Rocky: Quick Facts

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Awards And Honors	Academy Award (1977)

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Director John G. Avildsen in the foreground holding a camera, with actor Sylvester Stallone as Rocky standing in the background wearing a hat and leather jacket, on the set of Rocky.

Sylvester Stallone as Rocky sits in a boxing ring corner, flanked by Burgess Meredith and another trainer, in a scene from the 1976 film Rocky.

Wide stone steps lead up to the entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Pennsylvania, with people walking and two flagpoles in front of the neoclassical building.

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