48th Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1976)

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  • Date of Ceremony: Monday, March 29, 1976
  • For films released in: 1975
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Here is a complete list of nominations for the 48th Annual Academy Awards.

And the nominees are:

Best Picture

  • Barry Lyndon
    Stanley Kubrick [Producer]
  • Dog Day Afternoon
    Martin Bregman [Producer] and Martin Elfand [Producer]
  • Jaws
    Richard D. Zanuck [Producer] and David Brown [Producer]
  • Nashville
    Robert Altman [Producer]
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    Saul Zaentz [Producer] and Michael Douglas [Producer]

Best Directing

  • Amarcord
    Federico Fellini
  • Barry Lyndon
    Stanley Kubrick
  • Dog Day Afternoon
    Sidney Lumet
  • Nashville
    Robert Altman
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    Milos Forman

Best Actor

  • Dog Day Afternoon
    Al Pacino
  • Give 'em Hell, Harry!
    James Whitmore
  • The Man in the Glass Booth
    Maximilian Schell
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    Jack Nicholson
  • The Sunshine Boys
    Walter Matthau

Best Actress

  • Hedda
    Glenda Jackson
  • Hester Street
    Carol Kane
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    Louise Fletcher
  • The Story of Adele H.
    Isabelle Adjani
  • Tommy
    Ann-Margret

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

  • The Day of the Locust
    Burgess Meredith
  • Dog Day Afternoon
    Chris Sarandon
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    Brad Dourif
  • Shampoo
    Jack Warden
  • The Sunshine Boys
    George Burns

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

  • Farewell, My Lovely
    Sylvia Miles
  • Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough
    Brenda Vaccaro
  • Nashville
    Ronee Blakley
  • Nashville
    Lily Tomlin
  • Shampoo
    Lee Grant

Best Foreign Language Film

  • Dersu Uzala
  • Land of Promise
  • Letters from Marusia
  • Sandakan No. 8
  • Scent of a Woman

Best Art Direction

  • Barry Lyndon
    Ken Adam [Art Direction], Roy Walker [Art Direction] and Vernon Dixon [Set Decoration]
  • The Hindenburg
    Edward Carfagno [Art Direction] and Frank R. McKelvy [Set Decoration]
  • The Man Who Would Be King
    Alexander Trauner [Art Direction], Tony Inglis [Art Direction] and Peter James [Set Decoration]
  • Shampoo
    Richard Sylbert [Art Direction], W. Stewart Campbell [Art Direction] and George Gaines [Set Decoration]
  • The Sunshine Boys
    Albert Brenner [Art Direction] and Marvin March [Set Decoration]

Best Cinematography

  • Barry Lyndon
    John Alcott
  • The Day of the Locust
    Conrad Hall
  • Funny Lady
    James Wong Howe
  • The Hindenburg
    Robert Surtees
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    Haskell Wexler and Bill Butler

Best Costume Design

  • Barry Lyndon
    Ulla-Britt Soderlund and Milena Canonero
  • The Four Musketeers
    Yvonne Blake and Ron Talsky
  • Funny Lady
    Ray Aghayan and Bob Mackie
  • The Magic Flute
    Henry Noremark and Karin Erskine
  • The Man Who Would Be King
    Edith Head

Best Documentary (Feature)

  • The California Reich
    Walter F. Parkes and Keith F. Critchlow
  • Fighting for Our Lives
    Glen Pearcy
  • The Incredible Machine
    Irwin Rosten
  • The Man Who Skied down Everest
    F.R. Crawley, James Hager and Dale Hartleben
  • The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir
    Shirley MacLaine

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

  • Arthur and Lillie
    Jon Else, Steven Kovacs and Kristine Samuelson
  • Millions of Years Ahead of Man
    Manfred Baier
  • Probes in Space
    George V. Casey
  • The End of the Game
    Claire Wilbur and Robin Lehman
  • Whistling Smith
    Barrie Howells and Michael Scott

Best Film Editing

  • Dog Day Afternoon
    Dede Allen
  • Jaws
    Verna Fields
  • The Man Who Would Be King
    Russell Lloyd
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    Richard Chew, Lynzee Klingman and Sheldon Kahn
  • Three Days of the Condor
    Fredric Steinkamp and Don Guidice

Best Music (Scoring: Original Song Score and Adaptation -or- Scoring: Adaptation)

  • Barry Lyndon
    Leonard Rosenman [Adaptation Score by]
  • Funny Lady
    Peter Matz [Adaptation Score by]
  • Tommy
    Peter Townshend [Adaptation Score by]

Best Music (Original Score)

  • Birds Do It, Bees Do It
    Gerald Fried
  • Bite the Bullet
    Alex North
  • Jaws
    John Williams
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    Jack Nitzsche
  • The Wind and the Lion
    Jerry Goldsmith

Best Music (Original Song)

  • Funny Lady "How Lucky Can You Get"
    Fred Ebb [Music and Lyrics by] and John Kander [Music and Lyrics by]
  • Mahogany "Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)"
    Michael Masser [Music by] and Gerry Goffin [Lyrics by]
  • Nashville "I'm Easy"
    Keith Carradine [Music and Lyrics by]
  • The Other Side of the Mountain "Richard's Window"
    Charles Fox [Music by] and Norman Gimbel [Lyrics by]
  • Whiffs "Now That We're in Love"
    George Barrie [Music by] and Sammy Cahn [Lyrics by]

Best Short Film (Animated)

  • Great
    Bob Godfrey
  • Kick Me
    Robert Swarthe
  • Monsieur Pointu
    René Jodoin, Bernard Longpré and André Leduc
  • Sisyphus
    Marcell Jankovics

Best Short Film (Live Action)

  • Angel and Big Joe
    Bert Salzman
  • Conquest of Light
    Louis Marcus
  • Dawn Flight
    Lawrence M. Lansburgh and Brian Lansburgh
  • A Day in the Life of Bonnie Consolo
    Barry Spinello
  • Doubletalk
    Alan Beattie

Best Sound

  • Bite the Bullet
    Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Richard Tyler and Al Overton Jr.
  • Funny Lady
    Richard Portman, Don MacDougall, Curly Thirlwell and Jack Solomon
  • The Hindenburg
    Leonard Peterson, John A. Bolger Jr., John Mack and Don K. Sharpless
  • Jaws
    Robert L. Hoyt, Roger Heman, Earl Madery and John Carter
  • The Wind and the Lion
    Harry W. Tetrick, Aaron Rochin, William McCaughey and Roy Charman

Best Writing (Screenplay Adapted from Other Material)

  • Barry Lyndon
    Stanley Kubrick
  • The Man Who Would Be King
    John Huston and Gladys Hill
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman
  • Scent of a Woman
    Ruggero Maccari and Dino Risi
  • The Sunshine Boys
    Neil Simon

Best Writing (Original Screenplay)

  • Amarcord
    Federico Fellini and Tonino Guerra
  • And Now My Love
    Claude Lelouch and Pierre Uytterhoeven
  • Dog Day Afternoon
    Frank Pierson
  • Lies My Father Told Me
    Ted Allan
  • Shampoo
    Robert Towne and Warren Beatty
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