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The year 1970 in film involved some significant events.

Highest-grossing films (U.S.)[]

The top ten 1970 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1970
Rank	Title	Studio	Domestic gross
1.	Love Story	Paramount Pictures	$106,397,186^[1]
2.	Airport	Universal Studios	$100,489,151^[2]
3.	MASH	20th Century Fox Film Corporation	$67,300,000^[3]
4.	Patton	20th Century-Fox Film Corporation	$61,749,765^[4]
5.	Woodstock	Warner Bros.	$50,000,000^[5]
6.	The Aristocats	Walt Disney Productions	$43,727,252^[6]
7.	Little Big Man	National General Pictures	$31,559,552^[7]
8.	Ryan's Daughter	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures	$30,846,306^[8]
9.	Tora! Tora! Tora!	20th Century-Fox Film Corporation	$29,548,291^[9]
10.	Chariots of the Gods	Constantin Film / Sunn Classic Pictures	$25,948,300^[10]

Events[]

January 9 - Larry Fine, the second member of The Three Stooges, suffers a massive stroke, effectively ending his career.
February 11 - The Magic Christian, starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr, premieres in New York City. The film's soundtrack album, including Badfinger's "Come and Get It" (written and produced by Paul McCartney), is released on Apple Records.
March 12 - Film debut of Ornella Muti in La moglie più bella (The Most Beautiful Wife) 3 days after her 15th birthday.^[11]
March 17 - The controversial film The Boys in the Band, directed by William Friedkin and based on Mart Crowley's hit off-Broadway play, opens in theaters.
October 24 - Joan Crawford's final film, the low-budget horror picture Trog, opens in theaters.
The IMAX motion picture projection system premieres at the Fuji Pavilion, at Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan.
In Culver City, California, MGM begins selling off its studio back lot property and movie props.

Awards[]

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: Patton - 20th Century Fox

Best Director: Darryl F. Zanuck accepting on behalf of Franklin J. Schaffner - Patton

Best Actor: Darryl F. Zanuck accepting on behalf of George C. Scott - Patton (declined)

Best Actress: Anne Francis accepting on behalf of Glenda Jackson - Women in Love

Best Supporting Actor: Juliet Mills accepting on behalf of John Mills - Ryan's Daughter

Best Supporting Actress: Angela Lansbury accepting on behalf of Helen Hayes - Airport

Best Foreign Language Film: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto), directed by Elio Petri, Italy

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: Love Story

Best Actor: George C. Scott – Patton

Best Actress: Ali MacGraw – Love Story

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: MASH

Best Actor: Albert Finney – Scrooge

Best Actress: Carrie Snodgress – Diary of a Mad Housewife

Other

Best Director: Arthur Hiller, Love Story

Cannes Film Festival (Palme d'Or):

MASH, directed by Robert Altman, United States

Notable films released in 1970[]

Short film series[]

The Ant and the Aardvark (1969–71)
Roland and Rattfink (1968–71)
Tijuana Toads (1969–72)
Woody Woodpecker (1941–49, 1951–72)
Chilly Willy (1955–72)
The Beary Family (1962–72)

Births[]

January 29 - Heather Graham, American actress
January 31 - Minnie Driver, English actress
February 3 - Warwick Davis, English actor
February 14 - Simon Pegg, English actor
March 7 - Rachel Weisz, English actress
March 18 - Queen Latifah, American actress and rapper
March 20 - Linda Larkin, American cinema and television actress (Aladdin)
March 28 - Vince Vaughn, American actor, writer and producer
April 20 - Shemar Moore, American actor
April 25 - Jason Lee, American actor, comedian and professional skateborder
April 29 - Uma Thurman, American actress
May 4 - Will Arnett, Canadian actor
May 9 - Helen Hill, American animator
May 12 - Samantha Mathis, American actress
May 18 - Tina Fey - American comedian
May 22 - Naomi Campbell, English model and actress
May 25 - Octavia Spencer, American actress
May 26 - John Hamburg, American writer and director
May 27 - Joseph Fiennes, English actor
May 28 - Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (d. 2002)
June 26
- Sean Hayes, American actor and comedian
- Chris O'Donnell, American actor
July 14 - Mike McFarland, American voice actor
July 16 - Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thai film director
July 30 - Christopher Nolan, English-American film director, producer and writer
August 6 - M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-American film director, writer, producer and actor
August 15
- Anthony Anderson, American actor
- Maddie Corman, American actress
August 18 - Malcolm-Jamal Warner, actor
August 23
- Jay Mohr, American actor, comedian
- River Phoenix, American actor (died 1993)
August 24 - Jonathan Ward, American actor
August 26 - Melissa McCarthy, American actress, comedian and film producer
September 4 - Ione Skye, British-born American actress
September 29 - Emily Lloyd, English actress
September 30 - Tony Hale, American actor
October 2 - Kelly Ripa, American actress and television host
October 8 - Matt Damon, American actor
October 12 - Kirk Cameron, American actor
October 24 - Raul Esparza, American actor
October 30 - Nia Long, American actress
November 6 - Ethan Hawke, American actor
December 12 - Jennifer Connelly, American actress
December 17 - Sean Patrick Thomas, American actor

Deaths[]

January 7 - Jack Natteford, 75, American screenwriter, 1,000 Dollars a Minute, Black Bart
January 23 - Nell Shipman, 77, Canadian actress, writer, producer, Back to God's Country, The Grub-Stake
January 25 - Eiji Tsuburaya, 68, Japanese film director and special effects designer, Godzilla, Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
January 27 - Rocco D'Assunta, 65, Italian actor, comedian and playwright
February 6 - Roscoe Karns, 76, American actor, It Happened One Night, Alibi Ike
February 19 - Jules Munshin, 54, American actor, On the Town, Take Me Out to the Ball Game
February 24 - Conrad Nagel, 72, American actor, All That Heaven Allows, The Divorcee
March 4 - Peter Godfrey, 70, British director, Christmas in Connecticut, The Two Mrs. Carrolls
March 6 - William Hopper, 55, American actor, Rebel Without a Cause, Track of the Cat
March 23 - Del Lord, 75, Canadian pioneer Hollywood director, A Plumbing We Will Go, All the World's a Stooge
March 25 - Virginia Van Upp, 68, American producer and screenwriter, Gilda, Cover Girl
March 26 - Patricia Ellis, 51, American actress, A Night at the Ritz, Rhythm in the Clouds
April 11 - Cathy O'Donnell, 46, American actress, Ben-Hur, The Best Years of Our Lives
April 19 - George Blair, 64, American director, Duke of Chicago, Streets of San Francisco
April 25 - Anita Louise, 55, American actress, The Little Princess, The Story of Louis Pasteur
April 26 - Gypsy Rose Lee, 59, American burlesque performer, actress, author, Screaming Mimi, Belle of the Yukon
April 28 - Ed Begley, 69, American actor, 12 Angry Men, Hang 'Em High
April 30 - Inger Stevens, 35, Swedish actress, Hang 'Em High, A Guide for the Married Man
May 10 - Mari Blanchard, 43, American actress, Destry, She-Devil
May 14 - Billie Burke, 85, American actress, The Wizard of Oz, Father's Little Dividend
June 4 - Sonny Tufts, 58, American actor, The Virginian, Government Girl
July 6 - Marjorie Rambeau, 80, American actress, A Man Called Peter, Tobacco Road
July 9 - Sigrid Holmquist, 71, Swedish actress, Just Around the Corner, Meddling Women
July 14 - Preston Foster, 69, American actor, The Informer, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
July 22 - Fritz Kortner, 78, German director, Pandora's Box, The Razor's Edge
July 24 - Frank Silvera, 55, Jamaican actor, Viva Zapata!, Hombre
August 1 - Frances Farmer, 56, American actress, Come and Get It, The Toast of New York
September 3 - Vasil Gendov, 78, Bulgarian film director, actor and acreenwriter, Bulgaran is Gallant
September 11 - Chester Morris, 69, American actor, Meet Boston Blackie, Five Came Back
September 18 - Jimi Hendrix, 27, American musician, Almost Famous, Wayne's World
September 29 - Edward Everett Horton, 84, American actor, Arsenic and Old Lace, Top Hat
October 4 - Janis Joplin, 27, American singer, Watchmen, Three Kings
October 10 - Grethe Weiser, 67, German actress
October 17 - Vola Vale, 73, American actress, The Phantom of the Opera
December 12 - George Terwilliger, 88, American director and screenwriter, The Fatal Hour, Bride's Play
December 23 - Charles Ruggles, 84, American actor, Bringing Up Baby, The Parent Trap
December 30 - Lenore Ulric, 78, American actress, Notorious, Camille

Film debuts[]

Linda Blair - The Way We Live Now
Danny DeVito - Dreams of Glass
Robert Downey, Jr. - Pound
Shelley Duvall - Brewster McCloud
Jeffrey Jones - The Revolutionary
Tommy Lee Jones - Love Story
Diane Keaton - Lovers and Other Strangers
Frank Langella - Diary of a Mad Housewife
Anne Meara - The Out-of-Towners
Stephen Rea - Cry of the Banshee
Susan Sarandon - Joe
Tom Selleck - Myra Breckinridge
Sissy Spacek - Trash
Paul Sorvino - Where's Poppa?
Sylvester Stallone - The Party at Kitty and Stud's
Ornella Muti^[11] - The Most Beautiful Wife
Michael Keaton - Rabbit Test (film)"

References[]

↑ "Love Story, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 9, 2012.
↑ "Airport, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 9, 2012.
↑
Block, Alex Ben; Wilson, Lucy Autrey, eds. (2010). George Lucas's Blockbusting: A Decade-By-Decade Survey of Timeless Movies Including Untold Secrets of Their Financial and Cultural Success. HarperCollins. ISBN 9780061778896.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- M*A*S*H: p.527. $67.3 million (Initial Release Domestic Box office)
↑ "Patton, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 9, 2012.
↑ "Woodstock, Worldwide Box Office Information". Worldwide Box Office. Retrieved January 9, 2012.
↑ "The Aristocats Box Office Data". The Numbers. Retrieved November 10, 2014.
↑ "Little Big Man, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 9, 2012.
↑ "Ryan's Daughter, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved January 9, 2012.
↑ "Box Office Information for Tora! Tora! Tora!". The Numbers. Retrieved January 9, 2012.
↑ "Chariots of the Gods, Worldwide Box Office Information". Worldwide Box Office. Retrieved January 9, 2012.
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[1] "Love Story, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 9, 2012.

[2] "Airport, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 9, 2012.

[Block_&_Wilson-3] Block, Alex Ben; Wilson, Lucy Autrey, eds. (2010). George Lucas's Blockbusting: A Decade-By-Decade Survey of Timeless Movies Including Untold Secrets of Their Financial and Cultural Success. HarperCollins. ISBN 9780061778896.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
M*A*S*H: p.527. $67.3 million (Initial Release Domestic Box office)

[4] M*A*S*H: p.527. $67.3 million (Initial Release Domestic Box office)

[4] "Patton, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 9, 2012.

[5] "Woodstock, Worldwide Box Office Information". Worldwide Box Office. Retrieved January 9, 2012.

[6] "The Aristocats Box Office Data". The Numbers. Retrieved November 10, 2014.

[7] "Little Big Man, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 9, 2012.

[8] "Ryan's Daughter, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved January 9, 2012.

[9] "Box Office Information for Tora! Tora! Tora!". The Numbers. Retrieved January 9, 2012.

[10] "Chariots of the Gods, Worldwide Box Office Information". Worldwide Box Office. Retrieved January 9, 2012.

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