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Best Picture
 ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN (Won 4 Awards) - Wildwood, Warner Bros. Produced by Walter Coblenz
BOUND FOR GLORY - UA. Produced by Robert F. Blumofe & Harold Leventhal
NETWORK (Won 4 Awards) - Gottfried/Chayefsky, MGM/UA. Produced by Howard Gottfried
 ROCKY - Chartoff-Winkler, UA. Produced by Irwin Winkler & Robert Chartoff
TAXI DRIVER - Bill/Phillips-Scorsese, Columbia. Produced by Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips
Actor
Robert De Niro in TAXI DRIVER
Peter Finch in NETWORK
Giancarlo Giannini in PASQUALINO SETTEBELLEZZE (SEVEN BEAUTIES)
William Holden in NETWORK
Sylvester Stallone in ROCKY
Actress
Marie-Christine Barrault in COUSIN, COUSINE
Faye Dunaway in NETWORK
Talia Shire in ROCKY
Sissy Spacek in CARRIE
Liv Ullmann in ANSIKTE MOT ANSIKTE (FACE TO FACE)
Supporting Actor
Ned Beatty in NETWORK
Burgess Meredith in ROCKY
Laurence Olivier in MARATHON MAN
Jason Robards in ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN
Burt Young in ROCKY
Supporting Actress
Jane Alexander in ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN
Jodie Foster in TAXI DRIVER
Lee Grant in VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED
Piper Laurie in CARRIE
Beatrice Straight in NETWORK
Director
John G. Avildsen for ROCKY
Ingmar Bergman for ANSIKTE MOT ANSIKTE (FACE TO FACE)
Sidney Lumet for NETWORK
Alan J. Pakula for ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN
Lina Wertmuller for PASQUALINO SETTEBELLEZZE (SEVEN BEAUTIES)
Writing: Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Jean-Charles Tacchella & Daniele Thompson - COUSIN, COUSINE
Walter Bernstein - THE FRONT
Paddy Chayefsky - NETWORK
Sylvester Stallone - ROCKY
Lina Wertmuller - PASQUALINO SETTEBELLEZZE (SEVEN BEAUTIES)
Writing: Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
William Goldman - ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN
Robert Getchell - BOUND FOR GLORY
Federico Fellini & Bernadino Zapponi - FELLINI'S CASANOVA
Nicholas Meyer - THE SEVEN PER-CENT SOLUTION
Steve Shagan & David Butler - VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED
Foreign Language Film
NOIRS ET BLANCS EN COULEUR (BLACK AND WHITE IN COLOR, Ivory Coast)
COUSIN, COUSINE (France)
JAKOB, DER LÜGNER (JACOB, THE LIAR, East Germany)
NOCE I DNIE (NIGHTS AND DAYS, Poland)
PASQUALINO SETTEBELLEZZE (SEVEN BEAUTIES, Italy)
Art Direction/Set Decoration
George Jenkins - Art Direction, George Gaines - Set Decoration ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN
Elliot Scott & Norman Reynolds - Art Direction, Peter Howitt - Set Decoration THE INCREDIBLE SARAH
Gene Callahan & Jack Collis - Art Direction, Jerry Wunderlich - Set Decoration THE LAST TYCOON
Dale Hennesy - Art Direction, Robert DeVestel - Set Decoration LOGAN'S RUN
Robert F. Boyle - Art Direction, Arthur Jeph Parker - Set Decoration THE SHOOTIST
Cinematography
Haskell Wexler - BOUND FOR GLORY
Richard H. Kline - KING KONG
Ernest Laszlo - LOGAN'S RUN
Owen Roizman - NETWORK
Robert L. Surtees - A STAR IS BORN
Costume Design
William Theiss - BOUND FOR GLORY
Danilo Donati - FELLINI'S CASANOVA
Anthony Mendleson - THE INCREDIBLE SARAH
Mary Wills - THE PASSOVER PLOT
Alan Barrett - THE SEVEN PER-CENT SOLUTION
Documentary (Features)
Barbara Kopple - Producer HARLAN COUNTY, U.S.A.
James Gutman & David Helpern, Jr. - Producers HOLLYWOOD ON TRIAL
Michael Firth - Producer OFF THE EDGE
Anthony Howarth & David Koff - Producers PEOPLE OF THE WIND
Donald Brittain & Robert Duncan - Producers VOLCANO: AN INQUIRY INTO THE LIFE AND DEATH OF MALCOLM LOWRY
Documentary (Short Subjects)
Sparky Greene - Producer AMERICAN SHOESHINE
Tony Ianzelo & Andy Thompson - Producers BLACKWOOD
John Armstrong - Producer THE END OF THE ROAD
Lynne Littman - Producer NUMBER OUR DAYS
Lester Novros - Producer UNIVERSE
Film Editing
Robert L. Wolfe - ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN
Robert Jones & Pembroke J. Herring - BOUND FOR GLORY
Alan Heim - NETWORK
Richard Halsey & Scott Conrad - ROCKY
Eve Newman & Walter Hannemann - TWO-MINUTE WARNING
Music: Original Score
Bernard Herrmann - OBSESSION
Jerry Goldsmith - THE OMEN
Jerry Fielding - THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES
Bernard Herrmann - TAXI DRIVER
Lalo Schifrin - VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED
Music: Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score
Leonard Rosenman - BOUND FOR GLORY
Paul Williams - BUGSY MALONE
Roger Kellaway - A STAR IS BORN
Music: Original Song
Jerry Goldsmith - Music & Lyric THE OMEN "Ave Satani"
Henry Mancini - Music, Don Black - Lyric THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN "Come to Me"
Barbra Streisand - Music, Paul Williams - Lyric A STAR IS BORN "Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)" 
Bill Conti - Music, Carol Connors & Ayn Robbins - Lyric ROCKY "Gonna Fly Now"
Sammy Fain - Music, Paul Francis Webster - Lyric HALF A HOUSE "A World that Never Was"
Short Films (Animated)
Manfredo Manfredi - Producer DEDALO
Suzanne Baker - Producer LEISURE
Caroline Leaf & Guy Glover - Producers THE STREET
Short Films (Live Action)
Andre Guttfreund & Peter Werner - Producers IN THE REGION OF ICE
Marjorie Anne Short - Producer KUDZU
Julian Chagrin & Claude Chagrin - Producers THE MORNING SPIDER
Claire Wilbur & Robin Lehman - Producers NIGHTLIFE
Dyan Cannon & Vince Cannon - Producers NUMBER ONE
Sound
Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Dick Alexander & Jim Webb - ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN
Harry Warren Tetrick, William McCaughey, Aaron Rochin & Jack Solomon - KING KONG
Harry Warren Tetrick, William McCaughey, Lyle Burbridge & Bud Alper - ROCKY
Donald O. Mitchell, Douglas Williams, Richard Tyler & Hal Etherington - SILVER STREAK
Robert Knudson, Dan Wallin, Robert J. Glass & Tom Overton - A STAR IS BORN
Special Achievement Awards
Carlo Rambaldi, Glen Robinson & Frank Van Der Veer - Visual Effects KING KONG
L.B. Abbott, Glen Robinson & Matthew Yuricich - Visual Effects LOGAN'S RUN
Scientific Or Technical
Class I (Statuette):
No award given for 1976.
Class II (Plaque):
 Consolidated Film Industries & Barnebey-Cheney Company - For the development of a system for the recovery of film-cleaning solvent vapors in a motion picture laboratory.
William L. Graham, Manfred G. Michelson, Geoffrey F. Norman & Siegfried Seibert (Technicolor Corporation) - For the development and engineering of a Continuous, High-Speed, Color Motion-Picture Printing System.
Class III (Citation):
 Fred Bartscher (Kollmorgen Corporation) & Glenn M. Berggren (Schneider Corporation) - For the design and development of a single-lens magnifier for motion picture projection lenses.
Panavision, Inc. - For the design and development of super-speed lenses for motion picture photography.
Hiroshi Suzukawa (Canon Inc.) & Wilton R. Holm (AMPTP Motion Picture and Television Research Center) - For the design and development of super-speed lenses for motion-picture photography.
Carl Zeiss Company - For the design and development of super-speed lenses for motion-picture photography.
Kollmorgen Corporation Photo Research Division - For the engineering and manufacture of the Spectra TriColor Meter.
Honorary and Other Awards
No Award given for 1976.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Pandro S. Berman
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
No Award given for 1976.
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FIRSTS
· The late Peter Finch received the first posthumous Oscar® for Best Actor.
· Network is the first movie to win three acting Awards since A Streetcar Named Desire (1951).
· Beatrice Straight earned her Supporting Actress Oscar® for the 2nd briefest Award- winning screen role (10 minutes). The shortest was Anthony Quinn in Lust for Life (9 minutes, 1956).
· Lena Wertmuller vaults the gender gap as the first woman director (Seven Beauties) to be nominated.
· Burt Young nominated for film debut.
RULE CHANGES
Writing and Music category names changed.
ROLE REVERSALS
· The big studios wanted Rocky on condition that Burt Reynolds, Ryan O'Neal or James Caan play the lead.
· Jane Fonda declined Faye Dunaway's role in Network, and Henry Fonda turned down the role played by Peter Finch.
SINS OF OMISSION
Song: "Car Wash"
UNMENTIONABLES
· Rocky was inspired by the World Heavyweight Championship match between Muhammad Ali and "unknown" Chuck Wegner.
· Rocky was written in four days and filmed in less than a month for $960,000. Stallone defended his writing speed. "I'm astounded that it takes some people 18 years to write something," he said. "Like that guy who wrote Madame Bovary. And was that ever on a bestseller list? No. It was a lousy book, and it made a lousy movie."
· One of Rocky's stars, Burgess Meredith, depicted the box- office blowout as "a refreshing change after things like Taxi Driver and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest -- brilliant pictures, perhaps, but not rooting pictures. It's the difference between watching a sunset and a snake."
· Martin Scorsese had come across a Paul Schrader script called Taxi Driver about an urban vigilante, inspired by the Harry Chapin song "Taxi." But, even the involvement of the producers of The Sting and the Oscar®- winning star of The Godfather, Part II failed to persuade a single studio to fund the picture. So Scorsese, producers Julia and Michael Phillips and star Robert De Niro agreed among themselves to accept small salaries and Scorsese offered the film again to Columbia with a budget of $2 million. David Begelman took them up on it, arguing that he couldn't resist such a bargain.
· Scorsese's 12-year-old co-star Jodie Foster submitted to 4 hours of psychological tests before the California State Welfare Department would allow her to play a child prostitute in Taxi Driver.
· Composer Bernard Herrman died the day after he finished recording the Taxi Driver score.
· Robert Redford bought the film rights to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's book about how they unraveled the Watergate scandal, All the President's Men.
· Piper Laurie returned to the screen in Carrie after a 15-year absence -- she had not worked since winning a Best Actress nomination for The Hustler in 1961. "I wouldn't say I had a breakdown," Laurie explained, "I just had disgust. For a long time, I felt a real hostility about the things that happened to me in Hollywood, but now I look back on the person I was then with a kind of affection -- I didn't know if I wanted to be a movie star or a really good actress."
· Peter Finch was bitter about being entered by MGM/UA only in the Supporting Actor category. "Absolutely not!" he screamed. "Howard Beale was not a supporting role." Winning the big Oscar® became an obsession with Finch.
· John G. Avildsen found out about his nomination for Best Director when he was in producer Robert Stigwood's office getting fired from a picture called Saturday Night Fever.
· Awards show director Williams Friedkin wanted to avoid any maudlin sentimentality if Peter Finch won for Best Actor. So, he asked Network writer Paddy Chayefsky to accept on Finch's behalf. However, once he got to the podium, Chayefsky called Finch's widow, Eletha, up on stage. She gave a speech that Chayefsky had written for the occasion.
· Backstage after the Awards show, John G. Avildsen exclaimed, "I had no idea Rocky would be such a hit. I thought it was going to be the second half of a double bill at a drive-in." When asked if he would direct a sequel, Avildsen said, "You bet! I'm looking forward to it and I think Sly has already written it."
· Friedkin had more than Paddy Chayefsky's duplicity to worry about. This year's Oscar® Show received the lowest TV ratings ever.
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