The 1976 Academy Awards were presented March 28, 1977 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles.
| Best Picture | All the President's Men, Walter Coblenz, producer (Warner Bros.) |
| Bound for Glory, Robert F. Blumofe and Harold Leventhal, producers (United Artists) |
| Network, Howard Gottfried, producer (MGM/United Artists) |
| Rocky, Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff, producers (United Artists) |
| Taxi Driver, Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips, producers (Columbia) |
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| Best Actor | Robert De Niro, Taxi Driver |
| Peter Finch, Network |
| Giancarlo Giannini, Seven Beauties |
| William Holden, Network |
| Sylvester Stallone, Rocky |
| Best Actress | Marie-Christine Barrault, Cousin, Cousine |
| Faye Dunaway, Network |
| Talia Shire, Rocky |
| Sissy Spacek, Carrie |
| Liv Ullman, Face to Face |
| Actor in a Supporting Role | Ned Beatty, Network |
| Burgess Meredith, Rocky |
| Laurence Olivier, Marathon Man |
| Jason Robards, All the President's Men |
| Burt Young, Rocky |
| Actress in a Supporting Role | Jane Alexander, All the President's Men |
| Jodie Foster, Taxi Driver |
| Lee Grant, Voyage of the Damned |
| Piper Laurie, Carrie |
| Beatrice Straight, Network |
| Directing | John G. Avildsen, Rocky |
| Ingmar Bergman, Face to Face |
| Sidney Lumet, Network |
| Alan J. Pakula, All the President's Men |
| Lina Wertmuller, Seven Beauties |
| Writing | | Original Screenplay | Walter Bernstein, The Front | | Paddy Chayefsky, Network | | Sylvester Stallone, Rocky | | Jean-Charles Tacchella, story and screenplay; Daniele Thompson, adaptation, Cousin, Cousine | | Lina Wertmuller, Seven Beauties | | Screenplay Based on Material From Another Medium | Federico Fellini and Bernadino Zapponi, Fellini's Casanova | | Robert Getchell, Bound for Glory | | William Goldman, All the President's Men | | Nicholas Meyer, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution | | Steve Shagan and David Butler, Voyage of the Damned |
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| Cinematography | Richard H. Kline, King Kong |
| Ernest Laszlo, Logan's Run |
| Owen Roizman, Network |
| Robert Surtees, A Star Is Born |
| Haskell Wexler, Bound for Glory |
| Art Direction | Robert F. Boyle, art direction; Arthur Jeph Parker, set decoration, The Shootist |
| Gene Callahan and Jack Collis, art direction; Jerry Wunderlich, set decoration, The Last Tycoon |
| Dale Hennesy, art direction; Robert de Vestel, set decoration, Logan's Run |
| George Jenkins, art direction; George Gaines, set decoration, All the President's Men |
| Elliot Scott and Norman Reynolds, art direction; Peter Howitt, set decoration, The Incredible Sarah |
| Sound | Robert Knudson, Dan Wallin, Robert Glass and Tom Overton, A Star Is Born |
| Donald Mitchell, Douglas Williams, Richard Tyler and Hal Etherington, Silver Streak |
| Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Dick Alexander and Jim Webb, All the President's Men |
| Harry Warren Tetrick, William McCaughey, Aaron Rochin and Jack Solomon, King Kong |
| Harry Warren Tetrick, William McCaughey, Lyle Burbridge and Bud Alper, Rocky |
| Music | | Original Song | “Ave Satani,” The Omen, Jerry Goldsmith, music and lyrics | | “Come to Me,” The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Henry Mancini, music; Don Black, lyrics | | “Evergreen” (Love Theme From A Star Is Born), A Star Is Born, Barbra Streisand, music; Paul Williams, lyrics | | “Gonna Fly Now,” Rocky, Bill Conti, music; Carol Connors and Ayn Robbins, lyrics | | “A World That Never Was,” Half a House, Sammy Fain, music; Paul Francis Webster, lyrics | | Original Score | Jerry Fielding, The Outlaw Josey Wales | | Jerry Goldsmith, The Omen | | Bernard Herrmann, Obsession | | Bernard Herrmann, Taxi Driver | | Lalo Schifrin, Voyage of the Damned | | Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score | Roger Kellaway, A Star Is Born | | Leonard Rosenman, Bound for Glory | | Paul Williams, Bugsy Malone |
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| Film Editing | Richard Halsey and Scott Conrad, Rocky |
| Alan Heim, Network |
| Robert Jones and Pembroke J. Herring, Bound for Glory |
| Eve Newman and Walter Hannemann, Two-Minute Warning |
| Robert L. Wolfe, All the President's Men |
| Costume Design | Alan Barrett, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution |
| Danilo Donati, Fellini's Casanova |
| Anthony Mendleson, The Incredible Sarah |
| William Theiss, Bound for Glory |
| Mary Wills, The Passover Plot |
| Short Films | | Animated | Dedalo (Manfredo Manfredi, producer; Cineteam Realizzazioni Production) | | Leisure (Suzanne Baker, producer; Film Australia Production) | | The Street (Caroline Leaf and Guy Glover, producers; National Film Board of Canada) | | Live Action | In the Region of Ice (Andre Guttfreund and Peter Werner, producers; American Film Institute) | | Kudzu (Marjorie Ann Short, producer; Short Productions) | | The Morning Spider (Julian Chagrin and Claude Chagrin, producers; The Black and White Colour Film Company) | | Nightlife (Claire Wilbur and Robin Lehman, producers; Opus Films Ltd.) | | Number One (Dyan Cannon and Vince Cannon, producers; Number One Productions) |
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| Documentary | | Short Subject | American Shoeshine (Sparky Greene, producer; Titan Films) | | Blackwood (Tony Ianzelo and Andy Thompson, producers; National Film Board of Canada) | | The End of the Road (John Armstrong, producer; Pelican Films) | | Number Our Days (Lynne Littman, producer; Community Television of Southern California) | | Universe (Lester Novros, producer; Graphic Films Corporation for NASA) | | Feature | Harlan County, U.S.A. (Barbara Kopple, producer; Cabin Creek Films) | | Hollywood on Trial (James Gutman and David Helpern, Jr., producers; October Films/Cinema Associates) | | Off the Edge (Michael Firth, producer; Pentacle Films) | | People of the Wind (Anthony Howarth and David Koff, producers; Elizabeth E. Rogers Productions) | | Volcano: An Inquiry Into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry (Donald Brittain and Robert Duncan, producers; National Film Board of Canada) |
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| Foreign Language Film | Black and White in Color, Ivory Coast |
| Cousin, Cousine, France |
| Jacob, the Liar, German Democratic Republic—East |
| Nights and Days, Poland |
| Seven Beauties, Italy |
| Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award | Pandro S. Berman |
| Special Achievement Awards | | Visual Effects | Carlo Rambaldi, Glen Robinson and Frank Van der Veer, King Kong | | L.B. Abbott, Glen Robinson and Matthew Yuricich, Logan's Run |
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