1975 Academy Awards

Updated September 9, 2022 | Infoplease Staff

The 1975 Academy Awards were presented March 29, 1976 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles.

Best Picture

Barry Lyndon, Stanley Kubrick, producer (Warner Bros.)

Dog Day Afternoon, Martin Bregman and Martin Elfand, producers (Warner Bros.)

Jaws, Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown, producers (Universal)

Nashville, Robert Altman, producer (Paramount)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Saul Zaentz and Michael Douglas, producers (United Artists)

Best Actor

Walter Matthau, The Sunshine Boys

Jack Nicholson, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Al Pacino, Dog Day Afternoon

Maximilian Schell, The Man in the Glass Booth

James Whitmore, Give 'em Hell, Harry!

Best Actress

Isabelle Adjani, The Story of Adele H.

Louise Fletcher, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Glenda Jackson, Hedda

Carol Kane, Hester Street

Ann-Margret, Tommy

Actor in a Supporting Role

George Burns, The Sunshine Boys

Brad Dourif, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Burgess Meredith, The Day of the Locust

Chris Sarandon, Dog Day Afternoon

Jack Warden, Shampoo

Actress in a Supporting Role

Ronee Blakley, Nashville

Lee Grant, Shampoo

Sylvia Miles, Farewell, My Lovely

Lily Tomlin, Nashville

Brenda Vaccaro, Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough

Directing

Robert Altman, Nashville

Federico Fellini, Amarcord

Milos Forman, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Stanley Kubrick, Barry Lyndon

Sidney Lumet, Dog Day Afternoon

Writing

Original Screenplay	Ted Allan, Lies My Father Told Me
	Federico Fellini and Tonino Guerra, Amarcord
	Claude Lelouch and Pierre Uytterhoeven, And Now My Love
	Frank Pierson, Dog Day Afternoon
	Robert Towne and Warren Beatty, Shampoo
Screenplay Adapted From Other Material	Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
	John Huston and Gladys Hill, The Man Who Would Be King
	Stanley Kubrick, Barry Lyndon
	Ruggero Maccari and Dino Risi, Scent of a Woman
	Neil Simon, The Sunshine Boys

Cinematography

John Alcott, Barry Lyndon

Conrad Hall, The Day of the Locust

James Wong Howe, Funny Lady

Robert Surtees, The Hindenburg

Haskell Wexler and Bill Butler, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Art Direction

Ken Adam and Roy Walker, art direction; Vernon Dixon, set decoration, Barry Lyndon

Albert Brenner, art direction; Marvin March, set decoration, The Sunshine Boys

Edward Carfagno, art direction; Frank McKelvy, set decoration, The Hindenburg

Richard Sylbert and W. Stewart Campbell, art direction; George Gaines, set decoration, Shampoo

Alexander Trauner and Tony Inglis, art direction; Peter James, set decoration, The Man Who Would Be King

Sound

Robert L. Hoyt, Roger Heman, Earl Madery and John Carter, Jaws

Leonard Peterson, John A. Bolger, Jr., John Mack and Don K. Sharpless, The Hindenburg

Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Richard Tyler and Al Overton, Jr., Bite the Bullet

Richard Portman, Don MacDougall, Curly Thirlwell and Jack Solomon, Funny Lady

Harry W. Tetrick, Aaron Rochin, William McCaughey and Roy Charman, The Wind and the Lion

Music

Original Song	“How Lucky Can You Get,” Funny Lady, Fred Ebb and John Kander, music and lyrics
	*“I'm Easy,” Nashville, Keith Carradine, music and lyrics*
	“Now That We're in Love,” Whiffs, George Barrie, music; Sammy Cahn, lyrics
	“Richard's Window,” The Other Side of the Mountain, Charles Fox, music; Norman Gimbel, lyrics
	“Theme From Mahogany” (Do You Know Where You're Going To), Mahogany, Michael Masser, music; Gerry Goffin, lyrics
Original Score	Gerald Fried, Birds Do It, Bees Do It
	Jerry Goldsmith, The Wind and the Lion
	Jack Nitzsche, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
	Alex North, Bite the Bullet
	John Williams, Jaws
Scoring: Original Song Score and Adaptation or Scoring: Adaptation	Peter Matz, Funny Lady
	Leonard Rosenman, Barry Lyndon
	Peter Townshend, Tommy

Film Editing

Dede Allen, Dog Day Afternoon

Richard Chew, Lynzee Klingman and Sheldon Kahn, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Verna Fields, Jaws

Russell Lloyd, The Man Who Would Be King

Frederic Steinkamp and Don Guidice, Three Days of the Condor

Costume Design

Ray Aghayan and Bob Mackie, Funny Lady

Yvonne Blake and Ron Talsky, The Four Musketeers

Edith Head, The Man Who Would Be King

Henny Noremark and Karin Erskine, The Magic Flute

Ulla-Britt Soderlund and Milena Canonero, Barry Lyndon

Short Films

Animated	Great (Grantstern Ltd.; British Lion Films Ltd.)
	Kick Me (Robert Swarthe, producer; Robert Swarthe Productions)
	Monsieur Pointu (René Jodoin, Bernard Longpré and André Leduc, producers; National Film Board of Canada)
	Sisyphus (Marcell Jankovics, producer; Hungarofilms)
Live Action	Angel and Big Joe (Bert Salzman, producer; Bert Salzman Productions)
	Conquest of Light (Louis Marcus, producer; Louis Marcus Films Ltd.)
	Dawn Flight (Lawrence M. Lansburgh and Brian Lansburgh, producers; Lawrence M. Lansburgh Productions)
	A Day in the Life of Bonnie Consolo (Barry Spinello, producer; Barr Films)
	Doubletalk (Alan Beattie, producer; Beattie Productions)

Documentary

Short Subject	Arthur and Lillie (Jon Else, Steven Kovacs and Kristine Samuelson, producers; Stanford University Department of Communication)
	The End of the Game (Claire Wilbur and Robin Lehman, producers; Opus Films Ltd.)
	Millions of Years Ahead of Man (Manfred Baier, producer; BASF)
	Probes in Space (George V. Casey, producer; Graphic Films)
	Whistling Smith (Barrie Howells and Michael Scott, producers; National Film Board of Canada)
Feature	The California Reich (Walter F. Parkes and Keith F. Critchlow, producers; Yasny Talking Pictures)
	Fighting for Our Lives (Glen Pearcy, producer; Farm Worker Film)
	The Incredible Machine (National Geographic Society and Wolper Productions)
	The Man Who Skied Down Everest (F. R. Crawley, James Hager and Dale Hartleben, producers; Crawley Films Presentation)
	The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir (Shirley MacLaine, producer; MacLaine Productions)