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Best Picture - Robert F. Blumofe and Harold Leventhal, Producers Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Robert Getchell
The 49th Academy Awards were presented Monday, March 28, 1977, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. The ceremonies were presided over by Richard Pryor, Ellen Burstyn, Jane Fonda, and Warren Beatty. Network and All the President's Men were the two biggest winners of the ceremony, with four Oscars each, but Best Picture ...
Feb 3, 2009 · Rocky Wins Best Picture: 1977 Oscars. Jack Nicholson presents the Best Picture Oscar for Rocky to producers Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff at the 49th Annual Academy Awards. ...more.
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Academy Awards, USA. 1977 Winner Oscar. Best Picture. Irwin Winkler. Robert Chartoff. 1977 Nominee Oscar. Best Actor in a Leading Role. Sylvester Stallone becomes the third person to be nominated for both acting and writing in the same year, following Charles Chaplin for The Great Dictator (1940) and Orson Welles for Citizen Kane (1941).
The bittersweet, introspective film was voted Best Picture (for producer Charles Joffe), Best Director, Best Actress, and Best Original Screenplay (co-written by Woody Allen and partner Marshall Brickman).
Peter Finch. Network. Nomination and award were posthumous. Finch became the first posthumous winner in an acting category. His widow Eletha Finch and screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky accepted the award on his behalf.
