1973 in film

Highest-grossing films

United States and Canada

The top ten 1973 released films by box office gross in the United States and Canada are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1973
RankTitleStudioBox-office gross rental
1 The Exorcist Warner Bros. $88,900,000[1]
2 The Sting Universal Pictures $79,000,000[1]
3 American Graffiti $55,900,000[1]
4 The Way We Were Columbia Pictures $25,000,000[1]
5 Papillon Allied Artists Pictures $22,500,000[1]
6 Magnum Force Warner Bros. $20,100,000[2]
7 Paper Moon Paramount Pictures $16,559,000[2]
8 Live and Let Die United Artists/Eon Productions $15,925,000[2]
9 Last Tango in Paris United Artists $15,150,000[3]
10 The Devil in Miss Jones VCX Ltd./MB Productions $15,000,000[2]

Outside North America

The highest-grossing 1973 films in countries outside of North America.

CountryTitleStudioGrossRef
France The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob SNC 7,295,727 admissions [4]
Germany Papillon Columbia Pictures 8,500,000 admissions [5]
Hong Kong The House of 72 Tenants Shaw Brothers Studio HK$5,600,000 [6]
India Bobby R. K. Films ₹110,000,000 (US$14,210,000) [7][nb 1]
Italy Malicious Paramount Pictures 11,756,327 admissions [9]
Soviet Union The Headless Horseman Lenfilm 64,900,000 admissions [10]
United Kingdom Live and Let Die Eon Productions 9,000,000 admissions [11]

Worldwide gross revenue

The following table lists known worldwide gross revenue figures for several high-grossing films that originally released in 1973. Note that this list is incomplete and is therefore not representative of the highest-grossing films worldwide in 1973. The worldwide revenue for The Sting, for example, is not known. This list also includes gross revenue from later re-releases.

TitleWorldwide grossCountryRef
The Exorcist $441,306,145[nb 2] United States [12]
Enter the Dragon $350,000,000[nb 2] Hong Kong
United States		 [13]
Live and Let Die $161,800,000 United Kingdom [14]
American Graffiti $140,000,000 United States [15]
Bobby $39,000,000 India [16][17]

Events
  • March – Five Fingers of Death is released in the United States and is a surprise success starting a kung fu film craze in North America[18]
  • April 11 – Kim Jong-il publishes his film treatise On the Art of the Cinema.[19]
  • May 1 – The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx divorces his second wife, Barbara Blakely; she will marry actor/singer Frank Sinatra in 1976.
  • July 20 – Martial arts legend Bruce Lee dies before Enter the Dragon is released on July 26.
  • August 17 – The sci-fi movie Westworld is the first feature film to use digital image processing.
  • December 25 – The Sting is released and goes on to become one of the top-grossing films of all time.
  • December 26 – The Exorcist reawakens the horror film genre and becomes one of the most popular and controversial films ever released.

Awards
Category/Organization31st Golden Globe Awards
January 26, 1974		27th BAFTA Awards
March 6, 1974		46th Academy Awards
April 2, 1974
DramaMusical or Comedy
Best FilmThe ExorcistAmerican GraffitiDay for NightThe Sting
Best DirectorWilliam Friedkin
The Exorcist		Francois Truffaut
Day for Night		George Roy Hill
The Sting
Best ActorAl Pacino
Serpico		George Segal
A Touch of Class		Walter Matthau
Charley Varrick and Pete 'n' Tillie		Jack Lemmon
Save the Tiger
Best ActressMarsha Mason
Cinderella Liberty		Glenda Jackson
A Touch of Class		Stephane Audran
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and Just Before Nightfall		Glenda Jackson
A Touch of Class
Best Supporting ActorJohn Houseman
The Paper Chase		Arthur Lowe
O Lucky Man!		John Houseman
The Paper Chase
Best Supporting ActressLinda Blair
The Exorcist		Valentina Cortese
Day for Night		Tatum O'Neal
Paper Moon
Best Screenplay, AdaptedWilliam Peter Blatty
The Exorcist		Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carriere
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie		William Peter Blatty
The Exorcist
Best Screenplay, OriginalDavid S. Ward
The Sting
Best Original ScoreNeil Diamond
Jonathan Livingston Seagull		Alan Price
O Lucky Man!		Marvin Hamlisch
The Way We Were
Marvin Hamlisch
The Sting
Best Original Song"The Way We Were"
The Way We Were		N/A"The Way We Were"
The Way We Were
Best Foreign Language FilmThe PedestrianN/ADay for Night

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

The Hireling, directed by Alan Bridges, United Kingdom
Scarecrow, directed by Jerry Schatzberg, United States

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Ashani Sanket (Distant Thunder), directed by Satyajit Ray, India

Notable films released in 1973

United States unless stated

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1973 film releases

United States unless stated

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

Births

Notable deaths
MonthDateNameAgeCountryProfessionNotable films
January 2Franciska Gaal68HungaryActress, Singer
15Coleman Francis53USActor, Director
19Max Adrian69Northern IrelandActor
24J. Carrol Naish77USActor
26Edward G. Robinson79RomaniaActor
29Ludwig Stossel89AustriaActor
31Jack MacGowran54IrelandActor
February 13David Bauer55USActor
15Tim Holt54USActor
15Wally Cox48USActor
22Katina Paxinou72GreeceActress
24Art Smith73USActor
28Cecil Kellaway82South AfricaActor
March 5Rupert Crosse45USActor
10Robert Siodmak72GermanyDirector
13Melville Cooper76EnglandActor
16Carl Benton Reid79USActor
19Lauritz Melchior82USSinger
22Kane Richmond66USActor
23Ken Maynard77USActor
26Noël Coward73EnglandActor, Songwriter
April 11Ted de Corsia69USActor
12Arthur Freed78USSongwriter, Producer
14Minna Gombell80USActress
20Robert Armstrong82USActor
21Merian C. Cooper79USDirector, Producer, Screenwriter
21Ursula Jeans73UKActress
26Irene Ryan70USActress
May 4Charles Grayson69USScreenwriter
6Myrna Fahey40USActress
10Jack E. Leonard63USActor, Comedian
11Lex Barker54USActor
12Frances Marion84USScreenwriter
21Vaughn Monroe61USSinger, Actor
29P. Ramlee44MalaysiaActor, Director
June 5Max Terhune87USActor
10William Inge60USScreenwriter, Playwright
16Louise Latimer60USActress
18Roger Delgado55EnglandActor
23Fay Holden79EnglandActress
25Lars Tvinde86NorwayActor
26Ernest Truex83USActor
July 2Betty Grable56USActress
2George Macready73USActor
6Joe E. Brown80USActor
7Veronica Lake50USActress
11Robert Ryan63USActor
12Lon Chaney, Jr.67USActor
18Jack Hawkins62EnglandActor
20Bruce Lee32USActor
30Guy Middleton65EnglandActor
August 2Jean-Pierre Melville55FranceDirector
5Warren Duff69USProducer, Screenwriter
10Douglas Kennedy57USActor
11Peggie Castle45USActress
16Veda Ann Borg58USActress
17Eve Miller50USActress
22Louise Huff77USActress
30Michael Dunn38USActor, Singer
31John Ford79USDirector
September 13Betty Field60USActress
21Diana Sands39USActress
26Anna Magnani65ItalyActress
28Norma Crane44USActress
October 6Sidney Blackmer78USActor
6Dennis Price58UKActor
16Cleo Moore48USActress
18Crane Wilbur86USScreenwriter, Director
27Allan Lane64USActor
November 13Lila Lee72USActress
20Viola Lawrence78USFilm Editor
23Claire Dodd64USActress
23Constance Talmadge75USActress
23Sessue Hayakawa84JapanActor
23Adele Buffington73USScreenwriter
25Laurence Harvey45LithuaniaActor
December 4Michael O'Shea67USActor
12Ranald MacDougall58USScreenwriter, Director
20Bobby Darin37USActor, Singer
26Steven Geray69UkraineActor
26William Haines73USActor
31A. Edward Sutherland78EnglandDirector

Debuts

Notes
  1. ₹7.742 per US dollar in 1973[8]
  2. Includes gross revenue from re-releases

References
  1. Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 360–361. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
  2. Top 20 Films of 1973 by Domestic Revenue
  3. Annual US Box Office Chart of 1973
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  5. "Bilan Annuel Allemagne -1973". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
  6. Fu, Poshek; Desser, David (2002). The Cinema of Hong Kong: History, Arts, Identity. Cambridge University Press. p. 95. ISBN 9780521776028.
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  10. "Prokat2". Kinokultura.com. Archived from the original on 2012-05-10. Retrieved 2012-10-09.
  11. "The Ultimate Chart: 1–100". British Film Institute. 28 November 2004. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 14 November 2013.
  12. "The Exorcist (1973)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved December 28, 2011.
  13. Polly, Matthew (2019). Bruce Lee: A Life. Simon and Schuster. p. 478. ISBN 978-1-5011-8763-6. Enter the Dragon struck a responsive chord across the globe. Made for a minuscule $850,000, it would gross $90 million worldwide in 1973 and go on to earn an estimated $350 million over the next forty-five years.
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  15. "American Graffiti (1973) – Financial Information". The Numbers. Retrieved January 30, 2012.
  16. "On Independence Day, here are the most successful Indian movies of every decade since 1947". Hindustan Times. 15 August 2018.
  17. "Official exchange rate (LCU per US$, period average)". World Bank. 1973. Retrieved 13 December 2018.
  18. "U.S. Rage of Chop-Socky Films; Karate Breaks Out of Chinatown". Variety. January 9, 1974. p. 72.
  19. David-West, Alzo (January 2009). "The Literary Ideas of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il: An Introduction to North Korean Meta-Authorial Perspectives" (PDF). Cultural Logic. 12: 14. ISSN 1097-3087. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-11-23. Retrieved 2015-04-04.
  20. https://www.soundtrack.net/person/kurt-kuenne/
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