Best Picture Annie Hall, Charles H. Joffe, producer (United Artists) The Goodbye Girl, Ray Stark, producer (MGM/Warner Bros.) Julia, Richard Roth, producer (Twentieth Century-Fox) Star Wars, Gary Kurtz, producer (Twentieth Century-Fox) The Turning Point, Herbert Ross and Arthur Laurents, producers (Twentieth Century-Fox) Actor in a Leading Role Woody Allen, Annie Hall Richard Burton, Equus Richard Dreyfuss, The Goodbye Girl Marcello Mastroianni, A Special Day John Travolta, Saturday Night Fever Actress in a Leading Role Anne Bancroft, The Turning Point Jane Fonda, Julia Diane Keaton, Annie Hall Shirley MacLaine, The Turning Point Marsha Mason, The Goodbye Girl Actor in a Supporting Role Mikhail Baryshnikov, The Turning Point Peter Firth, Equus Alec Guinness, Star Wars Jason Robards, Julia Maximilian Schell, Julia Actress in a Supporting Role Leslie Browne, The Turning Point Quinn Cummings, The Goodbye Girl Melinda Dillon, Close Encounters of the Third Kind Vanessa Redgrave, Julia Tuesday Weld, Looking for Mr. Goodbar Directing Woody Allen, Annie Hall George Lucas, Star Wars Herbert Ross, The Turning Point Steven Spielberg, Close Encounters of the Third Kind Fred Zinnemann, Julia Writing Original Screenplay Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman, Annie Hall Robert Benton, The Late Show Arthur Laurents, The Turning Point George Lucas, Star Wars Neil Simon, The Goodbye Girl Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium Luis Bu�uel and Jean-Claude Carri�re, That Obscure Object of Desire Larry Gelbart, Oh, God! Gavin Lambert and Lewis John Carlino, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Alvin Sargent, Julia Peter Shaffer, Equus Cinematography William A. Fraker, Looking for Mr. Goodbar Fred J. Koenekamp, Islands in the Stream Douglas Slocombe, Julia Robert Surtees, The Turning Point Vilmos Zsigmond, Close Encounters of the Third Kind Art Direction Ken Adam and Peter Lamont, art direction; Hugh Scaife, set decoration, The Spy Who Loved Me Joe Alves and Dan Lomino, art direction; Phil Abramson, set decoration, Close Encounters of the Third Kind John Barry, Norman Reynolds and Leslie Dilley, art direction; Roger Christian, set decoration, Star Wars Albert Brenner, art direction; Marvin March, set decoration, The Turning Point George C. Webb, art direction; Mickey S. Michaels, set decoration, Airport '77 Sound Walter Goss, Dick Alexander, Tom Beckert and Robin Gregory, The Deep Robert Knudson, Robert J. Glass, Don MacDougall and Gene S. Cantamessa, Close Encounters of the Third Kind Robert Knudson, Robert J. Glass, Richard Tyler and Jean-Louis Ducarme, Sorcerer Don MacDougall, Ray West, Bob Minkler and Derek Ball, Star Wars Theodore Soderberg, Paul Wells, Douglas O. Williams and Jerry Jost, The Turning Point Music Original Song �Candle on the Water,� Pete's Dragon, Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn, music and lyrics �Nobody Does It Better,� The Spy Who Loved Me, Marvin Hamlisch, music; Carole Bayer Sager, lyrics �The Slipper and the Rose Waltz� (He Danced With Me/She Danced With Me), The Slipper and the Rose�The Story of Cinderella, Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, music and lyrics �Someone's Waiting for You,� The Rescuers, Sammy Fain, music; Carol Connors and Ayn Robbins, lyrics �You Light Up My Life,� You Light Up My Life, Joseph Brooks, music and lyrics Original Score Georges Delerue, Julia Marvin Hamlisch, The Spy Who Loved Me Maurice Jarre, Mohammad�Messenger of God John Williams, Close Encounters of the Third Kind John Williams, Star Wars Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn, song; Irwin Kostal, adaptation, Pete's Dragon Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, song; Angela Morley, adaptation, The Slipper and the Rose�The Story of Cinderella Jonathan Tunick, A Little Night Music Film Editing Walter Hannemann and Angelo Ross, Smokey and the Bandit Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas and Richard Chew, Star Wars Michael Kahn, Close Encounters of the Third Kind Walter Murch, Julia William Reynolds, The Turning Point Costume Design Edith Head and Burton Miller, Airport '77 Florence Klotz, A Little Night Music John Mollo, Star Wars Irene Sharaff, The Other Side of Midnight Anthea Sylbert, Julia Visual Effects Roy Arbogast, Douglas Trumbull, Matthew Yuricich, Gregory Jein and Richard Yuricich, Close Encounters of the Third Kind John Stears, John Dykstra, Richard Edlund, Grant McCune and Robert Blalack, Star Wars Short Films Animated The Bead Game (Ishu Patel, producer; National Film Board of Canada) The Doonesbury Special (John Hubley, Faith Hubley and Garry Trudeau, producers; Hubley Studios) Jimmy the C (James Picker, Robert Grossman and Craig Whitaker, producers; Motionpicker Production) The Sand Castle (Co Hoedeman, producer; National Film Board of Canada) Live Action The Absent-Minded Waiter (William E. McEuen, producer; Aspen Film Society) Floating Free (Jerry Butts, producer; Trans World International) I'll Find a Way (Beverly Shaffer and Yuki Yoshida, producers; National Film Board of Canada) Notes on the Popular Arts (Saul Bass, producer; Saul Bass Films) Spaceborne (Philip Dauber, producer; Lawrence Hall of Science Production for the Regents of the University of California with the cooperation of NASA) Documentary Short Subject Agueda Martinez: Our People, Our Country (Moctesuma Esparza, producer; Moctesuma Esparza Production) First Edition (Helen Whitney and DeWitt L. Sage, Jr., producers; D.L. Sage Productions) Gravity Is My Enemy (John Joseph and Jan Stussy, producers; John Joseph Production) Of Time, Tombs and Treasure (James R. Messenger and Paul N. Raimondi, producers; Charlie/Papa Productions, Inc.) The Shetland Experience (Douglas Gordon, producer; Balfour Films) Feature The Children of Theatre Street (Robert Dornhelm and Earle Mack, producers; Mack-Vaganova Company) High Grass Circus (Bill Brind, Torben Schioler and Tony lanzelo, producers; National Film Board of Canada) Homage to Chagall�The Colours of Love (Harry Rasky, producer; CBC Production) Union Maids (James Klein, Julia Reichert and Miles Mogulescu, producers; Klein, Reichert, Mogulescu Production) Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? (Korty Films and Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates in association with Sanrio Films) Foreign Language Film Iphigenia, Greece Madame Rosa, France Operation Thunderbolt, Israel A Special Day, Italy That Obscure Object of Desire, Spain Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award Walter Mirisch Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Charlton Heston Honorary Awards To Margaret Booth for her exceptional contribution to the art of film editing in the motion picture industry To Gordon E. Sawyer in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences To Sidney P. Solow in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Sound Effects Editing Frank E. Warner, Close Encounters of the Third Kind , Benjamin Burtt, Jr. for the creation of the alien, creature and robot voices in Star Wars

Facts:

  • Winners Announced: April 3, 1978
  • Held at: Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California
  • Host: Bob Hope
  • Eligibility Year: 1977
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