1977 in film

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The year 1977 in film involved some significant events.

Events

In the Academy Awards, Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight win Best Actor and Actress and Supporting Actress awards for Network.
Rocky picks up an Academy Award for Best Picture and All the President's Men wins Jason Robards the Supporting Actor and an Art Direction for George Jenkins and George Gaines.
March 11 - Walt Disney releases The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, a compilation of three animated shorts.
May 25 - Star Wars opens in theaters and became one of the highest grossing films to date. The film revolutionizes the use of special effects in film and television production, and also popularizes the notion of omitting any sort of opening credits sequence, something that would become commonplace in American cinema by the mid-1990s.
The average price of a movie ticket in the United States is about $2.25.
June 22 - Walt Disney Productions releases The Rescuers, which instantly brought back an interest in animation that had been lost to both film-goers and critics throughout the beginning of the '70s.^[1]

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Studio	Actors	Director(s)	Gross
1.	Star Wars*	Lucasfilm/20th Century Fox	Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness	George Lucas	$460,998,007^[2]
2.	Close Encounters of the Third Kind*	Columbia	Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, François Truffaut	Steven Spielberg	$166,000,000^[3]
3.	Saturday Night Fever	Paramount	John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney	John Badham	$139,486,124^[4]
4.	Smokey and the Bandit*	Universal	Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason	Hal Needham	$126,737,428^[5]
5.	The Goodbye Girl	MGM/Warner Bros.	Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings	Herbert Ross	$83,700,000^[6]
6.	The Rescuers*	Walt Disney	voices of Eva Gabor, Bob Newhart	Wolfgang Reitherman & John Lounsbery	$71,215,869^[7]
7.	Oh, God!	Warner Bros.	George Burns, Teri Garr	Carl Reiner	$51,061,196^[8]
8.	A Bridge Too Far	United Artists	James Caan, Sean Connery	Richard Attenborough	$50,800,000^[9]
9.	The Deep	Columbia	Robert Shaw, Nick Nolte, Jacqueline Bisset	Peter Yates	$50,681,884^[10]
10.	The Spy Who Loved Me	United Artists	Roger Moore, Barbara Bach	Lewis Gilbert	$46,838,673^[11]
11.	Annie Hall	United Artists	Woody Allen, Diane Keaton	Woody Allen	$38,251,425^[12]
12.	Pete's Dragon	Buena Vista	Helen Reddy, Mickey Rooney, Shelley Winters	Don Chaffey, Don Bluth	$36,000,000^[13]
13.	The Gauntlet	Warner Bros.	Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke	Clint Eastwood	$35,400,000^[14]
14.	The Turning Point	20th Century Fox	Shirley MacLaine, Anne Bancroft	Herbert Ross	$33,600,000^[15]
15.	Heroes	Universal	Harrison Ford, Henry Winkler, Sally Field	Jeremy Kagan	$33,500,000^[16]
16.	High Anxiety	20th Century Fox	Mel Brooks, Ron Clark	Mel Brooks	$31,063,038^[17]
17.	Exorcist II: The Heretic	Warner Bros.	Linda Blair, Max von Sydow, Richard Burton	John Boorman	$30,749,142^[18]
18.	Airport '77	Universal	Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, James Stewart	Jerry Jameson	$30,000,000^[19]
19.	Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo*	Buena Vista	Dean Jones, Don Knotts	Vincent McEveety	$29,000,000^[20]
20.	Slap Shot	Universal	Paul Newman, Strother Martin	George Roy Hill	$28,000,000^[21]