1977 in film

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The year 1977 in film involved some significant events.

Events

• In the Academy Awards, Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight win Best Actor and Actress and Supporting Actress awards for Network.
• Rocky 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 became one of the highest grossing films 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 Productions 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	Actors	Director(s)	Gross
1.	Star Wars	Lucasfilm/Fox	Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness, Carrie Fisher, David Prowse, James Earl Jones, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew, Anthony Daniels	George Lucas	$775,398,007
2.	Close Encounters of the Third Kind*	Columbia	Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, François Truffaut	Steven Spielberg	$303,790,000
3.	Smokey and the Bandit*	Universal	Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason	Hal Needham	$126,737,428
4.	The Rescuers*	Walt Disney	voices of Eva Gabor, Bob Newhart	Wolfgang Reitherman & John Lounsbery	$74,100,000
5.	Saturday Night Fever	Paramount	John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney	John Badham	$58,950,000
6.	The Goodbye Girl	MGM/WB	Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings	Herbert Ross	$41,839,000
7.	Annie Hall	United Artists	Woody Allen, Diane Keaton	Woody Allen	$38,251,425
8.	The Deep	Columbia	Robert Shaw, Nick Nolte, Jacqueline Bisset	Peter Yates	$31,266,000
9.	The Spy Who Loved Me	United Artists	Roger Moore, Barbara Bach	Lewis Gilbert	$24,365,000
10.	Julia	Fox	Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Maximillian Schell	Fred Zinnemann	$22,941,000

(*) After at least 1 theatrical re-issue

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

• 3 Women - directed by Robert Altman, starring Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek and Janice Rule
• 21 Up

• ABBA: The Movie - directed by Lasse Hallstrom
• Airport '77 - starring Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Brenda Vaccaro, Christopher Lee, Darren McGavin, James Stewart
• Allegro non troppo
• The Amazing Spider-Man
• The American Friend, directed by Wim Wenders, starring Dennis Hopper
• Andy Warhol's Bad
• Annie Hall - directed by and starring Woody Allen with Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane, Paul Simon
• Audrey Rose - directed by Robert Wise, starring Marsha Mason, Anthony Hopkins, John Beck

• Backroads, directed by Philip Noyce
• The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training, starring Jackie Earle Haley and William Devane
• Black Rain, directed by Peter Weir
• Black Sunday, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Robert Shaw and Bruce Dern
• The Boys in Company C
• A Bridge Too Far - directed by Richard Attenborough, starring James Caan, Sean Connery, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Ryan O'Neal, Robert Redford

• Candleshoe, starring David Niven, Helen Hayes, Jodie Foster
• The Car, starring James Brolin
• The Chess Players (Shatranj Ke Khilari), directed by Satyajit Ray
• The Choirboys - directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Charles Durning, Louis Gossett Jr., Perry King, Phyllis Davis, Barbara Rhoades
• Cinderella
• Circuit no Ōkami
• Citizen's Band
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind - directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr
• Cross of Iron - directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason

• Damnation Alley - directed by Jack Smight, starring George Peppard and Jan-Michael Vincent
• The Deep - directed by Peter Yates, starring Robert Shaw, Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte
• Demon Seed - directed by Donald Cammell, starring Julie Christie
• Desperate Living, directed by John Waters
• The Domino Principle -- directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, Mickey Rooney, Eli Wallach, Richard Widmark
• Dot and the Kangaroo
• The Duellists - directed by Ridley Scott, starring Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel

• Equus - directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Richard Burton and Peter Firth
• Eraserhead - directed by David Lynch, starring Jack Nance
• Exorcist II: The Heretic - directed by John Boorman, starring Richard Burton, Linda Blair, Louise Fletcher

• Fun with Dick and Jane - directed by Ted Kotcheff, starring Jane Fonda and George Segal

• The Gauntlet - directed by and starring Clint Eastwood with Sondra Locke
• The Getting of Wisdom, directed by Bruce Beresford
• The Goodbye Girl - directed by Herbert Ross, starring Richard Dreyfuss and Marsha Mason
• Grand Theft Auto - directed by and starring Ron Howard with Nancy Morgan
• The Grateful Dead Movie - directed by Jerry Garcia and Leon Gast
• The Greatest, starring Muhammad Ali as himself

• The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington, starring Joey Heatherton
• Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, starring Dean Jones and Don Knotts
• High Anxiety, directed by and starring Mel Brooks with Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman, Cloris Leachman
• The Hills Have Eyes, directed by Wes Craven
• The Hobbit
• House (Hausu)

• I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, starring Kathleen Quinlan
• Islands in the Stream, starring George C. Scott
• The Island of Dr. Moreau, starring Burt Lancaster, Michael York and Barbara Carrera

• Jabberwocky, directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Michael Palin
• Jubilee, by Derek Jarman, starring Adam Ant and Little Nell.
• Julia - directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave and Jason Robards

• Kentucky Fried Movie - directed by John Landis, starring Bill Bixby and George Lazenby
• Killer of Sheep
• The King of the Street Cleaners

• The Lacemaker (La Dentellière), starring Isabelle Huppert
• The Last Remake of Beau Geste, directed by and starring Marty Feldman
• The Late Show, directed by Robert Benton, starring Art Carney and Lily Tomlin
• A Little Night Music
• Looking for Mr. Goodbar, directed by Richard Brooks, starring Diane Keaton, Tuesday Weld, Richard Kiley, Richard Gere

• MacArthur - starring Gregory Peck
• Madame Rosa - starring Simone Signoret - Academy Award for Best Foreign Film
• The Magic Pony
• Man of Marble (Człowiek z marmuru), directed by Andrzej Wajda
• The Man Who Loved Women - directed by François Truffaut, starring Charles Denner, Brigitte Fossey and Leslie Caron
• The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
• Martin, directed by George A. Romero
• Mogliamante - (Wifemistress)

• Nenè
• New York, New York - directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Liza Minnelli and Robert De Niro

• Office Romance (Sluzhebnyy roman)
• Oh, God! - directed by Carl Reiner, starring George Burns, John Denver, Teri Garr
• One Sings, the Other Doesn't, directed by Agnes Varda
• Opening Night, directed by John Cassavetes, starring Gena Rowlands, Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara
• Orca, starring Richard Harris, Charlotte Rampling, Bo Derek

• Padre Padrone directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani - Palme d'Or winner
• Pete's Dragon - directed by Don Chaffey, starring Helen Reddy, Jim Dale, Mickey Rooney
• Picture Show Man
• A Piece of the Action, starring Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby
• Portrait of a Hitman
• Providence, directed by Alain Renais, starring John Gielgud, Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn

• Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown
• The Rescuers
• Rollercoaster, starring Timothy Bottoms, George Segal, Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda
• Rolling Thunder, starring William Devane
• Roots, TV mini-series, starring LeVar Burton, Louis Gossett, Jr., John Amos, Cicely Tyson, Georg Stanford Brown, O.J. Simpson

• Saturday Night Fever, directed by John Badham, starring John Travolta and Karen Lynn Gorney
• Semi-Tough, directed by Michael Ritchie, starring Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, Jill Clayburgh, Robert Preston, Bert Convy
• The Serpent's Egg, directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring David Carradine and Liv Ullman
• Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, directed by Sam Wanamaker
• Slap Shot, directed by George Roy Hill, starring Paul Newman
• Smokey and the Bandit, directed by Hal Needham, starring Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jerry Reed, Jackie Gleason
• Soldier of Orange, starring Rutger Hauer, directed by Paul Verhoeven
• Sorcerer, directed by William Friedkin, starring Roy Scheider
• A Special Day, directed by Ettore Scola, starring Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon
• The Spy Who Loved Me, starring Roger Moore as James Bond with Barbara Bach, Curt Jurgens, Richard Kiel
• Star Wars, directed by George Lucas, starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness, Peter Cushing
• Stroszek directed by Werner Herzog, starring Bruno S. and Eva Mattes
• Suspiria by Dario Argento

• Telefon - directed by Don Siegel, starring Charles Bronson
• That Obscure Object of Desire - directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Angela Molina
• That's Carry On!
• Thunder and Lightning, starring David Carradine and Kate Jackson
• Tongpan
• The Turning Point - directed by Herbert Ross, starring Shirley MacLaine, Anne Bancroft, Tom Skerritt, Mikhail Baryshnikov
• Twilight's Last Gleaming - directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Burt Lancaster and Richard Widmark

• Viva Knievel!, featuring Evel Knievel

• Walking Tall: The Final Chapter, starring Joe Don Baker
• The War in Space
• Wifemistress
• Wilma, starring Shirley Jo Finney, Cicely Tyson, Denzel Washington
• Wizards - animated film directed by Ralph Bakshi
• The World's Greatest Lover, starring Gene Wilder, Carol Kane, Dom DeLuise

• You Light Up My Life, starring Didi Conn

Births

• January 13 - Orlando Bloom, actor
• March 25 - Edgar Ramirez, actor
• April 14 - Sarah Michelle Gellar, actress
• April 26 - Tom Welling, actor
• May 13 - Samantha Morton, actress
• May 16 - Melanie Lynskey, actress
• June 2 - Zachary Quinto, actor
• July 6 - Craig Handley, writer
• July 1 - Liv Tyler, actress
• July 27 - Jonathan Rhys Meyers, actor
• July 30 - Jaime Pressly, actress
• September 15 - Tom Hardy, actor
• September 25 - Clea DuVall, actress
• November 10 - Brittany Murphy, actress (d. 2009)
• November 16 - Maggie Gyllenhaal, actress

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 13 - Matthew Garber, British actor
• 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

Film debuts

• Dan Aykroyd
• Mel Gibson
• Ridley Scott
• Meryl Streep
• Sigourney Weaver
• Brian Dennehy
• Helen Hunt
• Steve Guttenberg
• Tom Hulce

References

1. ^ http://www.cataroo.com/DBrescu.html