The year 1977 in film involved some significant events. [edit] Events [edit] Top grossing films (U.S.) | Rank | Title | Studio | Gross | | 1. | Star Wars* | 20th Century Fox | $460,000,000 | | 2. | Close Encounters of the Third Kind* | Columbia | $303,790,000 | | 3. | The Rescuers* | Disney | $74,100,000 | | 4. | Saturday Night Fever | Paramount | $58,950,000 | | 5. | The Goodbye Girl | MGM/Warner Brothers | $41,839,000 | | 6. | Oh, God! | Warner Brothers | $31,500,000 | | 7. | The Deep | Columbia | $31,266,000 | | 8. | Smokey and the Bandit* | Universal | $30,090,000 | | 9. | The Spy Who Loved Me | United Artists | $24,365,000 | | 10. | Semi-Tough | United Artists | $22,941,000 | (*) After at least 1 theatrical re-issue
source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1977.shtml [edit] 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 Jr. - 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 Taviani and Vittorio Taviani, Italy
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival): - The Ascent (Voskhozhdeniye), directed by Larisa Shepitko, USSR
[edit] Films released in 1977 - ABBA: The Movie
- Airport '77
- Allegro non troppo
- The Amazing Spider-Man
- Annie Hall
- Audrey Rose
- The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training
- A Bridge Too Far
- The Car
- The Choirboys
- Cinderella
- Citizen's Band
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Cross of Iron
- The Deep
- Demon Seed
- Dot and the Kangaroo
- The Duellists
- Equus
- Eraserhead
- Exorcist II: The Heretic
- Fun with Dick and Jane
- The Gauntlet
- The Goodbye Girl
- Grand Theft Auto
- The Greatest
- The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington
- Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
- High Anxiety
- The Hills Have Eyes
- The Hobbit
- I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
- The Island of Dr. Moreau
- Julia
- Kentucky Fried Movie
- The Late Show
- Looking for Mr. Goodbar, starring Diane Keaton
- MacArthur, starring Gregory Peck
- Madame Rosa Academy Award for Best Foreign Film
- The Magic Pony
- The Man Who Loved Women
- The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
- Mogliamante - (Wifemistress)
- Mohammad, Messenger of God (also marketed as The Message)
- New York, New York, directed by Martin Scorsese
- Oh, God!, starring George Burns
- Orca, Starring Richard Harris and Bo Derek
- Padre Padrone - Palme d'Or winner
- Pete's Dragon
- Picture Show Man
- Portrait of a Hitman
- Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown
- The Rescuers
- Rollercoaster
- Saturday Night Fever
- Semi-Tough
- Smokey and the Bandit
- Soldier of Orange, starring Rutger Hauer, directed by Paul Verhoeven
- A Special Day
- The Spy Who Loved Me
- Star Wars
- Stroszek
- Slap Shot
- Suspiria, by Dario Argento
- That Obscure Object of Desire
- 3 Women
- That's Carry On!
- Tongpan
- The Turning Point
- 21 Up
- Thunder and Lightning
- Twilight's Last Gleaming
- Walking Tall: The Final Chapter, starring Bo Svenson
- The War in Space
- Wilma - Shirley Jo Finney, Cicely Tyson, Denzel Washington
- Wifemistress
- Wizards
[edit] Births - January 13 - Orlando Bloom, actor
- March 13 - Joseph Ruggieri, Producer
- April 14 - Sarah Michelle Gellar, Actress
- April 26 - Tom Welling, actor
- April 28 - Adnan Tezer, actor, writer
- May 16 - Melanie Lynskey, actress
- June 2 - Zachary Quinto, writer
- July 6 - Craig Handley, writer
- July 1 - Liv Tyler, actress
- September 25 - Clea DuVall, actress
- August 24 - Anthony Marchitiello, Film Director
[edit] Deaths - January 14 - Peter Finch, actor
- January 19 - Yvonne Printemps, French singer, actress
- January 29 - Freddie Prinze, actor/comedian
- March 25 - Nunnally Johnson, director
- April 21 - Gummo Marx, actor/agent
- May 10 - Joan Crawford, actress
- June 2 - Stephen Boyd, actor
- June 3 - Roberto Rossellini, Italian director
- June 5 - Luis César Amadori, Italian/Argentine director
- June 19 - Geraldine Brooks, actress
- August 3 - Alfred Lunt, actor
- August 16 - Elvis Presley, singer, actor
- August 19 - Groucho Marx, comedian
- August 29 - Jean Hagen, actress
- October 14 - Bing Crosby, American singer and actor
- November 9 - Gertrude Astor, actress
- November 30 - Olga Petrova silent film and stage actress
- December 4 - Leila Hyams, actress
- December 25 - Charlie Chaplin, star of silent film
- December 26 - Howard Hawks, director
- December 28 - Charlotte Greenwood, actress
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