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The year 1974 in film involved some significant events.
Contents[hide]
1 Events
2 Top grossing films
3 Awards
4 Films released in 1974
5 Births
6 Deaths
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[edit] Events
February 7 - Blazing Saddles is released in USA
May 1 - George Lucas creates the first draft of what would eventually become Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
August 7 - Peter Wolf, lead singer of the J. Geils Band marries actress Faye Dunaway
November 1 - Technicolor ceases its legendary dye-transfer printing process.
Robert Redford has three films in the Top Ten at the North American box office, the first actor to do so since Bing Crosby in 1946.[citation needed]
Kevin Costner made his film debut in Sizzle Beach, USA, although the film was not released until 1986
[edit] Top grossing films
North America
The Towering Inferno
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Earthquake
The Trial of Billy Jack
The Godfather Part II
Airport 1975
The Longest Yard
The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams
Murder on the Orient Express
Herbie Rides Again
Benji (see Benji)
Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
The Great Gatsby
[edit] Awards
Academy Awards:
Best Picture: The Godfather, Part II - Coppola Company, Paramount
Best Director: Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather, Part II
Best Actor: Art Carney - Harry and Tonto
Best Actress: Ellen Burstyn - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Best Supporting Actor: Robert De Niro - The Godfather, Part II
Best Supporting Actress: Ingrid Bergman - Murder on the Orient Express
Best Foreign Language Film: Amarcord, directed by Federico Fellini, Italy
Golden Globe Awards:
Drama:
Best Picture: Chinatown
Best Actor: Jack Nicholson - Chinatown
Best Actress: Gena Rowlands - A Woman Under the Influence
Musical or comedy:
Best Picture: The Longest Yard
Best Actor: Art Carney - Harry and Tonto
Best Actress: Raquel Welch - The Three Musketeers
Other
Best Director: Roman Polanski - Chinatown
Best Foreign Language Film: Scenes from a Marriage, Sweden
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
The Conversation, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, United States
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, directed by Ted Kotcheff, Canada
[edit] Films released in 1974
Aina
Airport 1975
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, directed by Martin Scorsese
All Creatures Great and Small
Alvin Rides Again (aka Alvin Purple Rides Again)
Animals Are Beautiful People
Flesh for Frankenstein (aka Andy Warhol's Frankenstein)
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Golden Bear winner
Barry Mckenzie Holds His Own
The Beast Must Die
Benji
Black Christmas
Blazing Saddles
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Caged Heat, directorial debut of Jonathan Demme
The Cars That Ate Paris
Chinatown
The Clockmaker
The Conversation by Francis Ford Coppola, Palme d'Or winner
Dark Star directed by John Carpenter, starring Brian Narelle, Cal Kuniholm, Dre Pahich and Dan O'Bannon
Death Wish
Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry
Dreams and Nightmares - (Abe Osheroff)
Earthquake
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (aka Every Man For Himself and God Against All)
F for Fake (originally Vérités et Mensonges)
The Four Musketeers
The Front Page
Ginger in the Morning
The Godfather Part II
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
Great Expectations
The Great Gatsby
Harry and Tonto
Herbie Rides Again
Jock Petersen
The Klansman
Lacombe Lucien
The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams (redirects to Grizzly Adams - character)
The Longest Yard
The Lords of Flatbush
Lovin' Molly
Mame
The Man with the Golden Gun
McQ
Murder on the Orient Express
Parade
Son of Dracula
The Sugarland Express
Sweet Movie
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, starring Walter Matthau
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
That's Entertainment!
Thieves Like Us
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
The Towering Inferno, starring Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, and Fred Astaire
The Trial of Billy Jack
UFO: Target Earth
Vampyres
A Woman Under the Influence
Where the Lilies Bloom
Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too! (short subject)
Young Frankenstein, directed by Mel Brooks, starring Gene Wilder, Teri Garr, and Madeline Kahn
Zardoz, starring Sean Connery and Charlotte Rampling
[edit] Births
January 5 - Daisy Bates, actress
January 30 - Christian Bale, English actor
March 24 - Alyson Hannigan, actress
April 28 - Penélope Cruz, actress
May 21 - Fairuza Balk, actress
June 25 - Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress
August 15 - Natasha Henstridge, Canadian actress
August 23 - Ray Park, British actor
September 19 - Victoria Silvstedt, Swedish actress and model
November 11 - Leonardo DiCaprio, actor
November 16 - Chloë Sevigny, American actress
[edit] Deaths
January 31 - Samuel Goldwyn, film producer
February 7 - Arline Judge, actress
February 11 - Anna Q. Nilsson, actress
February 23 - Florence Rice, actress
February 28 - Carole Lesley, actress
March 5 - Billy De Wolfe, actress
March 7 - Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor
March 19 - Edward Platt, actor
April 2 – Douglass Dumbrille, actor
April 10 - Patricia Collinge, actress
April 24 - Bud Abbott, actor, best known as straight man to Lou Costello
April 30 - Agnes Moorehead, actress
May 25 - Donald Crisp, actor
August 20 - Ilona Massey, actress
September 6 - Olga Baclanova, actress
September 18 - Edna Best, actress
September 21 - Walter Brennan, actor
September 21 - Jacqueline Susann, former actress, author of Valley of the Dolls
October 13 - Ed Sullivan, television host, actor
November 13 - Vittorio De Sica, Italian director
November 14 - Johnny Mack Brown, actor
December 15 - Anatole Litvak, director
December 21 - Richard Long, actor
December 26 - Jack Benny, actor
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