This movie page looks at 125 1976 Top Grossing Movies. Finding box office information for movies made before 1980 is not an easy task. For somebody looking for box office information on 1976 it is very very frustrating. Over the years, we have researched and collected information on over 30,000 movies. So we figured we would show all the 1976 movies in our database.
To make this list a movie had to be made in 1976. Obviously many movies (One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest and Dog Day Afternoon) made in 1975 earned box office dollars in 1976. On the other side many movies made in 1976 made money in 1977 and later. This page will looks at 125 1976 Top Grossing Movies. The movies are listed in a massive table that lets you rank the movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information.
Drivel Part: So why 1976? There are a couple of reasons….first it was a request from Flora….who happens to have been born in 1976. Secondly …..this was the last year that some of my favorites (John Wayne & Alfred Hitchcock) made movies. And thirdly….our previous yearly UMR pages have been very popular.
Our UMR Top 50 of 1976
1976 Top Grossing Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort 1976 Top Grossing Movies by the stars or in some cases the director of the movie.
- Sort 1976 Top Grossing Movies by actual box office grosses (in millions)
- Sort 1976 Top Grossing Movies by domestic adjusted box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort 1976 Top Grossing Movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations each1976 Top Grossing Movies received
- Sort by how many Oscar® wins each 1976 Top Grossing Movies received.
- Sort 1976 Top Grossing Movies by Ultimate Movie Ranking Score (UMR). Our UMR score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
My Main Sources
Source 1: Variety – January 5th, 1977 Pages 14 and 44.
Source 2: Twentieth Century-Fox A Corporate and Financial History by Aubrey Solomon
Source 3: Wikipedia
Source 4: IMDb.com
Source 5: BoxOfficeMojo.com
How the Box Office Numbers were Calculated
Sadly in 1976….BoxOfficeMojo was not around to keep track of box office earnings. Back then earnings seem to be a secret and a secret that needed to be safely locked up. When studios did report box office stats they used “box office rentals”. Box office rentals were the amount of money the studio got back from the theaters. It is NOT the box office gross. Every year the rental to box office gross percentage changed…in 1976 this meant you had to triple the rentals to get the gross….so the multiplier used in this page was 3.0.
My Yearly Review Pages
- 1939 Movies Ranked Best to Worst Our movie of the year? Gone With The Wind
- 1942 Movies Ranked Best to Worst Our movie of the year? Mrs. Miniver
- 1946 Movies Ranked Best to Worst Our movie of the year? The Best Years of Our Lives
- 1952 Movies Ranked Best to Worst Our movie of the year? Greatest Show On Earth
- 2011 Movies Ranked Best to Worst Our movie of the year? The Help
- 2012 Movies Ranked Best to Worst Our movie of the year? Argo
- 2013 Movies Ranked Best to Worst Our movie of the year? Gravity
- 2014 Movies Ranked Best to Worst Our movie of the year? American Sniper
- 2015 Movies Ranked Best to Worst Our movie of the year? The Martian
- 2016 Movies Ranked Best to Worst Our movie of the year? Deadpool (currently)
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The Twelve Tasks of Asterix
Highly rated French Animation
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072901
I do not have any box office information on The Twelve Tasks of Asterix.
Bruce, I don’t really expect you’ll have much Box Office info on stuff I comment on. However, we have lots of super helpful contributors who might be able to direct you in the right direction by your mentioning you are missing the key ingredient – box office data. Consider them “placeholders” for movies that may well end up on your lists if you can track the box info data down. By leaving the comments, folks can be aware of decent movies internationally that have yet to be fit into the global puzzle. They are still “missing pieces”. In some cases I may in fact err on the fact that it may be hard to distinguish even with IMDB help whether a movie made it to the theater abroad or whether it was just realized on their home tv market as a made for tv movie. Usually IMDB gives us TV clues and I try to avoid commenting on those here. Here is a source that you might find helpful. That said you’ll likely need to grab the original French title from IMDB to find the data: http://www.boxofficestory.com/asterix-box-office-de-la-franchise-a113439166
For the record, I don’t speak or read French. Yes hard to believe considering how many comments I make about French films. If you use google translate it might help with some of these French box office data links like the one I posted. Best of luck with the French data sources!
Here is another way of looking at 1976 in France:
http://www.boxofficestory.com/france-1976-c24986920
Notice that The Twelve Tasks of Asterix was actually in the top 10 for France’s Box Office (per that source).
Keoma
Highly rated Italian Film
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074740/
Shaolin Temple
highly rated HK film
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075202
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Highly rated Brazilian film (Bafta nominee)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077452/
Rest In Eternal Peace, Kirk Douglas
Hey Fran. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on Kirk Douglas on this sad day. Rest in peace Kirk Douglas.