Rocky: 1976 Best Picture

“Rocky” won the Best Picture Oscar at the 49th Academy Awards, beating “All the President’s Men”, “Network”, “Bound for Glory”, and “Taxi Driver.” John G. Avildsen also won Best Director for “Rocky.”

“Rocky” and “Network” had 10 nominations each and “All the President’s Men” had 8, but the latter two took home the most Oscars (4 each), while the only other win for “Rocky” was for Best Film Editing.

Other notables film titles in 1976 were: “Taxi Driver”, “Carrie”, “Marathon Man”, “Logan’s Run”, “Silver Streak”, “Midway”, “The Man Who Fell to Earth” and “The Omen”

Lina Wertmüller became the first female to be nominated for Best Director for “Seven Beauties” and its star, Giancarlo Giannini, got a Best Actor nomination. Remakes included Streisand and Kristofferson in “A Star is Born” and Jessica Lange made her film debut in “King Kong”.

Jeopardy! clues on “Rocky”
MOVIE SONGS $800: It’s the 3-word title of the Oscar-nominated song from 1976’s “Rocky”
OSCAR-NOMINATED SPORTS FLICKS $800: This 1976 Oscar winner used the tagline “You have a ringside seat for the bloodiest Bicentennial in history”
TV & FILM FOOD $2000: The title character chugs raw eggs & punches slabs of beef in this 1976 Oscar winner
AWARDS $200: Sylvester Stallone received “Best Actor” & “Best Original Screenplay” Oscar nominations for this 1976 film
MOVIE CHARACTERS $200: Mickey, Apollo Creed, Adrian
BOXING MOVIES $600: Yo! She played Adrian in all 5 “Rocky” movies
IN GOD’S NAME $400: Carl Weathers played this boxer who slugged it out with Rocky
THE HOUSE OF BURGESS MEREDITH $800: As Mickey, Burgess had some advice for this 1976 title guy: “Women weaken legs!”

More 1976 film clues:
OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $800: 1976: “Evergreen”, the love theme from this movie remake
HAROLDRY $2000: This British playwright wrote the screenplay for the 1976 Elia Kazan-directed film “The Last Tycoon”
WOMEN DIRECTORS $1000: She was the 1st woman nominated for a Best Director Oscar, for 1976’s “Seven Beauties”
TAKE A STAB $600: In a 1976 horror film, this telekinetic teen uses her powers to “throw” cutlery at her uber-religious mom
JOHN TRAVOLTA FILMS $800: Before “Welcome Back, Kotter” aired, Travolta played one of this title girl’s tormentors in a 1976 horror film
TRUMAN CAPOTE $800: Capote invites the world’s greatest detectives to his house for a contest in this 1976 film spoof
MOVIE QUOTES $1200: (1976) Laurence Olivier: “Is it safe?”
FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $2000: Fitzgerald didn’t finish this novel, so screenwriter Harold Pinter had to come up with an ending for the 1976 film
MOVIES TO THE MAX $1200: This former TV Hillbilly directed the 1976 film “Ode to Billie Joe”
NEW YORK ON FILM $200: Robert De Niro played a Vietnam vet turned N.Y. cabbie in this 1976 film–“You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me?”
FILMED IN HAWAII $1200: We assume that Jessica Lange was impressed by the size of her co-star in this 1976 remake filmed partly in Hawaii
POLITICAL MOVIES $200: 2 reporters unearth a political scandal that goes all the way to the top in this 1976 film based on a book
MORE OF “DE” BEST PEOPLE $1000: Among the films he’s produced are “Conan the Barbarian” & the 1976 version of “King Kong”
GENE WILDER $500: Gene’s first movie pairing with Richard Pryor came in this 1976 comedy thriller about a murder plot on a train
WALTER MATTHAU $200: Walter Matthau coached a ragtag Little League team with a girl pitcher in this 1976 film
THEIR FIRST FEATURE FILMS $500: She debuted as Sister Pia in the 1976 film “A Matter of Time”, which starred her mother, Ingrid Bergman
FILMS OF THE ’70s $600: (Hi, I’m Stephen Collins of “7th Heaven”) I began my film career playing Hugh Sloan, Richard Nixon’s campaign treasurer, in this 1976 classic
FEELING POSSESSIVE $400: Jason Robards played editor Ben Bradlee in this 1976 film
ACTRESSES $600: Current biography says her “Film career began & nearly ended, with the 1976 remake of ‘King Kong'”
MOVIE DEBUTS $800: Amy Irving & Betty Buckley debuted in this 1976 Brian De Palma film about horror at a high school prom
FILM DIRECTORS $200: The last film he directed was “A Matter of Time” in 1976; it starred his daughter Liza
MOVIE DEBUTS $500: She played a nurse in the 1976 film “A Matter of Time”, which starred her mother, Ingrid Bergman
MOVIE TRIVIA $400: John Chancellor reportedly turned down the role in this 1976 film that won Peter Finch an Oscar
FRENCH ACTRESSES $1000: In 1976 this star of Truffaut’s “The Bride Wore Black” directed her first film, “Lumiere”
HOLLYWOOD HISTORY $300: This 1976 film was based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s unfinished novel inspired by Irving Thalberg
“7” MOVIES $300: Lina Wertmuller’s 1976 film that fits this category
THE MOVIES: A famous scene from this 1976 film was completely ad-libbed; the script simply read, “Travis looks in the mirror”
THE MOVIES: 1937 film whose 1954 & 1976 musical remakes each produced soundtracks that hit No. 1
FILMS OF THE ’70s: 1976 film that contains the line: “…The only truth you know is what you get over this tube!”