1974 in film
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Events
- February 7 – Blazing Saddles is released in USA
- May 1 – George Lucas creates the first draft of what would eventually become Star Wars.
- August 7 – Peter Wolf, lead singer of the J. Geils Band marries actress Faye Dunaway
- November 1 – Technicolor ceases its legendary dye-transfer printing process.
- Robert Redford has three films in the Top Ten at the North American box office, the first actor to do so since Bing Crosby in 1946.
Top grossing films
- North America
- The Sting
- The Exorcist
- Papillon
- Magnum Force
- Herbie Rides Again
- Blazing Saddles, directed by Mel Brooks, starring Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Madeline Kahn and Harvey Korman
- The Trial of Billy Jack
- The Great Gatsby
- Serpico
- Death Wish
Academy Awards
- Best Picture: The Godfather, Part II – Coppola Company, Paramount
- Best Director: Francis Ford Coppola – The Godfather, Part II
- Best Actor: Art Carney – Harry and Tonto
- Best Actress: Ellen Burstyn – Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
- Best Supporting Actor: Robert De Niro – The Godfather, Part II
- Best Supporting Actress: Ingrid Bergman – Murder on the Orient Express
Births
- January 5 – Daisy Bates, actress
- March 24 – Alyson Hannigan, actress
- April 28 – Penelope Cruz, actress
- May 21 – Fairuza Balk, actress
- June 25 – Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress
- August 15 – Natasha Henstridge, Canadian actress
- August 23 – Ray Park, British actor
- September 19 – Victoria Silvstedt, Swedish actress and model
- November 11 – Leonardo DiCaprio, actor
Deaths
- January 31 – Samuel Goldwyn, film producer
- February 7 – Arline Judge, actress
- February 11 – Anna Q Nilsson, actress
- February 23 – Florence Rice, actress
- February 28 – Carole Lesley, actress
- March 5 – Billy De Wolfe, actress
- March 7 – Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor
- March 19 – Edward Platt, actor
- April 2 – Douglass Dumbrille, actor
- April 10 – Patricia Collinge, actress
- April 24 – Bud Abbott, actor, best known as straight man to Lou Costello
- April 30 – Agnes Moorehead, actress
- May 25 – Donald Crisp, actor
- August 20 – Ilona Massey, actress
- September 6 – Olga Baclanova, actress
- September 18 – Edna Best, actress
- September 21 – Walter Brennan, actor
- September 21 – Jacqueline Susann, former actress, author of Valley Of The Dolls
- October 13 – Ed Sullivan, television host, actor
- November 13 – Vittorio De Sica, Italian director
- November 14 – Johnny Mack Brown, actor
- December 15 – Anatole Litvak, director
- December 21 – Richard Long, actor
- December 26 – Jack Benny, actor
Other movies released
- Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
- Chinatown
- The Conversation by Francis Ford Coppola, Palme d'Or winner
- Death Wish
- The Apprenticeship of Dudley Kravitz, Golden Bear winner
- Son of Dracula
- Dreams and Nightmares – (Abe Osheroff)
- The Klansman
- Lovin' Molly
- Winnie the Pooh and Tigger, Too (short subject)
- The Towering Inferno, starring Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, and Fred Astaire
- Young Frankenstein, directed by Mel Brooks, starring Gene Wilder, Teri Garr, and Madeline Kahn.
- Andy Warhol's Frankenstein
- Earthquake
- The Godfather: Part II
- Black Christmas
- Benji
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
- The Man with the Golden Gun
- Airport 1975
- The Longest Yard
- That's Entertainment
- Murder on the Orient Express
- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
- Amarcord
- Scenes from a Marriage by Ingmar Bergman
- The Last Detail
- Thieves Like Us
- Sugarland Express
- Where the Lilies Bloom
- Lacombe, Lucien
- Barry Mckenzie Holds His Own
- Alvin Purple Rides Again
- Petersen
- The Cars That Ate Paris
- The Lords of Flatbush
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