1977 Oscar Nominations

Best Picture

• Rocky (Winner)
• All the President's Men
• Bound for Glory
• Network
• Taxi Driver

Best Actor

• Peter Finch – Network (Winner, posthumous)
• Giancarlo Giannini – Seven Beauties
• William Holden – Network
• Sylvester Stallone – Rocky
• Robert De Niro – Taxi Driver

Best Actress

• Faye Dunaway – Network (Winner)
• Marie-Christine Barrault – Cousin Angélique
• Talia Shire – Rocky
• Sissy Spacek – Carrie
• Liv Ullmann – Face to Face

Best Supporting Actor

• Jason Robards – All the President's Men (Winner)
• Ned Beatty – Network
• Burgess Meredith – Rocky
• Laurence Olivier – Marathon Man
• Burt Young – Rocky

Best Supporting Actress

• Beatrice Straight – Network (Winner)
• Jane Alexander – All the President's Men
• Jodie Foster – Taxi Driver
• Lee Grant – Voyage of the Damned
• Piper Laurie – Carrie

Best Director

• John G. Avildsen – Rocky (Winner)
• Ingmar Bergman – Face to Face
• Sidney Lumet – Network
• Alan J. Pakula – All the President's Men
• Lina Wertmüller – Seven Beauties

Best Adapted Screenplay

• All the President's Men – William Goldman (Winner)
• Bound for Glory – Robert Getchell
• Fellini's Casanova – Federico Fellini and Bernardino Zapponi
• The Seven-Per-Cent Solution – Nicholas Meyer
• Voyage of the Damned – David Butler and Steve Shagan

Best Original Screenplay

• Network – Paddy Chayefsky (Winner)
• Cousin Angélique – Jean-Charles Tacchella and Danièle Thompson
• Panic in Needle Park – Nancy Dowd
• Rocky – Sylvester Stallone
• Seven Beauties – Lina Wertmüller