1976 in film

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The year 1976 in film involved some significant events.

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.
  • April 1 - The Rocky Horror Picture Show is officially re-released as a midnight movie at the Waverly Theater (Now the IFC Center) in Greenwich Village in New York City, starting through the run and still being shown in there as of 2013 all around the world.[1]

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank Title Studio Actors Gross
1. Rocky United Artists Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burgess Meredith, Carl Weathers and Burt Young $117,235,147[2]
2. To Fly! National Air and Space Museum Ellen Bry $86,600,000[3]
3. A Star Is Born Warner Bros. Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson $80,000,000[4]
4. All the President's Men Warner Bros. Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman and Jason Robards $70,600,000[5]
5. The Omen 20th Century Fox Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner and Harvey Spencer Stephens $60,922,980[6]
6. In Search of Noah's Ark Schick Sunn Classic Brad Crandall and Vern Adix $55,700,000[7]
7. King Kong Paramount Jeff Bridges, Jessica Lange and Charles Grodin $52,614,445[8]
8. Silver Streak 20th Century Fox Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Jill Clayburgh, Patrick McGoohan, and Ned Beatty $51,079,064[9]
9. The Enforcer Warner Bros. Clint Eastwood $46,236,000[10]
10. Midway Universal Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda and James Coburn $43,220,000[11]
11. The Bad News Bears Paramount Walter Matthau and Tatum O'Neal $42,349,782[12]
12. Silent Movie 20th Century Fox Mel Brooks, Marty Feldman and Dom DeLuise $36,145,695[13]
13. The Pink Panther Strikes Again United Artists Peter Sellers $33,833,201[14]
14. Carrie United Artists Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Nancy Allen, Amy Irving, John Travolta, William Katt and Betty Buckley $33,800,000[15]
15. Murder by Death Columbia/Rastar Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, James Coco, Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, Elsa Lanchester, David Niven, Peter Sellers and Maggie Smith $32,511,047[16]
16. The Outlaw Josey Wales Warner Bros. Clint Eastwood $31,800,000[17]
17. Taxi Driver Columbia Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster $28,262,574[18]
18. Marathon Man Paramount Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, Marthe Keller and William Devane $28,204,261[19]
19. Freaky Friday Disney Jodie Foster and Barbara Harris $25,942,000[20]
20. Logan's Run MGM/United Artists Michael York, Jenny Agutter and Peter Ustinov $25,000,000[21]
21. Network MGM/United Artists Peter Finch, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Robert Duvall, Ned Beatty and Beatrice Straight $23,689,877[22]
22. Across the Great Divide Pacific International Robert Logan and Heather Rattray $18,800,000[23]

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 - 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

Notable films released in 1976

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Births

Notable Deaths

Date Name Age Cinematic Notability Notable Films
January 12 Agatha Christie 85 Screenwriter Witness for the Prosecution, Murder on the Orient Express
23 Paul Robeson 77 Actor, Soundtrack Show Boat
February 11 Lee J. Cobb 64 Actor, Director, Soundtrack 12 Angry Men, The Exorcist, On the Waterfront, How the West Was Won, Coogan's Bluff, Exodus, Call Northside 777
12 Sal Mineo 37 Actor, Soundtrack Rebel Without a Cause, The Longest Day, Giant
24 Peter Madden 70 or 71 Actor From Russia with Love, Doctor Zhivago, Mohammad, Messenger of God, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Exodus, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
26 Frieda Inescort 75 Actress A Place in the Sun,
28 James Mellor 42 Actor The Oblong Box, Doomwatch
March ? Campbell Singer 66/67 Actor The Square Peg, On the Beat
14 Busby Berkeley 80 Director, Musical Numbers The Wizard of Oz, 42nd Street
17 Luchino Visconti 69 Director, Writer The Leopard, Death in Venice, Rocco and His Brothers
20 Michael Goodliffe 61 Actor The Man with the Golden Gun, Peeping Tom, A Night to Remember, Von Ryan's Express, Sink the Bismarck!, Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N., The Night of the Generals
April 4 George Pastell 53 Actor From Russia with Love, Khartoum, The Mummy, Moulin Rouge
5 Howard Hughes 70 Producer, Director Scarface, Hell's Angels, The Outlaw, His Kind of Woman, The Conqueror, Macao, Jet Pilot, The Front Page, The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
25 Carol Reed 68 or 69 Director, Producer, Writer The Third Man, Oliver, Mutiny on the Bounty
26 Sid James 62 Actor, Soundtrack The Lavender Hill Mob, A King in New York, Carry On... Up the Khyber, Carry On Camping, Trapeze, Carry On Cleo, Carry On Doctor, Carry On Abroad
26 Neil McCallum 46 Actor, Producer, Writer The Longest Day, Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, Thunderbirds Are Go,
June 5 Violet Wilkey 73 Actress The Birth of a Nation, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
6 Victor Varconi 85 Actor, Writer Director The Sea Hawk, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Samson and Delilah, Roberta
9 Sybil Thorndike 93 Actress, Soundtrack Stage Fright, The Prince and the Showgirl, Major Barbara, Shake Hands with the Devil
July 13 Frederick Schrecker 84 Actor Billion Dollar Brain
August 6 William Mervyn 64 Actor The Ruling Class, Operation Crossbow, Murder Ahoy!, The Railway Children, Carry On Henry, Carry On Again Doctor, Hot Millions
17 William Redfield 49 Actor One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Death Wish, Fantastic Voyage
September 10 Dalton Trumbo 70 Writer, Actor, Director Spartacus, Roman Holiday, Papillon, Always, The Way We Were, Johnny Got His Gun, Gun Crazy, Exodus, Lonely Are the Brave, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, I Married a Witch, Kitty Foyle, Hawaii
17 Paul Rabiger 64 Makeup Artist Goldfinger, From Russia with Love, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, Live and Let Die, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Blowup, The Eagle Has Landed, Performance, O Lucky Man!, The Day of the Triffids
October 14 Edith Evans 88 Actress, Soundtrack Tom Jones, The Nun's Story, Scrooge, The Importance of Being Earnest, Look Back in Anger, The Slipper and the Rose, The Chalk Garden, The Queen of Spades, Fitzwilly
November 15 Jean Gabin 72 Actor, Producer, Soundtrack La Grande Illusion, Port of Shadows
22 Rupert Davies 60 Actor The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Witchfinder General, Waterloo, Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, The Oblong Box, Frightmare, Curse of the Crimson Altar, Seven Days to Noon
25 Thelma Connell 62 or 63 Set Dresser Alfie, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Hill, In Which We Serve, Green for Danger, Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, Blind Terror, The Belles of St Trinian's, The Deadly Affair, Island of Terror, One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
28 Rosalind Russell 69 Actress, Soundtrack, Producer His Girl Friday, The Women, Auntie Mame
December 3 Mary Nash 92 Actress, Soundtrack The Philadelphia Story, The Little Princess
5 Roy Dorman ?? Chief Draughtsman You Only Live Twice, Lolita, Battle of Britain, Arabesque, The Million Pound Note, Genevieve, In Search of the Castaways, Reach for the Sky, When Eight Bells Toll, Doctor in the House, Kidnapped, The Card
8 Cathy Downs 50 Actress My Darling Clementine, The Dark Corner, State Fair, The Amazing Colossal Man, The She Creature, The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues
12 Jack Cassidy 49 Actor, Soundtrack The Eiger Sanction, Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol, Bunny O'Hare, The Chapman Report
20 Walter Fitzgerald 80 Actor Around the World in 80 Days, Darby O'Gill and the Little People, The Fallen Idol, Treasure Island, In Which We Serve, The Cruel Sea, H.M.S. Defiant, The Small Back Room, The Cockleshell Heroes

Film debuts

References

  1. ↑ rock Horror Picture Show film booking in Feb 2011
  2. ↑ "Rocky, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved January 17, 2012. 
  3. ↑ "To Fly!, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved January 17, 2012. 
  4. ↑ "A Star Is Born, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 17, 2012. 
  5. ↑ "All the President's Men, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 17, 2012. 
  6. ↑ "The Omen, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 17, 2012. 
  7. ↑ "In Search of Noah's Ark, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved January 17, 2012. 
  8. ↑ "King Kong, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved January 17, 2012. 
  9. ↑ "Silver Streak, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 17, 2012. 
  10. ↑ "The Enforcer, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 17, 2012. 
  11. ↑ "Midway, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved January 17, 2012. 
  12. ↑ "The Bad News Bears, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved January 17, 2012. 
  13. ↑ "Silent Movie, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 17, 2012. 
  14. ↑ "The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 17, 2012. 
  15. ↑ "Carrie, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 17, 2012. 
  16. ↑ "Murder by Death, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved January 17, 2012. 
  17. ↑ "The Outlaw Josey Wales, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 17, 2012. 
  18. ↑ "Taxi Driver, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 17, 2012. 
  19. ↑ "Marathon Man, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved January 17, 2012. 
  20. ↑ "Freaky Friday, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 17, 2012. 
  21. ↑ "Logan's Run, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved January 17, 2012. 
  22. ↑ "Network, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 17, 2012. 
  23. ↑ "Across the Great Divide, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved April 4, 2013. 
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