1974 in film

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The year 1974 in film involved some significant events.

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

The top ten 1974 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1974
Rank	Title	Studio	Domestic gross
1.	Blazing Saddles	Warner Bros.	$119,500,000^[1]
2.	The Towering Inferno	20th Century Fox / Warner Bros.	$116,000,000^[2]
3.	The Trial of Billy Jack	Warner Bros.	$89,000,000^[3]
4.	Young Frankenstein	20th Century Fox	$86,273,333^[4]
5.	Earthquake	Universal Pictures	$79,666,653^[5]
6.	The Godfather Part II	Paramount Pictures	$47,542,841^[6]
7.	Airport 1975	Universal Pictures	$47,285,152^[7]
8.	The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams	Sunn Classic Pictures	$45,411,063^[8]
9.	The Longest Yard	Paramount Pictures	$43,008,075^[9]
10.	Benji	Mulberry Square Releasing	$39,552,000^[10]

Events[]

February 7 - Blazing Saddles is released in the USA.
June 20 - Chinatown, directed by Roman Polanski and featured Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, and John Huston, is released to worldwide critical acclaim.
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.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer celebrated its fiftieth anniversary with big fanfare from the studio, most significantly with its film release That's Entertainment!, a retrospective documentary that acknowledges and celebrates the importance and legacy of its prestigious film musicals (e.g. The Wizard of Oz, Singin' in the Rain, Meet Me in St. Louis, Gigi, An American in Paris, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, etc.) for the studio.
October, November, and December, 1974 - Three "disaster films" are released in three consecutive months: Airport 1975, Earthquake, and The Towering Inferno respectively. All were box office successes.
Kevin Costner made his film debut in Sizzle Beach, U.S.A., although the film was not released until 1986.

Awards[]

Category/Organization	32nd Golden Globe Awards January 25, 1975		28th BAFTA Awards February 18, 1975	47th Academy Awards April 8, 1975
Category/Organization	Drama	Musical or Comedy	28th BAFTA Awards February 18, 1975	47th Academy Awards April 8, 1975
Best Film	Chinatown	The Longest Yard	Lacombe, Lucien	The Godfather Part II
Best Director	Roman Polanski Chinatown		Roman Polanski Chinatown	Francis Ford Coppola The Godfather: Part II
Best Actor	Jack Nicholson Chinatown	Art Carney Harry and Tonto	Jack Nicholson The Last Detail / Chinatown	Art Carney Harry and Tonto
Best Actress	Gena Rowlands A Woman Under the Influence	Raquel Welch The Three Musketeers	Joanne Woodward Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams	Ellen Burstyn Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Best Supporting Actor	Fred Astaire The Towering Inferno		John Gielgud Murder on the Orient Express	Robert De Niro The Godfather: Part II
Best Supporting Actress	Karen Black The Great Gatsby		Ingrid Bergman Murder on the Orient Express	Ingrid Bergman Murder on the Orient Express
Best Screenplay, Adapted	Chinatown Robert Towne		Chinatown / The Last Detail Robert Towne	The Godfather: Part II Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo
Best Screenplay, Original	Chinatown Robert Towne		Chinatown / The Last Detail Robert Towne	Chinatown Robert Towne
Best Score	The Little Prince Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe		Murder on the Orient Express Richard Rodney Bennett	The Godfather: Part II Carmine Coppola and Nino Rota

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

Notable films released in 1974[]

Romance films released in 1974[]

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Births[]

January 5 - Daisy Bates, actress
January 30 - Christian Bale, English actor
February 9
- Amber Valletta, American model and actress
- Erra Fazira, Malaysian actress
March 24 - Alyson Hannigan, actress
April 24 - Jennifer Paz, Filipino actress
April 28 - Penélope Cruz, actress
May 21 - Fairuza Balk, actress
June 25 - Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress
July 8 - Tami Erin, American actress
July 22 - Franka Potente, actress
July 30 - Hilary Swank, actress
August 7 - Michael Shannon, actor
August 15 - Natasha Henstridge, Canadian actress
August 20 - Amy Adams, American actress
August 23 - Ray Park, English actor
September 10 - Ryan Phillippe, American actor
September 19 - Victoria Silvstedt, Swedish actress and model
October 17 - Matthew Macfadyen, English actor
October 28 - Joaquin Phoenix, Puerto Rican-born actor
November 11 - Leonardo DiCaprio, actor
November 16 - Chloë Sevigny, American actress
December 1 - Erica Rivas, Argentinian actress
December 7 - Habieb Naseer, Bollywood director
December 17
- Sarah Paulson, American actor
- Giovanni Ribisi, American actor

Notable deaths[]

Month	Date	Name	Age	Country	Profession	Notable films
January	2	Tex Ritter	68	USA	Actor, Singer	Trouble in Texas Where the Buffalo Roam
	3	Gino Cervi	72	Italy	Actor	Becket Black Eagle
	14	Paul Whitsun-Jones	50	UK	Actor	The Moonraker The Masque of the Red Death
	31	Samuel Goldwyn	94	Poland	Producer, Studio Executive	The Best Years of Our Lives Guys and Dolls
February	7	Arline Judge	61	USA	Actress	The Sin of Harold Diddlebock Pigskin Parade
	11	Anna Q. Nilsson	85	Sweden	Actress	Sunset Boulevard Sorrell and Son
	23	Florence Rice	67	USA	Actress	At the Circus Double Wedding
	28	Carole Lesley	38	UK	Actress	Woman in a Dressing Gown Three on a Spree
March	3	Barbara Ruick	43	USA	Actress	Carousel The Affairs of Dobie Gillis
	5	Billy De Wolfe	67	USA	Actor	Dixie Tea for Two
	7	Alberto Rabagliati	67	Italy	Actor, Singer	The Barefoot Contessa Street Angel
	13	Howard St. John	68	USA	Actor	Born Yesterday Li'l Abner
	19	Edward Platt	58	USA	Actor	North by Northwest Rebel Without a Cause
April	2	Douglass Dumbrille	84	Canada	Actor	Mr. Deeds Goes to Town The Ten Commandments
	10	Patricia Collinge	81	Ireland	Actress	Shadow of a Doubt The Nun's Story
	18	Betty Compson	77	USA	Actress	The Docks of New York The Miracle Man
	20	Peter Lee Lawrence	30	Germany	Actor	For a Few Dollars More Black Beauty
	24	Bud Abbott	76	USA	Actor	Abbott and Costello in Hollywood Little Giant
	24	Agnes Moorehead	73	USA	Actress	Citizen Kane The Magnificent Ambersons
May	18	Mary Maguire	55	Australia	Actress	The Outsider Sergeant Murphy
	24	Duke Ellington	75	USA	Composer	Paris Blues Anatomy of a Murder
	25	Donald Crisp	91	UK	Actress	How Green Was My Valley National Velvet
June	10	Lewis R. Foster	75	USA	Director, Screenwriter	Manhandled Hong Kong
	17	Pamela Britton	51	USA	Actress	Anchors Aweigh D.O.A.
	28	Frank Sutton	50	USA	Actor	Marty Town Without Pity
July	13	Joe Flynn	48	USA	Actor	McHale's Navy The Barefoot Executive
July	13	Marthe Vinot	79	France	Actress	Le Mort vivant Le Calvaire
August	13	Ilona Massey	64	Hungary	Actress	Invisible Agent Love Happy
September	6	Olga Baclanova	78	Russia	Actress	Freaks The Docks of New York
	6	Otto Kruger	89	USA	Actor	High Noon Magnificent Obsession
	14	Barbara Jo Allen	68	USA	Actress	Girl Rush Lake Placid Serenade
	14	Warren Hull	71	USA	Actor	Star Reporter Mandrake the Magician
	18	Edna Best	74	UK	Actress	The Man Who Knew Too Much The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
	21	Jacqueline Susann	56	USA	Author, Actress	Valley of the Dolls Once Is Not Enough
	21	Walter Brennan	80	USA	Actor	The Westerner Rio Bravo
	22	Stephanie Bidmead	45	UK	Actress	Invasion Running Scared
	27	James R. Webb	64	USA	Screenwriter	How the West Was Won Cape Fear
October	13	Ed Sullivan	73	USA	Actor	Bye Bye Birdie The Singing Nun
November	13	Vittorio De Sica	73	Italy	Actor, Director, Screenwriter	Bicycle Thieves Miracle in Milan
	14	Johnny Mack Brown	70	USA	Actor	Coquette Our Dancing Daughters
	25	Rosemary Lane	61	USA	Actress	Four Wives The Boys from Syracuse
December	5	Pietro Germi	60	Italy	Actor, Director, Screenwriter	Divorce, Italian Style Seduced and Abandoned
	10	Paul Richards	50	USA	Actor	The Houston Story Beneath the Planet of the Apes
	11	Reed Hadley	63	USA	Actor	The Baron of Arizona Big House, U.S.A.
	15	Anatole Litvak	72	Ukraine	Director, Producer	The Snake Pit Anastasia
	21	Richard Long	47	USA	Actor	House on Haunted Hill The Stranger
	26	Jack Benny	80	USA	Actor	To Be or Not to Be Broadway Melody of 1936

Film debuts[]

Armand Assante - The Lords of Flatbush
Chevy Chase - The Groove Tube
Jeff Goldblum - Death Wish
John Rhys-Davies - The Black Windmill
Fred Ward - Ginger in the Morning
Denzel Washington - Death Wish

References[]

↑ "Box Office Information for Blazing Saddles". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved December 28, 2011.
↑ "Box Office Information for The Towering Inferno". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved March 13, 2012.
↑ "Box Office Information for The Trial of Billy Jack". The Numbers. Retrieved May 16, 2014.
↑ "Box Office Information for Young Frankenstein". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved December 28, 2011.
↑ "Box Office Information for Earthquake". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved December 28, 2011.
↑ "Box Office Information for The Godfather Part II". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 26, 2014.
↑ "Box Office Information for Airport 1975". The Numbers. Retrieved December 28, 2011.
↑ "Box Office Information for The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams". The Numbers. Retrieved July 7, 2012.
↑ "Box Office Information for The Longest Yard". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved December 28, 2011.
↑ "Box Office Information for Benji". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved December 28, 2011.

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[1] "Box Office Information for Blazing Saddles". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved December 28, 2011.

[2] "Box Office Information for The Towering Inferno". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved March 13, 2012.

[3] "Box Office Information for The Trial of Billy Jack". The Numbers. Retrieved May 16, 2014.

[4] "Box Office Information for Young Frankenstein". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved December 28, 2011.

[5] "Box Office Information for Earthquake". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved December 28, 2011.

[6] "Box Office Information for The Godfather Part II". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 26, 2014.

[7] "Box Office Information for Airport 1975". The Numbers. Retrieved December 28, 2011.

[8] "Box Office Information for The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams". The Numbers. Retrieved July 7, 2012.

[9] "Box Office Information for The Longest Yard". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved December 28, 2011.

[10] "Box Office Information for Benji". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved December 28, 2011.

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