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1977 in film
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The year 1977 in film involved some significant events.
Events
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
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
Universal
$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
Academy 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
Golden Globe Awards :
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
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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