The year 1974 in film involved some significant events.

Events

• February 7 - Blazing Saddles is released in USA
• May 1 - George Lucas creates the first draft of what would eventually become Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
• August 7 - Peter Wolf, lead singer of The J. Geils Band marries actress Faye Dunaway
• November 1 - Technicolor ceases its legendary dye-transfer printing process.
• Robert Redford has three films in the Top Ten at the North American box office, the first actor to do so since Bing Crosby in 1946.
• Kevin Costner made his film debut in Sizzle Beach, USA, although the film was not released until 1986

Top grossing films (U.S.)

source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1974.shtml

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: The Godfather, Part II - Coppola Company, Paramount

Best Director: Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather, Part II

Best Actor: Art Carney - Harry and Tonto

Best Actress: Ellen Burstyn - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Best Supporting Actor: Robert De Niro - The Godfather, Part II

Best Supporting Actress: Ingrid Bergman - Murder on the Orient Express

Best Foreign Language Film: Amarcord, directed by Federico Fellini, Italy

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: Chinatown

Best Actor: Jack Nicholson - Chinatown

Best Actress: Gena Rowlands - A Woman Under the Influence

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: The Longest Yard

Best Actor: Art Carney - Harry and Tonto

Best Actress: Raquel Welch - The Three Musketeers

Other

Best Director: Roman Polanski - Chinatown

Best Foreign Language Film: Scenes from a Marriage, Sweden

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

The Conversation, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, United States

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, directed by Ted Kotcheff, Canada

Films released in 1974

• Abby
• Aina
• Airport 1975
• Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
• Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, directed by Martin Scorsese
• All Creatures Great and Small
• Alvin Rides Again (aka Alvin Purple Rides Again)
• Animals Are Beautiful People
• Flesh for Frankenstein (aka Andy Warhol's Frankenstein)
• The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Golden Bear winner
• The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (Made for TV)
• Barry Mckenzie Holds His Own
• The Beast Must Die
• Benji
• Black Christmas
• Blazing Saddles
• Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
• Caged Heat, directorial debut of Jonathan Demme
• California Split
• The Cars That Ate Paris
• Chinatown
• Claudine
• The Clockmaker
• The Conversation by Francis Ford Coppola, Palme d'Or winner
• Dark Star, directed by John Carpenter
• Day for Night
• Death Wish
• Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry
• Dreams and Nightmares - (Abe Osheroff)
• Earthquake
• The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (aka Every Man For Himself and God Against All)
• F for Fake (originally Vérités et Mensonges)
• The Front Page
• Ginger in the Morning
• The Godfather Part II
• Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
• The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
• Gone in 60 Seconds
• Great Expectations
• The Great Gatsby
• Harry and Tonto
• Herbie Rides Again
• The Island at the Top of the World
• Jock Petersen
• The Klansman
• Lacombe Lucien
• Lenny
• The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams (redirects to Grizzly Adams - character)
• The Longest Yard
• The Lords of Flatbush
• Lovin' Molly
• Mame
• The Man with the Golden Gun
• McQ
• Murder on the Orient Express
• The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat
• Parade
• Return of The Street Fighter
• Sister Street Fighter
• Sister Street Fighter Hanging by a Thread
• Son of Dracula
• The Street Fighter
• The Street Fighter's Last Revenge
• The Sugarland Express
• Sweet Movie
• Symptoms
• The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, starring Walter Matthau
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
• That's Entertainment!
• Thieves Like Us
• The Three Musketeers
• Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
• The Towering Inferno, starring Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway and Fred Astaire
• The Trial of Billy Jack
• UFO: Target Earth
• Vampyres
• A Woman Under the Influence
• Way of the Dragon (U.S. release)
• Where the Lilies Bloom
• Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too! (short subject)
• Young Frankenstein, directed by Mel Brooks, starring Gene Wilder, Teri Garr, and Madeline Kahn
• Zardoz, starring Sean Connery and Charlotte Rampling

Births

• January 5 - Daisy Bates, actress
• January 30 - Christian Bale, English actor
• March 24 - Alyson Hannigan, actress
• April 28 - Penélope Cruz, actress
• May 21 - Fairuza Balk, actress
• June 25 - Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress
• August 15 - Natasha Henstridge, Canadian actress
• August 23 - Ray Park, British actor
• September 19 - Victoria Silvstedt, Swedish actress and model
• October 28 - Joaquin Phoenix, Puerto Rican-born actor
• November 11 - Leonardo DiCaprio, actor
• November 16 - Chloë Sevigny, American actress

Deaths

• January 31 - Samuel Goldwyn, film producer
• February 7 - Arline Judge, actress
• February 11 - Anna Q. Nilsson, actress
• February 23 - Florence Rice, actress
• February 28 - Carole Lesley, actress
• March 5 - Billy De Wolfe, actor
• March 7 - Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor
• March 19 - Edward Platt, actor
• April 2 – Douglass Dumbrille, actor
• April 10 - Patricia Collinge, actress
• April 24 - Bud Abbott, actor, best known as straight man to Lou Costello
• April 30 - Agnes Moorehead, actress
• May 25 - Donald Crisp, actor
• August 20 - Ilona Massey, actress
• September 6 - Olga Baclanova, actress
• September 18 - Edna Best, actress
• September 21 - Walter Brennan, actor
• September 21 - Jacqueline Susann, former actress, author of Valley of the Dolls
• October 13 - Ed Sullivan, television host, actor
• November 13 - Vittorio De Sica, Italian director
• November 14 - Johnny Mack Brown, actor
• December 15 - Anatole Litvak, director
• December 21 - Richard Long, actor
• December 26 - Jack Benny, actor

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