48th Academy Awards

48th Academy Awards
Date	Monday, March 29, 1976
Site	Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles
Host	Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, George Segal, Goldie Hawn, Gene Kelly
Producer	Howard W. Koch
Director	Marty Pasetta
Highlights
Best Picture	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Most awards	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (5)
Most nominations	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (9)
TV in the United States
Network	ABC
Duration	3 hours, 12 minutes

The 48th Academy Awards were presented March 29, 1976 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, George Segal, Goldie Hawn, and Gene Kelly. This year, ABC took over broadcast rights from NBC, and continues to broadcast them today. (NBC's coverage of the 1976 NCAA Final Four aired opposite the ceremony; during the presentation of the Best Film Editing award, the winner was jokingly announced (by presenter Elliott Gould) as "Indiana, 86-68"; the Indiana Hoosiers had won the NCAA Final Four that night.)

Miloš Forman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest made a "clean sweep" of the major categories: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and Best Screenplay (Adapted). It was the second of three films to date to accomplish the sweep, following It Happened One Night in 1934 and preceding The Silence of the Lambs in 1991.

French actress Isabelle Adjani received her first nomination for Best Actress this year, making Adjani, 20 at the time, the youngest actress to be nominated in the leading actress category, breaking the record set by 22-year-old Elizabeth Hartman in 1967. This record would later be surpassed by 13-year-old Keisha Castle-Hughes in 2004, and again in 2013 by 9-year old Quvenzhane Wallis. Adjani also presented the Best Film Editing award that night along with Gould who delivered the Indiana joke during the presentation.

At age 80, George Burns became the oldest acting and Best Supporting Actor awardee, a record which stood until Jessica Tandy won Best Actress in 1989. For males, Burns was succeeded by Christopher Plummer, who won Best Supporting Actor in 2012 for Beginners at the age of 82.

Jaws was followed 25 years later by Traffic for a film that won all its nominations except Best Picture. Jaws is one of the few films to be nominated for Best Picture but not for directing, acting, or writing.

Winners & Nominees

Jack Nicholson, Best Actor winner

George Burns, Best Supporting Actor winner

Lee Grant, Best Supporting Actress winner

Winners are highlighted in bold.

Best Picture	Best Director
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Michael Douglas, Saul Zaentz Barry Lyndon - Stanley Kubrick Dog Day Afternoon - Martin Bregman, Martin Elfand Jaws - Richard D. Zanuck Nashville - Robert Altman	Miloš Forman – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Robert Altman – Nashville Federico Fellini – Amarcord Stanley Kubrick – Barry Lyndon Sidney Lumet – Dog Day Afternoon
Best Actor	Best Actress
Jack Nicholson – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as Randle Patrick McMurphy Walter Matthau – The Sunshine Boys as Willy Clark Al Pacino – Dog Day Afternoon as Sonny Wortzik Maximilian Schell – The Man in the Glass Booth as Arthur Goldman James Whitmore – Give 'em Hell, Harry! as Harry S Truman	Louise Fletcher – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as Nurse Mildred Ratched Isabelle Adjani – The Story of Adele H. as Adèle Hugo / Adèle Lewry Ann-Margret – Tommy as Nora Walker Glenda Jackson – Hedda as Hedda Gabler Carol Kane – Hester Street as Gitl
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
George Burns – The Sunshine Boys as Al Lewis Brad Dourif – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as Billy Bibbit Burgess Meredith – The Day of the Locust as Harry Greener Chris Sarandon – Dog Day Afternoon as Leon Jack Warden – Shampoo as Lester Karpf	Lee Grant – Shampoo as Felicia Karpf Ronee Blakley – Nashville as Barbara Jean Sylvia Miles – Farewell, My Lovely as Jessie Halstead Florian Lily Tomlin – Nashville as Linnea Reese Brenda Vaccaro – Once Is Not Enough as Linda Riggs
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
Dog Day Afternoon – Frank Pierson Amarcord – Federico Fellini and Tonino Guerra And Now My Love – Claude Lelouch and Pierre Uytterhoeven Lies My Father Told Me – Ted Allan Shampoo – Warren Beatty and Robert Towne	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – Bo Goldman and Laurence Hauben Barry Lyndon – Stanley Kubrick The Man Who Would Be King – John Huston and Gladys Hill Profumo di donna – Ruggero Maccari and Dino Risi The Sunshine Boys – Neil Simon
Best Foreign Language Film	Best Costume Design
Dersu Uzala (Soviet Union) Letters from Marusia (Mexico) The Promised Land (Poland) Sandakan No. 8 (Japan) Profumo di donna (Italy)	Barry Lyndon – Milena Canonero and Ulla-Britt Söderlund The Four Musketeers – Yvonne Blake and Ron Talsky Funny Lady – Ray Aghayan and Bob Mackie The Magic Flute – Karin Erskine and Henny Noremark The Man Who Would Be King – Edith Head
Best Documentary Feature	Best Documentary Short
The Man Who Skied Down Everest The California Reich Fighting for Our Lives The Incredible Machine The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir	The End of the Game Arthur and Lillie Millions of Years Ahead of Man Probes in Space Whistling Smith
Best Live Action Short	Best Animated Short
Angel and Big Joe - Bert Salzman Conquest of Light - Louis Marcus Dawn Flight - Lawrence M. Lansburgh and Brian Lansburgh A Day in the Life of Bonnie Consolo - Barry Spinello Doubletalk - Alan Beattie	Great - Bob Godfrey Kick Me - Robert Swarthe Monsieur Pointu - René Jodoin Sisyphus - Marcell Jankovics
Best Original Score	Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score
Jaws – John Williams Birds Do It, Bees Do It – Gerald Fried Bite the Bullet – Alex North One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – Jack Nitzsche The Wind and the Lion – Jerry Goldsmith	Barry Lyndon – Leonard Rosenman Funny Lady – Peter Matz Tommy – Pete Townshend
Best Original Song	Best Sound Mixing
"I'm Easy" from Nashville – Music and lyrics by Keith Carradine "How Lucky Can You Get?" from Funny Lady – Music and lyrics by Kander and Ebb "Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)" from Mahogany – Music by Michael Masser; lyrics by Gerry Goffin "Richard’s Window" from The Other Side of the Mountain – Music by Charles Fox; lyrics by Norman Gimbel "Now That We’re In Love" from Whiffs – Music by George Barrie; lyrics by Sammy Cahn	Jaws – John Carter, Roger Heman, Robert Hoyt, and Earl Madery Bite the Bullet – Les Fresholtz, Al Overton, Jr., Arthur Piantadosi, and Richard Tyler Funny Lady – Don MacDougall, Richard Portman, Jack Solomon and Curly Thirlwell The Hindenburg – John A. Bolger, Jr., John L. Mack, Leonard Peterson, and Don Sharpless The Wind and the Lion – Roy Charman, William McCaughey, Aaron Rochin, and Harry W. Tetrick
Best Art Direction	Best Cinematography
Barry Lyndon – Art Direction: Ken Adam; Set Decoration: Roy Walker and Vernon Dixon The Hindenburg – Art Direction: Edward Carfagno; Set Decoration: Frank R. McKelvy The Man Who Would Be King– Art Direction: Alexandre Trauner; Set Decoration: Tony Inglis and Peter James Shampoo – Art Direction: Richard Sylbert and W. Stewart Campbell; Set Decoration: George Gaines The Sunshine Boys – Art Direction: Albert Brenner; Set Decoration: Marvin March	Barry Lyndon – John Alcott The Day of the Locust – Conrad Hall Funny Lady – James Wong Howe The Hindenburg – Robert L. Surtees One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – Bill Butler, Haskell Wexler
Best Film Editing	Best Sound Editing
Jaws – Verna Fields Dog Day Afternoon – Dede Allen The Man Who Would Be King – Russell Lloyd One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – Richard Chew, Sheldon Kahn, Lynzee Klingman Three Days of the Condor – Don Guidice, Fredric Steinkamp	The Hindenburg – Peter Berkos

Multiple nominations and awards

These films had multiple nominations:

• 9 nominations: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• 7 nominations: Barry Lyndon
• 6 nominations: Dog Day Afternoon
• 5 nominations: Funny Lady and Nashville
• 4 nominations: The Hindenburg, Jaws, The Man Who Would Be King, Shampoo and The Sunshine Boys
• 2 nominations: Amarcord, Bite the Bullet, The Day of the Locust, Profumo di donna, Tommy and Wind and the Lion

The following films received multiple awards.

• 5 wins: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• 4 wins: Barry Lyndon
• 3 wins: Jaws

Academy Honorary Award

• Mary Pickford

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

• Mervyn LeRoy

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

• Jules C. Stein

Presenters and performers

The following individuals, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers.

Presenters

Name	Role
Hank Simms	Announcer for the 48th Academy Awards
Ray Bolger	Introducer of the President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Walter Mirisch
Walter Mirisch (AMPAS President)	Gave opening remarks welcoming guests to the awards ceremony
Joel Grey Madeline Kahn	Presenters of the award for Best Supporting Actress
Robert Blake	Presenter of the Special Achievement Award
Marisa Berenson O.J. Simpson	Presenters of the Short Subjects Awards
Margaux Hemingway Roy Scheider	Presenters of the award for Best Sound
Beau Bridges Marilyn Hassett	Presenters of the Documentary Awards
Charlton Heston	Presenter of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to the Dr. Jules C. Stein
Anthony Hopkins Charlotte Rampling	Presenters of the award for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
Telly Savalas Jennifer O'Neill	Presenters of the award for Best Costume Design
Linda Blair Ben Johnson	Presenters of the award for Best Supporting Actor
Rod McKuen Marlo Thomas	Presenters of the Music Awards
Stockard Channing Billy Dee Williams	Presenters of the award for Best Cinematography
Isabelle Adjani Elliott Gould	Presenters of the award for Best Film Editing
Jacqueline Bisset Jack Valenti	Presenters of the award for Best Foreign Language Film
Burt Bacharach Angie Dickinson	Presenters of the award for Best Original Song
William Friedkin	Presenter of the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to Mervyn LeRoy
Diane Keaton William Wyler	Presenters of the award for Best Director
Gore Vidal	Presenter of the Writing Awards
Walter Mirisch	Presenter of the Honorary Award to Mary Pickford
Charles Bronson Jill Ireland	Presenters of the award for Best Actress
Art Carney	Presenter of the award for Best Actor
Audrey Hepburn	Presenter of the award for Best Picture
Elizabeth Taylor	Introducer of the performance of "America the Beautiful" by the Spirit of Troy

Performers

Name	Role	Performed
John Williams	Musical arranger Conductor	Orchestral
Ray Bolger	Performer	"Hollywood Honors Its Own"
Keith Carradine	Performer	"I'm Easy" from Nashville
Bernadette Peters	Performer	"How Lucky Can You Get" from Funny Lady
Steve Lawrence	Performer	"Now That We're in Love" from Whiffs
Kelly Garrett	Performer	"Richard's Window" from The Other Side of the Mountain
Diana Ross	Performer	"Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)" from Mahogany
Spirit of Troy	Performers	"America the Beautiful/That’s Entertainment!" (instrumental)

See also

• 33rd Golden Globe Awards
• 1975 in film
• 18th Grammy Awards
• 27th Primetime Emmy Awards
• 28th Primetime Emmy Awards
• 29th British Academy Film Awards
• 30th Tony Awards

External links

• 48th Academy Awards at IMDb