1977 in film

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The year 1977 in film involved some significant events, the biggest and most important of which was the release of Star Wars.

Highest-grossing films (US)[]

The top ten 1977 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1977
Rank	Title	Studio	Domestic gross
1.	Star Wars	20th Century Fox/Lucasfilm Ltd.	$307,263,857^[1]
2.	Smokey and the Bandit	Universal Pictures	$126,737,428^[2]
3.	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Columbia Pictures	$116,395,460^[3]
4.	The Goodbye Girl	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Warner Bros. / Rastar	$102,000,000^[4]
5.	Saturday Night Fever	Paramount Pictures	$94,213,184^[5]
6.	Oh, God!	Warner Bros.	$51,061,196^[6]
7.	A Bridge Too Far	United Artists	$50,750,000^[7]
8.	The Deep	Columbia Pictures	$47,346,365^[8]
9.	The Spy Who Loved Me	United Artists	$46,838,673^[9]
10.	Annie Hall	United Artists	$38,251,425^[10]

Events[]

March 28 - At the 49th Academy Awards, Rocky picks up the Academy Award for Best Picture. Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway, and Beatrice Straight all win Oscars for their performances in Network for Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actress, while Jason Robards wins for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in All the President's Men. He would win again the following year, becoming the only person to win two consecutive Best Supporting Actor awards.
May 25 - Star Wars opens in theaters and became the highest-grossing film of the year. The film revolutionizes the use of special effects in film and television production. It also popularizes the notion of omitting any sort of opening credits sequence. Lucas was told by the Screen Actors Guild that he must have an opening credits sequence, so he instead distributes the film independently, sans the opening credits. The film's release is often considered one of the most important events in the history of motion pictures.
June 22 - Walt Disney Productions releases The Rescuers, which brought back an interest in animation that had been lost to both film-goers and critics throughout the beginning of the 1970s.^[11]
November 16 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind opens to widespread critical acclaim and massive box office success, becoming one of the top-grossing films to date and cementing Steven Spielberg's status as one of the most talented and profitable film directors of all time.
The average price of a movie ticket in the United States is about $2.25.

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 - 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 and Vittorio Taviani, Italy

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

The Ascent (Voskhozhdeniye), directed by Larisa Shepitko, USSR

Notable films released in 1977[]

Romance films released in 1977[]

Births[]

January 7 - Dustin Diamond, American actor
January 8 - Amber Benson, American actress
January 13 - Orlando Bloom, English actor
January 19 - Taliesin Jaffe, American voice actor
January 28 - Joey Fatone, American singer and actor
January 31 - Kerry Washington, American actress
February 16 - Paul Brittain, American actor and comedian
March 2 - Heather McComb, American actress
March 8 - James Van Der Beek, American actor
March 9 - Lydia Mackay, American voice actress
March 24 - Jessica Chastain, American actress
March 25 - Édgar Ramírez, Venezuelan actor
April 2 - Michael Fassbender, Irish-German actor
April 10 - Stephanie Sheh, American voice actress
April 14 - Sarah Michelle Gellar, American actress
April 20 - Robert Wilfort, English actor
April 23 - Kal Penn, American actor
April 26 - Tom Welling, American actor
May 13 - Samantha Morton, English actress
May 16
- Melanie Lynskey, New Zealand actress
- Emilíana Torrini, Icelandic singer
May 19 - Kelly Sheridan, Canadian voice actress
May 20 - Matt Czuchry, American actor
June 1 - Danielle Harris, American actress
June 2 - Zachary Quinto, American actor
June 5 - Liza Weil, American actress
July 1 - Liv Tyler, American actress
July 6 - Craig Handley, writer
July 8 - Milo Ventimiglia, American actor
July 13 - Kari Wahlgren, American voice actress
July 27 - Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Irish actor
July 30 - Jaime Pressly, American actress
August 2 - Edward Furlong, American actor
September 15 - Tom Hardy, English actor
September 25 - Clea DuVall, American actress
October 7 - Brandon Quinn, American actor
October 8 - Jamie Marchi, American voice actress
October 11 - Matthew Bomer, American actor
October 26 - Jon Heder, American actor
November 10 - Brittany Murphy, actress (d. 2009)
November 14 - Brian Dietzen, American actor
November 15 - Sean Murray, American actor
November 16 - Maggie Gyllenhaal, American actress
December 8 - Matthias Schoenaerts, Belgian actor
December 10 - Emmanuelle Chriqui, Canadian actress
December 15 - Geoff Stults, American actor

Notable deaths[]

Month	Date	Name	Age	Country	Profession	Notable films
January	3	Tom Gries	54	USA	Director	Will Penny The Hawaiians
	6	Niall MacGinnis	63	Ireland	Actor	Martin Luther Helen of Troy
	12	Henri-Georges Clouzot	69	France	Director, Screenwriter	The Wages of Fear Les Diaboliques
	14	Peter Finch	60	UK	Actor	Network Sunday Bloody Sunday
	18	Yvonne Printemps	82	France	Actress, Singer	Le Voyage en Amérique The Duel
	26	Margaret Hayes	60	USA	Actress	Blackboard Jungle Good Day for a Hanging
	31	Daniel Mainwaring	74	USA	Screenwriter	Out of the Past Invasion of the Body Snatchers
February	17	Edward G. Boyle	78	Canada	Production Designer	The Apartment Gone with the Wind
	18	Andy Devine	71	US	Actor	Stagecoach The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
	27	Allison Hayes	46	US	Actress	Count Three and Pray Gunslinger
	28	Eddie "Rochester" Anderson	71	US	Actor	Cabin in the Sky It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
March	25	Nunnally Johnson	79	US	Screenwriter, Director	The Grapes of Wrath The Dirty Dozen
April	21	Gummo Marx	83	US	Actor, Agent
April	28	Ricardo Cortez	76	US	Actor	The Case of the Black Cat The Maltese Falcon
May	10	Joan Crawford	71	US	Actress	Mildred Pierce What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
May	31	William Castle	63	US	Producer, Director	Rosemary's Baby House on Haunted Hill
June	2	Stephen Boyd	45	Ireland	Actor	Ben-Hur Fantastic Voyage
	3	Roberto Rossellini	71	Italy	Director, Screenwriter	Rome, Open City Germany, Year Zero
	5	Luis César Amadori	75	Italy/Argentina	Director, Screenwriter	Almafuerte Albéniz
	13	Matthew Garber	21	UK	Actor	Mary Poppins The Gnome-Mobile
	14	Alan Reed	69	US	Actor	Breakfast at Tiffany's Viva Zapata!
	14	Robert Middleton	66	US	Actor	Friendly Persuasion The Desperate Hours
	19	Geraldine Brooks	51	US	Actress	An Act of Murder The Reckless Moment
	20	Abner Biberman	68	US	Director, Actor	The Night Runner Behind the High Wall
July	2	William H. Ziegler	67	US	Film Editor	My Fair Lady Auntie Mame
July	22	Erik Chitty	70	UK	Actor	Doctor Zhivago Lola
August	3	Alfred Lunt	84	US	Actor	Sally of the Sawdust Second Youth
	14	George Oppenheimer	77	US	Screenwriter	Libeled Lady Adventures of Don Juan
	16	Elvis Presley	42	US	Actor, Singer	Love Me Tender Blue Hawaii
	17	Delmer Daves	73	US	Screenwriter, Director	3:10 to Yuma Dark Passage
	19	Groucho Marx	86	US	Actor, Screenwriter	Duck Soup A Night at the Opera
	19	Peter Dyneley	56	UK	Actor	Thunderbirds Are Go Thunderbird 6
	21	Danny Lockin	34	US	Actor	Hello Dolly!
	22	Sebastian Cabot	59	UK	Actor	The Time Machine The Jungle Book
	22	Alex Segal	62	US	Director	Ransom! Harlow
	29	Jean Hagen	54	US	Actress	Singin' in the Rain The Asphalt Jungle
	31	H. C. Potter	72	US	Director	Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House The Farmer's Daughter
September	2	Stephen Dunne	59	US	Actor	Ten Thousand Bedrooms The Woman from Tangier
September	8	Zero Mostel	62	US	Actor	The Producers A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
October	3	Tay Garnett	83	US	Director	The Postman Always Rings Twice Cheers for Miss Bishop
	5	Fred F. Finklehoffe	67	US	Screenwriter	Meet Me in St. Louis The Stooge
	14	Bing Crosby	74	US	Actor, Singer	Going My Way White Christmas
	31	Joan Tetzel	56	US	Actress	The Paradine Case The File on Thelma Jordon
November	9	Gertrude Astor	90	US	Actress	The Strong Man The Cat and the Canary
	25	Richard Carlson	65	US	Actor	Creature from the Black Lagoon The Helen Morgan Story
	30	Olga Petrova	93	UK	Actress, Screenwriter	Exile To the Death
	30	Terence Rattigan	66	UK	Screenwriter	The Yellow Rolls-Royce The V.I.P.s
December	4	Leila Hyams	72	US	Actress	Freaks Island of Lost Souls
	19	Jacques Tourneur	73	France	Director	Out of the Past Cat People
	25	Charlie Chaplin	88	UK	Actor, Director, Screenwriter	The Great Dictator Modern Times
	26	Howard Hawks	81	US	Director	The Big Sleep Rio Bravo
	28	Charlotte Greenwood	87	US	Actress	Oklahoma! The Opposite Sex

Film debuts[]

Dan Aykroyd - Love at First Sight
Brian Dennehy - Semi-Tough
Mel Gibson - Summer City
John Goodman - Jailbait Babysitter
Steve Guttenberg - Rollercoaster
Tom Hulce - September 30, 1955
Helen Hunt - Rollercoaster
Bruce McGill - Handle with Care
Kevin McNally - The Spy Who Loved Me
Sam Neill - Sleeping Dogs
Pete Postlethwaite - The Duellists
Meryl Streep - Julia
Sigourney Weaver - Annie Hall
Robin Williams - Can I Do It... 'Till I Need Glasses?

References[]

↑ "Star Wars, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 26, 2014.
↑ "Smokey and the Bandit, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
↑ "Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 26, 2014.
↑ Box Office Information for The Goodbye Girl. Worldwide Box Office. September 13, 2013.
↑ "Saturday Night Fever, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 26, 2014.
↑ "Box Office Information for Oh, God!". The Numbers. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
↑ "A Bridge Too Far (1977) , Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2016-11-18.
↑ "The Deep, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 26, 2014.
↑ "The Spy Who Loved Me, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
↑ "Annie Hall, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
↑ http://www.cataroo.com/DBrescu.html

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[1] "Star Wars, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 26, 2014.

[2] "Smokey and the Bandit, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 26, 2012.

[3] "Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 26, 2014.

[4] Box Office Information for The Goodbye Girl. Worldwide Box Office. September 13, 2013.

[5] "Saturday Night Fever, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 26, 2014.

[6] "Box Office Information for Oh, God!". The Numbers. Retrieved January 26, 2012.

[7] "A Bridge Too Far (1977) , Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2016-11-18.

[8] "The Deep, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 26, 2014.

[9] "The Spy Who Loved Me, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 26, 2012.

[10] "Annie Hall, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 26, 2012.

[11] ttp://www.cataroo.com/DBrescu.html

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