Events

• February 11 - The film The Magic Christian, starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr premieres in New York City. The film's soundtrack album, including Badfinger's "Come and Get It," (which is written and produced by Paul McCartney), is also released on Apple Records.
• March 17 - The controversial film The Boys in the Band, directed by William Friedkin and based on Mart Crowley's hit off-Broadway play, opens in theaters.
• The IMAX motion picture projection system premieres at the Fuji Pavilion, at Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan.
• In Culver City, California, MGM begins selling off its studio back lot property and movie props.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

(*) After theatrical re-issue(s)
source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1970.shtml

Awards

Best Picture: Patton - 20th Century-Fox

Best Director: Franklin J. Schaffner - Patton

Best Actor: George C. Scott - Patton (declined)

Best Actress: Glenda Jackson - Women in Love

Best Supporting Actor: John Mills - Ryan's Daughter

Best Supporting Actress: Helen Hayes - Airport

Best Foreign Language Film: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto), directed by Elio Petri, Italy

Golden Globe Awards:

Drama:

Best Picture: Love Story

Best Actor: George C. Scott - Patton

Best Actress: Ali MacGraw - Love Story

Musical or comedy:

Best Picture: M*A*S*H

Best Actor: Albert Finney - Scrooge

Best Actress: Carrie Snodgress - Diary of a Mad Housewife

Other

Best Director: Arthur Hiller, Love Story

Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):

M*A*S*H, directed by Robert Altman, United States

Films released in 1970

• Airport
• Ann och Eve - de erotiska
• The Aristocats
• Awakening of the Beast
• Beneath the Planet of the Apes
• The Boatniks
• The Body
• The Boys in the Band
• Brewster McCloud
• The Butcher
• Cannon for Cordoba
• Catch-22
• Le Cercle rouge (The Red Circle''), starring Alain Delon, Bourvil, Yves Montand, Gian Maria Volonté
• Chariots of the Gods
• Claire's Knee
• Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
• The Conformist
• Connecting Rooms
• Cotton Comes To Harlem
• Cromwell
• Deep End by Jerzy Skolimowski
• Diary of a Mad Housewife
• Equinox
• Five Easy Pieces
• Gamera vs. Jiger
• The Garden of the Finzi-Continis Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (1971) and Golden Bear winner
• The Great White Hope starring James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander
• Hercules in New York
• Let It Be
• Los Monstruos del Terror starring Michael Rennie and Paul Naschy
• Horton Hears a Who
• I Never Sang for My Father
• Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
• Joe
• Julius Caesar
• Kelly's Heroes
• The Landlord
• Leo the Last
• Little Big Man starring Dustin Hoffman
• The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
• Loot
• Love Story
• Loving
• Maidstone
• M*A*S*H
• The Music Lovers
• Myra Breckinridge
• One More Time, directed by Jerry Lewis
• The Owl and the Pussycat
• Patton
• The Phantom Tollbooth
• The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
• The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
• Ryan's Daughter
• Scrooge with Albert Finney
• 7 Plus Seven
• Soldier Blue
• The Strawberry Statement
• Street Scenes, directed by Martin Scorsese (documentary)
• Three Sisters
• ...tick...tick...tick...
• Too late the hero
• Tora! Tora! Tora!
• The Vampire Lovers
• Walk in the Spring Rain
• Waterloo
• Which Way to the Front?, starring Jerry Lewis
• Woodstock
• Zabriskie Point

Births

• February 24 - Jonathan Ward, actor
• April 29 - Uma Thurman, actress
• May 9 - Helen Hill, animator
• May 22 - Naomi Campbell, model, actress
• May 27 - Joseph Fiennes, actor
• June 26 - Chris O'Donnell, actor
• August 6 - M. Night Shyamalan, film director, writer, producer, actor (Indian)
• August 15 - Maddie Corman, actress
• August 23 - Jay Mohr, actor, comedian
• August 23 - River Phoenix, actor (d.1993)
• September 29 - Emily Lloyd, English actress.
• October 8 - Matt Damon, actor

Deaths

• January 23 - Nell Shipman, actress, writer, producer
• February 24 - Conrad Nagel, American actor
• March 23 - Del Lord, pioneer Hollywood director
• April 11 - Cathy O'Donnell, actress
• April 25 - Anita Louise, actress
• April 26 - Gypsy Rose Lee, burlesque performer, actress, author
• April 28 - Ed Begley, American actor
• April 30 - Inger Stevens, actress
• May 14 - Billie Burke, American actress
• July 6 - Marjorie Rambeau, actress
• July 14 - Preston Foster, actor
• July 22 - Fritz Kortner, German director
• August 1 - Frances Farmer, American actress
• September 18 - Jimi Hendrix, Guitarist
• September 29 - Edward Everett Horton, actor
• October 4 - Janis Joplin, singer
• October 10 - Grethe Weiser, actress
• October 17 - Vola Vale, actress
• December 23 - Charles Ruggles, actor
• December 30 - Lenore Ulric, actress