1977 in film
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Events
- In the Academy Awards, Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight win Best Actor and Actress and Supporting Actress awards for Network.
- Rocky 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.
- May 25 – Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope opens in theaters and becomes the highest grossing movie to date.
- The average price of a movie ticket in the United States is about $2.25 [1].
Top grossing films
- North America
- Star Wars (now known as Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope)
- Rocky
- Smokey and the Bandit
- A Star is Born
- King Kong
- The Deep
- Silver Streak
- The Enforcer
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind, starring Richard Dreyfuss
- In Search of Noah's Ark
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
Births
- January 13 – Orlando Bloom, actor
- July 1 – Liv Tyler, actress
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 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
Other movies released
- Abba – The Movie
- Annie Hall
- Eraserhead
- Final Chapter, Walking Tall, starring Bo Svenson
- MacArthur, starring Gregory Peck
- The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
- Pete's Dragon
- Looking For Mr. Goodbar, starring Diane Keaton
- A Bridge Too Far
- The Rescuers
- The Spy Who Loved Me
- Oh, God!, starring George Burns
- The Goodbye Girl
- Fun with Dick and Jane
- 1900 by Bernardo Bertolucci
- Padre Padrone Palme d'Or winner
- The Ascent Golden Bear winner
- That Obscure Object of Desire
- Madame Rosa Academy Award for Best Foreign Film
- The Turning Point
- A Special Day
- The Late Show
- Dot And The Kangaroo(a)
- Storm Boy (a)
- Picture Show Man(a)
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