50th Academy Awards (1978)
Highlights of 50th Academy Awards ceremony
The 50th Academy Awards honored the best films of 1977.
The award ceremony was held on 3rd April 1978 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California.
Anchor(s) - Bob Hope
Annie Hall won the Best Picture award.
Richard Dreyfuss won the Best Actor award for his role in The Goodbye Girl.
Diane Keaton won the Best Actess award for her role in Annie Hall.
Woody Allen won the Best Director award for Annie Hall.
- WINNER
Best Picture
Annie Hall
The Goodbye Girl
Julia
Star Wars
The Turning Point
Best Director
Annie Hall
- Woody Allen
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Steven Spielberg
Julia
- Fred Zinnemann
Star Wars
- George Lucas
The Turning Point
- Herbert Ross
Best Original Screenplay
Annie Hall
- Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
The Goodbye Girl
- Neil Simon
The Late Show
- Robert Benton
Star Wars
- George Lucas
The Turning Point
- Arthur Laurents
Best Adapted Screenplay
Julia
- Alvin Sargent
Equus
- Peter Shaffer
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
- Gavin Lambert, Lewis John Carlino
Oh, God!
- Larry Gelbart
That Obscure Object of Desire
- Luis Bunuel, Jean-Claude Carriere
Best Actor in a Leading Role
The Goodbye Girl
- Richard Dreyfuss
Annie Hall
- Woody Allen
Equus
- Richard Burton
Saturday Night Fever
- John Travolta
A Special Day
- Marcello Mastroianni
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Annie Hall
- Diane Keaton
The Goodbye Girl
- Marsha Mason
Julia
- Jane Fonda
The Turning Point
- Anne Bancroft
The Turning Point
- Shirley MacLaine
Best Supporting Actor
Julia
- Jason Robards
Equus
- Peter Firth
Julia
- Maximilian Schell
Star Wars
- Alec Guiness
The Turning Point
- Mikhail Baryshnikov
Best Supporting Actress
Julia
- Vanessa Redgrave
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Melinda Dillon
The Goodbye Girl
- Quinn Cummings
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
- Tuesday Weld
The Turning Point
- Leslie Browne
Best Art Direction
Star Wars
- John Barry, Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley, Roger Christian
Best Cinematography
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Vilmos Zsigmond
Best Original Song
You Light Up My Life
- Joseph Brooks
for "You Light Up My Life"
Best Original Score
Star Wars
- John Williams
Best Sound Mixing
Star Wars
- Don MacDougall, Ray West, Bob Minkler, Derek Ball
Best Visual Effects
Star Wars
- John Stears, John Dykstra, Richard Edlund, Grant McCune, Robert Blalack
Best Costume Design
Star Wars
- John Mollo
Best Animated Short Film
The Sand Castle
Best Documentary Feature
Who Are the DeBolts?
Best Documentary Short Subject
Gravity Is My Enemy
Best Foreign Language Film
Madame Rosa
Best Live Action Short Film
I'll Find a Way
Best Film Editing
Star Wars
- Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas, Richard Chew
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Charlton Heston
Best Original Musical or Comedy Score
A Little Night Music
- Jonathan Tunick