Births[]
- January 6 — Scott Ferguson
- February 6 — Har Mar Superstar
- February 23 — Hank Woon Jr.
- June 2 — Nikki Cox
- December 14 — Jamie McEnnan
Deaths[]
- February 9 — Angela Greene
- February 18 — Derrick de Marney
- February 27 — Jack Erickson
- April 5 — Douglas Henderson
- April 7 — Bill Coontz
- April 7 — Donald Gray
- April 21 — Robert de Nesle
- April 22 — Jo Heims
- April 23 — Ivan Pereverzev
- April 28 — Arch Hall Sr.
- April 28 — Russell Metty
- May 11 — Philip Ray
- May 26 — Henry Hite
- May 27 — Shelly Novack
- June 17 — Robert B. Williams
- July 13 — Baku Hatakeyama
- July 23 — Charles Horvath
- August 9 — John Alban
- August 29 — Emma Roldán
- September 6 — Harry Wilson
- September 22 — Jack Shaindlin
- September 25 — Bret Morrison
- November 1 — Armando Arriola
- November 26 — Ford Beebe
- November 27 — Susan Shaw
- December 7 — I. Stanford Jolley
- December 10 — Asbjørn Andersen
- December 10 — Edward D. Wood Jr.
- December 17 — Don Ellis
- December 20 — Ole Wisborg
- December 22 — Robert Maxwell
- December 24 — Chuck Hamilton
- December 28 — Vera Altayskaya
- December 28 — John Rathmell
Movie Premieres[]
- February 1 — The Astral Factor
- March 1 — Laserblast
- May 12 — The Alien Factor
- August 30 — Avalanche
- December 21 — Starcrash (West Germany)
Television Premieres[]
- January 9 — Superdome
- April 2 — Star Wolf (later reedited into Fugitive Alien and Star Force: Fugitive Alien II)
- October 31 — Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell
Events[]
- The special effects studio Industrial Light & Magic moves from Van Nuys to San Rafael, CA.
- Michael Lennick and Marlene Puritt get married.
- Michael Ripper and Catherine Finn get divorced.
- January 1 — The Fifty Worst Films of All Time (a precursor to The Golden Turkey Awards) is published.
- April 3 — At the 50th Academy Awards, the following awards were presented:
- John Williams wins the Best Original Score Award for Star Wars.
- John Barry, Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley, and Roger Christian win the Best Art Direction Award for Star Wars.
- Vilmos Zsigmond wins the Best Cinematography Award for Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
- John Dykstra, Richard Edlund, John Stears, Grant McCune and Robert Blalack win the Best Visual Effects Award for Star Wars.
- Walter Mirisch receives the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.
- April 16 — Marjoe Gortner and Candy Clark get married.
- September — Cindy Leadbetter is featured in that month's issue of the Italian edition of Playboy as Playmate.