48th Academy Awards (1976)
Highlights of 48th Academy Awards ceremony
The 48th Academy Awards honored the best films of 1975.
The award ceremony was held on 29th March 1976 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California.
Anchor(s) - Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, George Segal, Goldie Hawn, Gene Kelly
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest won the Best Picture award.
Jack Nicholson won the Best Actor award for his role in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Louise Fletcher won the Best Actess award for her role in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Milos Forman won the Best Director award for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
- WINNER
Best Picture
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Barry Lyndon
Dog Day Afternoon
Jaws
Nashville
Best Director
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Milos Forman
Amarcord
- Federico Fellini
Barry Lyndon
- Stanley Kubrick
Dog Day Afternoon
- Sidney Lumet
Nashville
- Robert Altman
Best Original Screenplay
Dog Day Afternoon
- Frank Pierson
Amarcord
- Federico Fellini and Tonino Guerra
And Now My Love
- Claude Lelouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven
Lies My Father Told Me
- Ted Allan
Shampoo
- Robert Towne, Warren Beatty
Best Adapted Screenplay
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman
Barry Lyndon
- Stanley Kubrick
That Female Scent
- Dino Risi, Ruggero Maccari
The Man Who Would Be King
- John Huston, Gladys Hill
The Sunshine Boys
- Neil Simon
Best Actor in a Leading Role
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Jack Nicholson
Dog Day Afternoon
- Al Pacino
Give 'em Hell, Harry!
- James Whitmore
The Man in the Glass Booth
- Maximilian Schell
The Sunshine Boys
- Walter Matthau
Best Actress in a Leading Role
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Louise Fletcher
Hedda
- Glenda Jackson
Hester Street
- Carol Kane
The Story of Adele H
- Isabelle Adjani
Tommy
- Ann-Margret
Best Supporting Actor
The Sunshine Boys
- George Burns
The Day of the Locust
- Burgess Meredith
Dog Day Afternoon
- Chris Sarandon
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Brad Dourif
Shampoo
- Jack Warden
Best Supporting Actress
Shampoo
- Lee Grant
Farewell, My Lovely
- Sylvia Miles
Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough
- Brenda Vaccaro
Nashville
- Lily Tomlin
Nashville
- Ronee Blakley
Best Art Direction
Barry Lyndon
- Ken Adam, Roy Walker, Vernon Dixon
Best Cinematography
Barry Lyndon
- John Alcott
Best Original Song
Nashville
- Keith Carradine
for "I'm Easy"
Best Original Score
Jaws
- John Williams
Best Sound Mixing
Jaws
- Robert L. Hoyt, Roger Heman Jr., Earl Madery, John R. Carter
Best Costume Design
Barry Lyndon
- Ulla-Britt Soderlund, Milena Canonero
Best Animated Short Film
Great
Best Documentary Feature
The Man Who Skied Down Everest
Best Documentary Short Subject
The End of the Game
Best Foreign Language Film
Dersu Uzala
Best Live Action Short Film
Angel and Big Joe
Best Film Editing
Jaws
- Verna Fields
Best Original Musical or Comedy Score
Barry Lyndon
- Leonard Rosenman