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Academy Awards, USA: 1977

Oscar

Date:	28 March
Host:	Warren Beatty; Ellen Burstyn; Jane Fonda; Richard Pryor
Location:	Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, L.A. County Music Center, Los Angeles, California, USA

Best Picture


Winner:
	Rocky (1976) - Irwin Winkler; Robert Chartoff
Other Nominees:
	All the President's Men (1976) - Walter Coblenz Bound for Glory (1976) - Robert F. Blumofe; Harold Leventhal Network (1976) - Howard Gottfried - 'Network' becomes the second film to win three awards for acting, following Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951). Taxi Driver (1976) - Michael Phillips (II); Julia Phillips (I)

Best Actor in a Leading Role


Winner:
	Network (1976) - Peter Finch (I) - Nomination and award were posthumous. Finch became the first posthumous winner in an acting category. His widow Eletha Finch and screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky accepted the award on his behalf.
Other Nominees:
	Network (1976) - William Holden (I) Pasqualino Settebellezze (1975) - Giancarlo Giannini Rocky (1976) - Sylvester Stallone - Sylvester Stallone becomes the third person to be nominated for both acting and writing in the same year, following Charles Chaplin for Great Dictator, The (1940) and Orson Welles for Citizen Kane (1941). Taxi Driver (1976) - Robert De Niro

Best Actress in a Leading Role


Winner:
	Network (1976) - Faye Dunaway
Other Nominees:
	Ansikte mot ansikte (1976) - Liv Ullmann Carrie (1976) - Sissy Spacek Cousin, cousine (1975) - Marie-Christine Barrault Rocky (1976) - Talia Shire

Best Actor in a Supporting Role


Winner:
	All the President's Men (1976) - Jason Robards
Other Nominees:
	Marathon Man (1976) - Laurence Olivier Network (1976) - Ned Beatty Rocky (1976) - Burgess Meredith Rocky (1976) - Burt Young

Best Actress in a Supporting Role


Winner:
	Network (1976) - Beatrice Straight
Other Nominees:
	All the President's Men (1976) - Jane Alexander (I) Carrie (1976) - Piper Laurie Taxi Driver (1976) - Jodie Foster Voyage of the Damned (1976) - Lee Grant (I)

Best Director


Winner:
	Rocky (1976) - John G. Avildsen
Other Nominees:
	All the President's Men (1976) - Alan J. Pakula Ansikte mot ansikte (1976) - Ingmar Bergman Network (1976) - Sidney Lumet Pasqualino Settebellezze (1975) - Lina Wertm�ller - Line Wertm�ller becomes the first woman to be nominated for Best Director.

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen


Winner:
	Network (1976) - Paddy Chayefsky
Other Nominees:
	Cousin, cousine (1975) - Jean Charles Tacchella (screenplay/story); Dani�le Thompson (adaptation) Front, The (1976) - Walter Bernstein Pasqualino Settebellezze (1975) - Lina Wertm�ller Rocky (1976) - Sylvester Stallone

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium


Winner:
	All the President's Men (1976) - William Goldman
Other Nominees:
	Bound for Glory (1976) - Robert Getchell Casanova di Federico Fellini, Il (1976) - Federico Fellini; Bernardino Zapponi Seven-Per-Cent Solution, The (1976) - Nicholas Meyer Voyage of the Damned (1976) - Steve Shagan; David Butler (II)

Best Cinematography


Winner:
	Bound for Glory (1976) - Haskell Wexler
Other Nominees:
	King Kong (1976) - Richard H. Kline Logan's Run (1976) - Ernest Laszlo Network (1976) - Owen Roizman Star Is Born, A (1976) - Robert Surtees

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration


Winner:
	All the President's Men (1976) - George Jenkins; George Gaines
Other Nominees:
	Incredible Sarah, The (1976) - Elliot Scott (I); Norman Reynolds Last Tycoon, The (1976) - Gene Callahan (I); Jack T. Collis; Jerry Wunderlich Logan's Run (1976) - Dale Hennesy; Robert De Vestel Shootist, The (1976) - Robert F. Boyle; Arthur Jeph Parker

Best Costume Design


Winner:
	Casanova di Federico Fellini, Il (1976) - Danilo Donati
Other Nominees:
	Bound for Glory (1976) - William Ware Theiss Incredible Sarah, The (1976) - Anthony Mendleson Passover Plot, The (1976) - Mary Wills (I) Seven-Per-Cent Solution, The (1976) - Alan Barrett (I)

Best Sound


Winner:
	All the President's Men (1976) - Arthur Piantadosi; Les Fresholtz; Rick Alexander (II) (as Dick Alexander); James E. Webb (I)
Other Nominees:
	King Kong (1976) - Harry W. Tetrick; William L. McCaughey; Aaron Rochin (I); Jack Solomon Rocky (1976) - Harry W. Tetrick; William L. McCaughey; Lyle J. Burbridge; Bud Alper Silver Streak (1976) - Donald O. Mitchell; Douglas O. Williams; Richard Tyler (I); Harold M. Etherington Star Is Born, A (1976) - Robert Knudson; Dan Wallin; Robert Glass (I); Tom Overton (I)

Best Film Editing


Winner:
	Rocky (1976) - Richard Halsey; Scott Conrad (I)
Other Nominees:
	All the President's Men (1976) - Robert L. Wolfe Bound for Glory (1976) - Robert C. Jones (I); Pembroke J. Herring Network (1976) - Alan Heim Two-Minute Warning (1976) - Eve Newman; Walter Hannemann

Best Music, Original Song


Winner:
	Star Is Born, A (1976) - Barbra Streisand (music); Paul Williams (III) (lyrics) - For the song "Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)"
Other Nominees:
	Half a House (1979) - Sammy Fain (music); Paul Francis Webster (lyrics) - For the song "A World that Never Was" Omen, The (1976) - Jerry Goldsmith - For the song "Ave Satani" Pink Panther Strikes Again, The (1976) - Henry Mancini (music); Don Black (I) (lyrics) - For the song "Come to Me" Rocky (1976) - Bill Conti (music); Carol Connors (II) (lyrics); Ayn Robbins (lyrics) - For the song "Gonna Fly Now"

Best Music, Original Score


Winner:
	Omen, The (1976) - Jerry Goldsmith
Other Nominees:
	Obsession (1976) - Bernard Herrmann (I) Outlaw Josey Wales, The (1976) - Jerry Fielding Taxi Driver (1976) - Bernard Herrmann (I) Voyage of the Damned (1976) - Lalo Schifrin

Best Music, Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score


Winner:
	Bound for Glory (1976) - Leonard Rosenman
Other Nominees:
	Bugsy Malone (1976) - Paul Williams (III) Star Is Born, A (1976) - Roger Kellaway

Best Short Film, Animated


Winner:
	Leisure (1976) - Suzanne Baker (I)
Other Nominees:
	Dedalo (1976) - Manfredo Manfredi Street, The (1976) - Caroline Leaf; Guy Glover

Best Short Film, Live Action


Winner:
	In the Region of Ice (1976) - Andre R. Guttfreund; Peter Werner (III)
Other Nominees:
	Kudzu (1976) - Marjie Short (as Marjorie Anne Short) Morning Spider, The (1976) - Julian Chagrin; Claude Chagrin Nightlife (1976) - Claire Wilbur; Robin Lehman Number One (1976) - Dyan Cannon; Vince Cannon

Best Documentary, Short Subjects


Winner:
	Number Our Days (1976) - Lynne Littman
Other Nominees:
	American Shoeshine (1976) - Sparky Greene Blackwood (1976) - Tony Ianzelo; Andy Thomson (I) End of the Road, The (1976) - John Armstrong (III) Universe (1976) - Lester Novros

Best Documentary, Features


Winner:
	Harlan County U.S.A. (1976) - Barbara Kopple
Other Nominees:
	Hollywood on Trial (1976) - James C. Gutman; David Helpern Off the Edge (1976) - Michael Firth People of the Wind (1976) - Anthony Howarth; David Koff (I) Volcano: An Inquiry Into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry (1976) - Donald Brittain; Robert A. Duncan

Best Foreign Language Film


Winner:
	Noirs et blancs en couleur (1976) - Ivory Coast
Other Nominees:
	Cousin, cousine (1975) - France Jakob, der Lügner (1975) - East Germany Noce i dnie (1975) - Poland Pasqualino Settebellezze (1975) - Italy

Special Achievement Award


Awarded to:
	King Kong (1976) - Carlo Rambaldi; Glen Robinson (I); Frank Van der Veer - For visual effects. Logan's Run (1976) - L.B. Abbott; Glen Robinson (I); Matthew Yuricich - For visual effects.

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award


Awarded to:
	Pandro S. Berman

Academy Award of Merit

Date:	24 March
Location:	Academy Lobby, AMPAS, Los Angeles, California, USA


Winner:
	- Not awarded.

Scientific and Engineering Award


Winners:
	Consolidated Film Industries; Barnebey-Cheney Co. - For the development of a system for the recovery of film-cleaning solvent vapors in a motion-picture laboratory. William L. Graham (Technicolor); Manfred G. Michelson (Technicolor); Geoffrey F. Norman (Technicolor); Siegfried Seibert (Technicolor) - For the development and engineering of a continuous, high-speed, Color Motion Picture Printing System.

Technical Achievement Award


Winners:
	Carl Zeiss Co. - For the design and development of super-speed lenses for motion-picture photography. Panavision, Inc. - For the design and development of super-speed lenses for motion-picture photography. Photo Research Division of Kollmorgen Corp. - For the engineering and manufacture of the spectra TriColor Meter. Fred Bartscher (Kollmorgen Corp.); Glenn Berggren (Schneider Corp.) - For the design and development of a single-lens magnifier for motion-picture projection lenses. Hiroshi Suzukawa (Canon); Wilton R. Holm (AMPTP Motion Picture and Television Research Center) - For the design and development of super-speed lenses for motion-picture photography.