Events
- March 28 - At the 49th Academy Awards, Rocky picks up the Academy Award for Best Picture. Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway, and Beatrice Straight all win Oscars for their performances in Network for Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actress, while Jason Robards wins for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in All the President's Men, becoming the only person to win two consecutive Best Supporting Actor awards.
- March 11 - The Walt Disney Company releases The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, a compilation of three animated shorts.
- May 25 - Star Wars opens in theaters and became one of the highest grossing films to date. The film revolutionizes the use of special effects in film and television production, and also popularizes the notion, even though Lucas was told by the Screen Actor's Guild that he must, of omitting any sort of opening credits sequence, and so distributed the film independently.
- June 22 - The Walt Disney Company releases The Rescuers, which instantly brought back an interest in animation that had been lost to both film-goers and critics throughout the beginning of the '70s.
- The average price of a movie ticket in the United States is about $2.25.
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