Heavyweight champ Apollo Creed gives Philadelphia club fighter Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) a title... (Learn more)
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young (View All)
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Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young
Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone), a Philadelphia boxer, is but one step removed from total bum-hood. A once-promising pugilist, Rocky is now taking nickel-and-dime bouts and running strongarm errands for local loan sharks to survive. Even his supportive trainer, Mickey (Burgess Meredith), has given up on Rocky. All this changes thanks to Muhammad Ali-like super-boxer Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers). With the Bicentennial celebration coming up, Creed must find a "Cinderella" opponent for the big July 4th bout -- some unknown whom Creed can "glorify" for a few minutes before knocking him cold. Rocky Balboa was not the only Cinderella involved here: writer/director Sylvester Stallone, himself a virtual unknown, managed to sell his Rocky script (one of 35 that he'd written over the years) on the proviso that he be given the starring role. Since the film was to be made on a shoestring and marketed on a low-level basis, the risk factor to United Artists was small. For Stallone, this was a make-or-break opportunity -- just like Rocky's million-to-one shot with Apollo Creed. Costing under a million dollars, Rocky managed to register with audiences everywhere, earning back 60 times its cost. The film won several Academy Awards, including Best Picture. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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US Release Date
10/31/76
MPAA Rating
Rated PG
Running Time
119 mins.
Locations
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Language
- English
Awards
- Nominated for a Best Actress award at the 1976 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Director award at the 1976 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Song award at the 1976 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama award at the 1976 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Original Score award at the 1976 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Winner of the 100 Greatest American Movies award at the 1998 American Film Institute [Festival/Awar Awards.
- Winner of the Best Supporting Actress award at the 1976 New York Film Critics Circle [Festival Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 1976 National Board of Review [Festival/Awa Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Original Screenplay award at the 1976 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Picture award at the 1976 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 1977 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Winner of the Best Editing award at the 1976 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Supporting Actor award at the 1976 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Screenplay award at the 1976 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Winner of the Best Supporting Actress award at the 1976 National Board of Review [Festival/Awa Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama award at the 1976 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Actor award at the 1976 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Director award at the 1976 Directors Guild of America [Festival/A Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Sound award at the 1976 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Picture - Drama award at the 1976 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Winner of the Best Picture award at the 1976 Los Angeles Film Critics Association [ Awards.
Distributor
- MGM Home Entertainment
- United Artists Films
