49th Academy Awards

49th Academy Awards
Date	Monday, March 28, 1977
Site	Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles
Host	Richard Pryor, Jane Fonda, Ellen Burstyn, Warren Beatty
Producer	William Friedkin
Director	Marty Pasetta
Highlights
Best Picture	Rocky
Most awards	All the President's Men and Network (4)
Most nominations	Network and Rocky (10)
TV in the United States
Network	ABC
Duration	3 hours, 38 minutes
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The 49th Academy Awards were presented March 28, 1977, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Richard Pryor, Jane Fonda, Ellen Burstyn, and Warren Beatty.

This Academy Awards ceremony is notable for Peter Finch becoming the first posthumous winner of an Oscar for acting, a feat matched only by Heath Ledger 32 years later. Beatrice Straight set another record by becoming the actor with shortest performance ever in a film to win an acting Oscar, with only five minutes and forty seconds of screentime in Network.^{[citation needed]} Network, along with All the President's Men, were the two biggest champs of the ceremony with four Oscars each; however, John G. Avildsen won Best Director in an upset, assuring Rocky's eventual Best Picture victory.

Piper Laurie was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Carrie (1976), her first acting role since her Best Actress-nominated performance in The Hustler (1961), thus being nominated for two consecutive roles, 15 years apart.

Winners and nominees

Winners are highlighted in bold.

Best Picture	Best Director
Rocky - Robert Chartoff, Irwin Winkler All the President's Men - Walter Coblenz Bound for Glory - Robert F. Blumofe, Harold Leventhal Network - Howard Gottfried Taxi Driver - Julia Phillips, Michael Phillips	John G. Avildsen – Rocky Ingmar Bergman – Face to Face Sidney Lumet – Network Alan J. Pakula – All the President's Men Lina Wertmüller – Seven Beauties
Best Actor	Best Actress
Peter Finch – Network as Howard Beale Robert De Niro – Taxi Driver as Travis Bickle Giancarlo Giannini – Seven Beauties as Pasqualino William Holden – Network as Max Schumacher Sylvester Stallone – Rocky as Rocky Balboa	Faye Dunaway – Network as Diane Christensen Marie-Christine Barrault – Cousin, cousine as Marthe Talia Shire – Rocky as Adrian Pennino Sissy Spacek – Carrie as Carrie White Liv Ullmann – Face to Face as Dr. Jenny Isaksson
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Jason Robards – All the President's Men as Ben Bradlee Ned Beatty – Network as Arthur Jensen Burgess Meredith – Rocky as "Mickey" Goldmill Laurence Olivier – Marathon Man as Dr. Christian Szell Burt Young – Rocky as Paulie Pennino	Beatrice Straight – Network as Louise Schumacher Jane Alexander – All the President's Men as Judy Hoback Jodie Foster – Taxi Driver as Iris "Easy" Steensma Lee Grant – Voyage of the Damned as Lili Rosen Piper Laurie – Carrie as Margaret White
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
Network – Paddy Chayefsky Cousin, cousine – Jean-Charles Tacchella and Danièle Thompson The Front – Walter Bernstein Rocky – Sylvester Stallone Seven Beauties – Lina Wertmüller	All the President's Men – William Goldman Bound for Glory – Robert Getchell Fellini's Casanova – Federico Fellini and Bernardino Zapponi The Seven-Per-Cent Solution – Nicholas Meyer Voyage of the Damned – David Butler and Steve Shagan
Best Foreign Language Film	Best Costume Design
Black and White in Color (Côte d'Ivoire) Cousin, cousine (France) Jacob the Liar (East Germany) Nights and Days (Poland) Seven Beauties (Italy)	Fellini's Casanova – Danilo Donati Bound for Glory – William Ware Theiss The Incredible Sarah – Anthony Mendleson The Passover Plot – Mary Wills The Seven-Per-Cent Solution – Alan Barrett
Best Documentary Feature	Best Documentary Short
Harlan County, USA Hollywood on Trial Off the Edge People of the Wind Volcano: An Inquiry Into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry	Number Our Days - Lynne Littman American Shoeshine Blackwood The End of the Road Universe
Best Live Action Short	Best Animated Short
In the Region of Ice - Peter Werner Kudzu - Marjorie Anne Short The Morning Spider - Julian Chagrin and Claude Chagrin Nightlife - Claire Wilbur and Robin Lehman Number One - Dyan Cannon and Vince Cannon	Leisure - Suzanne Baker Dedalo - Manfredo Manfredi The Street - Caroline Leaf and Guy Glover
Best Original Score	Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score
The Omen – Jerry Goldsmith Obsession – Bernard Herrmann The Outlaw Josey Wales – Jerry Fielding Taxi Driver – Bernard Herrmann Voyage of the Damned – Lalo Schifrin	Bound for Glory – Leonard Rosenman Bugsy Malone – Paul Williams A Star Is Born – Roger Kellaway
Best Original Song	Best Sound Mixing
"Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)" from A Star Is Born – Music: Barbra Streisand Lyrics: Paul Williams "A World That Never Was" from Half a House – Music: Sammy Fain Lyrics: Paul Francis Webster "Ave Satani" from The Omen – Music and lyrics by Jerry Goldsmith "Come to Me" from The Pink Panther Strikes Again – Music by Henry Mancini; lyrics by Don Black "Gonna Fly Now" from Rocky – Music by Bill Conti; lyrics by Carol Connors and Ayn Robbins	All the President's Men – Dick Alexander, Les Fresholtz, Arthur Piantadosi, and Jim Webb King Kong – William McCaughey, Aaron Rochin, Jack Solomon, and Harry W. Tetrick Rocky – Bud Alper, Lyle J. Burbridge, William McCaughey and Harry W. Tetrick Silver Streak – Harold M. Etherington, Donald O. Mitchell, Richard Tyler, and Douglas Williams A Star Is Born – Robert Glass, Robert Knudson, Tom Overton, and Dan Wallin
Best Art Direction	Best Cinematography
All the President's Men – Art Direction: George Jenkins; Set Decoration: George Gaines The Incredible Sarah – Art Direction: Elliot Scott; Set Decoration: Norman Reynolds The Last Tycoon– Art Direction: Gene Callahan and Jack T. Collis; Set Decoration: Jerry Wunderlich Logan's Run – Art Direction: Dale Hennesy; Set Decoration: Robert De Vestel The Shootist – Art Direction: Robert F. Boyle; Set Decoration: Arthur Jeph Parker	Bound for Glory – Haskell Wexler King Kong – Richard H. Kline Logan's Run – Ernest Laszlo Network – Owen Roizman A Star Is Born – Robert L. Surtees
Best Film Editing
Rocky – Richard Halsey, Scott Conrad All the President's Men – Robert L. Wolfe Bound for Glory – Robert C. Jones, Pembroke J. Herring Network – Alan Heim Two-Minute Warning – Eve Newman, Walter Hannemann

Multiple nominations and awards

These films had multiple nominations:

• 10 nominations: Network and Rocky
• 8 nominations: All The President's Men
• 6 nominations: Bound for Glory
• 4 nominations: Seven Beauties, A Star is Born and Taxi Driver
• 3 nominations: Cousin, cousine and Voyage of the Damned
• 2 nominations: Carrie, Face to Face, Fellini's Casanova, The Incredible Sarah, King Kong, Logan's Run, The Omen and The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

The following films received multiple awards.

• 4 wins: All the President's Men and Network
• 3 wins: Rocky
• 2 wins: Bound for Glory

Presenters

• Muhammad Ali and Sylvester Stallone (Presenters: Best Supporting Actress)
• Ann-Margret (Presenter: Music Awards)
• Pearl Bailey (Presenter: Best Foreign Language Film)
• Chevy Chase (Presenter: Voting Rules)
• Marty Feldman (Presenter: Short Subjects Awards)
• Neil Diamond (Presenter: Best Original Song)
• Tamara Dobson (Presenter: Best Costume Design)
• Louise Fletcher (Presenter: Best Actress)
• Lillian Hellman (Presenter: Documentary Awards)
• William Holden (Presenter: Best Film Editing)
• Marthe Keller (Presenter: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration)
• Norman Mailer (Presenter: Writing Awards)
• Jeanne Moreau (Presenter: Best Director)
• Jack Nicholson (Presenter: Best Picture)
• Tatum O'Neal (Presenter: Best Supporting Actor)
• Roy Scheider (Presenter: Special Achievement Award)
• Red Skelton (Presenter: Best Sound)
• Donald Sutherland (Presenter: Best Cinematography)
• Cicely Tyson (Presenter: Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award)
• Liv Ullmann (Presenter: Best Actor)

Performers

• Edward Albert ("A World That Never Was" from Half a House)
• Ann-Margret ("It All Started in Someone's Head")
• Tom Jones ("Come to Me" from The Pink Panther Strikes Again)
• Barbra Streisand ("Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)" from A Star Is Born)
• Ben Vereen ("Gonna Fly Now" from Rocky)
• Tony Vivante ("Ave Satani" from The Omen)

See also

• Academy Awards
• List of Academy Awards ceremonies
• Academy Honorary Award
• 49th Academy Awards nominees and winners
• 34th Golden Globe Awards
• 1976 in film
• 19th Grammy Awards
• 28th Primetime Emmy Awards
• 29th Primetime Emmy Awards
• 30th British Academy Film Awards
• 31st Tony Awards
• Governors Awards