1974 in film

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Years in film:	1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977
Years in home video:	1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977
Years in television:	1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s
Years:	1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977

Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films 3 Awards 4 Films released in 1974 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

• February 7 - Blazing Saddles is released in USA
• May 1 - George Lucas creates the first draft of what would eventually become Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
• 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.
• Robert Redford has three films in the Top Ten at the North American box office, the first actor to do so since Bing Crosby in 1946.

[edit] Top grossing films

North America

1. The Towering Inferno
2. Blazing Saddles
3. Young Frankenstein
4. Earthquake
5. The Trial of Billy Jack
6. The Godfather Part II
7. Airport 1975
8. The Longest Yard
9. The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams
10. Murder on the Orient Express
11. Herbie Rides Again
12. Benji (see Benji)
13. Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry
14. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
15. The Great Gatsby

[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

• 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
• Barry Mckenzie Holds His Own
• The Beast Must Die
• Benji
• Black Christmas (1974 film)
• Blazing Saddles
• Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
• Caged Heat, directorial debut of Jonathan Demme
• The Cars That Ate Paris
• Chinatown
• The Clockmaker
• The Conversation by Francis Ford Coppola, Palme d'Or winner
• Dark Star directed by John Carpenter, starring Brian Narelle, Cal Kuniholm, Dre Pahich and Dan O'Bannon
• Death Wish
• 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 Four Musketeers
• The Front Page
• The Godfather Part II
• Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
• Great Expectations -(film only mentioned in article)
• The Great Gatsby
• Harry and Tonto
• Herbie Rides Again
• Jock Petersen
• The Klansman
• Lacombe Lucien
• The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams (redirects to Grizzly Adams - character)
• The Longest Yard
• The Lords of Flatbush
• Lovin' Molly
• Mame
• The Man with the Golden Gun
• McQ
• Murder on the Orient Express
• Parade
• Son of Dracula
• The Sugarland Express
• Sweet Movie
• The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, starring Walter Matthau
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
• That's Entertainment!
• Thieves Like Us
• 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
• 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
• August 15 - Natasha Henstridge, Canadian actress
• August 23 - Ray Park, British actor
• September 19 - Victoria Silvstedt, Swedish actress and model
• 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, actress
• 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