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The year 1974 in film involved some significant events.

Columbia Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) celebrated their 50th anniversaries.

Highest-grossing films (U.S.)

The top ten 1974 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

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|+ Highest-grossing films of 1974

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! Rank!! Title !! Distributor(s) !! Domestic rentals

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! style="text-align:center;"| 1

|The Towering Inferno

| 20th Century Fox / Warner Bros.

| $50,000,000

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! style="text-align:center;"| 2

|Blazing Saddles

| Warner Bros.

| $45,200,000

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! style="text-align:center;"| 6

|The Godfather Part II

| Paramount

| $30,700,000

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! style="text-align:center;"| 10

|The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams

| Sunn Classic

| $21,895,000

|}

Events

  • February 7 – Blazing Saddles is released in the United States.
  • May 28 - Joseph E. Levine, the founder of Embassy Pictures, resigns as president.
  • June 20 – Chinatown, directed by Roman Polanski and featured Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, and John Huston, is released to worldwide critical acclaim.
  • September 23 – Barry Diller announced as chairman and chief executive office of Paramount Pictures.
  • November 1 – Technicolor ceases its legendary dye-transfer printing process.
  • November 8 – Frank Yablans announces his resignation as president of Paramount Pictures with effect from January 5, 1975.
  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer celebrated its fiftieth anniversary with big fanfare, including That's Entertainment!, a retrospective documentary celebrating its prestigious musicals (e.g. The Wizard of Oz, Singin' in the Rain, Meet Me in St. Louis, Gigi, An American in Paris, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers).
  • October–December – Three "disaster films" are released in three consecutive months: Airport 1975, Earthquake, and The Towering Inferno respectively. All were box office successes.
  • December 30 – Gordon Stulberg resigns as president of 20th Century Fox.
  • Kevin Costner made his film debut in Sizzle Beach, U.S.A., although the film was not released until 1986.

Awards

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! rowspan="2" style="width:200px;"| Category/Organization !! colspan="2" style="width:250px;"| 32nd Golden Globe Awards<br />January 25, 1975 !! rowspan="2" style="width:250px;"| 28th BAFTA Awards<br />February 18, 1975 !! rowspan="2" style="width:250px;"| 47th Academy Awards<br />April 8, 1975

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! width=200| Drama !! style="width:200px;"| Comedy or Musical

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| Best Film || Chinatown || The Longest Yard || Lacombe, Lucien|| The Godfather Part II

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| Best Director || colspan=3| Roman Polanski<br />Chinatown || Francis Ford Coppola<br />The Godfather Part II

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| Best Actor || Jack Nicholson<br />Chinatown || Art Carney<br />Harry and Tonto || Jack Nicholson<br />The Last Detail / Chinatown || Art Carney<br />Harry and Tonto

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| Best Actress || Gena Rowlands<br />A Woman Under the Influence || Raquel Welch<br />The Three Musketeers || Joanne Woodward<br />Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams || Ellen Burstyn<br />Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

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| Best Supporting Actor || colspan=2| Fred Astaire<br />The Towering Inferno || John Gielgud<br />Murder on the Orient Express || Robert De Niro<br />The Godfather Part II

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| Best Supporting Actress || colspan=2| Karen Black<br />The Great Gatsby || colspan=2| Ingrid Bergman<br />Murder on the Orient Express

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| Best Screenplay, Adapted || rowspan=2 colspan=2| Chinatown<br/ >Robert Towne || rowspan=2| Chinatown / <br />The Last Detail<br />Robert Towne ||The Godfather Part II<br />Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo

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| Best Screenplay, Original || Chinatown<br />Robert Towne

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| Best Original Score || colspan="2" | Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe<br>The Little Prince || Richard Rodney Bennett<br>Murder on the Orient Express || Nino Rota and Carmine Coppola<br>The Godfather Part II<br>Nelson Riddle<br>The Great Gatsby

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| Best Original Song || colspan="2" | "I Feel Love"<br>Benji || N/A || "We May Never Love Like This Again"<br>The Towering Inferno

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| Best Foreign Language Film || colspan="2" | Scenes from a Marriage || N/A || Amarcord

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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

1974 films

By country/region

  • List of American films of 1974
  • List of Argentine films of 1974
  • List of Australian films of 1974
  • List of Bangladeshi films of 1974
  • List of British films of 1974
  • List of Canadian films of 1974
  • List of French films of 1974
  • List of Hong Kong films of 1974
  • List of Indian films of 1974
  • List of Hindi films of 1974
  • List of Kannada films of 1974
  • List of Malayalam films of 1974
  • List of Marathi films of 1974
  • List of Tamil films of 1974
  • List of Telugu films of 1974
  • List of Japanese films of 1974
  • List of Mexican films of 1974
  • List of Pakistani films of 1974
  • List of South Korean films of 1974
  • List of Soviet films of 1974
  • List of Spanish films of 1974

By genre/medium

  • List of action films of 1974
  • List of animated feature films of 1974
  • List of avant-garde films of 1974
  • List of comedy films of 1974
  • List of drama films of 1974
  • List of horror films of 1974
  • List of science fiction films of 1974
  • List of thriller films of 1974
  • List of western films of 1974

Births

  • January 1 – Jennifer Podemski, Canadian actress
  • January 5
  • Daisy Bates, English actress
  • Jessica Chaffin, American actress, comedian and writer
  • January 9 - Omari Hardwick, American actor
  • January 10
  • Jemaine Clement, New Zealand actor, musician, comedian, singer, director and writer
  • Kelly Marcel, English screenwriter, director and former actress
  • Mehdi Nebbou, French actor
  • Hrithik Roshan, Indian actor
  • January 14 - Kevin Durand, Canadian actor
  • January 16 - Johnny Trí Nguyễn, Vietnamese–American actor
  • January 18 - Maulik Pancholy, American actor
  • January 19 - Natassia Malthe, Norwegian actress and model
  • January 21 - Vincent Laresca, American actor
  • January 24 – Ed Helms, American actor and comedian
  • January 28
  • Ty Olsson, Canadian actor
  • Melody Perkins, American actress
  • January 30
  • Christian Bale, English actor
  • Olivia Colman, English actress
  • Gloria Guida – Monika
  • Chris Haywood – The Cars That Ate Paris
  • Lawrence Hilton Jacobs – Claudine
  • Kane Hodder – California Split
  • Wendy Hughes – Petersen
  • Clyde Kusatsu – Airport 1975
  • Nick Mancuso – Black Christmas
  • Sean McCann – A Quiet Day in Belfast
  • Toshiyuki Nishida – Ranru no hata
  • Edward James Olmos – Black Fist
  • Raymond Serra – The Gambler
  • Ray Sharkey – The Lords of Flatbush
  • Stan Shaw – Truck Turner
  • Delia Sheppard – The Spots on My Leopard
  • Peter Simonischek – Die Auslieferung
  • Steven Spielberg (director) – The Sugarland Express
  • Jack Wallace – Death Wish
  • Fred Ward – Ginger in the Morning
  • Kenneth Welsh – Piaf
  • Henry Winkler – Crazy Joe

References

  • List of 1974 films at IMDb
  • List of 1974 deaths at IMDb
  • List of 1974 births at IMDb