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