1977 (50th Annual Awards)
Winners Only
Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1977 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.
Best Picture
Annie Hall, Jack Rollins and Charles H. Joffe Production; United Artists. Charles H. Joffe, Producer.Actor in a Leading Role
Actress in a Leading Role
Actor in a Supporting Role
Actress in a Supporting Role
Directing
Art Direction-Set Decoration
Star Wars, Lucasfilm, Ltd. Production; 20th Century-Fox. Art direction by John Barry, Norman Reynolds and Leslie Dilley; set decoration by Roger Christian.Cinematography
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Julia Phillips/Michael Phillips-Steven Spielberg Film Production; Columbia. Vilmos Zsigmond.Costume Design
Documentary
(Feature)
Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?, Korty Films and Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates in association with Sanrio Films. (Japan, USA) John Korty, Dan McCann and Warren L. Lockhart, Producers.(Short Subject)
Film Editing
Star Wars, Lucasfilm, Ltd. Production; 20th Century-Fox. Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas and Richard Chew.Foreign Language Film
Madame Rosa, Lira Films Production. (France)Music
(Original Score)
(Original Song)
You Light Up My Life from You Light Up My Life, The Session Company Production; Columbia. Music and lyrics by Joseph Brooks.(Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score)
A Little Night Music, Sascha-Wien Film Production in association with Elliott Kastner; New World Pictures. (West Germany, Austria, USA) Adaptation score by Jonathan Tunick.Short Films
(Animated)
(Live Action)
I’ll Find a Way, National Film Board of Canada. (Canada) Beverly Shaffer and Yuki Yoshida, Producers.Sound
Star Wars, Lucasfilm, Ltd. Production; 20th Century-Fox. Don MacDougall, Ray West, Bob Minkler and Derek Ball.Special Achievement Award
To Benjamin Burtt, Jr. for the creation of the alien, creature and robot voices featured in Star Wars.(Sound Effects Editing)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Julia Phillips/Michael Phillips-Steven Spielberg Film Production; Columbia. Frank E. Warner.Visual Effects
Star Wars, Lucasfilm, Ltd. Production; 20th Century-Fox. John Stears, John Dykstra, Richard Edlund, Grant McCune and Robert Blalack.Writing
(Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen—based on factual material or on story material not previously published or produced)
Annie Hall, Jack Rollins and Charles H. Joffe Production; United Artists. Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman.(Screenplay—based on material from another medium)
Honorary Award
To Margaret Booth for her exceptional contribution to the art of film editing in the motion picture industry. [ [Statuette]]To Gordon E. Sawyer in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. [ [Medal of Commendation]]To Sidney P. Solow in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. [ [Medal of Commendation]]Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Scientific or Technical Award
(Class I)
To Garrett Brown and the Cinema Products Corporation Engineering Staff under the supervision of John Jurgens, for the invention and development of Steadicam.(Class II)
To Joseph D. Kelly, Emory M. Cohen, Barry K. Henley, Hammond H. Holt and John Agalsoff of Glen Glenn Sound for the concept and development of a Post-production Audio Processing System for Motion Picture Films.To Panavision, Incorporated, for the concept and engineering of the improvements incorporated in the Panaflex Motion Picture camera.To N. Paul Kenworthy, Jr. and William R. Latady for the invention and development of the Kenworthy Snorkel Camera System for motion picture photography.To John C. Dykstra for the development of a facility uniquely oriented toward visual effects photography, and to Alvah J. Miller and Jerry Jeffress for the engineering of the Electronic Motion Control System used in concert for multiple exposure visual effects motion picture photography.To Eastman Kodak Company for the development and introduction of a new duplicating film for motion pictures.To Stefan Kudelski of Nagra Magnetic Recorders, Incorporated, for the engineering of the improvements incorporated in the Nagra 4.2L sound recorder for motion picture production.(Class III)
To Ernst Nettmann of the Astrovision Division of Continental Camera Systems, Incorporated, for the engineering of its Periscope Aerial Camera System.To EECO (Electronic Engineering Company of California) for developing a method for interlocking non-sprocketed film and tape media used in motion picture production.To Dr. Bernhard Kühl and Werner Block of OSRAM, GmbH, for the development of the HMI high-efficiency discharge lamp for motion picture lighting.To Panavision, Incorporated, for the design of Panalite, a camera-mounted controllable light for motion picture photography.To Panavision, Incorporated, for the engineering of the Panahead gearhead for motion picture cameras.To Piclear, Incorporated, for originating and developing an attachment to motion picture projectors to improve screen image quality.