique Mercure	89	Canadian	Actress	The Red Violin Naked Lunch
	18	Ken Osmond	76	American	Actor	Leave It to Beaver Characterz
	22	Denise Cronenberg	81	Canadian	Costume Designer	Dead Ringers Naked Lunch
	24	Jean-Loup Dabadie	81	French	Screenwriter	Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me Parisian Life
	26	Richard Herd	87	American	Actor	All the President's Men Get Out
	26	Irm Hermann	77	German	Actress	The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant Effi Briest
	26	Anthony James	77	American	Actor	Unforgiven High Plains Drifter
	27	Peggy Pope	91	American	Actress	9 to 5 The Last Starfighter
	28	Lennie Niehaus	90	American	Composer	Unforgiven Bird
	30	Michael Angelis	76	English	Actor	Boys from the Blackstuff
	31	Dan van Husen	75	German	Actor	Nosferatu the Vampyre Salon Kitty
June	2	Mary Pat Gleason	70	American	Actress	Why Him? The Crucible
	2	Héctor Suárez	81	Mexican	Actor	Las fuerzas vivas El buscabullas
	3	Bruce Jay Friedman	90	American	Screenwriter	Splash Stir Crazy
	6	Malcolm Terris	79	American	Actor	McVicar Chaplin
	7	Alan Metter	77	American	Director	Girls Just Want to Have Fun Back to School
	8	Marion Hänsel	71	Belgian	Director, Screenwriter, Actress	Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea Le Lit
	11	Rosa María Sardá	78	Spanish	Actress, Comedian	Alegre ma non troppo My Mother Likes Women
	11	Mel Winkler	78	American	Actor	Devil in a Blue Dress Doc Hollywood
	14	Mohammad-Ali Keshavarz	90	Iranian	Actor	Through the Olive Trees Caravans
	14	Sushant Singh Rajput	34	Indian	Actor	M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story Chhichhore
	17	Lewis John Carlino	88	American	Director, Screenwriter	The Great Santini I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
	18	Vera Lynn	103	English	Actress, Singer	We'll Meet Again Rhythm Serenade
	19	Ian Holm	88	English	Actor	The Lord of the Rings Alien
	21	Jürgen Holtz	87	German	Actor	Good Bye, Lenin! Rosa Luxemburg
	20	Philip Latham	91	English	Actor	Dracula: Prince of Darkness Force 10 from Navarone
	22	Steve Bing	55	American	Screenwriter	Kangaroo Jack Missing in Action
	22	Joel Schumacher	80	American	Director, Costume Designer	The Lost Boys Falling Down
	26	Kelly Asbury	60	American	Director, Screenwriter	Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron Gnomeo & Juliet
	26	Stuart Cornfeld	67	American	Producer	Zoolander Tropic Thunder
	26	Taryn Power	66	American	Actress	House of Pleasure for Women Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
	27	Linda Cristal	89	Argentine	Actress	The Perfect Furlough Mr. Majestyk
	28	Louis Mahoney	81	Gambian	Actor	The Plague of the Zombies Omen III: The Final Conflict
	29	Johnny Mandel	94	American	Composer, Songwriter	M*A*S*H The Sandpiper
	29	Carl Reiner	98	American	Actor, Director, Screenwriter	The Jerk Oh, God!
	30	Dan Hicks	68	American	Actor	Darkman Evil Dead II
July	2	Tilo Prückner	79	German	Actor	The Magic Mountain The NeverEnding Story
	2	Kevin Rafferty	72	American	Director, Cinematographer	The Atomic Cafe Roger & Me
	2	Ronald L. Schwary	76	American	Producer	Ordinary People A Soldier's Story
	2	Yoon Sam-yook	83	South Korean	Screenwriter, Director	I Will Survive Suddenly at Midnight
	3	Earl Cameron	102	Bermudian-English	Actor	Thunderball The Interpreter
	3	Saroj Khan	71	Indian	Choreographer	Devdas Jab We Met
	5	Nick Cordero	41	Canadian	Actor	A Stand Up Guy Going in Style
	5	Bettina Gilois	58	American	Screenwriter	McFarland, USA Glory Road
	6	Ennio Morricone	91	Italian	Composer	Once Upon a Time in America The Mission
	8	Naya Rivera	33	American	Actress	At the Devil's Door Mad Families
	12	Kelly Preston	57	American	Actress	Jerry Maguire Twins
	13	Grant Imahara	49	American	Model Maker	Galaxy Quest The Lost World: Jurassic Park
	14	Galyn Görg	55	American	Actress	RoboCop 2 America 3000
	15	Carlotta Barilli	84	Italian	Actress	La commare secca The Commandant
	14	Maurice Roëves	83	English	Actor	The Last of the Mohicans Ulysses
	16	Phyllis Somerville	76	American	Actress	Bringing Out the Dead Little Children
	17	Zizi Jeanmaire	96	French	Dancer, Actress	Hans Christian Andersen Anything Goes
	18	Haruma Miura	30	Japanese	Actor	Attack on Titan Koizora
	19	Sonia Darrin	96	American	Actress	The Big Sleep Bury Me Dead
	21	Annie Ross	89	English-American	Actress, Singer	Blue Sky Superman III
	23	Leida Rammo	96	Estonian	Actress	The Fencer A Young Retiree
	23	Sérgio Ricardo	88	Brazilian	Director, Composer	Black God, White Devil The Night of the Scarecrow
	23	Jacqueline Scott	89	American	Actress	Macabre Duel
	24	Regis Philbin	88	American	Actor	The Bad News Bears Go to Japan Shrek the Third
	25	John Saxon	84	American	Actor	A Nightmare on Elm Street Enter the Dragon
	26	Olivia de Havilland	104	English-American	Actress	Gone with the Wind The Heiress
	27	Gianrico Tedeschi	100	Italian	Actor	Brancaleone at the Crusades Long Live Freedom
	31	Alan Parker	76	English	Director	Midnight Express Mississippi Burning
August	1	Wilford Brimley	85	American	Actor	Cocoon The Thing
	1	Tom Pollock	77	American	Producer, Executive	Up in the Air Hitchcock
	1	Reni Santoni	81	American	Actor	Dirty Harry Cobra
	3	Billy Goldenberg	84	American	Composer, Songwriter	Duel Reuben, Reuben
	9	Anna Maria Bottini	104	Italian	Actress	The Leopard The Law
	9	Kurt Luedtke	80	American	Screenwriter	Absence of Malice Out of Africa
	9	Franca Valeri	100	Italian	Actress	The Shortest Day Gli onorevoli
	10	Silvana Bosi	86	Italian	Actress	The Talented Mr. Ripley Mortacci
	10	Tetsuya Watari	78	Japanese	Actor	Tokyo Drifter Brother
	11	Trini Lopez	83	American	Singer, Actor	The Poppy Is Also a Flower The Dirty Dozen
	14	Linda Manz	58	American	Actress	Days of Heaven Gummo
	16	Nikolai Gubenko	78	Russian	Actor, Director	They Fought for Their Country I Am Twenty
	18	Ben Cross	72	English	Actor	Chariots of Fire Star Trek
	22	Allan Rich	94	American	Actor	Quiz Show Amistad
	23	Benny Chan	58	Hong Kong	Director, Screenwriter	New Police Story Rob-B-Hood
	23	Lori Nelson	87	American	Actress	Pardners Day the World Ended
	27	David S. Cass Sr.	78	American	Stuntman, Director	Tron Heaven's Gate
	28	Chadwick Boseman	43	American	Actor	Black Panther 42
September	3	Birol Ünel	59	Turkish-German	Actor	Soul Kitchen Head-On
	4	Annie Cordy	92	Belgian	Actress, Singer	Rider on the Rain The Breach
	5	Jiří Menzel	82	Czech	Director, Screenwriter	Closely Watched Trains My Sweet Little Village
	6	Kevin Dobson	77	American	Actor	Midway All Night Long
	8	Ronald Harwood	85	English	Screenwriter	The Pianist The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
	8	Jaya Prakash Reddy	74	Indian	Actor	Samarasimha Reddy Sarileru Neekevvaru
	10	Diana Rigg	82	English	Actress	On Her Majesty's Secret Service The Hospital
	12	Barbara Jefford	90	English	Actress	The Ninth Gate Ulysses
	14	Sei Ashina	36	Japanese	Actress	Silk Kamui Gaiden
	14	Al Kasha	83	American	Songwriter	The Poseidon Adventure Pete's Dragon
	20	Michael Chapman	84	American	Cinematographer	Raging Bull Taxi Driver
	20	Alan Tomkins	81	English	Art Director	The Empire Strikes Back Die Another Day
	20	Gerardo Vera	73	Spanish	Director, Actor, Costume & Set Designer	La Celestina Second Skin
	21	Ron Cobb	83	American-Australian	Set Designer	Total Recall True Lies
	21	Michael Lonsdale	89	French-English	Actor	Moonraker The Name of the Rose
	22	Michael Gwisdek	78	German	Actor, Director	Good Bye, Lenin! A Coffee in Berlin
	23	Juliette Gréco	93	French	Actress, Singer	Orpheus The Sun Also Rises
	25	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam	74	Indian	Singer, Actor	Pavitra Bandham Kadhal Desam
	25	Goran Paskaljević	73	Serbian	Director, Screenwriter	The Optimists Cabaret Balkan
	27	Yūko Takeuchi	40	Japanese	Actress	Ring Creepy
	28	Frédéric Devreese	91	Belgian	Composer	One Night... A Train Benvenuta
	29	Helen Reddy	78	Australian	Singer, Actress	Pete's Dragon Airport 1975
	29	Mac Davis	78	American	Singer, Songwriter, Actor	North Dallas Forty The Sting II
	30	Frank Windsor	92	English	Actor	Sunday Bloody Sunday Revolution
October	1	Murray Schisgal	93	American	Screenwriter	The Tiger Makes Out Tootsie
	2	Edward S. Feldman	91	American	Producer	Witness The Truman Show
	3	Thomas Jefferson Byrd	70	American	Actor	Bamboozled Clockers
	3	Armelia McQueen	68	American	Actress	Ghost Bulworth
	4	Clark Middleton	63	American	Actor	Sin City Kill Bill: Volume 2
	5	Margaret Nolan	76	English	Actress	Goldfinger Bikini Paradise
	6	Tommy Rall	90	American	Actor, Dancer	Kiss Me Kate Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
	6	Wladimir Yordanoff	66	French	Actor	Vincent & Theo An Officer and a Spy
	8	Camillo Bazzoni	85	Italian	Cinematographer, Director	Suicide Commandos A Long Ride from Hell
	12	Conchata Ferrell	77	American	Actress	Edward Scissorhands True Romance
	13	Marisa de Leza	87	Spanish	Actress	Furrows Alexander the Great
	14	Rhonda Fleming	97	American	Actress	Out of the Past Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
	15	Bhanu Athaiya	91	Indian	Costume Designer	Gandhi Lagaan
	16	Anthony Chisholm	77	American	Actor	Premium Rush Chi-Raq
	17	Ryszard Ronczewski	90	Polish	Actor	West And Along Come Tourists
	19	Gianni Dei	79	Italian	Actor	Patrick Still Lives A Girl... and a Million
	19	Wojciech Pszoniak	78	Polish	Actor	Danton Korczak
	21	Marge Champion	101	American	Actress, Dancer	Give a Girl a Break Show Boat
	23	Yehuda Barkan	75	Israeli	Actor, Director, Screenwriter	The Contract Charlie Ve'hetzi
	31	Sean Connery	90	Scottish	Actor	James Bond The Untouchables
	31	Charles Gordon	73	American	Producer	Die Hard 2 Field of Dreams
November	1	Carol Arthur	85	American	Actress	The Sunshine Boys Blazing Saddles
	2	Gigi Proietti	80	Italian	Actor	Febbre da cavallo A Wedding
	2	John Sessions	67	English	Actor	Henry V Gangs of New York
	5	Geoffrey Palmer	93	English	Actor	Mrs Brown The Madness of King George
	6	Fernando Solanas	84	Argentine	Director, Screenwriter	Tangos, the Exile of Gardel Sur
	7	John Fraser	89	Scottish	Actor	El Cid Repulsion
	10	Sven Wollter	86	Swedish	Actor	The Sacrifice The 13th Warrior
	12	Gernot Roll	81	German	Cinematographer	Nowhere in Africa The Last Escape
	13	Philip Voss	84	English	Actor	Octopussy Four Weddings and a Funeral
	15	Soumitra Chatterjee	85	Indian	Actor	The World of Apu Abhijan
	18	Michel Robin	90	French	Actor	Amélie The Death of Mario Ricci
	21	Malcolm Marmorstein	92	American	Screenwriter	Pete's Dragon Return from Witch Mountain
	24	Montserrat Carulla	90	Spanish	Actress	The Orphanage Furrows
	26	Daria Nicolodi	70	Italian	Actress, Screenwriter	Deep Red Suspiria
	28	David Prowse	85	English	Actor	Star Wars A Clockwork Orange
December	1	Hugh Keays-Byrne	73	English-Australian	Actor	Mad Max Mad Max: Fury Road
	2	Warren Berlinger	83	American	Actor	The Cannonball Run The Long Goodbye
	2	Franco Giraldi	89	Italian	Director, Screenwriter	Seven Guns for the MacGregors Sugar Colt
	2	Pamela Tiffin	78	American	Actress	One, Two, Three Harper
	4	David Lander	73	American	Actor	Used Cars Who Framed Roger Rabbit
	4	François Leterrier	91	French	Director, Actor	A Man Escaped Goodbye Emmanuelle
	7	Natalie Desselle-Reid	53	American	Actress	B.A.P.S. Madea's Big Happy Family
	10	Tom Lister Jr.	62	American	Actor	The Fifth Element Friday
	10	Barbara Windsor	83	English	Actress	Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Alice in Wonderland
	11	Kim Ki-duk	59	South Korean	Director, Screenwriter	3-Iron Pietà
	12	Ann Reinking	71	American	Actress, Dancer	All That Jazz Annie
	15	Caroline Cellier	75	French	Actress	This Man Must Die Year of the Jellyfish
	17	Jeremy Bulloch	75	English	Actor	The Empire Strikes Back Return of the Jedi
	18	Peter Lamont	91	English	Production Designer	Titanic James Bond
	19	David Giler	77	American	Producer, Screenwriter	Alien Fun with Dick and Jane
	19	Rosalind Knight	87	English	Actress	Tom Jones About a Boy
	19	Eileen Pollock	73	Northern Irish	Actress	Far and Away Angela's Ashes
	20	Lee Wallace	90	American	Actor	Batman Private Benjamin
	22	Claude Brasseur	84	French	Actor	Bande à part La Boum
	29	Claude Bolling	90	French	Composer, Arranger	Borsalino California Suite
	29	Corrado Olmi	94	Italian	Actor	The Cat o' Nine Tails The Dinner
	30	Dawn Wells	82	American	Actress	The Town That Dreaded Sundown Winterhawk
	31	Robert Hossein	93	French	Actor, Director	The Conspirators Rififi
	31	Joan Micklin Silver	85	American	Director	Crossing Delancey Loverboy

The year of 2020 featured many film releases, several cinematic events, and a plethora of deaths connected to the industry. The year was greatly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, with numerous films originally scheduled for theatrical release were postponed or released on video on demand or streaming services, and as a result, 2020 was the first year since 2008 not to have a film gross $1 billion in its initial release, the first year since 2005 not to have a film gross over $900 million, the first year since 2000 not to have a film gross over $600 million, and the first year since 1995 not to have a film gross over $500 million. There was one movie, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, that passed over $1 billion in a re-release. It was also the first year in history when only four of the ten highest-grossing films were North American productions, the other six being Chinese or Japanese productions with one of the former, The Eight Hundred, becoming the highest-grossing film of 2020, a first for a non-American film. It is the first time since 2014 that a non-Disney film is the highest grossing film of the year and the first time since 1997 that a Disney film is not in the top 10 highest grossing films of the year.

However, it is to be kept in mind that several film companies stopped reporting box-office numbers during this time due to the pandemic, and several films are still in theatres where guidelines enable so.^[1] As a result, numbers will grow if they are re-released in the future to compensate for the impact this pandemic has had on consumers and film-watchers.