1978 in film
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Top grossing films
- North America
- Superman: The Movie
- Grease, starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John
- Saturday Night Fever, starring John Travolta and Karen Lynn Gorney
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Animal House, starring John Belushi
- Jaws 2
- Heaven Can Wait
- The Goodbye Girl
- Hooper
- Foul Play
- Revenge of the Pink Panther
Events
- February 1 - Bob Dylan's film Renaldo and Clara, a documentary of the "Rolling Thunder Revue" tour premieres in Los Angeles, California.
- March 1 - Charlie Chaplin's coffin is stolen from a Swiss cemetery three months after burial.
- March - Leigh Brackett completes the first draft for .
- June 4 - Grease, starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, has its world premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
- September - George Lucas purchases Bulltail Ranch, on Lucas Valley Road, for the development of Skywalker Ranch.
- November 17 - The Star Wars Holiday Special airs on CBS. The special gives fans their first glimpse of Boba Fett, a character from the upcoming sequel.
- The first Sundance Film Festival is held.
Awards
Academy Awards:- Best Picture: The Deer Hunter - EMI Films/Cimino, Universal
- Best Director: Michael Cimino - The Deer Hunter
- Best Actress: Jane Fonda - Coming Home
- Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Walken - The Deer Hunter
- Best Foreign Language Film: Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Preparez vos mouchoirs), directed by Bertrand Blier, France
Golden Globe Awards:
- Drama:
- Best Actor: Jon Voight - Coming Home
- Best Actress: Jane Fonda - Coming Home
- Musical or comedy:
- Best Actor: Warren Beatty - Heaven Can Wait
- Best Actress (tie): Ellen Burstyn - Same Time, Next Year
- Best Actress (tie): Maggie Smith - California Suite
- Other
- Best Director: Michael Cimino - The Deer Hunter
- Best Foreign Language Film: Autumn Sonata, Sweden
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
- The Tree of Wooden Clogs (L'Albero degli zoccoli), directed by Ermanno Olmi, Italy
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
- Trout (Las Truchas), directed by José Luis García Sánchez, Spain
- What Max Said (Las Palabras de Max), directed by Emilio Martínez Lázaro, Spain
Films released in 1978
- ''Almost Summer
- , directed by Martin Scorsese (documentary)
- Animal House
- Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
- Autumn Sonata
- The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
- Battlestar Galactica (Canada and most European countries only; released in U.S. theatres the following year)
- ''The Betsy
- The Boys from Brazil
- Bread and Chocolate
- The Buddy Holly Story
- Bye Bye Monkey
- La Cage aux Folles
- California Suite
- Capricorn One
- China 9, Liberty 37
- Comes a Horseman
- Coming Home
- , starring William Holden
- Dawn of the Dead (Italy)
- Days of Heaven
- Death on the Nile
- The Deer Hunter
- Enter the Fat Dragon starring Sammo Hung
- Every Which Way But Loose
- Fingers (1978 film)
- F.I.S.T.
- Foul Play
- The Fury (film), starring Kirk Douglas and Amy Irving.
- Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Preparez vos mouchoirs), aka Get Your Handkerchiefs Ready
- Girlfriends, Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner
- Grease
- Halloween, starring Jamie Lee Curtis
- Harper Valley PTA
- Heaven Can Wait
- Hooper
- Interiors
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers, remake of 1956 movie
- International Velvet
- Jaws 2
- ''Lady on the Bus
- The Last Waltz, directed by Martin Scorsese
- The Late Great Planet Earth -(film only mentioned in article)
- The Lord of the Rings, animated film by Ralph Bakshi
- Max's Words Golden Bear winner -(not found in searches under this title)
- Midnight Express
- Pretty Baby
- Renaldo and Clara
- Return of Captain Nemo, The
- Revenge of the Pink Panther
- The Star Wars Holiday Special
- Stevie (the 1978 film, there is also Stevie the 2002 film)
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Superman: The Movie, starring Marlon Brando and Christopher Reeve
- The Swarm
- The Tree of Wooden Clogs Palme d'Or winner
- Las Truchas (The Trout) Golden Bear winner
- The Small One
- Two Solitudes
- An Unmarried Woman
- You Are Not Alone
Births
- June 1 - Danielle Harris, voice actress in The Wild Thornberrys
- November 9 - Sisqó, singer/actor/songwriter
- December 9 - Jesse Metcalfe, actor
- December 18 - Katie Holmes, actress
Deaths
- January 5 - Sally Eilers, actress
- January 29 - Tim McCoy, cowboy actor, soldier
- March 24 - Leigh Brackett, science fiction writer
- August 24 - Louis Prima, bandleader, voice actor ("King Louie of the Apes" in The Jungle Book)
- August 26 - Charles Boyer, actor
- August 28 - Robert Shaw, actor
- September 9 - Jack Warner, Hollywood studio founder
- September 30 - Edgar Bergen, actor
- October 16 - Dan Dailey, actor
- October 19 - Gig Young, actor
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