The 1977 Academy Awards were presented April 3, 1978 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles.
| Best Picture | Annie Hall, Charles H. Joffe, producer (United Artists) |
| The Goodbye Girl, Ray Stark, producer (MGM/Warner Bros.) |
| Julia, Richard Roth, producer (Twentieth Century-Fox) |
| Star Wars, Gary Kurtz, producer (Twentieth Century-Fox) |
| The Turning Point, Herbert Ross and Arthur Laurents, producers (Twentieth Century-Fox) |
| Actor in a Leading Role | Woody Allen, Annie Hall |
| Richard Burton, Equus |
| Richard Dreyfuss, The Goodbye Girl |
| Marcello Mastroianni, A Special Day |
| John Travolta, Saturday Night Fever |
| Actress in a Leading Role | Anne Bancroft, The Turning Point |
| Jane Fonda, Julia |
| Diane Keaton, Annie Hall |
| Shirley MacLaine, The Turning Point |
| Marsha Mason, The Goodbye Girl |
| Actor in a Supporting Role | Mikhail Baryshnikov, The Turning Point |
| Peter Firth, Equus |
| Alec Guinness, Star Wars |
| Jason Robards, Julia |
| Maximilian Schell, Julia |
| Actress in a Supporting Role | Leslie Browne, The Turning Point |
| Quinn Cummings, The Goodbye Girl |
| Melinda Dillon, Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
| Vanessa Redgrave, Julia |
| Tuesday Weld, Looking for Mr. Goodbar |
| Directing | Woody Allen, Annie Hall |
| George Lucas, Star Wars |
| Herbert Ross, The Turning Point |
| Steven Spielberg, Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
| Fred Zinnemann, Julia |
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| Writing | | Original Screenplay | Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman, Annie Hall | | Robert Benton, The Late Show | | Arthur Laurents, The Turning Point | | George Lucas, Star Wars | | Neil Simon, The Goodbye Girl | | Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium | Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière, That Obscure Object of Desire | | Larry Gelbart, Oh, God! | | Gavin Lambert and Lewis John Carlino, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden | | Alvin Sargent, Julia | | Peter Shaffer, Equus |
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| Cinematography | William A. Fraker, Looking for Mr. Goodbar |
| Fred J. Koenekamp, Islands in the Stream |
| Douglas Slocombe, Julia |
| Robert Surtees, The Turning Point |
| Vilmos Zsigmond, Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
| Art Direction | Ken Adam and Peter Lamont, art direction; Hugh Scaife, set decoration, The Spy Who Loved Me |
| Joe Alves and Dan Lomino, art direction; Phil Abramson, set decoration, Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
| John Barry, Norman Reynolds and Leslie Dilley, art direction; Roger Christian, set decoration, Star Wars |
| Albert Brenner, art direction; Marvin March, set decoration, The Turning Point |
| George C. Webb, art direction; Mickey S. Michaels, set decoration, Airport '77 |
| Sound | Walter Goss, Dick Alexander, Tom Beckert and Robin Gregory, The Deep |
| Robert Knudson, Robert J. Glass, Don MacDougall and Gene S. Cantamessa, Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
| Robert Knudson, Robert J. Glass, Richard Tyler and Jean-Louis Ducarme, Sorcerer |
| Don MacDougall, Ray West, Bob Minkler and Derek Ball, Star Wars |
| Theodore Soderberg, Paul Wells, Douglas O. Williams and Jerry Jost, The Turning Point |
| Music | | Original Song | “Candle on the Water,” Pete's Dragon, Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn, music and lyrics | | “Nobody Does It Better,” The Spy Who Loved Me, Marvin Hamlisch, music; Carole Bayer Sager, lyrics | | “The Slipper and the Rose Waltz” (He Danced With Me/She Danced With Me), The Slipper and the Rose—The Story of Cinderella, Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, music and lyrics | | “Someone's Waiting for You,” The Rescuers, Sammy Fain, music; Carol Connors and Ayn Robbins, lyrics | | “You Light Up My Life,” You Light Up My Life, Joseph Brooks, music and lyrics | | Original Score | Georges Delerue, Julia | | Marvin Hamlisch, The Spy Who Loved Me | | Maurice Jarre, Mohammad—Messenger of God | | John Williams, Close Encounters of the Third Kind | | John Williams, Star Wars | | Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score | Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn, song; Irwin Kostal, adaptation, Pete's Dragon | | Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, song; Angela Morley, adaptation, The Slipper and the Rose—The Story of Cinderella | | Jonathan Tunick, A Little Night Music |
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| Film Editing | Walter Hannemann and Angelo Ross, Smokey and the Bandit |
| Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas and Richard Chew, Star Wars |
| Michael Kahn, Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
| Walter Murch, Julia |
| William Reynolds, The Turning Point |
| Costume Design | Edith Head and Burton Miller, Airport '77 |
| Florence Klotz, A Little Night Music |
| John Mollo, Star Wars |
| Irene Sharaff, The Other Side of Midnight |
| Anthea Sylbert, Julia |
| Visual Effects | Roy Arbogast, Douglas Trumbull, Matthew Yuricich, Gregory Jein and Richard Yuricich, Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
| John Stears, John Dykstra, Richard Edlund, Grant McCune and Robert Blalack, Star Wars |
| Short Films | | Animated | The Bead Game (Ishu Patel, producer; National Film Board of Canada) | | The Doonesbury Special (John Hubley, Faith Hubley and Garry Trudeau, producers; Hubley Studios) | | Jimmy the C (James Picker, Robert Grossman and Craig Whitaker, producers; Motionpicker Production) | | The Sand Castle (Co Hoedeman, producer; National Film Board of Canada) | | Live Action | The Absent-Minded Waiter (William E. McEuen, producer; Aspen Film Society) | | Floating Free (Jerry Butts, producer; Trans World International) | | I'll Find a Way (Beverly Shaffer and Yuki Yoshida, producers; National Film Board of Canada) | | Notes on the Popular Arts (Saul Bass, producer; Saul Bass Films) | | Spaceborne (Philip Dauber, producer; Lawrence Hall of Science Production for the Regents of the University of California with the cooperation of NASA) |
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| Documentary | | Short Subject | Agueda Martinez: Our People, Our Country (Moctesuma Esparza, producer; Moctesuma Esparza Production) | | First Edition (Helen Whitney and DeWitt L. Sage, Jr., producers; D.L. Sage Productions) | | Gravity Is My Enemy (John Joseph and Jan Stussy, producers; John Joseph Production) | | Of Time, Tombs and Treasure (James R. Messenger and Paul N. Raimondi, producers; Charlie/Papa Productions, Inc.) | | The Shetland Experience (Douglas Gordon, producer; Balfour Films) | | Feature | The Children of Theatre Street (Robert Dornhelm and Earle Mack, producers; Mack-Vaganova Company) | | High Grass Circus (Bill Brind, Torben Schioler and Tony lanzelo, producers; National Film Board of Canada) | | Homage to Chagall—The Colours of Love (Harry Rasky, producer; CBC Production) | | Union Maids (James Klein, Julia Reichert and Miles Mogulescu, producers; Klein, Reichert, Mogulescu Production) | | Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? (Korty Films and Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates in association with Sanrio Films) |
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| Foreign Language Film | Iphigenia, Greece |
| Madame Rosa, France |
| Operation Thunderbolt, Israel |
| A Special Day, Italy |
| That Obscure Object of Desire, Spain |
| Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award | Walter Mirisch |
| Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award | Charlton Heston |
| Honorary Awards | To Margaret Booth for her exceptional contribution to the art of film editing in the motion picture industry |
| To Gordon E. Sawyer in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |
| To Sidney P. Solow in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |
| Special Achievement Awards | | Sound Effects Editing | Frank E. Warner, Close Encounters of the Third Kind | | To Benjamin Burtt, Jr. for the creation of the alien, creature and robot voices in Star Wars |
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