1977 in film

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.

Top Grossing Films of the Year

1. Star Wars(now known as Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope)
2. Close Encounters of the Third Kind, starring Richard Dreyfuss
3. Smokey and the Bandit
4. The Goodbye Girl
5. In Search of Noah's Ark
6. A Bridge Too Far
7. The Rescuers
8. The Spy Who Loved Me
9. Oh, God!, starring George Burns

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 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
• 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

• Annie Hall
• Eraserhead

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