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50th Academy Awards

April 3, 1978 · Honoring films from 1977

BEST PICTURE
Poster for Annie Hall
Charles H. Joffe
Annie Hall
BEST DIRECTOR
Photo of Woody Allen
Woody Allen
Annie Hall
BEST ACTOR
Photo of Richard Dreyfuss
Richard Dreyfuss
The Goodbye Girl
BEST ACTRESS
Photo of Diane Keaton
Diane Keaton
Annie Hall
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Poster for Annie Hall
Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
Annie Hall
Category:
1977 (50th)
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Richard Dreyfuss
Elliot Garfield, The Goodbye Girl
Woody Allen
Alvy Singer, Annie Hall
Richard Burton
Dr. Martin Dysart, Equus
Marcello Mastroianni
Gabriele, A Special Day
John Travolta
Tony Manero, Saturday Night Fever
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Jason Robards
Dashiell Hammett, Julia
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Yuri Kopeikine, The Turning Point
Peter Firth
Alan Strang, Equus
Alec Guinness
Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi, Star Wars
Maximilian Schell
Johann, Julia
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Diane Keaton
Annie Hall, Annie Hall
Anne Bancroft
Emma Jacklin, The Turning Point
Jane Fonda
Lillian Hellman, Julia
Shirley MacLaine
Deedee Rodgers, The Turning Point
Marsha Mason
Paula McFadden, The Goodbye Girl
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Vanessa Redgrave
Julia, Julia
Leslie Browne
Emilia Rodgers, The Turning Point
Quinn Cummings
Lucy McFadden, The Goodbye Girl
Melinda Dillon
Jillian Guiler, Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Tuesday Weld
Katherine Dunn, Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Best Art Direction
John Barry, Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley, Roger Christian
Star Wars
George C. Webb, Mickey S. Michaels
Airport '77
Joe Alves, Dan Lomino, Phil Abramson
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Ken Adam, Peter Lamont, Hugh Scaife
The Spy Who Loved Me
Albert Brenner, Marvin March
The Turning Point
Best Picture
Charles H. Joffe
Annie Hall
Ray Stark
The Goodbye Girl
Richard Roth
Julia
Gary Kurtz
Star Wars
Herbert Ross, Arthur Laurents
The Turning Point
Best Cinematography
Vilmos Zsigmond
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Fred J. Koenekamp
Islands in the Stream
Douglas Slocombe
Julia
William A. Fraker
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Robert Surtees
The Turning Point
Best Costume Design
John Mollo
Star Wars
Edith Head, Burton Miller
Airport '77
Anthea Sylbert
Julia
Florence Klotz
A Little Night Music
Irene Sharaff
The Other Side of Midnight
Best Director
Woody Allen
Annie Hall
Steven Spielberg
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Fred Zinnemann
Julia
George Lucas
Star Wars
Herbert Ross
The Turning Point
Best Documentary (Feature)
John Korty, Dan McCann, Warren L. Lockhart
Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?
Robert Dornhelm, Earle Mack
The Children of Theatre Street
Bill Brind, Torben Schioler, Tony Ianzelo
High Grass Circus
Harry Rasky
Homage to Chagall--The Colours of Love
James Klein, Julia Reichert, Miles Mogulescu
Union Maids
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
John Joseph, Jan Stussy
Gravity Is My Enemy
Moctesuma Esparza
Agueda Martinez: Our People, Our Country
Helen Whitney, DeWitt L. Sage Jr.
First Edition
James R. Messenger, Paul N. Raimondi
Of Time, Tombs and Treasure
Douglas Gordon
The Shetland Experience
Best Film Editing
Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas, Richard Chew
Star Wars
Michael Kahn
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Walter Murch
Julia
Walter Hannemann, Angelo Ross
Smokey and the Bandit
William Reynolds
The Turning Point
Best Foreign Language Film
France
Madame Rosa
Greece
Iphigenia
Israel
Operation Thunderbolt
Italy
A Special Day
Spain
That Obscure Object of Desire
Best Original Score
John Williams
Star Wars
John Williams
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Georges Delerue
Julia
Maurice Jarre
Mohammad - Messenger of God
Marvin Hamlisch
The Spy Who Loved Me
Best Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score
Jonathan Tunick
A Little Night Music
Al Kasha, Joel Hirschhorn, Irwin Kostal
Pete's Dragon
Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman, Angela Morley
The Slipper and the Rose--The Story of Cinderella
Best Original Song
Joseph Brooks
“You Light Up My Life”, You Light Up My Life
Al Kasha, Joel Hirschhorn
“Candle On The Water”, Pete's Dragon
Marvin Hamlisch, Carole Bayer Sager
“Nobody Does It Better”, The Spy Who Loved Me
Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman
“The Slipper And The Rose Waltz (He Danced With Me/She Danced With Me)”, The Slipper and the Rose--The Story of Cinderella
Sammy Fain, Carol Connors, Ayn Robbins
“Someone's Waiting For You”, The Rescuers
Best Animated Short Film
Co Hoedeman
The Sand Castle
Ishu Patel
The Bead Game
John Hubley, Faith Hubley, Garry Trudeau
The Doonesbury Special
James Picker, Robert Grossman, Craig Whitaker
Jimmy the C
Best Live Action Short Film
Beverly Shaffer, Yuki Yoshida
I'll Find a Way
William E. McEuen
The Absent-Minded Waiter
Jerry Butts
Floating Free
Saul Bass
Notes on the Popular Arts
Philip Dauber
Spaceborne
Best Sound
Don MacDougall, Ray West, Bob Minkler, Derek Ball
Star Wars
Robert Knudson, Robert J. Glass, Don MacDougall, Gene S. Cantamessa
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Walter Goss, Dick Alexander, Tom Beckert, Robin Gregory
The Deep
Robert Knudson, Robert J. Glass, Richard Tyler, Jean-Louis Ducarme
Sorcerer
Theodore Soderberg, Paul Wells, Douglas O. Williams, Jerry Jost
The Turning Point
Special Achievement Award (Sound Effects Editing)
Frank E. Warner
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Best Visual Effects
John Stears, John Dykstra, Richard Edlund, Grant McCune, Robert Blalack
Star Wars
Roy Arbogast, Douglas Trumbull, Matthew Yuricich, Gregory Jein, Richard Yuricich
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen—based on factual material or on story material not previously published or produced
Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
Annie Hall
Neil Simon
The Goodbye Girl
Robert Benton
The Late Show
George Lucas
Star Wars
Arthur Laurents
The Turning Point
Best Screenplay—based on material from another medium
Alvin Sargent
Julia
Peter Shaffer
Equus
Gavin Lambert, Lewis John Carlino
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Larry Gelbart
Oh, God!
Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière
That Obscure Object of Desire