valign="top" | rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| May |- | style="text-align:center;"| 14 – 25 || Entre les murs wins the Palme d'Or while Gomorrah receives the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. |- | style="text-align:center;"| 22 – 15 || 34th Seattle International Film Festival |- | style="text-align:center;"| 26 || Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull earns $126 million in the United States and Canada, becoming the highest-grossing debut of 2008 and the second-highest-grossing for a Memorial Day weekend debut behind Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. |- valign="top" | rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| June | rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"| 1 || The 2008 MTV Movie Awards winners were announced |- | A massive fire destroys portions of facilities at Universal Studios in Universal City near Los Angeles, California. |- | style="text-align:center;"| 14 – 22 || 11th Shanghai International Film Festival |- | style="text-align:center;"| 18 || Iron Man becomes the first movie of 2008 to earn $300 million in the United States and Canada. |- | style="text-align:center;"| 18 – 29 || 62nd Edinburgh International Film Festival. The festival launches a new sidebar celebrating the spirit of discovery, including selections Bigga than Ben, Blood Car, Crack Willow, Spike, Strange Girls, and The Third Pint. |- valign="top" | style="text-align:center;"| July | style="text-align:center;"| 17 – 26 || 8th Era New Horizons Film Festival |- valign="top" | rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| August | style="text-align:center;"| 4 || The Dark Knight reached $400 million in record time at 18 days. The previous record was held by Shrek 2, which reached it in 43 days. |- | style="text-align:center;"| 6 – 16 || 61st Locarno International Film Festival |- | style="text-align:center;"| 21 – 1 || 32nd Montreal World Film Festival |- | style="text-align:center;"| 27 – 6 || 65th Venice International Film Festival |- valign="top" | rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| September | style="text-align:center;"| 4 – 13 || 33rd Toronto International Film Festival |- | style="text-align:center;"| 15 – 20 || 33rd Polish Film Festival in Gdynia |- | style="text-align:center;"| 18 – 27 || 56th San Sebastián International Film Festival |- | style="text-align:center;"| 23 – 30 || 6th Bangkok International Film Festival |- valign="top" | rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"| October | style="text-align:center;"| 1 – 12 || 16th Raindance Film Festival |- | style="text-align:center;"| 15 – 30 || 52nd London Film Festival |- | style="text-align:center;"| 18 – 26 || 21st Tokyo International Film Festival |- valign="top" | style="text-align:center;"| November | style="text-align:center;"| 18 – 28 || 32nd Cairo International Film Festival |-