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The year 1973 in film involved some significant events.

Events

• The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx divorces his second wife, Barbara Blakely. Blakely would later marry actor/singer Frank Sinatra.
• Martial arts legend Bruce Lee dies before Enter the Dragon was released.
• The Exorcist reawakens the horror film genre and becomes one of the most controversial films ever released.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1973.shtml

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: The Sting - Bill/Phillips-Hill, Zanuck/Brown, Universal

Best Director : George Roy Hill - The Sting

Best Actor: Jack Lemmon - Save the Tiger

Best Actress: Glenda Jackson - A Touch of Class

Best Supporting Actor : John Houseman - The Paper Chase

Best Supporting Actress : Tatum O'Neal - Paper Moon

Best Foreign Language Film: Day for Night (La Nuit américaine), directed by François Truffaut, France

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: The Exorcist

Best Actor: Al Pacino - Serpico

Best Actress: Marsha Mason - Cinderella Liberty

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: American Graffiti

Best Actor: George Segal - A Touch of Class

Best Actress: Glenda Jackson - A Touch of Class

Other

Best Director: William Friedkin - The Exorcist

Best Foreign Language Film: The Pedestrian (Der Fußgänger), W. Germany

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

The Hireling, directed by Alan Bridges, United Kingdom

Scarecrow, directed by Jerry Schatzberg, United States

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Ashani Sanket (Distant Thunder), directed by Satyajit Ray, India

Films released in 1973

A

• Alvin Purple
• Amarcord
• American Graffiti
• Ashani Sanket (Distant Thunder), Golden Bear winner

B

• Badlands
• Bang the Drum Slowly
• Battle for the Planet of the Apes
• Blood of the Dragon
• Blume in Love
• The Boy Who Cried Werewolf
• Brother of the Wind

C

• Carry On Girls
• Charley and the Angel
• Charley Varrick, starring Walter Matthau
• Charlotte's Web
• Cinderella Liberty
• Cleopatra Jones
• Cops and Robbers
• Cries and Whispers

D

• Day for Night
• The Day of the Jackal
• The Devil in Miss Jones
• Dillinger, starring Warren Oates
• Don't Look Now, directed by Nicolas Roeg

E

• Electra Glide in Blue
• Emperor of the North Pole
• Enter the Dragon, starring Bruce Lee
• Executive Action
• The Exorcist

F

• Fist of Fury (U.S. release)
• Five on the Black Hand Side
• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

G

• Godspell
• Godzilla vs. Megalon

H

• Heavy Traffic
• High Plains Drifter
• The Hireling, Palme d'Or winner
• "The Holy Mountain"
• The Homecoming

I

• Idaho Transfer
• L' Invitation (aka The Invitation), Academy Award for Best Foreign Film

J

• Jesus Christ Superstar
• Jeremy
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull

L

• Lady Ice
• The Last American Hero
• The Last Detail
• The Laughing Policeman, starring Walter Matthau
• Lolly-Madonna XXX
• The Long Goodbye
• Live and Let Die
• Lost Horizon

M

• Magnum Force
• Malizia (1973 film)
• Le Magnifique'
• Mean Streets, directed by Martin Scorsese
• The Mother and the Whore

N

• Night Watch

O

• O Lucky Man!

P

• The Paper Chase
• Paper Moon
• Paperback Hero
• Papillon, starring Dustin Hoffman
• Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
• The Pedestrian (Der Fußgänger), Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film

R

• El Retorno de Walpurgis
• Robin Hood (Walt Disney)

S

• Save the Tiger
• Scarecrow, Palme d'Or winner
• Scenes from a Marriage, by Ingmar Bergman
• Scream Blacula Scream
• Serpico, starring Al Pacino
• The Seven-Ups
• Sleeper
• Soylent Green
• Steptoe and Son Ride Again, starred Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H. Corbett.
• The Sting, starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford and Robert Shaw
• The Stone Killer
• Sweet Kill

T

• A Touch of Class
• Tom Sawyer

W

• Walking Tall
• The Way We Were
• The Werewolf of Washington
• Westworld
• The Wicker Man
• The World's Greatest Athlete

Births

• January 1 - Lesley Harcourt, British actress
• January 31 - Portia de Rossi, actress.
• February 12 - Tara Strong, voice actor
• April 25 - Fernando J Ponzio, Mexican Industrial Designer
• May 5 - Tina Yothers, actress.
• June 15 - Neil Patrick Harris, actor
• June 21 - Juliette Lewis, actress
• July 26 - Kate Beckinsale, actress
• August 24 - Dave Chappelle actor
• September 4 - Jason David Frank (from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers), actor
• September 12 - Paul Walker, actor and producer
• October 3 - Neve Campbell, actress
• December 7 - surender reddy patti, director (Indian

Deaths

• January 26 - Edward G Robinson, actor
• February 15 - Tim Holt, actor
• February 22 - Katina Paxinou, actress
• March 10 - Robert Siodmak, director
• March 26 - Noel Coward, prolific English actor, playwright and composer of popular music
• April 26 - Irene Ryan, actress
• May 11 - Lex Barker, actor
• June 23 - Fay Holden, actress
• July 2 - Betty Grable, actress
• July 6 - Joe E. Brown, actor
• July 7 - Veronica Lake, actress
• July 11 - Robert Ryan, actor
• July 12 - Lon Chaney Jr, actor
• July 18 - Jack Hawkins, actor
• July 20 - Bruce Lee, actor
• August 10 Douglas Kennedy, actor
• August 16 - Vida Ann Borg, actress
• August 22 - Louise Huff, actress
• September 13 - Betty Field, actress
• September 21 - Diana Sands, actress
• September 26 - Anna Magnani, actress
• October 16 - Gene Krupa, musician, actor
• October 25 - Cleo Moore, actress
• November 23 - Sessue Hayakawa, actor
• November 23 - Claire Dodd, actress
• November 23 - Constance Talmadge, actress
• November 25 - Laurence Harvey, actor
• December 26 - William Haines, actor