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The year 1976 in film involved some significant events.
Contents[hide]
1 Events
2 Top grossing films
3 Awards
4 Films released in 1976
5 Births
6 Deaths
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[edit] Events
March 22 - Filming begins on George Lucas' Star Wars 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.
[edit] Top grossing films
North America
Rocky
A Star Is Born
King Kong
Silver Streak
All the President's Men
The Omen
The Bad News Bears
The Enforcer
In Search of Noah's Ark
Midway
To Fly!
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Murder by Death
Marathon Man
[edit] Awards
Academy Awards:
Best Picture: Rocky - Chartoff-Winkler, United Artists
Best Director: John G. Avildsen - Rocky
Best Actor: Peter Finch - Network (first actor to win posthumously)
Best Actress: Faye Dunaway - Network
Best Supporting Actor: Jason Robards Jr - All the President's Men
Best Supporting Actress: Beatrice Straight - Network
Best Foreign Language Film: Noirs et blancs en couleur (Black and White in Color), directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, Ivory Coast / France / W. Germany / Switzerland
Golden Globe Awards:
Drama:
Best Picture: Rocky
Best Actor: Arnold Schwarzenegger - Stay Hungry
Best Actress: Faye Dunaway - Network
Musical or comedy:
Best Picture: A Star Is Born
Best Actor: Kris Kristofferson - A Star Is Born
Best Actress: Barbra Streisand - A Star Is Born
Other
Best Director: Sidney Lumet - Network
Best Foreign Language Film: Face to Face, Sweden
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
Taxi Driver, directed by Martin Scorsese, United States
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson, directed by Robert Altman, United States
[edit] Films released in 1976
1900 by Bernardo Bertolucci
All the President's Men, starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford
Any Day Now (aka Vandaag of morgen)
The Ascent Golden Bear winner
Assault on Precinct 13
The Bad News Bears
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
Bound for Glory
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson Golden Bear winner
Bugsy Malone
Caddie starring Helen Morse
Carrie, starring Sissy Spacek
Cousin, cousine
The Divine Nymph
Don's Party - John Hardgreaves, Graham Kennedy, Veronica Lang, Ray Barrett and Clarie Biney, directed by Bruce Beresford, written by David Williamson
The Enforcer
Face to Face
Futureworld
Hot Potato
Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000
The Judge and the Assassin
King Kong, starring Jessica Lange and Jeff Bridges
The Last Hard Men, a western starring Charlton Heston and James Coburn
Leadbelly
Logan's Run
The Man Who Fell to Earth, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring David Bowie
Marathon Man, starring Dustin Hoffman and Sir Laurence Olivier
The Marquis of O
A Matter of Time
The Memory of Justice
Midway
Mikey and Nicky
The Message- ("Mohammad, Messenger of God")
Mother, Jugs & Speed
Murder by Death
Network
Noirs et blancs en couleur (Black and White in Color), Academy Award for Best Foreign Picture
Obsession starring Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold
The Omen
Oz or 20th Century Oz, a Rock 'N' Roll Road Movie, starring Bruce Spence, Joy Dunstan + Graham Matters
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Robin and Marian
Rocky
Sebastiane
Seven Beauties
The Shaggy D.A.
Silent Movie
Silver Streak - Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor
The Slipper and the Rose
A Star Is Born
Stay Hungry
Storm Boy
Taxi Driver, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel and Jodie Foster
Tosun Pasa
Up!, directed by Russ Meyer, featuring Raven de la Croix
To Fly!
Vigilante Force
Voyage of the Damned
Welcome to L.A.
[edit] Births
January 3 - Jason Marsden, actor.
January 6 - Danny Pintauro, actor
February 11 - Brice Beckham, actor.
March 22 - Reese Witherspoon, actress.
April 15 - Susan Ward, actress.
August 9 - Audrey Tautou, French actress.
September 7 - Shannon Elizabeth, actress.
October 4 - Alicia Silverstone, actress.
April 23 - Gabriel Damon, actor.
[edit] Deaths
January 12 - Agatha Christie, writer
January 23 - Paul Robeson, actor, singer
February 11 - Lee J Cobb, actor
February 11 - Alice Allyn, actress
February 11 - Charlie Naughton, actor
February 12 - Sal Mineo, actor
February 26 - Frieda Inescort, actress
March 14 - Busby Berkeley, director
March 17 - Luchino Visconti, Italian theatre and cinema director
June 5 - Violet Wilkey, actress
June 6 - Victor Varconi, actor
June 9 - Sybil Thorndike, actress
October 14 - Edith Evans, actress
November 15 - Jean Gabin, actor
November 28 - Rosalind Russell, actress
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