Oscar Nominations and Winners (1977)

Best Picture

• Annie Hall
• The Goodbye Girl
• Julia
• Star Wars
• The Turning Point

Best Director

• Woody Allen (Annie Hall)
• George Lucas (Star Wars)
• Herbert Ross (The Turning Point)
• Steven Spielberg (Close Encounters of the Third Kind)
• Fred Zinnemann (Julia)

Best 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)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Mikhail Baryshnikov (The Turning Point)
• Peter Firth (Equus)
• Alec Guinness (Star Wars)
• Jason Robards (Julia)
• Maximilian Schell (Julia)

Best Actress in a Leading Role

• Ann Brancroft (The Turning Point)
• Jane Fonda (Julia)
• Diane Keaton (Annie Hall)
• Shirley MacLaine (The Turning Point)
• Marsha Mason (The Goodbye Girl)

Best 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)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• 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 Bunuel and Jean-Claude Carriere)

Best Original Screenplay

• 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)

Best Foreign Language Film

• Iphigenia (Greece)
• Madame Rosa (France)
• Operation Thunderbolt (Israel)
• A Special Day (Italy)
• That Obscure Object of Desire (Spain)

Art Direction

• Airport '77
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• The Spy Who Loved Me
• Star Wars
• The Turning Point

Cinematography

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Islands int he Stream
• Julia
• Lookign for Mr. Goodbar
• The Turning Point

Costume Design

• Airport '77
• Julia
• A Little Night Music
• The Other Side of Midnight
• Star Wars

Documentary Feature

• The Children of Theatre Street
• High Grass Circus
• Homage to Chagall - The Colours of Love
• Union Maids
• Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?

Documentary Short Subject

• Agueda Martinez: Our People, Our Country
• First Edition
• Gravity is My Enemy
• Of Time, Tombs and Treasures
• The Shetland Experience

Film Editing

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Julia
• Smokey and the Bandit
• Star Wars
• The Turning Point

Adaptation Score

• A Little Night Music (Jonathon Tunick)
• Pete's Dragon (Al Kasha, Joel Hirschhorn and Irwin Kostal)
• The Slipper and the Rose - The Story of Cinderella (Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman and Angela Morley)

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)

Original Song

• "Candle on the Water" (Pete's Dragon) Music and Lyrics by Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn.
• "Nobody Does it Better" (The Spy Who Loved Me) Music by Marvin Hamlisch Lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager.
• "The Slipper and the Rose Waltz (He Danced With Me/She Danced With Me)" (The Slipper and the Rose - The Story of Cinderella) Music and Lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman.
• "Someone's Waiting For You" (The Rescuers) Music by Sammy Fain. Lyrics by Carol Conners and Ayn Robbins.
• "You Light Up My Life" (You Light Up My Life) Music and Lyrics by Joseph Brooks.

Animated Short Film

• The Bead Game
• The Doonesbury Special
• Jimmy the C
• Sand Castle

Live Action Short Film

• The Absent-Minded Waiter
• Floating Free
• I'll Find a Way
• Notes on the Popular Arts
• Spaceborne

Sound

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• The Deep
• Sorcerer
• Star Wars
• The Turning Point

Sound Editing

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Sound Effects Creations

• Star Wars

Visual Effects

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Star Wars