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Contents
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 its run and still being shown as of 2011[update] all around the world.[1]
Top grossing films (U.S.)
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
- 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
- 1900, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, starring Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Donald Sutherland
- All the President's Men, directed by Alan J. Pakula, starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford
- Any Day Now (aka Vandaag of morgen)
- The Ascent Golden Bear winner
- Assault on Precinct 13, directed by John Carpenter
- 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
- Black and White in Color (La Victoire en chantant), directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud
- 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
- 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
- Burnt Offerings, starring Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Bette Davis
- Caddie, starring Helen Morse
- Carrie, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving
- Carry On England
- Car Wash, starring Franklin Ajaye and Richard Pryor
- The Cassandra Crossing, starring Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Burt Lancaster, Lee Strasberg, Martin Sheen
- Chinese Roulette, directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Cousin, cousine
- A Cricket in the Ear
- Deadly Hero, starring Don Murray
- The Desert of the Tartars (Il deserto dei Tartari)
- The Devil's Playground
- Diary of the Dead
- The Divine Nymph
- Don's Party, directed by Bruce Beresford, starring Ray Barrett, Clare Binney, John Hargreaves and Pat Bishop
- Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
- Les douze travaux d'Asterix (The Twelve Trials of Asterix)
- Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde
- The Eagle Has Landed, starring Michael Caine and Donald Sutherland
- Eat My Dust, directed by Ron Howard
- The Enforcer, starring Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Tyne Daly
- Eraserhead, directed by David Lynch
- Face to Face, directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Liv Ullman and Erland Josephson
- 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
- "The First Nudie Musical", directed by Mark Haggard and Bruce Kimmel, starring Cindy Williams, Stephen Nathan, Bruce Kimmel, 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
- Futureworld, starring Peter Fonda and Blythe Danner
- Grizzly, starring Christopher George
- God Told Me To
- The Gumball Rally, starring Michael Sarrazin
- Gus, starring Don Knotts and Ed Asner
- Harlan County USA - a documentary film
- Heart of Glass, directed by Werner Herzog
- Hot Potato
- Illustrious Corpses (Cadaveri eccellenti), directed by Francesco Rosi, starring Lino Ventura
- In Celebration, directed by Lindsay Anderson, starring Bill Owen
- In Search of Noah's Ark
- In the Realm of the Senses (Ai no Korīda), directed by Nagisa Oshima
- L'innocente, directed by Luchino Visconti
- J.D.'s Revenge
- Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000
- The Judge and the Assassin, directed by Bertrand Tavernier, starring Philippe Noiret and Isabelle Huppert
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Mako: The Jaws of Death, directed by William Grefe, starring Richard Jaeckel
- The Man on the Roof (Mannen på taket), directed by Bo Widerberg
- The Man Who Fell to Earth, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark
- Marathon Man, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Dustin Hoffman, Roy Scheider, Laurence Olivier
- The Marquis of O
- A Matter of Time, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Ingrid Bergman, Liza Minnelli, Charles Boyer, Isabella Rossellini
- The Memory of Justice, a documentary film by Marcel Ophuls
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Noirs et blancs en couleur (Black and White in Color), directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud - Academy Award for Best Foreign Picture
- 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, Graham Matters
- The Pink Panther Strikes Again, starring Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Lesley-Anne Down
- Raise Ravens (Cria Cuervos), directed by Carlos Saura, starring Geraldine Chaplin
- 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
- Rocky, directed by John G. Avildsen, starring Sylvester Stallone, Burgess Meredith, Carl Weathers, Talia Shire
- Rogue Male, starring Peter O'Toole
- Rosy Dreams
- 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
- Seven Beauties
- The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Nicol Williamson, Robert Duvall, Alan Arkin, Laurence Olivier
- 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
- 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
- Small Change, directed by François Truffaut
- The Smurfs and the Magic Flute
- Snuff
- The Song Remains the Same, featuring Led Zeppelin
- Sparkle
- 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
- Swashbuckler, starring Robert Shaw
- Taxi Driver, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Albert Brooks, Jodie Foster
- The Tenant, directed by and starring Roman Polanski, with Isabelle Adjani and Melvyn Douglas
- That's Entertainment, Part 2
- To the Devil a Daughter, starring Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Honor Blackman, Nastassja Kinski
- Tosun Pasa
- Treasure of Matecumbe
- Two-Minute Warning, starring Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, David Janssen, Jack Klugman, Martin Balsam, Beau Bridges
- Ugly, Dirty and Bad (Brutti, sporchi e cattivi), directed by Ettore Scola, starring Nino Manfredi
- Up!, directed by Russ Meyer, featuring Raven de la Croix
- To Fly!
- Vigilante Force
- Voyage of the Damned, starring Faye Dunaway, Lee Grant, James Mason, Katharine Ross, Max von Sydow, Orson Welles, Oskar Werner
- Welcome to L.A., directed by Alan Rudolph, starring Keith Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin, Sally Kellerman, Harvey Keitel
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
- Chow Yun-Fat
- Treat Williams
- Brooke Shields
- Roy Horan
- Jessica Lange
- Amy Irving
- Edie McClurg
- James Cromwell
- Tim Robbins
- Albert Brooks
References
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