1976 in film

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The year 1976 in film involved some significant events.

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
Rank	Title	Studio	Box-office gross rental
1	Rocky	United Artists	$55,900,000[1]
2	A Star Is Born	Warner Bros.	$37,100,000[1]
3	King Kong	Paramount Pictures	$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 Pictures	$24,800,000[1]
8	The Enforcer	Warner Bros.	$24,000,000[1]
9	In Search of Noah's Ark	Sunn Classic Pictures	$23,800,000[1]
10	Midway	Universal Pictures	$21,610,435[2]

Events

January – Paramount Pictures sets up a separate motion picture division and names David V. Picker as president.[3]
March 22 – Filming begins on George Lucas' Star Wars science fiction film. In one of the most lucrative business decisions in film history, Lucas declines his directing fee of $500,000 in exchange for complete ownership of merchandising and sequel rights.
April 1 – The Rocky Horror Picture Show is officially re-released as a midnight movie at the Waverly Theater (Now the IFC Center) in Greenwich Village in New York City, starting through the run and still being shown in there as of 2013 all around the world.[4]
April 9 – Alfred Hitchcock's last film, Family Plot, is released.
August 11 – John Wayne appears in his final film, The Shootist.
August 26 – Alan Ladd Jr. is promoted from head of worldwide production to president of 20th Century Fox's film division.
November 15 – Michael Eisner is brought in as president and CEO of Paramount Pictures.
November 21 – Rocky, the first in the film series opens. It becomes the highest-grossing film released in the year and goes on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
December 5 – Bound for Glory debuts and is the first motion picture in which inventor/operator Garrett Brown used his new Steadicam for filming moving scenes,[5] although its use had already been seen in Marathon Man and Rocky which were filmed later but released earlier.

Awards

Category/Organization	34th Golden Globe Awards January 29, 1977		30th BAFTA Awards March 24, 1977	49th Academy Awards March 28, 1977
Category/Organization	Drama	Musical or Comedy	30th BAFTA Awards March 24, 1977	49th Academy Awards March 28, 1977
Best Film	Rocky	A Star Is Born	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Rocky
Best Director	Sidney Lumet Network		Milos 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		Alan Parker Bugsy Malone	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

Notable films released in 1976

United States unless stated

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7-Man Army (Ba dao lou zi), directed by Chang Cheh – (Hong Kong)
1900, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, starring Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Donald Sutherland – (Italy/France)

A

A Queda (The Fall) – (Brazil)
All the President's Men, directed by Alan J. Pakula, starring Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jason Robards, Martin Balsam, Hal Holbrook
The Anchorite (El anacoreta) – (Spain)
Any Day Now (Vandaag of morgen) – (Netherlands)
The Ascent (Voskhozhdeniye) – (U.S.S.R.) – Golden Bear winner
Assault on Precinct 13, directed by John Carpenter, starring Austin Stoker
The Astral Factor, starring Stefanie Powers
At the Earth's Core, starring Peter Cushing and Doug McClure – (U.K.)

B

Baby Blue Marine, starring Jan-Michael Vincent
The Bad News Bears, directed by Michael Ritchie, starring Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal, Vic Morrow, Jackie Earle Haley
Barocco, directed by André Téchiné, starring Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Marie-France Pisier – (France); Winner of three César Awards for Best Actress, Best Cinematography, and Best Music.
Beach Guard in Winter (Čuvar plaže u zimskom periodu) – (Yugoslavia)
The Best Way to Walk (La meilleure façon de marcher) – (France)
The Big Bus, starring Joseph Bologna, Stockard Channing, John Beck
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings, starring Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones, Richard Pryor
Black and White in Color (La Victoire en chantant), directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud – (France) – Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film
The Blank Generation, with Patti Smith Group, Television, Ramones and Talking Heads
Blue Puppy (Goluboy shchenok) – (U.S.S.R.)
Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw, starring Marjoe Gortner and Lynda Carter
Bound for Glory, a biopic of Woody Guthrie directed by Hal Ashby, starring David Carradine
Breaking Point, starring Bo Svenson, Robert Culp, John Colicos
The Bricklayers (Los albañiles) – (Mexico)
Brother and Sister (Ani Imouto) – (Japan)
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson, directed by Robert Altman, starring Paul Newman, Geraldine Chaplin, Burt Lancaster – Golden Bear winner
Bugsy Malone, directed by Alan Parker, starring Scott Baio and Jodie Foster – (U.K.)
Burnt Offerings, starring Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Bette Davis

C

Caddie, starring Helen Morse – (Australia)
Canoa (Canoe) – (Mexico)
Car Wash, starring Franklyn Ajaye and Richard Pryor
The Career of a Chambermaid (Telefoni bianchi), directed by Dino Risi – (Italy)
Caro Michele, directed by Mario Monicelli – (Italy)
Carrie, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving
The Cassandra Crossing, starring Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Lee Strasberg, Martin Sheen, O. J. Simpson – (U.K.)
A Child in the Crowd (Un enfant dans la foule) – (France)
Chinese Roulette (Chinesisches Roulette), directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder – (West Germany)
Chitchor (Heart Stealer) – (India)
The Clown Murders
Cop (Strømer) – (Denmark)
Coup de Grâce (Der Fangschuß), directed by Volker Schlöndorff – (West Germany/France)
A Cricket in the Ear (Shturets v uhoto), directed by Georgi K. Stoyanov, starring Pavel Popandov, Tatyana Lolova, Itzhak Fintzi – (Bulgaria)

D

Deadly Hero, starring Don Murray and James Earl Jones
The Desert of the Tartars (Il deserto dei Tartari), starring Vittorio Gassman – (Italy/France/West Germany)
The Devil's Playground, directed by Fred Schepisi – (Australia)
Diary of the Dead, starring Geraldine Fitzgerald and Héctor Elizondo
The Divine Nymph (Divina creatura), starring Marcello Mastroianni and Terence Stamp – (Italy)
Dixie Dynamite, starring Warren Oates
Dogs, starring David McCallum, George Wyner and Linda Gray
Don's Party, directed by Bruce Beresford, starring Ray Barrett, John Hargreaves and Pat Bishop – (Australia)
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos), starring Sônia Braga – (Brazil)
Les douze travaux d'Asterix (The Twelve Trials of Asterix) – (France)
Drum , starring Warren Oates and Yaphet Kotto

1976 film releases

January–March

February 1976
- 4 February
  - Next Stop, Greenwich Village
- 8 February
  - Taxi Driver
- 13 February
  - Jack and the Beanstalk
- 27 February
  - Griffin and Phoenix
March 1976
- 11 March
  - Gable and Lombard
  - Robin and Marian
- 12 March
  - I Will, I Will... for Now
- 18 March
  - The Man Who Fell to Earth
- 26 March
  - Ride a Wild Pony
  - Sky Riders
- 31 March
  - W.C. Fields and Me

April–June

April 1976
- 1 April
  - The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox
- 5 April
  - The Blue Bird
- 7 April
  - The Bad News Bears
  - Sparkle
- 9 April
  - All the President's Men
  - Family Plot
- 11 April
  - The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
- 23 April
  - Stay Hungry
May 1976
- 19 May
  - The Missouri Breaks
- 21 May
  - 1900
  - Embryo
- 26 May
  - Mother, Jugs & Speed
June 1976
- 1 June
  - The Last Hard Men
- 2 June
  - Breaking Point
- 11 June
  - The Cars That Ate Paris
  - The Tenant
- 17 June
  - Harry and Walter Go to New York
  - Silent Movie
- 18 June
  - Midway
- 20 June
  - Once Upon a Girl
- 23 June
  - The Big Bus
  - The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday
  - Logan's Run
  - Murder by Death
- 24 June
  - Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
- 25 June
  - The Omen
- 26 June
  - Bugsy Malone
- 30 June
  - The Outlaw Josey Wales

July–September

July 1976
Moving Violation
- 1 July
  - Treasure of Matecumbe
- 7 July
  - Gus
- 9 July
  - Mad Dog Morgan
- 16 July
  - The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
- 28 July
  - Futureworld
- 29 July
  - Swashbuckler
- 30 July
  - Squirm
- 31 July
  - St. Ives
August 1976
- 1 August
  - Obsession
- 4 August
  - The Return of a Man Called Horse
- 8 August
  - From Noon till Three
- 20 August
  - The Shootist
- 25 August
  - Gator
September 1976
High Velocity
- 9 September
  - Vigilante Force
- 15 September
  - In the Realm of the Senses
- 17 September
  - The Front
- 22 September
  - Mad Dog Morgan

October–December

October 1976
- 8 October
  - Marathon Man
- 18 October
  - Burnt Offerings
- 20 October
  - The Song Remains the Same
- 22 October
  - Car Wash
  - God Told Me To
November 1976
- 3 November
  - Carrie
- 5 November
  - John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13. (Los Angeles and New York City openings).
- 12 November
  - Two-Minute Warning
  - Welcome to L.A.
- 13 November
  - Alice, Sweet Alice
- 17 November
  - The Twelve Tasks of Asterix
- 19 November
  - The Last Tycoon
- 21 November
  - Rocky
- 27 November
  - Network nationwide 13 days after its previous (November 14) Los Angeles and New York City openings.
December 1976
- 5 December
  - Bound for Glory
- 8 December
  - A Star Is Born
  - Silver Streak
- 15 December
  - The Pink Panther Strikes Again
- 17 December
  - The Shaggy D.A.
  - Freaky Friday
  - King Kong
- 18 December
  - The Cassandra Crossing
- 20 December
  - Across the Great Divide
- 21 December
  - Nickelodeon
- 22 December
  - The Enforcer
  - Voyage of the Damned (New York City, with its Los Angeles opening on the following day, 23rd.
- 24 December
  - The Town That Dreaded Sundown
- 25 December
  - The Eagle Has Landed

Births

January 13 – Paz Vega, Spanish actress
January 6
- Johnny Yong Bosch, American actor, voice actor
- Danny Pintauro, American actor
January 13 – Michael Peña, American actor
February 3 – Isla Fisher, Australian actress
February 5 – Abhishek Bachchan, Indian actor
February 11 – Brice Beckham, American actor
February 23
- Aaron Aziz, Singaporean actor
- Kelly Macdonald, Scottish actress
February 25 – Rashida Jones, American actress
March 13 – Danny Masterson, American actor
March 16 – Paul Schneider, American actor
March 22 – Reese Witherspoon, American actress
March 23 – Michelle Monaghan, American actress
March 26 – Amy Smart, American actress
April 1
- Troy Baker, American voice actor
- David Oyelowo, English actor, producer, director
April 13 – Jonathan Brandis, American actor (d. 2003)
April 15 – Susan Ward, American actress
April 20 – Joey Lawrence, American actor
April 23 – Gabriel Damon, American actor
April 26 – Elisabet Reinsalu, Estonian actress
April 27 – Sally Hawkins, English actress
May 5 – Sage Stallone, American actor (d. 2012)
May 22 – Külli Teetamm, Estonian actress
May 25
- Cillian Murphy, Irish actor
- Ethan Suplee, American film and television actor
- J. Michael Tatum, American voice actor
May 31 – Colin Farrell, Irish actor
July 9 – Fred Savage, American actor
July 15 – Diane Kruger, German actress
July 19
- Benedict Cumberbatch, English actor
- Vinessa Shaw, American actress
July 31 – Mela Lee, American voice actress
August 2 – Sam Worthington, Australian actor
August 6 – Andero Ermel, Estonian actor
August 9 – Audrey Tautou, French actress
August 26 – Mike Colter, American actor
September 3 – Vivek Oberoi, Indian actor
September 5 – Carice van Houten, Dutch actress
September 6 – Naomie Harris, English actress
September 7 – Shannon Elizabeth, American actress
September 20 – Enuka Okuma, Canadian actress
September 26 – Kersti Heinloo, Estonian actress
October 4 – Alicia Silverstone, American actress
October 21 – Andrew Scott, Irish actor
October 23 – Ryan Reynolds, Canadian actor
October 31 – Piper Perabo, American actress
November 29 – Anna Faris, American actress
December 8 – Dominic Monaghan, English actor

Notable deaths

Month	Date	Name	Age	Country	Profession	Notable films
January	1	Walter Janssen	88	Germany	Actor	The Great Longing Maskerade
	12	Agatha Christie	85	UK	Writer	Witness for the Prosecution Murder on the Orient Express
	13	Margaret Leighton	53	UK	Actress	The Go-Between The Best Man
	18	Sonia Dresdel	66	UK	Actress	This Was a Woman The Fallen Idol
	23	Paul Robeson	77	US	Actor, Singer	Show Boat The Proud Valley
	29	Michael Gwynn	59	UK	Actor	Cleopatra Jason and the Argonauts
February	4	Roger Livesey	69	UK	Actor	The Entertainer The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
	11	Lee J. Cobb	64	US	Actor	On the Waterfront The Exorcist
	11	John Twist	77	US	Screenwriter	King Richard and the Crusaders Annie Oakley
	12	Sal Mineo	37	US	Actor	Rebel Without a Cause Exodus
	13	Lily Pons	77	France	Singer, Actress	I Dream Too Much Hitting a New High
	13	John Lounsbery	64	US	Animator	Dumbo Lady and the Tramp
	15	Maria Corda	77	Hungary	Actress	White Rose The Private Life of Helen of Troy
	16	Campbell Singer	66	UK	Actor	The Square Peg The Hands of Orlac
	24	Peter Madden	71	UK	Actor	From Russia with Love Doctor Zhivago
	26	Frieda Inescort	75	UK	Actress	A Place in the Sun The Letter
March	3	Doris Hill	70	US	Actress	Sons of the Saddle Men Are Like That
	5	Charles Lederer	69	US	Screenwriter	His Girl Friday Ocean's 11
	14	Busby Berkeley	80	US	Director, Choreographer	42nd Street Hollywood Hotel
	17	Luchino Visconti	69	Italy	Director, Writer	The Leopard Death in Venice
	20	Michael Goodliffe	61	UK	Actor	Cromwell Jigsaw
	28	Richard Arlen	76	US	Actor	Wings Wildcat
April	2	Ray Teal	74	US	Actor	Judgment at Nuremberg Ace in the Hole
	4	George Pastell	53	Cyprus	Actor	From Russia with Love The Magus
	5	Howard Hughes	70	US	Director, Producer	Hell's Angels The Outlaw
	5	Robert Lord	75	US	Screenwriter, Producer	One Way Passage 20,000 Years in Sing Sing
	11	Liam Dunn	59	US	Actor	Blazing Saddles Young Frankenstein
	12	Paul Ford	74	US	Actor	Advise & Consent The Music Man
	21	Léonide Moguy	75	Russia	Director, Writer	Paris After Dark Action in Arabia
	25	Carol Reed	69	UK	Director, Writer	OIiver! The Third Man
	26	Neil McCallum	46	Canada	Actor	The Longest Day Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
	26	Sid James	62	UK	Actor	The Lavender Hill Mob Trapeze
	29	Thelma Connell	63	UK	Film Editor	Alfie The Deadly Affair
May	3	David Bruce	62	US	Actor	Susie Steps Out Lady on a Train
	7	Alan Baxter	67	US	Actor	Saboteur The Set-Up
	27	Hilde Hildebrand	78	Germany	Actress	Victor and Victoria Little Dorrit
	27	Ruth McDevitt	80	US	Actress	The Parent Trap The Birds
June	5	Violet Wilkey	73	US	Actress	The Birth of a Nation The Burned Hand
	6	Victor Varconi	85	Hungary	Actor	The King of Kings The Sea Hawk
	9	Sybil Thorndike	93	UK	Actress	The Magic Box Melba
	10	Adolph Zukor	103	US	Producer, Studio Executive	Wings Shanghai Express
	25	Johnny Mercer	66	US	Songwriter	The Harvey Girls Darling Lili
	28	Stanley Baker	48	UK	Actor	The Guns of Navarone Helen of Troy
July	2	Frances Howard	73	US	Actress	The Shock Punch The Swan
	7	Norman Foster	72	US	Actor, Director	Pilgrimage State Fair
	12	James Wong Howe	76	China	Cinematographer	The Rose Tattoo Hud
	17	Rina Morelli	67	Italy	Actress	The Leopard Senso
	28	Lucie Mannheim	77	Germany	Actress	The 39 Steps The High Command
August	2	Fritz Lang	85	Germany	Director, Writer	Metropolis The Big Heat
	6	William Mervyn	64	UK	Actor	The Ruling Class The Long Arm
	10	Ray Corrigan	74	US	Actor	The Three Mesquiteers Range Busters
	17	William Redfield	49	US	Actor	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Death Wish
	17	Murvyn Vye	60	US	Actor	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Al Capone
	18	Luigi Serventi	91	Italy	Actor	A Woman's Story The Story of a Poor Young Man
	28	Alastair Sim	75	UK	Actor	The Green Man Scrooge
September	10	Dalton Trumbo	70	US	Screenwriter	Spartacus Roman Holiday
September	30	Paul Dehn	63	UK	Screenwriter	Goldfinger Murder on the Orient Express
October	5	Barbara Nichols	47	US	Actress	Sweet Smell of Success The Naked and the Dead
October	14	Edith Evans	88	UK	Actress	Tom Jones The Nun's Story
November	15	Jean Gabin	72	France	Actor	La Grande Illusion Port of Shadows
	22	Rupert Davies	60	UK	Actor	Waterloo The Criminal
	28	Rosalind Russell	69	US	Actress	His Girl Friday Auntie Mame
	29	Godfrey Cambridge	43	US	Actor	Cotton Comes to Harlem The President's Analyst
December	3	Mary Nash	92	US	Actress	The Philadelphia Story The Human Comedy
	8	Cathy Downs	50	US	Actress	My Darling Clementine The Dark Corner
	12	Jack Cassidy	49	US	Actor	Bunny O'Hare The Eiger Sanction
	20	Walter Fitzgerald	80	UK	Actor	The Fallen Idol Man in the Sky

Film debuts

Albert Brooks – Taxi Driver
Bruce Campbell – It's Murder!
Stephen Collins – All the President's Men
Lindsay Crouse – All the President's Men
Richard Griffiths – It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet
Mariel Hemingway – Lipstick
Ernie Hudson – Leadbelly
Amy Irving – Carrie
Jessica Lange – King Kong
Delroy Lindo – Find the Lady
Lena Olin – Face to Face
Jonathan Pryce – Voyage of the Damned
John Ratzenberger – The Ritz
Mercedes Ruehl – Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Theresa Russell – The Last Tycoon
Brooke Shields – Alice, Sweet Alice
Debra Winger – Slumber Party '57
Chow Yun-fat – Tou tai ren

References

Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 360–361. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
Top 20 Films of 1976 by Domestic Revenue
"Day-By-Day News Summary, Oct. '75-Sept. '76". Daily Variety. October 26, 1976. p. 208.
rock Horror Picture Show film booking in Feb 2011 Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine
"Steadicam 30th anniversary press release". Archived from the original on 2014-04-30.

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[Finler-1] Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 360–361. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.

[1976DomesticRevenue-2] Top 20 Films of 1976 by Domestic Revenue

[3] "Day-By-Day News Summary, Oct. '75-Sept. '76". Daily Variety. October 26, 1976. p. 208.

[4] rock Horror Picture Show film booking in Feb 2011 Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine

[5] "Steadicam 30th anniversary press release". Archived from the original on 2014-04-30.