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The year 1978 in film involved some significant events.
Contents[hide]
1 Top grossing films
2 Events
3 Awards
4 Films released in 1978
5 Births
6 Deaths
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[edit] Top grossing films
North America
Superman: The Movie
Grease, starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John
Saturday Night Fever, starring John Travolta and Karen Lynn Gorney
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Animal House, starring John Belushi
Jaws 2
Heaven Can Wait
The Goodbye Girl
Star Wars
Hooper
Foul Play
Revenge of the Pink Panther
[edit] Events
February 1 - Bob Dylan's film Renaldo and Clara, a documentary of the "Rolling Thunder Revue" tour premieres in Los Angeles, California.
March 1 - Charlie Chaplin's coffin is stolen from a Swiss cemetery three months after burial.
March - Leigh Brackett completes the first draft for The Empire Strikes Back.
June 4 - Grease, starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, has its world premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
September - George Lucas purchases Bulltail Ranch, on Lucas Valley Road, for the development of Skywalker Ranch.
November 17 - The Star Wars Holiday Special airs on CBS. The special gives fans their first glimpse of Boba Fett, a character from the upcoming sequel.
The first Sundance Film Festival is held.
[edit] Awards
Academy Awards:
Best Picture: The Deer Hunter - EMI Films/Cimino, Universal
Best Director: Michael Cimino - The Deer Hunter
Best Actor: Jon Voight - Coming Home
Best Actress: Jane Fonda - Coming Home
Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Walken - The Deer Hunter
Best Supporting Actress: Maggie Smith - California Suite
Best Foreign Language Film: Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Preparez vos mouchoirs), directed by Bertrand Blier, France
Golden Globe Awards:
Drama:
Best Picture: Midnight Express
Best Actor: Jon Voight - Coming Home
Best Actress: Jane Fonda - Coming Home
Musical or comedy:
Best Picture: Heaven Can Wait
Best Actor: Warren Beatty - Heaven Can Wait
Best Actress (tie): Ellen Burstyn - Same Time, Next Year
Best Actress (tie): Maggie Smith - California Suite
Other
Best Director: Michael Cimino - The Deer Hunter
Best Foreign Language Film: Autumn Sonata, Sweden
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (L'Albero degli zoccoli), directed by Ermanno Olmi, Italy
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
Trout (Las Truchas), directed by José Luis García Sánchez, Spain
What Max Said (Las Palabras de Max), directed by Emilio Martínez Lázaro, Spain
[edit] Films released in 1978
Almost Summer
American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince, directed by Martin Scorsese (documentary)
Animal House
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Autumn Sonata
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
Battlestar Galactica (Canada and most European countries only; released in U.S. theatres the following year)
The Betsy
The Boys from Brazil
Bread and Chocolate
The Buddy Holly Story
Bye Bye Monkey
La Cage aux Folles
California Suite
Capricorn One
China 9, Liberty 37
Comes a Horseman
Coming Home
Damien: Omen II, starring William Holden
Dawn of the Dead (Italy)
Days of Heaven
Death on the Nile
The Deer Hunter
Enter the Fat Dragon starring Sammo Hung
Every Which Way But Loose
Fingers (1978 film)
F.I.S.T.
Foul Play
The Fury (film), starring Kirk Douglas and Amy Irving.
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Preparez vos mouchoirs), aka Get Your Handkerchiefs Ready
Girlfriends, Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner
Grease
Halloween, starring Jamie Lee Curtis
Harper Valley PTA
Heaven Can Wait
Hooper
Interiors
Invasion of the Body Snatchers, remake of 1956 movie
International Velvet
Jaws 2
Lady on the Bus
The Last Waltz, directed by Martin Scorsese
The Late Great Planet Earth -(film only mentioned in article)
The Lord of the Rings, animated film by Ralph Bakshi
Max's Words Golden Bear winner -(not found in searches under this title)
Midnight Express
Pretty Baby
Renaldo and Clara
Return of Captain Nemo, The
Revenge of the Pink Panther
The Star Wars Holiday Special
Stevie (the 1978 film, there is also Stevie the 2002 film)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Superman: The Movie, starring Marlon Brando and Christopher Reeve
The Swarm
The Tree of Wooden Clogs Palme d'Or winner
Las Truchas (The Trout) Golden Bear winner
The Small One
Two Solitudes
An Unmarried Woman
You Are Not Alone
[edit] Births
June 1 - Danielle Harris, voice actress in The Wild Thornberrys
November 9 - Sisqó, singer/actor/songwriter
December 9 - Jesse Metcalfe, actor
December 18 - Katie Holmes, actress
[edit] Deaths
January 5 - Sally Eilers, actress
January 29 - Tim McCoy, cowboy actor, soldier
March 24 - Leigh Brackett, science fiction writer
August 24 - Louis Prima, bandleader, voice actor ("King Louie of the Apes" in The Jungle Book)
August 26 - Charles Boyer, actor
August 28 - Robert Shaw, actor
September 9 - Jack Warner, Hollywood studio founder
September 30 - Edgar Bergen, actor
October 16 - Dan Dailey, actor
October 19 - Gig Young, actor
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