1977 Film Year: Oscar Winners & Nominees
The AwardWentTo archive contains 106 Academy Award records for the 1977 film year, covering 49 films and including 24 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
- ★ Annie HallCharles H. Joffe, Producer
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.
- Star Wars
7 wins from 11 award records
- Annie Hall
4 wins from 5 award records
- Julia
3 wins from 11 award records
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
2 wins from 9 award records
- The Goodbye Girl
1 win from 5 award records
- A Little Night Music
1 win from 2 award records
Category winners
Select a category to explore its history, or jump to this year's full records.
- ★ The Goodbye Girl — Elliot Garfield
- ★ Julia — Dashiell Hammett
- ★ Annie Hall — Annie Hall
- ★ Julia — Julia
- ★ You Light Up My Life — You Light Up My Life
- ★ Julia
Nominations and award records by category
Showing 106 of 106 archive records. Gold stars mark winning records.
Best Picture
- ★ Annie Hall IMDB — Charles H. Joffe, Producer
- The Goodbye Girl IMDB — Ray Stark, Producer
- Julia IMDB — Richard Roth, Producer
- Star Wars IMDB — Gary Kurtz, Producer
- The Turning Point IMDB — Herbert Ross and Arthur Laurents, Producers
Best Actor
- ★ The Goodbye Girl IMDB — Richard DreyfussElliot Garfield
- Annie Hall IMDB — Woody AllenAlvy Singer
- Equus IMDB — Richard BurtonDr. Martin Dysart
- A Special Day IMDB — Marcello MastroianniGabriele
- Saturday Night Fever IMDB — John TravoltaTony Manero
Best Supporting Actor
- ★ Julia IMDB — Jason RobardsDashiell Hammett
- The Turning Point IMDB — Mikhail BaryshnikovYuri Kopeikine
- Equus IMDB — Peter FirthAlan Strang
- Star Wars IMDB — Alec GuinnessBen 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi
- Julia IMDB — Maximilian SchellJohann
Best Actress
- ★ Annie Hall IMDB — Diane KeatonAnnie Hall
- The Turning Point IMDB — Anne BancroftEmma Jacklin
- Julia IMDB — Jane FondaLillian Hellman
- The Turning Point IMDB — Shirley MacLaineDeedee Rodgers
- The Goodbye Girl IMDB — Marsha MasonPaula McFadden
Best Supporting Actress
- ★ Julia IMDB — Vanessa RedgraveJulia
- The Turning Point IMDB — Leslie BrowneEmilia Rodgers
- The Goodbye Girl IMDB — Quinn CummingsLucy McFadden
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind IMDB — Melinda DillonJillian Guiler
- Looking for Mr. Goodbar IMDB — Tuesday WeldKatherine Dunn
Art Direction
- ★ Star Wars IMDB — Art Direction: John Barry, Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley; Set Decoration: Roger Christian
- Airport '77 IMDB — Art Direction: George C. Webb; Set Decoration: Mickey S. Michaels
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind IMDB — Art Direction: Joe Alves, Dan Lomino; Set Decoration: Phil Abramson
- The Spy Who Loved Me IMDB — Art Direction: Ken Adam, Peter Lamont; Set Decoration: Hugh Scaife
- The Turning Point IMDB — Art Direction: Albert Brenner; Set Decoration: Marvin March
Cinematography
Costume Design
- ★ Star Wars IMDB — John Mollo
- Airport '77 IMDB — Edith Head, Burton Miller
- Julia IMDB — Anthea Sylbert
- A Little Night Music IMDB — Florence Klotz
- The Other Side of Midnight IMDB — Irene Sharaff
Best Director
Documentary Feature
- ★ Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? IMDB — John Korty, Dan McCann and Warren L. Lockhart, Producers
- The Children of Theatre Street IMDB — Robert Dornhelm and Earle Mack, Producers
- High Grass Circus IMDB — Bill Brind, Torben Schioler and Tony Ianzelo, Producers
- Homage to Chagall--The Colours of Love IMDB — Harry Rasky, Producer
- Union Maids IMDB — James Klein, Julia Reichert and Miles Mogulescu, Producers
Documentary Short Subject
- ★ Gravity Is My Enemy IMDB — John Joseph and Jan Stussy, Producers
- Agueda Martinez: Our People, Our Country IMDB — Moctesuma Esparza, Producer
- First Edition IMDB — Helen Whitney and DeWitt L. Sage, Jr., Producers
- Of Time, Tombs and Treasure IMDB — James R. Messenger and Paul N. Raimondi, Producers
- The Shetland Experience IMDB — Douglas Gordon, Producer
Film Editing
- ★ Star Wars IMDB — Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas, Richard Chew
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind IMDB — Michael Kahn
- Julia IMDB — Walter Murch
- Smokey and the Bandit IMDB — Walter Hannemann, Angelo Ross
- The Turning Point IMDB — William Reynolds
International Feature Film
- ★ Madame Rosa IMDB — France
- Iphigenia IMDB — Greece
- Operation Thunderbolt IMDB — Israel
- A Special Day IMDB — Italy
- That Obscure Object of Desire IMDB — Spain
Original Score
Original Song
- ★ You Light Up My Life IMDB — Music and Lyrics by Joseph BrooksYou Light Up My Life
- Pete's Dragon IMDB — Music and Lyrics by Al Kasha and Joel HirschhornCandle On The Water
- The Spy Who Loved Me IMDB — Music by Marvin Hamlisch; Lyrics by Carole Bayer SagerNobody Does It Better
- The Slipper and the Rose--The Story of Cinderella IMDB — Music and Lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. ShermanThe Slipper And The Rose Waltz (He Danced With Me/She Danced With Me)
- The Rescuers IMDB — Music by Sammy Fain; Lyrics by Carol Connors and Ayn RobbinsSomeone's Waiting For You
Music (Original Song Score or Adaptation Score)
- ★ A Little Night Music IMDB — Adaptation Score by Jonathan Tunick
- Pete's Dragon IMDB — Song Score by Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn; Adaptation Score by Irwin Kostal
- The Slipper and the Rose--The Story of Cinderella IMDB — Song Score by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman; Adaptation Score by Angela Morley
Animated Short Film
- ★ The Sand Castle IMDB — Co Hoedeman, Producer
- The Bead Game IMDB — Ishu Patel, Producer
- The Doonesbury Special IMDB — John Hubley, Faith Hubley and Garry Trudeau, Producers
- Jimmy the C IMDB — James Picker, Robert Grossman and Craig Whitaker, Producers
Live Action Short Film
- ★ I'll Find a Way IMDB — Beverly Shaffer and Yuki Yoshida, Producers
- The Absent-Minded Waiter IMDB — William E. McEuen, Producer
- Floating Free IMDB — Jerry Butts, Producer
- Notes on the Popular Arts IMDB — Saul Bass, Producer
- Spaceborne IMDB — Philip Dauber, Producer
Sound Mixing
- ★ Star Wars IMDB — Don MacDougall, Ray West, Bob Minkler, Derek Ball
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind IMDB — Robert Knudson, Robert J. Glass, Don MacDougall, Gene S. Cantamessa
- The Deep IMDB — Walter Goss, Dick Alexander, Tom Beckert, Robin Gregory
- Sorcerer IMDB — Robert Knudson, Robert J. Glass, Richard Tyler, Jean-Louis Ducarme
- The Turning Point IMDB — Theodore Soderberg, Paul Wells, Douglas O. Williams, Jerry Jost
Special Achievement Award
Special Achievement Award (Sound Effects Editing)
Visual Effects
- ★ Star Wars IMDB — John Stears, John Dykstra, Richard Edlund, Grant McCune, Robert Blalack
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind IMDB — Roy Arbogast, Douglas Trumbull, Matthew Yuricich, Gregory Jein, Richard Yuricich
Adapted Screenplay
- ★ Julia IMDB — Alvin Sargent
- Equus IMDB — Peter Shaffer
- I Never Promised You a Rose Garden IMDB — Gavin Lambert, Lewis John Carlino
- Oh, God! IMDB — Larry Gelbart
- That Obscure Object of Desire IMDB — Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière
Original Screenplay
- ★ Annie Hall IMDB — Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
- The Goodbye Girl IMDB — Neil Simon
- The Late Show IMDB — Robert Benton
- Star Wars IMDB — George Lucas
- The Turning Point IMDB — Arthur Laurents
Nominated films and other recorded entries
49 films represented in the 1977 archive selection.
- A Little Night Music
- A Special Day
- Agueda Martinez: Our People, Our Country
- Airport '77
- Annie Hall
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Equus
- First Edition
- Floating Free
- Gravity Is My Enemy
- High Grass Circus
- Homage to Chagall--The Colours of Love
- I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
- I'll Find a Way
- Iphigenia
- Islands in the Stream
- Jimmy the C
- Julia
- Looking for Mr. Goodbar
- Madame Rosa
- Mohammad - Messenger of God
- Notes on the Popular Arts
- Of Time, Tombs and Treasure
- Oh, God!
- Operation Thunderbolt
- Pete's Dragon
- Saturday Night Fever
- Smokey and the Bandit
- Sorcerer
- Spaceborne
- Star Wars
- That Obscure Object of Desire
- The Absent-Minded Waiter
- The Bead Game
- The Children of Theatre Street
- The Deep
- The Doonesbury Special
- The Goodbye Girl
- The Late Show
- The Other Side of Midnight
- The Rescuers
- The Sand Castle
- The Shetland Experience
- The Slipper and the Rose--The Story of Cinderella
- The Spy Who Loved Me
- The Turning Point
- Union Maids
- Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?
- You Light Up My Life
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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