Recap / Forty Ninth Academy Awards

The 49th Academy Awards

Hosts: Richard Pryor, Ellen Burstyn, Jane Fonda, and Warren Beatty

Air Date: March 28, 1977

Best Picture

• Rocky (winner)
• All the President's Men
• Bound for Glory
• Network
• Taxi Driver

Best Actor

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

Best Actress

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

Best Supporting Actor

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

Best Supporting Actress

• Beatrice Straight - Network (winner)
• Jane Alexander - All the President's Men
• Jodie Foster - Taxi Driver
• Lee Grant - Voyage Of The Damned
• Piper Laurie - Carrie

Best Director

• John G Avildsen - Rocky (winner)
• Alan J. Pakula - All the President's Men
• Ingmar Bergman - Face to Face
• Sidney Lumet - Network
• Lina Wertmuller - Seven Beauties

Best Original Screenplay

• Network (winner)
• Cousin Cousine
• The Front
• Rocky
• Seven Beauties

Best Adapted Screenplay

• All the President's Men (winner)
• Bound for Glory
• Fellini's Casanova
• The Seven Per Cent Solution
• Voyage Of The Damned

Best Foreign Language Film

• Black and White in Color (winner)
• Cousin Cousine
• Jacob the Liar
• Nights and Days
• Seven Beauties

Best Documentary (feature)

• Harlan County U.S.A. (winner)
• Hollywood on Trial
• Off The Edge
• People Of The Wind
• Volcano An Inquiry Into The Life And Death Of Malcolm Lowry

Best Documentary (short subject)

• Number Our Days (winner)
• American Shoeshine
• Blackwood
• The End Of The Road
• Universe

Best Short Film (Live-Action)

• In the Region of Ice (winner)
• Kudzu
• The Morning Spider
• Nightlife
• Number One

Best Short Live (animated)

• Leisure (winner)
• Dedalo
• The Street

Best Original Score

• The Omen (winner)
• Obsession
• The Outlaw Josey Wales
• Taxi Driver
• Voyage Of The Damned

Best Original Score or Adaptation Score

• Bound for Glory (winner)
• Bugsy Malone
• A Star Is Born

Best Original Song

• "Evergreen" - A Star Is Born (winner)
• "Ava Satani" - The Omen
• "Come to Me" - The Pink Panther Strikes Again
• "Gonna Fly Now" - Rocky
• "A World That Never Was" - Half A House

Best Sound

• All the President's Men (winner)
• King Kong
• Rocky
• Silver Streak
• A Star Is Born

Best Costume Design

• Fellini's Casanova (winner)
• Bound for Glory
• The Incredible Sarah
• The Passover Plot
• The Seven Per Cent Solution

Best Art Direction

• All the President's Men (winner)
• The Incredible Sarah
• The Last Tycoon
• Logan's Run
• The Shootist

Best Cinematography

• Bound for Glory (winner)
• King Kong
• Logan's Run
• Network
• A Star Is Born

Best Film Editing

• Rocky (winner)
• Bound for Glory
• Network
• Two-Minute Warning

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