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November 21 – Rocky, the first in the film series opens. It becomes the highest-grossing film released in the year and goes on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture .
A list of American films released in 1976. Rocky won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Rocky was also the highest-grossing American film released during 1976.
Category:1976 films. Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1976 films. For convenience, all 1976 films should be included in this category. This includes all 1976 films that can also be found in the subcategories. This category is for Films originally released in the year 1976.
Subcategories. This category has the following 14 subcategories, out of 14 total. Film franchises introduced in 1976 (2 P) 1976 films (21 C, 1,174 P)
November 16 – Close Encounters of the Third Kind opens to widespread critical acclaim and massive box office success, becoming one of the top-grossing films to date and cementing Steven Spielberg's status as one of the most talented and profitable film directors of all time.
1976, also known as Chile '76 in North America, is a 2022 Chilean-Argentine drama film directed by Manuela Martelli in her directorial debut, with a screenplay co-written by Martelli and Alejandra Moffat.
Events. February 6 – David Begelman resigns as president of Columbia Pictures. March 1 – Charlie Chaplin 's coffin is stolen from a Swiss cemetery three months after burial. After recovery a few weeks later, the casket is sealed in a concrete vault prior to reburial.
This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1976 per Variety. The data was based on grosses from 20 to 24 key cities and therefore, the gross quoted may not be the total that the film grossed nationally in the week.
Jan 1, 1976 · 1. Taxi Driver. 1976 1h 54m R. 8.2 (911K) Rate. 94 Metascore. A mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action. Votes 910,760. 2. Rocky. 1976 2h PG. 8.1 (623K) Rate. 70 Metascore.
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