1977 (50th Annual Awards)
Nominations by Film

Listed below are the films nominated for Academy Awards in 1977. Beneath each film are the categories for which the film was nominated. The symbol appears next to those categories it ultimately won. Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song. Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the nominations by film for that year.

The Absent-Minded Waiter, Aspen Film Society.

Short Films (Live Action). William E. McEuen, Producer.

Agueda Martinez: Our People, Our Country, Moctesuma Esparza Production.

Documentary (Short Subject). Moctesuma Esparza, Producer.

Airport ’77, Jennings Lang Production; Universal.

Art Direction-Set Decoration. Art direction by George C. Webb; set decoration by Mickey S. Michaels.

Costume Design. Edith Head and Burton Miller.

Annie Hall, Jack Rollins and Charles H. Joffe Production; United Artists.

Best Picture. Charles H. Joffe, Producer.

Actor in a Leading Role. Woody Allen.

Actress in a Leading Role. Diane Keaton.

Directing. Woody Allen.

Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen—based on factual material or on story material not previously published or produced). Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman.

The Bead Game, National Film Board of Canada. (Canada)

Short Films (Animated). Ishu Patel, Producer.

The Children of Theatre Street, Mack-Vaganova Company.

Documentary (Feature). Robert Dornhelm and Earle Mack, Producers.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Julia Phillips/Michael Phillips-Steven Spielberg Film Production; Columbia.

Actress in a Supporting Role. Melinda Dillon.

Directing. Steven Spielberg.

Art Direction-Set Decoration. Art direction by Joe Alves and Dan Lomino; set decoration by Phil Abramson.

Cinematography. Vilmos Zsigmond.

Film Editing. Michael Kahn.

Music (Original Score). John Williams.

Sound. Robert Knudson, Robert J. Glass, Don MacDougall and Gene S. Cantamessa.

Special Achievement Award (Sound Effects Editing). Frank E. Warner.

Visual Effects. Roy Arbogast, Douglas Trumbull, Matthew Yuricich, Gregory Jein and Richard Yuricich.

The Deep, Casablanca Filmworks Production; Columbia. (UK, USA)

Sound. Walter Goss, Dick Alexander, Tom Beckert and Robin Gregory.

The Doonesbury Special, Hubley Studios.

Short Films (Animated). John Hubley, Faith Hubley and Gary Trudeau, Producers.

Equus, Winkast Company, Ltd./P.B., Ltd. Production; United Artists. (UK, USA)

Actor in a Leading Role. Richard Burton.

Actor in a Supporting Role. Peter Firth.

Writing (Screenplay—based on material from another medium). Peter Shaffer.

First Edition, D. L. Sage Productions.

Documentary (Short Subject). Helen Whitney and DeWitt L. Sage, Jr., Producers.

Floating Free, Trans World International Production.

Short Films (Live Action). Jerry Butts, Producer.

The Goodbye Girl, Ray Stark Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Warner Bros.

Best Picture. Ray Stark, Producer.

Actor in a Leading Role. Richard Dreyfuss.

Actress in a Leading Role. Marsha Mason.

Actress in a Supporting Role. Quinn Cummings.

Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen—based on factual material or on story material not previously published or produced). Neil Simon.

Gravity Is My Enemy, John Joseph Production.

Documentary (Short Subject). John Joseph and Jan Stussy, Producers.

High Grass Circus, National Film Board of Canada. (Canada)

Documentary (Feature). Bill Brind, Torben Schioler and Tony Ianzelo, Producers.

Homage to Chagall—The Colours of Love, CBC Production. (Canada)

Documentary (Feature). Harry Rasky, Producer.

I’ll Find a Way, National Film Board of Canada. (Canada)

Short Films (Live Action). Beverly Shaffer and Yuki Yoshida, Producers.

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Scherick/Blatt Production; New World Pictures.

Writing (Screenplay—based on material from another medium). Gavin Lambert and Lewis John Carlino.

Iphigenia, Greek Film Centre Production. (Greece)

Foreign Language Film.

Islands in the Stream, Peter Bart/Max Palevsky Production; Paramount.

Cinematography. Fred J. Koenekamp.

Jimmy the C, Motionpicker Production.

Short Films (Animated). James Picker, Robert Grossman and Craig Whitaker, Producers.

Julia, 20th Century-Fox Production; 20th Century-Fox.

Best Picture. Richard Roth, Producer.

Actress in a Leading Role. Jane Fonda.

Actor in a Supporting Role. Jason Robards.

Actor in a Supporting Role. Maximilian Schell.

Actress in a Supporting Role. Vanessa Redgrave.

Directing. Fred Zinnemann.

Cinematography. Douglas Slocombe.

Costume Design. Anthea Sylbert.

Film Editing. Walter Murch.

Music (Original Score). Georges Delerue.

Writing (Screenplay—based on material from another medium). Alvin Sargent.

The Late Show, Lion’s Gate Film Production; Warner Bros.

Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen—based on factual material or on story material not previously published or produced). Robert Benton.

A Little Night Music, Sascha-Wien Film Production in association with Elliott Kastner; New World Pictures. (West Germany, Austria, USA)

Costume Design. Florence Klotz.

Music (Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score). Adaptation score by Jonathan Tunick.

Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Freddie Fields Production; Paramount.

Actress in a Supporting Role. Tuesday Weld.

Cinematography. William A. Fraker.

Madame Rosa, Lira Films Production. (France)

Foreign Language Film.

Mohammad—Messenger of God, Filmco International Production; Irwin Yablans Company. (Lebanon, Libya, Kuwait, Morocco, UK, Saudi Arabia)

Music (Original Score). Maurice Jarre.

Notes on the Popular Arts, Saul Bass Films.

Short Films (Live Action). Saul Bass, Producer.

Of Time, Tombs and Treasure, Charlie/Papa Productions, Inc.

Documentary (Short Subject). James R. Messenger and Paul N. Raimondi, Producers.

Oh, God!, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros.

Writing (Screenplay—based on material from another medium). Larry Gelbart.

Operation Thunderbolt, Golan-Globus Production. (Israel)

Foreign Language Film.

The Other Side of Midnight, Frank Yablans Presentations Production; 20th Century-Fox.

Costume Design. Irene Sharaff.

Pete’s Dragon, Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista.

Music (Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score). Song score by Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn; adaptation score by Irwin Kostal.

Music (Original Song). “Candle on the Water”. Music and lyrics by Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn.

The Rescuers, Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista.

Music (Original Song). “Someone’s Waiting for You”. Music by Sammy Fain; lyrics by Carol Connors and Ayn Robbins.

The Sand Castle, National Film Board of Canada. (Canada)

Short Films (Animated). Co Hoedeman, Producer.

Saturday Night Fever, Robert Stigwood Organisation, Ltd. Production; Paramount.

Actor in a Leading Role. John Travolta.

The Shetland Experience, Balfour Films. (UK)

Documentary (Short Subject). Douglas Gordon, Producer.

The Slipper and the Rose—The Story of Cinderella, Paradine Co-Productions, Ltd.; Universal. (UK)

Music (Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score). Song score by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman; adaptation score by Angela Morley.

Music (Original Song). “The Slipper and the Rose Waltz (He Danced with Me/She Danced with Me)”. Music and lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman.

Smokey and the Bandit, Universal-Rastar Production; Universal.

Film Editing. Walter Hannemann and Angelo Ross.

Sorcerer, William Friedkin Film Production; Paramount-Universal. (USA, Mexico)

Sound. Robert Knudson, Robert J. Glass, Richard Tyler and Jean-Louis Ducarme.

Spaceborne, Lawrence Hall of Science Production for the Regents of the University of California with the cooperation of NASA.

Short Films (Live Action). Philip Dauber, Producer.

A Special Day, Canafox Films Production; Cinema 5, Ltd. (Italy, Canada)

Actor in a Leading Role. Marcello Mastroianni.

Foreign Language Film.

The Spy Who Loved Me, Eon Productions Ltd.; United Artists. (UK)

Art Direction-Set Decoration. Art direction by Ken Adam and Peter Lamont; set decoration by Hugh Scaife.

Music (Original Score). Marvin Hamlisch.

Music (Original Song). “Nobody Does It Better”. Music by Marvin Hamlisch; lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager.

Star Wars, Lucasfilm, Ltd. Production; 20th Century-Fox.

Best Picture. Gary Kurtz, Producer.

Actor in a Supporting Role. Alec Guinness.

Directing. George Lucas.

Art Direction-Set Decoration. Art direction by John Barry, Norman Reynolds and Leslie Dilley; set decoration by Roger Christian.

Costume Design. John Mollo.

Film Editing. Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas and Richard Chew.

Music (Original Score). John Williams.

Sound. Don MacDougall, Ray West, Bob Minkler and Derek Ball.

Special Achievement Award. Benjamin Burtt, Jr..

Visual Effects. John Stears, John Dykstra, Richard Edlund, Grant McCune and Robert Blalack.

Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen—based on factual material or on story material not previously published or produced). George Lucas.

That Obscure Object of Desire, Greenwich-Les Films Galaxie-Incine Compania Industrial, S.A. Production; First Artists. (France, Spain)

Foreign Language Film.

Writing (Screenplay—based on material from another medium). Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière.

The Turning Point, Hera Productions; 20th Century-Fox.

Best Picture. Herbert Ross and Arthur Laurents, Producers.

Actress in a Leading Role. Anne Bancroft.

Actress in a Leading Role. Shirley MacLaine.

Actor in a Supporting Role. Mikhail Baryshnikov.

Actress in a Supporting Role. Leslie Browne.

Directing. Herbert Ross.

Art Direction-Set Decoration. Art direction by Albert Brenner; set decoration by Marvin March.

Cinematography. Robert Surtees.

Film Editing. William Reynolds.

Sound. Theodore Soderberg, Paul Wells, Douglas O. Williams and Jerry Jost.

Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen—based on factual material or on story material not previously published or produced). Arthur Laurents.

Union Maids, Klein, Reichert, Mogulescu Production.

Documentary (Feature). James Klein, Julia Reichert and Miles Mogulescu, Producers.

Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?, Korty Films and Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates in association with Sanrio Films. (Japan, USA)

Documentary (Feature). John Korty, Dan McCann and Warren L. Lockhart, Producers.

You Light Up My Life, The Session Company Production; Columbia.

Music (Original Song). “You Light Up My Life”. Music and lyrics by Joseph Brooks.