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 (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 only matched 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]}

Winners and nominees

Winners are highlighted in bold.

Best Picture

Rocky

• All the President's Men
• Bound for Glory
• Network
• Taxi Driver

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Network - Peter Finch

• Network - William Holden
• Rocky - Sylvester Stallone
• Seven Beauties - Giancarlo Giannini
• Taxi Driver - Robert De Niro

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Network - Faye Dunaway

• Carrie - Sissy Spacek
• Cousin, cousine - Marie-Christine Barrault
• Face to Face - Liv Ullmann
• Rocky - Talia Shire

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

All the President's Men - Jason Robards

• Marathon Man - Laurence Olivier
• Network - Ned Beatty
• Rocky - Burgess Meredith
• Rocky - Burt Young

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Network - Beatrice Straight

• All the President's Men - Jane Alexander
• Carrie - Piper Laurie
• Taxi Driver - Jodie Foster
• Voyage of the Damned - Lee Grant

Best Director

Rocky - John G. Avildsen

• All the President's Men - Alan J. Pakula
• Face to Face - Ingmar Bergman
• Network - Sidney Lumet
• Seven Beauties - Lina Wertmuller

Best Original Screenplay

Network - Paddy Chayefsky

• Cousin, cousine - Jean Charles Tacchella and Daniele Thompson
• The Front - Walter Bernstein
• Rocky - Sylvester Stallone
• Seven Beauties - Lina Wertmuller

Best Adapted Screenplay

All the President's Men - William Goldman

• Bound for Glory - Robert Getchell
• Fellini's Casanova - Federico Fellini and Bernandino Zapponi
• The Seven-Per-Cent Solution - Nicholas Meyer
• Voyage of the Damned - Steve Shagan and David Butler

Best Cinematography

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 Art Direction-Set Decoration

All the President's Men - George Jenkins and George Gaines

• The Incredible Sarah - Elliot Scott, Norman Reynolds, and Peter Howitt
• The Last Tycoon - Gene Callahan, Jack T. Collis, and Jerry Wunderlich
• Logan's Run - Dale Hennesy and Robert De Vestel
• The Shootist - Robert F. Boyle and Arthur Jeph Parker

Best Costume Design

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 Sound

All the President's Men - Arthur Piantadosi , Les Fresholtz , Dick Alexander and Jim Webb

• King Kong - Harry W. Tetrick, William McCaughey, Aaron Rochin and Jack Solomon
• Rocky - Harry W. Tetrick, William McCaughey, Lyle J. Burbridge and Bud Alper
• Silver Streak - Donald O. Mitchell, Douglas O. Williams, Richard Tyler and Harold M. Etherington
• A Star Is Born - Robert Knudson, Dan Wallin, Robert Glass and Tom Overton

Best Film Editing

Rocky - Richard Halsey and Scott Conrad

Best Music, Original Song

A Star Is Born - Barbra Streisand and Paul Williams for the song Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)

Best Music, Original Score

The Omen - Jerry Goldsmith

Best Music, Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score

Bound for Glory - Leonard Rosenman

Best Short Film, Animated

Leisure

• The Street - Caroline Leaf

Best Short Film, Live Action

In the Region of Ice

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

Number Our Days

Best Documentary, Features

Harlan County, USA

Best Foreign Language Film

Black and White in Color - Ivory Coast

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)