Oscars 1976 Winners (My Version)

Best Picture!

Winner: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest!

Nominees:
Dog Day Afternoon
Jaws
The Man Who Would Be King
Nashville

Best Director!

Winner: Milos Forman, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest!

Nominees:
Sidney Lumet - Dog Day Afternoon
Steven Spielberg - Jaws
John Huston - The Man Who Would Be King
Robert Altman - Nashville

Best Actor!

Winner: Jack Nicholson, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest!

Nominees:
Michael Caine - The Man Who Would Be King
Sean Connery - The Man Who Would Be King
Al Pacino - Dog Day Afternoon
Maximilian Schell - The Man in the Glass Booth

Best Actress!

Winner: Louise Fletcher, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest!

Nominees:
Isabelle Adjani - The Story of Adele H.
Ann-Margaret - Tommy
Carol Kane - Hester Street
Diane Keaton - Love and Death

Best Supporting Actor!

Winner: George Burns, The Sunshine Boys!

Nominees:
John Cazale - Dog Day Afternoon
Brad Dourif - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Chris Sarandon - Dog Day Afternoon
Robert Shaw - Jaws

Best Supporting Actress!

Winner: Lee Grant, Shampoo!

Nominees:
Ronee Blakley - Nashville
Geraldine Chaplin - Nashville
Sylvia Miles - Farewell, My Lovely
Lily Tomlin - Nashville

Best Original Screenplay!

Winner: Frank Pierson, Dog Day Afternoon!

Nominees:
Frederico Fellini and Tonino Guerra - Amarcord
Ted Allan - Lies My Father Told Me
Joan Tewkesbury - Nashville
Warren Beatty and Robert Towne - Shampoo

Best Adapted Screenplay!

Winner: Bo Goldman and Laurence Hauben, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest!

Nominees:
Stanley Kubrick - Barry Lyndon
Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb - Jaws
John Huston and Gladys Hill - The Man Who Would Be King
Neil Simon - The Sunshine Boys

Best Foreign Language Film!

Winner: Dersu Uzala!

Nominees:
Letters from Marusia
Profumo di donna
The Promised Land
Sandakan No. 8

Best Costume Design!

Winner: Barry Lyndon!

Nominees:
The Four Musketeers
Funny Girl
The Magic Flute
The Man Who Would Be King

Best Documentary Feature!

Winner: The Man Who Skied Down Everest!

Nominees:
The California Reach
Fighting for Our Lives
The Incredible Machine
The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir

Best Documentary Short!

Winner: The End of the Game!

Nominees:
Arthur and Lillie
Millions of Years Ahead of Man
Probes in Space
Whistling Smith

Best Live Action Short!

Winner: Angel and Big Joe!

Nominees:
Conquest of Light
Dawn Flight
A Day in the Life of Bonnie Consolo
Doubletalk

Best Animated Short!

Winner: Great!

Nominees:
Kick Me
Monsieur Pointu
Sisyphus

Best Original Score!

Winner: Jaws!

Nominees:
Birds Do It, Bees Do It
Bite the Bullet
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Wind and the Lion

Best Song or Adaptation Score!

Winner: Barry Lyndon!

Nominees:
Funny Lady
Tommy

Best Original Song!

Winner: Keith Carradine - I'm Easy, Nashville!

Nominees:
Kander and Ebb - How Lucky Can You Get?, Funny Lady
Michael Masser and Gerry Goffin - Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To), Mahagony
Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel - Richard's Window, The Other Side of the Mountain
George Barrie and Sammy Cahn - Now That We're In Love, Whiffs

Best Sound Mixing!

Winner: Jaws!

Nominees:
Bite the Bullet
Funny Lady
The Hindenburg
The Wind and the Lion

Best Art Direction!

Winner: Barry Lyndon!

Nominees:
The Hindenburg
The Man Who Would Be King
Shampoo
The Sunshine Boys

Best Cinematography!

Winner: Barry Lyndon!

Nominees:
Funny Lady
Jaws
The Man Who Would Be King
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Best Film Editing!

Winner: Jaws!

Nominees:
Dog Day Afternoon
The Man Who Would Be King
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Three Days of the Condor

Best Sound Editing!

Winner: The Hindenburg!