The year 1977 in film involved some significant events.

Contents Events Top grossing films (U.S.) Awards Films released in 1977 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T V W Births Deaths Film debuts

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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.
• Annie Hall 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, a compilation of three animated shorts.
• May 25 - Star Wars opens in theaters and became one of the highest grossing movies 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.
• 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. http://www.cataroo.com/DBrescu.html

Top grossing films (U.S.)

(*) After at least 1 theatrical re-issue

Awards

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

Best Foreign Language Film: Madame Rosa (La Vie devant soi), directed by Moshé Mizrahi, France

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: The Turning Point

Best Actor: Richard Burton - Equus

Best Actress: Jane Fonda - Julia

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: The Goodbye Girl

Best Actor: Richard Dreyfuss - The Goodbye Girl

Best Actress (tie): Diane Keaton - Annie Hall

Best Actress (tie): Marsha Mason - The Goodbye Girl

Other

Best Director: Herbert Ross - The Turning Point

Best Foreign Language Film: A Special Day, Italy

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Father and Master (Padre padrone), directed by Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani, Italy

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

The Ascent (Voskhozhdeniye), directed by Larisa Shepitko, USSR

Films released in 1977

• 3 Women - directed by Robert Altman, starring Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek and Janice Rule
• 21 Up

A

• ABBA: The Movie - directed by Lasse Hallstrom
• Airport '77 - starring Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant and James Stewart
• Allegro non troppo
• The Amazing Spider-Man
• The American Friend, directed by Wim Wenders, starring Dennis Hopper
• Annie Hall - directed by and starring Woody Allen with Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts and Carol Kane
• Audrey Rose - directed by Robert Wise, starring Marsha Mason, Anthony Hopkins and John Beck

B

• The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training
• Black Rain, directed by Peter Weir
• Black Sunday
• A Bridge Too Far - directed by Richard Attenborough with an all-star cast

C

• Candleshoe
• Capricorn One
• The Car
• The Chess Players (Shatranj Ke Khilari), directed by Satyajit Ray
• The Choirboys - directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Charles Durning and Louis Gossett Jr.
• Cinderella
• Circuit no Ōkami
• Citizen's Band
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind - directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Melinda Dillon and Terri Garr
• Cross of Iron - directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring James Coburn, Maximilian Schell and James Mason

D

• The Deep - directed by Peter Yates, starring Robert Shaw, Jacqueline Bisset and Nick Nolte
• Demon Seed - directed by Donald Cammell, starring Julie Christie
• Desperate Living, directed by John Waters
• Dot and the Kangaroo
• The Duellists - directed by Ridley Scott, starring Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel

E

• Equus - directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Richard Burton and Peter Firth
• Eraserhead - directed by David Lynch, starring Jack Nance
• Exorcist II: The Heretic - directed by John Boorman, starring Richard Burton, Linda Blair and Louise Fletcher

F

• Fun with Dick and Jane - directed by Ted Kotcheff, starring Jane Fonda and George Segal

G

• The Gauntlet - directed by and starring Clint Eastwood with Sondra Locke
• The Goodbye Girl - directed by Herbert Ross, starring Richard Dreyfuss and Marsha Mason
• Grand Theft Auto - directed by and starring Ron Howard with Nancy Morgan
• The Grateful Dead Movie - directed by Jerry Garcia and Leon Gast
• The Greatest with Muhammed Ali

H

• The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington
• Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo - starring Dean Jones
• High Anxiety - directed by and starring Mel Brooks with Madeline Kahn and Cloris Leachman
• The Hills Have Eyes - directed by Wes Craven
• The Hobbit
• House (Hausu)

I

• I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
• Islands in the Stream
• The Island of Dr. Moreau - starring Burt Lancaster, Michael York and Barbara Carrera

J

• Jabberwocky, directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Michael Palin
• Jubilee, by Derek Jarman, starring Adam Ant and Little Nell.
• Julia - directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave and Jason Robards

K

• Kentucky Fried Movie - directed by John Landis, starring Bill Bixby and George Lazenby
• Killer of Sheep
• The King of the Street Cleaners

L

• The Lacemaker (La Dentellière), starring Isabelle Huppert
• The Last Remake of Beau Geste, directed by and starring Marty Feldman
• The Late Show - directed by Robert Benton, starring Art Carney and Lily Tomlin
• A Little Night Music
• Looking for Mr. Goodbar - directed by Richard Brooks, starring Diane Keaton, Tuesday Weld and Richard Gere

M

• MacArthur - starring Gregory Peck
• Madame Rosa - starring Simone Signoret - Academy Award for Best Foreign Film
• The Magic Pony
• Man of Marble (Człowiek z marmuru), directed by Andrzej Wajda
• The Man Who Loved Women - directed by François Truffaut, starring Charles Denner, Brigitte Fossey and Leslie Caron
• The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
• Martin, directed by George A. Romero
• Mogliamante - (Wifemistress)
• Mohammad, Messenger of God (also marketed as The Message) - directed by Moustapha Akkad, starring Anthony Quinn

N

• Nenè
• New York, New York - directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Liza Minnelli and Robert De Niro

O

• Office Romance (Sluzhebnyy roman)
• Oh, God! - directed by Carl Reiner, starring George Burns, John Denver and Terri Garr
• One Sings, the Other Doesn't, directed by Agnes Varda
• Opening Night, directed by John Cassavetes, starring Gena Rowlands, Cassavetes and Ben Gazzara
• Orca - Starring Richard Harris, Charlotte Rampling and Bo Derek

P

• Padre Padrone directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani - Palme d'Or winner
• Pete's Dragon - directed by Don Chaffey, starring Helen Reddy, Jim Dale and Mickey Rooney
• Picture Show Man
• A Piece of the Action, starring Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby
• Portrait of a Hitman
• Providence, directed by Alain Renais, starring John Gielgud, Dirk Bogarde and Ellen Burstyn

R

• Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown
• The Rescuers
• Rollercoaster - starring Timothy Bottoms, George Segal, Richard Widmark and Henry Fonda
• Rolling Thunder

S

• Saturday Night Fever - directed by John Badham, starring John Travolta and Karen Lynn Gorney
• Semi-Tough - directed by Michael Ritchie, starring Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristopherson and Jill Clayburgh
• The Serpent's Egg, directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring David Carradine and Liv Ullman
• Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, directed by Sam Wanamaker
• Slap Shot - directed by George Roy Hill, starring Paul Newman
• Smokey and the Bandit - directed by Hal Needham, starring Burt Reynolds, Sally Field and Jackie Gleason
• Soldier of Orange - starring Rutger Hauer, directed by Paul Verhoeven
• Sorcerer, directed by William Friedkin
• A Special Day - directed by Ettore Scola, starring Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni and John Vernon
• The Spy Who Loved Me - starring Roger Moore as James Bond with Barbara Bach, Curt Jurgens and Richard Kiel
• Star Wars - directed by George Lucas, starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness and Peter Cushing
• Stroszek - directed by Werner Herzog, starring Bruno S. and Eva Mattes
• Suspiria - by Dario Argento

T

• Telefon
• That Obscure Object of Desire - directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet and Angela Molina
• That's Carry On!
• Thunder and Lightning
• Tongpan
• The Turning Point - directed by Herbert Ross, starring Shirley MacLaine, Anne Bancroft, Tom Skerritt and Mikhail Baryshnikov
• Twilight's Last Gleaming - directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Burt Lancaster and Richard Widmark

V

• Viva Knievel!, featuring Evel Knievel

W

• Walking Tall: The Final Chapter - starring Joe Don Baker
• The War in Space
• Wifemistress
• Wilma - Shirley Jo Finney, Cicely Tyson, Denzel Washington
• Wizards - animated film directed by Ralph Bakshi

Births

• January 13 - Orlando Bloom, actor
• March 13 - Joseph Ruggieri, producer
• April 14 - Sarah Michelle Gellar, actress
• April 26 - Tom Welling, actor
• April 28 - Adnan Tezer, actor, writer
• May 13 - Samantha Morton, actress
• May 16 - Melanie Lynskey, actress
• June 2 - Zachary Quinto, actor
• July 6 - Craig Handley, writer
• July 1 - Liv Tyler, actress
• July 27 - Jonathan Rhys Meyers, actor
• July 30 - Jaime Pressly, actress
• August 24 - Anthony Marchitiello, film director
• September 15 - Tom Hardy, actor
• September 25 - Clea DuVall, actress
• November 10 - Brittany Murphy, actress (†2009)
• November 16 - Maggie Gyllenhaal, 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 5 - Luis César Amadori, Italian/Argentine director
• June 13 - Matthew Garber, British actor
• 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

Film debuts

• Meryl Streep
• Sigourney Weaver