Academy Awards 1976 Nominations

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Best Picture	Best Director
Best Actor	Best Actress
Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Best Original Screenplay	Best Screenplay Adapted from Other Material
Best Foreign Language Film	Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary Short	Best Live Action Short Film
Best Animated Short Film	Best Original Score
Best Scoring: Original Song Score and Adaptation or Scoring: Adaptation	Best Original Song
Best Sound	Best Art Direction
Best Cinematography	Best Costume Design
Best Film Editing

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Best Picture

• Barry Lyndon
• Dog Day Afternoon
• Jaws
• Nashville
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Best Director

• Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
• Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet)
• Nashville (Robert Altman)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman)

Best Actor

• Dog Day Afternoon (Al Pacino)
• Give 'em Hell, Harry! (James Whitmore)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Jack Nicholson)
• The Man in the Glass Booth (Maximilian Schell)
• The Sunshine Boys (Walter Matthau)

Best Actress

• Hedda (Glenda Jackson)
• Hester Street (Carol Kane)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Louise Fletcher)
• The Story of Adele H (Isabelle Adjani)
• Tommy (Ann-Margret)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Dog Day Afternoon (Chris Sarandon)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Brad Dourif)
• Shampoo (Jack Warden)
• The Day of the Locust (Burgess Meredith)
• The Sunshine Boys (George Burns)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Farewell, My Lovely (Sylvia Miles)
• Nashville (Ronee Blakley)
• Nashville (Lily Tomlin)
• Once Is Not Enough (Brenda Vaccaro)
• Shampoo (Lee Grant)

Best Original Screenplay

• And Now My Love
• Dog Day Afternoon
• Lies My Father Told Me
• Shampoo

Best Screenplay Adapted from Other Material

• Barry Lyndon
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Scent of a Woman
• The Man Who Would Be King
• The Sunshine Boys

Best Foreign Language Film

• Dersu Uzala (Russia)
• Letters from Marusia (Mexico)
• Sandakan 8 (Japan)
• Scent of a Woman (Italy)
• The Promised Land (Poland)

Best Documentary Feature

• Fighting for Our Lives
• The California Reich
• The Incredible Machine
• The Man Who Skied Down Everest
• The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir

Best Documentary Short

• Arthur and Lillie
• Millions of Years Ahead of Man
• Probes in Space
• The End of the Game
• Whistling Smith

Best Live Action Short Film

• A Day in the Life of Bonnie Consolo
• Angel and Big Joe
• Conquest of Light
• Dawn Flight
• Doubletalk

Best Animated Short Film

• Great (Isambard Kingdom Brunel)
• Kick Me
• Monsieur Pointu
• Sisyphus

Best Original Score

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

Best Scoring: Original Song Score and Adaptation or Scoring: Adaptation

• Barry Lyndon
• Funny Lady
• Tommy

Best Original Song

• Funny Lady ("How Lucky Can You Get")
• Mahogany ("Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)")
• Nashville ("I'm Easy")
• The Other Side of the Mountain ("Richard's Window")
• Whiffs ("Now That We're In Love")

Best Sound

• Bite the Bullet
• Funny Lady
• Jaws
• The Hindenburg
• The Wind and the Lion

Best Art Direction

• Barry Lyndon
• Shampoo
• The Hindenburg
• The Man Who Would Be King
• The Sunshine Boys

Best Cinematography

• Barry Lyndon
• Funny Lady
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• The Day of the Locust
• The Hindenburg

Best Costume Design

• Barry Lyndon
• Funny Lady
• The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge
• The Magic Flute
• The Man Who Would Be King

Best Film Editing

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