50ste Oscar-toekenningsaand

Die 50ste Oscar-toekenningsaand is op 3 April 1978 deur die Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles gehou om erkenning te gee aan die rolprente van 1977. Bob Hope was vir die 18de en laaste keer die aanbieder.

50ste Oscar-toekenningsaand
Datum	3 April 1978
Plek	Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles
Aanbieder	Bob Hope
Pryse & benoemings
Beste rolprent	Annie Hall
Meeste pryse	Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (7)
Meeste benoemings	Julia en The Turning Point (11 elk)

Twee van die jaar se grootste wenners was Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, wat veral in die tegniese kategorieë uitgeblink het, en Annie Hall, wat vier van sy vyf benoemings gewen het, onder meer beste rolprent, aktrise en regisseur. Die seremonie word ook onthou vir die politiek gelaaide toespraak van Vanessa Redgrave.

The Turning Point het ’n nuwe rekord opgestel vir die prent met die meeste benoemings wat nie een Oscar gewen het nie met 11 benoemings. Die vorige rekord is gehou deur Peyton Place en The Little Foxes, elk met 9 benoemings. Nog net The Color Purple kon dit sedertdien ewenaar.

Annie Hall was die laaste beste prent wat net vyf benoemings gekry het tot The Departed 29 jaar later in 2006.

Pryse

Woody Allen

Diane Keaton

Jane Fonda

Hier volg ’n lys van die belangrikste wenners en benoemdes (die wenners word eerste genoem en is in vet druk):

Beste rolprent	Beste regisseur
Annie Hall The Goodbye Girl Julia Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope The Turning Point	Woody Allen – Annie Hall Steven Spielberg – Close Encounters of the Third Kind Fred Zinnemann – Julia George Lucas – Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope Herbert Ross – The Turning Point
Beste akteur	Beste aktrise
Richard Dreyfuss – The Goodbye Girl Woody Allen – Annie Hall Richard Burton – Equus Marcello Mastroianni – A Special Day John Travolta – Saturday Night Fever	Diane Keaton – Annie Hall Anne Bancroft – The Turning Point Jane Fonda – Julia Shirley MacLaine – The Turning Point Marsha Mason – The Goodbye Girl
Beste manlike byspeler	Beste vroulike byspeler
Jason Robards – Julia Mikhail Baryshnikov – The Turning Point Peter Firth – Equus Alec Guinness – Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope Maximilian Schell – Julia	Vanessa Redgrave – Julia – The Turning Point Quinn Cummings – The Goodbye Girl Melinda Dillon – Close Encounters of the Third Kind Tuesday Weld – Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Beste oorspronklike draaiboek	Beste verwerkte draaiboek
Annie Hall – Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman The Goodbye Girl – Neil Simon The Late Show – Robert Benton Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope – George Lucas The Turning Point – Arthur Laurents	Julia – Alvin Sargent Equus – Peter Shaffer I Never Promised You a Rose Garden – Gavin Lambert, Lewis John Carlino Oh, God! – Larry Gelbart That Obscure Object of Desire – Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière
Beste buitelandse rolprent	Beste oorspronklike musiek (drama)
Madame Rosa (Frankryk) Iphigenia (Griekeland) Operation Thunderbolt (Israel) A Special Day (Italië) That Obscure Object of Desire (Spanje)	Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope – John Williams Julia – Georges Delerue The Spy Who Loved Me – Marvin Hamlisch Mohammad, Messenger of God – Maurice Jarre Close Encounters of the Third Kind – John Williams
Beste kunsredigering	Beste kinematografie
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope – John Barry, Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley, Roger Christian The Spy Who Loved Me – Ken Adam, Peter Lamont, Hugh Scaife Close Encounters of the Third Kind – Joe Alves, Dan Lomino, Phil Abramson The Turning Point – Albert Brenner, Marvin March Airport '77 – George C. Webb, Mickey S. Michaels	Close Encounters of the Third Kind – Vilmos Zsigmond Looking for Mr. Goodbar – William A. Fraker Islands in the Stream – Fred J. Koenekamp Julia – Douglas Slocombe The Turning Point – Robert L. Surtees
Beste redigering	Beste visuele effekte
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope – Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas, Richard Chew Smokey and the Bandit – Walter Hannemann, Angelo Ross Close Encounters of the Third Kind – Michael Kahn Julia – Walter Murch The Turning Point – William Reynolds	Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope – John Stears, John Dykstra, Richard Edlund, Grant McCune, Robert Blalack Close Encounters of the Third Kind – Roy Arbogast, Douglas Trumbull, Matthew Yuricich, Gregory Jein, Richard Yuricich

Erepryse

• Margaret Booth
• Gordon E. Sawyer
• Sidney P. Solow

Jean Hersholt- Humanitêre Prys

• Charlton Heston

Irving G. Thalberg-gedenkprys

• Walter Mirisch

Redgrave se toespraak

Tydens die seremonie het Vanessa Redgrave die Oscar vir beste vroulike byspeler gewen vir Julia. Sy het in haar toespraak die volgende aanmerkings gemaak:

My dear colleagues, I thank you very much for this tribute to my work. I think that Jane Fonda and I have done the best work of our lives, and I think this is in part due to our director, Fred Zinnemann. And I also think it's in part because we believed and we believe in what we were expressing – two out of millions who gave their lives and were prepared to sacrifice everything in the fight against fascist and racist Nazi Germany. And I salute you, and I pay tribute to you, and I think you should be very proud that in the last few weeks you've stood firm, and you have refused to be intimidated by the threats of a small bunch of Zionist hoodlums whose behavior is an insult to the stature of Jews all over the world and their great and heroic record of struggle against fascism and oppression. And I salute that record and I salute all of you for having stood firm and dealt a final blow against that period when Nixon and McCarthy launched a worldwide witch-hunt against those who tried to express in their lives and their work the truth that they believe in. I salute you and I thank you and I pledge to you that I will continue to fight against anti-Semitism and fascism.

Twee uur later het Paddy Chayefsky, toe hy die wenner vir beste skryfwerk moes aankondig, geantwoord:

Before I get on to the writing awards, there's a little matter I'd like to tidy up – at least if I expect to live with myself tomorrow morning. I would like to say, personal opinion, of course, that I'm sick and tired of people exploiting the occasion of the Academy Awards for the propagation of their own personal political propaganda. I would like to suggest to Miss Redgrave that her winning an Academy Award is not a pivotal moment in history, does not require a proclamation and a simple 'thank you' would have sufficed.

Verwysings

1. "The 50th Academy Awards (1978) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org (in Engels). Geargiveer vanaf die oorspronklike op 1 Oktober 2014. Besoek op 5 Oktober 2011.
2. John Bradey, "The craft of the screenwriter", 1981. Page 57

Eksterne skakels

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