1976 in film

none the 2022 film 1976 (film) 1976 film radio television music The year 1976 in film involved some significant events. Events January – Paramount Pictures sets up a separate motion picture division and names David V. Picker as president.Daily Variety October 26, 1976 Day-By-Day News Summary, Oct. '75-Sept. '76 208 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 2013 y all around the world.rock Horror Picture Show film booking in Feb 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110717220522/http://www.visitlondon.com/events/detail/8039158 2011-07-17 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,http://lserv2.dtopinc.com/tiffen/staging_html/tiffen_news_Steadicam30th_Anniv.html Steadicam 30th anniversary press release dead https://web.archive.org/web/20140430033456/http://lserv2.dtopinc.com/tiffen/staging_html/tiffen_news_Steadicam30th_Anniv.html 2014-04-30 although its use had already been seen in Marathon Man and Rocky which were filmed later but released earlier. December 17 - King Kong opens to the year's highest opening weekend gross and overall box office success. Awards Category/Organization 34th Golden Globe AwardsJanuary 29, 1977 30th BAFTA AwardsMarch 24, 1977 49th Academy AwardsMarch 28, 1977 Drama Musical or Comedy Best Film Rocky A Star Is Born One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Rocky Best Director Sidney LumetNetwork Miloš FormanOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest John G. AvildsenRocky Best Actor Peter FinchNetwork Kris KristoffersonA Star Is Born Jack NicholsonOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Peter FinchNetwork Best Actress Faye DunawayNetwork Barbra StreisandA Star Is Born Louise FletcherOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Faye DunawayNetwork Best Supporting Actor Laurence OlivierMarathon Man Brad DourifOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Jason RobardsAll the President's Men Best Supporting Actress Katharine RossVoyage of the Damned Jodie FosterTaxi Driver and Bugsy Malone Beatrice StraightNetwork Best Screenplay, Adapted Paddy ChayefskyNetwork Alan ParkerBugsy Malone William GoldmanAll the President's Men Best Screenplay, Original Paddy ChayefskyNetwork Best Original Score Kenneth Ascher and Paul WilliamsA Star Is Born Bernard HerrmannTaxi Driver Jerry GoldsmithThe OmenLeonard RosenmanBound 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 Highest-grossing films (U.S.) List of 1976 box office number-one films in the United States The top ten 1976 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: + Highest-grossing films of 1976 Rank Title Distributor Domestic rentals 1 Rocky United Artists $55,900,000Finler Joel Waldo 2003 The Hollywood Story Wallflower Press 978-1-903364-66-6 360–361 2 A Star Is Born Warner Bros. $37,100,000 3 King Kong Paramount $36,900,000 4 Silver Streak 20th Century Fox $30,018,000Top 20 Films of 1976 by Domestic Revenue 5 All the President's Men Warner Bros. $30,000,000 6 The Omen 20th Century Fox $28,500,000 7 The Bad News Bears Paramount $24,800,000 8 The Enforcer Warner Bros. $24,000,000 9 In Search of Noah's Ark Sunn Classic $23,800,000 10 Midway Universal $21,610,435 1976 films By country/region List of American films of 1976 List of Argentine films of 1976 List of Australian films of 1976 List of Bangladeshi films of 1976 List of British films of 1976 List of Canadian films of 1976 List of French films of 1976 List of Hong Kong films of 1976 List of Indian films of 1976 List of Hindi films of 1976 List of Kannada films of 1976 List of Malayalam films of 1976 List of Marathi films of 1976 List of Tamil films of 1976 List of Telugu films of 1976 List of Japanese films of 1976 List of Mexican films of 1976 List of Pakistani films of 1976 List of South Korean films of 1976 List of Soviet films of 1976 List of Spanish films of 1976 By genre/medium List of action films of 1976 List of animated feature films of 1976 List of avant-garde films of 1976 List of comedy films of 1976 List of drama films of 1976 List of horror films of 1976 List of science fiction films of 1976 List of thriller films of 1976 List of western films of 1976 Births January 2 – Paz Vega, Spanish actress January 6 Johnny Yong Bosch, American actor, voice actor Danny Pintauro, American actor January 8 - Jenny Lewis, American singer-songwriter, musician and actress January 13 Alice Winocour, French screenwriter and director Michael Peña, American actor January 15 - Dorian Missick, American actor January 18 - Derek Richardson, American actor January 20 - Wayne Bastrup, American actor and musician January 21 – Lars Eidinger, German film, television and stage actor January 28 – Lee Ingleby, English film, television and stage actor January 31 - Paul Scheer, American actor, comedian February 2 - Lori Beth Denberg, American actress and comedian February 3 Isla Fisher, Australian actress Tim Heidecker, American comedian, writer, director, actor and musician February 5 Abhishek Bachchan, Indian actor Tony Jaa, Thai actor, martial artist, director and stuntman February 8 - Sharon Duncan-Brewster, British actress February 9 – Charlie Day, American actor, screenwriter, producer, comedian, director and musician February 10 – Keeley Hawes, English actress February 11 – Brice Beckham, American actor February 12 - Christopher Pettiet, American actor (d. 2000) February 14 – Erica Leerhsen, American actress February 23 Aaron Aziz, Singaporean actor, singer and film director Kelly Macdonald, Scottish actress February 25 – Rashida Jones, American actress, director, writer, and producer February 28 - Ali Larter, American actress March 5 - Neil Jackson, English actor, musician and writer March 8 – Freddie Prinze Jr., American actor, voice actor, writer and producer March 13 – Danny Masterson, American actor and DJ March 14 Daniel Gillies, New Zealand-Canadian actor, producer, director and screenwriter Corey Stoll, American actor March 16 – Paul Schneider, American actor March 19 - De'Aundre Bonds, American actor March 21 – Rachael MacFarlane, American voice actress, singer and writer March 22 – Reese Witherspoon, American actress and producerMonitor Entertainment Weekly March 22, 2013 1251 25 March 23 Michelle Monaghan, American actress Keri Russell, American actress March 25 - Domenick Lombardozzi, American actor March 26 – Amy Smart, American actress March 27 - Craig Wayans, American writer, producer and actor March 30 - Jessica Cauffiel, American actress and singer April 1 Troy Baker, American voice actor Evan Jones, American actor David Oyelowo, English actor, producer, director April 5 – Sterling K. Brown, American actor April 6 - Candace Cameron Bure, American actress, producer, author, and talk show panelist April 13 Glenn Howerton, American actor, writer, producer Jonathan Brandis, American actor (d. 2003)Ortega Albert November 24, 2003 Teen idol Jonathan Brandis dies at 27 https://www.usatoday.com/life/2003-11-21-brandis-obit_x.htm dead https://web.archive.org/web/20040630191156/https://www.usatoday.com/life/2003-11-21-brandis-obit_x.htm June 30, 2004 May 24, 2008 USA Today April 15 – Susan Ward, American actress and model April 16 – Lukas Haas, American actor April 17 Maïwenn, French actress and filmmaker Monet Mazur, American actress April 18 – Melissa Joan Hart, American actress April 20 – Joey Lawrence, American actor April 23 – Gabriel Damon, American actor April 26 Elisabet Reinsalu, Estonian actress Thurop Van Orman, American cartoonist, animator, voice actor, producer and director April 27 – Sally Hawkins, English actress May 1 Darius McCrary, American actor, rapper, singer and producer Violante Placido, Italian actress and singer May 5 Dieter Brummer, Australian actor (d. 2021) Sage Stallone, American actor (d. 2012) May 14 - Martine McCutcheon, English actress and singer May 22 – Külli Teetamm, Estonian actress May 25 Erinn Hayes, American actress and comedian Cillian Murphy, Irish actor Ethan Suplee, American film and television actor J. Michael Tatum, American voice actor May 28 - Liam O'Brien, American voice actor, writer and director May 29 – Yûsuke Iseya, Japanese actor May 30 – Omri Katz, American retired actor May 31 – Colin Farrell, Irish actor June 4 - Damion Poitier, American actor and stuntman June 6 - Jonathan Nolan, British-American screenwriter, producer and director June 8 Eion Bailey, American actor Elliot Graham, American editor and producer (d. 2026) June 10 - Simon Fenton, English actor June 17 - Scott Adkins, British actor, producer and martial artist June 18 - Jonathan Levine, American filmmaker June 19 - Ryan Hurst, American actor June 21 – Dan Scanlon, American animator, storyboard artist, director and screenwriter June 28 - Lorraine Stanley, English actress June 29 Omar Doom, American actor, musician and artist Bret McKenzie, New Zealand musician, comedian and actor July 1 - Thomas Sadoski, American actor July 3 - Andrea Barber, American actress and comedian July 5 Jamie Elman, Canadian-American actor Liberty Phoenix, American former actress July 6 - Bashir Salahuddin, American actor, writer and comedian July 7 - Hamish Linklater, American actor July 9 Krondon, American actor and rapper Fred Savage, American actor July 12 - Anna Friel, English actress July 15 Gabriel Iglesias, American stand-up comedian and actor Diane Kruger, German actress July 17 - Dagmara Dominczyk, Polish-American actress July 18 – Elsa Pataky, Spanish-Australian actress July 19 Benedict Cumberbatch, English actorBenedict Cumberbatch https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bc66eef1f https://web.archive.org/web/20160624181006/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bc66eef1f dead June 24, 2016 BFI 8 January 2022 en Vinessa Shaw, American actress and model July 24 - Grégory Gadebois, French actor July 31 – Mela Lee, American voice actress August 2 – Sam Worthington, Australian actor August 8 - Nigél Thatch, American actor August 9 Rhona Mitra, British actress Audrey Tautou, French actress August 23 - Scott Caan, American actor, director and writer August 25 – Alexander Skarsgard, Swedish actor August 26 – Byron Lawson, Canadian actor August 27 – Sarah Chalke, Canadian actress, model and voice artist August 30 - Lillo Brancato, American actor September 3 – Vivek Oberoi, Indian actor September 5 – Carice van Houten, Dutch actress and singer September 6 Domenica Cameron-Scorsese, American actress Robin Atkin Downes, English actor and voice actor Naomie Harris, English actress September 7 - Oliver Hudson, American actor September 9 Emma de Caunes, French actress Lúcia Moniz, Portuguese singer and actress September 13 - Colin Trevorrow, American filmmaker September 20 Jon Bernthal, American actor Enuka Okuma, Canadian actress September 22 - Sala Baker, New Zealand actress and stuntman September 24 Ian Bohen, American actor Matthew Gravelle, Welsh actor September 26 – Kersti Heinloo, Estonian actress October 3 – Seann William Scott, American actor, comedian and producer October 4 – Alicia Silverstone, American actress October 6 - Brett Gelman, American actor and comedian October 9 Sam Riegel, American voice actor, director and writer Nick Swardson, American actor, stand-up comedian, screenwriter and producer October 11 - Emily Deschanel, American actress October 14 - Chang Chen, Taiwanese actor October 20 – Dan Fogler, American actor, comedian and writer October 21 – Andrew Scott, Irish actor October 23 – Ryan Reynolds, Canadian actor and film producer October 26 - Florence Kasumba, Ugandan-born German actress October 31 – Piper Perabo, American actress November 1 - Logan Marshall-Green, American actor and filmmaker November 5 - Sebastian Arcelus, American actor November 7 - Melyssa Ade, Canadian actress November 24 Coralie Fargeat, French film director and screenwriter Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Japanese actor November 28 - Ryan Kwanten, Australian actor and producer November 29 Chadwick Boseman, American actor and playwright (d. 2020) Anna Faris, American actress, podcaster and writer December 1 - Dean O'Gorman, New Zealand actor December 5 - Amy Acker, American actress December 7 – Mark Duplass, American filmmaker, actor, writer, and musician December 8 – Dominic Monaghan, English actor December 23 - Kyle Kinane, American stand-up comedian and actor December 27 - Aaron Stanford, American actor December 28 - Joe Manganiello, American actor December 29 Dome Karukoski, Finnish director Danny McBride, American actor, comedian and writer December 31 - Chris Terrio, American screenwriter and director 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 Dupuis 62 France Actor Against the Wind Madness of the Heart 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 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 14 Edith Evans 88 UK Actress Tom Jones The Nun's Story November 3 Ramsay Hill 86 US Actor, Technical Advisor The Crusades One Hundred and One DalmatiansStewart, William T. (1981). International Film Necrology. New York: Garland Publishing. p. 244. 0-8240-9552-9. See also: Seibel, George (September 24, 1935). "Saladin Gets the Vote as Richard Makes War and Love in 'Crusades'". Pittsburgh Sun Telegraph. p. 14. Blum, Daniel, ed. (1962, 1982). Daniel Blum's Screen World. Cheshire, CT: Biblio & Tannen. p. 21. 0-8196-0303-1. 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 Diego Abatantuono – Young, Violent, Dangerous Victoria Abril – Robin and Marian Shohreh Aghdashloo – The Chess Game of the Wind Dan Aykroyd – Love at First Sight Tony Barry – Break of Day Albert Brooks – Taxi Driver Dean Cain – Elmer Nicholas Campbell – The Omen Michael Cavanaugh – The Enforcer Chow Yun-fat – Tou tai ren Cam Clarke – Baker's Hawk James Cromwell – Murder by Death Ron Dean – The Last Affair Michael Dorn – Rocky Bill Duke – Car Wash Joe Flaherty – Tunnel Vision Paul Freeman – Whose Child Am I? Pascal Greggory – Docteur Françoise Gailland Richard Griffiths – It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet Mariel Hemingway – Lipstick Ernie Hudson – Leadbelly Amy Irving – Carrie Michael Kamen (film composer) – The Next Man Alice Krige – Vergeet My Nie Jessica Lange – King Kong Jennifer Jason Leigh – The Spy Who Never Was James Lew – The Killing of a Chinese Bookie Delroy Lindo – Find the Lady Mark Margolis – The Opening of Misty Beethoven Marc McClure – Freaky Friday Edie McClurg – Carrie Sam McMurray – The Front Glenn Morshower – Drive-In Bill Murray – Next Stop, Greenwich Village Lena Olin – Face to Face Holmes Osborne – The Student Body Stuart Pankin – Next Stop, Greenwich Village Frank Pesce – Rocky Tim Pigott-Smith – Aces High Mary Kay Place – Bound for Glory Jonathan Pryce – Voyage of the Damned John Ratzenberger – The Ritz James Rebhorn – The Yum-Yum Girls Isabella Rossellini – A Matter of Time Cecilia Roth – No toquen a la nena Deep Roy – The Pink Panther Strikes Again Mercedes Ruehl – Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands Theresa Russell – The Last Tycoon Helen Shaver – Shoot Brooke Shields – Alice, Sweet Alice Ron Silver – Tunnel Vision P.J. Soles – Carrie Carol Sutton – Sounder, Part 2 Holland Taylor – The Next Man Tim Thomerson – Car Wash Charlene Tilton – Freaky Friday Ian Tracey – The Keeper Frank Vincent – The Death Collector John Waters (actor) – End Play Tom Wilkinson – The Shadow Line Debra Winger – Slumber Party '57 Tom Wright – Tomcats Keone Young – Baby Blue Marine References External links List of 1976 films at IMDb List of 1976 deaths at IMDb List of 1976 births at IMDb Film Category:Film by year