Table of contents

1 Events 2 Top Grossing Films of the Year 3 Academy Awards 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 Other Movies Released

Events

• February 8 - Bob Dylan's hour long documentary film, Eat the Document, premieres at New York's Academy of Music. The film includes footage from Dylan's 1966 UK tour
• The first permanent IMAX projection system is installed at Ontario Place's "Cinesphere" in Toronto.

1. Billy Jack
2. Fiddler on the Roof
3. Diamonds Are Forever
4. Carnal Knowledge
5. Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange
6. Willard
7. Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song
8. Escape from the Planet of the Apes
9. The Big Doll House
10. Big Jake

• Best Picture: The French Connection - D'Antoni-Schine-Moore, 20th Century-Fox
• Best Director: William Friedkin - The French Connection
• Best Actor: Gene Hackman - The French Connection
• Best Actress: Jane Fonda - Klute
• Best Supporting Actor: Ben Johnson - The Last Picture Show
• Best Supporting Actress: - Cloris Leachman - The Last Picture Show

• February 17 - Denise Richards
• March 31 - Ewan McGregor
• August 31 - Chris Tucker, actor
• October 29 - Winona Ryder, American actor.
• November 25 - Christina Applegate

• January 5 - Douglas Shearer, pioneer motion-picture sound engineer
• January 15 - John Dall, actor
• February 26 - Fernandel, actor
• March 8 – Harold Lloyd, silent screen comedian
• March 15 - Bebe Daniels, actor
• May 1 - Glenda Farrell, actress
• May 27 - Chips Rafferty, Australian actor
• May 28 - Audie Murphy, World War II hero became film actor after the war
• July 6 - Louis Armstrong, musician, actor
• July 23 - Van Heflin, actor
• August 15 - Paul Lukas, actor
• September 7 - Spring Byington, actress
• September 10 - Pier Angeli, actress
• September 11 - Bella Darvi, actress
• October 11 - Chester Conklin, actor
• November 17 - Gladys Cooper, actress
• December 13 - Dita Parlo, actress
• December 18 - Diana Lynn, actress
• December 28 - Max Steiner, film composer
• December 30 - Dorothy Comingore, actress best known as Susan Kane in Citizen Kane
• December 31 - Peter Deuel 31, actor (suicide)