48th Annual Academy Awards
March 29, 1976

The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles

Your Hosts: Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, George Segal, Goldie Hawn & Gene Kelly

Televised over ABC
Taped production number "Hollywood Honors Its Own" w. live entrance:Ray Bolger
Welcome & introduction of Walter Matthau:Academy President Walter Mirisch
Supporting Actress:Joel Grey & Madeline Kahn
Lip synch performance of "Theme from Mahogony" from Amsterdam:Diana Ross
Special Achievement Awards:Robert Blake
Short Films:Marisa Berenson & O. J. Simpson
Sound:Margaux Hemingway & Roy Scheider
Documentary Awards:Beau Bridges & Marilyn Hassett
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award:Charlton Heston
Art Direction:Anthony Hopkins & Charlotte Rampling
Costume Design:Telly Savalas
Supporting Actor:Linda Blair & Ben Johnson
Scoring Awards:Rod McKuen & Marlo Thomas
Cinematography:Stockard Channing & Billy Dee Williams
Film Editing:Isabelle Adjani & Ellott Gould
Foreign Film:Jacqueline Bisset & Jack Valenti
Song:Burt Bacharach & Angie Dickinson
Thalberg Award:William Friedkin
Director:Diane Keaton & William Wyler
Writing Awards:Gore Vidal
Honorary Award to Mary Pickford:Walter Mirisch (on tape)
Actress:Charles Bronson & Jill Ireland
Actor:Art Carney
Best Picture:Audrey Hepburn
Finale - audience singalong of "America the Beautiful":led by Elizabeth Taylor
"How Lucky Can You Get"-- Bernadette Peters
"I'm Easy"-- Keith Carradine
"Now That We're in Love"-- Steve Lawrence
"Richard's Window"-- Kelly Garrett
"Theme from Mahogany"-- Diana Ross (from Amsterdam)

Best Acting winners Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher
Mary Pickford receivies her Honorary Award
Show Producer:Howard W. Koch
Telecast Director for ABC:Marty Pasetta
Musical Director:John Williams
Writing credits (in alphabetical order):Hal Kanter
Buz Kohan ("Hollywood Honors Its Own" segment
William Ludwig
Leonard Spigelgass