50th Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1978)
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- Date of Ceremony: Monday, April 3, 1978
- For films released in: 1977
Here is a complete list of nominations for the 50th Annual Academy Awards.
And the nominees are:
Best Picture
- Annie Hall
Charles H. Joffe [Producer] - The Goodbye Girl
Ray Stark [Producer] - Julia
Richard Roth [Producer] - Star Wars
Gary Kurtz [Producer] - The Turning Point
Herbert Ross [Producer] and Arthur Laurents [Producer]
Best Directing
- Annie Hall
Woody Allen - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Steven Spielberg - Julia
Fred Zinnemann - Star Wars
George Lucas - The Turning Point
Herbert Ross
Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Annie Hall
Woody Allen - Equus
Richard Burton - The Goodbye Girl
Richard Dreyfuss - Saturday Night Fever
John Travolta - A Special Day
Marcello Mastroianni
Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Annie Hall
Diane Keaton - The Goodbye Girl
Marsha Mason - Julia
Jane Fonda - The Turning Point
Anne Bancroft - The Turning Point
Shirley MacLaine
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- Equus
Peter Firth - Julia
Jason Robards - Julia
Maximilian Schell - Star Wars
Alec Guinness - The Turning Point
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Melinda Dillon - The Goodbye Girl
Quinn Cummings - Julia
Vanessa Redgrave - Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Tuesday Weld - The Turning Point
Leslie Browne
Best Foreign Language Film
- Iphigenia
- Madame Rosa
- Operation Thunderbolt
- A Special Day
- That Obscure Object of Desire
Best Art Direction
- Airport '77
George C. Webb [Art Direction] and Mickey S. Michaels [Set Decoration] - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Joe Alves [Art Direction], Dan Lomino [Art Direction] and Phil Abramson [Set Decoration] - The Spy Who Loved Me
Ken Adam [Art Direction], Peter Lamont [Art Direction] and Hugh Scaife [Set Decoration] - Star Wars
John Barry [Art Direction], Norman Reynolds [Art Direction], Leslie Dilley [Art Direction] and Roger Christian [Set Decoration] - The Turning Point
Albert Brenner [Art Direction] and Marvin March [Set Decoration]
Best Cinematography
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Vilmos Zsigmond - Islands in the Stream
Fred J. Koenekamp - Julia
Douglas Slocombe - Looking for Mr. Goodbar
William A. Fraker - The Turning Point
Robert Surtees
Best Costume Design
- Airport '77
Edith Head and Burton Miller - Julia
Anthea Sylbert - A Little Night Music
Florence Klotz - The Other Side of Midnight
Irene Sharaff - Star Wars
John Mollo
Best Documentary (Feature)
- The Children of Theatre Street
Robert Dornhelm and Earle Mack - High Grass Circus
Bill Brind, Torben Schioler and Tony Ianzelo - Homage to Chagall--The Colours of Love
Harry Rasky - Union Maids
James Klein, Julia Reichert and Miles Mogulescu - Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?
John Korty, Dan McCann and Warren L. Lockhart
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
- Agueda Martinez: Our People, Our Country
Moctesuma Esparza - First Edition
Helen Whitney and DeWitt L. Sage, Jr. - Gravity Is My Enemy
John Joseph and Jan Stussy - Of Time, Tombs and Treasure
James R. Messenger and Paul N. Raimondi - The Shetland Experience
Douglas Gordon
Best Film Editing
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Michael Kahn - Julia
Walter Murch - Smokey and the Bandit
Walter Hannemann and Angelo Ross - Star Wars
Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas and Richard Chew - The Turning Point
William Reynolds
Best Music (Original Score)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
John Williams - Julia
Georges Delerue - Mohammad - Messenger of God
Maurice Jarre - The Spy Who Loved Me
Marvin Hamlisch - Star Wars
John Williams
Best Music (Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score)
- A Little Night Music
Jonathan Tunick [Adaptation Score by] - Pete's Dragon
Al Kasha [Song Score by], Joel Hirschhorn [Song Score by] and Irwin Kostal [Adaptation Score by] - The Slipper and the Rose--The Story of Cinderella
Richard M. Sherman [Song Score by], Robert B. Sherman [Song Score by] and Angela Morely [Adaptation Score by]
Best Music (Original Song)
- Pete's Dragon "Candle on the Water"
Al Kasha [Music and Lyrics by] and Joel Hirschhorn [Music and Lyrics by] - The Rescuers "Someone's Waiting for You"
Sammy Fain [Music by], Carol Connors [Lyrics by] and Ayn Robbins [Lyrics by] - The Slipper and the Rose--The Story of Cinderella "The Slipper and the Rose Waltz (He Danced with Me/She Danced with Me)"
Richard M. Sherman [Music and Lyrics by] and Robert B. Sherman [Music and Lyrics by] - The Spy Who Loved Me "Nobody Does It Better"
Marvin Hamlisch [Music by] and Carole Bayer Sager [Lyrics by] - You Light Up My Life "You Light Up My Life"
Joseph Brooks [Music and Lyrics by]
Best Short Film (Animated)
- The Bead Game
Ishu Patel - The Doonesbury Special
John Hubley, Faith Hubley and Garry Trudeau - Jimmy the C
James Picker, Robert Grossman and Craig Whitaker - The Sand Castle
Co Hoedeman
Best Short Film (Live Action)
- The Absent-Minded Waiter
William E. McEuen - Floating Free
Jerry Butts - I'll Find a Way
Beverly Shaffer and Yuki Yoshida - Notes on the Popular Arts
Saul Bass - Spaceborne
Philip Dauber
Best Sound
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Richard Knudson, Robert J. Glass, Don MacDougall and Gene S. Cantamessa - The Deep
Walter Gross, Dick Alexander, Tom Beckert and Robin Gregory - Sorcerer
Robert Knudson, Robert J. Glass, Richard Tyler and Jean-Louis Ducarme - Star Wars
Don MacDougall, Ray West, Bob Minkler and Derek Ball - The Turning Point
Theodore Soderberg, Paul Wells, Douglas O. Williams and Jerry Jost
Best Visual Effects
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Roy Arbogast, Douglas Trumbull, Matthew Yuricich, Gregory Jein and Richard Yuricich - Star Wars
John Stears, John Dykstra, Richard Edlund, Grant McCune and Robert Blalack
Best Writing (Screenplay - based on material from another medium)
- Equus
Peter Shaffer - I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Gavin Lambert and Lewis John Carlino - Julia
Alvin Sargent - Oh, God!
Larry Gelbart - That Obscure Object of Desire
Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière
Best Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen - based on factual material or on story material not previously published or produced)
- Annie Hall
Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman - The Goodbye Girl
Neil Simon - The Late Show
Robert Benton - Star Wars
George Lucas - The Turning Point
Arthur Laurents