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. May 25 - Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope opens in theaters and becomes the highest grossing movie to date. Top Grossing Films of the Year Star Wars(now known as Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope) Close Encounters of the Third Kind, starring Richard Dreyfuss Smokey and the Bandit The Goodbye Girl In Search of Noah's Ark A Bridge Too Far The Rescuers The Spy Who Loved Me Oh, God, starring George Burns Academy Awards Best Picture: Annie Hall - Rollins-Joffe, United Artists Best Director: Woody Allen - Annie Hall Best Actor: Richard Dreyfuss - The Goodbye Girl Best Actress: Diane Keaton - Annie Hall Best Supporting Actor: Jason Robards Jr - Julia Best Supporting Actress: Vanessa Redgrave - Julia Births January 13 - Orlando Bloom, actor July 1 - Liv Tyler, actress Deaths January 14 - Peter Finch, actor January 29 - Freddie Prinze, actor/comedian March 25 - Nunnally Johnson, director April 21 - Gummo Marx, actor/agent May 10 - Joan Crawford, actress June 2 - Stephen Boyd, actor June 3 - Roberto Rossellini, Italian director June 19 - Geraldine Brooks, actress August 3 - Alfred Lunt, actor August 16 - Elvis Presley, singer, actor August 19 - Groucho Marx, comedian August 29 - Jean Hagen, actress October 14 - Bing Crosby, American singer and actor November 9 - Gertrude Astor, actress December 4 - Leila Hyams, actress December 25 - Charlie Chaplin, star of silent film December 26 - Howard Hawks, director December 28 - Charlotte Greenwood, actress Other Movies Released Annie Hall Eraserhead
