49th Academy Awards
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1. Rocky (1976)
PG | 120 min | Drama, Sport
A small-time Philadelphia boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight the world heavyweight champion in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.
Director: John G. Avildsen | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers
Votes: 628,799 | Gross: $117.24M
Winner - Best Picture Winner - Best Director for John G. Avildsen Nominated - Best Actor for Sylvester Stallone Nominated - Best Actress for Talia Shire Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Burgess Meredith Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Burt Young Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Sylvester Stallone Nominated - Best Original Song for "Gonna Fly Now" Nominated - Best Sound Mixing Winner - Best Film Editing for Richard Halsey and Scott Conrad
2. All the President's Men (1976)
PG | 138 min | Drama, History, Thriller
"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.
Director: Alan J. Pakula | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam
Votes: 126,122 | Gross: $70.60M
Nominated - Best Picture Nominated - Best Director for Alan J. Pakula Winner - Best Supporting Actor for Jason Robards Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Jane Alexander Winner - Best Adapted Screenplay for William Goldman Winner - Best Sound Mixing Winner - Best Art Direction Nominated - Best Film Editing for Robert L. Wolfe
3. Bound for Glory (1976)
PG | 147 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The early life of Woody Guthrie as a vagabond folk singer.
Director: Hal Ashby | Stars: David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon, Gail Strickland
Votes: 5,593
Nominated - Best Picture Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Robert Getchell Nominated - Best Costume Design for William Ware Theiss Winner - Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score for Leonard Rosenman Winner - Best Cinematography for Haskell Wexler Nominated - Best Film Editing for Robert C. Jones and Pembroke J. Herring
4. Network (1976)
R | 121 min | Drama
A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit, but finds that his message may be difficult to control.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall
Votes: 170,735
Nominated - Best Picture Nominated - Best Director for Sidney Lumet Winner - Best Actor for Peter Finch Nominated - Best Actor for William Holden Winner - Best Actress for Faye Dunaway Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Ned Beatty Winner - Best Supporting Actress for Beatrice Straight Winner - Best Original Screenplay for Paddy Chayefsky Nominated - Best Cinematography for Owen Roizman Nominated - Best Film Editing for Alan Heim
5. Taxi Driver (1976)
R | 114 min | Crime, Drama
A mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Albert Brooks
Votes: 921,407 | Gross: $28.26M
Nominated - Best Picture Nominated - Best Actor for Robert De Niro Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Jodie Foster Nominated - Best Original Score for Bernard Herrmann
6. Face to Face (1976)
R | 114 min | Drama, Fantasy
Two psychiatrists have their marriage tested when one suffers a mental breakdown.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Aino Taube, Gunnar Björnstrand
Votes: 6,142
Nominated - Best Director for Ingmar Bergman Nominated - Best Actress for Liv Ullmann
7. Seven Beauties (1975)
R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, War
The defense of honor, a strong value in Neapolitan society, and its effects on the life of everyman Pasquale Frafuso.
Director: Lina Wertmüller | Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, Shirley Stoler, Elena Fiore
Votes: 6,489 | Gross: $0.01M
Nominated - Best Director for Lina Wertmüller Nominated - Best Actor for Giancarlo Giannini Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Lina Wertmüller Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Italy)
8. Cousin, Cousine (1975)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Romance
Two distant cousins meet at a wedding banquet for an elderly couple. Over time, a close friendship develops between them, but their spouses begin to think that they are more than just friends.
Director: Jean-Charles Tacchella | Stars: Marie-Christine Barrault, Victor Lanoux, Marie-France Pisier, Guy Marchand
Votes: 1,782 | Gross: $8.70M
Nominated - Best Actress for Marie-Christine Barrault Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Jean-Charles Tacchella and Danièle Thompson Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (France)
9. Carrie (1976)
R | 98 min | Horror, Mystery
Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, John Travolta
Votes: 206,807 | Gross: $33.80M
Nominated - Best Actress for Sissy Spacek Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Piper Laurie
10. Marathon Man (1976)
R | 125 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After the shocking murder of his older brother, a New York history student finds himself inexplicably hounded by shadowy government agents on the trail of a Nazi war criminal who is trying to retrieve smuggled diamonds.
Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane
Votes: 70,263 | Gross: $21.71M
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Laurence Olivier
11. Voyage of the Damned (1976)
PG | 155 min | Drama, War
The tragic 1939 voyage of SS St. Louis carrying hundreds of German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that seemingly no nation is willing to save from certain doom.
Director: Stuart Rosenberg | Stars: Faye Dunaway, Oskar Werner, Lee Grant, Sam Wanamaker
Votes: 3,407
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Lee Grant Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for David Butler and Steve Shagan Nominated - Best Original Score for Lalo Schifrin
12. The Front (1976)
PG | 95 min | Drama
In 1953, a cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.
Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: Woody Allen, Zero Mostel, Herschel Bernardi, Michael Murphy
Votes: 9,678
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Walter Bernstein
13. Casanova (1976)
R | 155 min | Biography, Drama, History
Giacomo Casanova uses his sexuality to find his place in life amid eccentric and strange characters.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Tina Aumont, Cicely Browne, Carmen Scarpitta
Votes: 8,673
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Federico Fellini and Bernardino Zapponi Winner - Best Costume Design for Danilo Donati
14. The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
PG | 113 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
To treat his friend's cocaine induced delusions, Watson lures Sherlock Holmes to Sigmund Freud.
Director: Herbert Ross | Stars: Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Duvall, Nicol Williamson
Votes: 5,101
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Nicholas Meyer Nominated - Best Costume Design for Alan Barrett
15. Black and White in Color (1976)
PG | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, War
During World War I, French colonists lost in African desert decide to attack their German neighbors.
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud | Stars: Jean Carmet, Jacques Dufilho, Catherine Rouvel, Jacques Spiesser
Votes: 1,787
Winner - Best Foreign Language Film (Côte d'Ivoire)
16. Jacob the Liar (1974)
100 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A Jewish ghetto in central Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making slow by steady progress towards central ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Beyer | Stars: Vlastimil Brodský, Erwin Geschonneck, Henry Hübchen, Blanche Kommerell
Votes: 1,378
Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (East Germany)
17. Nights and Days (1975)
245 min | Drama, Romance, War
An epic saga of the Niechcic family, told from a woman's perspective. In 1914 in the war-torn Kaliniec, Barbara Niechcic remembers her youthful love, marriage hardships, family life in the countryside and finally her husband's death.
Director: Jerzy Antczak | Stars: Jadwiga Baranska, Jerzy Binczycki, Emir Buczacki, Stanislawa Celinska
Votes: 563
Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Poland)
18. The Incredible Sarah (1976)
PG | 106 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life of the great actress, Sarah Bernhardt.
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Glenda Jackson, Daniel Massey, Yvonne Mitchell, Douglas Wilmer
Votes: 242
Nominated - Best Costume Design for Anthony Mendleson Nominated - Best Art Direction
19. The Passover Plot (1976)
PG | 108 min | Drama
Dramatization of the controversial best-seller that posits an alternate version of the birth of Christianity. In this version, Jesus planned for His crucifixion by taking a drug that would ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Campus | Stars: Harry Andrews, Hugh Griffith, Zalman King, Donald Pleasence
Votes: 157
Nominated - Best Costume Design for Mary Wills
20. Harlan County U.S.A. (1976)
PG | 103 min | Documentary
A heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line.
Director: Barbara Kopple | Stars: John L. Lewis, Carl Horn, Norman Yarborough, Logan Patterson
Votes: 6,639
Winner - Best Documentary Feature
21. Hollywood on Trial (1976)
Not Rated | 105 min | Documentary
The documentary analyzes a dark period in Hollywood's history due to the Red Scare of the 1940's and 1950's, when actors, writers and directors were persecuted and investigated by the House... See full summary »
Director: David Helpern | Stars: Walter Bernstein, Alvah Bessie, Lester Cole, Howard Da Silva
Votes: 254
Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
22. Off the Edge (1976)
PG | 77 min | Documentary
Two guys on adventure in New Zealand.
Director: Michael Firth | Stars: Jeff Campbell, Blair Trenholme, Ron Hajak, Ron Roy
Votes: 44
Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
23. People of the Wind (1976)
G | 110 min | Documentary
There are two hundred miles of raging rivers and dangerous mountains to cross. There are no towns, no roads, no bridges. There is no turning back. The Bakhtiari migration is one of the most... See full summary »
Director: Anthony Howarth | Stars: James Mason, Shusha Guppy, Anthony Howarth
Votes: 143
Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
24. Volcano: An Inquiry Into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry (1976)
100 min | Documentary
A documentary on the life of the alcoholic writer Malcolm Lowry, interspersed with readings of Lowry's work by Richard Burton. Lowry was born and educated in England. He moved to Mexico in ... See full summary »
Directors: Donald Brittain, John Kramer | Stars: Marjorie Bonner, Donald Brittain, John Buchan, Richard Burton
Votes: 212
Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
25. Number Our Days (1976)
28 min | Documentary, Short
A documentary study of a community of elderly Jews in Venice, California.
Director: Lynne Littman | Stars: Harry Asimow, Barbara Myerhoff, Lynne Littman
Votes: 80
Winner - Best Documentary Short
Nominated - Best Documentary Short
27. Blackwood (1976)
28 min | Documentary, Short
David Blackwood lives in Newfoundland and makes etchings in the tradition of Rembrandt and Goya. This Oscar-nominated film shows him producing some of his etchings with his Newfoundland inspirations as well.
Directors: Tony Ianzelo, Andy Thomson | Stars: Gordon Pinsent, David Blackwood
Votes: 61
Nominated - Best Documentary Short
Nominated - Best Documentary Short
29. Universe (1976)
TV-G | 27 min | Documentary, Short
A dramatization of our mysterious and incredibly violent universe.
Director: Lester Novros | Star: William Shatner
Votes: 71
Nominated - Best Documentary Short
30. In the Region of Ice (1976)
37 min | Short
In this American Film Institute-subsidized short subject, Fionnula Flanagan plays a sharp-tongued but compassionate nun, while Peter Lempert is cast as a sullen, emotionally disturbed boy. ... See full summary »
Directors: Andre R. Guttfreund, Peter Werner | Stars: Fionnula Flanagan, Peter Lampert, Keith Anthoni, Vance Colvig Jr.
Votes: 57
Winner - Best Live Action Short
31. Kudzu (1977)
16 min | Documentary, Short
Kudzu, or Pueraria Thunbergiana, is a vine threatening to take over large portions of the Southern landscape. Imported from Japan by the Departement of Agriculture in the 30's for erosion ... See full summary »
Director: Marjie Short | Stars: Jimmy Carter, James Dickey
Votes: 41
Nominated - Best Live Action Short
32. The Morning Spider (1976)
22 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
Various insects mock a hungry spider that chases after them. Later, he meets a female spider.
Director: Claude Chagrin | Stars: Julian Chagrin, Lucy Fawcett, James Hayes, Barry Jackson
Votes: 38
Nominated - Best Live Action Short
33. Nightlife (1976)
11 min | Short
An exploration of the fantastic variety of color and forms of life found beneath the Irish Sea.
Director: Robin Lehman
Votes: 34
Nominated - Best Live Action Short
34. Number One (1976)
42 min | Short, Drama
Two little girls hide in the boys' bathroom at school so they can find out what happens there. When two boys come in, the four gradually talk each other into taking off their clothes. The ... See full summary »
Director: Dyan Cannon | Stars: Nan Martin, Allen Garfield, Gary Lockwood, Philip Boyer
Votes: 44
Nominated - Best Live Action Short
35. Leisure (1976)
14 min | Animation, Short
A short course of boring history about how not to die of boredom.
Director: Bruce Petty | Star: Alexander Archdale
Votes: 448
Winner - Best Animated Short
36. Dedalo (1976)
12 min | Animation, Short, Drama
A man and a woman sit in a room and when the wind blows the window open, the man imagines what would happen if he kills the woman and the following drama blurs the boundaries between reality and fiction.
Director: Manfredo Manfredi
Votes: 61
Nominated - Best Animated Short
37. The Street (1976)
10 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
This film deals with a Jewish family in Montreal, Canada as they care for a dying grandmother and the young boy who is impatient to get the room he was promised as soon as she kicks the bucket.
Director: Caroline Leaf | Stars: Mort Ransen, Sarah Dwight, John Hood, Vera Leitman
Votes: 830
Nominated - Best Animated Short
38. The Omen (1976)
R | 111 min | Horror, Mystery
Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil's own son?
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, Harvey Stephens, David Warner
Votes: 132,706 | Gross: $4.27M
Winner - Best Original Score for Jerry Goldsmith Nominated - Best Original Song for "Ave Satani"
39. Obsession (1976)
PG | 98 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A wealthy New Orleans businessman becomes obsessed with a young woman who resembles his wife.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, John Lithgow, Sylvia Kuumba Williams
Votes: 11,648 | Gross: $1.00M
Nominated - Best Original Score for Bernard Herrmann
40. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
PG | 135 min | Drama, Western
Missouri farmer Josey Wales joins a Confederate guerrilla unit and winds up on the run from the Union soldiers who murdered his family.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Chief Dan George, Bill McKinney
Votes: 79,896 | Gross: $31.80M
Nominated - Best Original Score for Jerry Fielding
41. Bugsy Malone (1976)
G | 93 min | Comedy, Crime, Family
The classic gangster story of Bugsy Malone told with an all-child cast.
Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Jodie Foster, Scott Baio, Florence Garland, John Cassisi
Votes: 19,470 | Gross: $2.78M
Nominated - Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score for Paul Williams
42. A Star Is Born (1976)
R | 139 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A has-been rock star falls in love with a young, up-and-coming songstress.
Director: Frank Pierson | Stars: Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, Gary Busey, Oliver Clark
Votes: 13,185 | Gross: $80.00M
Nominated - Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score for Roger Kellaway Winner - Best Original Song for "Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)" Nominated - Best Sound Mixing Nominated - Best Cinematography for Robert L. Surtees
43. Half a House (1975)
PG | 84 min | Comedy
A middleaged couple, living in divorce, is forced to spend three month in their house, which belongs jointly to them. They both try to use exactly one half of the house, but this only leads... See full summary »
Director: Brice Mack | Stars: Anthony Eisley, Pat Delaney, Francine York, Kaz Garas
Votes: 64
Nominated - Best Original Song for "A World That Never Was"
44. The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
PG | 103 min | Comedy, Crime
After escaping from an insane asylum, the bonkers Charles Dreyfus sends 26 assassins on the trail of the forever bumbling Inspector Clouseau.
Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Lesley-Anne Down, Burt Kwouk
Votes: 32,017 | Gross: $33.83M
Nominated - Best Original Song for "Come to Me"
45. King Kong (1976)
PG | 134 min | Adventure, Horror
A petroleum exploration expedition comes to an isolated island and encounters a colossal giant gorilla.
Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin, Jessica Lange, John Randolph
Votes: 35,577 | Gross: $52.61M
Nominated - Best Sound Mixing Nominated - Best Cinematography for Richard H. Kline
46. Silver Streak (1976)
PG | 114 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
On a long-distance train trip, a man finds romance but also finds himself in danger of being killed, or at least pushed off the train.
Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Jill Clayburgh, Patrick McGoohan
Votes: 21,725
Nominated - Best Sound Mixing
47. The Last Tycoon (1976)
PG | 123 min | Drama, Romance
F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.
Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jeanne Moreau
Votes: 9,593 | Gross: $1.82M
Nominated - Best Art Direction
48. Logan's Run (1976)
PG | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A police officer in the future uncovers the deadly secret behind a society that worships youth.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Richard Jordan, Roscoe Lee Browne
Votes: 61,070 | Gross: $25.00M
Nominated - Best Art Direction Nominated - Best Cinematography for Ernest Laszlo
49. The Shootist (1976)
PG | 100 min | Drama, Romance, Western
A dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, James Stewart
Votes: 26,845
Nominated - Best Art Direction
50. Two-Minute Warning (1976)
Approved | 115 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A crazed sniper is set to kill spectators at an L.A. Coliseum football championship game and the police race against time to eliminate him.
Director: Larry Peerce | Stars: Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, Martin Balsam, Beau Bridges
Votes: 4,387
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Eve Newman and Walter Hannemann
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