1977 in film

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The year 1977 in film involved some significant events.

Highest-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1977 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1977
Rank	Title	Distributor	Production company	Domestic gross
1.	Star Wars	20th Century-Fox Film Corporation	Lucasfilm Ltd.	$307,263,857^[1]
2.	Smokey and the Bandit	Universal Studios / Cinema International Corporation	Rastar Films	$126,737,428^[2]
3.	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Columbia Pictures	EMI Films / Julia Phillips and Michael Phillips Productions	$116,395,460^[3]
4.	The Goodbye Girl	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures / Warner Bros. Pictures	Rastar Films	$102,000,000^[4]
5.	Saturday Night Fever	Paramount Pictures / Cinema International Corporation	RSO Records	$94,213,184^[5]
6.	Oh, God!	Warner Bros. Pictures	Jerry Weintraub Productions	$51,061,196^[6]
7.	A Bridge Too Far	United Artists Pictures	Joseph E. Levine Productions	$50,750,000^[7]
8.	The Deep	Columbia Pictures	EMI Films / Casablanca Filmworks	$47,346,365^[8]
9.	The Spy Who Loved Me	United Artists Pictures	Eon Productions / Danjaq	$46,838,673^[9]
10.	Annie Hall	United Artists Pictures	Hollins-Joffe Productions	$38,251,425^[10]

March 28 - At the 49th Academy Awards, Rocky picks up the Academy Award for Best Picture. Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway, and Beatrice Straight all win Oscars for their performances in Network for Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actress, while Jason Robards wins for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in All the President's Men. He would win again the following year, becoming the only person to win two consecutive Best Supporting Actor awards.
March 11 - Walt Disney Productions releases The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, a compilation of three animated shorts.
May 25 - Star Wars opens in theaters and became one of the highest grossing films to date. The film revolutionizes the use of special effects in film and television production. It also popularizes the notion of omitting any sort of opening credits sequence. Lucas was told by the Screen Actors Guild that he must have an opening credits sequence, so he instead distributes the film independently, sans the opening credits.
June 22 - Walt Disney Productions 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.^[11]
The average price of a movie ticket in the United States is about $2.25.

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 - Julia

Best Supporting Actress: Vanessa Redgrave - Julia

Best Foreign Language Film: Madame Rosa (La Vie devant soi), directed by Moshé Mizrahi, France

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

Best Director: Herbert Ross - The Turning Point

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Father and Master (Padre padrone), directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Italy

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

The Ascent (Voskhozhdeniye), directed by Larisa Shepitko, USSR

USA unless stated

3 Women, directed by Robert Altman, starring Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule
21 Up, a TV made documentary film - (U.K.)