1974 in film

<u>Musical or Comedy:

Best Picture: The Longest Yard

Best Actor: Art Carney - Harry and Tonto

Best Actress: Raquel Welch - The Three Musketeers

<u>Other

Best Director: Roman Polanski - Chinatown

Best Foreign Language Film: Scenes from a Marriage, Sweden

PALM 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

[edit] Films released in 1974

• Aina
• Airport 1975
• Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
• Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, directed by Martin Scorsese
• All Creatures Great and Small
• Alvin Rides Again (aka Alvin Purple Rides Again)
• Animals Are Beautiful People
• Flesh for Frankenstein (aka Andy Warhol's Frankenstein)
• The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Golden Bear winner
• Barry Mckenzie Holds His Own
• The Beast Must Die
• Benji
• Black Christmas
• Blazing Saddles
• Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
• Caged Heat, directorial debut of Jonathan Demme
• The Cars That Ate Paris
• Chinatown
• The Conversation by Francis Ford Coppola, Palme d'Or winner
• Dark Star directed by John Carpenter, starring Brian Narelle, Cal Kuniholm, Dre Pahich and Dan O'Bannon
• Death Wish
• Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry
• Dreams and Nightmares - (Abe Osheroff)
• Earthquake
• The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (aka Every Man For Himself and God Against All)
• The Four Musketeers
• The Front Page
• The Godfather Part II
• Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
• Great Expectations -(film only mentioned in article)
• The Great Gatsby
• Harry and Tonto
• Herbie Rides Again
• Jock Petersen
• The Klansman
• Lacombe Lucien
• The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams (redirects to Grizzly Adams - character)
• The Longest Yard
• The Lords of Flatbush
• Lovin' Molly
• Mame
• The Man with the Golden Gun
• Murder on the Orient Express
• Parade
• Son of Dracula
• The Sugarland Express
• Sweet Movie
• The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, starring Walter Matthau
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
• That's Entertainment!
• Thieves Like Us
• Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
• The Towering Inferno, starring Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, and Fred Astaire
• The Trial of Billy Jack
• Vampyres
• A Woman Under the Influence
• Where the Lilies Bloom
• Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too! (short subject)
• Young Frankenstein, directed by Mel Brooks, starring Gene Wilder, Teri Garr, and Madeline Kahn
• Zardoz, starring Sean Connery and Charlotte Rampling

[edit] Births

• January 5 - Daisy Bates, actress
• March 24 - Alyson Hannigan, actress
• April 28 - Penélope Cruz, actress
• May 21 - Fairuza Balk, actress
• June 25 - Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress
• August 15 - Natasha Henstridge, Canadian actress
• August 23 - Ray Park, British actor
• September 19 - Victoria Silvstedt, Swedish actress and model
• November 11 - Leonardo DiCaprio, actor

[edit] Deaths

• January 31 - Samuel Goldwyn, film producer
• February 7 - Arline Judge, actress
• February 11 - Anna Q. Nilsson, actress
• February 23 - Florence Rice, actress
• February 28 - Carole Lesley, actress
• March 5 - Billy De Wolfe, actress
• March 7 - Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor
• March 19 - Edward Platt, actor
• April 2 – Douglass Dumbrille, actor
• April 10 - Patricia Collinge, actress
• April 24 - Bud Abbott, actor, best known as straight man to Lou Costello
• April 30 - Agnes Moorehead, actress
• May 25 - Donald Crisp, actor
• August 20 - Ilona Massey, actress
• September 6 - Olga Baclanova, actress
• September 18 - Edna Best, actress
• September 21 - Walter Brennan, actor
• September 21 - Jacqueline Susann, former actress, author of Valley Of The Dolls
• October 13 - Ed Sullivan, television host, actor
• November 13 - Vittorio De Sica, Italian director
• November 14 - Johnny Mack Brown, actor
• December 15 - Anatole Litvak, director
• December 21 - Richard Long, actor
• December 26 - Jack Benny, actorde:Filmjahr 1974