1973 in film

The year 1973 in film involved some significant events.

Events

• The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx divorces his second wife, Barbara Blakely. Blakely would later marry actor/singer Frank Sinatra.
• Martial arts legend Bruce Lee dies before Enter the Dragon was released.

Top grossing films

North America

1. The Exorcist
2. The Sting
3. American Graffiti
4. Papillon
5. The Way We Were
6. Magnum Force
7. Robin Hood
8. Last Tango in Paris
9. Paper Moon
10. Live and Let Die
11. The Devil in Miss Jones
12. Serpico
13. Jesus Christ Superstar
14. The World's Greatest Athlete
15. Brother of the Wind
16. Enter the Dragon

Awards

Academy Awards:

Best Picture: The Sting - Bill/Phillips-Hill, Zanuck/Brown, Universal

Best Director : George Roy Hill - The Sting

Best Actor: Jack Lemmon - Save the Tiger

Best Actress: Glenda Jackson - A Touch of Class

Best Supporting Actor : John Houseman - The Paper Chase

Best Supporting Actress : Tatum O'Neal - Paper Moon

Best Foreign Language Film: Day for Night (La Nuit américaine), directed by François Truffaut, France

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: The Exorcist

Best Actor: Al Pacino - Serpico

Best Actress: Marsha Mason - Cinderella Liberty

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: American Graffiti

Best Actor: George Segal - A Touch of Class

Best Actress: Glenda Jackson - A Touch of Class

Other

Best Director: William Friedkin - The Exorcist

Best Foreign Language Film: The Pedestrian (Der Fußgänger), W. Germany

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

The Hireling, directed by Alan Bridges, United Kingdom

Scarecrow, directed by Jerry Schatzberg, United States

Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):

Ashani Sanket (Distant Thunder), directed by Satyajit Ray, India

Films released in 1973

• Alvin Purple
• Amarcord
• American Graffiti
• Ashani Sanket (Distant Thunder), Golden Bear winner
• Badlands
• Bang the Drum Slowly
• Battle for the Planet of the Apes
• Blood of the Dragon
• The Boy Who Cried Werewolf
• Brother of the Wind
• Charley Varrick, starring Walter Matthau
• Charlotte's Web
• Cinderella Liberty
• Cops and Robbers
• Cries and Whispers
• Day for Night
• The Day of the Jackal
• The Devil in Miss Jones
• Dillinger starring Warren Oates
• Don't Look Now, directed by Nicolas Roeg
• Electra Glide in Blue
• Emperor of the North Pole
• Enter the Dragon, starring Bruce Lee
• Executive Action
• The Exorcist
• Five on the Black Hand Side
• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
• Godspell
• Godzilla vs. Megalon
• Heavy Traffic
• The Hireling, Palme d'Or winner
• The Homecoming
• Idaho Transfer
• L' Invitation (aka The Invitation), Academy Award for Best Foreign Film
• Jesus Christ Superstar
• Jeremy
• The Last American Hero
• The Last Detail
• The Laughing Policeman, starring Walter Matthau -(film mentioned in article)
• Live and Let Die
• Lost Horizon
• Magnum Force
• Malizia (1973 film)
• Le Magnifique'
• Mean Streets, directed by Martin Scorsese
• The Mother and the Whore
• Night Watch
• O Lucky Man!
• The Paper Chase -(film only mentioned in article)
• Paper Moon
• Paperback Hero
• Papillon, starring Dustin Hoffman
• Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
• The Pedestrian (Der Fußgänger), Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film
• El Retorno de Walpurgis
• Robin Hood (Walt Disney)
• Save the Tiger
• Scarecrow, Palme d'Or winner
• Scenes from a Marriage by Ingmar Bergman
• Serpico, starring Al Pacino
• The Seven-Ups
• Sleeper
• Soylent Green
• The Sting starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford and Robert Shaw
• The Stone Killer
• A Touch of Class
• Walking Tall
• The Way We Were
• The Werewolf of Washington
• Westworld
• The Wicker Man
• The World's Greatest Athlete
• Tom Sawyer

Births

• February 12 - Tara Strong, voice actor
• September 4 - Jason David Frank (from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers), actor
• October 3 - Neve Campbell, actress
• december 7 - [[surender reddy patti], director (Indian)

Deaths

• January 26 - Edward G Robinson, actor
• February 15 - Tim Holt, actor
• February 22 - Katina Paxinou, actress
• March 10 - Robert Siodmak, director
• March 26 - Noel Coward, prolific English actor, playwright and composer of popular music
• April 26 - Irene Ryan, actress
• May 11 - Lex Barker, actor
• June 23 - Fay Holden, actress
• July 2 - Betty Grable, actress
• July 7 - Veronica Lake, actress
• July 11 - Robert Ryan, actor
• July 12 - Lon Chaney Jr, actor
• July 18 - Jack Hawkins, actor
• July 20 - Bruce Lee, actor
• August 16 - Vida Ann Borg, actress
• August 22 - Louise Huff, actress
• September 13 - Betty Field, actress
• September 21 - Diana Sands, actress
• September 26 - Anna Magnani, actress
• October 16 - Gene Krupa, musician, actor
• October 25 - Cleo Moore, actress
• November 23 - Sessue Hayakawa, actor
• November 23 - Claire Dodd, actress
• November 23 - Constance Talmadge, actress
• November 25 - Laurence Harvey, actor
• December 26 - William Haines, actorde:Filmjahr 1973

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