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• February 11 - The film The Magic Christian
  The Magic Christian (film)
  
  The Magic Christian is a 1969 film directed by Joseph McGrath and starring Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, John Cleese, Raquel Welch, Christopher Lee, Richard Attenborough and Roman Polanski....
  , starring Peter Sellers
  Peter Sellers
  
  'Richard Henry Sellers', Order of British Empire, commonly known as 'Peter Sellers' was a United Kingdom comedian and actor best known for his roles in Dr....
   and Ringo Starr
  Ringo Starr
  
  Richard Starkey Order of the British Empire , better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an England musician, singer-songwriter and actor, best known as the drummer for The Beatles....
   premieres in New York City
  New York City
  
  The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
  . The film's soundtrack album, including Badfinger
  Badfinger
  
  Badfinger was a rock band formed in Swansea in the early 1960s and was one of the earliest representatives of the power pop genre. During the early 1970s the band was tagged as the heir apparent to The Beatles, partly because of their close working relationship with the 'Fab Four' and partly because of their similar sound....
  's "Come and Get It," (which is written and produced by Paul McCartney
  Paul McCartney
  
  Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
  ), is also released on Apple Records
  Apple Records
  
  Apple Records is a record label founded by The Beatles in 1968, as a division of Apple Corps. It was initially intended as a creative outlet for the Beatles, both as a group and individually, plus a selection of other artists including Mary Hopkin, James Taylor, Badfinger, and Billy Preston....
  .
• March 17 - The controversial film The Boys in the Band
  The Boys in the Band
  
  The Boys in the Band is a 1970 in film United States drama film directed by William Friedkin. The screenplay by Mart Crowley is based on his off-Broadway The Boys in the Band ....
  , directed by William Friedkin
  William Friedkin
  
  William Friedkin is an Academy Award-winning American movie and television film director, film producer and screenwriter best known for directing The Exorcist and The French Connection in the early 1970s....
   and based on Mart Crowley's
  Mart Crowley
  
  Mart Crowley is an United States playwright.Crowley was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi. After graduating from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C....
   hit off-Broadway play, opens in theaters.
• The IMAX
  IMAX
  
  IMAX is a film film format and projection standard created by Canada's IMAX Corporation. The traditional version of IMAX has the capacity to record and display images of far greater size and than conventional film display systems....
   motion picture projection system premieres at the Fuji Pavilion, at Expo '70
  Expo '70
  
  Expo '70 was a World's Fair held in Suita, Osaka, Japan between March 15 and September 13, 1970. The theme of the Expo was "Progress and Harmony for Mankind." This was the first World's Fair held in Japan....
   in Osaka, Japan.
• In Culver City, California
  Culver City, California
  
  Culver City is a city in western Los Angeles County, California. As of the 2000 census, the city had a population of 38,816. The community is mostly surrounded by the city of Los Angeles, but also has a border with unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County....
  , MGM begins selling off its studio back lot property and movie props.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Awards

Best Picture

Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the film industry....
: Patton

Patton (film)

Patton is a Biography film war film about U.S. General George S. Patton during World War II. It stars George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates , and Karl Michael Vogler....
- 20th Century-Fox

Best Director: Franklin J. Schaffner - Patton

Best Actor

Academy Award for Best Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: George C. Scott

George C. Scott

George Campbell Scott was an American stage and film actor, film director, and Film producer. He was best known for his Academy Award-winning portrayal of General George S....
 - Patton (declined)

Best Actress

Academy Award for Best Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: Glenda Jackson

Glenda Jackson

Glenda May Jackson, Order of the British Empire, is a two-times Academy Award winning United Kingdom actor and politician, currently Labour Party Member of Parliament for the constituency of Hampstead and Highgate in the London Borough of Camden....
 - Women in Love

Women in Love (film)

Women in Love is a 1969 in film Great Britain film directed by Ken Russell which tells the story of the relationships between men and women during the early part of the 20th century....

Best Supporting Actor

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: John Mills

John Mills

Sir John Mills Order of the British Empire was an England actor, who made more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades....
 - Ryan's Daughter

Ryan's Daughter

Ryan's Daughter is David Lean's 1970 film which is set in 1916 and tells the story of an Ireland girl who has an affair with a United Kingdom officer during World War I, despite opposition from her nationalist neighbours....

Best Supporting Actress

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
: Helen Hayes

Helen Hayes

Helen Hayes was an United States actress, whose career spanned almost 70 years. She eventually garnered the nickname "First Lady of the American Theater", and was one of the nine people List of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards....
 - Airport

Airport (film)

Airport is a 1970 in film film based on the 1968 Arthur Hailey Airport . This film, which earned over $100,000,000 at the box office, focuses on an airport manager trying to keep his airport open during a snowstorm, while a suicidal bomber plots to blow up a Boeing 707 in flight....

Best Foreign Language Film

Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Award, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ....
: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion is a 1970 Italian film crime drama directed by Elio Petri. It is a dramatic, psychological, black-humoured satire on corruption in high office, telling the story of a top police officer who kills his lover and then tests whether the police would accuse him for this....
(Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto), directed by Elio Petri

Elio Petri

Elio Petri was an Italy political filmmaker....
, Italy

Drama:

Best Picture

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama

This page lists the winners and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture ? Drama, since its institution in 1951....
: Love Story

Love Story (1970 film)

Love Story is a 1970 in film romantic drama film written by Erich Segal based on his 1970 best-seller Love Story . It was directed by Arthur Hiller....

Best Actor

Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: George C. Scott

George C. Scott

George Campbell Scott was an American stage and film actor, film director, and Film producer. He was best known for his Academy Award-winning portrayal of General George S....
 - Patton

Best Actress

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Ali MacGraw

Ali MacGraw

Alice "Ali" MacGraw is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning United States actress....
 - Love Story

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy has been awarded annually since 1952 in film by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association....
: M*A*S*H

MASH (film)

MASH is a American satire dark comedy film directed by Robert Altman and written by Ring Lardner Jr based on the novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by H....

Best Actor

Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951 in film....
: Albert Finney

Albert Finney

Albert Finney, Jr. is a British people actor. Hailed as a "second Laurence Olivier" as a young stage actor in the late 1950s, Finney rose to film star fame in the early 1960s....
 - Scrooge

Scrooge (1970 film)

Scrooge is a 1970 in film musical film adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic 1843 story, A Christmas Carol. It was filmed in London, directed by Ronald Neame, and starred Albert Finney in the title role....

Best Actress

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1950 in film....
: Carrie Snodgress

Carrie Snodgress

Caroline "Carrie" Snodgress was a Golden Globe Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated United States actress....
 - Diary of a Mad Housewife

Diary of a Mad Housewife

Diary of a Mad Housewife is a 1970 in film drama film about a frustrated wife, portrayed by Carrie Snodgress, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won a Golden Globe award in the same category....

Other

Best Director

Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture

This page lists the winners of and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director. Since its inception in 1943, it has been presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, an organization comprised of journalists who cover the United States film industry for publications based outside North America....
: Arthur Hiller

Arthur Hiller

Arthur Hiller, Order of Canada is a Canadian film director.Hiller was born in Edmonton, Alberta, and graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1947, a Master of Arts degree in psychology in 1950 and received an Honorary degree Doctor of Laws in 1995....
, Love Story

M*A*S*H, directed by Robert Altman

Robert Altman

Robert Bernard Altman was an United Statesn film director known for making Cinema of the United States that are highly Naturalism , but with a stylized perspective....
, United States

Films released in 1970

• Airport
  Airport (film)
  
  Airport is a 1970 in film film based on the 1968 Arthur Hailey Airport . This film, which earned over $100,000,000 at the box office, focuses on an airport manager trying to keep his airport open during a snowstorm, while a suicidal bomber plots to blow up a Boeing 707 in flight....
  
• Ann och Eve - de erotiska
• The Aristocats
  The Aristocats
  
  The Aristocats is an animated feature produced and released by Walt Disney Productions in 1970. The twentieth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon, the film is based on a story by Tom McGowan and Tom Rowe, and revolves around a family of aristocratic cats, and how an alley cat acquaintance helps them after a butler has k...
  
• Awakening of the Beast
  Awakening of the Beast
  
  Awakening of the Beast is a 1970 in film Brazilian Horror films/exploitation film directed by Brazilian filmmaker and actor Jos? Mojica Marins....
  
• Beneath the Planet of the Apes
  Beneath the Planet of the Apes
  
  Beneath the Planet of the Apes is a science-fiction film directed by Ted Post, and the first of four sequels to 1968 in film's Planet of the Apes ....
  
• The Boatniks
  The Boatniks
  
  The Boatniks is a 1970 United States comedy film starring Robert Morse, Stefanie Powers, Don Ameche and Phil Silvers. It was made by Walt Disney Pictures....
  
• The Body
• The Boys in the Band
  The Boys in the Band
  
  The Boys in the Band is a 1970 in film United States drama film directed by William Friedkin. The screenplay by Mart Crowley is based on his off-Broadway The Boys in the Band ....
  
• Brewster McCloud
  Brewster McCloud
  
  Brewster McCloud is a 1970 film directed by Robert Altman; it centers on a young recluse who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston, Texas Astrodome building a pair of wings so he will be able to fly....
  
• The Butcher
  The Butcher (film)
  
  The Butcher is a 1970 in film France drama film / thriller film written and directed by Claude Chabrol....
  
• Cannon for Cordoba
  Cannon for Cordoba
  
  Cannon for Cordoba was a western film that was released in 1970. Filmed in Spain, the large part of the movie takes place in Mexico in 1912....
  
• Carry On Loving
  Carry On Loving
  
  Carry On Loving is the twentieth Carry On films film. It was released in 1970 in film. Many fictitious locations playing on the theme of sex such as Much-Snogging-On-The-Green, Rogerham Mansions and Dunham Road appear in the film....
  
• Carry On Up the Jungle
  Carry On Up the Jungle
  
  Carry On Up the Jungle, is a 1970 in film comedy and is the nineteenth "Carry On films" film. It is a send up of the Tarzan/African exploration genre....
  
• Catch-22
  Catch-22 (film)
  
  Catch-22 is a 1970 in film war film adapted from the Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. Considered a black comedy revolving around the "lunatic characters" of Heller's satirical novel, the film was mired in production problems and artistic issues that led to its commercial failure....
  
• Le Cercle rouge
  Le Cercle rouge
  
  Le Cercle rouge is a 1970 crime film set in Paris, France. It was directed by Jean-Pierre Melville and starred Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volont? and Yves Montand....
   (The Red Circle), starring Alain Delon
  Alain Delon
  
  Alain Delon is a C?sar Award-winning French actor. He rose quickly to stardom, and by the age of 23 he was garnering comparisons to famed French actors such as G?rard Philipe and Jean Marais, as well as American actor James Dean....
  , Bourvil
  Bourvil
  
  Andr? Bourvil, a France actor and singer best known for his roles in comedy, most notably in his collaboration with Louis de Fun?s in La Grande Vadrouille , was born Andr? Robert Raimbourg ....
  , Yves Montand
  Yves Montand
  
  Yves Montand was an Italy-born France actor and singer....
  , Gian Maria Volonté
  Gian Maria Volontè
  
  Gian Maria Volont? was an Italy actor. He is perhaps most famous outside of Italy for his roles as the main villain in Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More....
  
• Chariots of the Gods
  Chariots of the Gods
  
  Chariots of the Gods?: Unsolved Mysteries of the Past is a book written in 1968 by Erich von D?niken. It is centered on the hypothesis that many ancient civilizations' technologies and religion were given to them by Extraterrestrial life who were welcomed as deity....
  
• Claire's Knee
  Claire's Knee
  
  Claire's Knee is a 1970 film by ?ric Rohmer. It is the fifth movie in the series of the Six Moral Tales....
  
• Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
  Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
  
  The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County is a Western comedy film produced in 1970 in film for Universal Pictures and directed by Anton Leader....
  
• Colossus: The Forbin Project
  Colossus: The Forbin Project
  
  Colossus: The Forbin Project is a science fiction movie based upon the novel Colossus , by Dennis Feltham Jones, about a massive, eponymous American defense computer`s becoming Sentience and deciding to assume control of the world....
  
• The Conformist
  The Conformist
  
  The Conformist is a novel by Alberto Moravia published in 1951 in literature, which details the life and desire for normalcy of a government official during Italy's fascist period....
  
• Connecting Rooms
  Connecting Rooms
  
  Connecting Rooms is a 1970 in film Great Britain drama film written and directed by Franklin Gollings. The screenplay is based on the play The Cellist by Marion Hart....
  
• Cotton Comes To Harlem
• Cromwell
  Cromwell (film)
  
  Cromwell is a film, based on the life of Oliver Cromwell who led the Parliament of England forces during the English Civil War and, as Lord Protector, ruled The Protectorate in the mid-17th century....
  
• Darker than Amber
  Darker than Amber (film)
  
  Darker than Amber is a 1970 film adaptation of the John D. MacDonald novel Darker than Amber. It was directed by Robert Clouse from a screenplay by MacDonald and Ed Waters....
  
• Darling Lili
  Darling Lili
  
  Darling Lili is a 1970 in film United States musical film. The screenplay was written by William Peter Blatty and Blake Edwards, who also directed....
  
• Deep End
  Deep End (film)
  
  Deep End is a 1971 in film movie directed by Jerzy Skolimowski featuring Jane Asher and John Moulder Brown. The film is set in the suburbs of London....
  by Jerzy Skolimowski
  Jerzy Skolimowski
  
  Jerzy Yurek Skolimowski is a Poland film director, scriptwriter, dramatist and actor. A graduate of the prestigious Polish Film School in L?dz, Skolimowski has directed more than twenty films in and outside of Poland since his 1960 d?but Oko wykol ....
  
• Diary of a Mad Housewife
  Diary of a Mad Housewife
  
  Diary of a Mad Housewife is a 1970 in film drama film about a frustrated wife, portrayed by Carrie Snodgress, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won a Golden Globe award in the same category....
  
• Equinox
  Equinox (film)
  
  Equinox is a 1970 in film United States horror film. Originally made in 1967 under the title The Equinox... A Journey into the Supernatural it was directed by Dennis Muren, and stars Edward Connell as Dave, Barbara Hewitt as Susan Turner and Frank Bonner as Jim Hudson....
  
• Five Easy Pieces
  Five Easy Pieces
  
  Five Easy Pieces is a 1970 in film film written by Carole Eastman and Bob Rafelson, and directed by Rafelson. It tells the story of Bobby Dupea , a former piano prodigy who is estranged from his artistic upper class family....
  
• Gamera vs. Jiger
  Gamera vs. Jiger
  
  , also known as Gamera vs. Monster X , War of the Monsters, and Monsters Invade Expo '70, is a 1970 Kaiju eiga by the Kadokawa Pictures....
  
• The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
  The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (film)
  
  The Garden of the Finzi-Continis is a film adaptation of Giorgio Bassani's The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. It was directed by Vittorio de Sica in 1971....
  Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (1971) and Golden Bear winner
• The Great White Hope
  The Great White Hope
  
  The Great White Hope is a 1967 play written by Howard Sackler, later adapted in 1970 for a The Great White Hope . The play was first produced by Arena Stage in Washington, DC and debuted on Broadway theatre at the Alvin Theatre on 3 October 1968 for a run of 546 performances, directed by Edwin Sherin with stars James Earl Jones and Jane A...
  starring James Earl Jones
  James Earl Jones
  
  James Earl Jones is an United Statesn actor of theater and screen, well known for his deep bass voice....
   and Jane Alexander
  Jane Alexander
  
  Jane Alexander is an award-winning American actress, author, and former director of the National Endowment for the Arts. Although perhaps best known for playing the female lead in The Great White Hope on both stage and screen, Alexander has played a wide array of roles in both theater and film, and has committed herself to a variety of c...
  
• Hercules in New York
  Hercules in New York
  
  Hercules in New York is a 1970 fantasy adventure film. It is known for being the first feature film to star Arnold Schwarzenegger....
  
• Let It Be
  Let It Be (film)
  
  Let It Be is a 1970 film about The Beatles rehearsing and recording songs for the album Let It Be in January 1969. Released 12 days after the album, it was the last original Beatles release....
  
• Los Monstruos del Terror
  Los Monstruos del Terror
  
  Los Monstruos del Terror, also known as The Man Who Came from Ummo, El Hombre que Vino de Ummo, Dracula vs. Frankenstein and Assignment Terror, is a 1969 in film Spanish horror film film that is the third in a series featuring the werewolf, Count Waldemar Daninsky, played by Paul Naschy, who also wrote the screenplay....
  starring Michael Rennie
  Michael Rennie
  
  Michael Rennie was an England film, television, and stage actor, best known for his starring role as the space visitor Klaatu in the 1951 classic science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still ....
   and Paul Naschy
  Paul Naschy
  
  Paul Naschy is a Spain movie actor, screenwriter, and director working primarily in horror films. His portrayal of numerous classic horror figures--the Werewolf fiction, a hunchback, Count Dracula, a mummy--have earned him recognition as a Spanish Lon Chaney, Sr.....
  
• Horton Hears a Who
• I Never Sang for My Father
  I Never Sang for My Father
  
  I Never Sang for My Father is a 1970 United States film which tells the story of a college professor who wants to get out from under the thumb of his aging father yet still has regrets about his plan to leave him behind when he marries a younger woman and moves to California....
  
• Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
  Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
  
  Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion is a 1970 Italian film crime drama directed by Elio Petri. It is a dramatic, psychological, black-humoured satire on corruption in high office, telling the story of a top police officer who kills his lover and then tests whether the police would accuse him for this....
  Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
• Joe
  Joe (film)
  
  Joe is a 1970 in film drama film starring Peter Boyle, Dennis Patrick, and Susan Sarandon in her film debut. The film was directed by John G....
  
• Julius Caesar
  Julius Caesar (1970 film)
  
  Julius Caesar is a independent film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar , directed by Stuart Burge from a screenplay by Robert Furnival....
  
• Kelly's Heroes
  Kelly's Heroes
  
  Kelly's Heroes is an offbeat 1970 war film about a group of World War II soldiers who go AWOL to rob a bank behind enemy lines. Directed by Brian G....
  
• The Landlord
  The Landlord
  
  The Landlord is a 1970 film directed by Hal Ashby, which was based on the novel by Kristin Hunter....
  
• Leo the Last
  Leo the Last
  
  Leo The Last is a 1970 film directed by John Boorman, based on the play The Prince by George Tabori, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Billie Whitelaw....
  
• Little Big Man
  Little Big Man
  
  Little Big Man is a 1970 in film American Western film directed by Arthur Penn and based on the 1964 in literature novel by Thomas Berger . It is a Picaresque novel comedy and drama about a Caucasian race boy raised by the Cheyenne nation during the 19th century....
  starring Dustin Hoffman
  Dustin Hoffman
  
  Dustin Lee Hoffman is a two-time Academy Award-, six-time Golden Globe-, three-time BAFTA- and Emmy Award-winning United States actor....
  
• The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
  The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
  
  The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir is a 1970 television film written and directed by Jean Renoir. The last completed work by Renoir, it consists of three short films: The Last Christmas Dinner, The Electric Floor Waxer and A Tribute to Tolerance....
  
• Loot
• Love Story
  Love Story (1970 film)
  
  Love Story is a 1970 in film romantic drama film written by Erich Segal based on his 1970 best-seller Love Story . It was directed by Arthur Hiller....
  
• Lovers and Other Strangers
  Lovers and Other Strangers
  
  Lovers and Other Strangers is a 1970 comedy film based on the play by Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna. The film features an ensemble cast including Gig Young, Cloris Leachman, Anne Jackson, Beatrice Arthur, Richard Castellano, Bonnie Bedelia, Michael Brandon, Harry Guardino, Anne Meara, Bob Dishy, Marian Hailey, Joseph Hindy, and, in her...
  
• Loving
  Loving (film)
  
  Loving is an American motion picture released by Columbia Pictures. It was directed by Irvin Kershner, famous for directing the second movie in the Star Wars trilogy The Empire Strikes Back and based on the novel of the same name by author J....
  
• Maidstone
  Maidstone (film)
  
  Maidstone was a film made in 1970, directed by, written by, and starring Norman Mailer....
  
• M*A*S*H
  MASH (film)
  
  MASH is a American satire dark comedy film directed by Robert Altman and written by Ring Lardner Jr based on the novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by H....
  
• The Music Lovers
  The Music Lovers
  
  The Music Lovers is a 1970 in film Great Britain biographical film directed by Ken Russell. The screenplay by Melvyn Bragg, based on Beloved Friend, a collection of personal correspondence edited by Catherine Drinker Bowen and Barbara von Meck, focuses on the life and career of 19th century Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky....
  
• Myra Breckinridge
  Myra Breckinridge (film)
  
  Myra Breckinridge is a Camp American comedy film released in 1970. Based on the 1968 novel Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal, the film was directed by Michael Sarne, with Raquel Welch in the title role....
  
• One More Time
  One More Time (film)
  
  One More Time is a comedy film, directed by Jerry Lewis and starring Sammy Davis, Jr. and Peter Lawford. It was filmed in 1969 and released in May, 1970 in film by United Artists....
  , directed by Jerry Lewis
  Jerry Lewis
  
  Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, producer, writer, director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor on stage, screen and television, his singing ability in a string of music album recordings and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association ....
  
• On A Clear Day You Can See Forever
  On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (film)
  
  On a Clear Day You Can See Forever is a 1970 in film United States musical film/Romantic fantasy film directed by Vincente Minnelli. The screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner is adapted from his Libretto for the On a Clear Day You Can See Forever....
  
• The Out of Towners
• The Owl and the Pussycat
  The Owl and the Pussycat (film)
  
  The Owl and the Pussycat is a 1970 in film romantic comedy film directed by Herbert Ross and starring Barbra Streisand and George Segal. Barbra Streisand plays the role of a somewhat uneducated actress, model, and part-time prostitute....
  
• Patton
  Patton (film)
  
  Patton is a Biography film war film about U.S. General George S. Patton during World War II. It stars George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates , and Karl Michael Vogler....
  
• The Phantom Tollbooth
  The Phantom Tollbooth (film)
  
  The Phantom Tollbooth is a live-action/animated film based on Norton Juster 1961 children's book The Phantom Tollbooth. This film was produced by Chuck Jones and the live action portions by Dave Monahan, produced by MGM Animation/Visual Arts, and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to movie theatres in 1970....
  
• The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
  The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
  
  The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes is a 1970 film directed and produced by Billy Wilder; he also shared writing credit with his longtime collaborator I.A.L....
  
• The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
  The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
  
  The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer is a United Kingdom 1970 in film cult satire film written by and starring Peter Cook....
  
• Ryan's Daughter
  Ryan's Daughter
  
  Ryan's Daughter is David Lean's 1970 film which is set in 1916 and tells the story of an Ireland girl who has an affair with a United Kingdom officer during World War I, despite opposition from her nationalist neighbours....
  
• Scrooge
  Scrooge (1970 film)
  
  Scrooge is a 1970 in film musical film adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic 1843 story, A Christmas Carol. It was filmed in London, directed by Ronald Neame, and starred Albert Finney in the title role....
  with Albert Finney
  Albert Finney
  
  Albert Finney, Jr. is a British people actor. Hailed as a "second Laurence Olivier" as a young stage actor in the late 1950s, Finney rose to film star fame in the early 1960s....
  
• 7 Plus Seven
• Soldier Blue
  Soldier Blue
  
  Soldier Blue is an United States Revisionist Western movie made in 1970 and directed by Ralph Nelson, telling a fictionalized account of the events surrounding the 1864 Sand Creek massacre in the Colorado Territory....
  
• The Strawberry Statement
  The Strawberry Statement (film)
  
  The Strawberry Statement is a 1970 cult film about the counterculture and student revolts of the 1960s, loosely based on the The Strawberry Statement by James Simon Kunen about the Columbia University protests of 1968....
  
• Street Scenes
  Street Scenes
  
  Street Scenes, also known as Street Scenes 1970 is a documentary film directed by Martin Scorsese. It documents two protest rallies against the Vietnam War that took place in May 1970: the Hard Hat Riot on Wall Street in New York City and Opposition to the vietnam war#1970 in Washington, D.C....
  , directed by Martin Scorsese
  Martin Scorsese
  
  Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese is an Academy Award-winning American filmmaker, screenwriter, film producer, and film historian. Also affectionately known as "Marty", he is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won awards from the Gol...
   (documentary)
• Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
  Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
  
  Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon is a 1970 film directed by Otto Preminger. The film is based on the book by Marjorie Kellogg. The film starred Liza Minnelli as the title character....
  
• Three Sisters
• ...tick...tick...tick...
  ...tick...tick...tick...
  
  ...tick...tick...tick... is an United States movie made in 1970 directed by Ralph Nelson. Racially provocative for its time, it stars Jim Brown in the role of an African-American man elected as the sheriff of a rural county in the American South....
  
• Too late the hero
  Too Late the Hero
  
  Too Late the Hero is a 1970 in film Anglo-American war film directed by Robert Aldrich, and starring Michael Caine, Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Ken Takakura, Denholm Elliott, and Ian Bannen....
  
• Tora! Tora! Tora!
  Tora! Tora! Tora!
  
  Tora! Tora! Tora! is a 1970 United States-Japanese film that dramatizes the Empire of Japan attack on Pearl Harbor, to the extent these facts were known at the time of production....
  
• Trog
  Trog
  
  Trog is a Warner Bros. feature film starring Joan Crawford in a story about the discovery of a caveman. The screenplay was written by Peter Bryan, John Gilling, and Aben Kandel, and the film directed by Freddie Francis....
  , Joan Crawford's final film
• Two Mules for Sister Sara
  Two Mules for Sister Sara
  
  Two Mules for Sister Sara is an American Western Film starring Clint Eastwood and Shirley MacLaine set during the French intervention in Mexico....
  
• The Vampire Lovers
  The Vampire Lovers
  
  The Vampire Lovers is a 1970 in film British Hammer Horror film directed by Roy Ward Baker and starring Peter Cushing, Poland actress Ingrid Pitt, Madeline Smith and Kate O'Mara....
  
• Walk in the Spring Rain
  Walk in the Spring Rain
  
  A Walk in the Spring Rain is a romantic drama film made by Columbia Pictures, directed by Guy Green and produced by Stirling Silliphant, from his own screenplay based on the novel by Rachel Maddux....
  
• Waterloo
  Waterloo (film)
  
  Waterloo is a Soviet Union-Italy film of 1970, directed by Sergei Bondarchuk and produced by Dino De Laurentiis. It was the story of the preliminary events and the Battle of Waterloo, and was famous for its lavish battle scenes....
  
• Which Way to the Front?
  Which Way to the Front?
  
  Which Way to the Front? is a 1970 in film film starring Jerry Lewis. It would be Lewis' last released film for eleven years, until 1981's Hardly Working....
  , starring Jerry Lewis
  Jerry Lewis
  
  Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, producer, writer, director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor on stage, screen and television, his singing ability in a string of music album recordings and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association ....
  
• Woodstock
  Woodstock (film)
  
  Woodstock is a 1970 in film documentary on the Woodstock Festival that took place in August 1969 in music at Bethel, New York in New York. The film was directed by Michael Wadleigh and was edited by Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker; Schoonmaker was nominated for an Academy Award for Film Editing....
  
• Zabriskie Point
  Zabriskie Point (film)
  
  Zabriskie Point is a 1970 in film by Michelangelo Antonioni that depicts the United States counterculture of the 1960s movement of that time....
  

Births

• February 24 - Jonathan Ward
  Jonathan Ward
  
  Jonathan Ward is an American actor born on February 24, 1970 in Elkridge, Maryland, Maryland, USA. He has starred mostly in television programs and telefilms, but has also appeared in a small number of movies....
  , actor
• April 29 - Uma Thurman
  Uma Thurman
  
  Uma Karuna Thurman Hawke , better known as Uma Thurman, is an American actress. She performs predominantly in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from romantic comedy film and dramas to science fiction film and Action movie Thriller s....
  , actress
• May 9 - Helen Hill
  Helen Hill
  
  Helen Hill was an experimental animator, filmmaker, educator, artist, writer, and social activist who lived in New Orleans, Louisiana. Hill's still-unsolved murder by a random intruder in her home in the early morning of January 4, 2007 was one of six murders in New Orleans in a single 24-hour period, and it, along with the murder a week...
  , animator
• May 18 - Tina Fey
  Tina Fey
  
  Elizabeth Stamatina "Tina" Fey is an United States writer, comedian, actor, and Television producer. She has won six Emmys, three Golden Globes, and three SAG Awards....
   - comedian
• May 22 - Naomi Campbell
  Naomi Campbell
  
  Naomi Campbell is an England model , singer, and actress....
  , model, actress
• May 27 - Joseph Fiennes
  Joseph Fiennes
  
  Joseph Alberic Fiennes is a Screen Actors Guild Award award-winning English film and Theatre actor. He is perhaps best known for his portrayals of William Shakespeare in Shakespeare in Love, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester in Elizabeth , and Martin Luther in Luther ....
  , actor
• June 26 - Chris O'Donnell
  Chris O'Donnell
  
  Christopher Eugene O'Donnell is a Golden Globe-nominated United States actor, perhaps best known for playing Robin in the Batman films, Batman Forever and Batman & Robin , Charlie Simms in Scent of a Woman, Finn Dandridge in Grey's Anatomy, and more recently, Jack McAuliffe in The Company ....
  , actor
• August 6 - M. Night Shyamalan
  M. Night Shyamalan
  
  Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan , known professionally as M. Night Shyamalan, is a two-time Academy Award nominated India-born United States filmmaker and script writer of Major film studio, known for making movies with contemporary supernatural plots that usually climax with a twist ending....
  , film director, writer, producer, actor (Indian)
• August 15 - Maddie Corman
  Maddie Corman
  
  Maddie Corman is an United States television and film actress.Born Madeleine Cornman in New York City, New York, she began her career as a child actress in the 1980s....
  , actress
• August 23 - Jay Mohr
  Jay Mohr
  
  Jay Cox Mohr is an American actor and stand-up comedian....
  , actor, comedian
• August 23 - River Phoenix
  River Phoenix
  
  River Jude Phoenix was an United States film actor. He was listed on John Willis's Screen World, Vol. 38 as one of twelve "promising new actors of 1986", and was hailed as highly talented by such critics as Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel....
  , actor (died 1993)
• September 29 - Emily Lloyd
  Emily Lloyd
  
  Emily Lloyd is an English actor....
  , English actress.
• October 8 - Matt Damon
  Matt Damon
  
  Matthew Paige Damon is an American actor and philanthropist. He won the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for his screenwriting in Good Will Hunting, and was nominated for his lead performance in the same film....
  , actor
• December 12 - Jennifer Connelly
  Jennifer Connelly
  
  'Jennifer Lynn Connelly' is an United States film Actor and former child modeling. Although she has been working in the film industry since she was a teenager and catapulted to fame on the basis of her appearances in films like Labyrinth and Career Opportunities , she did not receive wide exposure for her work until the 2000 drama R...
  , actress

Deaths

• January 23 - Nell Shipman
  Nell Shipman
  
  Nell Shipman was a Canada actor, screenwriter, Film producer, and animal training. She was a Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood.Shipman was born Helen Foster-Barham in Victoria, British Columbia....
  , actress, writer, producer
• February 24 - Conrad Nagel
  Conrad Nagel
  
  Conrad Nagel was an American screen actor and matinee idol of the silent film era and beyond. He was also a well known television actor and radio performer....
  , American actor
• March 23 - Del Lord
  Del Lord
  
  Del Lord was a film director and actor best known as a director of Three Stooges films.Lord was born in the small town of Grimsby, Ontario, Canada....
  , pioneer Hollywood director
• April 11 - Cathy O'Donnell
  Cathy O'Donnell
  
  Actress Cathy O'Donnell began her career on stage. She was born in Siluria, Alabama. She attended Oklahoma City University and studied drama at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts before her career on stage and then movies....
  , actress
• April 25 - Anita Louise
  Anita Louise
  
  Anita Louise was an American film actor....
  , actress
• April 26 - Gypsy Rose Lee
  Gypsy Rose Lee
  
  Gypsy Rose Lee was an United States actress, burlesque entertainer and writer whose 1957 memoir, written as a monument to her mother, was made into the stage musical and film Gypsy: A Musical Fable....
  , burlesque
  Burlesque
  
  Burlesque is a humorous theatrical entertainment involving parody and sometimes grotesque exaggeration. Prior to Burlesque becoming associated with striptease, it was a form of Parody music in which an opera or piece of classical theatre is adapted in a broad, often risqu? style very different from that for which it was originally known....
   performer, actress, author
• April 28 - Ed Begley
  Ed Begley
  
  Edward James Begley was an United States award winning actor....
  , American actor
• April 30 - Inger Stevens
  Inger Stevens
  
  Inger Stevens was a Golden Globe-winning, Emmy-nominated Swedish-American Film and television actress. She was born in Stockholm, Sweden....
  , actress
• May 14 - Billie Burke
  Billie Burke
  
  Mary William Ethelbert Appleton "Billie" Burke was an Academy Awards-nominated United States actress primarily known to modern audiences for her role as Glinda the Good Witch of the North in the musical film The Wizard of Oz ....
  , American actress
• July 6 - Marjorie Rambeau
  Marjorie Rambeau
  
  Marjorie Rambeau was an Academy Awards-nominated United States film and stage actress....
  , actress
• July 14 - Preston Foster
  Preston Foster
  
  Preston Foster was an American stage and film actor. Foster entered films in 1929 after appearing as a Broadway stage actor. Foster was considered ruggedly handsome and a talented singer....
  , actor
• July 22 - Fritz Kortner
  Fritz Kortner
  
  Fritz Kortner was an Austrian-born stage and film actor and theatre director.Kortner was born in Vienna as "Fritz Nathan Kohn." He studied at the Vienna Academy of Music and Dramatic Art....
  , German director
• August 1 - Frances Farmer
  Frances Farmer
  
  Frances Elena Farmer was an United States actor of theatre and film. She is perhaps better known for sensationalized and fictional accounts of her life, and especially her six-year involuntary commitment to a mental hospital....
  , American actress
• September 18 - Jimi Hendrix
  Jimi Hendrix
  
  James Marshall Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter whose guitar playing continues to be a considerable influence on rock music....
  , Guitarist
• September 29 - Edward Everett Horton
  Edward Everett Horton
  
  Edward Everett Horton was an United States character actor with a long career including film, theater, radio, television and voice work for animated cartoons....
  , actor
• October 4 - Janis Joplin
  Janis Joplin
  
  Janis Lyn Joplin was an United States singer, songwriter, and music arranger, from Port Arthur, Texas. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company, and later as a solo artist....
  , singer
• October 10 - Grethe Weiser
  Grethe Weiser
  
  File:Grethe Weiser-Schwerin.jpgGrethe Weiser was a Germany actor....
  , actress
• October 17 - Vola Vale
  Vola Vale
  
  Vola Vale was a silent motion picture actress from Buffalo, New York. She was born Vola Smith....
  , actress
• December 23 - Charles Ruggles
  Charles Ruggles
  
  Charles Sherman ?Charlie? Ruggles was a comic United States actor. In a career spanning six decades, Ruggles appeared in close to 100 feature films....
  , actor
• December 30 - Lenore Ulric
  Lenore Ulric
  
  Lenore Ulric was a star of the Broadway theatre stage and Hollywood, California films of the silent film early sound film era. Her father, Franz Xavier Ulrich, was a United States Army hospital steward....
  , actress