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The year 1976 in film involved some significant events.

Events

• March 22 - Filming begins on George Lucas' Star Wars science fiction film. In one of the best business decisions in film history, Lucas cuts his directing fee by $500,000 to gain 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 2011^[update] all around the world.^[1]

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: Rocky - Chartoff-Winkler, United Artists

Best Director: John G. Avildsen - Rocky

Best Actor: Peter Finch - Network (first actor to win posthumously)

Best Actress: Faye Dunaway - Network

Best Supporting Actor: Jason Robards Jr - All the President's Men

Best Supporting Actress: Beatrice Straight - Network

Best Foreign Language Film: Noirs et blancs en couleur (Black and White in Color), directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, Ivory Coast / France / W. Germany / Switzerland

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: Rocky

Best Actor: Peter Finch - Network

Best Actress: Faye Dunaway - Network

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: A Star Is Born

Best Actor: Kris Kristofferson - A Star Is Born

Best Actress: Barbra Streisand - A Star Is Born

Other

Best Director: Sidney Lumet - Network

Best Foreign Language Film: Face to Face, Sweden

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

Films released in 1976

U.S.A. unless stated #

• 7 Man Army, directed by Chang Cheh - (Hong Kong)
• 1900, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, starring Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Donald Sutherland - (Italy)

A

• All the President's Men, directed by Alan J. Pakula, starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford
• Any Day Now (aka Vandaag of morgen) - (Netherlands)
• The Ascent (Voskhozhdeniye) - (U.S.S.R.) - Golden Bear winner
• Assault on Precinct 13, directed by John Carpenter
• At the Earth's Core, starring Peter Cushing and Doug McClure

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
• 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
• 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
• Brother and Sister - (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)
• Car Wash, starring Franklin Ajaye and Richard Pryor
• Caro Michele, directed by Mario Monicelli - (Italy)
• Carrie, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving
• Carry On England - (U.K.)
• The Cassandra Crossing, starring Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Burt Lancaster, Lee Strasberg, Martin Sheen - (U.K.)
• Chinese Roulette (Chinesisches Roulette), directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder - (West Germany)
• 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, Stefan Mavrodiev, Tatyana Lolova, Itzhak Fintzi and Petar Slabakov - (Bulgaria)

D

• Deadly Hero, starring Don Murray
• 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
• The Divine Nymph (Divina creatura), starring Marcello Mastroianni and Terence Stamp - (Italy)
• 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)
• Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde

E-F

• The Eagle Has Landed, starring Michael Caine and Donald Sutherland - (U.K./U.S.A.)
• The Enforcer, starring Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Tyne Daly
• Escape from the Dark, starring Alastair Sim - (U.K.)
• Face to Face (Ansikte mot ansikte), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Liv Ullman and Erland Josephson - (Sweden)
• Family Plot, directed by Alfred Hitchcock (his final film), starring Barbara Harris, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, William Devane
• Farsighted for Two Diopters, directed by Petar B. Vasilev, starring Georgi Partsalev - (Bulgaria)
• Fellini's Casanova, directed by Federico Fellini, starring Donald Sutherland - (Italy)
• "The First Nudie Musical", directed by Bruce Kimmel, starring Cindy Williams, Stephen Nathan, Diana Canova
• Freaky Friday, directed by Gary Nelson, starring Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster
• From Noon till Three, starring Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland
• The Front, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Woody Allen, Zero Mostel, Andrea Marcovicci, Michael Murphy
• Fumō Chitai - (Japan)
• Futureworld, starring Peter Fonda and Blythe Danner

G-H

• God Told Me To
• Grizzly, starring Christopher George
• The Gumball Rally, starring Michael Sarrazin
• Gus, starring Don Knotts and Ed Asner
• Harlan County USA - a documentary film
• Heart of Glass (Herz aus Glas), directed by Werner Herzog - (West Germany)
• Hot Potato
• The House with Laughing Windows (La casa dalle finestre che ridono) - (Italy)

I-K

• Illustrious Corpses (Cadaveri eccellenti), directed by Francesco Rosi, starring Lino Ventura - (Italy)
• In the Realm of the Senses (Ai no Korīda), directed by Nagisa Oshima - (Japan)
• L'innocente, directed by Luchino Visconti - (Italy)
• The Inugamis, directed by Kon Ichikawa - (Japan)
• J.D.'s Revenge
• Je t'aime moi non plus (I Love You...Me Neither), directed by Serge Gainsbourg, starring Jane Birkin and Joe Dallesandro - (France)
• Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (Jonas qui aura 25 ans en l'an 2000) - (Switzerland/France)
• The Judge and the Assassin (Le Juge et l'assassin), directed by Bertrand Tavernier, starring Philippe Noiret and Isabelle Huppert - (France)
• Kabhie Kabhie (Sometimes), starring Shashi Kapoor - (India)
• Kalicharan - (India)
• The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, directed by John Cassavetes, starring Ben Gazzara, Timothy Carey and Seymour Cassel
• King Kong, directed by John Guillermin, starring Jessica Lange and Jeff Bridges
• King Kung Fu
• Kings of the Road (Im Lauf der Zeit), directed by Wim Wenders - (West Germany)

L

• The Last Hard Men, a western starring Charlton Heston and James Coburn
• The Last Tycoon, directed by Elia Kazan, starring Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jeanne Moreau, Jack Nicholson
• Leadbelly, a biopic directed by Gordon Parks
• Lipstick, starring Margaux Hemingway, Mariel Hemingway, Chris Sarandon
• The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, starring Jodie Foster and Martin Sheen
• Logan's Run, directed by Michael Anderson, starring Michael York, Richard Jordan, Jenny Agutter

M

• Mako: The Jaws of Death, directed by William Grefe, starring Richard Jaeckel
• The Man on the Roof (Mannen på taket), directed by Bo Widerberg - (Sweden)
• The Man Who Fell to Earth, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark - (U.K.)
• Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (Marečku, podejte mi pero!) - (Czechoslovakia)
• Marathon Man, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Dustin Hoffman, Roy Scheider, Laurence Olivier
• The Marquise of O, directed by Éric Rohmer - (West Germany/France)
• A Matter of Time, directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Ingrid Bergman, Liza Minnelli, Charles Boyer, Isabella Rossellini - (U.S.A./Italy)
• The Memory of Justice, a documentary film by Marcel Ophuls - (France/West Germany/U.K./U.S.A.)
• Midway, starring Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, Toshirō Mifune
• Mikey and Nicky, directed by Elaine May
• The Missouri Breaks, directed by Arthur Penn, starring Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson
• Mohammad: Messenger of God, directed by Moustapha Akkad, starring Anthony Quinn - (Morocco/Libya)
• Mother, Jugs & Speed, directed by Peter Yates, starring Bill Cosby, Raquel Welch, Harvey Keitel
• Mr. Klein, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Alain Delon and Jeanne Moreau - (France)
• Murder by Death, starring Peter Sellers, David Niven, Maggie Smith, Alec Guinness, Peter Falk, Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote
• The Mysterious Monsters, starring Peter Graves and Peter Hurkos

N-O

• Network, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Peter Finch, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Robert Duvall
• Next Stop, Greenwich Village, starring Shelley Winters, Lenny Baker, Ellen Greene
• Nickelodeon, directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Ryan O'Neal, Burt Reynolds, Tatum O'Neal
• No Deposit, No Return, starring David Niven, Darren McGavin, Don Knotts, Barbara Feldon, Kim Richards

P-Q

• Obsession, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, John Lithgow
• The Omen, directed by Richard Donner, starring Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Billie Whitelaw
• The Outlaw Josey Wales, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood with Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, John Vernon
• Oz or 20th Century Oz, a Rock 'N' Roll Road Movie, starring Bruce Spence, Joy Dunstan - (Australia)
• The Pink Panther Strikes Again, starring Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Lesley-Anne Down - (U.K.)

R

• Raise Ravens (Cria Cuervos), directed by Carlos Saura, starring Geraldine Chaplin - (Spain)
• Rich Man, Poor Man, starring Nick Nolte and Peter Strauss
• The Ritz, starring Rita Moreno and Jerry Stiller
• Robin and Marian, directed by Richard Lester, starring Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn, Robert Shaw - (U.K./U.S.A.)
• Rocky, directed by John G. Avildsen, starring Sylvester Stallone, Burgess Meredith, Carl Weathers, Talia Shire
• Rogue Male, starring Peter O'Toole - (U.K.)

S

• The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, starring Kris Kristofferson
• Salon Kitty, directed by Tinto Brass
• Scorchy, starring Connie Stevens
• Sebastiane, directed by Derek Jarman - (U.K.)
• Seclusion Near a Forest (Na samotě u lesa), directed by Jiří Menzel - (Czechoslovakia)
• Seven Beauties (Pasqualino Settebellezze), starring Fernando Rey - (Italy)
• The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Nicol Williamson, Robert Duvall, Alan Arkin, Laurence Olivier - (U.K./U.S.A.)
• The Shaggy D.A., starring Dean Jones and Suzanne Pleshette
• The Shootist, directed by Don Siegel, starring John Wayne (his final film), Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, James Stewart
• Shout at the Devil, starring Lee Marvin, Roger Moore - (U.K.)
• Silent Movie, directed by and starring Mel Brooks, with Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise, Bernadette Peters
• Silver Streak, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Jill Clayburgh
• Sister Street Fighter - Fifth Level Fist
• The Slipper and the Rose, directed by Bryan Forbes, starring Gemma Craven and Richard Chamberlain - (U.K.)
• Small Change (L'Argent de poche), directed by François Truffaut - (France)
• The Smurfs and the Magic Flute (La Flûte à six schtroumpfs) - (Belgium)
• Snuff - (Argentina/U.S.A.)
• The Song Remains the Same, featuring Led Zeppelin - (U.K./U.S.A.)
• Sparkle, starring Irene Cara
• Squirm
• A Star Is Born, starring Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson
• Stay Hungry, directed by Bob Rafelson, starring Jeff Bridges, Sally Field, Arnold Schwarzenegger
• St. Ives, directed by J. Lee Thompson, starring Charles Bronson
• Storm Boy, starring David Gulpilil - (Australia)
• Swashbuckler, starring Robert Shaw

T

• Taxi Driver, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Albert Brooks, Jodie Foster
• The Tenant (Le Locataire), directed by and starring Roman Polanski, with Isabelle Adjani and Melvyn Douglas - (France)
• That's Entertainment, Part 2
• To Fly!
• To the Devil a Daughter, starring Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Honor Blackman, Nastassja Kinski - (U.K.)
• Todo modo, starring Gian Maria Volonté and Marcello Mastroianni - (Italy)
• Tosun Pasa - (Turkey)
• Trackdown, starring James Mitchum
• Treasure of Matecumbe
• Two-Minute Warning, starring Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, David Janssen, Jack Klugman, Martin Balsam, Beau Bridges

U-V

• Ugly, Dirty and Bad (Brutti, sporchi e cattivi), directed by Ettore Scola, starring Nino Manfredi - (Italy)
• Up!, directed by Russ Meyer, featuring Raven de la Croix
• Vigilante Force
• Voyage of the Damned, starring Faye Dunaway, Lee Grant, James Mason, Katharine Ross, Max von Sydow, Orson Welles, Oskar Werner - (U.K.)

W-Z

• Welcome to L.A., directed by Alan Rudolph, starring Keith Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin, Sally Kellerman, Harvey Keitel

Births

• January 6 - Danny Pintauro, actor
• February 11 - Brice Beckham, actor.
• February 11 - Kelly Macdonald, actress.
• March 16 - Paul Schneider, actor.
• March 22 - Reese Witherspoon, actress.
• March 23 - Michelle Monaghan, actress.
• April 13 - Jonathan Brandis, actor. (d.2003)
• April 15 - Susan Ward, actress.
• April 23 - Gabriel Damon, actor.
• April 27 - Sally Hawkins, actor.
• May 25 - Cillian Murphy, Irish actor
• July 15 - Diane Kruger, German actress.
• July 19 - Benedict Cumberbatch, English actor.
• August 9 - Audrey Tautou, French actress.
• September 7 - Shannon Elizabeth, actress.
• October 4 - Alicia Silverstone, actress.
• October 23 - Ryan Reynolds, actor

Deaths

• January 12 - Agatha Christie, writer
• January 23 - Paul Robeson, actor, singer
• February 11 - Lee J Cobb, actor
• February 11 - Charlie Naughton, actor
• February 12 - Sal Mineo, actor
• February 26 - Frieda Inescort, actress
• March 14 - Busby Berkeley, director
• March 17 - Luchino Visconti, Italian theatre and cinema director
• April 5 - Howard Hughes, American director, producer, editor
• April 26 - Sid James, actor
• June 5 - Violet Wilkey, actress
• June 6 - Victor Varconi, actor
• June 9 - Sybil Thorndike, actress
• August 6 - William Mervyn, actor
• October 14 - Edith Evans, actress
• November 15 - Jean Gabin, actor
• November 28 - Rosalind Russell, actress

Film debuts

• Albert Brooks
• Chow Yun-Fat
• James Cromwell
• Amy Irving
• Jessica Lange
• Tim Robbins
• Brooke Shields
• Treat Williams

References

1. ^ rock Horror Picture Show film booking in Feb 2011
2. ^ "Rocky, Box Office Information". The Numbers. http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1976/0RKY1.php. Retrieved January 17, 2012. 
3. ^ "To Fly!, Box Office Information". The Numbers. http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1976/0TFLY.php. Retrieved January 17, 2012. 
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18. ^ "Taxi Driver, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=taxidriver.htm. Retrieved January 17, 2012. 
19. ^ "Marathon Man, Box Office Information". The Numbers. http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1976/0MMN.php. Retrieved January 17, 2012. 
20. ^ "Freaky Friday, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=freakyfriday.htm. Retrieved January 17, 2012. 
21. ^ "Logan's Run, Box Office Information". The Numbers. http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1976/0LRUN.php. Retrieved January 17, 2012. 
22. ^ "Network, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=network.htm. Retrieved January 17, 2012.