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Best Picture
 BARRY LYNDON - Hawk Films, Warner Bros. Produced by Stanley Kubrick
DOG DAY AFTERNOON - Warner Bros. Produced by Martin Bregman and Martin Elfand
JAWS - Zanuck/Brown, Universal. Produced by Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown
NASHVILLE - ABC Entertainment-Weintraub-Altman, Paramount. Produced by Robert Altman
 ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (Won 5 Awards) - Fantasy Films, UA. Produced by Saul Zaentz and Michael Douglas
Actor
Walter Matthau in THE SUNSHINE BOYS
Jack Nicholson in ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
Al Pacino in DOG DAY AFTERNOON
Maximilian Schell in THE MAN IN THE GLASS BOOTH
James Whitmore in GIVE 'EM HELL, HARRY!
Actress
Isabelle Adjani in L'HISTOIRE D'ADÈLE H. (THE STORY OF ADELE H)
Ann-Margret in TOMMY
Louise Fletcher in ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
Glenda Jackson in HEDDA
Carol Kane in HESTER STREET
Supporting Actor
George Burns in THE SUNSHINE BOYS
Brad Dourif in ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
Burgess Meredith in THE DAY OF THE LOCUST
Chris Sarandon in DOG DAY AFTERNOON
Jack Warden in SHAMPOO
Supporting Actress
Ronee Blakley in NASHVILLE
Lee Grant in SHAMPOO
Sylvia Miles in FAREWELL, MY LOVELY
Lily Tomlin in NASHVILLE
Brenda Vaccaro in JACQUELINE SUSANN'S ONCE IS NOT ENOUGH
Director
Robert Altman for NASHVILLE
Federico Fellini for AMARCORD
Milos Forman for ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
Stanley Kubrick for BARRY LYNDON
Sidney Lumet for DOG DAY AFTERNOON
Writing: Original Screenplay
Federico Fellini & Tonino Guerra - AMARCORD
Claude Lelouch & Pierre Uytterhoeven - AND NOW MY LOVE
Frank R. Pierson - DOG DAY AFTERNOON
Ted Allan - LIES MY FATHER TOLD ME
Robert Towne & Warren Beatty - SHAMPOO
Writing: Screenplay Adapted from Other Material
Stanley Kubrick - BARRY LYNDON
John Huston & Gladys Hill - THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING
Lawrence Hauben & Bo Goldman - ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
Ruggero Maccari & Dino Risi - PROFUMO DI DONNA (SCENT OF A WOMAN)
Neil Simon - THE SUNSHINE BOYS
Foreign Language Film
DERSU UZALA (U.S.S.R.)
ZIEMIA OBEICANA (THE LAND OF PROMISE, Poland)
ACTAS DE MARUSIA (LETTERS FROM MARUSIA, Mexico)
SANDAKAN HACHIBANSHOKAN BOHKYO (SANDAKAN NO. 8, Japan)
PROFUMO DI DONNA (SCENT OF A WOMAN, Italy)
Art Direction/Set Decoration
Roy Walker & Ken Adam - Art Direction, Vernon Dixon - Set Decoration BARRY LYNDON
Edward C. Carfagno - Art Direction, Frank R. McKelvy - Set Decoration THE HINDENBURG
Alexander Trauner & Tony Inglis - Art Direction, Peter James - Set Decoration THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING
Richard Sylbert & W. Stewart Campbell - Art Direction, George Gaines - Set Decoration SHAMPOO
Albert Brenner - Art Direction, Marvin March - Set Decoration THE SUNSHINE BOYS
Cinematography
John Alcott - BARRY LYNDON
Conrad L. Hall - THE DAY OF THE LOCUST
James Wong Howe - FUNNY LADY
Robert L. Surtees - THE HINDENBURG
Haskell Wexler & Bill (Wilmer) Butler - ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
Costume Design
Ulla-Britt Soderlund & Milena Canonero - BARRY LYNDON
Yvonne Blake & Ron Talsky - THE FOUR MUSKETEERS
Ray Aghayan & Bob Mackie - FUNNY LADY
Henny Noremark & Karin Erskine - TROLLFLÖJTEN (THE MAGIC FLUTE)
Edith Head - THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING
Documentary (Features)
Walter F. Parkes & Keith F. Critchlow (Sarah Pillsbury - uncredited) - Producers THE CALIFORNIA REICH
Glen Pearcy - Producer FIGHTING FOR OUR LIVES
Irwin Rosten - Producer THE INCREDIBLE MACHINE
F. R. Crawley, James Hager & Dale Hartleben - Producers THE MAN WHO SKIED DOWN EVEREST
Shirley MacLaine - Producer THE OTHER HALF OF THE SKY: A CHINA MEMOIR
Documentary (Short Subjects)
Jon Else, Steven Kovacs & Kristine Samuelson - Producers ARTHUR AND LILLIE
Claire Wilbur & Robin Lehman - Producers THE END OF THE GAME
Manfred Baier - Producer MILLIONS OF YEARS AHEAD OF MAN
George V. Casey - Producer PROBES IN SPACE
Barrie Howells & Michael Scott - Producers WHISTLING SMITH
Film Editing
Fredric Steinkamp & Don Guidice - THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR
Dede Allen - DOG DAY AFTERNOON
Verna Fields - JAWS
Russell Lloyd - THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING
Richard Chew, Lynzee Klingman & Sheldon Kahn - ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
Music: Original Score
Gerald Fried BIRDS DO IT, BEES DO IT
Alex North BITE THE BULLET
John Williams - JAWS
Jack Nitzsche - ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
Jerry Goldsmith - THE WIND AND THE LION
Music: Scoring -- Original Song Score and/or Adaptation
Leonard Rosenman - BARRY LYNDON
Peter Matz - FUNNY LADY
Peter Townshend - TOMMY
Music: Original Song
Fred Ebb & John Kander - Music & Lyric FUNNY LADY "How Lucky Can You Get"
Keith Carradine - Music & Lyric NASHVILLE "I'm Easy" 
George Barrie - Music, Sammy Cahn - Lyric WHIFFS "Now That We're in Love"
Charles Fox - Music, Norman Gimbel - Lyric THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN "Richard's Window"
Michael Masser - Music, Gerry Goffin - Lyric MAHOGANY "Theme from MAHOGANY (Do You Know Where You're Going To?)"
Short Films (Animated)
Bob Godfrey - Producer GREAT
Robert Swarthe - Producer KICK ME
Rene Jodoin, Bernard Longpre & Andre Leduc - Producers MONSIEUR POINTU
Marcell Jankovics - Producer SISYPHUS
Short Films (Live Action)
Bert Salzman - Producer ANGEL AND BIG JOE
Louis Marcus - Producer CONQUEST OF LIGHT
Lawrence M. Lansburgh & Brian Lansburgh - Producers DAWN FLIGHT
Barry Spinello - Producer A DAY IN THE LIFE OF BONNIE CONSOLO
Alan Beattie - Producer DOUBLETALK
Sound
Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Richard Tyler & Al Overton, Jr. - BITE THE BULLET
Richard Portman, Don MacDougall, Edward "Curly" Thirlwell & Jack Solomon - FUNNY LADY
Leonard Peterson, John A. Bolger, Jr., John Mack & Don K. Sharpless - THE HINDENBURG
Robert L. Hoyt, Roger Heman (Jr.), Earl Madery & John Carter - JAWS
Harry Warren Tetrick, Aaron Rochin, William McCaughey & Roy Charman - THE WIND AND THE LION
Special Achievement Awards
Peter Berkos - Sound Effects THE HINDENBURG
Albert J. Whitlock & Glen Robinson - Visual Effects THE HINDENBURG
Scientific Or Technical
Class I (Statuette):
No award given for 1975.
Class II (Plaque):
 Chadwell O'Connor (O'Connor Engineering Laboratories) - For the concept and engineering of a fluid-damped camera-head for motion picture photography.
William F. Miner (Universal City Studios Inc.) & Westinghouse Electric Corporation - For the development and engineering of a solid-state, 500 kilowatt, direct-current static rectifier for motion picture lighting.
Class III (Citation):
 Lawrence W. Butler & Roger Banks - For the concept of applying low inertia and stepping electric motors to film transport systems and optical printers for motion-picture production.
David J. Degenkolb & Fred Scobey (Deluxe General Inc.), John C. Dolan & Richard Dubois (Akwaklame Company) - For the development of a technique for silver recovery from photographic wash-waters by ion exchange.
Joseph Westheimer - For the development of a device to obtain shadowed titles on motion picture films.
Carter Equipment Company Inc. & Ramtronics - For the engineering and manufacture of a computerized tape punching system for programming laboratory printing machines.
Hollywood Film Company - For the engineering and manufacture of a computerized tape punching system for programming laboratory printing machines.
Bell And Howell Company - For the engineering and manufacture of a computerized tape punching system for programming laboratory printing machines.
Fredrik Schlyter - For the engineering and manufacture of a computerized tape punching system for programming laboratory printing machines.
Honorary and Other Awards
Mary Pickford - In recognition of her unique contributions to the film industry and the development of film as an artistic medium. Winner presented a Statuette.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Mervyn LeRoy
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Jules C. Stein
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FIRSTS
· Cuckoo's Nest sweeps the Big Five (Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Screenplay) for the first time since It Happened One Night in 1934.
· George Burns becomes the oldest Oscar® winner to date. The Sunshine Boys was his first film in 36 years.
· The entire cast of Give 'em Hell, Harry!, i.e. James Whitmore, is nominated for Best Actor.
· Louise Fletcher is the first Oscar® winner to speak in sign language at the podium.
· Nashville's Keigh Carradine is the first Oscar®-winning composer to perform his own song in a film.
· Jaws' record- breaking financial success introduces the term "blockbuster."
· Brad Dourif, Chris Sarandon, Ronee Blakley and Lily Tomlin nominated for film debuts.
RULE CHANGES
Music category names changed to "Original Score" and "Original Song."
ROLE REVERSALS
· Louise Fletcher was at the end of a long line of contenders for the role of Nurse Ratched. Ahead of her were Angela Lansbury, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Geraldine Page and Colleen Dewhurst.
· Louise Fletcher devised the role of the director of the deaf church choir in Nashville, which was given to Lily Tomlin. Fletcher never forgave director Robert Altman for what she considered a betrayal.
· Susan Anspach had to bow out of Nashville, so Altman replaced her with the woman who had written some of the songs for the character, former backup singer Ronee Blakley.
SINS OF OMISSION:
Picture: Shampoo, Dog Day Afternoon
Director: Steven Spielberg - Jaws
Song: "Let's Do It Again". Only one of Nashville's dozens of original songs was nominated.
UNMENTIONABLES
· Warren Beatty said, "I wanted to challenge the assumption that a hypersexual character with women, a Don Juan, is a misogynist or a latent homosexual." The result, based on William Wycherley's Restoration comedy The Country Wife, was Shampoo, which became one of the highest-grossing films in Columbia's history.
· Robert Altman had to finance Nashville independently after United Artists withdrew its backing after seeing the final script. Altman shopped the finished film around, and it was picked up by Paramount, opening in the summer to wide critical acclaim.
· "Jaws was not a novel," argued actor Robert Shaw, "it was a story written by a committee, a piece of shit." When his wife, Mary Ure, said the script wasn't so bad, he signed on to the movie, to be directed by 27-year-old Steven Spielberg.
· Released on June 30, 1975 after a masterfully executed marketing plan, Jaws became the most profitable Hollywood movie to date -- topping The Godfather, Gone With the Wind and The Sound of Music.
· Mahogany producer Barry Gordy fired director Tony Richardson because, according to Variety, he "didn't quite capture the feeling of blackness - the black point of view." Gordy himself took over directing the film.
· After trying for 13 years to lauch a movie version of his 1963 Broadway flop One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Kirk Douglas handed the film rights over to his son, Michael, who got Jack Nicholson to star and raised the $3 million budget independently.
· The "Theme from Mahogany" was not on the list of nominated songs when the preliminary nominations were announced. The Music Branch threw out the preliminaries and decided to let all its 207 members do the nominating. This time, the hit song was nominated.
· No one in the Best Actress category was nominated for a mainstream Hollywood film. All the nominees appeared in independently produced or foreign-made movies.
· Best Actress candidate Glenda Jackson had forgotten to pay her $50 Academy dues, and the Academy revoked her ballot and her membership.
· Accepting his Supporting Actor Award, George Burns commented, "This is all so exciting. I've decided to keep making one movie every 36 years. You get to be new again."
· Best Director Milos Forman explained the secret of his success: "I spent more time in mental institutions than the others."
· Backstage after the Awards, Forman asked his twin sons, "Tell me anything in the world you want and I'll get it for you." His sons responded, "We want to meet that Columbo guy Peter Falk and then we want to see Jaws."
· Ken Kesey, author of the original Cuckoo's Nest novel, sued Michael Douglas for a bigger piece of the profits. He was hurt that no one mentioned him on the Awards show. "Oscar® night should have been one of the great days of my life, like my wedding. I really love movies. When they can be turned around to break your heart like this, well, it's like something you never thought would happen."
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