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Best Picture. Rocky. Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff with Sylvester Stallone. View More Highlights. Memorable Moments. Muhammad Ali and Sylvester Stallone. The presenters take a moment to spar on stage. Eletha Barret. The widow of Best Actor winner Peter Finch accepts his...
6 wins & 14 nominations. Academy Awards, USA. 1978 Nominee Oscar. Best Actor in a Leading Role. John Travolta. BAFTA Awards. 1979 Nominee BAFTA Film Award. Best Sound. Michael Colgan. Les Lazarowitz. John Wilkinson. Robert W. Glass Jr. John T. Reitz. 1979 Nominee Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music. Barry Gibb. Maurice Gibb. Robin Gibb.
- All Quiet on the Western Front – Volker Bertelmann. 2023: German composer Volker Bertelmann took home the accolade for his score to anti-war epic ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’.
- Dune – Hans Zimmer. 2022: Zimmer’s 27-year wait for his second Oscar – his first being in 1994 for The Lion King – set a new composer record, one previously held by Breakfast at Tiffany’s composer Henry Mancini.
- Soul – Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. 2021: Three musical greats picked up the Best Score award for Disney and Pixar’s animation about a jazz musician who winds up trapped in an alternate world, and must connect to his true purpose on Earth to find his way out.
- Joker – Hildur Guðnadóttir. 2020: Icelandic composer Hildur Guðnadóttir became the first woman to win an Academy Award for a film score since 1997. In her speech, she urged women and girls to “please speak up; we need to hear your voices.”
[Its six awards were for Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Sound, Best Editing, Best Music Score (a third Oscar for John Williams), and Best Visual Effects. It also received a Best Sound Effects Creations - a Special Achievement Award for the "creation of the alien, creature, and robot voices."
The 49th Academy Awards | 1977. Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Monday, March 28, 1977. Honoring movies released in 1976.
Star Wars (1977) was originally nominated for 12 and won eight competitive awards; the actual number of wins includes five special non-competitive awards, which don't count toward nomination totals and were given out to reward the film's art direction, cinematography, editing, set decoration, and sound, respectively.
1. The Big House. 1930 1h 27m Approved. 7.1 (2.6K) Rate. A convict falls in love with his new cellmate's sister, only to become embroiled in a planned break-out which is certain to have lethal consequences. Director George W. Hill Ward Wing Stars Chester Morris Wallace Beery Lewis Stone. 2. A Farewell to Arms. 1932 1h 20m Approved. 6.4 (6.8K) Rate.
