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Best Picture
 ANNIE HALL - Rollins-Joffe, UA. Produced by Charles H. Joffe
 THE GOODBYE GIRL - Stark, MGM/Warner Bros. Produced by Ray Stark
JULIA - 20th Century-Fox. Produced by Richard Roth
STAR WARS (Won 7 Awards) - 20th Century-Fox. Produced by Gary Kurtz
THE TURNING POINT - Hera Productions, 20th Century-Fox. Produced by Herbert Ross and Arthur Laurents
Actor
Woody Allen in ANNIE HALL
Richard Burton in EQUUS
Richard Dreyfuss in THE GOODBYE GIRL
Marcello Mastroianni in A SPECIAL DAY
John Travolta in SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER
Actress
Anne Bancroft in THE TURNING POINT
Jane Fonda in JULIA
Diane Keaton in ANNIE HALL
Shirley MacLaine in THE TURNING POINT
Marsha Mason in THE GOODBYE GIRL
Supporting Actor
Mikhail Baryshnikov in THE TURNING POINT
Peter Firth in EQUUS
Alec Guinness in STAR WARS
Jason Robards in JULIA
Maximilian Schell in JULIA
Supporting Actress
Leslie Browne in THE TURNING POINT
Quinn Cummings in THE GOODBYE GIRL
Melinda Dillon in CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
Vanessa Redgrave in JULIA
Tuesday Weld in LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR
Director
Woody Allen for ANNIE HALL
George Lucas for STAR WARS
Herbert Ross for THE TURNING POINT
Steven Spielberg for CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
Fred Zinnemann for JULIA
Writing: Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Woody Allen & Marshall Brickman - ANNIE HALL
Neil Simon - THE GOODBYE GIRL
Robert Benton - THE LATE SHOW
George Lucas - STAR WARS
Arthur Laurents - THE TURNING POINT
Writing: Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
Peter Shaffer - EQUUS
Gavin Lambert & Lewis John Carlino - I NEVER PROMISED YOU A ROSE GARDEN
Alvin Sargent - JULIA
Larry Gelbart - OH, GOD!
Luis Buñel & Jean-Claude Carrière - CET OBSCUR OBJET DU DÉSIR (THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE)
Foreign Language Film
IPHIGENIA (Greece)
LA VIE DEVANT SOI (MADAME ROSA, France)
MIVTSA YONATAN (OPERATION THUNDERBOLT, Israel)
UNA GIORNATA PARTICOLARE (A SPECIAL DAY, Italy)
CET OBSCUR OBJET DU DÉSIR (THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE, Spain)
Art Direction/Set Decoration
George C. Webb - Art Direction, Mickey S. Michaels - Set Decoration AIRPORT '77
Joe Alves & Dan Lomino - Art Direction, Phil Abramson - Set Decoration CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
Jonathan Barry, Norman Reynolds & Leslie Dilley - Art Direction, Roger Christian - Set Decoration STAR WARS
Ken Adam, Peter Lamont & Hugh Scaife - Art Direction THE SPY WHO LOVED ME
Albert Brenner - Art Direction, Marvin March - Set Decoration THE TURNING POINT
Cinematography
Vilmos Zsigmond - CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
Fred J. Koenekamp - ISLANDS IN THE STREAM
Douglas Slocombe - JULIA
William A. Fraker - LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR
Robert L. Surtees - THE TURNING POINT
Costume Design
Edith Head & Burton F. Miller - AIRPORT '77
Anthea Sylbert - JULIA
Florence Klotz - A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
Irene Sharaff - THE OTHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT
John Mollo - STAR WARS
Documentary (Features)
Robert Dornhelm & Earle Mack - Producers THE CHILDREN OF THEATRE STREET
Bill Brind, Torben Schioler & Tony Ianzelo - Producers HIGH GRASS CIRCUS
Harry Rasky - Producer HOMAGE TO CHAGALL: THE COLOURS OF LOVE
James Klein, Julia Reichert & Miles Mogulescu - Producers UNION MAIDS
John Korty, Dan McCann & Warren L. Lockhart - Producers WHO ARE THE DEBOLTS? AND WHERE DID THEY GET NINETEEN KIDS?
Documentary (Short Subjects)
Moctesuma Esparza - Producer AGUEDA MARTINEZ: OUR PEOPLE, OUR COUNTRY
Helen Whitney & DeWitt L. Sage, Jr. - Producers FIRST EDITION
John Joseph & Jan Stussy - Producers GRAVITY IS MY ENEMY
James R. Messenger & Paul N. Raimondi - Producers OF TIME, TOMBS AND TREASURE
Douglas Gordon - Producer THE SHETLAND EXPERIENCE
Film Editing
Michael Kahn - CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
Walter Murch - JULIA
Walter Hannemann & Angelo Ross - SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT
Marcia Lucas, Paul Hirsch & Richard Chew - STAR WARS
William H. Reynolds - THE TURNING POINT
Music: Original Score
John Williams - CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
Maurice Jarre - MOHAMMAD, MESSENGER OF GOD
Georges Delerue - JULIA
Marvin Hamlisch - THE SPY WHO LOVED ME
John Williams - STAR WARS
Music: Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score
Jonathan Tunick - A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
Al Kasha & Joel Hirschhorn - Song Score, Irwin Kostal - PETE'S DRAGON
Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman - Song Score, Angela Morley - THE SLIPPER AND THE ROSE: THE STORY OF CINDERELLA
Music: Original Song
Al Kasha & Joel Hirschhorn - Music & Lyric PETE'S DRAGON "Candle on the Water"
Marvin Hamlisch - Music, Carole Bayer Sager - Lyric THE SPY WHO LOVED ME "Nobody Does It Better"
Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman - Music & Lyric THE SLIPPER AND THE ROSE: THE STORY OF CINDERELLA "The Slipper and the Rose Waltz (He Danced with Me/She Danced with Me)"
Sammy Fain - Music, Carol Connors & Ayn Robbins - Lyric THE RESCUERS "Someone's Waiting for You"
Joseph Brooks - Music & Lyric YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE "You Light Up My Life" 
Short Films (Animated)
Ishu Patel - Producer THE BEAD GAME
John Hubley, Faith Hubley & Garry Trudeau - Producers THE DOONESBURY SPECIAL
James Picker, Robert Grossman & Craig Whitaker - Producers JIMMY THE C
Co Hoedeman - Producer SAND CASTLE
Short Films (Live Action)
William E. McEuen - Producer THE ABSENT-MINDED WAITER
Jerry Butts - Producer FLOATING FREE
Beverly Shaffer & Yuki Yoshida - Producers I'LL FIND A WAY
Saul Bass - Producer NOTES ON THE POPULAR ARTS
Philip Dauber - Producer SPACEBORNE
Sound
Robert Knudson, Robert J. Glass, Don MacDougall & Gene S. Cantamessa - CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
Walter Goss, Dick Alexander, Tom Beckert & Robin Gregory - THE DEEP
Robert Knudson, Robert J. Glass, Richard Tyler & Jean-Louis Ducarme - SORCERER
Don MacDougall, Ray West, Bob Minkler & Derek Ball - STAR WARS
Theodore Soderberg, Paul Wells, Douglas O. Williams & Jerry Jost - THE TURNING POINT
Visual Effects
Roy Arbogast, Douglas Trumbull, Matthew Yuricich, Gregory Jein & Richard Yuricich - CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
John Stears, John C. Dykstra, Richard Edlund, Grant McCune & Robert Blalack - STAR WARS
Special Achievement Awards
Ben Burtt - For the creation of the alien, creature and robot voices featured in STAR WARS.
Frank E. Warner - Sound Effects Editing - CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
Scientific Or Technical
Class I (Statuette):
Garrett Brown (Cinema Product Corporation Engineering Staff) & John Jurgens - Supervisor - For the invention and development of the Steadicam.
Class II (Plaque):
 Joseph D. Kelly, Emory M. Cohen, Barry K. Henley, Hammond H. Holt & John Agalsoff (Glen Glenn Sound) - For the concept and development of a post-production audio processing system for motion picture films.
Panavision, Inc. - For the concept and engineering of the improvements incorporated in the Panaflex motion picture camera.
N. Paul Kenworthy, Jr. & William R. Latady - For the invention and development of the Kenworthy Snorkel Camera System for motion picture photography.
John C. Dykstra - for the development of the Dykstraflex camera, and to Alvah J. Miller & Jerry Jeffress - For the engineering of the Electronic Motion Control System used in concert for multiple exposure visual effects motion picture photography.
Eastman Kodak Company - For the development and introduction of a new duplicating film for motion pictures.
Stefan Kudelski (Nagra Magnetic Recorders Inc.) - For the engineering of the improvements incorporated in the Nagra 4.2L sound recorder for motion picture production.
Class III (Citation):
 Ernst F. Nettmann (Astrovision Division of Continental Camera Systems Inc.) - For the engineering of its Periscope Aerial Camera System.
Electronic Engineering Company of California (EECO) - For developing a method for interlocking non-sprocketed film and tape media used in motion picture production.
Dr. Bernhard Kuhl & Dr. Werner Block (Osram GmbH) - For the development of the HMI high-efficiency discharge lamp for motion picture lighting.
Panavision Inc. - For the design of Panalite, a camera-mounted controllable light for motion picture photography.
Panavision Inc. - For the engineering of the Panahead gearhead for motion picture cameras.
Piclear Inc. - For originating and developing an attachment to motion picture projectors to improve screen image quality.
Honorary and Other Awards
Margaret Booth - For her exceptional contribution to the art of film editing in the motion picture industry. Winner presented a Statuette.
Gordon E. Sawyer - Presented in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Winner presented with a Medal of Commendation.
Sidney Paul Solow - Presented in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Winner presented with a Medal of Commendation.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Walter Mirisch
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Charlton Heston
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FIRSTS
· At 29, Richard Dreyfuss becomes the youngest Best Actor winner.
· Woody Allen's nominations make him the first person up for Actor, Director and Screenplay since Orson Welles for Citizen Kane in 1941.
· Allen wins Best Director and Original Screenplay, the first to do so since Joe Mankiewicz's double wins in 1949 & 1950.
· Mikhail Baryshnikov, Peter Firth, Leslie Browne and Quinn Cummings nominated for film debuts.
RULE CHANGES
Visual Effects made a regular competitive Award although no longer called "Special" Visual Effects.
SINS OF OMISSION
Picture: Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Saturday Night Fever
Foreign Film: Soldier of Orange (Netherlands)
Song Score: The Bee Gees chart-busting score for Saturday Night Fever was completely overlooked by the Academy's nominating committee. Producer Robert Stigwood protested to no avail.
Song: "The Greatest Love of All;" any of the songs from Saturday Night Fever
ROLE REVERSALS
Director Herbert Ross almost snared Grace Kelly out of retirement for The Turning Point, until Prince Ranier put his royal foot down. Her co-star was to have been Audrey Hepburn.
ALWAYS A BRIDESMAID...
The Turning Point becae the most- nominated film (11) that failed to score.
UNMENTIONABLES
· Close Encounters was originally titled Watch the Skies.
· "The New Woody Allen Film" had a working title of Anhedonia (i.e., the inability to enjoy oneself).
· The Goodbye Girl began life as Bogart Slept Here, with Robert De Niro directed by Mike Nichols. After two weeks of filming, De Niro was out of the picture. Writer Neil Simon said, "Robert De Niro is a very intense actor. He doesn't play joy very well."
· George Lucas spent three years writing the screenplay for Star Wars. Fox had advanced him $15,000; Lucas did not ask for more money.
· Costing $10 million, Star Wars became the most profitable film in history.
· In addition to Annie Hall, Diane Keaton was praised for her performance in Richard Brooks' Looking for Mr. Goodbar, even though the film was blasted by critics.
· Producer Richard Roth on Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave in Julia: "Why not? It was perfect symmetry. The two most famous left-wing women of the '70s playing two left-wing women of the '30s. I liked it. Of course the fact that Jane and Vanessa were both terrific actresses didn't hurt, either. Not to mention they both agreed to work cheap."
· Richard Burton starred in two commercial flops: The Exorcist II, The Heretic and Equus. But his reviews for the latter gave UA material for an Oscar® campaign.
· Steven Spielberg cast a tight cloak of security around Close Encounters. Cast and crew were forbidden to discuss the movie's content in interviews. Richard Dreyfuss told a reporter, "If I told you anything, Steven would kill me. All I can say is that in Jaws, the shark was the star of the film; in this film, the film is the star of the film."
· John Travolta trained 3 months for the acrobatic dancing scenes in Saturday Night Fever and, to ensure a dashing image, sewed his shirt into his pants so that his shirttails would not come flying out as he swaggered across the 2001 disco's illuminated dance floor. Travolta received rave reviews.
· 20th Century-Fox, headed by Alan Ladd Jr., received 33 nominations for 1977 for Julia, Star Wars and The Turning Point, all of which were nominated for Best Picture.
· The Jewish Defense League protested against Vanessa Redgrave's pro-Palestinian stance by releasing white mice into theatres exhibiting Julia, calling in bomb threats to theatres showing her film The Palestinian, and picketing producer Roth's home, forcing him to move into the Beverly Hills Hotel until after the Awards show.
· On Awards night, 75 members of the JDL shouted and waved anti-Redgrave signs outside the Chandler, while nearby some 200 PLO members and sympathizers demonstrated in support of the nominee.
· Redgrave herself pulled up at the stage door in an ambulance.
· Awards show producer Howard W. Koch and "Executive Talent Consultant" Allan Carr assembled nearly four dozen Oscar® winners for the ceremonies.
· Farah Fawcett's advisors turned down Laurence Olivier and Cary Grant for her co-presenters. They settled for Marcello Mastroianni.
· Woody Allen wasn't at the ceremonies; he was at his usual Monday night gig playing clarinet with the New Orleans Marching and Funeral Band at Michael's Pub on Manhattan's East Side.
· Regrave ignited a night of controversy with her Supporting Actress acceptance speech early in the show that included the line, "You should be very proud that you've stood firm and have refused to be intimidated by the threats of a small bunch of Zionist hoodlums."
· Debbie Boone performed the Oscar® winner "You Light Up My Life" with a phony sign-language chorus of children pretending to be deaf.
· A year later, Woody Allen said, "I know it sounds horrible, but winning that Oscar® for Annie Hall didn't mean anthing to me. I have no regard for that kind of ceremony."
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