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 .
- 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
- The Trial of Billy Jack
- The Great Gatsby
- Serpico
- Death Wish
- 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 - Penélope 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
- Airport 1975
- Alvin Purple Rides Again
- Amarcord
- Animals are Beautiful People
- Andy Warhol's Frankenstein
- The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Golden Bear winner
- Barry Mckenzie Holds His Own
- The Beast Must Die
- Benji (film)
- Black Christmas
- Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
- Caged Heat, directorial debut of Jonathan Demme
- The Cars that Ate Paris
- Chinatown
- The Conversation by Francis Ford Coppola, Palme d'Or winner
- Death Wish
- Dreams and Nightmares - (Abe Osheroff)
- Earthquake
- Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
- The Klansman
- Lacombe Lucien
- The Last Detail
- The Longest Yard
- The Lords of Flatbush
- Lovin' Molly
- The Man with the Golden Gun
- Murder on the Orient Express
- Petersen
- Scenes from a Marriage by Ingmar Bergman
- Son of Dracula
- The Sugarland Express
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- That's Entertainment!
- Thieves Like Us (film)
- Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
- The Towering Inferno, starring Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, and Fred Astaire
- Where the Lilies Bloom
- Winnie the Pooh and Tigger, Too (short subject)
- Young Frankenstein, directed by Mel Brooks, starring Gene Wilder, Teri Garr, and Madeline Kahn.
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