49th Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1977)

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  • Date of Ceremony: Monday, March 28, 1977
  • For films released in: 1976
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Here is a complete list of nominations for the 49th Annual Academy Awards.

And the nominees are:

Best Picture

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

Best 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

Best Actor in a Leading Role

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

Best Actress in a Leading Role

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

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

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

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

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

Best Foreign Language Film

  • Black and White in Color
  • Cousin, Cousine
  • Jacob, the Liar
  • Nights and Days
  • Seven Beauties

Best Art Direction

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

Best 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

Best 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

Best Documentary (Feature)

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

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

  • American Shoeshine
    Sparky Greene
  • Blackwood
    Tony Ianzelo and Andy Thomson
  • The End of the Road
    John Armstrong
  • Number Our Days
    Lynne Littman
  • Universe
    Lester Novros

Best Film Editing

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

Best Music (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

Best Music (Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score)

  • Bound for Glory
    Leonard Rosenman [Adaptation Score by]
  • Bugsy Malone
    Paul Williams [Song Score and Adaptation Score by]
  • A Star Is Born
    Roger Kellaway [Adaptation Score by]

Best Music (Original Song)

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

Best Short Film (Animated)

  • Dedalo
    Manfredo Manfredi
  • Leisure
    Suzanne Baker
  • The Street
    Caroline Leaf and Guy Glover

Best Short Film (Live Action)

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

Best Sound

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

Best Writing (Screenplay - based on material from another medium)

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

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

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