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.
- March 11 - Walt Disney releases The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh which a completion of three animated shorts.
- May 25 - opens in theaters and becomes the highest grossing movie to date. The film revolutionizes the use of special effects in film and television production, and also popularizes the notion of omitting any sort of opening credits sequence, something that would become commonplace in American cinema by the mid-1990s. In 1977, however, it attracted heavy criticism and director George Lucas ultimately resigned from several film production guilds over his decision.
- The average price of a movie ticket in the United States is about $2.25
- June 22 - Walt Disney Pictures 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.
Top grossing films
- North America
- 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
- 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
- May 16 - Melanie Lynskey, actress
- July 6 - Craig Handley, writer
- 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
- A Bridge Too Far
- A Special Day
- Annie Hall
- Cross of Iron
- Dot and the Kangaroo
- Eraserhead
- Final Chapter, Walking Tall, starring Bo Svenson
- Fun with Dick and Jane
- ''The Island of Dr. Moreau
- Looking for Mr. Goodbar, starring Diane Keaton
- MacArthur, starring Gregory Peck
- Madame Rosa Academy Award for Best Foreign Film
- Oh, God!, starring George Burns
- Orca, Starring Richard Harris and Bo Derek
- Padre Padrone - Palme d'Or winner
- Pete's Dragon
- Picture Show Man
- ''Rollercoaster (film)
- Storm Boy
- That Obscure Object of Desire
- The Ascent Golden Bear winner
- The Gauntlet
- The Goodbye Girl
- The Late Show
- The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
- The Rescuers
- Slap Shot
- The Spy Who Loved Me
- The Turning Point
- ''Wifemistress - ("Mogliamante")
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