1977 in film

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The year 1977 in film involved some significant events.

Events

• In the Academy Awards, Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight win Best Actor and Actress and Supporting Actress awards for Network.
• Annie Hall picks up an Academy Award for Best Picture and All the President's Men wins Jason Robards the Supporting Actor and an Art Direction for George Jenkins and George Gaines.
• March 11 - Walt Disney releases The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, a compilation of three animated shorts.

• May 25 - Star Wars opens in theaters and becomes the highest grossing movie to date. The film revolutionizes the use of special effects in film and television production, and also popularizes the notion of omitting any sort of opening credits sequence, something that would become commonplace in American cinema by the mid-1990s. In 1977, however, it attracted heavy criticism and director George Lucas ultimately resigned from several film production guilds over his decision.
• The average price of a movie ticket in the United States is about $2.25

• June 22 - Walt Disney Pictures releases The Rescuers, which instantly brought back an interest in animation that had been lost to both film-goers and critics throughout the beginning of the '70s. [1]

Top grossing films

North America

1. Star Wars
2. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
3. Saturday Night Fever
4. Smokey and the Bandit
5. The Goodbye Girl
6. Oh, God!
7. The Deep
8. The Rescuers
9. The Spy Who Loved Me
10. Semi-Tough
11. A Bridge Too Far
12. High Anxiety
13. Annie Hall
14. The Other Side of Midnight
15. Pete's Dragon

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

Films released in 1977

• ABBA: The Movie
• Airport '77
• Allegro non troppo
• Annie Hall
• The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training
• A Bridge Too Far
• The Car
• The Cure For Insomniacs, a 4 day long movie that was intended to help Insomniac sufferers sleep
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Cross of Iron
• The Deep
• Demon Seed
• Dot and the Kangaroo
• Eraserhead
• Exorcist II: The Heretic
• Fun with Dick and Jane
• The Gauntlet
• The Goodbye Girl
• The Greatest
• Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
• High Anxiety
• The Hobbit
• In Search of Noah's Ark
• The Island of Dr. Moreau
• Julia
• The Late Show
• Looking for Mr. Goodbar, starring Diane Keaton
• MacArthur, starring Gregory Peck
• Madame Rosa Academy Award for Best Foreign Film
• The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
• Mogliamante - (Wifemistress)
• 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
• The Rescuers
• Rollercoaster (film)
• 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
• Slap Shot'
• That Obscure Object of Desire
• The Turning Point
• 21 Up
• Walking Tall: The Final Chapter, starring Bo Svenson
• Wilma - Shirley Jo Finney, Cicely Tyson, Denzel Washington
• Wifemistress (film)

Births

• January 13 - Orlando Bloom, actor
• April 26 - Tom Welling, actor
• May 16 - Melanie Lynskey, actress
• July 6 - Craig Handley, writer
• July 1 - Liv Tyler, actress
• September 25 - Clea DuVall, actress
• August 24 - Anthony Marchitiello, Film Director

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