By Patrick Mondout
Grease was number one at the box office while The Deer Hunter won Best Picture at the Oscars. Here are some of the other notable pictures of 1978:
Animal House
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Autumn Sonata
Avalanche!
Bad News Bears Go To Japan
The Betsy
The Big Sleep
Big Wednesday
Blue Collar
The Boys from Brazil
The Buddy Holly Story
California Suite
Capricorn One
The Cat from Outer Space
The Cheap Detective
Coma
Comes a Horseman
Coming Home
Convoy
Corvette Summer
Days of Heaven
Death on the Nile
The Deer Hunter
Driver
Drunken Master
The Duellists
The End
Every Which Way But Loose
The Eyes of Laura Mars
F.I.S.T
Five Deadly Venoms
Force 10 From Navarone
Foul Play
The Fury
The Gates Of Heaven
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
Go Tell The Spartans
Goin' South
Gray Lady Down
Grease
Halloween
Heaven Can Wait
High Anxiety
Hooper
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Interiors
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Jaws 2
The Last Waltz
The Lord of the Rings
Magic
Martin
Midnight Express
Damien: Omen 2
Orchestra Rehearsal
Piranha
Pretty Baby
Return from Witch Mountain
Revenge of the Pink Panther
Same Time, Next Year
Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Shaolin Master Killer
A Snake in the Eagle's Shadow
Straight Time
Superman
The Swarm
Thank God It's Friday
An Unmarried Woman
Up In Smoke
Watership Down
The Wedding
Who Is Killing The Great Chefs of Europe
Who'll Stop The Rain
Wild Geese
The Wiz
5: Heaven Can Wait ($18.1M)
4: Jaws 2 ($44M)
3: Animal House ($52.3M)
2: Close Encounters of the Third Kind ($54M)
1: Grease ($83.5M)