List of 1976 box office number-one films in the United States

This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1976 per Variety. The data was based on grosses from 20 to 24 key cities and therefore, the gross quoted may not be the total that the film grossed nationally in the week.

Number-one films

Rocky became the highest grossing film of 1976. But its reign at the #1 spot occurred in early 1977, it never reached #1 during 1976.

#	Week ending	Film	Gross	Notes	Ref
1	January 7, 1976	Dog Day Afternoon	$1,488,800		[1]
2	January 14, 1976	The Adventures of the Wilderness Family	$1,375,799	The Adventures of the Wilderness Family reached number one in its third week on the chart	[2]
3	January 21, 1976	Dog Day Afternoon	$880,306	Dog Day Afternoon returned to number one in its 17th week on the chart	[3]
4	January 28, 1976	The Sunshine Boys	$680,119	The Sunshine Boys reached number one in its twelfth week on the chart	[4]
5	February 4, 1976		$604,423		[5]
6	February 11, 1976	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	$592,200	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest reached number one in its twelfth week on the chart	[6]
7	February 18, 1976		$844,199		[7]
8	February 25, 1976		$1,946,036		[8]
9	March 3, 1976		$1,709,906		[9]
10	March 10, 1976		$1,684,971		[10]
11	March 17, 1976		$1,334,384		[11]
12	March 24, 1976	Taxi Driver	$1,340,430	Taxi Driver reached number one in its sixth week on the chart	[12]
13	March 31, 1976	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	$1,371,142	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest returned to number one in its 19th week on the chart	[13]
14	April 7, 1976		$1,936,408		[14]
15	April 14, 1976	All the President's Men	$1,947,300	All the President's Men grossed $4,565,826 nationally in its first 3 days and $7,016,001 for the week	[15][16][17]
16	April 21, 1976		$1,909,844		[18]
17	April 28, 1976	The Bad News Bears	$1,438,400	The Bad News Bears reached number one in its third week of release	[19]
18	May 5, 1976	All the President's Men	$1,336,364	All the President's Men returned to number one in its fourth week of release	[20]
19	May 12, 1976		$1,092,273		[21]
20	May 19, 1976		$839,617		[22]
21	May 26, 1976	The Missouri Breaks	$1,616,000		[23]
22	June 2, 1976		$1,336,060		[24]
23	June 9, 1976		$661,495		[25]
24	June 16, 1976	Mother, Jugs & Speed	$889,200	Mother, Jugs & Speed reached number one in its third week of release	[26]
25	June 23, 1976	Midway	$1,825,600	Midway grossed $4,356,666 nationally from all markets in the weekend ended June 20	[27][28]
26	June 30, 1976	The Omen	$2,490,600	The Omen grossed $4,273,886 nationally from all markets in the weekend ended June 27, 20th Century Fox's biggest opening weekend at that time	[29][30][31]
27	July 7, 1976		$2,341,182		[32]
28	July 14, 1976		$2,151,161		[33]
29	July 21, 1976		$1,866,975		[34]
30	July 28, 1976		$1,194,577		[35]
31	August 4, 1976	The Exorcist (reissue)	$950,000		[36]
32	August 11, 1976	Silent Movie	$1,837,983	Silent Movie reached number one in its sixth week on the chart	[37]
33	August 18, 1976		$1,385,124		[38]
34	August 25, 1976		$1,175,393		[39]
35	September 1, 1976		$1,063,567		[40]
36	September 8, 1976	Survive!	$1,485,362	Survive! reached number one in its sixth week on the chart	[41]
37	September 15, 1976	Obsession	$638,946	Obsession reached number one in its sixth week on the chart	[42]
38	September 22, 1976		$424,979		[43]
39	September 29, 1976	Alice in Wonderland	$354,207	Alice in Wonderland reached number one in its 13th week on the chart	[44]
40	October 6, 1976	Burnt Offerings	$683,100		[45]
41	October 13, 1976	Alice in Wonderland	$1,009,636	Alice in Wonderland returned to number one in its 15th week on the chart	[46]
42	October 20, 1976	Marathon Man	$1,071,500	Marathon Man reached number one in its second week of release	[47]
43	October 27, 1976		$952,871		[48]
44	November 3, 1976		$715,213		[49]
45	November 10, 1976	The Front	$686,563	The Front reached number one in its sixth week on the chart	[50]
46	November 17, 1976	Two-Minute Warning	$1,084,800		[51]
47	November 24, 1976	Carrie	$1,155,200	Carrie reached number one in its third week of release	[52]
48	December 1, 1976		$1,283,735		[53]
49	December 8, 1976		$921,765		[54]
50	December 15, 1976		$641,909		[55]
51	December 22, 1976	King Kong	$2,710,649	King Kong grossed $7,023,921 nationally from all markets in the weekend ended December 19, Paramount Pictures' biggest opening weekend at that time, and set the record for a December opening	[56][57][58]
52	December 29, 1976		$3,347,758		[59]

See also

• List of American films — American films by year
• Lists of box office number-one films