1977 in film

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The year 1977 in film involved some significant events.
Contents[hide]
1 Events
2 Top grossing films
3 Awards
4 Films released in 1977
5 Births
6 Deaths
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[edit] Events
In the Academy Awards, Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight win Best Actor and Actress and Supporting Actress awards for Network.
Annie Hall picks up an Academy Award for Best Picture and All the President's Men wins Jason Robards the Supporting Actor and an Art Direction for George Jenkins and George Gaines.
March 11 - Walt Disney releases The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, a compilation of three animated shorts.
May 25 - Star Wars opens in theaters and becomes the highest grossing movie 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. In 1977, however, it attracted heavy criticism and director George Lucas ultimately resigned from several film production guilds over his decision.
The average price of a movie ticket in the United States is about $2.25
June 22 - Walt Disney Pictures releases The Rescuers, which instantly brought back an interest in animation that had been lost to both film-goers and critics throughout the beginning of the '70s. [1]

[edit] Top grossing films
North America
Star Wars
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Saturday Night Fever
Smokey and the Bandit
The Goodbye Girl
Oh, God!
The Deep
The Rescuers
The Spy Who Loved Me
Semi-Tough
A Bridge Too Far
High Anxiety
Annie Hall
The Other Side of Midnight
Pete's Dragon

[edit] Awards
Academy Awards:
Best Picture: Annie Hall - Rollins-Joffe, United Artists
Best Director: Woody Allen - Annie Hall
Best Actor: Richard Dreyfuss - The Goodbye Girl
Best Actress: Diane Keaton - Annie Hall
Best Supporting Actor: Jason Robards Jr. - Julia
Best Supporting Actress: Vanessa Redgrave - Julia
Best Foreign Language Film: Madame Rosa (La Vie devant soi), directed by Moshé Mizrahi, France
Golden Globe Awards:
Drama:
Best Picture: The Turning Point
Best Actor: Richard Burton - Equus
Best Actress: Jane Fonda - Julia
Musical or comedy:
Best Picture: The Goodbye Girl
Best Actor: Richard Dreyfuss - The Goodbye Girl
Best Actress (tie): Diane Keaton - Annie Hall
Best Actress (tie): Marsha Mason - The Goodbye Girl
Other
Best Director: Herbert Ross - The Turning Point
Best Foreign Language Film: A Special Day, Italy
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
Father and Master (Padre padrone), directed by Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani, Italy
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
The Ascent (Voskhozhdeniye), directed by Larisa Shepitko, USSR

[edit] Films released in 1977
ABBA: The Movie
Airport '77
Allegro non troppo
Annie Hall
The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training
A Bridge Too Far
The Car
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Cross of Iron
The Deep
Demon Seed
Dot and the Kangaroo
Eraserhead
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Fun with Dick and Jane
The Gauntlet
The Goodbye Girl
The Greatest
High Anxiety
The Hobbit
In Search of Noah's Ark
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Julia
The Late Show
Looking for Mr. Goodbar, starring Diane Keaton
MacArthur, starring Gregory Peck
Madame Rosa Academy Award for Best Foreign Film
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Mogliamante - (Wifemistress)
New York, New York, directed by Martin Scorsese
Oh, God!, starring George Burns
Orca, Starring Richard Harris and Bo Derek
Padre Padrone - Palme d'Or winner
Pete's Dragon
Picture Show Man
The Rescuers
Rollercoaster (film)
Saturday Night Fever
Semi-Tough
Smokey and the Bandit
Soldier of Orange, starring Rutger Hauer, directed by Paul Verhoeven
A Special Day
The Spy Who Loved Me'
Star Wars
Slap Shot'
That Obscure Object of Desire
The Turning Point
21 Up
Walking Tall: The Final Chapter, starring Bo Svenson
Wilma - Shirley Jo Finney, Cicely Tyson, Denzel Washington
Wifemistress (film)

[edit] Births
January 13 - Orlando Bloom, actor
April 26 - Tom Welling, actor
May 16 - Melanie Lynskey, actress
July 6 - Craig Handley, writer
July 1 - Liv Tyler, actress
September 25 - Clea DuVall, actress
August 24 - Anthony Marchitiello, Film Director

[edit] Deaths
January 14 - Peter Finch, actor
January 19 - Yvonne Printemps, French singer, actress
January 29 - Freddie Prinze, actor/comedian
March 25 - Nunnally Johnson, director
April 21 - Gummo Marx, actor/agent
May 10 - Joan Crawford, actress
June 2 - Stephen Boyd, actor
June 3 - Roberto Rossellini, Italian director
June 5 - Luis César Amadori, Italian/Argentine director
June 19 - Geraldine Brooks, actress
August 3 - Alfred Lunt, actor
August 16 - Elvis Presley, singer, actor
August 19 - Groucho Marx, comedian
August 29 - Jean Hagen, actress
October 14 - Bing Crosby, American singer and actor
November 9 - Gertrude Astor, actress
November 30 - Olga Petrova silent film and stage actress
December 4 - Leila Hyams, actress
December 25 - Charlie Chaplin, star of silent film
December 26 - Howard Hawks, director
December 28 - Charlotte Greenwood, actress