50th Annual Academy Awards
March 29, 1978

The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles

Your Host: Bob Hope

Televised over ABC
Opening number - "Look How Far We've Come":Debbie Reynolds & past Oscar® winners
Welcome & opening remarks:Academy President Howard W. Koch
Explanation of voting rules:Past Academy Presidents Bette Davis & Gregory Peck
Supporting Actress:John Travolta
Special Achievement Awards:Mark Hamill, R2D2 & C-3PO
Animated Short Film:Mickey Mouse, Jodie Foster & Paul Williams
Live Action Short Film:Jodie Foster & Paul Williams
Sound:William Holden & Barbara Stanwyck
Visual Effects:Joan Fontaine
Documentary Awards:Kirk Douglas & Raquel Welch
Scientific or Technical Awards:Billy Dee Williams
Art Direction:Greer Garson & Henry Winkler
Foreign Film:Eva Marie Saint & Jack Valenti
Supporting Actor:Michael Caine & Maggie Smith
Jason Robards was not present at the ceremony.
Costume Design:Natalie Wood
Scoring Awards:Johnny Green, Henry Mancini & Olivia Newton-John
Cinematography:Goldie Hawn & Jon Voight
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award:Bette Davis
In Memoriam - "Come Light the Candles":Marvin Hamlisch & Sammy Davis Jr.
Honorary Award to Margaret Booth:Olivia de Havilland
Film Editing:Farrah Fawcett-Majors & Marcello Mastroianni
Song:Fred Astaire
Thalberg Award:Stanley Kramer
Director:Cecily Tyson & King Vidor
Woody Allen was not present at the ceremony.
Writing Awards:Paddy Chayefsky
Original Screenplay co-winner Woody Allen was not present at the ceremony.
Actress:Janet Gaynor & Walter Matthau
View Diane Keaton's acceptance speech at (1:05)
Actor:Sylvester Stallone
Best Picture:Jack Nicholson
"Candle on the Water"-- Gloria Loring
"Nobody Does It Better"-- Aretha Franklin
"The Slipper and the Rose Waltz"-- Jane Powell
"Someone's Waiting for You"-- Gloria Loring
"You Light Up My Life"-- Debby Boone & a "signing" chorus of "eleven young ladies affiliated with the John Tracy Clinic for the Deaf," who were actually students from Torrance, CA, and signing gibberish

Diane Keaton and Richard Dreyfuss with their Awards for Best Actress and Best Actor
John Mollo with his Oscar® for Best Costume Design
Charlton Heston (with presenter Bette Davis) and his Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Cinematography winner Vilmos Zsigmond with presenters Jon Voight and Goldie Hawn

Best friends and presenters William Holden and Barbara Stanwyck
Show Producer:Howard W. Koch
Telecast Director for ABC:Marty Pasetta
Writing credits (in alphabetical order):William Ludwig
Leonard Spigelgass
Musical Director:Nelson Riddle