Academy Awards®
Awards for 1976


Picture
Walter Coblenz - Producer, ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN
Robert F. Blumofe - Producer, Harold Leventhal - Producer, BOUND FOR GLORY
Howard Gottfried - Producer, NETWORK
* Robert Chartoff - Producer, Irwin Winkler - Producer, ROCKY
Michael Phillips - Producer, Julia Phillips - Producer, TAXI DRIVER

Actor
Robert De Niro, TAXI DRIVER
* Peter Finch, NETWORK
This award was given posthumously.
Giancarlo Giannini, SEVEN BEAUTIES
William Holden, NETWORK
Sylvester Stallone, ROCKY

Actress
Marie-Christine Barrault, COUSIN, COUSINE
* Faye Dunaway, NETWORK
Talia Shire, ROCKY
Sissy Spacek, CARRIE
Liv Ullmann, FACE TO FACE

Supporting Actor
Ned Beatty, NETWORK
Burgess Meredith, ROCKY
Lord Laurence Olivier, MARATHON MAN
* Jason Robards, ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN
Burt Young, ROCKY

Supporting Actress
Jane Alexander, ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN
Jodie Foster, TAXI DRIVER
Lee Grant, VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED
Piper Laurie, CARRIE
* Beatrice Straight, NETWORK


Director
* John G. Avildsen, ROCKY
Ingmar Bergman, FACE TO FACE
Sidney Lumet, NETWORK
Alan J. Pakula, ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN
Lina Wertmuller, SEVEN BEAUTIES

Writing - Screenplay (Written Directly For The Screen)
(formerly Original Screenplay)
Jean-Charles Tacchella, Daniele Thompson, COUSIN, COUSINE
Walter Bernstein, THE FRONT
* Paddy Chayefsky, NETWORK
Sylvester Stallone, ROCKY
Lina Wertmuller, SEVEN BEAUTIES

Writing - Screenplay (Based on Material from Another Medium)
(formerly Screenplay Adapted from Other Material)
* William Goldman, ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN
Robert Getchell, BOUND FOR GLORY
Federico Fellini, Bernadino Zapponi, FELLINI'S CASANOVA
Nicholas Meyer, THE SEVEN PERCENT SOLUTION
Steve Shagan, David Butler, VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED

Foreign Film
* BLACK AND WHITE IN COLOR
(Ivory Coast)
COUSIN, COUSINE
(France)
JACOB THE LIAR
(German Democratic Republic)
NIGHTS AND DAYS
(Poland)
SEVEN BEAUTIES
(Italy)

Art Direction
* George Jenkins - Art Direction, George Gaines - Set Decoration, ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN
Elliot Scott - Art Direction, Norman Reynolds - Art Direction, Peter Howitt - Set Decoration, THE INCREDIBLE SARAH
Gene Callahan - Art Direction, Jack Collis - Art Direction, Jerry Wunderlich - Set Decoration, THE LAST TYCOON
Dale Hennesy - Art Direction, Robert de Vestel - Set Decoration, LOGAN'S RUN
Robert F. Boyle - Art Direction, Arthur Jeph Parker - Set Decoration, THE SHOOTIST

Cinematography
* Haskell Wexler, BOUND FOR GLORY
Richard H. Kline, KING KONG
Ernest Laszlo, LOGAN'S RUN
Owen Roizman, NETWORK
Robert L. Surtees, A STAR IS BORN

Costume Design
William Theiss, BOUND FOR GLORY
* Danilo Donati, FELLINI'S CASANOVA
Anthony Mendleson, THE INCREDIBLE SARAH
Mary Wills, THE PASSOVER PLOT
Alan Barrett, THE SEVEN PERCENT SOLUTION

Documentary Feature
* Barbara Kopple - Producer, HARLAN COUNTY, U.S.A.
James Gutman - Producer, David Helpern, Jr. - Producer, HOLLYWOOD ON TRIAL
Michael Firth - Producer, OFF THE EDGE
Anthony Howarth - Producer, David Koff - Producer, PEOPLE OF THE WIND
Donald Brittain - Producer, Robert Duncan - Producer, VOLCANO: AN INQUIRY INTO THE LIFE AND DEATH OF MALCOLM LOWRY

Documentary Short Subject
Sparky Greene - Producer, AMERICAN SHOESHINE
Tony Ianzelo - Producer, Andy Thompson - Producer, BLACKWOOD
John Armstrong - Producer, THE END OF THE ROAD
* Lynne Littman - Producer, NUMBER OUR DAYS
Lester Novros - Producer, UNIVERSE

Film Editing
Robert L. Wolfe, ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN
Robert Jones, Pembroke J. Herring, BOUND FOR GLORY
Alan Heim, NETWORK
* Richard Halsey, Scott Conrad, ROCKY
Eve Newman, Walter Hannemann, TWO MINUTE WARNING

Music - Original Score
Bernard Herrmann, OBSESSION
* Jerry Goldsmith, THE OMEN
Jerry Fielding, THE OUTLAW—JOSEY WALES
Bernard Herrmann, TAXI DRIVER
Lalo Schifrin, VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED

Music - Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score
(formerly Original Song Score and/or Adaptation)
* Leonard Rosenman, BOUND FOR GLORY
Paul Williams - Song Score, BUGSY MALONE
Roger Kellaway, A STAR IS BORN

Music - Original Song
Jerry Goldsmith - Music & Lyrics, THE OMEN
"Ave Satani"
Henry Mancini - Music, Don Black - Lyrics, THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN
"Come to Me"
* Barbra Streisand - Music, Paul Williams - Lyrics, A STAR IS BORN
"Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)"
Bill Conti - Music, Carol Connors - Lyrics, Ayn Robbins - Lyrics, ROCKY
"Gonna Fly Now"
Sammy Fain - Music, Paul Francis Webster - Lyrics, HALF A HOUSE
"A World that Never Was"

Short Films - Animated
Manfredo Manfredi - Producer, DEDALO
* Suzanne Baker - Producer, LEISURE
Caroline Leaf - Producer, Guy Glover - Producer, THE STREET

Short Films - Live Action
* André Guttfreund - Producer, Peter Werner - Producer, IN THE REGION OF ICE
Marjorie Anne Short - Producer, KUDZU
Julian Chagrin - Producer, Claude Chagrin - Producer, THE MORNING SPIDER
Claire Wilbur - Producer, Robin Lehman - Producer, NIGHTLIFE
Dyan Cannon - Producer, Vince Cannon - Producer, NUMBER ONE

Sound
* Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Dick Alexander, Jim Webb, ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN
Harry Warren Tetrick, William McCaughey, Aaron Rochin, Jack Solomon, KING KONG
Harry Warren Tetrick, William McCaughey, Lyle Burbridge, Bud Alper, ROCKY
Donald Mitchell, Douglas Williams, Richard Tyler, Hal Etherington, SILVER STREAK
Robert Knudson, Dan Wallin, Robert Glass, Tom Overton, A STAR IS BORN

Sound Effects
This award discontinued 1968-1981.

Special Visual Effects
No award given for 1976. See Special Achievement Awards 1976.

Special Achievement
* Carlo Rambaldi - Visual Effects, Glen Robinson - Visual Effects, Frank Van Der Veer - Visual Effects, KING KONG
* L.B. Abbott - Visual Effects, Glen Robinson - Visual Effects, Matthew Yuricich - Visual Effects, LOGAN'S RUN

Class I (Statuette)
No award given for 1976.

Class II (Plaque)
* Consolidated Film Industries, Barnebey-Cheney Company, For the development of a system for the recovery of film-cleaning solvent vapors in a motion picture laboratory.
* William L. Graham - Technicolor, Manfred G. Michelson - Technicolor, Geoffrey F. Norman - Technicolor, Siegfried Seibert - Technicolor, For the development and engineering of a continuous, high-speed, color motion picture printing system.

Class III (Citation)
* Fred Bartscher (Kollmorgen Corporation)
Glenn Berggren (Schneider Corporation)
For the design and development of a single-lens magnifier for motion picture projection lenses.
* Panavision, Inc.
For the design and development of super-speed lenses for motion picture photography.
* Hiroshi Suzukawa - Canon Inc.
Wilton R. Holm (AMPTP Motion Picture and Television Research Center)
For the design and development of super-speed lenses for motion-picture photography.
* Carl Zeiss Company, For the design and development of super-speed lenses for motion-picture photography.
* Kollmorgen Corporation Photo Research Division, For the development of the the Dykstraflex camera.

Honorary and Other Awards
No award given for 1976.

The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
* Pandro S. Berman,
The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
No award given for 1976.