The year 1974 in film involved some significant events. [edit] Events [edit] Top grossing films (U.S.) | Rank | Title | Studio | Gross | | 1. | The Towering Inferno | 20th Century Fox / Warner Brothers | $48,838,000 | | 2. | Blazing Saddles | Warner Brothers | $47,800,000 | | 3. | Young Frankenstein | 20th Century Fox | $38,823,000 | | 4. | Earthquake | Universal | $35,850,000 | | 5. | The Trial of Billy Jack | Tay-Lau/Warner Brothers | $31,100,000 | | 6. | The Godfather Part II | Paramount | $30,673,000 | | 7. | Airport 1975 | Universal | $25,306,000 | | 8. | The Longest Yard | Paramount | $23,017,000 | | 9. | The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams | Sunn | $21,895,000 | | 10. | Murder on the Orient Express | Paramount | $19,124,000 | source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1974.shtml [edit] Awards Academy Awards: - Best Picture: The Godfather, Part II - Coppola Company, Paramount
- Best Director: Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather, Part II
- Best Actor: Art Carney - Harry and Tonto
- Best Actress: Ellen Burstyn - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
- Best Supporting Actor: Robert De Niro - The Godfather, Part II
- Best Supporting Actress: Ingrid Bergman - Murder on the Orient Express
- Best Foreign Language Film: Amarcord, directed by Federico Fellini, Italy
Golden Globe Awards: - Drama:
- Best Picture: Chinatown
- Best Actor: Jack Nicholson - Chinatown
- Best Actress: Gena Rowlands - A Woman Under the Influence
- Musical or comedy:
- Best Picture: The Longest Yard
- Best Actor: Art Carney - Harry and Tonto
- Best Actress: Raquel Welch - The Three Musketeers
- Other
- Best Director: Roman Polanski - Chinatown
- Best Foreign Language Film: Scenes from a Marriage, Sweden
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
[edit] Films released in 1974 - The 6 Ultra Brothers vs. the Monster Army
- Abby
- Aina
- Airport 1975
- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
- Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, directed by Martin Scorsese
- All Creatures Great and Small
- Alvin Rides Again (aka Alvin Purple Rides Again)
- Animals Are Beautiful People
- Flesh for Frankenstein (aka Andy Warhol's Frankenstein)
- The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Golden Bear winner
- The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (Made for TV)
- Barry Mckenzie Holds His Own
- The Bears and I
- The Beast Must Die
- Benji
- Black Christmas
- Blazing Saddles
- Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
- Caged Heat, directorial debut of Jonathan Demme
- California Split
- Carry On Dick
- The Cars That Ate Paris
- Chinatown
- Claudine
- The Clockmaker
- The Conversation by Francis Ford Coppola, Palme d'Or winner
- The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder
- Dark Star, directed by John Carpenter
- Day for Night
- Death Wish, directed by Michael Winner and starring Charles Bronson
- Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry
- Dreams and Nightmares - (Abe Osheroff)
- Earthquake
- The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (aka Every Man For Himself and God Against All)
- F for Fake (originally Vérités et Mensonges)
- The Front Page
- Ginger in the Morning
- The Godfather Part II
- Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
- The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
- Gone in 60 Seconds
- Great Expectations
- The Great Gatsby
- Harry and Tonto
- Herbie Rides Again
- The Island at the Top of the World
- Jock Petersen
- The Klansman
- Lacombe Lucien
- Lenny
- The Longest Yard
- The Lords of Flatbush
- Lovin' Molly
- Mame
- The Man with the Golden Gun
- McQ
- Murder on the Orient Express
- The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat
- The Odessa File (film)
- Parade
- The Parallax View
- Return of The Street Fighter
- Sister Street Fighter
- Sister Street Fighter Hanging by a Thread
- Son of Dracula
- The Street Fighter
- The Street Fighter's Last Revenge
- The Sugarland Express
- Superdad
- Sweet Movie
- Symptoms
- The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, starring Walter Matthau
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
- That's Entertainment!
- Thieves Like Us
- The Three Musketeers
- Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
- The Towering Inferno, starring Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway and Fred Astaire
- The Trial of Billy Jack
- UFO: Target Earth
- Vampyres
- A Woman Under the Influence
- Way of the Dragon (U.S. release)
- Where the Lilies Bloom
- Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too! (short subject)
- Young Frankenstein, directed by Mel Brooks, starring Gene Wilder, Teri Garr, and Madeline Kahn
- Zardoz, starring Sean Connery and Charlotte Rampling
[edit] Births - January 5 - Daisy Bates, actress
- January 30 - Christian Bale, English actor
- March 24 - Alyson Hannigan, actress
- April 28 - Penélope Cruz, actress
- May 21 - Fairuza Balk, actress
- June 25 - Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress
- July 30 - Hillary Swank, actress
- August 15 - Natasha Henstridge, Canadian actress
- August 20 - Amy Adams, American actress
- August 23 - Ray Park, English actor
- September 19 - Victoria Silvstedt, Swedish actress and model
- October 28 - Joaquin Phoenix, Puerto Rican-born actor
- November 11 - Leonardo DiCaprio, actor
- November 16 - Chloë Sevigny, American actress
[edit] Deaths - January 31 - Samuel Goldwyn, film producer
- February 7 - Arline Judge, actress
- February 11 - Anna Q. Nilsson, actress
- February 23 - Florence Rice, actress
- February 28 - Carole Lesley, actress
- March 5 - Billy De Wolfe, actor
- March 7 - Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor
- March 19 - Edward Platt, actor
- April 2 – Douglass Dumbrille, actor
- April 10 - Patricia Collinge, actress
- April 24 - Bud Abbott, actor, best known as straight man to Lou Costello
- April 30 - Agnes Moorehead, actress
- May 25 - Donald Crisp, actor
- August 20 - Ilona Massey, actress
- September 6 - Olga Baclanova, actress
- September 18 - Edna Best, actress
- September 21 - Walter Brennan, actor
- September 21 - Jacqueline Susann, former actress, author of Valley of the Dolls
- October 13 - Ed Sullivan, television host, actor
- November 13 - Vittorio De Sica, Italian director
- November 14 - Johnny Mack Brown, actor
- December 15 - Anatole Litvak, director
- December 21 - Richard Long, actor
- December 26 - Jack Benny, actor
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