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The year 1977 in film involved some significant events.

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Highest-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1977 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1977
RankTitleDistributorBox-office gross
1 Star Wars 20th Century Fox $221,280,994 [1] [2]
2 Smokey and the Bandit Universal $126,737,428 [3]
3 Close Encounters of the Third Kind Columbia $116,395,460 [4]
4 Saturday Night Fever Paramount $94,213,184 [5]
5 The Goodbye Girl Warner Bros. $83,700,000 [6]
6 A Bridge Too Far United Artists $50,750,000 [7]
7 The Deep Columbia$47,346,365 [8]
8 The Spy Who Loved Me United Artists$46,838,673 [9]
9 Oh, God! Warner Bros.$41,687,243 [10]
10 Annie Hall United Artists$38,251,425 [11]

Events

Awards

Category/Organization 35th Golden Globe Awards
January 28, 1978
31st BAFTA Awards
March 16, 1978
50th Academy Awards
April 3, 1978
DramaMusical or Comedy
Best Film The Turning Point The Goodbye Girl Annie Hall
Best Director Herbert Ross
The Turning Point
Woody Allen
Annie Hall
Best Actor Richard Burton
Equus
Richard Dreyfuss
The Goodbye Girl
Peter Finch
Network
Richard Dreyfuss
The Goodbye Girl
Best Actress Jane Fonda
Julia
Diane Keaton
Annie Hall
Marsha Mason
The Goodbye Girl
Diane Keaton
Annie Hall
Best Supporting Actor Peter Firth
Equus
Edward Fox
A Bridge Too Far
Jason Robards
Julia
Best Supporting Actress Vanessa Redgrave
Julia
Jenny Agutter
Equus
Vanessa Redgrave
Julia
Best Screenplay, Adapted Neil Simon
The Goodbye Girl
Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman
Annie Hall
Alvin Sargent
Julia
Best Screenplay, Original Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman
Annie Hall
Best Original Score John Williams
Star Wars
John Addison
A Bridge Too Far
John Williams
Star Wars
Jonathan Tunick
A Little Night Music
Best Original Song"You Light Up My Life"
You Light Up My Life
N/A"You Light Up My Life"
You Light Up My Life
Best Foreign Language Film A Special Day N/A Madame Rosa

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

Father and Master (Padre padrone), directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Italy

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

The Ascent (Voskhozhdeniye), directed by Larisa Shepitko, USSR

1977 films

By country/region

By genre/medium

Births

Deaths

MonthDateNameAgeCountryProfessionNotable films
January3 Tom Gries 54USDirector
5 Onslow Stevens 74USActor
6 Niall MacGinnis 63IrelandActor
12 Henri-Georges Clouzot 69FranceDirector, Screenwriter
14 Peter Finch 60UKActor
18 Yvonne Printemps 82FranceActress, Singer
26 Margaret Hayes 60USActress
31 Daniel Mainwaring 74USScreenwriter
February3 Pauline Starke 76USActress
17 Edward G. Boyle 78CanadaProduction Designer
18 Andy Devine 71USActor
22 Edith Barrett 70USActress
27 Allison Hayes 46USActress
28 Eddie "Rochester" Anderson 71USActor
March8 Henry Hull 86USActor
25 Nunnally Johnson 79USScreenwriter, Director
27 Diana Hyland 41USActress
April17 Marjorie Gateson 86USActress
19 Marion Gering 75RussiaDirector
21 Gummo Marx 83USActor, Agent
28 Ricardo Cortez 76USActor
May10 Joan Crawford 71USActress
15 Herbert Wilcox 87UKDirector, Producer
21 Dorothy Christy 70USActress
31 William Castle 63USProducer, Director
June2 Stephen Boyd 45IrelandActor
3 Roberto Rossellini 71ItalyDirector, Screenwriter
5 Luis César Amadori 75Italy/ArgentinaDirector, Screenwriter
13 Matthew Garber 21UKActor
14 Alan Reed 69USActor
19 Geraldine Brooks 51USActress
20 Abner Biberman 68USDirector, Actor
July2 William H. Ziegler 67USFilm Editor
22 Erik Chitty 70UKActor
August3 Alfred Lunt 84USActor
14 George Oppenheimer 77USScreenwriter
16 Elvis Presley 42USActor, Singer
17 Delmer Daves 73USScreenwriter, Director
19 Groucho Marx 86USActor, Screenwriter
19 Peter Dyneley 56UKActor
21 Danny Lockin 34USActor
22 Sebastian Cabot 59UKActor
22 Alex Segal 62USDirector
29 Jean Hagen 54USActress
31 H. C. Potter 72USDirector
September2 Stephen Dunne 59USActor
8 Zero Mostel 62USActor
October3 Tay Garnett 83USDirector
5 Fred F. Finklehoffe 67USScreenwriter
14 Bing Crosby 74USActor, Singer
31 Joan Tetzel 56USActress
November4 Betty Balfour 74UKActress
9 Gertrude Astor 90USActress
15 William C. McGann 84USDirector
18 Victor Francen 89BelgiumActor
25 Richard Carlson 65USActor
30 Olga Petrova 93UKActress, Screenwriter
30 Terence Rattigan 66UKScreenwriter
December4 Leila Hyams 72USActress
18 Cyril Ritchard 79AustraliaActor
19 Jacques Tourneur 73FranceDirector
25 Charlie Chaplin 88UKActor, Director, Screenwriter
26 Howard Hawks 81USDirector
28 Charlotte Greenwood 87USActress

Film debuts

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