Date: March 28, 1977
Best Picture
Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Peter Finch for Network
- First posthumous winner in an acting category
Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Faye Dunaway for Network
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- Jason Robards for All the President’s Men
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- Beatrice Straight for Network
Best Director
- John G. Avildsen for Rocky
Best Original Screenplay
- Paddy Chayefsky for Network
Best Adapted Screenplay
- William Goldman for All the President’s Men
Best Cinematography
- Haskell Wexler for Bound for Glory
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
- George Jenkins & George Gaines for All the President’s Men
Best Costume Design
- Danilo Donati for Fellini’s Casanova
Best Sound
- Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Rick Alexander, & James E. Webb for All the President’s Men
Best Film Editing
- Richard Halsey & Scott Conrad for Rocky
Best Original Song
- Barbra Streisand (music) & Paul Williams (lyrics) for “Evergreen” from A Star Is Born
Best Original Dramatic Score
- Jerry Goldsmith for The Omen
Best Scoring Adaptation and/or Original Song Score
- Leonard Rosenman for Bound for Glory
Best Short Subject, Live-Action
- Andre R. Guttfreund & Peter Werner for In the Region of Ice
Best Short Subject, Animated
- Suzanne Baker for Leisure
Best Documentary, Short Subjects
- Lynne Littman for Number Our Days
Best Documentary, Features
- Barbara Kopple for Harlan County U.S.A.
Best Foreign Language Film
- Black and White In Color (Côte d’Ivoire)
Special Achievement Award
- Carlo Rambaldi, Glen Robinson, Frank Van der Veer for King Kong (for Visual Effects)
- L.B. Abbott, Glen Robinson, & Matthew Yuricich for Logan’s Run (for Visual Effects)
