49th Academy Awards (1976)
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- DirectorJohn G. AvildsenStarsSylvester StalloneTalia ShireBurt YoungA small-time Philadelphia boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight the world heavyweight champion in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.Winner - Best Picture
Winner - Best Director for John G. Avildsen
Nominated - Best Actor for Sylvester Stallone
Nominated - Best Actress for Talia Shire
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Burgess Meredith
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Burt Young
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Sylvester Stallone
Nominated - Best Original Song for "Gonna Fly Now"
Nominated - Best Sound Mixing
Winner - Best Film Editing for Richard Halsey and Scott Conrad - DirectorAlan J. PakulaStarsDustin HoffmanRobert RedfordJack Warden"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Alan J. Pakula
Winner - Best Supporting Actor for Jason Robards
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Jane Alexander
Winner - Best Adapted Screenplay for William Goldman
Winner - Best Sound Mixing
Winner - Best Art Direction
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Robert L. Wolfe - DirectorHal AshbyStarsDavid CarradineRonny CoxMelinda DillonThe early life of Woody Guthrie as a vagabond folk singer.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Robert Getchell
Nominated - Best Costume Design for William Ware Theiss
Winner - Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score for Leonard Rosenman
Winner - Best Cinematography for Haskell Wexler
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Robert C. Jones and Pembroke J. Herring - DirectorSidney LumetStarsFaye DunawayWilliam HoldenPeter FinchA television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit, but finds that his message may be difficult to control.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Sidney Lumet
Winner - Best Actor for Peter Finch
Nominated - Best Actor for William Holden
Winner - Best Actress for Faye Dunaway
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Ned Beatty
Winner - Best Supporting Actress for Beatrice Straight
Winner - Best Original Screenplay for Paddy Chayefsky
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Owen Roizman
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Alan Heim - DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroJodie FosterCybill ShepherdA mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Actor for Robert De Niro
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Jodie Foster
Nominated - Best Original Score for Bernard Herrmann - DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsLiv UllmannErland JosephsonAino TaubeTwo psychiatrists have their marriage tested when one suffers a mental breakdown.Nominated - Best Director for Ingmar Bergman
Nominated - Best Actress for Liv Ullmann - DirectorLina WertmüllerStarsGiancarlo GianniniFernando ReyShirley StolerThe defense of honor, a strong value in Neapolitan society, and its effects on the life of everyman Pasquale Frafuso.Nominated - Best Director for Lina Wertmüller
Nominated - Best Actor for Giancarlo Giannini
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Lina Wertmüller
Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Italy) - DirectorJean-Charles TacchellaStarsMarie-Christine BarraultVictor LanouxMarie-France PisierTwo distant cousins meet at a wedding banquet for an elderly couple. Over time, a close friendship develops between them, but their spouses begin to think that they are more than just friends.Nominated - Best Actress for Marie-Christine Barrault
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Jean-Charles Tacchella and Danièle Thompson
Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (France) - DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsSissy SpacekPiper LaurieAmy IrvingCarrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.Nominated - Best Actress for Sissy Spacek
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Piper Laurie - DirectorJohn SchlesingerStarsDustin HoffmanLaurence OlivierRoy ScheiderAfter the shocking murder of his older brother, a New York history student finds himself inexplicably hounded by shadowy government agents on the trail of a Nazi war criminal who is trying to retrieve smuggled diamonds.Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Laurence Olivier
- DirectorStuart RosenbergStarsFaye DunawayOskar WernerLee GrantThe tragic 1939 voyage of SS St. Louis carrying hundreds of German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that seemingly no nation is willing to save from certain doom.Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Lee Grant
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for David Butler and Steve Shagan
Nominated - Best Original Score for Lalo Schifrin - DirectorMartin RittStarsWoody AllenZero MostelHerschel BernardiIn 1953, a cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Walter Bernstein
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsDonald SutherlandTina AumontCicely BrowneGiacomo Casanova uses his sexuality to find his place in life amid eccentric and strange characters.Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Federico Fellini and Bernardino Zapponi
Winner - Best Costume Design for Danilo Donati - DirectorHerbert RossStarsAlan ArkinVanessa RedgraveRobert DuvallTo treat his friend's cocaine induced delusions, Watson lures Sherlock Holmes to Sigmund Freud.Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Nicholas Meyer
Nominated - Best Costume Design for Alan Barrett - DirectorJean-Jacques AnnaudStarsJean CarmetJacques DufilhoCatherine RouvelDuring World War I, French colonists lost in African desert decide to attack their German neighbors.Winner - Best Foreign Language Film (Côte d'Ivoire)
- DirectorFrank BeyerStarsVlastimil BrodskýErwin GeschonneckHenry HübchenA Jewish ghetto in central Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making slow by steady progress towards central Europe. In order to keep his companion in misfortune, Mischa, from risking his life for a few potatoes, he tells him what he heard and announces that he is in possession of a radio - in the ghetto a crime punishable by death. It doesn't take long for word of Jakob's secret to spread - suddenly, there is new hope and something to live for - and so Jakob finds himself in the uncomforting position of having to come up with more and more stories.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (East Germany)
- DirectorJerzy AntczakStarsJadwiga BaranskaJerzy BinczyckiEmir BuczackiAn epic saga of the Niechcic family, told from a woman's perspective. In 1914 in the war-torn Kaliniec, Barbara Niechcic remembers her youthful love, marriage hardships, family life in the countryside and finally her husband's death.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Poland)
- DirectorRichard FleischerStarsGlenda JacksonDaniel MasseyYvonne MitchellThe life of the great actress, Sarah Bernhardt.Nominated - Best Costume Design for Anthony Mendleson
Nominated - Best Art Direction - DirectorMichael CampusStarsHarry AndrewsHugh GriffithZalman KingDramatization of the controversial best-seller that posits an alternate version of the birth of Christianity. In this version, Jesus planned for His crucifixion by taking a drug that would simulate death. After His unconscious body was placed in the tomb, a religious sect known as the Zealots would secretly steal Christ's body from the tomb, then spread the rumor that He had risen, thus fulfilling Biblical prophecy.Nominated - Best Costume Design for Mary Wills
- DirectorBarbara KoppleStarsJohn L. LewisCarl HornNorman YarboroughA heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line.Winner - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorDavid HelpernStarsWalter BernsteinAlvah BessieLester ColeThe documentary analyzes a dark period in Hollywood's history due to the Red Scare of the 1940's and 1950's, when actors, writers and directors were persecuted and investigated by the House of Un-American Activities Committee after being considered suspects of committing Anti-American acts by preaching the Communism in their films and television shows.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorMichael FirthStarsJeff CampbellBlair TrenholmeRon HajakTwo guys on adventure in New Zealand.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorAnthony HowarthStarsJames MasonShusha GuppyAnthony HowarthThere are two hundred miles of raging rivers and dangerous mountains to cross. There are no towns, no roads, no bridges. There is no turning back. The Bakhtiari migration is one of the most hazardous tests of human endurance known to mankind. Every year, 500,000 men, women and children - along with one million animals - struggle for eight grueling weeks to scale the massive Zagros Mountains in Iran - a range which is as high as the Alps and as broad as Switzerland - to reach their summer pastures. The film's astonishing widescreen photography and brilliantly recorded soundtrack take the viewer out onto the dangerous precipices of the Zardeh Kuh mountain and into the icy waters of the Cholbar River.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorDonald BrittainJohn KramerStarsMarjorie BonnerDonald BrittainJohn BuchanA documentary on the life of the alcoholic writer Malcolm Lowry, interspersed with readings of Lowry's work by Richard Burton. Lowry was born and educated in England. He moved to Mexico in 1936, where he lived near the volcano Popocatepetl, on an allowance from his father. There, between drunken bouts, he started writing his one important novel, "Under the Volcano" that takes place on the Mexican day of the dead. He takes eight years to finish it, writing most of it while living in a shack in British Colombia, Canada.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorLynne LittmanStarsHarry AsimowBarbara MyerhoffLynne LittmanA documentary study of a community of elderly Jews in Venice, California.Winner - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorSparky GreeneNominated - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorTony IanzeloAndy ThomsonStarsGordon PinsentDavid BlackwoodDavid Blackwood lives in Newfoundland and makes etchings in the tradition of Rembrandt and Goya. This Oscar-nominated film shows him producing some of his etchings with his Newfoundland inspirations as well.Nominated - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorJohn ArmstrongThe dramatic and exciting story of how men worked in one of the world's most hostile climates to bring oil to an energy-hungry world. 20,000 men built a pipeline across 800 miles of Alaskan mountain, tundra, forest and river.Nominated - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorLester NovrosStarsWilliam ShatnerA dramatization of our mysterious and incredibly violent universe.Nominated - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorAndre R. GuttfreundPeter WernerStarsFionnula FlanaganPeter LampertKeith AnthoniIn this American Film Institute-subsidized short subject, Fionnula Flanagan plays a sharp-tongued but compassionate nun, while Peter Lempert is cast as a sullen, emotionally disturbed boy. The title refers to the "thawing" process that occurs when the nun attempts to break through Lempert's wall of silence.Winner - Best Live Action Short
- DirectorMarjie ShortStarsJimmy CarterJames DickeyKudzu, or Pueraria Thunbergiana, is a vine threatening to take over large portions of the Southern landscape. Imported from Japan by the Departement of Agriculture in the 30's for erosion control, its spreading growth has become a problem of menacing proportions. Kudzu is an off-beat, witty, informative documentary about the vine that is devouring the South. Featuring the Kudzu Queen, the Kudzu rock band, a cast of real-life characters and an appearance by former President Jimmy Carter, it illustrates how Southern cultural traditions have quickly grown up around a botanical pest. The eminent American poet and novelist James Dickey ("Deliverance"), recites three stanzas of his poem, "Kudzu."Nominated - Best Live Action Short
- DirectorClaude ChagrinStarsJulian ChagrinLucy FawcettJames HayesVarious insects mock a hungry spider that chases after them. Later, he meets a female spider.Nominated - Best Live Action Short
- DirectorRobin LehmanAn exploration of the fantastic variety of color and forms of life found beneath the Irish Sea.Nominated - Best Live Action Short
- DirectorDyan CannonStarsNan MartinAllen GarfieldGary LockwoodTwo little girls hide in the boys' bathroom at school so they can find out what happens there. When two boys come in, the four gradually talk each other into taking off their clothes. The principal catches them, and angrily berates them for what they've been up to, warning them that he'll have to tell their parents about the incident. Later repercussions are seen as parents of three of them separately discuss and fight about what has happened, with some taking a winking attitude of their child's discovery and others battling about how to react. Returning to school poses an additional challenge, as everyone has found out what has gone on.Nominated - Best Live Action Short
- DirectorBruce PettyStarsAlexander ArchdaleA short course of boring history about how not to die of boredom.Winner - Best Animated Short
- DirectorManfredo ManfrediA man and a woman sit in a room and when the wind blows the window open, the man imagines what would happen if he kills the woman and the following drama blurs the boundaries between reality and fiction.Nominated - Best Animated Short
- DirectorCaroline LeafStarsMort RansenSarah DwightJohn HoodThis film deals with a Jewish family in Montreal, Canada as they care for a dying grandmother and the young boy who is impatient to get the room he was promised as soon as she kicks the bucket.Nominated - Best Animated Short
- DirectorRichard DonnerStarsGregory PeckLee RemickHarvey StephensMysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil's own son?Winner - Best Original Score for Jerry Goldsmith
Nominated - Best Original Song for "Ave Satani" - DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsCliff RobertsonGeneviève BujoldJohn LithgowA wealthy New Orleans businessman becomes obsessed with a young woman who resembles his wife.Nominated - Best Original Score for Bernard Herrmann
- DirectorClint EastwoodStarsClint EastwoodSondra LockeChief Dan GeorgeMissouri farmer Josey Wales joins a Confederate guerrilla unit and winds up on the run from the Union soldiers who murdered his family.Nominated - Best Original Score for Jerry Fielding
- DirectorAlan ParkerStarsJodie FosterScott BaioFlorence GarlandThe classic gangster story of Bugsy Malone told with an all-child cast.Nominated - Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score for Paul Williams
- DirectorFrank PiersonStarsBarbra StreisandKris KristoffersonGary BuseyA has-been rock star falls in love with a young, up-and-coming songstress.Nominated - Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score for Roger Kellaway
Winner - Best Original Song for "Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)"
Nominated - Best Sound Mixing
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Robert L. Surtees - DirectorBrice MackStarsAnthony EisleyPat DelaneyFrancine YorkA middleaged couple, living in divorce, is forced to spend three month in their house, which belongs jointly to them. They both try to use exactly one half of the house, but this only leads to "funny" and "dramatic" situations. In the end they bury the hatchet.Nominated - Best Original Song for "A World That Never Was"
- DirectorBlake EdwardsStarsPeter SellersHerbert LomLesley-Anne DownAfter escaping from an insane asylum, the bonkers Charles Dreyfus sends 26 assassins on the trail of the forever bumbling Inspector Clouseau.Nominated - Best Original Song for "Come to Me"
- DirectorJohn GuillerminStarsJeff BridgesCharles GrodinJessica LangeA petroleum exploration expedition comes to an isolated island and encounters a colossal giant gorilla.Nominated - Best Sound Mixing
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Richard H. Kline - DirectorArthur HillerStarsGene WilderRichard PryorJill ClayburghOn a long-distance train trip, a man finds romance but also finds himself in danger of being killed, or at least pushed off the train.Nominated - Best Sound Mixing
- DirectorElia KazanStarsRobert De NiroTony CurtisRobert MitchumF. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.Nominated - Best Art Direction
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsMichael YorkJenny AgutterRichard JordanA police officer in the future uncovers the deadly secret behind a society that worships youth.Nominated - Best Art Direction
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Ernest Laszlo - DirectorDon SiegelStarsJohn WayneLauren BacallRon HowardA dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity.Nominated - Best Art Direction
- DirectorLarry PeerceStarsCharlton HestonJohn CassavetesMartin BalsamA crazed sniper is set to kill spectators at an L.A. Coliseum football championship game and the police race against time to eliminate him.Nominated - Best Film Editing for Eve Newman and Walter Hannemann