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 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
Top grossing films
- North America
- 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
- May 16 - Melanie Lynskey, actress
- 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
- Storm Boy
- Picture Show Man
- Orca, Starring Richard Harris and Bo Derek
- The Gauntlet
