1977 (50th Annual Awards)
Nominations and Winners
Listed below are the Academy Award nominations and winners for the year 1977. The
symbol appears next to the winner in each category. 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 and winners from that year.
Best Picture
Annie Hall, Jack Rollins and Charles H. Joffe Production; United Artists. Charles H. Joffe, Producer.Actor in a Leading Role
Actress in a Leading Role
Actor in a Supporting Role
Actress in a Supporting Role
Melinda Dillon in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Julia Phillips/Michael Phillips-Steven Spielberg Film Production; Columbia.Directing
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Julia Phillips/Michael Phillips-Steven Spielberg Film Production; Columbia. Steven Spielberg.Art Direction-Set Decoration
Airport ’77, Jennings Lang Production; Universal. Art direction by George C. Webb; set decoration by Mickey S. Michaels.Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Julia Phillips/Michael Phillips-Steven Spielberg Film Production; Columbia. Art direction by Joe Alves and Dan Lomino; set decoration by Phil Abramson.The Spy Who Loved Me, Eon Productions Ltd.; United Artists. (UK) Art direction by Ken Adam and Peter Lamont; set decoration by Hugh Scaife.Star Wars, Lucasfilm, Ltd. Production; 20th Century-Fox. Art direction by John Barry, Norman Reynolds and Leslie Dilley; set decoration by Roger Christian.The Turning Point, Hera Productions; 20th Century-Fox. Art direction by Albert Brenner; set decoration by Marvin March.Cinematography
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Julia Phillips/Michael Phillips-Steven Spielberg Film Production; Columbia. Vilmos Zsigmond.Costume Design
A Little Night Music, Sascha-Wien Film Production in association with Elliott Kastner; New World Pictures. (West Germany, Austria, USA) Florence Klotz.The Other Side of Midnight, Frank Yablans Presentations Production; 20th Century-Fox. Irene Sharaff.Documentary
(Feature)
High Grass Circus, National Film Board of Canada. (Canada) Bill Brind, Torben Schioler and Tony Ianzelo, Producers.Union Maids, Klein, Reichert, Mogulescu Production. 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) John Korty, Dan McCann and Warren L. Lockhart, Producers.(Short Subject)
Agueda Martinez: Our People, Our Country, Moctesuma Esparza Production. Moctesuma Esparza, Producer.Of Time, Tombs and Treasure, Charlie/Papa Productions, Inc. James R. Messenger and Paul N. Raimondi, Producers.Film Editing
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Julia Phillips/Michael Phillips-Steven Spielberg Film Production; Columbia. Michael Kahn.Star Wars, Lucasfilm, Ltd. Production; 20th Century-Fox. Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas and Richard Chew.Foreign Language Film
Iphigenia, Greek Film Centre Production. (Greece)Madame Rosa, Lira Films Production. (France)Operation Thunderbolt, Golan-Globus Production. (Israel)A Special Day, Canafox Films Production; Cinema 5, Ltd. (Italy, Canada) Italy.That Obscure Object of Desire, Greenwich-Les Films Galaxie-Incine Compania Industrial, S.A. Production; First Artists. (France, Spain)Music
(Original Score)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Julia Phillips/Michael Phillips-Steven Spielberg Film Production; Columbia. John Williams.Mohammad—Messenger of God, Filmco International Production; Irwin Yablans Company. (Lebanon, Libya, Kuwait, Morocco, UK, Saudi Arabia) Maurice Jarre.(Original Song)
Candle on the Water from Pete’s Dragon, Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista. Music and lyrics by Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn.Nobody Does It Better from The Spy Who Loved Me, Eon Productions Ltd.; United Artists. (UK) Music by Marvin Hamlisch; lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager.The Slipper and the Rose Waltz (He Danced with Me/She Danced with Me) from The Slipper and the Rose—The Story of Cinderella, Paradine Co-Productions, Ltd.; Universal. (UK) Music and lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman.Someone’s Waiting for You from The Rescuers, Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista. Music by Sammy Fain; lyrics by Carol Connors and Ayn Robbins.You Light Up My Life from You Light Up My Life, The Session Company Production; Columbia. Music and lyrics by Joseph Brooks.(Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score)
A Little Night Music, Sascha-Wien Film Production in association with Elliott Kastner; New World Pictures. (West Germany, Austria, USA) Adaptation score by Jonathan Tunick.Pete’s Dragon, Walt Disney Productions; Buena Vista. Song score by Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn; adaptation score by Irwin Kostal.The Slipper and the Rose—The Story of Cinderella, Paradine Co-Productions, Ltd.; Universal. (UK) Song score by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman; adaptation score by Angela Morley.Short Films
(Animated)
(Live Action)
I’ll Find a Way, National Film Board of Canada. (Canada) Beverly Shaffer and Yuki Yoshida, Producers.Spaceborne, Lawrence Hall of Science Production for the Regents of the University of California with the cooperation of NASA. Philip Dauber, Producer.Sound
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Julia Phillips/Michael Phillips-Steven Spielberg Film Production; Columbia. Robert Knudson, Robert J. Glass, Don MacDougall and Gene S. Cantamessa.The Deep, Casablanca Filmworks Production; Columbia. (UK, USA) Walter Goss, Dick Alexander, Tom Beckert and Robin Gregory.Sorcerer, William Friedkin Film Production; Paramount-Universal. (USA, Mexico) Robert Knudson, Robert J. Glass, Richard Tyler and Jean-Louis Ducarme.Star Wars, Lucasfilm, Ltd. Production; 20th Century-Fox. Don MacDougall, Ray West, Bob Minkler and Derek Ball.The Turning Point, Hera Productions; 20th Century-Fox. Theodore Soderberg, Paul Wells, Douglas O. Williams and Jerry Jost.Special Achievement Award
To Benjamin Burtt, Jr. for the creation of the alien, creature and robot voices featured in Star Wars.(Sound Effects Editing)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Julia Phillips/Michael Phillips-Steven Spielberg Film Production; Columbia. Frank E. Warner.Visual Effects
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Julia Phillips/Michael Phillips-Steven Spielberg Film Production; Columbia. Roy Arbogast, Douglas Trumbull, Matthew Yuricich, Gregory Jein and Richard Yuricich.Star Wars, Lucasfilm, Ltd. Production; 20th Century-Fox. 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)
Annie Hall, Jack Rollins and Charles H. Joffe Production; United Artists. Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman.(Screenplay—based on material from another medium)
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Scherick/Blatt Production; New World Pictures. Gavin Lambert and Lewis John Carlino.That Obscure Object of Desire, Greenwich-Les Films Galaxie-Incine Compania Industrial, S.A. Production; First Artists. (France, Spain) Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière.Honorary Award
To Margaret Booth for her exceptional contribution to the art of film editing in the motion picture industry. [ [Statuette]]To Gordon E. Sawyer in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. [ [Medal of Commendation]]To Sidney P. Solow in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. [ [Medal of Commendation]]Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Scientific or Technical Award
(Class I)
To Garrett Brown and the Cinema Products Corporation Engineering Staff under the supervision of John Jurgens, for the invention and development of Steadicam.(Class II)
To Joseph D. Kelly, Emory M. Cohen, Barry K. Henley, Hammond H. Holt and John Agalsoff of Glen Glenn Sound for the concept and development of a Post-production Audio Processing System for Motion Picture Films.To Panavision, Incorporated, for the concept and engineering of the improvements incorporated in the Panaflex Motion Picture camera.To N. Paul Kenworthy, Jr. and William R. Latady for the invention and development of the Kenworthy Snorkel Camera System for motion picture photography.To John C. Dykstra for the development of a facility uniquely oriented toward visual effects photography, and to Alvah J. Miller and Jerry Jeffress for the engineering of the Electronic Motion Control System used in concert for multiple exposure visual effects motion picture photography.To Eastman Kodak Company for the development and introduction of a new duplicating film for motion pictures.To Stefan Kudelski of Nagra Magnetic Recorders, Incorporated, for the engineering of the improvements incorporated in the Nagra 4.2L sound recorder for motion picture production.(Class III)
To Ernst Nettmann of the Astrovision Division of Continental Camera Systems, Incorporated, for the engineering of its Periscope Aerial Camera System.To EECO (Electronic Engineering Company of California) for developing a method for interlocking non-sprocketed film and tape media used in motion picture production.To Dr. Bernhard Kühl and Werner Block of OSRAM, GmbH, for the development of the HMI high-efficiency discharge lamp for motion picture lighting.To Panavision, Incorporated, for the design of Panalite, a camera-mounted controllable light for motion picture photography.To Panavision, Incorporated, for the engineering of the Panahead gearhead for motion picture cameras.To Piclear, Incorporated, for originating and developing an attachment to motion picture projectors to improve screen image quality.NOTE: The Scientific or Technical Awards were presented at their own ceremony on March 29, 1978, in the Versailles Room of the Beverly Hilton Hotel.