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Film year 1977
The film Star Wars had world premiere on May 25, 1977 .

Events

May 25: Star Wars premiere . Right behind Gone with the Wind , this production is still the second most commercially successful work in film history based on inflation-adjusted box-office figures.

Peter Finch posthumously receives the Oscar for best leading actor, his widow Eletha Finch accepts the award.
January - The winners of the BRAVO Otto readers' choice are presented:
- Category - male movie stars: gold Pierre Brice , silver Terence Hill , bronze Jan-Michael Vincent
- Category - female film stars: gold Sophia Loren , silver Ute Kittelberger , bronze Uschi Glas

Top 10 most successful films

In Germany

The ten most successful films at the German box office according to attendance (as of November 24, 2018):

space	Movie title	Visitors
1.	Bernard and Bianca - The Mouse Police	9,767,000
2.	James Bond 007 - The Spy Who Loved Me	5,350,000
3.	Two out of control	7,200,000
4th	Steiner - The Iron Cross	3,600,000
5.	A crazy guy	3,150,000
6th	The Rocky Horror Picture Show	2,750,000
7th	Slap shot	2,100,000
8th.	Lost in the Bermuda Triangle	1,900,000
9.	The great Beetle in the Monte Carlo Rally	1,700,000
10.	The Arnhem Bridge	1,600,000

Film awards

Golden Globe Award

The Golden Globe Awards will take place on January 29th at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.

Best Drama: Rocky by John G. Avildsen
Best Musical / Comedy: A Star Is Born by Frank Pierson
Best Actor (Drama): Peter Finch on Network
Best Actress (Drama): Faye Dunaway on Network
Best Actor (Musical / Comedy): Kris Kristofferson in A Star is Born
Best Actress (Musical / Comedy): Barbra Streisand in A Star is Born
Best Supporting Actor: Laurence Olivier in The Marathon Man
Best Supporting Actress: Katharine Ross in Voyage of the Damned
Best Director: Sidney Lumet for Network
Cecil B. DeMille Award : Walter Mirisch

Academy Awards

The Oscars will be held on March 28 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles .

Best film: Rocky by Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff
Best Actor: Peter Finch (posthumously) in Network
Best Actress: Faye Dunaway on Network
Best Director: John G. Avildsen for Rocky
Best Supporting Actor: Jason Robards in The Untouchables
Best Supporting Actress: Beatrice Straight in Network
Best Cinematography: Haskell Wexler for This Land is My Land
Best Production Design: George Jenkins ; George Gaines for The Untouchables
Best Score: Jerry Goldsmith for The Omen
Best Foreign Language Film: Longing for Africa by Jean-Jacques Annaud ( France )

Complete list of award winners

International Cannes Film Festival 1977

The festival starts on May 13th and ends on May 27th. The jury under President Roberto Rossellini awards the following prizes:

Golden Palm : Padre Padrone - My father, my lord of Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
Best Actor: Fernando Rey in Elisa, My Life
Best Actress: Shelley Duvall in 3 Women and Monique Mercure in JA Martin Photographer

Berlin International Film Festival 1977

The festival starts on June 24th and ends on July 5th. The jury under President Senta Berger awards the following prizes:

Golden Bear : Ascent of Larissa Schepitko
Best actor: Fernando Fernán Gómez in El Anacoreta
Best Actress: Lily Tomlin in The Cat Knows the Killer
Best director: Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón for Camada negra

German film award

Best film: Heinrich von Helma Sanders-Brahms
Best director: Volker Schlöndorff for Der Fangschuß
Best leading actress: Kaki Hunter for Der Mädchenkrieg and Romy Schneider for a group picture with a lady
Best Actor: Bernd Tauber for The Baker's Bread

César

Best film: Monsieur Klein by Joseph Losey
Best director: Joseph Losey for Monsieur Klein
Best Actor: Michel Galabru for The Judge and the Murderer
Best Actress: Annie Girardot for Dr. med. Françoise Gailland
Best Supporting Actor: Claude Brasseur for An Elephant is very wrong
Best Supporting Actress: Marie-France Pisier for Barocco
Best Foreign Film: We were so enamored by Ettore Scola

British Academy Film Award

Best Picture: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Miloš Forman
Best director: Miloš Forman for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Best Actor: Jack Nicholson for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Best Actress: Louise Fletcher for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Best Supporting Actor: Brad Dourif for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Best Supporting Actress: Jodie Foster for Bugsy Malone and Taxi Driver

New York Film Critics Circle Award

Best Picture: The city € sufferers of Woody Allen
Best director: Woody Allen for Der Stadtneurotiker
Best Actor: John Gielgud in Providence
Best Actress: Diane Keaton in Der Stadtneurotiker
Best supporting actor: Maximilian Schell in Julia
Best Supporting Actress: Sissy Spacek in Three Women

National Board of Review

Best film: At the turning point by Herbert Ross
Best director: Luis Buñuel for This Obscure Object of Desire
Best Actor: John Travolta in Saturday Night Only
Best Actress: Anne Bancroft in At the Turning Point
Best Supporting Actor: Tom Skerritt in At the Turning Point
Best Supporting Actress: Diane Keaton in Der Stadtneurotiker
Best Foreign Language Film: This Obscure Object of Desire by Luis Buñuel

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

Best Film: Star Wars, by George Lucas
Best director: Herbert Ross for Am Wendpunkt
Best Actor: Richard Dreyfuss in The Subtenant
Best Actress: Shelley Duvall in Three Women
Best Supporting Actor: Jason Robards in Julia
Best Supporting Actress: Vanessa Redgrave in Julia
Best Foreign Language Film: This Obscure Object of Desire by Luis Buñuel
Life's work: King Vidor

Further film prizes and awards

AFI Life Achievement Award : Bette Davis
David di Donatello : Un Borghese piccolo piccolo , The Tartar Desert (Best Italian Film) and The Marathon Man (Best Foreign Film)
German Critics' Prize : Wim Wenders
Directors Guild of America Award : John G. Avildsen for Rocky , HC Potter (Lifetime Achievement)
Ernst Lubitsch Prize : Bernhard Sinkel for The Girls' War
Evening Standard British Film Award : Battle in the Clouds by Jack Gold
Gilde Film Award : Barry Lyndon by Stanley Kubrick (Best Foreign Film) and The Marquise von O. by Éric Rohmer (Best German Film)
Louis Delluc Prize : The Little Parisians by Diane Kurys
Nastro d'Argento : The Tartar Desert of Valerio Zurlini and Uzala, the Kyrgyz by Akira Kurosawa
National Society of Film Critics Award : The Untouchables by Alan J. Pakula
People's Choice Award : One flew over the cuckoo's nest by Miloš Forman (most popular film), John Wayne (most popular actor), Barbra Streisand (most popular actress)
German Film Critics' Prize : Stroszek by Werner Herzog
Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia-San Sebastián : Unfinished score for a mechanical piano by Nikita Michalkow (Golden Shell)
Writers Guild of America Award : Network (Best Original Screenplay-Drama), The Bears Are Going (Best Original Screenplay, Comedy), Die Unbrechlichen (Best Adapted Screenplay-Drama), Inspector Clouseau, the "best" man at Interpol (Best Adapted Screenplay, Comedy)

Birthdays

January to March

Orlando Bloom (born January 13)

Kerry Washington (born January 31)

Bree Turner (born March 10th)

Jessica Chastain (born March 24th)

Michael Fassbender (born April 2)

Birgit Minichmayr (born April 3)

Sarah Michelle Gellar (born April 14)

Jessica Schwarz (born May 5)

Zachary Quinto (born June 2)

Liv Tyler (born July 1)

Chiwetel Ejiofor (born July 10th)

Jonathan Rhys Meyers (born July 27)

Tom Hardy (born September 15)

Jason Reitman (born October 19)

Maggie Gyllenhaal (born November 16)

Colin Hanks (born November 24th)

Emmanuelle Chriqui (born December 10th)

January

0January 1st: Marina Hands , French actress
0January 5th: Hadewych Minis , Dutch actress and singer
0January 8: Manuela Arcuri , Italian actress
0January 8: Amber Benson , American actress and director
January 11: Devin Ratray , American actor
January 13: Orlando Bloom , British actor
January 15: Ronald Zehrfeld , German actor
January 17th: Leigh Whannell , Australian screenwriter and actor
January 21: Jerry Trainor , American actor and director
January 24th: Funda Vanroy , German actress
January 24th: Johann Urb , Estonian actor
January 29: Sam Jaeger , American actor and screenwriter
January 29: Justin Hartley , American actor
January 31: Kerry Washington , American actress

February

0February 3: Maitland Ward , American actress
0February 6: Josh Stewart , American actor
February 14th: Donna Cruz , Filipino singer and actress
February 15: Rachida Brakni , French actress
February 17: Erin Cardillo , American actress
February 18: Ike Barinholtz , American comedian and actor
February 18: Beatrice Kaps-Zurmahr , German actress
February 18: Kristoffer Polaha , American actor
February 19: Eloy Azorín , Spanish actor
February 21: Max von Thun , Austrian actor
February 22nd: Claudia Hiersche , German presenter and actress
February 26: Greg Rikaart , American actor
February 27: James Wan , Australian film director and screenwriter

March

0March 1: Rohan James deVera , American presenter and actor
0March 2: Heather McComb , American actress
0March 3: Barret Swatek , American actress
0March 3rd: Sarah Smart , British actress
0March 8: James van der Beek , American actor
0March 8: Alison Becker , American actress
0March 8: Fitz van Thom , German actor
March 10: Bree Turner , American actress
March 10: Robin Thicke , American R&B singer, songwriter and actor
March 11th: Marco Kreuzpaintner , German director
March 15: Brian Tee , American actor
March 16: Mónica Cruz , Spanish dancer and actress
March 19: Jorma Taccone , American actor and director
March 22nd: Raphael von Bargen , German actor
March 23: Daniél Espinosa , Chilean-Swedish director
March 23: Wayne Carpendale , German actor
March 24: Jessica Chastain , American actress
March 24th: Olivia Burnette , American actress
March 25th: Timo Hübsch , German actor
March 25: Édgar Ramírez , Venezuelan actor
March 26th: Bianca Kajlich , American actress
March 28: Annie Wersching , American actress

April to June

April

0April 2nd: Michael Fassbender , German actor
0April 3: Birgit Minichmayr , Austrian actress
0April 8: Ana de la Reguera , Mexican actress
April 12th: Sarah Monahan , Australian actress
April 12: Sarah Jane Morris , American actress
April 14: Rob McElhenney , American actor and screenwriter
April 14: Sarah Michelle Gellar , American actress
April 16: Hayes MacArthur , American actor and stand-up comedian
April 18: Bryce Johnson , American actor
April 21: Atef Vogel , German actor
April 22nd: Ambra Angiolini , Italian actress
April 23: John Cena , American wrestler, rap musician and actor
April 23: Kal Penn , American actor
April 24: Eric Balfour , American actor
April 25: Marguerite Moreau , American actress
April 26: Tom Welling , American actor
April 26: McKenzie Westmore , American actress
April 26: Jason Earles , American actor
April 30th: Alexandra Holden , American actress
April 30th: Pell James , American actress

May

0May 2: Jenna von Oÿ , American actress
0May 4th: Emily Perkins , Canadian actress
0May 5th: Jessica Schwarz , German actress
0May 9: Kami Manns , German actress
May 10: Todd Lowe , American actor
May 13: Samantha Morton , British actress
May 14: Benjamin Quabeck , German director
May 16: Alexander Mokos , German actor and broadcaster
May 16: Melanie Lynskey , New Zealand actress
May 16: Lynn Collins , American actress
May 19: Natalia Oreiro , Uruguayan singer and actress
May 20: Matt Czuchry , American actor
May 20: Angela Goethals , American actress
May 23: Heather Wahlquist , American actress
May 30th: Rachael Stirling , British actress
May 31: Eric Christian Olsen , American actor

June

0June 1: Danielle Harris , American actress
0June 1: Sarah Wayne Callies , American actress
0June 2nd: Bettina Lamprecht , German actress
0June 2: Zachary Quinto , American actor
0June 5: Navi Rawat , American actress
0June 5: Liza Weil , American actress
0June 9: Jelena Panowa , Russian actress
June 11: Ryan Dunn , American actor and stuntman († 2011)
June 11: Pamela Großer , German television presenter and actress
June 12: Richard Ayoade , British stand-up comedian, actor and director
June 14: Sullivan Stapleton , Australian actor
June 15: Anna Kovalchuk , Russian actress
June 16: China Shavers , American actress
June 26th: Nadine Krüger , German actress
June 29: Will Kemp , British dancer and actor
June 29: Zuleikha Robinson , British actress

July to September

July

0July 1: Liv Tyler , American actress
0July 3: Simon Mora , German actor
0July 4th: Denise Meili , Swiss actress
0July 8: Milo Ventimiglia , American actor
July 10: Cary Fukunaga , American director, screenwriter and cameraman
July 10: Gwendoline Yeo , Sino-American actress
July 10: Chiwetel Ejiofor , British actor
July 10: Sonia Aquino , Italian actress
July 13: Ashley Scott , American actress
July 13: Kari Wahlgren , American voice actress
July 14: Christine Uschy Wernke , German director
July 15: Lana Parrilla , American actress
July 18: Kelly Reilly , British actress
July 19: Erin Cummings , American actress
July 21: Sarah Biasini , French actress
July 23: Silvia Colloca , Italian actress
July 24th: Danny Dyer , British actor
July 27: Jonathan Rhys Meyers , Irish actor
July 30th: Javier Botet , Spanish actor
July 30th: Jaime Pressly , American actress

August

0August 2: Edward Furlong , American actor
0August 2nd: Krzysztof Soszynski , Polish-Canadian MMA fighter and actor
0August 2nd: Florian Stetter , German film and theater actor
0August 3rd: Tómas Lemarquis , Icelandic actor
0August 6: Jennifer Lyons , American actress
0August 8: Lindsay Sloane , American actress
August 16: Tamer Hosny , Egyptian actor
August 19: Callum Blue , British actor
August 19: Sara Martins , French actress
August 23: Igor Petrenko , Russian actor
August 25: Jonathan Togo , American actor
August 28: Patrick Kennedy , British actor
August 29: John Hensley , American actor
August 29th: Jo Weil , German actor
August 30: Elden Henson , American actor

September

0September 1: Adrienne Wilkinson , American actress
0September 7th: Monique Curnen , American actress
September 10: Jaqueline Fleming , American actress
September 11: Ludacris , American rapper and actor
September 14: Malik Bendjelloul , Swedish documentary filmmaker
September 14th: Miyu Matsuki , Japanese voice actress († 2015)
September 15th: Caterina Murino , Italian actress
September 15: Tom Hardy , British actor
September 15: Marisa Ramirez , American actress
September 18: Barrett Foa , American actor
September 19: Josef Fares , Swedish director
September 21: Mia Smiles , South Korean porn actress
September 23: Warren Kole , American actor
September 24th: Elizabeth Bogush , American actress
September 25: Robbie Jones , American actor
September 25: Divya Dutta , Indian actress
September 25: Clea DuVall , American actress
September 25: Joel David Moore , American actor
September 30th: Maia Brewton , American actress

October to December

October

0October 5th: Mustafa Alin , German actor
0October 6: Wes Ramsey , American actor
0October 8: Michael C. Maronna , American actor
0October 9: Yegor Beroyev , Russian film and theater actor
October 11: Matthew Bomer , American actor
October 12: Jessica Barker , Canadian actress
October 17: Alimi Ballard , American actor
October 19: Jason Reitman , Canadian director
October 20: Rebecca Siemoneit-Barum , German actress
October 20: Sam Witwer , American actor
October 26: Jon Heder , American actor
October 26: Chaz Lamar Shepherd , American actor
October 29: Jon Abrahams , American actor
October 29: Brendan Fehr , Canadian actor
October 31: Diana Staehly , German actress

November

0November 2: Randy Harrison , American actor
0November 2: Reshma Shetty , US-British film actress
0November 6th: Pádraic Delaney , Irish actor
November 10: Brittany Murphy , American actress († 2009)
November 10: Stéphanie Berger , Swiss actress
November 13: Kim Director , American actress
November 14: Brian Dietzen , American actor, singer and dancer
November 15: Sean Murray , American-Australian actor
November 16: Maggie Gyllenhaal , American actress
November 16: Gigi Edgley , Australian actress
November 19: Reid Scott , American actor
November 24: Colin Hanks , American actor
November 29th: Johannes Raspe , German actor and voice actor
November 30th: Nelsan Ellis , American actor († 2017)

December

0December 1: Akiva Schaffer , American screenwriter, director, and producer
0December 6th: Lee Rychter , Swiss actor
0December 8th: Matthias Schoenaerts , Belgian actor
December 10: Emmanuelle Chriqui , Canadian actress
December 12th: Arzu Bazman , German actress
December 13th: Kerstin Kramer , German actress
December 14th: KaDee Strickland , American actress
December 15: Geoff Stults , American actor and producer
December 17th: Katheryn Winnick , Canadian actress
December 24th: Michael Raymond-James , American actor
December 26th: Angela Ascher , German actress
December 27th: Sinead Keenan , Irish actress
December 28: Michael Spears , American actor
December 28th: Dennis Todorović , German director, screenwriter and producer
December 29th: Katherine Moennig , American actress
December 30th: Lucy Punch , British actress
December 31: Philipp Tanzer , German porn actor

Day unknown

Anna Böger , German actress
Jessica Gower , Australian actress
Genevieve O'Reilly , Irish-Australian actress
Markus Sehr , German director
Nadja Zwanziger , German actress