List of 1977 box office number-one films in the United States

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This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1977 per Variety . The data was based on grosses from 20 to 22 key cities and therefore, the gross quoted may not be the total that the film grossed nationally in the week.

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Number-one films

#Week endingFilmGrossNotesRef
1January 5, 1977 King Kong $3,025,159 [1]
2January 12, 1977$2,088,200 [2]
3January 19, 1977$1,206,064 [3]
4January 26, 1977 Rocky $1,251,000Rocky reached number one in its ninth week on the chart [4]
5February 2, 1977$1,135,500 [5]
6February 9, 1977$1,351,500 [6]
7February 16, 1977$1,710,167 [7]
8February 23, 1977$1,887,822 [8]
9March 2, 1977$1,715,985 [9]
10March 9, 1977$1,533,124 [10]
11March 16, 1977$1,212,454 [11]
12March 23, 1977$1,177,547 [12]
13March 30, 1977 Airport '77 $1,350,700 [13]
14April 6, 1977Rocky$1,792,674Rocky returned to number one in its 19th week on the chart [14]
15April 13, 1977$1,688,305 [15]
16April 20, 1977$1,277,740 [16]
17April 27, 1977$1,088,195 [17]
18May 4, 1977 It's Alive (reissue)$786,250It's Alive reached number one in its 15th week on the chart [18]
19May 11, 1977 Annie Hall $855,733Annie Hall reached number one in its third week of release [19]
20May 18, 1977$851,382 [20]
21May 25, 1977 The Greatest $1,361,800 [21]
22June 1, 1977 Star Wars $1,947,500Star Wars grossed $2,556,418 nationally in its first six days to the end of the Memorial Day weekend from 43 theaters. Smokey and the Bandit grossed $2,689,851 in the four-day weekend from 386 theaters [22] [23] [24]
23June 8, 1977$1,971,000 [25]
24June 15, 1977$2,231,800 [26]
25June 22, 1977 The Deep $3,033,800The Deep grossed $8,124,316 nationally from all markets in the weekend ended June 19, an opening weekend record [27] [28]
26June 29, 1977$2,931,262 [29]
27July 6, 1977$2,679,766 [30]
28July 13, 1977Star Wars$2,291,696Star Wars returned to number one in its seventh week of release grossing $6,197,462 nationally in the weekend ended July 10 [31] [32]
29July 20, 1977$2,231,720Star Wars grossed $6,806,951 nationally in the weekend ended July 17 [33] [34]
30July 27, 1977$2,789,667Star Wars grossed $7,000,644 nationally in the weekend ended July 24 [35] [36]
31August 3, 1977$2,102,935Star Wars grossed $6,234,376 nationally (not including Canada theaters) in the weekend ended July 24 [37] [38] [39]
32August 10, 1977$3,620,800Star Wars grossed $7,195,573 nationally in the weekend ended August 7 [40] [41]
33August 17, 1977$3,267,789Star Wars grossed $6,705,755 nationally in the weekend ended August 14 [42] [43]
34August 24, 1977$2,784,881Star Wars grossed $5,908,751 nationally in the weekend ended August 21 [44] [45]
35August 31, 1977$2,387,982Star Wars grossed $5,239,535 nationally in the weekend ended August 28 [46] [47]
36September 7, 1977$2,330,800Star Wars grossed $7,737,847 nationally in the 4-day Labor Day weekend [48] [49]
37September 14, 1977$1,661,131Star Wars grossed $4,648,085 nationally in the weekend ended September 11 [50] [51]
38September 21, 1977$2,051,900Star Wars grossed $5,684,969 nationally in the weekend ended September 18 [52] [51]
39September 28, 1977$2,005,746Star Wars grossed $5,117,235 nationally in the weekend ended September 25 [53] [54]
40October 5, 1977$1,752,210Star Wars grossed $4,475,000 nationally in the weekend ended October 2 [55] [56]
41October 12, 1977$1,446,583Star Wars grossed $4,538,323 nationally for the 4-day Columbus Day weekend [57] [58]
42October 19, 1977$1,227,260 [59]
43October 26, 1977 Looking For Mr Goodbar $1,293,400Star Wars placed second on the chart based on 104 theaters but grossed $2,891,000 nationally in the weekend ended October 23 compared to $1,540,635 for Looking For Mr Goodbar [60] [61]
44November 2, 1977 Oh, God! $1,320,452Oh, God! reached number one in its fourth week of release. It grossed $1,508,511 nationally for the weekend ended October 30. Star Wars placed third on the chart based on 98 theaters but grossed $3,292,879 for the same period nationally from 739 theaters [62] [63] [64]
45November 9, 1977Looking For Mr Goodbar$1,742,750Looking For Mr Goodbar returned to number one in its third week of release. Nationally it was only in 110 theaters; Star Wars placed third on the chart based on 104 theaters but in 665 theaters nationally it grossed $2,626,914 for the weekend ended November 6 [65] [66] [67]
46November 16, 1977$1,194,150Looking For Mr Goodbar was only in 110 theaters nationally; Star Wars placed third on the chart based on 105 theaters but in 642 theaters nationally it grossed $2,269,052 for the weekend ended November 13 [68] [66] [69]
47November 23, 1977$1,027,000Looking For Mr Goodbar expanded to 214 theaters nationally; Star Wars placed third on the chart based on 91 theaters but in 605 theaters nationally it grossed $1,949,157 for the weekend ended November 20 [70] [66] [71]
48November 30, 1977Star Wars$1,283,735Star Wars returned to number one in its 27th week of release grossing $2,472,656 nationally for the weekend ended November 27 [72] [73]
49December 7, 1977Oh, God!$888,857Oh, God! returned to number one in its ninth week of release [74]
50December 14, 1977Star Wars$585,541Star Wars returned to number one in its 29th week of release grossing $1,152,953 nationally for the weekend ended December 11 [75] [76]
51December 21, 1977 Close Encounters of the Third Kind $3,856,656Close Encounters of the Third Kind reached number one in its fifth week of release and grossed $5,379,460 nationally from all markets in the weekend ended December 18 [77] [78]
52December 28, 1977$3,868,450 [79]

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