1976 in film

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Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films 3 Awards 4 Films released in 1976 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

• March 22 - Filming begins on George Lucas' Star Wars science fiction film. In one of the best business decisions in film history, Lucas cuts his directing fee by $500,000 to gain ownership of merchandising and sequel rights.

[edit] Top grossing films

North America

1. Rocky
2. A Star Is Born
3. King Kong
4. Silver Streak
5. All the President's Men
6. The Omen
7. The Bad News Bears
8. The Enforcer
9. In Search of Noah's Ark
10. Midway
11. To Fly!
12. The Pink Panther Strikes Again
13. Murder by Death
14. Marathon Man

[edit] Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: Rocky - Chartoff-Winkler, United Artists

Best Director: John G. Avildsen - Rocky

Best Actor: Peter Finch - Network (first actor to win posthumously)

Best Actress: Faye Dunaway - Network

Best Supporting Actor: Jason Robards Jr - All the President's Men

Best Supporting Actress: Beatrice Straight - Network

Best Foreign Language Film: Noirs et blancs en couleur (Black and White in Color), directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, Ivory Coast / France / W. Germany / Switzerland

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: Rocky

Best Actor: Arnold Schwarzenegger - Stay Hungry

Best Actress: Faye Dunaway - Network

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: A Star Is Born

Best Actor: Kris Kristofferson - A Star Is Born

Best Actress: Barbra Streisand - A Star Is Born

Other

Best Director: Sidney Lumet - Network

Best Foreign Language Film: Face to Face, Sweden

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Taxi Driver, directed by Martin Scorsese, United States

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson, directed by Robert Altman, United States

[edit] Films released in 1976

• 1900 by Bernardo Bertolucci
• All the President's Men, starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford
• Any Day Now (aka Vandaag of morgen)
• The Ascent Golden Bear winner
• Assault on Precinct 13
• Bad News Bears
• The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
• Bound for Glory
• Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson Golden Bear winner
• Bugsy Malone
• Caddie starring Helen Morse
• Carrie, starring Sissy Spacek
• Cousin, cousine
• The Divine Nymph
• Don's Party - John Hardgreaves, Graham Kennedy, Veronica Lang, Ray Barrett and Clarie Biney, directed by Bruce Beresford, written by David Williamson
• The Enforcer
• Face to Face
• Hot Potato
• Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000
• The Judge and the Assassin
• King Kong, starring Jessica Lange and Jeff Bridges
• The Last Hard Men, a western starring Charlton Heston and James Coburn
• Leadbelly
• Logan's Run
• The Man Who Fell to Earth, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring David Bowie
• Marathon Man, starring Dustin Hoffman and Sir Laurence Olivier
• The Marquis of O
• A Matter of Time
• The Memory of Justice
• Midway
• Mikey and Nicky
• The Message- ("Mohammad, Messenger of God")
• Mother, Jugs & Speed
• Murder by Death
• Network
• Noirs et blancs en couleur (Black and White in Color), Academy Award for Best Foreign Picture
• Obsession starring Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold
• The Omen
• Oz or 20th Century Oz, a Rock 'N' Roll Road Movie, starring Bruce Spence, Joy Dunstan + Graham Matters
• The Pink Panther Strikes Again
• Robin and Marian
• Rocky
• Sebastiane
• Seven Beauties
• The Shaggy D.A.
• Silent Movie
• Silver Streak - Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor
• The Slipper and the Rose
• A Star Is Born
• Stay Hungry
• Storm Boy
• Taxi Driver, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel and Jodie Foster
• Tosun Pasa
• Up!, directed by Russ Meyer, featuring Raven de la Croix
• To Fly!
• Voyage of the Damned
• Welcome to L.A.

[edit] Births

• January 3 - Jason Marsden, actor.
• January 6 - Danny Pintauro, actor
• February 11 - Brice Beckham, actor.
• March 22 - Reese Witherspoon, actress.
• April 15 - Susan Ward, actress.
• August 9 - Audrey Tautou, French actress.
• September 7 - Shannon Elizabeth, actress.
• October 4 - Alicia Silverstone, actress.
• April 23 - Gabriel Damon, actor.

[edit] Deaths

• January 12 - Agatha Christie, writer
• January 23 - Paul Robeson, actor, singer
• February 11 - Lee J Cobb, actor.
• February 11 - Alice Allyn, actress.
• February 11 - Charlie Naughton, actor.
• February 12 - Sal Mineo, actor
• February 26 - Frieda Inescort, actress
• March 14 - Busby Berkeley, director
• March 17 - Luchino Visconti, Italian theatre and cinema director.
• June 6 - Victor Varconi, actor
• June 9 - Sybil Thorndike, actress
• October 14 - Edith Evans, actress
• November 15 - Jean Gabin, actor
• November 28 - Rosalind Russell, actress