The 50th Academy Awards (1977): Nominees and Winners

NOMINATIONS		AWARDS
11 11 10 8 5 5 3 3	Julia The Turning Point Star Wars Close Encounters of the Third Kind Annie Hall The Goodbye Girl Equus The Spy Who Loved Me	6 4 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1	Star Wars Annie Hall Julia Close Encounters of the Third Kind The Goodbye Girl Gravity Is My Enemy I'll Find a Way A Little Night Music Madame Rosa The Sand Castle Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? You Light Up My Life
NOMINATION/WIN TALLY LEGEND Best Picture winner Best Picture nominee Nominations are listed for all films receiving 3 or more

PICTURE (Best Picture)

• Annie Hall - Charles H. Joffe
• The Goodbye Girl - Ray Stark
• Julia - Richard Roth
• Star Wars - Gary Kurtz
• The Turning Point - Herbert Ross, Arthur Laurents

DIRECTING

• Annie Hall - Woody Allen
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Steven Spielberg
• Julia - Fred Zinnemann
• Star Wars - George Lucas
• The Turning Point - Herbert Ross

ACTOR (Actor in a Leading Role)

• Woody Allen - Annie Hall
• Richard Burton - Equus
• Richard Dreyfuss - The Goodbye Girl
• Marcello Mastroianni - A Special Day
• John Travolta - Saturday Night Fever

ACTRESS (Actress in a Leading Role)

• Anne Bancroft - The Turning Point
• Jane Fonda - Julia
• Diane Keaton - Annie Hall
• Shirley MacLaine - The Turning Point
• Marsha Mason - The Goodbye Girl

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Actor in a Supporting Role)

• Mikhail Baryshnikov - The Turning Point
• Peter Firth - Equus
• Alec Guinness - Star Wars
• Jason Robards - Julia
• Maximilian Schell - Julia

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Actress in a Supporting Role)

• Leslie Browne - The Turning Point
• Quinn Cummings - The Goodbye Girl
• Melinda Dillon - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Vanessa Redgrave - Julia
• Tuesday Weld - Looking for Mr. Goodbar

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

• Annie Hall - Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
• The Goodbye Girl - Neil Simon
• The Late Show - Robert Benton
• Star Wars - George Lucas
• The Turning Point - Arthur Laurents

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY (Screenplay--based on material from another medium)

• Equus - Peter Shaffer
• I Never Promised You a Rose Garden - Gavin Lambert, Lewis John Carlino
• Julia - Alvin Sargent
• Oh, God! - Larry Gelbart
• That Obscure Object of Desire - Luis Buuel, Jean-Claude Carrire

ORIGINAL SONG

• "Candle on the Water" - Pete's Dragon - Music, Lyrics by Al Kasha, Joel Hirschhorn
• "Nobody Does It Better" - The Spy Who Loved Me - Music by Marvin Hamlisch; Lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager
• "The Slipper and the Rose Waltz (He Danced with Me/She Danced with Me)" - The Slipper and the Rose--The Story of Cinderella - Music, Lyrics by Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman
• "Someone's Waiting for You" - The Rescuers - Music by Sammy Fain; Lyrics by Carol Connors, Ayn Robbins
• "You Light Up My Life" - You Light Up My Life - Music, Lyrics by Joseph Brooks

ORIGINAL SCORE

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind - John Williams
• Julia - Georges Delerue
• Mohammad - Messenger of God - Maurice Jarre
• The Spy Who Loved Me - Marvin Hamlisch
• Star Wars - John Williams

ORIGINAL SONG SCORE (Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score)

• A Little Night Music - Adaptation Score by Jonathan Tunick
• Pete's Dragon - Song Score by Al Kasha, Joel Hirschhorn; Adaptation Score by Irwin Kostal
• The Slipper and the Rose--The Story of Cinderella - Song Score by Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman; Adaptation Score by Angela Morley

FILM EDITING

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Michael Kahn
• Julia - Walter Murch
• Smokey and the Bandit - Walter Hannemann, Angelo Ross
• Star Wars - Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas, Richard Chew
• The Turning Point - William Reynolds

CINEMATOGRAPHY

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Vilmos Zsigmond
• Islands in the Stream - Fred J. Koenekamp
• Julia - Douglas Slocombe
• Looking for Mr. Goodbar - William A. Fraker
• The Turning Point - Robert Surtees

ART DIRECTION

• Airport '77 - Art Direction: George C. Webb; Set Decoration: Mickey S. Michaels
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Art Direction: Joe Alves, Dan Lomino; Set Decoration: Phil Abramson
• The Spy Who Loved Me - Art Direction: Ken Adam, Peter Lamont; Set Decoration: Hugh Scaife
• Star Wars - Art Direction: John Barry, Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley; Set Decoration: Roger Christian
• The Turning Point - Art Direction: Albert Brenner; Set Decoration: Marvin March

COSTUME DESIGN

• Airport '77 - Edith Head, Burton Miller
• Julia - Anthea Sylbert
• A Little Night Music - Florence Klotz
• The Other Side of Midnight - Irene Sharaff
• Star Wars - John Mollo

SOUND

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Robert Knudson, Robert J. Glass, Don MacDougall, Gene S. Cantamessa
• The Deep - Walter Goss, Dick Alexander, Tom Beckert, Robin Gregory
• Sorcerer - Robert Knudson, Robert J. Glass, Richard Tyler, Jean-Louis Ducarme
• Star Wars - Don MacDougall, Ray West, Bob Minkler, Derek Ball
• The Turning Point - Theodore Soderberg, Paul Wells, Douglas O. Williams, Jerry Jost

SOUND EFFECTS EDITING (Special Achievement Award)

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Frank E. Warner

VISUAL EFFECTS

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Roy Arbogast, Douglas Trumbull, Matthew Yuricich, Gregory Jein, Richard Yuricich
• Star Wars - John Stears, John Dykstra, Richard Edlund, Grant McCune, Robert Blalack

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

• Iphigenia - Greece
• Madame Rosa - France
• Operation Thunderbolt - Israel
• A Special Day - Italy
• That Obscure Object of Desire - Spain

DOCUMENTARY (Feature)

• The Children of Theatre Street - Robert Dornhelm, Earle Mack
• High Grass Circus - Bill Brind, Torben Schioler, Tony Ianzelo
• Homage to Chagall--The Colours of Love - Harry Rasky
• Union Maids - James Klein, Julia Reichert, Miles Mogulescu
• Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? - John Korty, Dan McCann, Warren L. Lockhart

DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject)

• Agueda Martinez: Our People, Our Country - Moctesuma Esparza
• First Edition - Helen Whitney, DeWitt L. Sage Jr.
• Gravity Is My Enemy - John Joseph, Jan Stussy
• Of Time, Tombs and Treasure - James R. Messenger, Paul N. Raimondi
• The Shetland Experience - Douglas Gordon

SHORT FILM (Animated)

• The Bead Game - Ishu Patel
• The Doonesbury Special - John Hubley, Faith Hubley, Garry Trudeau
• Jimmy the C - James Picker, Robert Grossman, Craig Whitaker
• The Sand Castle - Co Hoedeman

SHORT FILM (Live Action)

• The Absent-Minded Waiter - William E. McEuen
• Floating Free - Jerry Butts
• I'll Find a Way - Beverly Shaffer, Yuki Yoshida
• Notes on the Popular Arts - Saul Bass
• Spaceborne - Philip Dauber

HONORARY AWARDS

• To Margaret Booth for her exceptional contribution to the art of film editing in the motion picture industry.

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

• To Benjamin Burtt Jr. for the creation of the alien, creature, robot voices featured in 'Star Wars.'

IRVING G. THALBERG MEMORIAL AWARD

• Walter Mirisch

JEAN HERSHOLT HUMANITARIAN AWARD

• Charlton Heston

MEDAL OF COMMENDATION

• 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.
• To Sidney Paul Solow in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE I (Academy Award of Merit)

• To GARRETT BROWN and the CINEMA PRODUCTS CORPORATION ENGINEERING STAFF under the supervision of John Jurgens, for the invention and development of Steadicam. [Camera Cranes]

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE II (Plaque)

• To N. PAUL KENWORTHY, JR. and WILLIAM R. LATADY for the invention and development of the Kenworthy Snorkel Camera System for motion picture photography. [Camera]
• To PANAVISION, INCORPORATED, for the concept and engineering of the improvements incorporated in the Panaflex Motion Picture Camera. [Camera]
• To EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY for the development and introduction of a new duplicating film for motion pictures. [Film]
• 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. [Sound]
• 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. [Sound]
• 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. [Systems]

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE III (Certificate)

• To ERNST NETTMANN of the Astrovision Division of Continental Camera Systems, Incorporated, for the engineering of its Periscope Aerial Camera System. [Camera]
• To PICLEAR, INCORPORATED, for originating and developing an attachment to motion picture projectors to improve screen image quality. [Laboratory]
• To DR. BERNHARD KHL and WERNER BLOCK of OSRAM, GmbH, for the development of the HMI high-efficiency discharge lamp for motion picture lighting. [Lighting]
• To PANAVISION, INCORPORATED, for the design of Panalite, a camera-mounted controllable light for motion picture photography. [Lighting]
• To PANAVISION, INCORPORATED, for the engineering of the Panahead gearhead for motion picture cameras. [Stage Operations]
• To EECO (Electronic Engineering Company of California) for developing a method for interlocking non-sprocketed film and tape media used in motion picture production. [Systems]