1973 in film

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....
: The Exorcist
The Exorcist (film)

The Exorcist is a 1973 in film United States horror film, adapted from the 1971 The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty, dealing with the demonic possession of a young girl, and her mother?s desperate attempts to win back her daughter through an exorcism conducted by two priests....

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....
: Al Pacino
Al Pacino

Alfredo James "Al" Pacino is an United States film and theatre actor and Film director, widely considered to be one of the most notable and influential actors of his time....
- Serpico
Serpico

Serpico is a 1973 in film Cinema of the United States crime film directed by Sidney Lumet. It is based on the true story of New York City police officer Frank Serpico....

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....
: Marsha Mason
Marsha Mason

Marsha Mason is a Golden Globe Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated United States actress and television director....
- Cinderella Liberty
Cinderella Liberty

Cinderella Liberty is a 1973 in film film which tells the story of a sailor who falls in love with a prostitute and becomes a surrogate father for her 11-year-old mixed race son....

Musical or comedy:

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....
: American Graffiti
American Graffiti

American Graffiti is a 1973 period piece coming of age film directed by George Lucas, and written by Lucas, Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck. The film stars Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Charles Martin Smith, Candy Clark, Mackenzie Phillips, Cindy Williams and Wolfman Jack and features Harrison Ford....

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....
: George Segal
George Segal

George Segal, Jr. is an American film and stage actor....
- A Touch of Class

Best Foreign Language Film

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....
: Glenda Jackson - A Touch of Class

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....
: 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....
- The Exorcist

Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the awards presented at the Golden Globe Awards, an American film awards ceremony....
: The Pedestrian
The Pedestrian (film)

The Pedestrian is a 1973 film directed by Maximilian Schell. It is about the trial of an elderly war criminal. The film was a co-production between companies in Germany, Switzerland and Israel....
(Der Fußgänger), W.

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The year 1973 in film involved some significant events.

Events

The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx
Zeppo Marx

Herbert Manfred Marx is best known as Zeppo Marx, the name he used when he performed with his brothers, The Marx Brothers....
divorces his second wife, Barbara Blakely. Blakely would later marry actor/singer Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
.
Martial arts legend Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee

Bruce Jun Fan Lee was a Chinese people martial artist, philosopher, instructor, martial arts actor and the founder of the Jeet Kune Do combat form....
dies before Enter the Dragon
Enter the Dragon

Enter the Dragon aka. The Deadly Three, originally titled Blood and Steel is a Hong Kong films of 1973 United States martial arts film directed by Robert Clouse; starring martial artists Bruce Lee and Jim Kelly , as well as actor John Saxon ....
was released.
The Exorcist
The Exorcist (film)

The Exorcist is a 1973 in film United States horror film, adapted from the 1971 The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty, dealing with the demonic possession of a young girl, and her mother?s desperate attempts to win back her daughter through an exorcism conducted by two priests....
reawakens the horror film genre and becomes one of the most controversial films ever released.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Studio	Gross
1.	The Exorcist The Exorcist (film) *The Exorcist* is a 1973 in film United States horror film, adapted from the 1971 The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty, dealing with the demonic possession of a young girl, and her mother?s desperate attempts to win back her daughter through an exorcism conducted by two priests....	Warner Brothers	$89,000,000
2.	The Sting The Sting *The Sting* is a 1973 caper film set in September 1936 and revolving around a complicated plot by two professional Confidence trick to confidence trick a mob boss ....	Universal	$78,212,000
3.	American Graffiti American Graffiti *American Graffiti* is a 1973 period piece coming of age film directed by George Lucas, and written by Lucas, Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck. The film stars Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Charles Martin Smith, Candy Clark, Mackenzie Phillips, Cindy Williams and Wolfman Jack and features Harrison Ford....	Universal	$55,128,000
4.	Papillon Papillon (film) *Papillon* is a 1973 in film film based on a Papillon by French ex-convict Henri Charri?re. The film was directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and starred Steve McQueen as Henri Charri?re and Dustin Hoffman as Louis Dega....	Allied Artists	$22,500,000
5.	The Way We Were The Way We Were *The Way We Were* is a 1973 in film Cinema of the United States Romance film drama film directed by Sydney Pollack. The screenplay by Arthur Laurents was based on his college days at Cornell University and his experiences with the House Un-American Activities Committee....	Columbia	$22,457,000
6.	Magnum Force Magnum Force *Magnum Force* is the Dirty Harry series to the 1971 film Dirty Harry, starring Clint Eastwood returning as maverick cop Harry Callahan . The film was released in 1973 in film and directed by Ted Post, who also directed Eastwood in TV's Rawhide and the feature film Hang 'Em High....	Warner Brothers	$20,100,000
7.	Robin Hood Robin Hood (1973 film) *Robin Hood* is an animated film produced by the The Walt Disney Company#Studio Entertainment, first released in the United States on November 8, 1973.... *	Disney	$18,000,000
8.	Last Tango in Paris Last Tango in Paris *Last Tango in Paris* is a 1973 film directed by italy Bernardo Bertolucci which tells of an United States widower drawn into a sexual relationship with a young, soon-to-be-married Parisian woman....	United Artists	$16,711,000
9.	Paper Moon Paper Moon (film) *Paper Moon* is an United States motion picture comedy that was released in 1973 in film and was directed by Peter Bogdanovich.The screenplay was adapted from the novel Addie Pray by Joe David Brown, and the film was shot in black-and-white....	Paramount	$16,559,000
10.	Live and Let Die Live and Let Die (film) *Live and Let Die* is the eighth spy film in the James Bond James Bond , and the first to star Roger Moore as the fictional character Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond ....	United Artists	$15,925,000

(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1973.shtml

Awards

Academy Awards
46th Academy Awards

The 46th Academy Awards were presented April 2, 1974 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by John Huston, Diana Ross, Burt Reynolds, David Niven....
:

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....
: The Sting
The Sting

The Sting is a 1973 caper film set in September 1936 and revolving around a complicated plot by two professional Confidence trick to confidence trick a mob boss ....
- Bill/Phillips-Hill, Zanuck/Brown, Universal

Best Director : George Roy Hill
George Roy Hill

George Roy Hill was an Academy Award-winning American film director. He is most noted for directing such films as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting, which both starred the acting duo Paul Newman and Robert Redford....
- The Sting

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....
: Jack Lemmon
Jack Lemmon

'John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III' was an United States actor known principally for his comedic roles. He starred in over 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Days of Wine and Roses , Irma La Douce, The Odd Couple , The Out-of-Towners , Glengarry Glen Ross , The China Syndrome and JFK ....
- Save the Tiger
Save the Tiger

Save the Tiger is a 1973 in film film which tells a story of moral conflict in modern America. It stars Jack Lemmon, Jack Gilford, Laurie Heineman, Thayer David, Lara Parker and Liv Lindeland....

Best Foreign Language Film

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....
- A Touch of Class

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 Houseman
John Houseman

John Houseman was an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor-winning United States actor and film producer....
- The Paper Chase
The Paper Chase

The Paper Chase is a 1971 in literature novel, as well as a The Paper Chase based on the novel and a The Paper Chase based on the movie....

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....
: Tatum O'Neal
Tatum O'Neal

Tatum Beatrice O'Neal is an Academy Awards and Golden Globe-winning United States actor best known for her film work as a child actress in the 1970s....
- Paper Moon
Paper Moon (film)

Paper Moon is an United States motion picture comedy that was released in 1973 in film and was directed by Peter Bogdanovich.The screenplay was adapted from the novel Addie Pray by Joe David Brown, and the film was shot in black-and-white....

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 ....
: Day for Night
Day for Night (film)

La Nuit am?ricaine is a 1974 French language film directed by Fran?ois Truffaut. It stars Jacqueline Bisset and Jean-Pierre L?aud. In French, day for night is a technical process whereby sequences shot during the daytime are made to appear as if they are taking place at night....
(La Nuit américaine), directed by François Truffaut

François Truffaut

Fran?ois Roland Truffaut was an influential filmmaker and one of the founders of the French New Wave; and remains an icon of the Cinema of France industry....
, France

Golden Globe Awards
31st Golden Globe Awards

The 31st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1973, were held on January 28, 1974....
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Drama:

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama

Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama

Musical or comedy:

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

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