Top-earning actor
Charles Bronson
≈ $1,000,000
$1 million a filmEstimate
About $6 million in 2025 dollars
The world's No. 1 box-office attraction, at $1 million a film.
New Hollywood · 1970s
1975
Top-earning actress
Barbra Streisand
≈ $1,000,000
Repeats her 1970 feeEstimate
About $6 million in 2025 dollars
Funny Lady; Liza Minnelli was signed that year for Lucky Lady at a minimum of $350,000.
The pictures that paid
Box office champions of 1975
By U.S. theatrical rentals, the studios' share of ticket sales
- 1
Jaws
$133 million
- 2
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
$59.2 million
- 3
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
$50.4 million
Neither top earner was in one of the year's three biggest films.