1976 in film
The year 1976 in film involved some significant events.
Events
Top grossing films (U.S.)
| Rank |
Title |
Studio |
Actors |
Director |
Gross |
| 1. |
Rocky |
United Artists |
Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Carl Weathers, Burt Young and Burgess Meredith |
John G. Avildsen |
$117,235,147 |
| 2. |
A Star is Born |
Warner Bros. |
Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson |
Frank Pierson |
$80,000,000 |
| 3. |
All the President's Men |
Warner Bros. |
Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Hal Holbrook, Jason Robards, and Jane Alexander |
Alan J. Pakula |
$70,600,000 |
| 4. |
The Omen |
Fox |
Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, and David Warner |
Richard Donner |
$60,922,980 |
| 5. |
King Kong |
Paramount |
Jeff Bridges, Jessica Lange, Charles Grodin and René Auberjonois |
John Guillermin |
$52,614,445 |
| 6. |
Silver Streak |
Fox |
Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh and Richard Pryor |
Arthur Hiller |
$51,079,064 |
| 7. |
The Enforcer |
Warner Bros. |
Clint Eastwood |
James Fargo |
$46,236,000 |
| 8. |
Murder By Death |
Columbia Pictures |
David Niven, Maggie Smith, Peter Sellers, Truman Capote, Alec Guinness, James Coco, Elsa Lanchester, Eileen Brennan, and Peter Falk |
Robert Moore |
$32,511,047 |
| 9. |
Carrie |
United Artists |
Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, John Travolta, William Katt, Amy Irving and Nancy Allen |
Brian De Palma |
$32,211,330 |
| 10. |
Family Plot |
Universal |
Barbara Harris, Bruce Dern, Karen Black and William Devane |
Alfred Hitchcock |
$23,770,000 |
Awards
Academy 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
Golden Globe Awards:
- Drama:
- Best Picture: Rocky
- Best Actor: Peter Finch - Network
- 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
Palme 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
Films released in 1976
U.S.A. unless stated #
A
B
- Baby Blue Marine, starring Jan-Michael Vincent
- The Bad News Bears, directed by Michael Ritchie, starring Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal, Vic Morrow, Jackie Earle Haley
- The Big Bus, starring Joseph Bologna, Stockard Channing, John Beck
- The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings, starring Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones, Richard Pryor
- Black and White in Color (La Victoire en chantant), directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud - (France) - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film
- The Blank Generation, with Patti Smith Group, Television, Ramones and Talking Heads
- Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw, starring Marjoe Gortner and Lynda Carter
- Bound for Glory, a biopic of Woody Guthrie directed by Hal Ashby, starring David Carradine
- Brother and Sister - (Japan)
- Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson, directed by Robert Altman, starring Paul Newman, Geraldine Chaplin, Burt Lancaster - Golden Bear winner
- Bugsy Malone, directed by Alan Parker, starring Scott Baio and Jodie Foster - (U.K.)
- Burnt Offerings, starring Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Bette Davis
C
- Caddie, starring Helen Morse - (Australia)
- Car Wash, starring Franklin Ajaye and Richard Pryor
- Caro Michele, directed by Mario Monicelli - (Italy)
- Carrie, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving
- Carry On England - (U.K.)
- The Cassandra Crossing, starring Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Burt Lancaster, Lee Strasberg, Martin Sheen - (U.K.)
- Chinese Roulette (Chinesisches Roulette), directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder - (West Germany)
- Coup de Grâce (Der Fangschuß), directed by Volker Schlöndorff - (West Germany/France)
- A Cricket in the Ear (Shturets v uhoto) - (Bulgaria)
D
E-F
- The Eagle Has Landed, starring Michael Caine and Donald Sutherland - (U.K./U.S.A.)
- Eat My Dust, directed by Ron Howard
- The Enforcer, starring Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Tyne Daly
- Escape from the Dark, starring Alastair Sim - (U.K.)
- Face to Face (Ansikte mot ansikte), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Liv Ullman and Erland Josephson - (Sweden)
- Family Plot, directed by Alfred Hitchcock (his final film), starring Barbara Harris, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, William Devane
- Fellini's Casanova, directed by Federico Fellini, starring Donald Sutherland - (Italy)
- "The First Nudie Musical", directed by Bruce Kimmel, starring Cindy Williams, Stephen Nathan, Diana Canova
- Freaky Friday, directed by Gary Nelson, starring Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster
- From Noon till Three, starring Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland
- The Front, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Woody Allen, Zero Mostel, Andrea Marcovicci, Michael Murphy
- Fumō Chitai - (Japan)
- Futureworld, starring Peter Fonda and Blythe Danner
G-H
I-K
- Illustrious Corpses (Cadaveri eccellenti), directed by Francesco Rosi, starring Lino Ventura - (Italy)
- In Search of Noah's Ark
- In the Realm of the Senses (Ai no Korīda), directed by Nagisa Oshima - (Japan)
- L'innocente, directed by Luchino Visconti - (Italy)
- The Inugamis, directed by Kon Ichikawa - (Japan)
- J.D.'s Revenge
- Je t'aime moi non plus (I Love You...Me Neither), directed by Serge Gainsbourg, starring Jane Birkin and Joe Dallesandro - (France)
- Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (Jonas qui aura 25 ans en l'an 2000) - (Switzerland/France)
- The Judge and the Assassin (Le Juge et l'assassin), directed by Bertrand Tavernier, starring Philippe Noiret and Isabelle Huppert - (France)
- Kabhie Kabhie (Sometimes), starring Shashi Kapoor - (India)
- Kalicharan - (India)
- The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, directed by John Cassavetes, starring Ben Gazzara, Timothy Carey and Seymour Cassel
- King Kong, directed by John Guillermin, starring Jessica Lange and Jeff Bridges
- King Kung Fu
- Kings of the Road (Im Lauf der Zeit), directed by Wim Wenders - (West Germany)
L
- The Last Hard Men, a western starring Charlton Heston and James Coburn
- The Last Tycoon, directed by Elia Kazan, starring Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jeanne Moreau, Jack Nicholson
- Leadbelly, a biopic directed by Gordon Parks
- Lipstick, starring Margaux Hemingway, Mariel Hemingway, Chris Sarandon
- The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, starring Jodie Foster and Martin Sheen
- Logan's Run, directed by Michael Anderson, starring Michael York, Richard Jordan, Jenny Agutter
M
- Mako: The Jaws of Death, directed by William Grefe, starring Richard Jaeckel
- The Man on the Roof (Mannen på taket), directed by Bo Widerberg - (Sweden)
- The Man Who Fell to Earth, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark - (U.K.)
- Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (Marečku, podejte mi pero!) - (Czechoslovakia)
- Marathon Man, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Dustin Hoffman, Roy Scheider, Laurence Olivier
- The Marquise of O, directed by Éric Rohmer - (West Germany/France)
- A Matter of Time, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Ingrid Bergman, Liza Minnelli, Charles Boyer, Isabella Rossellini - (U.S.A./Italy)
- The Memory of Justice, a documentary film by Marcel Ophuls - (France/West Germany/U.K./U.S.A.)
- Midway, starring Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, Toshirō Mifune
- Mikey and Nicky, directed by Elaine May
- The Missouri Breaks, directed by Arthur Penn, starring Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson
- Mohammad: Messenger of God, directed by Moustapha Akkad, starring Anthony Quinn - (Morocco/Libya)
- Mother, Jugs & Speed, directed by Peter Yates, starring Bill Cosby, Raquel Welch, Harvey Keitel
- Mr. Klein, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Alain Delon and Jeanne Moreau - (France)
- Murder by Death, starring Peter Sellers, David Niven, Maggie Smith, Alec Guinness, Peter Falk, Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote
- The Mysterious Monsters, starring Peter Graves and Peter Hurkos
N-O
- Network, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Peter Finch, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Robert Duvall
- Next Stop, Greenwich Village, starring Shelley Winters, Lenny Baker, Ellen Greene
- Nickelodeon, directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Ryan O'Neal, Burt Reynolds, Tatum O'Neal
- No Deposit, No Return, starring David Niven, Darren McGavin, Don Knotts, Barbara Feldon, Kim Richards
P-Q
- Obsession, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, John Lithgow
- The Omen, directed by Richard Donner, starring Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Billie Whitelaw
- The Outlaw Josey Wales, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood with Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, John Vernon
- Oz or 20th Century Oz, a Rock 'N' Roll Road Movie, starring Bruce Spence, Joy Dunstan - (Australia)
- The Pink Panther Strikes Again, starring Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Lesley-Anne Down - (U.K.)
R
- Raise Ravens (Cria Cuervos), directed by Carlos Saura, starring Geraldine Chaplin - (Spain)
- Rich Man, Poor Man, starring Nick Nolte and Peter Strauss
- The Ritz, starring Rita Moreno and Jerry Stiller
- Robin and Marian, directed by Richard Lester, starring Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn, Robert Shaw - (U.K./U.S.A.)
- Rocky, directed by John G. Avildsen, starring Sylvester Stallone, Burgess Meredith, Carl Weathers, Talia Shire
- Rogue Male, starring Peter O'Toole - (U.K.)
S
- The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, starring Kris Kristofferson
- Salon Kitty, directed by Tinto Brass
- Scorchy, starring Connie Stevens
- Sebastiane, directed by Derek Jarman - (U.K.)
- Seclusion Near a Forest (Na samotě u lesa), directed by Jiří Menzel - (Czechoslovakia)
- Seven Beauties (Pasqualino Settebellezze), starring Fernando Rey - (Italy)
- The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Nicol Williamson, Robert Duvall, Alan Arkin, Laurence Olivier - (U.K./U.S.A.)
- The Shaggy D.A., starring Dean Jones and Suzanne Pleshette
- The Shootist, directed by Don Siegel, starring John Wayne (his final film), Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, James Stewart
- Shout at the Devil, starring Lee Marvin, Roger Moore - (U.K.)
- Silent Movie, directed by and starring Mel Brooks, with Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise, Bernadette Peters
- Silver Streak, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Jill Clayburgh
- Sister Street Fighter Fifth Level Fist
- The Slipper and the Rose, directed by Bryan Forbes, starring Gemma Craven and Richard Chamberlain - (U.K.)
- Small Change (L'Argent de poche), directed by François Truffaut - (France)
- The Smurfs and the Magic Flute (La Flûte à six schtroumpfs) - (Belgium)
- Snuff - (Argentina/U.S.A.)
- The Song Remains the Same, featuring Led Zeppelin - (U.K./U.S.A.)
- Sparkle, starring Irene Cara
- Squirm
- A Star Is Born, starring Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson
- Stay Hungry, directed by Bob Rafelson, starring Jeff Bridges, Sally Field, Arnold Schwarzenegger
- St. Ives, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Charles Bronson
- Storm Boy, starring David Gulpilil - (Australia)
- Swashbuckler, starring Robert Shaw
T
- Taxi Driver, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Albert Brooks, Jodie Foster
- The Tenant (Le Locataire), directed by and starring Roman Polanski, with Isabelle Adjani and Melvyn Douglas - (France)
- That's Entertainment, Part 2
- To Fly!
- To the Devil a Daughter, starring Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Honor Blackman, Nastassja Kinski - (U.K.)
- Todo modo, starring Gian Maria Volonté and Marcello Mastroianni - (Italy)
- Tosun Pasa - (Turkey)
- Treasure of Matecumbe
- Two-Minute Warning, starring Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, David Janssen, Jack Klugman, Martin Balsam, Beau Bridges
U-V
- Ugly, Dirty and Bad (Brutti, sporchi e cattivi), directed by Ettore Scola, starring Nino Manfredi - (Italy)
- Up!, directed by Russ Meyer, featuring Raven de la Croix
- Vigilante Force
- Voyage of the Damned, starring Faye Dunaway, Lee Grant, James Mason, Katharine Ross, Max von Sydow, Orson Welles, Oskar Werner - (U.K.)
W-Z
Births
- January 6 - Danny Pintauro, actor
- February 11 - Brice Beckham, actor.
- February 11 - Kelly Macdonald, actress.
- March 16 - Paul Schneider, actor.
- March 22 - Reese Witherspoon, actress.
- March 23 - Michelle Monaghan, actress.
- April 13 - Jonathan Brandis, actor.(d.2003)
- April 15 - Susan Ward, actress.
- April 23 - Gabriel Damon, actor.
- April 27 - Sally Hawkins, actor.
- May 25 - Cillian Murphy, Irish actor
- July 15 - Diane Kruger, German actress.
- August 9 - Audrey Tautou, French actress.
- September 7 - Shannon Elizabeth, actress.
- October 4 - Alicia Silverstone, actress.
- October 23 - Ryan Reynolds, actor
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
- April 5 - Howard Hughes, American director, producer, editor
- April 26 - Sid James, actor
- June 5 - Violet Wilkey, actress
- June 6 - Victor Varconi, actor
- June 9 - Sybil Thorndike, actress
- August 6 - William Mervyn, actor
- October 14 - Edith Evans, actress
- November 15 - Jean Gabin, actor
- November 28 - Rosalind Russell, actress
Film debuts
References
- ^ rock Horror Picture Show film booking in Feb 2011