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The year 1977 in film involved some significant events.
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Events
- In the Academy Awards, Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight win Best Actor and Actress and Supporting Actress awards for Network.
- Annie Hall picks up an Academy Award for Best Picture and All the President's Men wins Jason Robards the Supporting Actor and an Art Direction for George Jenkins and George Gaines.
- March 11 - Walt Disney releases The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, a compilation of three animated shorts.
- May 25 - Star Wars opens in theaters and becomes the highest grossing movie to date. The film revolutionizes the use of special effects in film and television production, and also popularizes the notion of omitting any sort of opening credits sequence, something that would become commonplace in American cinema by the mid-1990s.
- The average price of a movie ticket in the United States is about $2.25
- June 22 - Walt Disney Pictures releases The Rescuers, which instantly brought back an interest in animation that had been lost to both film-goers and critics throughout the beginning of the '70s. [1]
Top grossing films (U.S.)
| Rank | Title | Studio | Gross |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Star Wars* | 20th Century Fox | $270,918,000 |
| 2. | Close Encounters of the Third Kind* | Columbia | $82,750,000 |
| 3. | The Rescuers* | Disney | $74,100,000 |
| 4. | Saturday Night Fever | Paramount | $58,950,000 |
| 5. | The Goodbye Girl | MGM/Warner Brothers | $41,839,000 |
| 6. | Oh, God! | Warner Brothers | $31,500,000 |
| 7. | The Deep | Columbia | $31,266,000 |
| 8. | Smokey and the Bandit* | Universal | $30,090,000 |
| 9. | The Spy Who Loved Me | United Artists | $24,365,000 |
| 10. | Semi-Tough | United Artists | $22,941,000 |
(*) After at least 1 theatrical re-issue
source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1977.shtml
Awards
- Best Picture: Annie Hall - Rollins-Joffe, United Artists
- Best Director: Woody Allen - Annie Hall
- Best Actor: Richard Dreyfuss - The Goodbye Girl
- Best Actress: Diane Keaton - Annie Hall
- Best Supporting Actor: Jason Robards Jr. - Julia
- Best Supporting Actress: Vanessa Redgrave - Julia
- Best Foreign Language Film: Madame Rosa (La Vie devant soi), directed by Moshé Mizrahi, France
- Drama:
- Best Picture: The Turning Point
- Best Actor: Richard Burton - Equus
- Best Actress: Jane Fonda - Julia
- Musical or comedy:
- Best Picture: The Goodbye Girl
- Best Actor: Richard Dreyfuss - The Goodbye Girl
- Best Actress (tie): Diane Keaton - Annie Hall
- Best Actress (tie): Marsha Mason - The Goodbye Girl
- Other
- Best Director: Herbert Ross - The Turning Point
- Best Foreign Language Film: A Special Day, Italy
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
- Father and Master (Padre padrone), directed by Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani, Italy
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
- The Ascent (Voskhozhdeniye), directed by Larisa Shepitko, USSR
Films released in 1977
- ABBA: The Movie
- Airport '77
- Allegro non troppo
- The Amazing Spiderman
- Annie Hall
- Audrey Rose
- The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training
- A Bridge Too Far
- The Car
- The Choirboys
- Citizen's Band
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Cross of Iron
- The Deep
- Demon Seed
- Dot and the Kangaroo
- The Duellists
- Equus
- Eraserhead
- Exorcist II: The Heretic
- Fun with Dick and Jane
- The Gauntlet
- The Goodbye Girl
- Grand Theft Auto
- The Greatest
- Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
- High Anxiety
- The Hills Have Eyes
- The Hobbit
- I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
- The Island of Dr. Moreau
- Julia
- Kentucky Fried Movie
- The Late Show
- Looking for Mr. Goodbar, starring Diane Keaton
- MacArthur, starring Gregory Peck
- Madame Rosa Academy Award for Best Foreign Film
- The Magic Pony
- The Man Who Loved Women
- The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
- Mogliamante - (Wifemistress)
- Mohammad, Messenger of God (also marketed as The Message)
- New York, New York, directed by Martin Scorsese
- Oh, God!, starring George Burns
- Orca, Starring Richard Harris and Bo Derek
- Padre Padrone - Palme d'Or winner
- Pete's Dragon
- Picture Show Man
- Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown
- The Rescuers
- Rollercoaster
- Saturday Night Fever
- Semi-Tough
- Smokey and the Bandit
- Soldier of Orange, starring Rutger Hauer, directed by Paul Verhoeven
- A Special Day
- The Spy Who Loved Me'
- Star Wars: A New Hope
- Stroszek
- Slap Shot
- Suspiria, by Dario Argento
- That Obscure Object of Desire
- 3 Women
- That's Carry On!
- Tongpan
- The Turning Point
- 21 Up
- Twilight's Last Gleaming
- Walking Tall: The Final Chapter, starring Bo Svenson
- Wilma - Shirley Jo Finney, Cicely Tyson, Denzel Washington
- Wifemistress
- Wizards
Births
- January 13 - Orlando Bloom, actor
- March 13 - Joseph Ruggieri, Producer
- April 14 - Sarah Michelle Gellar, Actress
- April 26 - Tom Welling, actor
- April 28 - Adnan Tezer, actor, writer
- May 16 - Melanie Lynskey, actress
- July 6 - Craig Handley, writer
- July 1 - Liv Tyler, actress
- September 25 - Clea DuVall, actress
- August 24 - Anthony Marchitiello, Film Director
Deaths
- January 14 - Peter Finch, actor
- January 19 - Yvonne Printemps, French singer, actress
- January 29 - Freddie Prinze, actor/comedian
- March 25 - Nunnally Johnson, director
- April 21 - Gummo Marx, actor/agent
- May 10 - Joan Crawford, actress
- June 2 - Stephen Boyd, actor
- June 3 - Roberto Rossellini, Italian director
- June 5 - Luis César Amadori, Italian/Argentine director
- June 19 - Geraldine Brooks, actress
- August 3 - Alfred Lunt, actor
- August 16 - Elvis Presley, singer, actor
- August 19 - Groucho Marx, comedian
- August 29 - Jean Hagen, actress
- October 14 - Bing Crosby, American singer and actor
- November 9 - Gertrude Astor, actress
- November 30 - Olga Petrova silent film and stage actress
- December 4 - Leila Hyams, actress
- December 25 - Charlie Chaplin, star of silent film
- December 26 - Howard Hawks, director
- December 28 - Charlotte Greenwood, actress
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