Date: March 29, 1976
Best Picture
Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Jack Nicholson for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Louise Fletcher for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- George Burns for The Sunshine Boys
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- Lee Grant for Shampoo
Best Director
- Milos Forman for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Best Original Screenplay
- Frank Pierson for Dog Day Afternoon
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Lawrence Hauben & Bo Goldman for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Best Cinematography
- John Alcott for Barry Lyndon
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
- Ken Adams, Roy Walker, & Vernon Dixon for Barry Lyndon
Best Costume Design
- Ulla-Britt Söderlund & Milena Canonero for Barry Lyndon
Best Sound
- Robert L. Hoyt, Roger Heman Jr., Earl Madery, & John R. Carter for Jaws
Best Film Editing
- Verna Fields for Jaws
Best Original Song
- Keith Carradine for “I’m Easy” from Nashville
Best Original Dramatic Score
- John Williams for Jaws
Best Scoring Adaptation and/or Original Song Score
- Leonard Rosenman for Barry Lyndon
Best Short Subject, Live-Action
- Bert Salzman for Angel and Big Joe
Best Short Subject, Animated
- Bob Godfrey for Great (Isambard Kingdom Brunel)
Best Documentary, Short Subjects
- Claire Wilbur & Robin Lehman for The End of the Game
Best Documentary, Features
- F.R. Crawley, James Hager, & Dale Hartleben for The Man Who Skied Down Everest
Best Foreign Language Film
- Dersu Uzala (Soviet Union)
Honourary Award
- Mary Pickford
Special Achievement Award
- Peter Berkos for The Hindenburg (for Sound Effects)
- Albert Whitlock & Glen Robinson for The Hindenburg (for Visual Effects)