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1 Highest-grossing films (U.S.)  





2 Events  





3 Awards  





4 1976 films  



4.1  By country/region  





4.2  By genre/medium  







5 Births  





6 Deaths  





7 Film debuts  





8 References  





9 External links  














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List of years in film
  • 1967
  • 1968
  • 1969
  • 1970
  • 1971
  • 1972
  • 1973
  • 1974
  • 1975
  • 1976
  • 1977
  • 1978
  • 1979
  • 1980
  • 1981
  • 1982
  • 1983
  • 1984
  • 1985
  • 1986
  • In radio
    1973
    1974
    1975
    1976
    1977
    1978
    1979
    In television
    1973
    1974
    1975
    1976
    1977
    1978
    1979
    In music
    1973
    1974
    1975
    1976
    1977
    1978
    1979
  • Archaeology
  • Architecture
  • Literature
  • Music
  • Philosophy
  • Science
  • +...

    The year 1976 in film involved some significant events.

    Highest-grossing films (U.S.)[edit]

    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 $55,900,000[1]
    2 A Star Is Born Warner Bros. $37,100,000[1]
    3 King Kong Paramount $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 $24,800,000[1]
    8 The Enforcer Warner Bros. $24,000,000[1]
    9 In Search of Noah's Ark Sunn Classic $23,800,000[1]
    10 Midway Universal $21,610,435[2]

    Events[edit]

    Awards[edit]

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

    1976 films[edit]

    By country/region[edit]

    By genre/medium[edit]

    Births[edit]

    Deaths[edit]

    Month Date Name Age Country Profession Notable films
    January 1 Walter Janssen 88 Germany Actor
  • Maskerade
  • 12 Agatha Christie 85 UK Writer
  • Murder on the Orient Express
  • 13 Margaret Leighton 53 UK Actress
  • The Best Man
  • 18 Sonia Dresdel 66 UK Actress
  • The Fallen Idol
  • 23 Paul Dupuis 62 France Actor
  • Madness of the Heart
  • 23 Paul Robeson 77 US Actor, Singer
  • The Proud Valley
  • 29 Michael Gwynn 59 UK Actor
  • Jason and the Argonauts
  • February 4 Roger Livesey 69 UK Actor
  • The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
  • 11 Lee J. Cobb 64 US Actor
  • The Exorcist
  • 11 John Twist 77 US Screenwriter
  • Annie Oakley
  • 12 Sal Mineo 37 US Actor
  • Exodus
  • 13 Lily Pons 77 France Singer, Actress
  • Hitting a New High
  • 13 John Lounsbery 64 US Animator
  • Lady and the Tramp
  • 15 Maria Corda 77 Hungary Actress
  • The Private Life of Helen of Troy
  • 16 Campbell Singer 66 UK Actor
  • The Hands of Orlac
  • 24 Peter Madden 71 UK Actor
  • Doctor Zhivago
  • 26 Frieda Inescort 75 UK Actress
  • The Letter
  • March 3 Doris Hill 70 US Actress
  • Men Are Like That
  • 5 Charles Lederer 69 US Screenwriter
  • Ocean's 11
  • 14 Busby Berkeley 80 US Director, Choreographer
  • Hollywood Hotel
  • 17 Luchino Visconti 69 Italy Director, Writer
  • Death in Venice
  • 20 Michael Goodliffe 61 UK Actor
  • Jigsaw
  • 28 Richard Arlen 76 US Actor
  • Wildcat
  • April 2 Ray Teal 74 US Actor
  • Ace in the Hole
  • 4 George Pastell 53 Cyprus Actor
  • The Magus
  • 5 Howard Hughes 70 US Director, Producer
  • The Outlaw
  • 5 Robert Lord 75 US Screenwriter, Producer
  • 20,000 Years in Sing Sing
  • 11 Liam Dunn 59 US Actor
  • Young Frankenstein
  • 12 Paul Ford 74 US Actor
  • The Music Man
  • 21 Léonide Moguy 75 Russia Director, Writer
  • Action in Arabia
  • 25 Carol Reed 69 UK Director, Writer
  • The Third Man
  • 26 Neil McCallum 46 Canada Actor
  • Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
  • 26 Sid James 62 UK Actor
  • Trapeze
  • 29 Thelma Connell 63 UK Film Editor
  • The Deadly Affair
  • May 3 David Bruce 62 US Actor
  • Lady on a Train
  • 7 Alan Baxter 67 US Actor
  • The Set-Up
  • 27 Hilde Hildebrand 78 Germany Actress
  • Little Dorrit
  • 27 Ruth McDevitt 80 US Actress
  • The Birds
  • June 5 Violet Wilkey 73 US Actress
  • The Burned Hand
  • 6 Victor Varconi 85 Hungary Actor
  • The Sea Hawk
  • 9 Sybil Thorndike 93 UK Actress
  • Melba
  • 10 Adolph Zukor 103 US Producer, Studio Executive
  • Shanghai Express
  • 25 Johnny Mercer 66 US Songwriter
  • Darling Lili
  • 28 Stanley Baker 48 UK Actor
  • Helen of Troy
  • July 2 Frances Howard 73 US Actress
  • The Swan
  • 7 Norman Foster 72 US Actor, Director
  • State Fair
  • 12 James Wong Howe 76 China Cinematographer
  • Hud
  • 17 Rina Morelli 67 Italy Actress
  • Senso
  • 28 Lucie Mannheim 77 Germany Actress
  • The High Command
  • August 2 Fritz Lang 85 Germany Director, Writer
  • The Big Heat
  • 6 William Mervyn 64 UK Actor
  • The Long Arm
  • 10 Ray Corrigan 74 US Actor
  • Range Busters
  • 17 William Redfield 49 US Actor
  • Death Wish
  • 17 Murvyn Vye 60 US Actor
  • Al Capone
  • 18 Luigi Serventi 91 Italy Actor
  • The Story of a Poor Young Man
  • 28 Alastair Sim 75 UK Actor
  • Scrooge
  • September 10 Dalton Trumbo 70 US Screenwriter
  • Roman Holiday
  • 30 Paul Dehn 63 UK Screenwriter
  • Murder on the Orient Express
  • October 5 Barbara Nichols 47 US Actress
  • The Naked and the Dead
  • 14 Edith Evans 88 UK Actress
  • The Nun's Story
  • November 3 Ramsay Hill 86 US Actor, Technical Advisor
  • One Hundred and One Dalmatians[7]
  • 15 Jean Gabin 72 France Actor
  • Port of Shadows
  • 22 Rupert Davies 60 UK Actor
  • The Criminal
  • 28 Rosalind Russell 69 US Actress
  • Auntie Mame
  • 29 Godfrey Cambridge 43 US Actor
  • The President's Analyst
  • December 3 Mary Nash 92 US Actress
  • The Human Comedy
  • 8 Cathy Downs 50 US Actress
  • The Dark Corner
  • 12 Jack Cassidy 49 US Actor
  • The Eiger Sanction
  • 20 Walter Fitzgerald 80 UK Actor
  • Man in the Sky
  • Film debuts[edit]

  • Shohreh AghdashlooThe Chess Game of the Wind
  • Dan AykroydLove at First Sight
  • Albert BrooksTaxi Driver
  • Dean CainElmer
  • Nicholas CampbellThe Omen
  • Chow Yun-fatTou tai ren
  • Cam ClarkeBaker's Hawk
  • James CromwellMurder by Death
  • Michael DornRocky
  • Bill DukeCar Wash
  • Joe FlahertyTunnel Vision
  • Dexter FletcherBugsy Malone
  • Paul FreemanWhose Child Am I?
  • Richard GriffithsIt Shouldn't Happen to a Vet
  • Mariel HemingwayLipstick
  • Ernie HudsonLeadbelly
  • Amy IrvingCarrie
  • Michael KamenThe Next Man
  • Jessica LangeKing Kong
  • Jennifer Jason LeighThe Spy Who Never Was
  • Delroy LindoFind the Lady
  • Mark MargolisThe Opening of Misty Beethoven
  • Marc McClureFreaky Friday
  • Edie McClurgCarrie
  • Sam McMurrayThe Front
  • Glenn MorshowerDrive-In
  • Bill MurrayNext Stop, Greenwich Village
  • Lena OlinFace to Face
  • Holmes OsborneThe Student Body
  • Stuart PankinNext Stop, Greenwich Village
  • Tim Pigott-SmithAces High
  • Mary Kay PlaceBound for Glory
  • Jonathan PryceVoyage of the Damned
  • John RatzenbergerThe Ritz
  • James RebhornThe Yum Yum Girls
  • Isabella RosselliniA Matter of Time
  • Cecilia RothNo toquen a la nena
  • Deep RoyThe Pink Panther Strikes Again
  • Mercedes RuehlDona Flor and Her Two Husbands
  • Theresa RussellThe Last Tycoon
  • Helen ShaverShoot
  • Brooke ShieldsAlice, Sweet Alice
  • Ron SilverTunnel Vision
  • P.J. SolesCarrie
  • Carol SuttonSounder, Part 2
  • Holland TaylorThe Next Man
  • Tim ThomersonCar Wash
  • Charlene TiltonFreaky Friday
  • Frank VincentThe Death Collector
  • John Waters (actor) – End Play
  • Tom WilkinsonThe Shadow Line
  • Debra WingerSlumber Party '57
  • Keone YoungBaby Blue Marine
  • References[edit]

    1. ^ a b c d e f g h Finler, Joel Waldo (2003). The Hollywood Story. Wallflower Press. pp. 360–361. ISBN 978-1-903364-66-6.
  • ^ a b 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.
  • ^ "Benedict Cumberbatch". BFI. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
  • ^ Stewart, William T. (1981). International Film Necrology. New York: Garland Publishing. p. 244. ISBN 0-8240-9552-9. See also:
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