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Highest-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1976 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1976
RankTitleDistributorDomestic rentals
1 Rocky United Artists $55,900,000 [1]
2 A Star Is Born Warner Bros. $37,100,000 [1]
3 King Kong Paramount $36,900,000 [1]
4 Silver Streak 20th Century Fox $30,018,000 [2]
5 All the President's Men Warner Bros.$30,000,000 [1]
6 The Omen 20th Century Fox$28,500,000 [1]
7 The Bad News Bears Paramount$24,800,000 [1]
8 The Enforcer Warner Bros.$24,000,000 [1]
9 In Search of Noah's Ark Sunn Classic $23,800,000 [1]
10 Midway Universal $21,610,435 [2]

Events

Awards

Category/Organization 34th Golden Globe Awards
January 29, 1977
30th BAFTA Awards
March 24, 1977
49th Academy Awards
March 28, 1977
DramaMusical or Comedy
Best Film Rocky A Star Is Born One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Rocky
Best Director Sidney Lumet
Network
Miloš Forman
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
John G. Avildsen
Rocky
Best Actor Peter Finch
Network
Kris Kristofferson
A Star Is Born
Jack Nicholson
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Peter Finch
Network
Best Actress Faye Dunaway
Network
Barbra Streisand
A Star Is Born
Louise Fletcher
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Faye Dunaway
Network
Best Supporting Actor Laurence Olivier
Marathon Man
Brad Dourif
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Jason Robards
All the President's Men
Best Supporting Actress Katharine Ross
Voyage of the Damned
Jodie Foster
Taxi Driver and Bugsy Malone
Beatrice Straight
Network
Best Screenplay, Adapted Paddy Chayefsky
Network
Alan Parker
Bugsy Malone
William Goldman
All the President's Men
Best Screenplay, Original Paddy Chayefsky
Network
Best Original Score Kenneth Ascher and Paul Williams
A Star Is Born
Bernard Herrmann
Taxi Driver
Jerry Goldsmith
The Omen
Leonard Rosenman
Bound for Glory
Best Original Song"Evergreen"
A Star Is Born
N/A"Evergreen"
A Star Is Born
Best Foreign Language Film Face to Face N/A Black and White in Color

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

1976 films

By country/region

By genre/medium

Births

Unknown - Coralie Fargeat, French film director and screenwriter

Deaths

MonthDateNameAgeCountryProfessionNotable films
January1 Walter Janssen 88GermanyActor
12 Agatha Christie 85UKWriter
13 Margaret Leighton 53UKActress
18 Sonia Dresdel 66UKActress
23 Paul Dupuis 62FranceActor
23 Paul Robeson 77USActor, Singer
29 Michael Gwynn 59UKActor
February4 Roger Livesey 69UKActor
11 Lee J. Cobb 64USActor
11 John Twist 77USScreenwriter
12 Sal Mineo 37USActor
13 Lily Pons 77FranceSinger, Actress
13 John Lounsbery 64USAnimator
15 Maria Corda 77HungaryActress
16 Campbell Singer 66UKActor
24 Peter Madden 71UKActor
26 Frieda Inescort 75UKActress
March3 Doris Hill 70USActress
5 Charles Lederer 69USScreenwriter
14 Busby Berkeley 80USDirector, Choreographer
17 Luchino Visconti 69ItalyDirector, Writer
20 Michael Goodliffe 61UKActor
28 Richard Arlen 76USActor
April2 Ray Teal 74USActor
4 George Pastell 53CyprusActor
5 Howard Hughes 70USDirector, Producer
5 Robert Lord 75USScreenwriter, Producer
11 Liam Dunn 59USActor
12 Paul Ford 74USActor
21 Léonide Moguy 75RussiaDirector, Writer
25 Carol Reed 69UKDirector, Writer
26 Neil McCallum 46CanadaActor
26 Sid James 62UKActor
29 Thelma Connell 63UKFilm Editor
May3 David Bruce 62USActor
7 Alan Baxter 67USActor
27 Hilde Hildebrand 78GermanyActress
27 Ruth McDevitt 80USActress
June5 Violet Wilkey 73USActress
6 Victor Varconi 85HungaryActor
9 Sybil Thorndike 93UKActress
10 Adolph Zukor 103USProducer, Studio Executive
25 Johnny Mercer 66USSongwriter
28 Stanley Baker 48UKActor
July2 Frances Howard 73USActress
7 Norman Foster 72USActor, Director
12 James Wong Howe 76ChinaCinematographer
17 Rina Morelli 67ItalyActress
28 Lucie Mannheim 77GermanyActress
August2 Fritz Lang 85GermanyDirector, Writer
6 William Mervyn 64UKActor
10 Ray Corrigan 74USActor
17 William Redfield 49USActor
17 Murvyn Vye 60USActor
18 Luigi Serventi 91ItalyActor
28 Alastair Sim 75UKActor
September10 Dalton Trumbo 70USScreenwriter
30 Paul Dehn 63UKScreenwriter
October5 Barbara Nichols 47USActress
14 Edith Evans 88UKActress
November3 Ramsay Hill 86USActor, Technical Advisor
15 Jean Gabin 72FranceActor
22 Rupert Davies 60UKActor
28 Rosalind Russell 69USActress
29 Godfrey Cambridge 43USActor
December3 Mary Nash 92USActress
8 Cathy Downs 50USActress
12 Jack Cassidy 49USActor
20 Walter Fitzgerald 80UKActor

Film debuts

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