48th Academy Awards


The 48th Academy Awards were presented Monday, March 29, 1976, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. The ceremonies were presided over by Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, George Segal, Goldie Hawn and Gene Kelly. This year, ABC took over broadcast rights from NBC and continues to broadcast them today. The recent previous editions had been held on Tuesday night.
Miloš Forman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest made a "clean sweep" of the major categories: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and Best Screenplay. It was the second of three films to date to accomplish the sweep, following It Happened One Night in 1934 and preceding The Silence of the Lambs in 1991.
French actress Isabelle Adjani received her first nomination for Best Actress this year, making Adjani, 20 at the time, the youngest actress to be nominated in the leading actress category, breaking the record set by 22-year-old Elizabeth Hartman in 1965. This record would later be surpassed by 13-year-old Keisha Castle-Hughes in 2004, and again in 2013 by nine-year old Quvenzhané Wallis. Adjani also presented the Best Film Editing award that night along with Gould who delivered the Indiana joke during the presentation.
At age 80, George Burns became the oldest acting and Best Supporting Actor awardee, a record that stood until Jessica Tandy won Best Actress in 1989. Burns was later succeeded by Christopher Plummer, who won Best Supporting Actor in 2012 for Beginners at the age of 82, as the oldest male acting winner.
Jaws was followed 25 years later by Traffic as a film that won all its nominations except Best Picture. As of the 92nd Academy Awards, Amarcord, nominated for Best Director, is the last film to be nominated for Academy Awards in two separate years.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface and indicated with a double dagger.
Best PictureBest Director

  • Miloš Forman – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • *Federico Fellini – Amarcord
  • *Stanley Kubrick – Barry Lyndon
  • *Sidney Lumet – Dog Day Afternoon
  • *Robert Altman – Nashville
    • Best ActorBest Actress
  • Jack Nicholson – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as Randle Patrick McMurphy
  • *Walter Matthau – The Sunshine Boys as Willy Clark
  • *Al Pacino – Dog Day Afternoon as Sonny Wortzik
  • *Maximilian Schell – The Man in the Glass Booth as Arthur Goldman
  • *James Whitmore – Give 'em Hell, Harry! as Harry S. Truman
  • Louise Fletcher – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as Nurse Mildred Ratched
  • *Isabelle Adjani – The Story of Adele H. as Adèle Hugo / Adèle Lewry
  • *Ann-Margret – Tommy as Nora Walker
  • *Glenda Jackson – Hedda as Hedda Gabler
  • *Carol Kane – Hester Street as Gitl
    • Best Supporting ActorBest Supporting Actress
  • George Burns – The Sunshine Boys as Al Lewis
  • *Brad Dourif – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as Billy Bibbit
  • *Burgess Meredith – The Day of the Locust as Harry Greener
  • *Chris Sarandon – Dog Day Afternoon as Leon
  • *Jack Warden – Shampoo as Lester Karpf
  • Lee Grant – Shampoo as Felicia Karpf
  • *Ronee Blakley – Nashville as Barbara Jean
  • *Sylvia Miles – Farewell, My Lovely as Jessie Halstead Florian
  • *Lily Tomlin – Nashville as Linnea Reese
  • *Brenda Vaccaro – Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough as Linda Riggs
    • Best Original ScreenplayBest Screenplay Adapted from Other Material
  • Dog Day Afternoon – Frank Pierson
  • *Amarcord – Federico Fellini and Tonino Guerra
  • *And Now My Love – Claude Lelouch and Pierre Uytterhoeven
  • *Lies My Father Told Me – Ted Allan
  • *Shampoo – Warren Beatty and Robert Towne
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – Bo Goldman and Lawrence Hauben based on the novel by Ken Kesey
  • *Barry Lyndon – Stanley Kubrick based on The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • *The Man Who Would Be King – John Huston and Gladys Hill based on the story by Rudyard Kipling
  • *Profumo di donna – Ruggero Maccari and Dino Risi based on the novel Il buio e il mare by Giovanni Arpino
  • *The Sunshine Boys – Neil Simon based on his play
    • Best Documentary FeatureBest Documentary Short Subject
  • The Man Who Skied Down Everest – F. R. Crawley, James Hager and Dale Hartleben
  • *The California Reich – Keith Critchlow and Walter F. Parkes
  • *Fighting for Our Lives – Glen Pearcy
  • *' – Irwin Rosten
  • *' – Shirley MacLaine
  • The End of the Game – Claire Wilbur and Robin Lehman
  • *Arthur and Lillie
  • *Millions of Years Ahead of Man
  • *Probes in Space
  • *Whistling Smith
    • Best Live Action Short FilmBest Animated Short Film
  • Angel and Big Joe – Bert Salzman
  • *Conquest of Light – Louis Marcus
  • *Dawn Flight – Lawrence M. Lansburgh and Brian Lansburgh
  • *A Day in the Life of Bonnie Consolo – Barry Spinello
  • *Doubletalk – Alan Beattie
  • Great – Bob Godfrey
  • *Kick Me – Robert Swarthe
  • *Monsieur Pointu – René Jodoin, Bernard Longpré and André Leduc
  • *Sisyphus – Marcell Jankovics
    • Best Original ScoreBest Scoring: Original Song Score and Adaptation or Scoring: Adaptation
  • Jaws – John Williams
  • *Birds Do It, Bees Do It – Gerald Fried
  • *Bite the Bullet – Alex North
  • *One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – Jack Nitzsche
  • *The Wind and the Lion – Jerry Goldsmith
  • Barry Lyndon – Leonard Rosenman
  • *Funny Lady – Peter Matz
  • *Tommy – Pete Townshend
    • Best Original SongBest Sound
  • "I'm Easy" from Nashville – Music and Lyrics by Keith Carradine
  • *"How Lucky Can You Get?" from Funny Lady – Music and Lyrics by Kander and Ebb
  • *"Now That We’re In Love" from Whiffs – Music by George Barrie; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
  • *"Richard’s Window" from The Other Side of the Mountain – Music by Charles Fox; Lyrics by Norman Gimbel
  • *"Theme from Mahogany " from Mahogany – Music by Michael Masser; Lyrics by Gerry Goffin
  • Jaws – Robert L. Hoyt, Roger Heman, Earl Madery and John Carter
  • *Bite the Bullet – Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Richard Tyler and Al Overton Jr.
  • *Funny Lady – Richard Portman, Don MacDougall, Curly Thirlwell and Jack Solomon
  • *The Hindenburg – Leonard Peterson, John A. Bolger Jr., John Mack and Don K. Sharpless
  • *The Wind and the Lion – Harry W. Tetrick, Aaron Rochin, William McCaughey and Roy Charman
    • Best Foreign Language FilmBest Costume Design
  • Dersu Uzala
  • *Letters from Marusia
  • *Profumo di donna
  • *The Promised Land
  • *Sandakan No. 8
  • Barry Lyndon – Milena Canonero and Ulla-Britt Söderlund
  • *The Four Musketeers – Yvonne Blake and Ron Talsky
  • *Funny Lady – Ray Aghayan and Bob Mackie
  • *The Magic Flute – Karin Erskine and Henny Noremark
  • *The Man Who Would Be King – Edith Head
    • Best Art DirectionBest Cinematography
  • Barry Lyndon – Art Direction: Ken Adam and Roy Walker; Set Decoration: Vernon Dixon
  • *The Hindenburg – Art Direction: Edward Carfagno; Set Decoration: Frank R. McKelvy
  • *The Man Who Would Be King – Art Direction: Alexandre Trauner and Tony Inglis; Set Decoration: Peter James
  • *Shampoo – Art Direction: Richard Sylbert and W. Stewart Campbell; Set Decoration: George Gaines
  • *The Sunshine Boys – Art Direction: Albert Brenner; Set Decoration: Marvin March
  • Barry Lyndon – John Alcott
  • *The Day of the Locust – Conrad Hall
  • *Funny Lady – James Wong Howe
  • *The Hindenburg – Robert Surtees
  • *One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – Bill Butler and Haskell Wexler
    • Best Film Editing-
  • Jaws – Verna Fields
  • *Dog Day Afternoon – Dede Allen
  • *The Man Who Would Be King – Russell Lloyd
  • *One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – Richard Chew, Sheldon Kahn and Lynzee Klingman
  • *Three Days of the Condor – Don Guidice and Fredric Steinkamp
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    Multiple nominations and awards

    These films had multiple nominations:
    The following films received multiple awards.
    The following individuals, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers.

    Presenters

    Performers