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The year 1977 in film involved some significant events.






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Rank Title Studio Gross
1. 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...
*		 20th Century Fox $270,918,000
2.Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 science fiction film written and directed by Steven Spielberg. The film stars Richard Dreyfuss, Fran?ois Truffaut, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban and Cary Guffey....
*		 Columbia $82,750,000
3.The Rescuers
The Rescuers

The Rescuers is a 1977 animated feature produced by Walt Disney Productions and first released on June 22, 1977. The twenty-third film in the Disney animated features canon, the film is about the Rescue Aid Society, an international mouse organization, headquartered in New York City and shadowing the United Nations, dedicated to helping a...
*		 Disney $74,100,000
4. Saturday Night Fever
Saturday Night Fever

Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 in film starring John Travolta as Tony Manero, a troubled Brooklyn youth whose weekend activities are dominated by visits to a local discoth?que....
 Paramount $58,950,000
5. The Goodbye Girl
The Goodbye Girl

The Goodbye Girl is a 1977 United States comedy film. Directed by Herbert Ross, the film stars Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings, and Paul Benedict....
 MGM/Warner Brothers $41,839,000
6.Oh, God!
Oh, God!

Oh, God! is a 1977 comedy film, starring John Denver and George Burns. Based on a novel by Avery Corman, the film was directed by Carl Reiner from a screenplay written by Larry Gelbart....
 Warner Brothers $31,500,000
7. The Deep
The Deep (film)

The Deep is a 1977 film directed by Peter Yates based on the novel by Peter Benchley. The ending leaves an opening for a sequel....






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The year 1977 in film involved some significant events.

Events

  • In the Academy Awards
    Academy Awards

    The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
    , 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...
    , 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 ....
     and Beatrice Straight
    Beatrice Straight

    Beatrice Whitney Straight was an United States Academy Award-winning Broadway theatre, film, and television actor....
     win 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....
     and 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....
     and 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....
     awards for 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....
    .
  • Annie Hall
    Annie Hall

    Annie Hall is an Cinema of the United States romantic comedy film directed by Woody Allen from a script co-written with Marshall Brickman. One of Allen's most popular films, it won numerous awards at the time of its release, including four Academy Awards, and in 2002 Roger Ebert referred to it as "just about everyone's favorite Woody All...
     picks up an Academy Award for 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....
     and 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....
     wins Jason Robards
    Jason Robards

    Jason Nelson Robards, Jr., was an Academy Award & Emmy Award-winning United States actor and a World War II United States Navy combat veteran. He became famous playing works of United States dramatist Eugene O'Neill, and would regularly play O'Neill's works throughout his career....
     the 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....
     and an Art Direction
    Academy Award for Best Art Direction

    The Academy Awards are the oldest awards ceremony for achievements in film. The Academy Award for Best Art Direction recognizes achievement in art director#Film on a film....
     for George Jenkins
    George Jenkins

    George Clarke Jenkins was an United States Academy Award-winning production designer and three-time Tony Award nominee.Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he studied architecture at University of Pennsylvania before leaving to build sets....
     and George Gaines
    George Gaines (set decorator)

    George Gaines was an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for another two in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
    .
  • March 11 - Walt Disney releases The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
    The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

    The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is a full-length animation film produced by Walt Disney Productions and first released on March 11, 1977....
    , a compilation of three animated shorts.


  • May 25 - 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...
     opens in theaters and becomes the highest grossing
    List of highest-grossing films

    The following is a non-definitive list of the all-time highest-grossing films....
     movie
    Film

    Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
     to date. The film revolutionizes the use of special effects in film and television production, and also popularizes the notion of omitting any sort of opening credits sequence, something that would become commonplace in American cinema by the mid-1990s.
  • The average price of a movie ticket in the United States is about $2.25


  • June 22 - Walt Disney Pictures
    Walt Disney Pictures

    Walt Disney Pictures refers to several different entities associated with The Walt Disney Company:Walt Disney Pictures, the film banner, was found as a designation in 1983, prior to which Disney films since the death of Walt Disney were released under the name of the parent company, then named Walt Disney Productions....
     releases The Rescuers
    The Rescuers

    The Rescuers is a 1977 animated feature produced by Walt Disney Productions and first released on June 22, 1977. The twenty-third film in the Disney animated features canon, the film is about the Rescue Aid Society, an international mouse organization, headquartered in New York City and shadowing the United Nations, dedicated to helping a...
    , which instantly brought back an interest in animation that had been lost to both film-goers and critics throughout the beginning of the '70s.


Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank Title Studio Gross
1. 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...
*		 20th Century Fox $270,918,000
2.Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 science fiction film written and directed by Steven Spielberg. The film stars Richard Dreyfuss, Fran?ois Truffaut, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban and Cary Guffey....
*		 Columbia $82,750,000
3.The Rescuers
The Rescuers

The Rescuers is a 1977 animated feature produced by Walt Disney Productions and first released on June 22, 1977. The twenty-third film in the Disney animated features canon, the film is about the Rescue Aid Society, an international mouse organization, headquartered in New York City and shadowing the United Nations, dedicated to helping a...
*		 Disney $74,100,000
4. Saturday Night Fever
Saturday Night Fever

Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 in film starring John Travolta as Tony Manero, a troubled Brooklyn youth whose weekend activities are dominated by visits to a local discoth?que....
 Paramount $58,950,000
5. The Goodbye Girl
The Goodbye Girl

The Goodbye Girl is a 1977 United States comedy film. Directed by Herbert Ross, the film stars Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings, and Paul Benedict....
 MGM/Warner Brothers $41,839,000
6.Oh, God!
Oh, God!

Oh, God! is a 1977 comedy film, starring John Denver and George Burns. Based on a novel by Avery Corman, the film was directed by Carl Reiner from a screenplay written by Larry Gelbart....
 Warner Brothers $31,500,000
7. The Deep
The Deep (film)

The Deep is a 1977 film directed by Peter Yates based on the novel by Peter Benchley. The ending leaves an opening for a sequel....
 		Columbia $31,266,000
8. Smokey and the Bandit
Smokey and the Bandit

Smokey and the Bandit is a 1977 in film movie starring Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Pat McCormick , Paul Williams , and Mike Henry....
*		 Universal $30,090,000
9. The Spy Who Loved Me
The Spy Who Loved Me (film)

The Spy Who Loved Me is the tenth spy film in the James Bond James Bond , and the third to star Roger Moore as the fictional character Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond ....
 United Artists $24,365,000
10. Semi-Tough
Semi-Tough

Semi-Tough is a 1977 film directed by Michael Ritchie and starring Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, Jill Clayburgh, Lotte Lenya, Bert Convy, and Brian Dennehy....
 United Artists $22,941,000


(*) After at least 1 theatrical re-issue
source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1977.shtml

Awards


Academy Awards
50th Academy Awards

The 50th Academy Awards were held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California on April 3, 1978. The ceremonies were presided over by Bob Hope, who hosted the awards for the eighteenth and last time....
:

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....
: Annie Hall
Annie Hall

Annie Hall is an Cinema of the United States romantic comedy film directed by Woody Allen from a script co-written with Marshall Brickman. One of Allen's most popular films, it won numerous awards at the time of its release, including four Academy Awards, and in 2002 Roger Ebert referred to it as "just about everyone's favorite Woody All...
 - Rollins-Joffe, United Artists
Best Director: Woody Allen
Woody Allen

Woody Allen is an Cinema of the United States film director, writer, actor, comedian, musician and playwright.Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to Screwball comedy film, have made him one of the most respected living American directors....
 - Annie Hall
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....
: Richard Dreyfuss
Richard Dreyfuss

'Richard Dreyfuss' is an United States actor, known for starring in a number of films, television and theater roles since the late 1960s. He is probably best known for his roles in Jaws , The Goodbye Girl, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Mr....
 - The Goodbye Girl
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....
: Diane Keaton
Diane Keaton

Diane Keaton is an United Statesn Cinema of the United States actress, film director and film producer. Keaton began her career on stage, and made her screen debut in 1970....
 - Annie Hall
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.
Jason Robards

Jason Nelson Robards, Jr., was an Academy Award & Emmy Award-winning United States actor and a World War II United States Navy combat veteran. He became famous playing works of United States dramatist Eugene O'Neill, and would regularly play O'Neill's works throughout his career....
 - Julia
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....
: Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave Order of the British Empire is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Emmy and Tony Award winning England actor. She is the most famous member of the Redgrave family, the world renowned theatrical dynasty....
 - Julia
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 ....
: Madame Rosa
Madame Rosa

Madame Rosa is a 1977 in film French film adaption of the novel La Vie devant soi, written by Romain Gary under the pseudonym of ?mile Ajar....
 (La Vie devant soi), directed by Moshé Mizrahi
Moshé Mizrahi

Mosh? Mizrahi is an Israeli film director.He has directed 14 films in both Israel and France. Three of his films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, I Love You Rosa, The House on Chelouche Street and Madame Rosa, with the latter winning the award....
, France


Golden Globe Awards
35th Golden Globe Awards

The 35th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1977, were held on January 28, 1978....
:

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....
: The Turning Point
The Turning Point (1977 film)

The Turning Point was written by Arthur Laurents and directed by Herbert Ross. In starring roles were Shirley MacLaine, Anne Bancroft, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Leslie Browne, Tom Skerritt, Martha Scott, Anthony Zerbe, Marshall Thompson and James Mitchell ....
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....
: Richard Burton
Richard Burton

Richard Burton, Order of the British Empire was a multi award-winning Wales actor. He was at one time the highest-paid actor in Hollywood....
 - Equus
Equus (film)

Equus is a 1977 film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Richard Burton. Peter Shaffer wrote the screenplay based on his play Equus . The film also featured Peter Firth, Colin Blakely, Joan Plowright, Eileen Atkins and Jenny Agutter....
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....
: Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda

Jane Fonda is an United States actress, writer, political activism, former fashion model and Physical fitness guru. She rose to fame in the 1960s with films such as Barbarella and Cat Ballou and, with interruptions, has appeared in films ever since....
 - Julia
Julia (film)

Julia is a 1977 in film film drama made by 20th Century Fox. It is based on Lillian Hellman's book Pentimento , a portion of which purports to tell the story of her relationship with her lifelong friend, "Julia," who worked as an anti-nazism in the years prior to World War II....


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....
: The Goodbye Girl
The Goodbye Girl

The Goodbye Girl is a 1977 United States comedy film. Directed by Herbert Ross, the film stars Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings, and Paul Benedict....
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....
: Richard Dreyfuss - The Goodbye Girl
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....
 (tie): Diane Keaton - Annie Hall
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....
 (tie): Marsha Mason
Marsha Mason

Marsha Mason is a Golden Globe Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated United States actress and television director....
 - The Goodbye Girl


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....
: Herbert Ross
Herbert Ross

Herbert Ross was an two-time Academy Award nominated United States film director, film producer, choreographer and actor.Born Herbert David Ross in Brooklyn, New York, he made his stage debut as Third Witch with a touring company of Macbeth in 1942....
 - The Turning Point
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....
: A Special Day
A Special Day

A Special Day is a 1977 in film Italian language film which tells the story of a housewife and her neighbor who stay at home in Rome on the day that Hitler visits Mussolini....
, Italy


Palme d'Or
Palme d'Or

The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded to competing films at the Cannes Film Festival. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee....
 (Cannes Film Festival):
Father and Master (Padre padrone), directed by Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani, Italy


Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
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....
 (Voskhozhdeniye), directed by Larisa Shepitko
Larisa Shepitko

Larisa Efimovna Shepitko was a Russia film director. She went to the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow as a student of Alexander Dovzhenko....
, USSR


Films released in 1977

  • ABBA: The Movie
    ABBA: The Movie

    ABBA: The Movie is a feature length film about the pop group ABBA's 1977 Australian tour. It was directed by Lasse Hallstr?m, who directed most of the group's videos....
  • Airport '77
    Airport '77

    Airport '77 is a 1977 in film disaster film and second sequel in the Airport franchise.The film starred a number of veteran actors, including Jack Lemmon, James Stewart , Joseph Cotten, Christopher Lee and Olivia de Havilland....
  • Allegro non troppo
    Allegro non troppo

    Allegro non troppo is a Bruno Bozzetto Animation film released in 1977. The film is a parody of Walt Disney Company's Fantasia , though possibly more of a challenge to Fantasia than parody status would imply....
  • The Amazing Spiderman
    The Amazing Spiderman (film)

    The Amazing Spider-Man is a 1977 in film film directed by E.W. Shackhamer and starring Nicholas Hammond and Thayer David....
  • Annie Hall
    Annie Hall

    Annie Hall is an Cinema of the United States romantic comedy film directed by Woody Allen from a script co-written with Marshall Brickman. One of Allen's most popular films, it won numerous awards at the time of its release, including four Academy Awards, and in 2002 Roger Ebert referred to it as "just about everyone's favorite Woody All...
  • Audrey Rose
    Audrey Rose (film)

    Audrey Rose is a 1977 in film horror film, based on real life events, directed by Robert Wise, starring Marsha Mason and Anthony Hopkins. It was based on the Audrey Rose by Frank De Felitta....
  • The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training
    The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training

    The Bad News Bears In Breaking Training is the 1977 in film sequel to the feature film The Bad News Bears.This movie picks up the Bears' career a year after their infamous second-place finish in the North Valley League....
  • A Bridge Too Far
  • The Car
    The Car

    The Car is a 1977 in film thriller/horror film directed by Elliot Silverstein and written by Michael Butler, Dennis Shryack and Lane Slate. It starred James Brolin, Kathleen Lloyd, John Marley, and Ronny Cox....
  • The Choirboys
    The Choirboys (film)

    The Choirboys is a 1977 in film American drama film directed by Robert Aldrich, written by Christopher Knopf and Joseph Wambaugh, and stars Randy Quaid and James Woods....
  • Citizen's Band
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind
    Close Encounters of the Third Kind

    Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 science fiction film written and directed by Steven Spielberg. The film stars Richard Dreyfuss, Fran?ois Truffaut, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban and Cary Guffey....
  • Cross of Iron
    Cross of Iron

    Cross of Iron is a 1977 in film war film directed by Sam Peckinpah, featuring James Coburn, James Mason, Maximilian Schell, and David Warner ....
  • The Deep
    The Deep (film)

    The Deep is a 1977 film directed by Peter Yates based on the novel by Peter Benchley. The ending leaves an opening for a sequel....
  • Demon Seed
    Demon Seed

    Demon Seed is a 1977 in film American science fiction-horror film starring Julie Christie and directed by Donald Cammell. The film was based on Demon Seed by Dean Koontz, who updated his novel in 1997....
  • Dot and the Kangaroo
    Dot and the Kangaroo

    Dot and the Kangaroo, written in 1899, is a children's book by Ethel Pedley about a little girl named Dot who gets lost in the Australian outback and is eventually befriended by a kangaroo and several other marsupials....
  • The Duellists
    The Duellists

    The Duellists is a 1977 in film film, which was Ridley Scott's first feature film as a director. It won the Best Debut Film award at Cannes....
  • Equus
    Equus (film)

    Equus is a 1977 film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Richard Burton. Peter Shaffer wrote the screenplay based on his play Equus . The film also featured Peter Firth, Colin Blakely, Joan Plowright, Eileen Atkins and Jenny Agutter....
  • Eraserhead
    Eraserhead

    Eraserhead is a surrealist-horror film written and directed by David Lynch, and released in . In 1971, Lynch moved to Los Angeles to study for an MFA degree at the AFI Conservatory....
  • Exorcist II: The Heretic
    Exorcist II: The Heretic

    Exorcist II: The Heretic is a 1977 in film Cinema of the United States horror film and the sequel to the 1973 film The Exorcist . It was Film director by John Boorman from a screenplay officially credited to William Goodhart, and released by Warner Bros....
  • Fun with Dick and Jane
    Fun with Dick and Jane (1977 film)

    Fun with Dick and Jane is a 1977 romantic comedy film starring George Segal and Jane Fonda as an upper-middle class couple who turn to crime....
  • The Gauntlet
    The Gauntlet

    The Gauntlet is a 1977 in film action film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. The film also stars Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, William Prince, Bill McKinney, and longtime personal friend Mara Corday who would appear with Eastwood in another three films....
  • The Goodbye Girl
    The Goodbye Girl

    The Goodbye Girl is a 1977 United States comedy film. Directed by Herbert Ross, the film stars Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings, and Paul Benedict....
  • Grand Theft Auto
    Grand Theft Auto

    Grand Theft Auto may refer to*Motor vehicle theft, a crime in many jurisdictions*Grand Theft Auto , the first film directed by Ron Howard*Grand Theft Auto , a computer and video game series...
  • The Greatest
    The Greatest (film)

    The Greatest is a 1977 film about the life of boxer Muhammad Ali, in which Ali plays himself. It was directed by Tom Gries and Monte Hellman....
  • Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
    Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo

    Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo was the third of a series of films made by Walt Disney Productions starring Herbie - a white Volkswagen racing VW Beetle with a mind of its own....
  • High Anxiety
    High anxiety

    High anxiety is a non-technical term referring to a state of extreme fear or apprehension. It may also mean:* High Anxiety, a film by Mel Brooks...
  • The Hills Have Eyes
    The Hills Have Eyes (1977 film)

    The Hills Have Eyes is a 1977 in film horror film, directed by Wes Craven and starring Michael Berryman.Taglines:*The lucky ones died first......
  • The Hobbit
  • I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
    I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (film)

    I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is a 1977 film based on the Joanne Greenberg novel of the same name.In the wake of the success of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , Roger Corman was able to get funding for a movie version of Rose Garden. Bibi Andersson played Dr....
  • The Island of Dr. Moreau
    The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977 film)

    The Island of Dr. Moreau is the second movie version of the H. G. Wells science fiction The Island of Doctor Moreau about a scientist who attempts to convert animals into people, starring Burt Lancaster, Michael York , Barbara Carrera, and Richard Basehart....
  • Julia
    Julia (film)

    Julia is a 1977 in film film drama made by 20th Century Fox. It is based on Lillian Hellman's book Pentimento , a portion of which purports to tell the story of her relationship with her lifelong friend, "Julia," who worked as an anti-nazism in the years prior to World War II....
  • Kentucky Fried Movie
  • The Late Show
    The Late Show (film)

    The Late Show is a 1977 in film comedy film, neo-noir, romance film, mystery film film written and directed by Robert Benton. It is produced by Hollywood legend, Robert Altman....
  • Looking for Mr. Goodbar
    Looking for Mr. Goodbar

    Looking for Mr. Goodbar is a 1975 novel by Judith Rossner. Rossner based the novel on the events surrounding the brutal murder of Roseann Quinn, a 28-year-old New York City schoolteacher in 1973....
    , starring Diane Keaton
    Diane Keaton

    Diane Keaton is an United Statesn Cinema of the United States actress, film director and film producer. Keaton began her career on stage, and made her screen debut in 1970....
  • MacArthur
    MacArthur (film)

    MacArthur is a 1977 in film film directed by Joseph Sargent and starring Gregory Peck in the titular role as American General Douglas MacArthur....
    , starring Gregory Peck
    Gregory Peck

    Gregory Peck was an American film actor. He was one of 20th Century Fox's most popular film stars, from the 1940s to the 1960s, and played important roles well into the 1990s....
  • Madame Rosa
    Madame Rosa

    Madame Rosa is a 1977 in film French film adaption of the novel La Vie devant soi, written by Romain Gary under the pseudonym of ?mile Ajar....
     Academy Award for Best Foreign Film
  • The Magic Pony
  • The Man Who Loved Women
    The Man Who Loved Women

    The Man Who Loved Women can refer to:* The Man Who Loved Women, a 1968 novel by Ernest Borneman* The Man Who Loved Women , a 1977 French film by Fran?ois Truffaut...
  • The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
    The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

    The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is a full-length animation film produced by Walt Disney Productions and first released on March 11, 1977....
  • Mogliamante
    Mogliamante

    Mogliamante, or, in English, Wifemistress, is a 1977 in film Italian romantic movie directed by Marco Vicario....
     - (Wifemistress)
  • Mohammad, Messenger of God
    Mohammad, Messenger of God (film)

    Mohammad, Messenger of God is a 1977 in film film directed by Moustapha Akkad, chronicling the life and times of the Prophet of Islam, Muhammad....
     (also marketed as The Message)
  • New York, New York
    New York, New York (film)

    New York, New York is a Musical film-drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, released in 1977 in film. It is a musical tribute, featuring new songs by John Kander and Fred Ebb as well as standards, to Scorsese's home town of New York City, and stars Robert De Niro and Liza Minnelli as a pair of musicians and lovers....
    , 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...
  • Oh, God!
    Oh, God!

    Oh, God! is a 1977 comedy film, starring John Denver and George Burns. Based on a novel by Avery Corman, the film was directed by Carl Reiner from a screenplay written by Larry Gelbart....
    , starring George Burns
    George Burns

    George Burns was an United States comedy, actor, and comedy writer.His career spanned vaudeville, film, radio, and television, with and without his wife, Gracie Allen....
  • Orca
    Orca (film)

    Orca is a 1977 in film horror film directed by Michael Joseph Anderson and produced by Dino De Laurentiis and starring Richard Harris , Will Sampson and Charlotte Rampling....
    , Starring Richard Harris and Bo Derek
    Bo Derek

    Bo Derek is a Golden Globe-nominated American film actress and Model ....
  • Padre Padrone
    Padre Padrone

    Padre padrone is an Italian film directed by Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani. The Tavianis used both professional and non-professional actors from the Sardinian countryside....
     - Palme d'Or
    Palme d'Or

    The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded to competing films at the Cannes Film Festival. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee....
     winner
  • Pete's Dragon
    Pete's Dragon

    Pete's Dragon is a live-action/animated film musical film feature film from Walt Disney Productions. It is a live-action film but its title character, a european dragon named Elliott, is animation....
  • Picture Show Man
  • Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown
    Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown

    Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown is a 1977 animated film produced by United Feature Syndicate for Paramount Pictures, directed by Bill Mel?ndez, and the third in a series of movies based on the Peanuts comic strip....
  • The Rescuers
    The Rescuers

    The Rescuers is a 1977 animated feature produced by Walt Disney Productions and first released on June 22, 1977. The twenty-third film in the Disney animated features canon, the film is about the Rescue Aid Society, an international mouse organization, headquartered in New York City and shadowing the United Nations, dedicated to helping a...
  • Rollercoaster
    Rollercoaster (film)

    Rollercoaster is a summer 1977 disaster-suspense film directed by James Goldstone. It was one of four films created in Sensurround by Universal Studios, along with Midway , Earthquake , and the theatrical version of Battlestar Galactica ....
  • Saturday Night Fever
    Saturday Night Fever

    Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 in film starring John Travolta as Tony Manero, a troubled Brooklyn youth whose weekend activities are dominated by visits to a local discoth?que....
  • Semi-Tough
    Semi-Tough

    Semi-Tough is a 1977 film directed by Michael Ritchie and starring Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, Jill Clayburgh, Lotte Lenya, Bert Convy, and Brian Dennehy....
  • Smokey and the Bandit
    Smokey and the Bandit

    Smokey and the Bandit is a 1977 in film movie starring Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Pat McCormick , Paul Williams , and Mike Henry....
  • Soldier of Orange
    Soldier of Orange

    Soldier of Orange is a 1977 in film Netherlands film directed by Paul Verhoeven and produced by Rob Houwer, starring Rutger Hauer and Jeroen Krabb?....
    , starring Rutger Hauer
    Rutger Hauer

    Rutger Oelsen Hauer ; born 23 January 1944) is a Golden Globe-winning Netherlands film actor. He is well known for his roles in Blade Runner, The Hitcher , Ladyhawke, The Blood of Heroes and Batman Begins....
    , directed by Paul Verhoeven
    Paul Verhoeven

    Paul Verhoeven is a Netherlands BAFTA Award-nominated film director, screenwriter, and film producer who has made movies in both the Netherlands and the United States....
  • A Special Day
    A Special Day

    A Special Day is a 1977 in film Italian language film which tells the story of a housewife and her neighbor who stay at home in Rome on the day that Hitler visits Mussolini....
  • The Spy Who Loved Me
    The Spy Who Loved Me (film)

    The Spy Who Loved Me is the tenth spy film in the James Bond James Bond , and the third to star Roger Moore as the fictional character Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond ....
    '
  • Star Wars: A New Hope
    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...
  • Stroszek
    Stroszek

    Stroszek is a 1977 in film film by Germany director Werner Herzog. It was written in four days specifically for Bruno S. and was shot in Berlin, two towns in Wisconsin, and in North Carolina....
  • Slap Shot
    Slap Shot (film)

    Slap Shot is a 1977 film starring Paul Newman and Michael Ontkean and directed by George Roy Hill. The film is based on a screenplay written by Nancy Dowd, based in part on her brother Ned Dowd's experiences playing minor league ice hockey in the United States in the 1970s, during which time violence, especially in the low minors, was th...
  • Suspiria
    Suspiria

    Suspiria is a Italian films of 1977 Cinema of Italy horror film directed by Dario Argento, and co-written by Argento and actress Daria Nicolodi, with whom Argento was romantically involved at the time....
    , by Dario Argento
    Dario Argento

    Dario Argento is an Italy film director, film producer and screenwriter. He is best known for his work in the horror film genre, particularly in the subgenre known as giallo, and for his influence on modern horror film and slasher film....
  • That Obscure Object of Desire
    That Obscure Object of Desire

    That Obscure Object of Desire is a 1977 film directed by the auteur Luis Bu?uel. Set in Spain and France against the backdrop of a terrorism insurgency, the film tells the story of an aging Frenchman who falls in love with a young woman who repeatedly frustrates his romantic and sexual desires....
  • 3 Women
  • That's Carry On!
    That's Carry On!

    That's Carry On! is a compilation of the highlights of the Carry On films. The idea for the film was inspired by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's popular That's Entertainment! series of documentaries....
  • Tongpan
    Tongpan

    Tongpan is a 1977 in film Cinema of Thailand 16 mm black-and-white docudrama that re-creates a seminar that took place in Isan in 1975 to discuss the proposed Pa-Mong Dam on the Mekong....
  • The Turning Point
    The Turning Point (1977 film)

    The Turning Point was written by Arthur Laurents and directed by Herbert Ross. In starring roles were Shirley MacLaine, Anne Bancroft, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Leslie Browne, Tom Skerritt, Martha Scott, Anthony Zerbe, Marshall Thompson and James Mitchell ....
  • 21 Up
  • Twilight's Last Gleaming
    Twilight's Last Gleaming

    Twilight's Last Gleaming is a 1977 film directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Burt Lancaster and Richard Widmark. It is loosely based on the 1971 novel, Viper Three, by Walter Wager....
  • Walking Tall: The Final Chapter, starring Bo Svenson
    Bo Svenson

    Bo Svenson is a Swedish actor, known for his roles in American genre films of the 1970s and 1980s....
  • Wilma - Shirley Jo Finney, Cicely Tyson
    Cicely Tyson

    Cicely Tyson is an United States Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated actress. A successful stage actress, Tyson is also known for appearances in the film Sounder and the television specials The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and Roots ....
    , Denzel Washington
    Denzel Washington

    Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. is an United States actor and film director. He has garnered much critical acclaim for his work in film since the 1990s, including for his portrayals of real-life figures, such as Steve Biko, Malcolm X, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, Melvin B....
  • Wifemistress
    Wifemistress (film)

    Wifemistress is a 1978 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Marco Vicario and starring Laura Antonelli and Marcello Mastroianni....
  • Wizards
    Wizards (film)

    Wizards is an animation post-apocalyptic science fiction/fantasy film about the battle between two wizards, one representing the forces of magic and one representing the forces of technology....


Births

  • January 13 - Orlando Bloom
    Orlando Bloom

    'Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom' is an England actor. He had his break-through roles in 2001 as the elf-prince Legolas in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy and blacksmith Will Turner in the Pirates of the Caribbean , and subsequently established himself as a lead in Hollywood films, including Troy , Elizabethtown and Kingdom...
    , actor
  • March 13 - Joseph Ruggieri, Producer
  • April 14 - Sarah Michelle Gellar
    Sarah Michelle Gellar

    Sarah Michelle Prinze, better known by her birth name of Sarah Michelle Gellar, is an United States actor. She is best known for her role as the character Buffy Summers in the acclaimed television program Buffy the Vampire Slayer , for which she won in total six Teen Choice Awards, and the Saturn Award for Best Genre TV Actress and...
    , Actress
  • April 26 - Tom Welling
    Tom Welling

    Thomas John Patrick Welling is an United States actor, director and former fashion model, most famous for his continuing portrayal of Clark Kent in the television series Smallville....
    , actor
  • April 28 - Adnan Tezer, actor, writer
  • May 16 - Melanie Lynskey
    Melanie Lynskey

    Melanie Jayne Lynskey is an actress best known for starring in Heavenly Creatures and for playing Rose on Two and a Half Men....
    , actress
  • July 6 - Craig Handley
    Craig Handley

    Craig Handley is a Wales film writer and script editor. He was born in Merthyr Tydfil and attended Cyfarthfa High School He is known for writing innovative, crowd-pleasing independent film short films with microscopic budgets and fast schedules by industry standards....
    , writer
  • July 1 - Liv Tyler
    Liv Tyler

    Liv Rundgren Tyler is an American actress and model. She is the daughter of Aerosmith's lead singer, Steven Tyler and Bebe Buell, model and singer....
    , actress
  • September 25 - Clea DuVall
    Clea DuVall

    Clea Helen D'Etienne DuVall is an United States actress....
    , actress
  • August 24 - Anthony Marchitiello, Film Director


Deaths

  • January 14 - 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...
    , actor
  • January 19 - Yvonne Printemps
    Yvonne Printemps

    Yvonne Printemps was a France singer and actress....
    , French singer, actress
  • January 29 - Freddie Prinze
    Freddie Prinze

    Freddie Prinze was an United States actor and Stand-up comedy. He was best known as the star of Chico and the Man. He is the father of actor Freddie Prinze, Jr....
    , actor/comedian
  • March 25 - Nunnally Johnson
    Nunnally Johnson

    Nunnally Hunter Johnson was an United States filmmaker who wrote, produced, and directed films.Johnson was born in Columbus, Georgia. He began his career as a journalist, writing for the Columbus Enquirer Sun, the Savannah Press, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, and the New York Herald Tribune....
    , director
  • April 21 - Gummo Marx
    Gummo Marx

    Milton Marx , known as Gummo, was one of the Marx Brothers. Born in New York City, he worked with his brothers on the vaudeville circuit, but left acting when he was drafted into the U.S....
    , actor/agent
  • May 10 - Joan Crawford
    Joan Crawford

    Joan Crawford After an absence of nearly two years from the screen, Crawford staged a comeback by starring in Mildred Pierce , for which she won the Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Actress....
    , actress
  • June 2 - Stephen Boyd
    Stephen Boyd

    Stephen Boyd , born William Millar, was an Ireland-born actor from Glengormley, Northern Ireland, who appeared in 60 films, most notably in the role of Messala in the 1959 film Ben-Hur ....
    , actor
  • June 3 - Roberto Rossellini
    Roberto Rossellini

    Roberto Rossellini was an Italian film director. Rossellini was one of the most important directors of Italian neorealism film, contributing films such as Roma citt? aperta to the movement....
    , Italian
    Italy

    Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
     director
  • June 5 - Luis César Amadori
    Luis César Amadori

    Luis C?sar Amadori was an Italy - Argentina film director and screenwriter, and one of the most influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era....
    , Italian
    Italy

    Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
    /Argentine
    Argentina

    Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
     director
  • June 19 - Geraldine Brooks
    Geraldine Brooks

    Geraldine Brooks is an Australian-United States journalist and author. She received the Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for March ....
    , actress
  • August 3 - Alfred Lunt
    Alfred Lunt

    Alfred Lunt was an American Tony Award-winning stage director and actor....
    , actor
  • August 16 - Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley

    Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
    , singer, actor
  • August 19 - Groucho Marx
    Groucho Marx

    Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx , was an American comedian and film star famed as a master of wit. He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers and also had a successful solo career, most notably as the host of the radio and television game shows You Bet Your Life and Tell it to Groucho....
    , comedian
  • August 29 - Jean Hagen
    Jean Hagen

    Jean Hagen was an Academy Awards-nominated United States film actor.Hagen was born as Jean Shirley Verhagen in Chicago, Illinois, to Dutch immigrant Christian Verhagen and his Chicago-born wife, Marie ....
    , actress
  • October 14 - Bing Crosby
    Bing Crosby

    Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
    , American singer and actor
  • November 9 - Gertrude Astor
    Gertrude Astor

    Gertrude Astor was an American motion picture character actress, who began her career playing trombone on a riverboat....
    , actress
  • November 30 - Olga Petrova
    Olga Petrova

    Olga Petrova was an actress, screenwriter and playwright.Born Muriel Harding in Tur Brook, England, she moved to the United States where she became a star of vaudeville using the stage name Olga Petrova....
     silent film and stage actress
  • December 4 - Leila Hyams
    Leila Hyams

    Leila Hyams was an United States film actor....
    , actress
  • December 25 - Charlie Chaplin
    Charlie Chaplin

    Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. Order of the British Empire , better known as Charlie Chaplin, was an Academy Award-winning England comedy film actor and filmmaker....
    , star of silent film
  • December 26 - Howard Hawks
    Howard Hawks

    Howard Winchester Hawks was an American film director, Film producer and writer of the Classical Hollywood cinema. He died in Palm Springs, California, California, after a fall....
    , director
  • December 28 - Charlotte Greenwood
    Charlotte Greenwood

    Frances Charlotte Greenwood was an United States actress and dancer.Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Greenwood started in vaudeville, and eventually starred on Broadway theatre, movies and radio....
    , actress