1976 in film

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• March 22 - Filming begins on George Lucas
  George Lucas
  
  George Walton Lucas, Jr. is an Academy Award-nominated United States film director, film producer, screenwriter and chairman of Lucasfilm Ltd. He is best known for being the creator of the Epic film Sci-Fi franchise Star Wars and the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones....
  ' Star Wars
  Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
  
  Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is an Cinema of the United States 1977 in film space opera film, written and directed by George Lucas. It was the first of six films released in the Star Wars saga: Star Wars#Original trilogy continue the story, while a Star Wars#Prequel trilogy contributes backstory, primarily for the troubled charac...
   science fiction film. In one of the best business decisions in film history, Lucas cuts his directing fee by $500,000 to gain ownership of merchandising and sequel rights.
• April 1 - The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  
  The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a 1975 in film Cinema of the United Kingdom-Cinema of the United States musical film comedy film that parodies science fiction and horror films....
   is officially re-released as a midnight movie at the Waverly Theater (Now the IFC Center
  IFC Center
  
  IFC Center is an art film movie theater in Greenwich Village, New York City in the United States of America. It is located at 323 Sixth Avenue, on the former site of the Waverly Theater, which was itself a well known art house....
  ) in Greenwich Village
  Greenwich Village
  
  Greenwich Village , often simply called the Village, is a largely residential area on the lower west side of southern Manhattan in New York City....
   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....
  , starting its run all around the world.

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....
: Rocky

Rocky

Rocky is a 1976 film written by and starring Sylvester Stallone and directed by John G. Avildsen. It tells the rags-to-riches American Dream story of Rocky Balboa , an uneducated but good-hearted debt collector for a loan shark in Philadelphia....
- Chartoff-Winkler, United Artists

Best Director

Academy Award for Directing

The Academy Award for Achievement in Directing is one of the Academy Award presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to Film directors working in the film industry....
: John G. Avildsen

John G. Avildsen

John Guilbert Avildsen is an Academy Award-winning United States film director.His movies include Guess What We Learned in School , Cry Uncle! , Joe , Rocky and Rocky V with Sylvester Stallone, and The Karate Kid , with Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita....
 - Rocky

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....
: Peter Finch

Peter Finch

Peter Finch was an England-born Australia actor. He is best remembered for his role as 'crazed' television News presenter Howard Beale in the film, Network , which earned him a Posthumous_recognition Academy Award for Best Actor, his fifth Best Actor award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and a Best Actor award from...
 - Network

Network (film)

Network is a satire about a fictional television network, Union Broadcasting System , and its struggle with poor Nielsen Ratings. It was written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet, and stars Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch and Robert Duvall and features Wesley Addy, Ned Beatty and Beatrice Straight....
  (first actor to win posthumously)

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....
: Faye Dunaway

Faye Dunaway

Dorothy Faye Dunaway , known as Faye Dunaway, is an United States actor. She has starred in a variety of films, from blockbusters such as The Towering Inferno and the camp classic Mommie Dearest , to the most critically acclaimed including Bonnie and Clyde , Chinatown , and Network ....
 - Network

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....
: Jason Robards Jr - All the President's Men

All the President's Men (film)

All the President's Men is a 1976 film based on the All the President's Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two journalists investigating the Watergate scandal for the Washington Post....

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....
: Beatrice Straight

Beatrice Straight

Beatrice Whitney Straight was an United States Academy Award-winning Broadway theatre, film, and television actor....
 - Network

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 ....
: Noirs et blancs en couleur

Noirs et blancs en couleur

Black and White in Color is a 1976 in film war film, or rather, a black comedy directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud as his directorial debut. It depicts France colonists at war with the Germany in the Ivory Coast, Africa, during World War I....
(Black and White in Color), directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Jean-Jacques Annaud is a France film director....
, Ivory Coast / France / W. Germany / Switzerland

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....
: Rocky

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....
: Peter Finch

Peter Finch

Peter Finch was an England-born Australia actor. He is best remembered for his role as 'crazed' television News presenter Howard Beale in the film, Network , which earned him a Posthumous_recognition Academy Award for Best Actor, his fifth Best Actor award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and a Best Actor award from...
 - Network

Network (film)

Network is a satire about a fictional television network, Union Broadcasting System , and its struggle with poor Nielsen Ratings. It was written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet, and stars Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch and Robert Duvall and features Wesley Addy, Ned Beatty and Beatrice Straight....

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....
: Faye Dunaway - Network

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....
: A Star Is Born

A Star Is Born (1976 film)

A Star Is Born is a 1976 rock music film telling the story of a young woman, played by Barbra Streisand who enters show business, and meets and falls in love with an established male star, played by Kris Kristofferson, only to find her career ascending while his goes into decline....

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....
: Kris Kristofferson

Kris Kristofferson

Kristoffer Kristian Kristofferson is an United States writer, singer-songwriter, actor, and musician. He is best known for hits such as "Me and Bobby McGee", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night"....
 - A Star Is Born

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....
: Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand is an United states singer and film and theatre actress. She has also achieved note as a composer, political activist, film producer and film director....
 - A Star Is Born

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....
: Sidney Lumet

Sidney Lumet

Sidney Lumet is an Academy Award winning United States film director, with over 50 films to his name, including the critically acclaimed 12 Angry Men , Serpico , Dog Day Afternoon , Network and The Verdict , all of which, except for Serpico , earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Director....
 - Network

Best Foreign Language Film

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....
: Face to Face

Face to Face (1976 film)

Face to Face is a 1976 in film Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. It tells the story of a psychiatrist who is suffering from a mental illness....
, Sweden

Taxi Driver

Taxi Driver

Taxi Driver is a 1976 in film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader. The movie is set in early post?Vietnam War Era New York City and stars Robert De Niro and features a young Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Leonard Harris , Peter Boyle and Cybill Shepherd....
, 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...
, United States

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson is a 1976 in film revisionist Western directed by Robert Altman and based on the play Indians by Arthur Kopit....
, 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 1976

• 1900
  1900 (film)
  
  1900 is a 1976 epic film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, starring Robert De Niro, G?rard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Donald Sutherland, Alida Valli and Burt Lancaster....
   by Bernardo Bertolucci
  Bernardo Bertolucci
  
  Bernardo Bertolucci is an Academy Award-winning Italy film director and screenwriter....
  
• All the President's Men
  All the President's Men (film)
  
  All the President's Men is a 1976 film based on the All the President's Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two journalists investigating the Watergate scandal for the Washington Post....
  , 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....
   and Robert Redford
  Robert Redford
  
  Charles Robert Redford Jr. , better known as Robert Redford, is an Academy Award-winning United States film director, actor, film producer, businessman, model , environmentalism, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival....
  
• Any Day Now
  Any Day Now (film)
  
  Any Day Now is a 1976 in film science fiction film directed by Roeland Kerbosch and starring Ansje van Brandenberg. The film features a dystopian near-future world which has been split into three....
   (aka Vandaag of morgen)
• The Ascent
  The Ascent
  
  The Ascent , is a 1976 in film black and white Cinema of the Soviet Union directed by Larisa Shepitko and made at Mosfilm. It was Shepitko's last film before her death in a car accident in 1979....
   Golden Bear winner
• Assault on Precinct 13
  Assault on Precinct 13 (1976 film)
  
  Assault on Precinct 13 is a 1976 in film Cinema of the United States Action film/Thriller film inspired by the Howard Hawks film Rio Bravo ....
  
• The Bad News Bears
• The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
  The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
  
  The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings is an affectionately comedy film sports film about a team of enterprising ex-Negro League baseball players in the era of racial segregation....
  
• The Blank Generation
  The Blank Generation
  
  The Blank Generation is a film by Amos Poe and Ivan Kral, released in 1976 in film. It portrays the early punk rock scene in New York, and was filmed live at CBGB....
  
• Bound for Glory
• Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
  Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
  
  Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson is a 1976 in film revisionist Western directed by Robert Altman and based on the play Indians by Arthur Kopit....
   Golden Bear winner
• Bugsy Malone
  Bugsy Malone
  
  Bugsy Malone is a 1976 in film musical film, very loosely based on events in Chicago in the Prohibition in the United States era, specifically, the exploits of gangsters like Al Capone as dramatized in cinema....
  
• Caddie
  Caddie (film)
  
  Caddie is an Australian film, directed by Donald Crombie, released in 1976, and belonging to the Australian film renaissance which occurred during that decade....
   starring Helen Morse
  Helen Morse
  
  Helen Morse is an Australian actress who has appeared in films, on television, and on stage.Morse was born in Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, England....
  
• Carrie, starring Sissy Spacek
  Sissy Spacek
  
  Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek is an Academy Award–winning United States actress and singer. Her screen debut was in the 1972 film Prime Cut co-starring Lee Marvin and Gene Hackman....
  
• Carry On England
  Carry On England
  
  Carry On England is the 28th Carry On films film. It was released in 1976 in film....
  
• Car Wash
  Car Wash
  
  Car Wash is a 1976 in film comedy film produced by Universal Pictures. It was film director by Michael Schultz from a screenplay by Joel Schumacher....
  
• Casanova
• Cousin, cousine
  Cousin, cousine
  
  Cousin, cousine is a 1975 in film French language film which tells the story of cousins-by-marriage who have an affair when they discover that their spouses have been unfaithful....
  
• Deadly Hero, starring Don Murray
  Don Murray (actor)
  
  Don Murray is an American actor.Before breaking into television and movies, he attended East Rockaway High School in Long Island, New York where he played American football and track, was a member of the student government and glee club and joined the Alpha Phi Chapter of the Omega Gamma Delta Fraternity....
  
• Diary of the Dead
  Diary of the Dead (1976 film)
  
  Diary of the Dead is a 1976 in film neo-noir film directed by Arvin Brown, based on the novel One Across, Two Down by Ruth Rendell. It was made by Jessica Productions, produced by Charles B....
  
• The Divine Nymph
  The Divine Nymph
  
  The Divine Nymph is a 1975 Italian drama film directed by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi and starring Laura Antonelli, Marcello Mastroianni, Michele Placido and Terence Stamp....
  
• Don's Party
  Don's Party
  
  Don's Party is a 1971 Australian play set during the 1969 Australian federal election, 1969. Adapted to a 1976 film by David Williamson and directed by Bruce Beresford, Don's Party stars John Hargreaves as Don Henderson, a schoolteacher living with his wife, Kath , in 1969....
   - John Hardgreaves, Graham Kennedy, Veronica Lang, Ray Barrett and Clarie Biney, directed by Bruce Beresford, written by David Williamson
• Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde
  Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde
  
  Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde is a 1976 in film blaxploitation horror film. It was loosely inspired by the novella, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson....
  
• Eat My Dust
• The Enforcer
  The Enforcer (1976 film)
  
  The Enforcer is the 1976 in film third film in the Dirty Harry series. Directed by James Fargo, it stars Clint Eastwood as 'Dirty' Harry Callahan, Tyne Daly as Inspector Kate Moore and DeVeren Bookwalter as terrorist leader/main antagonist Bobby Maxwell....
  
• Face to Face
  Face to Face (1976 film)
  
  Face to Face is a 1976 in film Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. It tells the story of a psychiatrist who is suffering from a mental illness....
  
• Family Plot
  Family Plot
  
  Family Plot is a 1976 in film film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, his final completed film. It stars Barbara Harris , Bruce Dern, William Devane and Karen Black....
  
• Freaky Friday
  Freaky Friday (1976 film)
  
  Freaky Friday is a 1976 United States comedy film starring Jodie Foster as Annabel Andrews and Barbara Harris as her mother.Synopsis...
  
• The Front
  The Front
  
  The Front , written by Walter Bernstein, directed by Martin Ritt and featuring Woody Allen and Zero Mostel, is a film about the blacklist during the age of live television....
  
• Futureworld
  Futureworld
  
  Futureworld is a 1976 sequel to the 1973 science fiction film Westworld. It was written by George Schenk and Mayo Simon, and directed by Richard T....
  
• God Told Me To
  God Told Me To
  
  God Told Me To is a 1976 science fiction/horror movie film written and directed by Larry Cohen. Like many of Cohen's films, it is set in New York City and incorporates aspects of the police procedural....
  
• Gus
  Gus (film)
  
  Gus is a 1976 movie by Walt Disney Productions. Its center character is Gus, a football-playing mule....
  
• Harlan County USA
• Hot Potato
  Hot Potato (film)
  
  Hot Potato is a 1976 film written and directed by Oscar williams. The film was a Weintraub and Heller production starring Jim Kelly .Jim Kelly also arranged his own fight scenes....
  
• In Search of Noah's Ark
• J.D.'s Revenge
  J.D.'s Revenge
  
  J. D.'s Revenge is a blaxploitation horror film released in 1976 in film. It starred Glynn Turman and Louis Gossett Jr.. The main character becomes an unwilling host for the restless spirit of J.D....
  
• Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000
  Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000
  
  Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 is a 1976 Swiss film directed by Alain Tanner and written by Tanner and John Berger....
  
• The Judge and the Assassin
  The Judge and the Assassin
  
  The Judge and the Assassin is a 1976 France comedy-drama film directed by Bertrand Tavernier. The film won two C?sar Awards in 1977....
  
• King Kong
  King Kong (1976 film)
  
  King Kong is a 1976 in film Cinema of the United States motion picture produced by Dino De Laurentiis and directed by John Guillermin. It is a remake of the 1933 classic King Kong , about how a giant ape is captured and imported to New York City for exhibition....
  , starring Jessica Lange
  Jessica Lange
  
  Jessica Phyllis Lange is an United States stage and screen actress who, among many other accolades, has won two Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards....
   and Jeff Bridges
  Jeff Bridges
  
  Jeffrey Leon Bridges is a four-time Academy Award-nominated American actor and musician. His most notable films include The Last Picture Show, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Tron , Starman , The Fisher King , The Big Lebowski, Seabiscuit , and Iron Man ....
  
• The Last Hard Men, a western starring Charlton Heston
  Charlton Heston
  
  Charlton Heston was an United States actor of film, theater and television.Heston is known for having played heroic roles, such as Moses in The Ten Commandments , Colonel George Taylor in Planet of the Apes , El Cid in El Cid , and Judah Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur , for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor....
   and James Coburn
  James Coburn
  
  'James Harrison Coburn, Jr.' was an United States film and television actor. He is perhaps best known for his charisma and natural charm. He had appeared in almost 70 films and made over 100 appearances on television in his 45-year career, and won an Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Affliction...
  
• The Last Tycoon
• Leadbelly
  Leadbelly (film)
  
  Leadbelly is a 1976 in film film chronicling the life of folk singer Leadbelly . The film was directed by Gordon Parks, and starred Roger E....
  
• The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
  The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
  
  The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane is a 1976 in film film directed by Nicolas Gessner and screenwriter by Laird Koenig, based on Koenig's 1974 in literature novel of the same title....
  
• Logan's Run
  Logan's Run (1976 film)
  
  Logan's Run is a 1976 science fiction film based on the Logan's Run by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson. It depicts a Dystopian future society in which population and the consumption of resources are managed and maintained in equilibrium by the simple expediency of killing everyone who reaches the age of thirty, preventing over...
  
• The Man Who Fell to Earth
  The Man Who Fell to Earth (film)
  
  The Man Who Fell to Earth is a 1976 science fiction film directed by Nicolas Roeg, based on the The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis, about an extraterrestrial life who crash lands on Earth seeking a way to ship water to his planet, which is suffering from a severe drought....
  , directed by Nicolas Roeg
  Nicolas Roeg
  
  'Nicolas Jack Roeg', British Society of Cinematographers is an England film director and cinematographer. Contributing to the visual look of Lawrence of Arabia and Roger Corman's The Masque of the Red Death , and co-directing Performance , he would later become the guiding force behind such landmark films as Walkabout , Don'...
  , starring David Bowie
  David Bowie
  
  David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and Arrangement. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s....
  
• Marathon Man
  Marathon Man (film)
  
  Marathon Man is a 1976 in film thriller film based on Marathon Man by William Goldman. The film was directed by John Schlesinger, and stars Dustin Hoffman as the protagonist, Thomas "Babe" Levy, and Laurence Olivier as Nazi dentist and war criminal, Dr....
  , 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....
   and Sir Laurence Olivier
• The Marquis of O
• A Matter of Time
  A Matter of Time (1976 film)
  
  A Matter of Time is a 1976 in film United States/Italy fantasy film with music directed by Vincente Minnelli. The screenplay by John Gay is based on the novel Film of Memory by Maurice Druon....
  
• The Memory of Justice
  The Memory of Justice
  
  The Memory of Justice is a 1976 in film documentary film directed by Marcel Oph?ls. It explores the subject of atrocities committed in wartime and features Joan Baez, Karl D?nitz, Hermann G?ring, Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff, Yehudi Menuhin, Albert Speer and Telford Taylor....
  
• Midway
  Midway (film)
  
  Midway is a 1976 in film war film made by the Mirisch Corporation and released by Universal Pictures . It was directed by Jack Smight and produced by...
  
• Mikey and Nicky
  Mikey and Nicky
  
  Mikey and Nicky is a 1976 in film film written and directed by Elaine May. Using three cameras that she sometimes left running for hours, May captured spontaneous interaction between Peter Falk and John Cassavetes....
  
• The Missouri Breaks
  The Missouri Breaks
  
  This article is about the motion picture. For the geographical feature, see Upper Missouri River Breaks National MonumentThe Missouri Breaks is a 1976 in film USA Western film starring Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson....
  
• Mother, Jugs & Speed
  Mother, Jugs & Speed
  
  Mother, Jugs & Speed is a 1976 in film comedy film directed by Peter Yates. It stars Bill Cosby , Raquel Welch and Harvey Keitel as employees of an independent ambulance service trying to survive in Los Angeles....
  
• Murder by Death
  Murder by Death
  
  Murder by Death is a comedy movie written by Neil Simon and directed by Robert Moore . The plot is a parody of the traditional country house whodunit, familiar to mystery fiction fans from classics such as Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, a form also parodied for the stage in Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound....
  
• Network
  Network (film)
  
  Network is a satire about a fictional television network, Union Broadcasting System , and its struggle with poor Nielsen Ratings. It was written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet, and stars Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch and Robert Duvall and features Wesley Addy, Ned Beatty and Beatrice Straight....
  
• Nickelodeon
  Nickelodeon (film)
  
  Nickelodeon is a 1976 in film comedy film directed by Peter Bogdanovich and starring Ryan O'Neal, Burt Reynolds, and Tatum O'Neal. The film is loosely based on the career of Cecil B....
  
• Noirs et blancs en couleur
  Noirs et blancs en couleur
  
  Black and White in Color is a 1976 in film war film, or rather, a black comedy directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud as his directorial debut. It depicts France colonists at war with the Germany in the Ivory Coast, Africa, during World War I....
   (Black and White in Color), Academy Award for Best Foreign Picture
• Obsession
  Obsession (film)
  
  Obsession is a 1976 in film psychological thriller/mystery fiction directed by Brian De Palma, starring Cliff Robertson, Genevi?ve Bujold, and John Lithgow....
   starring Cliff Robertson
  Cliff Robertson
  
  Clifford Parker "Cliff" Robertson III is an Academy Award - winning United States actor with a film and television career that spans half of a century....
  , Geneviève Bujold
  Geneviève Bujold
  
  Genevi?ve Bujold is an Academy Award-nominated Canada actor....
  
• The Omen
  The Omen
  
  The Omen is a 1976 in film suspense film/horror film film directed by Richard Donner. The film stars Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner , Harvey Stephens, Billie Whitelaw, Patrick Troughton, Martin Benson, and Leo McKern....
  
• The Outlaw Josey Wales
  The Outlaw Josey Wales
  
  The Outlaw Josey Wales is a 1976 in film Revisionist Western Western film set at the end of the American Civil War directed by and starring Clint Eastwood , with Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, Bill McKinney, John Vernon, Paula Trueman, Sam Bottoms, Geraldine Keams, John Russell , Woodrow Parfrey, Joyce Jameson, Sheb Wooley, John Quade,...
  
• Oz or 20th Century Oz, a Rock 'N' Roll Road Movie, starring Bruce Spence
  Bruce Spence
  
  Bruce Spence was born in Auckland, New Zealand, however, most of his acting career has been in Australia.He is most famous for his role as the Gyro Captain in Mad Max 2 and Jedediah the pilot in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome....
  , Joy Dunstan + Graham Matters
• The Pink Panther Strikes Again
  The Pink Panther Strikes Again
  
  The Pink Panther Strikes Again is the fifth film in the Pink Panther series and continues the story after the end of The Return of the Pink Panther....
  
• The Ritz
• Robin and Marian
  Robin and Marian
  
  Robin and Marian is a 1976 in film United Kingdom and United States co-produced romantic adventure period film starring Sean Connery as Robin Hood, Audrey Hepburn as Maid Marian, Nicol Williamson as Little John, Robert Shaw as the Sheriff of Nottingham and Richard Harris as Richard I of England....
  
• Rocky
  Rocky
  
  Rocky is a 1976 film written by and starring Sylvester Stallone and directed by John G. Avildsen. It tells the rags-to-riches American Dream story of Rocky Balboa , an uneducated but good-hearted debt collector for a loan shark in Philadelphia....
  
• Rosy Dreams
  Rosy Dreams
  
  Despite its whimsical poetic style, Rosy Dreams was the first Central European feature film that put the Fictional representations of Roma#Film in a realistic manner....
  
• Sebastiane
  Sebastiane
  
  Sebastiane is a controversial 1976 in film film written and directed by Derek Jarman and Paul Humfress. It portrays the events of the life of Saint Sebastian, including his iconic martyrdom by arrows....
  
• Seven Beauties
  Seven Beauties
  
  Pasqualino Settebellezze is a 1975 Italian language film written and directed by Lina Wertm?ller starring Giancarlo Giannini in the main role....
  
• The Shaggy D.A.
  The Shaggy D.A.
  
  The Shaggy D.A. is a 1976 in film sequel to The Shaggy Dog . Both are live-action films produced by Walt Disney Productions. It was directed by Robert Stevenson and starred Dean Jones , Suzanne Pleshette, Tim Conway, Keenan Wynn, Dick van Patten, Jo Anne Worley and Shane Sinutko....
  
• The Shootist
  The Shootist
  
  The Shootist is a novel written by Glendon Swarthout and published in 1975 in literature.The book was made into a 1976 in film Western film directed by Don Siegel and is noted as being the final film role of actor John Wayne....
  
• Silent Movie
  Silent Movie
  
  Silent Movie is a 1976 in film comedy film directed by and starring Mel Brooks, and released by 20th Century Fox on June 17, 1976. The ensemble cast includes Dom DeLuise, Marty Feldman, Bernadette Peters, Sid Caesar, Anne Bancroft, Henny Youngman, Liza Minnelli, Burt Reynolds, James Caan, and Paul Newman....
  
• Silver Streak
  Silver Streak (1976 film)
  
  Silver Streak is a 1976 in film comedy film, action film and mystery film about murder on a Los Angeles, California-to-Chicago, Illinois train journey....
  starring Gene Wilder
  Gene Wilder
  
  Gene Wilder is an American Emmy Award-winning and twice Academy Award-nominated theatre and film actor, film director, screenwriter, and author....
  , Richard Pryor
  Richard Pryor
  
  Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor III was an United States comedian, actor and writer.Pryor was a storyteller known for unflinching examinations of racism and customs in modern life, and was well-known for his frequent use of colorful, vulgar and profane language and racial epithets....
  
• Sister Street Fighter Fifth Level Fist
• The Slipper and the Rose
  The Slipper and the Rose
  
  The Slipper and the Rose is a British musical film retelling the classic fairy tale of Cinderella. This film was chosen as the Royal Command Performance motion picture selection for 1976....
  
• The Smurfs and the Magic Flute
  The Smurfs and the Magic Flute
  
  The Smurfs and the Magic Flute is an animated film starring the Smurfs, directed by their creator, Peyo. Though the film premiered in 1976 in film in Belgium, the English language version was not released until 1983, in the wake of the characters newfound popularity in the United States....
  
• A Star Is Born
  A Star Is Born (1976 film)
  
  A Star Is Born is a 1976 rock music film telling the story of a young woman, played by Barbra Streisand who enters show business, and meets and falls in love with an established male star, played by Kris Kristofferson, only to find her career ascending while his goes into decline....
  
• Stay Hungry
  Stay Hungry (film)
  
  Stay Hungry is a 1976 dramatic comedy film by director Bob Rafelson from a screenplay by Charles Gaines . The story centers on a young Birmingham, Alabama, scion, played by Jeff Bridges, who gets involved in a shady real-estate deal....
  
• Storm Boy
  Storm Boy (film)
  
  Storm Boy is a 1976 Australian film, based on the Storm Boy by Colin Thiele about a boy and his pelican.Storm Boy likes to wander alone along the fierce deserted coast of South Australia's Coorong....
  
• Taxi Driver
  Taxi Driver
  
  Taxi Driver is a 1976 in film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader. The movie is set in early post?Vietnam War Era New York City and stars Robert De Niro and features a young Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Leonard Harris , Peter Boyle and Cybill Shepherd....
  , 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...
  , starring Robert De Niro
  Robert De Niro
  
  Robert Mario De Niro, Jr. is a two-time Academy Award-winning United States actor, director and producer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors of all time....
  , Cybill Shepherd
  Cybill Shepherd
  
  Cybill Lynne Shepherd is a United States actress, singer and former fashion model .Her best known roles include starring as Jacy in The Last Picture Show, Maddie Hayes in Moonlighting , as Cybill Sheridan in Cybill, as Betsy in Taxi Driver and as Phyllis Kroll in The L Word....
  , Harvey Keitel
  Harvey Keitel
  
  Harvey Keitel is an Academy Award-nominated American actor whose latest work is that of Detective Lieutenant Gene Hunt on ABC's crime drama "Life on Mars "....
   and Jodie Foster
  Jodie Foster
  
  Alicia Christian Foster, better known as Jodie Foster , is a two-time Academy Award, BAFTA, and Golden Globe-award winning and Emmy-nominated United States actor, Film director and film producer....
  
• To the Devil a Daughter
  To the Devil a Daughter
  
  To the Devil... A Daughter is a 1976 in film horror film made by Hammer Film Productions, directed by Peter Sykes. It stars Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Honor Blackman, Nastassja Kinski and Denholm Elliott....
  
• Tosun Pasa
  Tosun Pasa
  
  Tosun Pasa is a 1976 in film Turkey comedy film, directed by Kartal Tibet. It is one of the most popular works of Ertem Egilmez's successful company, Arzu Film....
  
• Treasure of Matecumbe
• Up!
  Up! (film)
  
  Up! is a 1976 in film soft core sex comedy film directed by American film filmmaker Russ Meyer. The plot centers around a bizarre murder mystery involving the death of former Nazi Adolf Schwartz, a caricature of Adolf Hitler, who was living in hiding in a Bavaria style castle in Northern California....
  , directed by Russ Meyer
  Russ Meyer
  
  Russell Albion Meyer , was an United States film film director and photographer.Meyer is known primarily for writing and directing a series of successful low-budget sexploitation films that featured high camp humor, sly satire and large-breasted actresses....
  , featuring Raven de la Croix
  Raven De La Croix
  
  Raven De La Croix is an actress known for her lead role in the 1976 Russ Meyer film Up! Raven also toured the US & Canada in the 80's, performing in live Burlesque-type shows....
  
• To Fly!
  To Fly!
  
  To Fly! is a documentary film and the first ever to be shot in the IMAX format . It follows the history of flight, from the first hot air balloons in the 19th century to 20th century space missions....
  
• Vigilante Force
  Vigilante Force
  
  Vigilante Force is a 1976 in film American action film concerning a Vietnam War veteran and his buddies, who are hired by his brother and others in a small California town for protection from rowdy oil-field workers....
  
• Voyage of the Damned
  Voyage of the Damned
  
  Voyage of the Damned is the title of a 1976 in film film drama and of its 1974 in literature source book, written by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts....
  
• Welcome to L.A.
  Welcome to L.A.
  
  Welcome to L.A. is a 1976 in film film directed by Alan Rudolph and starring Keith Carradine....
  

Births

• January 6 - Danny Pintauro
  Danny Pintauro
  
  Daniel John Pintauro is an United States actor....
  , actor
• February 11 - Brice Beckham
  Brice Beckham
  
  James Brice Beckham is an United States most famous for his role as Wesley T. Owens in the television sitcom Mr. Belvedere. He currently lives in Los Angeles and is a member of LA's Namaste theater group....
  , actor.
• March 22 - Reese Witherspoon
  Reese Witherspoon
  
  Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon , better known as Reese Witherspoon, is an American actress and film producer, who has established herself as a one of Hollywood top actresses in recent years....
  , actress.
• April 13 - Jonathan Brandis
  Jonathan Brandis
  
  Jonathan Gregory Brandis was an United States actor, film director, and screenwriter....
  , actor.
• April 15 - Susan Ward
  Susan Ward
  
  Susan Ward is an United States actress and model....
  , actress.
• August 9 - Audrey Tautou
  Audrey Tautou
  
  Audrey Justine Tautou *Hors de prix - Ir?ne *The Da Vinci Code - Sophie Neveu *Les Poup?es russes - Martine *Un long dimanche de fian?ailles - Mathilde ...
  , French actress.
• September 7 - Shannon Elizabeth
  Shannon Elizabeth
  
  Shannon Elizabeth is an United States actress and former fashion model. Elizabeth came to prominence in the 1999 comedy film American Pie ....
  , actress.
• October 4 - Alicia Silverstone
  Alicia Silverstone
  
  Alicia Silverstone is an United States film and theater actor and former model . She first came to widespread attention in music videos for Aerosmith, and is best known for her roles in Hollywood films such as Clueless and her portrayal of Batgirl#Adaptations in other media in Batman & Robin ....
  , actress.
• April 23 - Gabriel Damon
  Gabriel Damon
  
  Gabriel Damon , is an United States child actor born in Reno, Nevada....
  , actor.

Deaths

• January 12 - Agatha Christie
  Agatha Christie
  
  Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, Order of the British Empire , commonly known as Agatha Christie, was an English people crime writer of novels, short stories and Play ....
  , writer
• January 23 - Paul Robeson
  Paul Robeson
  
  Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson was an American actor of film and stage, All-American and professional sportsperson, writer, multi-lingual orator, lawyer, and basso profondo concert singer who was also noted for his wide-ranging social justice activism....
  , actor, singer
• February 11 - Lee J Cobb, actor
• February 11 - Alice Allyn, actress
• February 11 - Charlie Naughton
  Charlie Naughton
  
  Charles John 'Charlie' Naughton was a Scotland comedian.Naughton was a member of The Crazy Gang, and part of a double act with fellow Glaswegian Jimmy Gold....
  , actor
• February 12 - Sal Mineo
  Sal Mineo
  
  Salvatore Mineo, Jr. , better known as Sal Mineo, was a Golden Globe-winning United States film and theatre actor, best known for his Academy Awards-nominated performance opposite James Dean in the film Rebel Without a Cause....
  , actor
• February 26 - Frieda Inescort
  Frieda Inescort
  
  Frieda Inescort was a Scotland actor. She was the daughter of British actress Elaine Inescourt.Her first Broadway theatre performance was in 1922 and over the course of the next thirteen years, she acted in sixteen productions, and established herself as a notable dramatic actress,notably she created the role of Sorel Bliss in the broadway...
  , actress
• March 14 - Busby Berkeley
  Busby Berkeley
  
  Busby Berkeley , born William Berkeley Enos in Los Angeles, California, was a highly influential Hollywood movie director and musical film choreographer....
  , director
• March 17 - Luchino Visconti
  Luchino Visconti
  
  Luchino House of Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo was an Italian theatre director and film director and writer, best known for films such as The Leopard and Death in Venice ....
  , Italian theatre and cinema director
• June 5 - Violet Wilkey
  Violet Wilkey
  
  Violet Wilkey was an United States child actor whose career lasted only four years during the early silent film era....
  , actress
• June 6 - Victor Varconi
  Victor Varconi
  
  Victor Varconi was a highly successful silent film star in Hungary. Born Mih?ly V?rkonyi in Kisv?rda, Austria-Hungary, he was the first Hungarian actor to make a film in the United States....
  , actor
• June 9 - Sybil Thorndike
  Sybil Thorndike
  
  Dame Agnes Sybil Thorndike Order of the Companions of Honour Order of the British Empire was a United Kingdom actor. A biography of Dame Sybil by Sheridan Morley was published in 1977....
  , actress
• October 14 - Edith Evans
  Edith Evans
  
  Dame Edith Mary Evans Order of the British Empire was an actress who had a long and distinguished career on the British stage. Later in her career, she appeared in a number of films, for which she received three Academy Award nominations, plus a BAFTA and a Golden Globe award....
  , actress
• November 15 - Jean Gabin
  Jean Gabin
  
  Jean Gabin was a major France actor and war hero....
  , actor
• November 28 - Rosalind Russell
  Rosalind Russell
  
  Rosalind Russell was an American actress of theatre and film, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday, as well as originating the role of Auntie Mame on Broadway theatre and in film....
  , actress