49th Academy Awards (1977)
Highlights of 49th Academy Awards ceremony
The 49th Academy Awards honored the best films of 1976.
The award ceremony was held on 28th March 1977 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California.
Anchor(s) - Richard Pryor, Jane Fonda, Ellen Burstyn, Warren Beatty
Rocky won the Best Picture award.
Peter Finch won the Best Actor award for his role in Network.
Faye Dunaway won the Best Actess award for her role in Network.
John G. Avildsen won the Best Director award for Rocky.
- WINNER
Best Picture
Rocky
All the President's Men
Bound for Glory
Network
Taxi Driver
Best Director
Rocky
- John G. Avildsen
All the President's Men
- Alan J. Pakula
Face to Face
- Ingmar Bergman
Network
- Sidney Lumet
Seven Beauties
- Lina Wertmuller
Best Original Screenplay
Network
- Paddy Chayefsky
Cousin cousine
- Jean Charles Tacchella, Daniele Thompson
The Front
- Walter Bernstein
Rocky
- Sylvester Stallone
Seven Beauties
- Lina Wertmuller
Best Adapted Screenplay
All the President's Men
- William Goldman
Bound for Glory
- Robert Getchell
Fellini's Casanova
- Federico Fellini, Bernandino Zapponi
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
- Nicholas Meyer
Voyage of the Damned
- Steve Shagan, David Butler
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
Network
- Faye Dunaway
Carrie
- Sissy Spacek
Cousin cousine
- Marie-Christine Barrault
Face to Face
- Liv Ullmann
Rocky
- Talia Shire
Best Supporting Actor
All the President's Men
- Jason Robards
Marathon Man
- Laurence Olivier
Network
- Ned Beatty
Rocky
- Burgess Meredith
Rocky
- Burt Young
Best Supporting Actress
Network
- Beatrice Straight
All the President's Men
- Jane Alexander
Carrie
- Piper Laurie
Taxi Driver
- Jodie Foster
Voyage of the Damned
- Lee Grant
Best Art Direction
All the President's Men
- George Jenkins, George Gaines
Best Cinematography
Bound for Glory
- Haskell Wexler
Best Original Song
A Star Is Born
- Barbra Streisand, Paul Williams
for "Evergreen"
Best Original Score
The Omen
- Jerry Goldsmith
Best Sound Mixing
All the President's Men
- Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Rick Alexander, James E. Webb
Best Costume Design
Fellini's Casanova
- Danilo Donati
Best Animated Short Film
Leisure
The Street
- Caroline Leaf
Best Documentary Feature
Harlan County U.S.A.
Best Documentary Short Subject
Number Our Days
Best Foreign Language Film
Black and White in Color
Best Live Action Short Film
In the Region of Ice
Best Film Editing
Rocky
- Richard Halsey, Scott Conrad
Best Original Musical or Comedy Score
Bound for Glory
- Leonard Rosenman