49th Academy Awards

Infobox Academy Awards | name = 49th
caption = "Rocky"
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
duration = 3 hours, 38 minutes
network = ABC
last = 48th
next = 50thThe 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.

Winners & Nominees

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 Gainnini"
*"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"

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration

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

Best Costume Design

"Fellini's Casanova - Danilo Donati"

Best Sound

"All the President's Men - Arthur Piantadosi , Les Fresholtz , Rick Alexander and James E. Webb"

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"

Best Short Film, Live Action

"In the Region of Ice"

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

"Number Our Days"

Best Documentary, Features

"Harlan County U.S.A."

Best Foreign Language Film

"Black and White in Color - Ivory Coast"