48th Academy Awards

The 48th Academy Awards were presented Monday, March 29, 1976, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. The ceremonies were presided over by Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, George Segal, Goldie Hawn, and Gene Kelly.

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

20-year-old French actress Isabelle Adjani received her first nomination for Best Actress this year, becoming the youngest nominee that category, breaking the record set by 22-year-old Elizabeth Hartman in 1965. Her record would be surpassed by 13-year-old Keisha Castle-Hughes in 2004, and again in 2013 by nine-year old Quvenzhané Wallis, the current record. Adjani also co-presented the award for Best Film Editing.

At 80, George Burns became the oldest acting winner, as well as the last person born in the nineteenth century to receive an acting award. His record stood until Jessica Tandy won Best Actress in 1989; Burns was later succeeded as the oldest Best Supporting Actor winner by Christopher Plummer, who won in 2012 for Beginners at the age of 82.

Jaws won all its nominations except Best Picture, the last film to do so until Traffic. As of the 94th Academy Awards, Amarcord, nominated for Best Director, is the last film to be nominated for Academy Awards in separate years (having won the award for Best Foreign Language Film the year before).

This ceremony marked the return of Oscar telecasts to ABC, which carried the event from 1961 until NBC held the rights for a 5-year period beginning in 1971. (ABC has maintained Oscar TV rights to this day.) NBC's coverage of the NCAA Division I basketball championship aired the same night as the ceremony, and while Adjani unsealed the envelope for Best Film Editing, co-presenter Elliott Gould jokingly announced the winner as "Indiana, 86-68" (the title game's outcome in Philadelphia).

Winners and nominees

Nominees were announced on February 17, 1976. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface and indicated with a double dagger (Template:Double dagger).

Best Picture	Best Directing
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – Michael Douglas and Saul Zaentz, producersTemplate:Double dagger Barry Lyndon – Stanley Kubrick, producer Dog Day Afternoon – Martin Bregman and Martin Elfand, producers Jaws – Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown, producers Nashville – Robert Altman, producer	Miloš Forman – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestTemplate:Double dagger Federico Fellini – Amarcord Stanley Kubrick – Barry Lyndon Sidney Lumet – Dog Day Afternoon Robert Altman – Nashville
Best Actor	Best Actress
Jack Nicholson – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as Randle Patrick McMurphyTemplate:Double dagger 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 RatchedTemplate:Double dagger 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 Actor in a Supporting Role	Best Actress in a Supporting Role
George Burns – The Sunshine Boys as Al LewisTemplate:Double dagger 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 KarpfTemplate:Double dagger Ronee Blakley – Nashville as Barbara Jean Sylvia Miles – Farewell, My Lovely as Jessie Halstead Florian Lily Tomlin – Nashville as Linnea Reese Brenda Vaccaro – Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough as Linda Riggs
Best Writing (Original Screenplay)	Best Writing (Screenplay Adapted from Other Material)
Dog Day Afternoon – Frank PiersonTemplate:Double dagger 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 Lawrence Hauben based on the novel by Ken KeseyTemplate:Double dagger Barry Lyndon – Stanley Kubrick based on The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. by William Makepeace Thackeray The Man Who Would Be King – John Huston and Gladys Hill based on the story by Rudyard Kipling Profumo di donna – Ruggero Maccari and Dino Risi based on the novel Il buio e il miele by Giovanni Arpino The Sunshine Boys – Neil Simon based on his play
Best Foreign Language Film	Best Documentary (Feature)
Dersu Uzala (Soviet Union)Template:Double dagger Letters from Marusia (Mexico) Profumo di donna (Italy) The Promised Land (Poland) Sandakan No. 8 (Japan)	The Man Who Skied Down Everest – F. R. Crawley, James Hager and Dale HartlebenTemplate:Double dagger The California Reich – Keith Critchlow and Walter F. Parkes Fighting for Our Lives – Glen Pearcy The Incredible Machine – Irwin Rosten The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir – Shirley MacLaine
Best Documentary (Short Subject)	Best Short Film (Live Action)
The End of the Game – Claire Wilbur and Robin LehmanTemplate:Double dagger Arthur and Lillie Millions of Years Ahead of Man Probes in Space Whistling Smith	Angel and Big Joe – Bert SalzmanTemplate:Double dagger 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
Best Short Film (Animated)	Best Music (Original Score)
Great – Bob GodfreyTemplate:Double dagger Kick Me – Robert Swarthe Monsieur Pointu – René Jodoin, Bernard Longpré and André Leduc Sisyphus – Marcell Jankovics	Jaws – John WilliamsTemplate:Double dagger 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
Best Music (Scoring: Original Song Score and Adaptation -or- Scoring: Adaptation)	Best Music (Original Song)
Barry Lyndon – Leonard RosenmanTemplate:Double dagger Funny Lady – Peter Matz Tommy – Pete Townshend	"I'm Easy" from Nashville – Music and Lyrics by Keith CarradineTemplate:Double dagger "How Lucky Can You Get" from Funny Lady – Music and Lyrics by Kander and Ebb "Now That We’re In Love" from Whiffs – Music by George Barrie; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn "Richard’s Window" from The Other Side of the Mountain – Music by Charles Fox; Lyrics by Norman Gimbel "Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)" from Mahogany – Music by Michael Masser; Lyrics by Gerry Goffin
Best Sound	Best Costume Design
Jaws – Robert L. Hoyt, Roger Heman, Earl Madery and John CarterTemplate:Double dagger Bite the Bullet – Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Richard Tyler and Al Overton Jr. Funny Lady – Richard Portman, Don MacDougall, Curly Thirlwell and Jack Solomon The Hindenburg – Leonard Peterson, John A. Bolger Jr., John Mack and Don K. Sharpless The Wind and the Lion – Harry W. Tetrick, Aaron Rochin, William McCaughey and Roy Charman	Barry Lyndon – Milena Canonero and Ulla-Britt SöderlundTemplate:Double dagger 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 Art Direction	Best Cinematography
Barry Lyndon – Art Direction: Ken Adam and Roy Walker; Set Decoration: Vernon DixonTemplate:Double dagger The Hindenburg – Art Direction: Edward Carfagno; Set Decoration: Frank R. McKelvy The Man Who Would Be King – Art Direction: Alexandre Trauner and Tony Inglis; Set Decoration: 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 AlcottTemplate:Double dagger The Day of the Locust – Conrad Hall Funny Lady – James Wong Howe The Hindenburg – Robert Surtees One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – Bill Butler and Haskell Wexler
Best Film Editing
Jaws – Verna FieldsTemplate:Double dagger Dog Day Afternoon – Dede Allen The Man Who Would Be King – Russell Lloyd One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – Richard Chew, Sheldon Kahn and Lynzee Klingman Three Days of the Condor – Don Guidice and Fredric Steinkamp

Special Achievement Award (Sound Effects)

• The Hindenburg – Peter Berkos.

Special Achievement Award (Visual Effects)

• The Hindenburg – Albert Whitlock and Glen Robinson.

Honorary Award

• To Mary Pickford in recognition of her unique contributions to the film industry and the development of film as an artistic medium.

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

• Dr. Jules C. Stein

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

• Mervyn LeRoy

Multiple nominations and awards

Films with multiple nominations

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

Films with multiple awardsTemplate:Efn

Awards	Film
5	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
4	Barry Lyndon
3	Jaws

Presenters and performers

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

Presenters

Name	Role
	Announcer for the 48th Academy Awards
	Introducer of the President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Walter Mirisch
(AMPAS President)	Gave opening remarks welcoming guests to the awards ceremony
Madeline Kahn	Presenters of the award for Best Supporting Actress
	Presenter of the Special Achievement Award
O. J. Simpson	Presenters of the Short Subjects Awards
Roy Scheider	Presenters of the award for Best Sound
Marilyn Hassett	Presenters of the Documentary Awards
	Presenter of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to Dr. Jules C. Stein
Charlotte Rampling	Presenters of the award for Best Art Direction
Telly Savalas	Presenters of the award for Best Costume Design
Ben Johnson	Presenters of the award for Best Supporting Actor
Marlo Thomas	Presenters of the Music Awards
Billy Dee Williams	Presenters of the award for Best Cinematography
Elliott Gould	Presenters of the award for Best Film Editing
Jack Valenti	Presenters of the award for Best Foreign Language Film
Angie Dickinson	Presenters of the award for Best Original Song
	Presenter of the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to Mervyn LeRoy
William Wyler	Presenters of the award for Best Director
	Presenter of the Writing Awards
	Presenter of the Honorary Award to Mary Pickford
Jill Ireland	Presenters of the award for Best Actress
	Presenter of the award for Best Actor
	Presenter of the award for Best Picture
	Introducer of the performance of "America the Beautiful" by the Spirit of Troy

Performers

Name	Role	Performed
	Musical arranger and conductor	Orchestral
	Performer	"Hollywood Honors Its Own"
	Performer	"I'm Easy" from Nashville
	Performer	"How Lucky Can You Get" from Funny Lady
	Performer	"Now That We're in Love" from Whiffs
	Performer	"Richard's Window" from The Other Side of the Mountain
	Performer	"Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)" from Mahogany
	Performers	"America the Beautiful/That’s Entertainment!" (instrumental)

See also

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

External links

• 48th Academy Awards at IMDb