The Complete Oscar Quest: 50th Academy Awards (1977)
1977
Best Picture
- Annie Hall
- The Goodbye Girl
- Julia
- Star Wars
- The Turning Point
Best Director
- Woody Allen, Annie Hall
- George Lucas, Star Wars
- Herbert Ross, The Turning Point
- Steven Spielberg, Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Fred Zinnemann, Julia
Best Actor
- Woody Allen, Annie Hall
- Richard Burton, Equus
- Richard Dreyfuss, The Goodbye Girl
- Marcello Mastroianni, A Special Day
- John Travolta, Saturday Night Fever
Best Actress
- Anne Bancroft, The Turning Point
- Jane Fonda, Julia
- Diane Keaton, Annie Hall
- Shirley MacLaine, The Turning Point
- Marsha Mason, The Goodbye Girl
Best Supporting Actor
- Mikhail Baryshnikov, The Turning Point
- Peter Firth, Equus
- Alec Guinness, Star Wars
- Jason Robards, Julia
- Maximilian Schell, Julia
Best Supporting Actress
- 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
Best Original Screenplay
- Annie Hall
- The Goodbye Girl
- The Late Show
- Star Wars
- The Turning Point
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Equus
- I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
- Julia
- Oh, God!
- That Obscure Object of Desire
Best Editing
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Julia
- Smokey and the Bandit
- Star Wars
- The Turning Point
Best Cinematography
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Islands in the Stream
- Julia
- Looking for Mr. Goodbar
- The Turning POint
Best Original Score
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Julia
- Mohammad, Messenger of God
- The Spy Who Loved Me
- Star Wars
Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score
- A Little Night Music
- Pete’s Dragon
- The Slipper and the Rose
Best Original Song
- “Candle on the Water,” from Pete’s Dragon
- “Nobody Does It Better,” from The Spy Who Loved Me
- “The Slipper and the Rose, Waltz (He Danced With Me/She Danced With Me),” from The Slipper and the Rose
- “Someone’s Waiting for You,” from The Rescuers
- “You Light Up My Life,” from You Light Up My Life
Best Art Direction
- Airport ’77
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- The Spy Who Loved Me
- Star Wars
- The Turning Point
Best Costume Design
- Airport ’77
- Julia
- A Little Night Music
- The Other Side of Midnight
- Star Wars
Best Visual Effects
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Star Wars
Best Sound Editing
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Best Sound Mixing
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- The Deep
- Sorcerer
- Star Wars
- The Turning Point
Best Foreign Language Film
- Iphigenia
- Madame Rosa
- Operation Thunderbolt
- A Special Day
- That Obscure Object of Desire
Best Documentary
- The Children of Theatre Street
- High Grass Circus
- Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love
- Union Maids
- Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?
Best Documentary Short
- Agueda Martinez: Our People, Our Country
- First Edition
- Gravity Is My Enemy
- Of Time, Tombs and Treasures
- The Shetland Experience
Best Live-Action Short
- The Absent-Minded Waiter
- Floating Free
- I’ll Find a Way
- Notes on the Popular Arts
- Spaceborne
Best Animated Short
- Bead Game
- The Doonsebury Special
- Jimmy the C
- The Sand Castle
Total List of Films Nominated:
- Airport ’77
- Annie Hall
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- The Deep
- Equus
- The Goodbye Girl
- I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
- Islands in the Stream
- Julia
- The Late Show
- A Little Night Music
- Looking for Mr. Goodbar
- Mohammad, Messenger of GodThe Other Side of Midnight
- Oh, God!
- Pete’s Dragon
- The Rescuers
- Saturday Night Fever
- The Slipper and the Rose
- Smokey and the Bandit
- Sorcerer
- A Special Day
- The Spy Who Loved Me
- Star Wars
- That Obscure Object of Desire
- The Turning Point
- You Light Up My Life
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