The year 1972 in film involved some significant events.
Events
Top grossing films (U.S.)
| Rank |
Title |
Studio |
Gross |
| 1. |
The Godfather |
Paramount |
$86,691,000 |
| 2. |
The Poseidon Adventure |
20th Century Fox |
$42,000,000 |
| 3. |
What's Up, Doc? |
Warner Brothers |
$28,000,000 |
| 4. |
Deliverance |
Warner Brothers |
$22,600,000 |
| 5. |
Jeremiah Johnson |
Warner Brothers |
$21,900,000 |
| 6. |
Cabaret |
Allied Artists |
$20,250,000 |
| 7. |
The Getaway |
Cinema Film |
$18,000,000 |
| 8. |
Lady Sings the Blues |
Paramount |
$9,665,000 |
| 9. |
Everything You Always Wanted to Know... |
United Artists |
$8,828,000 |
| 10. |
Sounder |
20th Century Fox |
$8,726,000 |
source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1972.shtml
Awards
Academy Awards:
- Best Picture: The Godfather - Albert S. Ruddy, Paramount
- Best Director : Bob Fosse - Cabaret
- Best Actor: Marlon Brando - The Godfather (declined)
- Best Actress: Liza Minnelli - Cabaret
- Best Supporting Actor ; Joel Grey - Cabaret
- Best Supporting Actress : Eileen Heckart - Butterflies Are Free
- Best Foreign Language Film: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie), directed by Luis Buñuel, France
Golden Globe Awards:
- Drama:
- Best Picture: The Godfather
- Best Actor: Marlon Brando - The Godfather
- Best Actress: Liv Ullmann - The Emigrants
- Musical or comedy:
- Best Picture: Cabaret
- Best Actor: Jack Lemmon - Avanti!
- Best Actress: Liza Minnelli - Cabaret
- Other
- Best Director: Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather
- Best Foreign Language Film (tie): The Emigrants (Utvandrarna), Sweden
- Best Foreign Language Film (tie): The New Land (Nybyggarna), Sweden
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
- The Working Class Goes to Heaven (La classe operaia va in paradiso), directed by Elio Petri, Italy
- The Mattei Affair (Il Caso Mattei), directed by Francesco Rosi, Italy
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
- The Canterbury Tales (I Racconti di Canterbury), directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy / France
Films released in 1972
- 1776
- The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
- Aguirre, the Wrath of God
- Avanti!
- Ben
- Blacula
- Butterflies Are Free
- Boxcar Bertha, directed by Martin Scorsese
- Cabaret
- The Candidate
- The Canterbury Tales, by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Golden Bear winner
- Cheongchun gyosa
- Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
- The Cowboys
- Cries and Whispers
- Deep Throat
- Deliverance
- The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
- Dr. Jekyll y el Hombre Lobo
- Endless Night -(film mentioned in article)
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask)
- Un flic (A Cop), starring Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve
- The Final Comedown
- Frenzy
- Fritz the Cat — first animated movie to receive an X rating.
- The Fury of the Wolfman
- The Getaway
- The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty
- The Godfather
- Godzilla vs. Gigan
- The Heartbreak Kid
- The Hot Rock
- Images
- Jeremiah Johnson
- Lady Caroline Lamb
- Lady Sings the Blues
- The Last House on the Left, Controversial film about the rape of two teenage girls.
- Last Tango in Paris (Ultimo tango a Parigi)
- The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
- Man of La Mancha
- Mary, Queen of Scots
- The Mattei Affair, Palme d'Or winner
- My Name Is Shanghai Joe
- Napoleon and Samantha
- The New Land (Nybyggarna), Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film
- The Other
- Pete 'n' Tillie, starring Walter Matthau
- Play It Again, Sam
- The Poseidon Adventure
- Prime Cut, starring Lee Marvin and Gene Hackman
- Shaft's Big Score
- Skyjacked
- Slaughterhouse-Five
- Sleuth, with Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine
- Snoopy Come Home
- Solaris, Soviet version, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
- Sounder, starring Cicely Tyson
- Street Mobster
- Super Fly
- The Other Side of the Underneath
- Treasure Island, starring Orson Welles
- Une belle fille comme moi, directed by François Truffaut
- The Valachi Papers
- What's Up, Doc?
- Young Winston
Births
- January 1- Catherine McCormack, actress
- January 11- Amanda Peet, actress
- January 15- Kobe Tai (also known as Carla Scott), adult and mainstream actress
- March 23 - Judith Godrèche, actress
- March 31 - Alejandro Amenábar, Spanish director, writer and soundtrack composer
- April 17 - Jennifer Garner, actress
- May 28 - Chiara Mastroianni, actress
- June 12- Robin Tunney, actress
- August 12- Rebecca Gayheart,actress
- August 15- Ben Affleck, actor
- September 8 - Giovanni Frezza, actor
- September 28 - Gwyneth Paltrow, actress
- October 17- Eminem (also known as Marshall Mathers), rapper and actor
- November 1 - Jenny McCarthy,actress
- November 7 - Jeremy and Jason London, actors
- December 7 - Jennifer Syme, entertainment industry employee (d. 2001)
- December 29 - Jude Law, actor
Deaths
- January 1 - Maurice Chevalier, French actor/singer
- January 8 - Wesley Ruggles, movie director, producer
- January 17 - Rochelle Hudson, actress
- February 2 - Jessie Royce Landis, actress
- February 7 - Walter Lang, director
- March 20 - Marilyn Maxwell, actress
- April 5 - Isabel Jewell, actress
- April 5 - Brian Donlevy, actor
- April 25 - George Sanders, British actor (b. 1906)
- April 30 - Gia Scala, actress
- May 3 - Bruce Cabot, actor
- May 15 - Nigel Green, actor
- May 21 - Margaret Rutherford, actress
- July 6 - Brandon De Wilde, actor
- August 7 - Joi Lansing, actress
- October 9 - Miriam Hopkins, actress
- October 16 - Leo G. Carroll, actor (b. 1892)
- October 24 - Claire Windsor, actress (b. 1897)
- November 16 - Vera Karalli, actress
- November 23 - Marie Wilson, actress
- December 9 - Louella Parsons, Hollywood columnist
- December 26 - Harry S. Truman, president/actor
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