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 average price of a movie ticket in the United States is about $2.25 [1] (http://www.cnn.com/EVENTS/1997/star.wars.anniversary/flashback).
Top grossing films
- North America
- Star Wars (now known as 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
- 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
- Freaky Friday, starring Jodie Foster
- 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