1976 (49th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1976 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). 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 winners from that year.

Best Picture

Rocky, Robert Chartoff-Irwin Winkler Production; United Artists. Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff, Producers.

Actor in a Leading Role

Peter Finch in Network, Howard Gottfried-Paddy Chayefsky Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists.

Actress in a Leading Role

Faye Dunaway in Network, Howard Gottfried-Paddy Chayefsky Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists.

Actor in a Supporting Role

Jason Robards in All the President’s Men, Wildwood Enterprises Inc. Production; Warner Bros.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Beatrice Straight in Network, Howard Gottfried-Paddy Chayefsky Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists.

Directing

Rocky, Robert Chartoff-Irwin Winkler Production; United Artists. John G. Avildsen.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

All the President’s Men, Wildwood Enterprises Inc. Production; Warner Bros. Art direction by George Jenkins; set decoration by George Gaines.

Cinematography

Bound for Glory, The Bound for Glory Company Production; United Artists. Haskell Wexler.

Costume Design

Fellini’s Casanova, P.E.A. Produzioni Europee Associate S.p.A. Production; Universal. (Italy) Danilo Donati.

Documentary

(Feature)

Harlan County, U.S.A., Cabin Creek Films. Barbara Kopple, Producer.

(Short Subject)

Number Our Days, Community Television of Southern California. Lynne Littman, Producer.

Film Editing

Rocky, Robert Chartoff-Irwin Winkler Production; United Artists. Richard Halsey and Scott Conrad.

Foreign Language Film

Black and White in Color, Arthur Cohn Production/Societe Ivoirienne de Cinema. (Côte d’Ivoire, France, West Germany, Switzerland)

Music

(Original Score)

The Omen, 20th Century-Fox Productions, Ltd.; 20th Century-Fox. (UK, USA) Jerry Goldsmith.

(Original Song)

Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born) from A Star Is Born, Barwood/Jon Peters Production; First Artists Presentation; Warner Bros. Music by Barbra Streisand; lyrics by Paul Williams.

(Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score)

Bound for Glory, The Bound for Glory Company Production; United Artists. Adaptation score by Leonard Rosenman.

Short Films

(Animated)

Leisure, Film Australia Production. (Australia) Suzanne Baker, Producer.

(Live Action)

In the Region of Ice, The American Film Institute. Andre Guttfreund and Peter Werner, Producers.

Sound

All the President’s Men, Wildwood Enterprises Inc. Production; Warner Bros. Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Dick Alexander and Jim Webb.

Special Achievement Award

(Visual Effects)

King Kong, Dino De Laurentiis Production; Paramount. Carlo Rambaldi, Glen Robinson and Frank Van der Veer.

Logan’s Run, Saul David Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. L. B. Abbott, Glen Robinson and Matthew Yuricich.

Writing

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

Network, Howard Gottfried-Paddy Chayefsky Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists. Paddy Chayefsky.

(Screenplay—based on material from another medium)

All the President’s Men, Wildwood Enterprises Inc. Production; Warner Bros. William Goldman.

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Pandro S. Berman

Scientific or Technical Award

(Class II)

To Consolidated Film Industries and the Barnebey-Cheney Company for the development of a system for the recovery of film-cleaning solvent vapors in a motion picture laboratory.

To William L. Graham, Manfred G. Michelson, Geoffrey F. Norman and Siegfried Seibert of Technicolor for the development and engineering of a Continuous, High-Speed, Color Motion Picture Printing System.

(Class III)

To Fred Bartscher of Kollmorgen Corporation and to Glenn Berggren of the Schneider Corporation for the design and development of a single-lens magnifier for motion picture projection lenses.

To Panavision Incorporated for the design and development of super-speed lenses for motion picture photography.

To Hiroshi Suzukawa of Cannon and Wilton R. Holm of AMPTP Motion Picture and Television Research Center for the design and development of super-speed lenses for motion picture photography.

To Carl Zeiss Company for the design and development of super-speed lenses for motion picture photography.

To Photo Research Division of the Kollmorgen Corporation for the engineering and manufacture of the spectra TriColor Meter.