1977 in film

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Top Grossing Films of the Year 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Other Movies Released

Events

• In the Academy Awards, Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight win Best Actor and Actress and Supporting Actress awards for Network.
• Rocky picks up an Academy Award for Best Picture and All The President's Men wins Jason Robards the Supporting Actor and an Art Direction for George Jenkins and George Gaines.
• May 25 - Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope opens in theaters and becomes the highest grossing movie to date.

1. Star Wars(now known as Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope)
2. Close Encounters of the Third Kind, starring Richard Dreyfuss
3. Smokey and the Bandit
4. The Goodbye Girl
5. In Search of Noah's Ark
6. A Bridge Too Far
7. The Rescuers
8. The Spy Who Loved Me
9. Oh, God, starring George Burns

• January 13 - Orlando Bloom, actor
• July 1 - Liv Tyler, actress

• January 14 - Peter Finch, actor
• January 29 - Freddie Prinze, actor/comedian
• May 10 - Joan Crawford, actress
• August 16 - Elvis Presley, singer, actor
• August 19 - Groucho Marx, comedian
• October 14 - Bing Crosby, American singer and actor
• December 25 - Charlie Chaplin, star of silent film
• Roberto Rossellini, Italian actor, director

• Annie Hall