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Highest-grossing films of 1978 in the United States and Canada are as follows:

Rank	Title	Studio(s)	Actor(s)	Director(s)	Release date	Review	Gross
1.	The Empire Strikes Back	20th Century Fox	Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Garrett Morris, Max von Sydow, Kevin Peter Hall, and Frank Oz	George Lucas	May 19, 1978	97%	$218,064,585
2.	Grease	Paramount Pictures	John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, and Stockard Channing	Randal Kleiser	June 16, 1978	87%	$179,529,370
3.	Animal House	Universal Pictures	John Belushi, Tim Matheson, John Vernon, Verna Bloom, Tom Hanks, and Donald Sutherland	John Landis	July 28, 1978	89%	$134,839,755
4.	Rocky II	United Artists	Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Christopher Lloyd, Morgan Freeman, and Burgess Meredith	Sylvester Stallone	December 15, 1978	82%	$108,221,659
5.	Heaven Can Wait	Paramount Pictures	Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, James Mason, Charles Grodin, Dyan Cannon, Buck Henry, Vincent Gardenia, and Jack Warden	Warren Beatty and Buck Henry	June 28, 1978	68%	$99,767,937
6.	Every Which Way but Loose	Warner Bros.	Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, Beverly D'Angelo, and Ruth Gordon	James Fargo	December 20, 1978	56%	$86,001,987
7.	Hooper		Burt Reynolds, Jan-Michael Vincent, Sally Field, Brian Keith, and Robert Klein	Hal Needham	July 14, 1978	60%	$76,166,956
8.	The Deer Hunter	Universal Pictures	Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Savage, John Cazale, Meryl Streep, and George Dzundza	Michael Cimino	December 8, 1978	92%	$63,109,347
9.	Revenge of the Pink Panther	United Artists	Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Robert Webber, and Dyan Cannon	Blake Edwards	July 20, 1978	70%	$53,279,135
10.	Foul Play	Paramount Pictures	Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Dudley Moore, Burgess Meredith, Eugene Roche, Rachel Roberts, Brian Dennehy and Billy Barty	Colin Higgins	July 14, 1978	68%	$49,350,344
11.	The End	United Artists	Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Sally Field, Strother Martin, David Steinberg, Joanne Woodward, Norman Fell, Myrna Loy, Kristy McNichol, Pat O'Brien, Robby Benson and Carl Reiner	Burt Reynolds	May 10, 1978	69%	$49,117,762
12.	The Cheap Detective	Columbia Pictures	Peter Falk, Madeline Kahn, Louise Fletcher, Ann-Margret, Eileen Brennan, Stockard Channing, Marsha Mason, Sid Caesar, John Houseman, Dom DeLuise, Abe Vigoda, James Coco, Phil Silvers, Fernando Lamas, Nicol Williamson, Scatman Crothers, Vic Tayback and Paul Williams	Robert Moore	June 23, 1978	57%	$49,091,656
13.	California Suite		Alan Alda, Michael Caine, Bill Cosby, Jane Fonda, Walter Matthau, Elaine May, Richard Pryor, and Maggie Smith	Herbert Ross	December 22, 1978	46%	$48,035,725
14.	Halloween	Compass International Pictures	Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, P. J. Soles, and Nancy Loomis	John Carpenter	October 25, 1978	89%	$47,013,240
15.	House Calls	Universal Pictures	Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Art Carney, and Richard Benjamin	Howard Zieff	March 15, 1978	48%	$46,836,715
16.	An Unmarried Woman	20th Century Fox	Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates, Michael Murphy, and Cliff Gorman	Paul Mazursky	March 5, 1978	73%	$45,044,716
17.	Midnight Express	Columbia Pictures	Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins, Randy Quaid, John Hurt, and Paul L. Smith	Oliver Stone	October 6, 1978	89%	$44,181,944
18.	Coma	United Artists	Geneviève Bujold, Michael Douglas, Elizabeth Ashley, Rip Torn, and Richard Widmark	Michael Crichton	January 6, 1978	66%	$42,620,196
19.	The Lord of the Rings		voices of Christopher Guard, William Squire, Michael Scholes, John Hurt, Simon Chandler, Dominic Guard, Michael Graham Cox, Anthony Daniels,and David Buck	Ralph Bakshi	November 15, 1978	64%	$41,415,322
20.	Coming Home		Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, and Bruce Dern	Hal Ashby	February 15, 1978	83%	$39,602,136
21.	Magic	20th Century Fox	Anthony Hopkins, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith, Ed Lauter, and David Ogden Stiers	Richard Attenborough	November 8, 1978	64%	$39,371,790
22.	The Fury		Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, Amy Irving, Carrie Snodgress, Charles Durning, and Andrew Stevens	Brian De Palma	March 10, 1978	49%	$39,057,081
23.	The One and Only	Paramount Pictures	Henry Winkler, Kim Darby, and Gene Saks	Carl Reiner	February 3, 1978	55%	$38,978,289
24.	The Buddy Holly Story	Columbia Pictures	Gary Busey, Don Stroud, Charles Martin Smith, Conrad Janis, and William Jordan	Steve Rash	May 5, 1978	77%	$37,605,521
25.	Damien: Omen II	20th Century Fox	William Holden and Lee Grant	Don Taylor	June 9, 1978	49%	$37,492,664
26.	Invasion of the Body Snatchers	United Artists	Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy, Jeff Goldblum, and Veronica Cartwright	Steven Spielberg	December 22, 1978	82%	$36,977,685
27.	The Boys from Brazil	20th Century Fox	Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier	Franklin J. Schaffner	October 6, 1978	66%	$36,904,894
28.	Hot Lead and Cold Feet	Walt Disney Productions	Jim Dale, Karen Valentine, Don Knotts, Jack Elam, and Darren McGavin	Robert Butler	July 5, 1978	64%	$36,336,072
29.	Up in Smoke	Paramount Pictures	Tommy Chong, Cheech Marin, Strother Martin, Edie Adams, and Stacy Keach	Lou Adler	September 17, 1978	82%	$35,795,608
30.	Convoy	United Artists	Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Burt Young, Madge Sinclair, Franklyn Ajaye, and Ernest Borgnine	Sam Peckinpah	June 28, 1978	72%	$35,723,337
31.	Matewan		Sylvester Stallone, James Earl Jones, Glenn Close, and Christopher Atkins	Norman Jewison	April 26, 1978	93%	$32,117,763
32.	Ice Castles	Columbia Pictures	Lynn-Holly Johnson, Robby Benson, and Tom Skerritt	Donald Wrye	December 25, 1978	69%	$31,939,208
33.	The Wiz	Universal Pictures	Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell, Ted Ross, Lena Horne, Mabel King, and Richard Pryor	Sidney Lumet	October 24, 1978	65%	$29,277,158
34.	Pinocchio (re-release)	Walt Disney Productions	Cliff Edwards, Dickie Jones, Christian Rub, Walter Catlett, Charles Judels, Evelyn Venable, and Frankie Darro	Ben Sharpsteen, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Norman Ferguson, Jack Kinney, Wilfred Jackson, and T. Hee	November 20, 1978	73%	$28,794,721
35.	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	Universal Pictures	Peter Frampton, The Bee Gees, Frankie Howerd, Paul Nicholas, Donald Pleasence, Sandy Farina, Dianne Steinberg, Steve Martin, Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Earth, Wind & Fire, Billy Preston, George Burns, and Carel Struycken	Michael Schultz	July 21, 1978	44%	$26,865,941
36.	Eyes of Laura Mars	Columbia Pictures	Faye Dunaway, Tommy Lee Jones, Brad Dourif, René Auberjonois, and R.J.	Irvin Kershner	August 2, 1978	42%	$26,631,010
37.	Same Time, Next Year	Universal Pictures	Ellen Burstyn and Alan Alda	Robert Mulligan	November 22, 1978	85%	$24,839,122
38.	Oliver's Story	Paramount Pictures	Ryan O'Neal, Candice Bergen, Nicola Pagett, and Ray Milland	John Korty	December 15, 1978	24%	$23,877,346
39.	The Cat from Outer Space	Walt Disney Productions	Ken Berry, Sandy Duncan, Harry Morgan, Ronnie Schell, Roddy McDowall, and McLean Stevenson	Norman Tokar	June 30, 1978	58%	$23,643,226
40.	The Betsy	Allied Artists	Laurence Olivier, Robert Duvall, Katharine Ross, Tommy Lee Jones, and Jane Alexander	Daniel Petrie	February 9, 1978	23%	$23,551,800
41.	The Swarm	Warner Bros.	Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Richard Chamberlain, Olivia de Havilland, Ben Johnson, Lee Grant, José Ferrer, Patty Duke, Slim Pickens, Bradford Dillman, Henry Fonda and Fred MacMurray	Irwin Allen	July 14, 1978	19%	$21,427,491
42.	Return from Witch Mountain	Walt Disney Productions	Bette Davis, Christopher Lee, Kim Richards, Ike Eisenmann, Jack Soo, and Anthony James	John Hough	March 10, 1978	39%	$21,282,246
43.	The Other Side of the Mountain Part 2	Universal Pictures	Marilyn Hassett and Timothy Bottoms	Larry Peerce	February 12, 1978	77%	$20,669,553
44.	The Big Fix		Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Anspach, Bonnie Bedelia, John Lithgow, Ofelia Medina, Nicolas Coster, F. Murray Abraham, and Fritz Weaver	Jeremy Paul Kagan	October 6, 1978	50%	$19,960,645
45.	The Brink's Job		Peter Falk, Peter Boyle, Allen Garfield, Warren Oates, Gena Rowlands, and Paul Sorvino	William Friedkin	December 8, 1978	57%	$19,888,537
46.	The Greek Tycoon		Anthony Quinn, Jacqueline Bisset, Raf Vallone, Edward Albert, Charles Durning, Luciana Paluzzi, Camilla Sparv, Marilu Tolo, and James Franciscus	J. Lee Thompson	May 12, 1978	27%	$19,060,126
47.	Death on the Nile	Paramount Pictures	Albert Finney, Jane Birkin, Lois Chiles, Bette Davis, Mia Farrow, Jon Finch, Olivia Hussey, I. S. Johar, George Kennedy, Angela Lansbury, Simon MacCorkindale, David Niven, Maggie Smith, and Jack Warden	John Guillermin	September 29, 1978	79%	$18,415,701
48.	American Hot Wax		Tim McIntire, Fran Drescher, Bill Murray, Laraine Newman, Moosie Drier, Jeff Altman, John Lehne, Richard Perry, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, and Frankie Ford	Floyd Mutrux	March 17, 1978	85%	$17,519,309
49.	The Great Train Robbery	United Artists	Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, and Lesley-Anne Down	Michael Crichton	December 18, 1978	69%	$16,881,748
50.	The Legacy	Universal Pictures	Katharine Ross, Sam Elliott, and Roger Daltrey	Richard Marquand	September 29, 1978	24%	$16,847,488
51.	Dawn of the Dead	United Film Distribution Company	David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott Reiniger, and Gaylen Ross	George A. Romero	April 13, 1978	90%	$16,617,730
52.	Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?	Warner Bros.	George Segal, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Morley, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Gigi Proietti, and Stefano Satta Flores	Ted Kotcheff	October 6, 1978	69%	$15,968,654
53.	Moment by Moment	Universal Pictures	Lily Tomlin and John Travolta	Jane Wagner	December 22, 1978	24%	$15,798,758
54.	Gray Lady Down		Charlton Heston, Christopher Reeve, Stacy Keach, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox, Stephen McHattie, and Rosemary Forsyth	David Greene	March 10, 1978	36%	$15,142,861
55.	Harper Valley PTA	New World Pictures	Barbara Eden, Nanette Fabray, Ronny Cox, Louis Nye, Susan Swift, and Pat Paulsen	Ralph Senensky	August 11, 1978	58%	$14,907,745
56.	Interiors	United Artists	Kristin Griffith, Carrie Fisher, Richard Jordan, Diane Keaton, E. G. Marshall, Geraldine Page, Maureen Stapleton, and Sam Waterston	Woody Allen	August 2, 1978	79%	$14,557,710
57.	Game of Death	Columbia Pictures	Bruce Lee, Gig Young, Dean Jagger, Colleen Camp, Kim Tai-jong, Yuen Biao, Robert Wall, Hugh O'Brian, Dan Inosanto, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Mel Novak, Sammo Hung, Ji Han-jae, and Casanova Wong	Robert Clouse	March 23, 1978	63%	$13,962,215
58.	Comes a Horseman	United Artists	Jane Fonda, James Caan, Jason Robards, and Richard Farnsworth	Alan J. Pakula	October 25, 1978	54%	$13,065,937
59.	Casey's Shadow	Columbia Pictures	Walter Matthau, Alexis Smith, Robert Webber, and Murray Hamilton	Martin Ritt	March 17, 1978	72%	$12,858,910
60.	Straight Time	Warner Bros.	Dustin Hoffman, Harry Dean Stanton, Gary Busey, Theresa Russell, M. Emmet Walsh, and Kathy Bates	Ulu Grosbard	March 17, 1978	82%	$12,518,268
61.	The Boys in Company C	Columbia Pictures	Stan Shaw, Andrew Stevens, Michael Lembeck, Craig Wasson, Scott Hylands, James Whitmore Jr., and Noble Willingham	Sidney J. Furie	February 7, 1978	76%	$12,280,891
62.	Pretty Baby	Paramount Pictures	Keith Carradine, Susan Sarandon, and Brooke Shields	Louis Malle	April 5, 1978	58%	$12,130,746
63.	High-Ballin'	American International Pictures	Peter Fonda, Jerry Reed, Helen Shaver, and Chris Wiggins	Peter Carter	August 30, 1978	28%	$11,988,558
64.	A Wedding	20th Century Fox	Desi Arnaz Jr., Carol Burnett, Geraldine Chaplin, Howard Duff, Mia Farrow, Vittorio Gassman, Lillian Gish, Lauren Hutton, Viveca Lindfors, Pat McCormick, Dina Merrill, and Nina Van Pallandt	Robert Altman	August 29, 1978	80%	$11,936,301
65.	The Wild Geese	Rank Film Distributors	Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris, Hardy Krüger, Jeff Corey, Frank Finlay, Barry Foster, Kenneth Griffith, John Kani, David Ladd, Rosalind Lloyd, Winston Ntshona, Jack Watson, and Stewart Granger	Andrew V. McLaglen	July 6, 1978	75%	$11,531,700
66.	Goin' South	Paramount Pictures	Jack Nicholson, Mary Steenburgen, John Belushi, Christopher Lloyd, Richard Bradford, Veronica Cartwright, Danny DeVito and Ed Begley Jr.	Jack Nicholson	October 6, 1978	49%	$10,926,526
67.	King of the Gypsies		Eric Roberts, Sterling Hayden, Judd Hirsch, Shelley Winters, Susan Sarandon, Brooke Shields, Danielle Brisebois, Annette O'Toole, and Annie Potts	Frank Pierson	December 20, 1978	63%	$10,532,075
68.	Thank God It's Friday	Columbia Pictures	Jeff Goldblum, Donna Summer, and The Commodores	Robert Klane	May 19, 1978	36%	$10,425,385
69.	Force 10 from Navarone	American International Pictures	Robert Shaw, Harrison Ford, Barbara Bach, Edward Fox, Franco Nero, Morgan Freeman, Richard Kiel, and Alan Badel	Guy Hamilton	December 8, 1978	56%	$10,289,173
70.	The Bad News Bears Go to Japan	Paramount Pictures	Tony Curtis and Jackie Earle Haley	John Berry	June 30, 1978	29%	$9,186,647
71.	Blue Collar	Universal Pictures	Harvey Keitel, Richard Pryor, and Billy Dee Williams	Paul Schrader	February 10, 1978	88%	$9,153,758
72.	Piranha	New World Pictures	Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies, Kevin McCarthy, Keenan Wynn, Barbara Steele, Dick Miller, and Belinda Balaski	Joe Dante	July 28, 1978	50%	$9,055,915
73.	If Ever I See You Again	Columbia Pictures	Joe Brooks, Shelley Hack, Jimmy Breslin, Jerry Keller, and George Plimpton	Joe Brooks	May 24, 1978	41%	$8,834,267
74.	Almost Summer	Universal Pictures	Bruno Kirby and Lee Purcell	Martin Davidson	April 21, 1978	56%	$8,497,357
75.	Watership Down	Embassy Pictures	voices of John Hurt, Richard Briers, Michael Graham Cox, Simon Cadell, Harry Andrews, and Zero Mostel	Martin Rosen and John Hubley	November 1, 1978	86%	$8,243,091
76.	The Last Waltz	United Artists	Ronnie Hawkins, Bob Dylan, as well as Paul Butterfield, Bobby Charles, Eric Clapton, Neil Diamond, Emmylou Harris, Dr. John, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Ringo Starr, Muddy Waters, Ronnie Wood, and Neil Young	Martin Scorsese	April 26, 1978	94%	$7,978,751
77.	Who'll Stop the Rain		Nick Nolte, Tuesday Weld, Michael Moriarty, and Anthony Zerbe	Karel Reisz	August 11, 1978	64%	$7,902,957
78.	Brass Target		Sophia Loren, John Cassavetes, George Kennedy, Robert Vaughn, Patrick McGoohan, Bruce Davison, Edward Herrmann, and Max von Sydow	Karel Reisz	December 22, 1978	35%	$7,762,473
79.	The Driver	20th Century Fox	Ryan O'Neal, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Adjani, and Ronee Blakley	Walter Hill	July 28, 1978	77%	$7,230,663
80.	Starcrash	New World Pictures	Caroline Munro, David Hasselhoff, Joe Spinell, Robert Tessier, Nadia Cassini, Judd Hamilton, and Peter Cushing	Luigi Cozzi	December 10, 1978	36%	$7,057,104
81.	Coach	Crown International Pictures	Cathy Lee Crosby, Michael Biehn, Keenan Wynn, Channing Clarkson, Steve Nevil, and Jack David Walker	Bud Townsend	March 17, 1978	47%	$6,757,691
82.	Caravans	Universal Pictures	Anthony Quinn, Behrouz Vossoughi, Michael Sarrazin, Christopher Lee, and Jennifer O'Neill	James Fargo	November 2, 1978	58%	$6,532,786
83.	Good Guys Wear Black	American International Pictures	Chuck Norris, Anne Archer, Lloyd Haynes, Dana Andrews, Jim Backus, and James Franciscus	Ted Post	June 2, 1978	36%	$6,510,003
84.	The Magic of Lassie	International Picture Show Company	James Stewart, Michael Sharrett, Lassie, Pernell Roberts, Mickey Rooney, Stephanie Zimbalist, and Alice Faye	Don Chaffey	August 18, 1978	65%	$6,507,933
85.	Somebody Killed Her Husband	Columbia Pictures	Farrah Fawcett-Majors, Jeff Bridges, John Wood, Tammy Grimes, John Glover, Patricia Elliott, Mary McCarty, and Lawrence Guittard	Lamont Johnson	September 9, 1978	49%	$6,506,443
86.	Capricorn One	Warner Bros.	Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Brenda Vaccaro, Sam Waterston, Samuel L. Jackson, Hal Holbrook, David Huddleston, David Doyle, Karen Black, and Telly Savalas	Peter Hyams	June 6, 1978	58%	$6,463,253
87.	Warlords of Atlantis	American International Pictures	Doug McClure, Peter Gilmore, Shane Rimmer, and Lea Brodie	Kevin Connor	May 12, 1978	43%	$6,034,709
88.	Days of Heaven	Paramount Pictures	Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard, and Linda Manz	Terrence Malick	September 13, 1978	89%	$5,999,322
89.	It Lives Again	Warner Bros.	Frederic Forrest, Kathleen Lloyd, John P. Ryan, John Marley, Andrew Duggan, and Eddie Constantine	Larry Cohen	May 12, 1978	27%	$5,608,465
90.	The Manitou	Embassy Pictures	Tony Curtis, Michael Ansara, Susan Strasberg, Stella Stevens, Jon Cedar, Ann Sothern, and Burgess Meredith	William Girdler	April 28, 1978	35%	$5,565,039
91.	Big Wednesday	Warner Bros.	Jan-Michael Vincent, William Katt, Gary Busey, Patti D'Arbanville, and Lee Purcell	John Milius	June 9, 1978	87%	$5,477,171
92.	The Serpent's Egg	Paramount Pictures	David Carradine, Isolde Barth, Heinz Bennent, Toni Berger, Christian Berkel, and Liv Ullmann	Ingmar Bergman	February 15, 1978	56%	$5,327,443
93.	The Sea Gypsies	Warner Bros.	Robert Logan, Mikki Jamison, and Heather Rattray	Stewart Raffill	May 26, 1978	62%	$5,141,990
94.	Goin' Coconuts	Osmond Entertainment	Donny Osmond, Marie Osmond, Herb Edelman, Kenneth Mars, Ted Cassidy, Marc Lawrence, Khigh Dhiegh, Harold Sakata, Jack Collins, Danny Wells, Charles Walker, and Tommy Fujiwara	Howard Morris	October 17, 1978	40%	$5,122,610
95.	I Wanna Hold Your Hand	Universal Pictures	Nancy Allen, Bobby Di Cicco, Marc McClure, Susan Kendall Newman, Theresa Saldana, and Wendie Jo Sperber	Ivan Reitman	April 21, 1978	75%	$4,614,118
96.	The Silent Partner	Embassy Pictures	Elliott Gould, Christopher Plummer, and Susannah York	Daryl Duke	November 8, 1978	84%	$4,589,581
97.	Message from Space	United Artists	Vic Morrow, Sonny Chiba, Philip Casnoff, and Peggy Lee Brennan	Kinji Fukasaku	September 29, 1978	30%	$4,484,257
98.	La Cage aux Folles		Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault, Claire Maurier, Rémi Laurent, Carmen Scarpitta, and Michel Galabru	Édouard Molinaro	October 20, 1978	85%	$4,420,165
99.	Fingers	Brut Productions	Harvey Keitel, Tisa Farrow, and Jim Brown	James Toback	March 2, 1978	68%	$4,289,322
100.	International Velvet	United Artists	Tatum O'Neal, Nanette Newman, Anthony Hopkins, Christopher Plummer, Jeffrey Byron, Sarah Bullen, and Richard Warwick	Bryan Forbes	July 19, 1978	72%	$4,273,277
101.	FM	Universal Pictures	Michael Brandon, Eileen Brennan, Alex Karras, Cleavon Little, Martin Mull, Cassie Yates, Linda Ronstadt, and Jimmy Buffett	John A. Alonzo	April 28, 1978	62%	$4,215,547
102.	Circle of Iron	Embassy Pictures	David Carradine, Christopher Lee, Jeff Cooper, Roddy McDowall, Eli Wallach, Anthony De Longis, Earl Maynard, and Erica Creer	Richard Moore	May 26, 1978	59%	$4,042,563
103.	Our Winning Season	American International Pictures	Dennis Quaid, Scott Jacoby, and Joanna Cassidy	Joseph Ruben	May 10, 1978	54%	$3,997,782
104.	Youngblood		Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Bryan O'Dell, and Ren Woods	Paul Carter Harrison	May 24, 1978	58%	$3,938,100
105.	Jennifer		Lisa Pelikan, Bert Convy, Nina Foch, John Gavin, Jeff Corey, and Wesley Eure	Brice Mack	April 21, 1978	38%	$3,635,197
106.	The Big Sleep	United Artists	Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Richard Boone, Candy Clark, Joan Collins, Edward Fox, and James Stewart	Michael Winner	March 13, 1978	27%	$3,380,214
107.	Avalanche	New World Pictures	Rock Hudson, Mia Farrow, Robert Forster, Jeanette Nolan, and Rick Moses	Corey Allen	August 30, 1978	37%	$3,314,073
108.	The Medusa Touch	Warner Bros.	Richard Burton, Lino Ventura, Lee Remick, and Harry Andrews	Jack Gold	April 14, 1978	73%	$3,113,611
109.	The Norseman	American International Pictures	Lee Majors, Cornel Wilde, Mel Ferrer, and Jack Elam	Charles B. Pierce	October 18, 1978	35%	$2,887,195
110.	Here Come the Tigers		Richard Lincoln, James Zvanut, and Samantha Grey	Sean S. Cunningham	May 26, 1978	37%	$2,781,086
111.	Born Again	Embassy Pictures	Dean Jones, Anne Francis, Jay Robinson, and Dana Andrews	Irving Rapper	September 29, 1978	51%	$2,728,581
112.	Movie Movie	Warner Bros.	George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Barbara Harris, Red Buttons, Barry Bostwick, Ann Reinking, Art Carney, and Eli Wallach	Stanley Donen	November 22, 1978	65%	$2,381,227
113.	The Evil	New World Pictures	Richard Crenna, Joanna Pettet, Andrew Prine, Cassie Yates, and Victor Buono	Gus Trikonis	March 8, 1978	56%	$2,111,630
114.	Slow Dancing in the Big City	United Artists	Paul Sorvino, Anne Ditchburn, Nicolas Coster, Anita Dangler, and Thaao Penghlis	John G. Avildsen	November 8, 1978	87%	$1,922,166
115.	Matilda	American International Pictures	Elliott Gould, Clive Revill, Harry Guardino, Roy Clark, Lionel Stander, Art Metrano, Karen Carlson, and Robert Mitchum	Daniel Mann	June 22, 1978	36%	$1,895,664
116.	Five Days from Home	Universal Pictures	George Peppard, with Sherry Boucher, Savannah Smith, Neville Brand, Victor Campos, and Robert Donner	George Peppard	April 21, 1978	60%	$1,890,878
117.	Mean Dog Blues	American International Pictures	Gregg Henry, Kay Lenz, Scatman Crothers, Tina Louise, and George Kennedy	Mel Stuart	January 27, 1978	61%	$1,822,522
118.	Go Tell the Spartans	Embassy Pictures	Burt Lancaster, Craig Wasson, Marc Singer, and Jonathan Goldsmith	Ted Post	June 14, 1978	66%	$1,816,594
119.	The Mafu Cage		Carol Kane and Lee Grant	Karen Arthur	December 1, 1978	59%	$1,802,390
120.	Rabbit Test	Embassy Pictures	Billy Crystal, Roddy McDowall, Joan Prather, Alex Rocco, Doris Roberts, and Michael Keaton	Joan Rivers	April 9, 1978	19%	$1,781,086
121.	Despair	United Artists	Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Klaus Löwitsch, and Volker Spengler	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	May 26, 1978	69%	$1,751,389
122.	Olly Olly Oxen Free	Sanrio Communications	Katharine Hepburn	Richard A. Colla	August 25, 1978	53%	$1,728,581
123.	Just a Gigolo	Columbia Pictures	David Bowie, Sydne Rome, Kim Novak, David Hemmings, Maria Schell, Curd Jürgens, and Marlene Dietrich	David Hemmings	November 15, 1978	39%	$1,717,455
124.	The Thirty Nine Steps	Rank Film Distributors	Robert Powell, David Warner, Karen Dotrice, and John Mills	Don Sharp	November 29, 1978	67%	$1,707,201
125.	The Seniors	Cinema Shares International Distribution	Gary Imhoff, Jeffrey Byron, Dennis Quaid, Lou Richards, and Priscilla Barnes	Rod Amateau	May 26, 1978	23%	$1,673,997
126.	Remember My Name	Columbia Pictures	Geraldine Chaplin, Anthony Perkins, Moses Gunn, Jeff Goldblum, and Berry Berenson	Alan Rudolph	October 25, 1978	63%	$1,660,865
127.	The Class of Miss MacMichael	Brut Productions	Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed, and Michael Murphy	Silvio Narizzano	January 27, 1978	54%	$1,646,664
128.	Deathsport	New World Pictures	David Carradine, Claudia Jennings, and Richard Lynch	Allan Arkush and Nicholas Niciphor	April 12, 1978	27%	$1,641,788
129.	Death Dimension	Movietime	Jim Kelly, Harold Sakata, George Lazenby, Terry Moore, and Aldo Ray	Al Adamson	August 25, 1978	28%	$1,629,862
130.	Record City	American International Pictures	Ed Begley Jr., Sorrell Booke, Michael Callan, Jack Carter, Frank Gorshin, Ruth Buzzi, and Dennis Bowen	Dennis Steinmetz	February 25, 1978	47%	$1,629,862
131.	A Night Full of Rain	Warner Bros.	Giancarlo Giannini and Candice Bergen	Lina Wertmüller	January 29, 1978	60%	$1,569,918
132.	Laserblast	Irwin Yablans Company	Kim Milford, Cheryl Smith, Gianni Russo, Roddy McDowall, Keenan Wynn, and Dennis Burkley	Michael Rae	March 2, 1978	15%	$1,420,578
133.	I Spit on Your Grave	The Jerry Gross Organization	Camille Keaton	Meir Zarchi	November 22, 1978	40%	$1,374,732
134.	Uncle Joe Shannon	United Artists	Burt Young, Doug McKeon, and Madge Sinclair	Joseph Hanwright	December 17, 1978	61%	$1,302,242
135.	The Toolbox Murders	Cal-Am Artists	Cameron Mitchell, Pamelyn Ferdin, and Wesley Eure	Dennis Donnelly	February 25, 1978	30%	$1,266,955
136.	The Shout	Rank Film Distributors	Alan Bates, John Hurt, Susannah York, Robert Stephens, and Tim Curry	Jerzy Skolimowski	June 16, 1978	68%	$1,239,183
137.	Hi-Riders	Dimension Pictures	Wm. J. Beaudine, Mel Ferrer, Stephen McNally, Darby Hinton, Ralph Meeker, and Neville Brand	Greydon Clark	August 8, 1978	49%	$1,225,908
138.	Stevie	Universal Pictures	Glenda Jackson, Mona Washbourne, Alec McCowen, and Trevor Howard	Robert Enders	September 13, 1978	70%	$1,174,139
139.	Bloodbrothers	Warner Bros.	Paul Sorvino, Tony Lo Bianco, and Richard Gere	Robert Mulligan	October 6, 1978	58%	$1,145,190
140.	A Different Story	Embassy Pictures	Meg Foster, Perry King, Valerie Curtin, and Peter Donat	Paul Aaron	May 12, 1978	71%	$1,111,615
141.	The Hound of the Baskervilles	Atlantic Releasing Corporation	Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Terry-Thomas, Kenneth Williams and Denholm Elliott	Paul Morrissey	July 21, 1978	42%	$1,072,534
142.	The Stud	Brent Walker Film Distributing	Joan Collins, Oliver Tobias, Sue Lloyd, and Walter Gotell	Quentin Masters	September 26, 1978	37%	$1,060,512
143.	Attack of the Killer Tomatoes	NAI Entertainment	David Miller, George Wilson, Sharon Taylor, Stephen Peace, Costa Dillon, Ernie Meyers, Eric Christmas, Ron Shapiro, Al Sklar, Jerry Anderson, and Jack Riley	John DeBello	October 20, 1978	46%	$1,011,054
144.	Girlfriends	Warner Bros.	Melanie Mayron, Anita Skinner, Eli Wallach, Christopher Guest, Bob Balaban, Gina Rogak, Amy Wright, Viveca Lindfors, and Mike Kellin	Claudia Weill	August 11, 1978	72%	$1,009,827
145.	Cyclone	American International Pictures	Arthur Kennedy, Carroll Baker, and Lionel Stander	René Cardona Jr.	October 18, 1978	33%	$1,000,673
146.	The Children of Sanchez	Lone Star Pictures	Anthony Quinn, Dolores del Río, Katy Jurado, and Lupita Ferrer	Hall Bartlett	November 10, 1978	62%	$999,435
147.	Drunken Master	Seasonal Film Corporation	Jackie Chan, Yuen Siu-tien, Hwang Jang-lee, and Dean Shek	Yuen Woo-ping	December 5, 1978	85%	$967,555
148.	The Comeback	Lone Star Pictures	Jack Jones, Pamela Stephenson, David Doyle, Bill Owen, Sheila Keith, and Holly Palance	Pete Walker	June 16, 1978	57%	$884,664
149.	Nunzio	Universal Pictures	David Proval, James Andronica, Morgana King, Joe Spinell, Tovah Feldshuh, and Maria Smith	Paul Williams	May 12, 1978	70%	$750,241
150.	An Enemy of the People	Warner Bros.	Steve McQueen, Charles Durning, and Bibi Andersson	George Schaefer	March 17, 1978	69%	$744,928
151.	Stay as You Are	Columbia Pictures	Nastassja Kinski, Marcello Mastroianni, Barbara De Rossi, and Ania Pieroni	Alberto Lattuada	October 20, 1978	63%	$742,898
152.	September 30, 1955	Universal Pictures	Richard Thomas, Susan Tyrrell, and Collin Wilcox	James Bridges	January 6, 1978	62%	$680,979
153.	Fedora	United Artists	William Holden and Marthe Keller	Billy Wilder	June 29, 1978	61%	$647,054
154.	Renaldo and Clara	Circuit Films	Bob Dylan, Sara Dylan, and Joan Baez	Bob Dylan	January 25, 1978	67%	$634,968
155.	Absolution	Rank Film Distributors	Richard Burton, Dominic Guard, Dai Bradley, and Billy Connolly	Anthony Page	December 25, 1978	65%	$621,103
156.	The Cat and the Canary	Grenadier Films	Honor Blackman, Michael Callan, Edward Fox, Wendy Hiller, Olivia Hussey, Wilfred Hyde-White, Beatrix Lehmann, Carol Lynley, Daniel Massey, and Peter McEnery	Radley Metzger	November 10, 1978	36%	$577,841

Worldwide Gross

The top ten 1978 released films by box office gross in the United States and Canada are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1978

Rank	Title	Distributor	Worldwide gross	Domestic gross	International gross	Country
1	The Empire Strikes Back	20th Century Fox	$481,120,005	$218,064,585	$263,055,420	United States
2	Rocky II	United Artists	$305,085,079	$108,221,659	$196,863,420
3	Grease	Paramount Pictures	$279,703,500	$179,529,370	$100,174,130
4	Revenge of the Pink Panther	United Artists	$176,911,091	$53,279,135	$123,631,956	United States / United Kingdom
5	Game of Death	Columbia Pictures	$175,907,406	$13,962,215	$161,945,191	United States / Hong Kong
6	Every Which Way but Loose	Warner Bros.	$171,670,397	$86,001,987	$85,668,410	United States
7	The Lord of the Rings	United Artists	$163,913,365	$41,415,322	$122,498,043	United States / United Kingdom
8	Animal House	Universal Pictures	$152,799,341	$134,839,755	$17,959,586	United States
9	Damien: Omen II	20th Century Fox	$139,555,238	$37,492,664	$102,062,574
10	Heaven Can Wait	Paramount Pictures	$125,527,701	$99,767,937	$25,759,764

Awards

Category/Organization	36th Golden Globe Awards January 27, 1979		32nd BAFTA Awards March 22, 1979	51st Academy Awards April 9, 1979
	Drama	Musical or Comedy
Best Film	Midnight Express	Heaven Can Wait	Julia	The Deer Hunter
Best Director	Michael Cimino The Deer Hunter		Alan Parker Midnight Express	Michael Cimino The Deer Hunter
Best Actor	Jon Voight Coming Home	Warren Beatty Heaven Can Wait	Richard Dreyfuss The Goodbye Girl	Jon Voight Coming Home
Best Actress	Jane Fonda Coming Home	Ellen Burstyn Same Time, Next Year Maggie Smith California Suite	Jane Fonda Julia	Jane Fonda Coming Home
Best Supporting Actor	John Hurt Midnight Express			Christopher Walken The Deer Hunter
Best Supporting Actress	Dyan Cannon Heaven Can Wait		Geraldine Page Interiors	Maggie Smith California Suite
Best Screenplay, Adapted	Oliver Stone Midnight Express		Alvin Sargent Julia	Oliver Stone Midnight Express
Best Screenplay, Original				Nancy Dowd, Waldo Salt and Robert C. Jones Coming Home
Best Original Score	Giorgio Moroder Midnight Express		John Williams Superman	Giorgio Moroder Midnight Express Joe Renzetti The Buddy Holly Story
Best Original Song	"Last Dance" Thank God It's Friday		N/A	"Last Dance" Thank God It's Friday
Best Foreign Language Film	Autumn Sonata		N/A	Get Out Your Handkerchiefs