49th Academy Awards

49th Academy Awards
49th Academy Awards
Date	March 28, 1977
Site	Dorothy Chandler Pavilion; Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Hosted by	Richard Pryor, Ellen Burstyn, Jane Fonda and Warren Beatty
Produced by	William Friedkin
Directed by	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
	← 48th; Academy Awards; 50th →;

The 49th Academy Awards were presented Monday, March 28, 1977, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. The ceremonies were presided over by Richard Pryor, Ellen Burstyn, Jane Fonda, 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 fellow Australian Heath Ledger 32 years later; Finch had suffered a fatal heart attack in mid-January. Beatrice Straight set another record by becoming the actor with the shortest performance ever in a film to win an acting Oscar, with only five minutes and two seconds of screen-time in Network. Network, along with All the President's Men, were the two biggest champs of the ceremony with four Oscars each, but Best Picture and Best Director ultimately went to Rocky.

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

Network became the second film (after A Streetcar Named Desire) to win three acting Oscars, and the last, as of the 90th Academy Awards, to receive five acting nominations. It was also the eleventh of fifteen films (to date) to receive nominations in all four acting categories.

This year's Academy Awards is also notable for the first ever female nominee for Best Director, Lina Wertmüller for Seven Beauties. To date, four further female directors have been nominated: Jane Campion for The Piano in 1993, Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation in 2003, Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker in 2009 (the first to win the award), and Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird in 2017. Barbra Streisand received her second Academy Award, composing music for the love theme "Evergreen", the first woman to be honored as a composer.

No honorary awards were given this year.

ABC had the Oscars from 1960–70 and had regained them for 1976. For the second straight year, the ceremony was scheduled directly opposite the NCAA championship basketball game on NBC, won by Marquette in Al McGuire's final game as head coach. The two events conflicted again five years later in 1982.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface and indicated with a double dagger (‡).^[1]^[2]

Best Picture	Best Director
Rocky – Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler, producers‡ All the President's Men – Walter Coblenz, producer Bound for Glory – Robert F. Blumofe and Harold Leventhal, producers Network – Howard Gottfried, producer Taxi Driver – Julia Phillips and Michael Phillips, producers	John G. Avildsen – Rocky‡ Alan J. Pakula – All the President's Men Ingmar Bergman – Face to Face Sidney Lumet – Network 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 Diana Christensen*‡ Marie-Christine Barrault – Cousin Cousine* as Marthe Talia Shire – Rocky as Adriana Pennino Sissy Spacek – Carrie as Carrie White Liv Ullmann – Face to Face as 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 Graham Hoback Jodie Foster – Taxi Driver as Iris Steensma Lee Grant – Voyage of the Damned as Lillian Rosen Piper Laurie – Carrie as Margaret White
Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen	Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
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 based on the book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward ‡ Bound for Glory – Robert Getchell based on the book by Woody Guthrie Fellini's Casanova – Federico Fellini and Bernardino Zapponi based on the autobiography Histoire de ma vie by Giacomo Casanova The Seven-Per-Cent Solution – Nicholas Meyer based on his novel Voyage of the Damned – David Butler and Steve Shagan based on the book by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan Witts
Best Documentary Feature	Best Documentary Short Subject
Harlan County, USA – Barbara Kopple‡ Hollywood on Trial – David Helpern Off the Edge – Michael Firth People of the Wind – Anthony Howarth and David Koff Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry – Donald Brittain and John Kramer	Number Our Days – Lynne Littman and Barbara Myerhoff‡ American Shoeshine Blackwood The End of the Road Universe
Best Live Action Short Film	Best Animated Short Film
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 (posthumous nomination) The Outlaw Josey Wales – Jerry Fielding Taxi Driver – Bernard Herrmann (posthumous nomination) 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
*"Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)" from A Star Is Born* – Music by Barbra Streisand; Lyrics by Paul Williams*‡ "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 "A World That Never Was" from Half a House – Music by Sammy Fain; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster	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 (posthumous nomination) Rocky – Bud Alper, Lyle J. Burbridge, William McCaughey and Harry W. Tetrick (posthumous nomination) 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 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 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 Surtees
Best Film Editing
Rocky – Richard Halsey and Scott Conrad‡ All the President's Men – Robert L. Wolfe Bound for Glory – Robert C. Jones and Pembroke J. Herring Network – Alan Heim Two-Minute Warning – Eve Newman and Walter Hannemann

Special Achievement Award

Carlo Rambaldi, Glen Robinson, and Frank Van der Veer for the visual effects of King Kong
L. B. Abbott, Glen Robinson, and Matthew Yuricich for the visual effects of Logan's Run

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Pandro S. Berman

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 and performers

The following individuals, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers.

Presenters

Name	Role
Hank Simms	Announcer of the 49th annual Academy Awards
Walter Mirisch (AMPAS President)	Gave opening remarks welcoming guests to the awards ceremony
Chevy Chase	Explains the voting rules to the public
Tatum O'Neal	Presenter of the award for Best Supporting Actor
Marty Feldman	Presenter of the Short Films Awards
Roy Scheider	Presenter of the Special Achievement Award
Marthe Keller	Presenter of the award for Best Art Direction
Muhammad Ali Sylvester Stallone	Presenters of the award for Best Supporting Actress
William Holden	Presenter of the award for Best Film Editing
Red Skelton	Presenter of the award for Best Sound
Cicely Tyson	Presenter of the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to Pandro S. Berman
Donald Sutherland	Presenter of the award for Best Cinematography
Pearl Bailey	Presenter of the award for Best Foreign Language Film
Ann-Margret	Presenter of the Music Awards
Lillian Hellman	Presenter of the Documentary Awards
Neil Diamond	Presenter of the award for Best Original Song
Norman Mailer	Presenter of the Writing Awards
Jeanne Moreau	Presenter of the award for Best Director
Tamara Dobson	Presenter of the award for Best Costume Design
Liv Ullmann	Presenter of the award for Best Actor
Louise Fletcher	Presenter of the award for Best Actress
Jack Nicholson	Presenter of the award for Best Picture

Performers

Name	Role	Performed
Bill Conti	Musical arranger and conductor	Orchestral
Ann-Margret	Performer	“Magic Circle (It All Started in Someone's Head)“
Eddie Albert	Performer	"A World That Never Was" from Half a House
Ben Vereen	Performer	"Gonna Fly Now" from Rocky
Tom Jones	Performer	"Come to Me" from The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Tony Vivante	Performer	"Ave Satani" from The Omen
Barbra Streisand	Performer	"Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)" from A Star Is Born
Ann-Margret	Performer	“Magic Circle (Reprise)”

References

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