1976 in film
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[edit] Events
- March 22 - Filming begins on George Lucas' Star Wars science fiction film. In one of the best business decisions in film history, Lucas cuts his directing fee by $500,000 to gain ownership of merchandising and sequel rights
[edit] Top grossing films
- North America
- Rocky
- A Star Is Born
- King Kong
- Silver Streak
- All the President's Men
- The Omen
- The Bad News Bears
- The Enforcer
- In Search of Noah's Ark
- Midway
- To Fly!
- The Pink Panther Strikes Again
- Murder by Death
- Marathon Man
[edit] Awards
- Best Picture: Rocky - Chartoff-Winkler, United Artists
- Best Director: John G. Avildsen - Rocky
- Best Actor: Peter Finch - Network (first actor to win posthumously)
- Best Actress: Faye Dunaway - Network
- Best Supporting Actor: Jason Robards Jr - All the President's Men
- Best Supporting Actress: Beatrice Straight - Network
- Best Foreign Language Film: Noirs et blancs en couleur (Black and White in Color), directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, Ivory Coast / France / W. Germany / Switzerland
- Drama:
- Best Picture: Rocky
- Best Actor: Arnold Schwarzenegger - Stay Hungry
- Best Actress: Faye Dunaway - Network
- Musical or Comedy:
- Best Picture: A Star Is Born
- Best Actor: Kris Kristofferson - A Star Is Born
- Best Actress: Barbra Streisand - A Star Is Born
- Other
- Best Director: Sidney Lumet - Network
- Best Foreign Language Film: Face to Face, Sweden
PALM D'OR (Cannes Film Festival):
- Taxi Driver, directed by Martin Scorsese, United States
GOLDEN BEAR (Berlin Film Festival):
- Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson, directed by Robert Altman, United States
[edit] Films released in 1976
- 1900 by Bernardo Bertolucci
- All the President's Men, starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford
- Any Day Now (aka Vandaag of morgen)
- The Ascent Golden Bear winner
- Assault on Precinct 13
- Bad News Bears
- Bound for Glory
- Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson Golden Bear winner
- Bugsy Malone
- Caddie starring Helen Morse
- Carrie, starring Sissy Spacek
- Cousin, cousine
- The Divine Nymph
- Don's Party - John Hardgreaves, Graham Kennedy, Veronica Lang, Ray Barrett and Clarie Biney, directed by Bruce Beresford, written by David Williamson
- The Enforcer
- Face to Face
- Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000
- King Kong, starring Jessica Lange and Jeff Bridges
- The Last Hard Men, a western starring Charlton Heston and James Coburn
- Leadbelly
- Logan's Run
- The Man Who Fell to Earth, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring David Bowie
- Marathon Man, starring Dustin Hoffman
- The Marquis of O
- A Matter of Time
- Midway
- Mikey and Nicky
- The Message- ("Mohammad, Messenger of God")
- Murder by Death
- Network
- Noirs et blancs en couleur (Black and White in Color), Academy Award for Best Foreign Picture
- Obsession starring Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold
- The Omen
- Oz or 20th Century Oz, a Rock 'N' Roll Road Movie, starring Bruce Spence, Joy Dunstan + Graham Matters
- The Pink Panther Strikes Again
- Robin and Marian
- Rocky
- Sebastiane
- Seven Beauties
- Silent Movie
- Silver Streak - Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor
- The Slipper and the Rose
- A Star Is Born
- Stay Hungry
- Storm Boy
- Taxi Driver, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel and Jodie Foster
- To Fly!
- Voyage of the Damned
- Welcome to L.A.
[edit] Births
- January 3 - Jason Marsden, actor.
- January 6 - Danny Pintauro, actor
- February 11 - Brice Beckham, actor.
- February 28 - Ja Rule, actor/rap singer/songwriter.
- March 22 - Reese Witherspoon, actress.
- April 15 - Susan Ward, actress.
- August 9 - Audrey Tautou, French actress.
- September 7 - Shannon Elizabeth, actress.
- October 4 - Alicia Silverstone, actress.
[edit] Deaths
- January 12 - Agatha Christie, writer
- January 23 - Paul Robeson, actor, singer
- February 11 - Lee J Cobb, actor.
- February 11 - Alice Allyn, actress.
- February 11 - Charlie Naughton, actor.
- February 12 - Sal Mineo, actor
- February 26 - Frieda Inescort, actress
- March 14 - Busby Berkeley, director
- March 17 - Luchino Visconti, Italian theatre and cinema director.
- June 6 - Victor Varconi, actor
- June 9 - Sybil Thorndike, actress
- August 27 - Mukesh, singer
- October 14 - Edith Evans, actress
- November 15 - Jean Gabin, actor
- November 28 - Rosalind Russell, actress
