1976 Film Year: Oscar Winners & Nominees
The AwardWentTo archive contains 103 Academy Award records for the 1976 film year, covering 50 films and including 23 wins.
Years follow the source film eligibility/dataset year, which may differ from the ceremony calendar year. Counts describe film-linked archive records, including historical and special-award context where supplied.
Best Picture result
- ★ RockyIrwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff, Producers
5 Best Picture award records for this film year. See the full result · Best Picture history
Acting category results
Leading winning films
Ranked by winning records in this film-year selection.
- Network
4 wins from 10 award records
- All the President's Men
4 wins from 8 award records
- Rocky
3 wins from 10 award records
- Bound for Glory
2 wins from 6 award records
- A Star Is Born
1 win from 4 award records
- King Kong
1 win from 3 award records
Category winners
Select a category to explore its history, or jump to this year's full records.
Nominations and award records by category
Showing 103 of 103 archive records. Gold stars mark winning records.
Best Picture
- ★ Rocky IMDB — Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff, Producers
- All the President's Men IMDB — Walter Coblenz, Producer
- Bound for Glory IMDB — Robert F. Blumofe and Harold Leventhal, Producers
- Network IMDB — Howard Gottfried, Producer
- Taxi Driver IMDB — Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips, Producers
Best Actor
- ★ Network IMDB — Peter FinchHoward Beale
- Taxi Driver IMDB — Robert De NiroTravis Bickle
- Seven Beauties IMDB — Giancarlo GianniniPasqualino Frafuso
- Network IMDB — William HoldenMax Schumacher
- Rocky IMDB — Sylvester StalloneRocky Balboa
Best Supporting Actor
- ★ All the President's Men IMDB — Jason RobardsBen Bradlee
- Network IMDB — Ned BeattyArthur Jensen
- Rocky IMDB — Burgess MeredithMickey
- Marathon Man IMDB — Laurence OlivierSzell
- Rocky IMDB — Burt YoungPaulie
Best Actress
- ★ Network IMDB — Faye DunawayDiana Christensen
- Cousin, Cousine IMDB — Marie-Christine BarraultMarthe
- Rocky IMDB — Talia ShireAdrian
- Carrie IMDB — Sissy SpacekCarrie White
- Face to Face IMDB — Liv UllmannDr. Jenny Isaksson
Best Supporting Actress
- ★ Network IMDB — Beatrice StraightLouise Schumacher
- All the President's Men IMDB — Jane AlexanderThe Bookkeeper
- Taxi Driver IMDB — Jodie FosterIris
- Voyage of the Damned IMDB — Lee GrantLilian Rosen
- Carrie IMDB — Piper LaurieMargaret White
Art Direction
- ★ All the President's Men IMDB — Art Direction: George Jenkins; Set Decoration: George Gaines
- The Incredible Sarah IMDB — Art Direction: Elliot Scott, Norman Reynolds; Set Decoration: Peter Howitt
- The Last Tycoon IMDB — Art Direction: Gene Callahan, Jack Collis; Set Decoration: Jerry Wunderlich
- Logan's Run IMDB — Art Direction: Dale Hennesy; Set Decoration: Robert de Vestel
- The Shootist IMDB — Art Direction: Robert F. Boyle; Set Decoration: Arthur Jeph Parker
Cinematography
Costume Design
Best Director
Documentary Feature
- ★ Harlan County, U.S.A. IMDB — Barbara Kopple, Producer
- Hollywood on Trial IMDB — James Gutman and David Helpern, Jr., Producers
- Off the Edge IMDB — Michael Firth, Producer
- People of the Wind IMDB — Anthony Howarth and David Koff, Producers
- Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry IMDB — Donald Brittain and Robert Duncan, Producers
Documentary Short Subject
- ★ Number Our Days IMDB — Lynne Littman, Producer
- American Shoeshine IMDB — Sparky Greene, Producer
- Blackwood IMDB — Tony Ianzelo and Andy Thomson, Producers
- The End of the Road IMDB — John Armstrong, Producer
- Universe IMDB — Lester Novros, Producer
Film Editing
- ★ Rocky IMDB — Richard Halsey, Scott Conrad
- All the President's Men IMDB — Robert L. Wolfe
- Bound for Glory IMDB — Robert Jones, Pembroke J. Herring
- Network IMDB — Alan Heim
- Two-Minute Warning IMDB — Eve Newman, Walter Hannemann
International Feature Film
- ★ Black and White in Color IMDB — Ivory Coast
- Cousin, Cousine IMDB — France
- Jacob, the Liar IMDB — German Democratic Republic
- Nights and Days IMDB — Poland
- Seven Beauties IMDB — Italy
Original Score
Original Song
- ★ A Star Is Born IMDB — Music by Barbra Streisand; Lyrics by Paul WilliamsEvergreen (Love Theme From A Star Is Born)
- Half a House IMDB — Music by Sammy Fain; Lyrics by Paul Francis WebsterA World That Never Was
- The Omen IMDB — Music and Lyrics by Jerry GoldsmithAve Satani
- The Pink Panther Strikes Again IMDB — Music by Henry Mancini; Lyrics by Don BlackCome To Me
- Rocky IMDB — Music by Bill Conti; Lyrics by Carol Connors and Ayn RobbinsGonna Fly Now
Music (Original Song Score or Adaptation Score)
- ★ Bound for Glory IMDB — Adaptation Score by Leonard Rosenman
- Bugsy Malone IMDB — Song Score and Adaptation Score by Paul Williams
- A Star Is Born IMDB — Adaptation Score by Roger Kellaway
Animated Short Film
Live Action Short Film
- ★ In the Region of Ice IMDB — Andre Guttfreund and Peter Werner, Producers
- Kudzu IMDB — Marjorie Anne Short, Producer
- The Morning Spider IMDB — Julian Chagrin and Claude Chagrin, Producers
- Nightlife IMDB — Claire Wilbur and Robin Lehman, Producers
- Number One IMDB — Dyan Cannon and Vince Cannon, Producers
Sound Mixing
- ★ All the President's Men IMDB — Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Dick Alexander, Jim Webb
- King Kong IMDB — Harry Warren Tetrick, William McCaughey, Aaron Rochin, Jack Solomon
- Rocky IMDB — Harry Warren Tetrick, William McCaughey, Lyle Burbridge, Bud Alper
- Silver Streak IMDB — Donald Mitchell, Douglas Williams, Richard Tyler, Hal Etherington
- A Star Is Born IMDB — Robert Knudson, Dan Wallin, Robert Glass, Tom Overton
Special Achievement Award (Visual Effects)
- ★ King Kong IMDB — Carlo Rambaldi, Glen Robinson, Frank Van der Veer
- ★ Logan's Run IMDB — L. B. Abbott, Glen Robinson, Matthew Yuricich
Adapted Screenplay
- ★ All the President's Men IMDB — William Goldman
- Bound for Glory IMDB — Robert Getchell
- Fellini's Casanova IMDB — Federico Fellini, Bernardino Zapponi
- The Seven-per-cent Solution IMDB — Nicholas Meyer
- Voyage of the Damned IMDB — Steve Shagan, David Butler
Original Screenplay
- ★ Network IMDB — Paddy Chayefsky
- Cousin, Cousine IMDB — Story and Screenplay by Jean-Charles Tacchella; Adaptation by Daniele Thompson
- The Front IMDB — Walter Bernstein
- Rocky IMDB — Sylvester Stallone
- Seven Beauties IMDB — Lina Wertmüller
Nominated films and other recorded entries
50 films represented in the 1976 archive selection.
- A Star Is Born
- All the President's Men
- American Shoeshine
- Black and White in Color
- Blackwood
- Bound for Glory
- Bugsy Malone
- Carrie
- Cousin, Cousine
- Dedalo
- Face to Face
- Fellini's Casanova
- Half a House
- Harlan County, U.S.A.
- Hollywood on Trial
- In the Region of Ice
- Jacob, the Liar
- King Kong
- Kudzu
- Leisure
- Logan's Run
- Marathon Man
- Network
- Nightlife
- Nights and Days
- Number One
- Number Our Days
- Obsession
- Off the Edge
- People of the Wind
- Rocky
- Seven Beauties
- Silver Streak
- Taxi Driver
- The End of the Road
- The Front
- The Incredible Sarah
- The Last Tycoon
- The Morning Spider
- The Omen
- The Outlaw Josey Wales
- The Passover Plot
- The Pink Panther Strikes Again
- The Seven-per-cent Solution
- The Shootist
- The Street
- Two-Minute Warning
- Universe
- Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry
- Voyage of the Damned
About these award records
This independent archive groups film-linked award records by film, credited name, category and eligibility year. The film year can differ from the year the ceremony took place. Ceremony numbers are shown where supplied by the records.
Each distinct performance, song or award credit remains a separate record, even when it belongs to the same film. Shared credits stay together. A person's page covers the name shown, without combining aliases or shared credits into a complete career total.
Totals can include honorary, special and historical awards alongside competitive nominations. Awards without a linked film are outside these page totals. Source notes and uncertain records are retained; category comparisons omit groups with unresolved notes, ties or conflicting identities.
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