81st Oscar Countdown:

Main | Archive | Contact
Film Reviews | Reviews By Year | Best Pictures | Box Office
The Oscars | Oscars By Year | Statistics | The People | Precursors | Articles | Presidents | Prediction Success
Discussion | UAADB
The DVD Report | Archive
Previews | Previews By Year | Release Schedule
Tributes | Tributes By Year
Resources | Books | Posters | Other Sites
Staff | Wesley Lovell | Peter J. Patrick

The Oscars: The 49th Academy Awards (1976): Nominees and Winners

NOMINATIONS AWARDS
10
10
8
6
4
4
4
3
3
Network
Rocky
All the President's Men
Bound for Glory
Seven Beauties
A Star Is Born
Taxi Driver
Cousin, Cousine
Voyage of the Damned
4
4
3
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
All the President's Men
Network
Rocky
Bound for Glory
Black and White in Color
Fellini's Casanova
Harlan County, U.S.A.
In the Region of Ice
Leisure
Number Our Days
The Omen
A Star Is Born

NOMINATION/WIN TALLY LEGEND

Best Picture winner
Best Picture nominee
Nominations are listed for all films receiving 3 or more

PICTURE (Best Picture)


All the President's Men - Walter Coblenz
Bound for Glory - Robert F. Blumofe, Harold Leventhal
Network - Howard Gottfried
Rocky - Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff
Taxi Driver - Michael Phillips, Julia Phillips

DIRECTING


All the President's Men - Alan J. Pakula
Face to Face - Ingmar Bergman
Network - Sidney Lumet
Rocky - John G. Avildsen
Seven Beauties - Lina Wertmüller

ACTOR (Actor in a Leading Role)


Robert De Niro - Taxi Driver
Peter Finch - Network
Giancarlo Giannini - Seven Beauties
William Holden - Network
Sylvester Stallone - Rocky

ACTRESS (Actress in a Leading Role)


Marie-Christine Barrault - Cousin, Cousine
Faye Dunaway - Network
Talia Shire - Rocky
Sissy Spacek - Carrie
Liv Ullmann - Face to Face

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Actor in a Supporting Role)


Ned Beatty - Network
Burgess Meredith - Rocky
Laurence Olivier - Marathon Man
Jason Robards - All the President's Men
Burt Young - Rocky

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Actress in a Supporting Role)


Jane Alexander - All the President's Men
Jodie Foster - Taxi Driver
Lee Grant - Voyage of the Damned
Piper Laurie - Carrie
Beatrice Straight - Network

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen--based on factual material or on story material not previously published or produced)


Cousin, Cousine - Story, Screenplay by Jean-Charles Tacchella; Adaptation by Daniele Thompson
The Front - Walter Bernstein
Network - Paddy Chayefsky
Rocky - Sylvester Stallone
Seven Beauties - Lina Wertmüller

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY (Screenplay--based on material from another medium)


All the President's Men - William Goldman
Bound for Glory - Robert Getchell
Fellini's Casanova - Federico Fellini, Bernadino Zapponi
The Seven-per-cent Solution - Nicholas Meyer
Voyage of the Damned - Steve Shagan, David Butler

ORIGINAL SONG


"Ave Satani" - The Omen - Music, Lyrics by Jerry Goldsmith
"Come to Me" - The Pink Panther Strikes Again - Music by Henry Mancini; Lyrics by Don Black
"Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)" - A Star Is Born - Music by Barbra Streisand; Lyrics by Paul Williams
"Gonna Fly Now" - Rocky - Music by Bill Conti; Lyrics by Carol Connors, Ayn Robbins
"A World That Never Was" - Half a House - Music by Sammy Fain; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster

ORIGINAL SCORE


Obsession - Bernard Herrmann
The Omen - Jerry Goldsmith
The Outlaw Josey Wales - Jerry Fielding
Taxi Driver - Bernard Herrmann
Voyage of the Damned - Lalo Schifrin

ORIGINAL SONG SCORE (Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score)


Bound for Glory - Adaptation Score by Leonard Rosenman
Bugsy Malone - Song Score, Adaptation Score by Paul Williams
A Star Is Born - Adaptation Score by Roger Kellaway

FILM EDITING


All the President's Men - Robert L. Wolfe
Bound for Glory - Robert Jones, Pembroke J. Herring
Network - Alan Heim
Rocky - Richard Halsey, Scott Conrad
Two-Minute Warning - Eve Newman, Walter Hannemann

CINEMATOGRAPHY


Bound for Glory - Haskell Wexler
King Kong - Richard H. Kline
Logan's Run - Ernest Laszlo
Network - Owen Roizman
A Star Is Born - Robert Surtees

ART DIRECTION


All the President's Men - Art Direction: George Jenkins; Set Decoration: George Gaines
The Incredible Sarah - Art Direction: Elliot Scott, Norman Reynolds; Set Decoration: Peter Howitt
The Last Tycoon - Art Direction: Gene Callahan, Jack Collis; Set Decoration: Jerry Wunderlich
Logan's Run - Art Direction: Dale Hennesy; Set Decoration: Robert de Vestel
The Shootist - Art Direction: Robert F. Boyle; Set Decoration: Arthur Jeph Parker

COSTUME DESIGN


Bound for Glory - William Theiss
Fellini's Casanova - Danilo Donati
The Incredible Sarah - Anthony Mendleson
The Passover Plot - Mary Wills
The Seven-per-cent Solution - Alan Barrett

SOUND


All the President's Men - Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Dick Alexander, Jim Webb
King Kong - Harry Warren Tetrick, William McCaughey, Aaron Rochin, Jack Solomon
Rocky - Harry Warren Tetrick, William McCaughey, Lyle Burbridge, Bud Alper
Silver Streak - Donald Mitchell, Douglas Williams, Richard Tyler, Hal Etherington
A Star Is Born - Robert Knudson, Dan Wallin, Robert Glass, Tom Overton

VISUAL EFFECTS (Special Achievement Award)


King Kong - Carlo Rambaldi, Glen Robinson, Frank Van der Veer
Logan's Run - L. B. Abbott, Glen Robinson, Matthew Yuricich

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM


Black and White in Color - Ivory Coast
Cousin, Cousine - France
Jacob, the Liar - German Democratic Republic
Nights and Days - Poland
Seven Beauties - Italy

DOCUMENTARY (Feature)


Harlan County, U.S.A. - Barbara Kopple
Hollywood On Trial - James Gutman, David Helpern Jr.
Off the Edge - Michael Firth
People of the Wind - Anthony Howarth, David Koff
Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry - Donald Brittain, Robert Duncan

DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject)


American Shoeshine - Sparky Greene
Blackwood - Tony Ianzelo, Andy Thompson
The End of the Road - John Armstrong
Number Our Days - Lynne Littman
Universe - Lester Novros

SHORT FILM (Animated)


Dedalo - Manfredo Manfredi
Leisure - Suzanne Baker
The Street - Caroline Leaf, Guy Glover

SHORT FILM (Live Action)


In the Region of Ice - Andre Guttfreund, Peter Werner
Kudzu - Marjorie Anne Short
The Morning Spider - Julian Chagrin, Claude Chagrin
Nightlife - Claire Wilbur, Robin Lehman
Number One - Dyan Cannon, Vince Cannon

IRVING G. THALBERG MEMORIAL AWARD


Pandro S. Berman

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE II (Plaque)


To CONSOLIDATED FILM INDUSTRIES and the BARNEBEY-CHENEY COMPANY for the development of a system for the recovery of film-cleaning solvent vapors in a motion picture laboratory. [Laboratory]
To WILLIAM L. GRAHAM, MANFRED G. MICHELSON, GEOFFREY F. NORMAN and SIEGFRIED SEIBERT of Technicolor for the development and engineering of a Continuous, High-Speed, Color Motion Picture Printing System. [Laboratory]

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE III (Certificate)


To CARL ZEISS COMPANY for the design and development of super-speed lenses for motion picture photography. [Lenses and Filters]
To FRED BARTSCHER of Kollmorgen Corporation and to GLENN BERGGREN of the Schneider Corporation for the design and development of a single-lens magnifier for motion picture projection lenses. [Lenses and Filters]
To HIROSHI SUZUKAWA of Canon and WILTON R. HOLM of AMPTP Motion Picture and Television Research Center for the design and development of super-speed lenses for motion picture photography. [Lenses and Filters]
To PANAVISION INCORPORATED for the design and development of super-speed lenses for motion picture photography. [Lenses and Filters]
To PHOTO RESEARCH DIVISION OF THE KOLLMORGEN CORPORATION for the engineering and manufacture of the Spectra TriColor Meter. [Photography]

©1996-2008 - Written content and Logos are copyrighted by Wesley Lovell | Contact Us
© ® ™ Academy Award(s), Oscar(s) and the Oscar statuette are registered trademarks and service marks of A.M.P.A.S.
© Film images are copyrighted by the individual studios