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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 its run continuing to this day all around the world.

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

• 1900 by Bernardo Bertolucci
• All the President's Men, starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford
• Any Day Now (aka Vandaag of morgen)
• The Ascent Golden Bear winner
• Assault on Precinct 13
• Baby Blue Marine
• The Bad News Bears
• The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
• The Blank Generation
• Bound for Glory
• Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson Golden Bear winner
• Bugsy Malone
• Caddie starring Helen Morse
• Carrie, starring Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie
• Carry On England
• Car Wash
• Casanova
• Cousin, cousine
• A Cricket in the Ear
• Deadly Hero, starring Don Murray
• Diary of the Dead
• The Divine Nymph
• Don's Party - John Hardgreaves, Graham Kennedy, Veronica Lang, Ray Barrett and Clarie Biney, directed by Bruce Beresford, written by David Williamson
• Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde
• Eat My Dust
• The Enforcer
• Face to Face
• Family Plot
• Freaky Friday
• The Front
• Futureworld
• God Told Me To
• Gus
• Harlan County USA
• Hot Potato
• In Search of Noah's Ark
• J.D.'s Revenge
• Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000
• The Judge and the Assassin
• King Kong, starring Jessica Lange and Jeff Bridges
• The Last Hard Men, a western starring Charlton Heston and James Coburn
• The Last Tycoon
• Leadbelly
• The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
• Logan's Run
• The Man Who Fell to Earth, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring David Bowie
• Marathon Man, starring Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier
• The Marquis of O
• A Matter of Time
• The Memory of Justice
• Midway
• Mikey and Nicky
• The Missouri Breaks
• Mother, Jugs & Speed
• Murder by Death
• Network starring Peter Finch, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, and Robert Duvall
• Nickelodeon
• Noirs et blancs en couleur (Black and White in Color), Academy Award for Best Foreign Picture
• Obsession starring Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold
• The Omen
• The Outlaw Josey Wales
• Oz or 20th Century Oz, a Rock 'N' Roll Road Movie, starring Bruce Spence, Joy Dunstan + Graham Matters
• The Pink Panther Strikes Again
• The Ritz
• Robin and Marian
• Rocky starring Sylvester Stallone
• Rosy Dreams
• Sebastiane
• Seven Beauties
• The Shaggy D.A.
• The Shootist
• Silent Movie
• Silver Streak starring Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor
• Sister Street Fighter Fifth Level Fist
• The Slipper and the Rose
• The Smurfs and the Magic Flute
• A Star Is Born
• Stay Hungry
• Storm Boy
• Taxi Driver, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel and Jodie Foster
• To the Devil a Daughter
• Tosun Pasa
• Treasure of Matecumbe
• Up!, directed by Russ Meyer, featuring Raven de la Croix
• To Fly!
• Vigilante Force
• Voyage of the Damned
• Welcome to L.A.

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.
• April 13 - Jonathan Brandis, actor.
• April 15 - Susan Ward, actress.
• April 23 - Gabriel Damon, actor.
• May 25 - Cillian Murphy, Irish actor
• July 15 - Diane Kruger, German actress.
• August 9 - Audrey Tautou, French actress.
• September 7 - Shannon Elizabeth, actress.
• October 4 - Alicia Silverstone, actress.

Deaths

• January 12 - Agatha Christie, writer
• January 23 - Paul Robeson, actor, singer
• February 11 - Lee J Cobb, actor
• February 11 - Alice Allyn, actress
• 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 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