2014 in film

The following is an overview of the events of 2014 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, and a list of films released and notable deaths. DreamWorks Animation celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2014.

Evaluation of the year
In his article highlighting the best films of 2014, Richard Brody of The New Yorker stated, "The great surge in American filmmaking in the past ten years is due to independent financing at all levels. The American independent cinema is right now the flower of the world, but independence isn't in itself a merit badge. Artistically, the films in question range from the majestic to the meretricious. Independent financing has set truly imaginative directors into free flight. This is a moment of extraordinary cinematic invention—of filmmakers, working at a wide range of budget levels, coming up with original and personal ideas about movies and how to make them. On the other hand, this independent surge has also created a new class of culturally respectable directors and films, an ostensible art cinema that flows into the mainstream. True independent filmmaking has always been a tough proposition in the marketplace, let alone at the multiplex. Its commercial obstacles are an increasing problem even for established professionals, who now take their place alongside street-level independents. Filmmakers rightly worry that it's becoming more difficult than ever to make a salable movie, to make a living making movies. If films are becoming like books, where the artistically ambitious ones are only rarely big hits, then directors working outside Hollywood will become more and more like novelists, who often need to supplement their income with teaching or other outside jobs. As independent films become increasingly marginalized in the marketplace, this loss of status risks marginalizing critics as well—which is why the re-professionalization of the movie business has become a matter of critical advocacy."

Highest-grossing films
The top 10 films released in 2014 by worldwide gross are as follows:

Box office records

 * Transformers: Age of Extinction grossed more than $1.1 billion, becoming the 10th highest-grossing film of all time.
 * PK became the first Indian movie to gross more than $100 million at the box office.
 * 2014 was also the first year since 1997 in which there were no animated movies among the 10 highest-grossing films of the year. However, the 11th and 12th highest grossing films of this year, Big Hero 6 and How to Train Your Dragon 2 respectively, are both animated.

By country/region

 * List of American films of 2014
 * List of Argentine films of 2014
 * List of Australian films of 2014
 * List of Bangladeshi films of 2014
 * List of Brazilian films of 2014
 * List of British films of 2014
 * List of French films of 2014
 * List of Hong Kong films of 2014
 * List of Indian films of 2014
 * List of Assamese films of 2014
 * List of Bengali films of 2014
 * List of Bollywood films of 2014
 * List of Odia films of 2014
 * List of Punjabi films of 2014
 * List of Gujarati films
 * List of Kannada films of 2014
 * List of Malayalam films of 2014
 * List of Marathi films of 2014
 * List of Tamil films of 2014
 * List of Telugu films of 2014
 * List of Tulu films of 2014
 * List of Indonesian films
 * List of Iraqi films of 2014
 * List of Italian films of 2014
 * List of Japanese films of 2014
 * List of Mexican films of 2014
 * List of Pakistani films of 2014
 * List of Russian films of 2014
 * List of South Korean films of 2014
 * List of Spanish films of 2014
 * List of Turkish films of 2014

By genre/medium

 * List of action films of 2014
 * List of animated feature films of 2014
 * List of avant-garde films of 2014
 * List of comedy films of 2014
 * List of drama films of 2014
 * List of horror films of 2014
 * List of science fiction films of 2014
 * List of thriller films of 2014
 * List of western films of 2014

Film debuts

 * Melissa Barrera – L for Leisure
 * Danielle Brooks – Time Out of Mind
 * Timothée Chalamet – Men, Women & Children
 * Dean-Charles Chapman – Before I Go to Sleep
 * Olivia Cooke – The Signal
 * Carrie Coon – Gone Girl
 * Hermione Corfield – 50 Kisses
 * Lilla Crawford – Into the Woods
 * Pete Davidson – School Dance
 * Lily-Rose Depp – Tusk
 * Taron Egerton – Testament of Youth
 * Shira Haas – Princess
 * Anders Holm – Neighbors
 * Jaeden Martell – St. Vincent
 * Ignacyo Matynia - The Grievance Group
 * Janelle Monáe – Rio 2
 * Artemis Pebdani – Sex Tape
 * Larry Poole – Valley Inn
 * Florence Pugh – The Falling
 * Kriti Sanon – 1: Nenokkadine
 * Simona Tabasco – Perez.
 * Lulu Wilson – Deliver Us from Evil