THE HAMILTON AWARDS: 1977
BEST PICTURE
Annie Hall (United Artists)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Columbia)
Saturday Night Fever (Paramount)
* Star Wars (20th Century Fox)
Suspiria (International Classics)
BEST DIRECTOR
Woody Allen for Annie Hall
Dario Argento for Suspiria
David Lynch for Eraserhead
* George Lucas for Star Wars
Steven Spielberg for Close Encounters of the Third Kind
BEST ACTOR
Woody Allen for Annie Hall
Richard Burton for Equus
* Richard Dreyfuss for Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Rutger Hauer for Soldier of Orange (Soldaat van Oranje)
John Travolta for Saturday Night Fever
BEST ACTRESS
Julie Christie for Demon Seed
Jane Fonda for Julia
Jessica Harper for Suspiria
* Diane Keaton for Annie Hall
Diane Keaton for Looking for Mr. Goodbar
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Bruce Dern for Black Sunday
Peter Firth for Equus
Harrison Ford for Star Wars
* Alec Guinness for Star Wars
François Truffaut for Close Encounters of the Third Kind
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jenny Agutter for Equus
* Melinda Dillon for Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Teri Garr for Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Vanessa Redgrave for Julia
Tuesday Weld for Looking for Mr. Goodbar
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman for Annie Hall
Dario Argento, Daria Nicolodi for Suspiria
Nancy Dowd for Slap Shot
David Lynch for Eraserhead
* Steven Spielberg for Close Encounters of the Third Kind
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Robert Jaffe, Roger O. Hirson for Demon Seed
* Ernest Lehman, Kenneth Ross, Ivan Moffat for Black Sunday
Alvin Sargent for Julia
Peter Shaffer for Equus
Gerald Vaughan-Hughes for The Duellists
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Gilbert Taylor for Star Wars
Frank Tidy for The Duellists
Luciano Tovoli for Suspiria
Jost Vacano for Soldier of Orange (Soldaat van Oranje)
* Vilmos Zsigmond, Douglas Slocombe, Lazslo Kovacs, William Fraker,
John A. Alonzo for Close Encounters of the Third Kind
BEST FILM EDITING
Dede Allen for Slap Shot
Franco Fraticelli for Suspiria
* Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas, Richard Chew for Star Wars
Michael Kahn for Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Tom Rolf for Black Sunday
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Pierangelo Cicoletti for Suspiria
* John Mollo for Star Wars
Ruth Morley for Annie Hall
Tom Rand for The Duellists
Patrizia Von Brandenstein, Jennifer Nichols for Saturday Night Fever
BEST SONG
“If I Can’t Have You” (The Bee Gees) from Saturday Night Fever
“More Than a Woman” (The Bee Gees) from Saturday Night Fever
“Night Fever” (The Bee Gees) from Saturday Night Fever
“Nobody Does It Better” (Marvin Hamlisch/Carole Bayer Sager)
from The Spy Who Loved Me
* “Staying Alive” (The Bee Gees) from Saturday Night Fever
BEST ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE
John Barry for The Deep
Goblin (Claudio Simonetti, Massimo Morante, Fabio Pignatelli, Agostino Marangolo),
Dario Argento for Suspiria
John Williams for Black Sunday
John Williams for Close Encounters of the Third Kind
* John Williams for Star Wars
BEST ORIGINAL MUSICAL/COMEDY SCORE AND/OR ADAPTATION
Elmer Bernstein for Slap Shot
Jack Elliot for Oh, God!
John Morris for High Anxiety
Jerry Reed, Bill Justis for Smokey and the Bandit
* David Shire for Saturday Night Fever
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Joe Alves, Dan Lomino, Phil Abramson
Saturday Night Fever - Charles Bailey, George Detitta
The Spy Who Loved Me - Ken Adam, Peter Lamont, Hugh Scaife
* Star Wars - John Barry, Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley,
Ralph McQuarrie, Joe Johnston, Roger Christian
Suspiria - Giuseppe Bassan, Maurizio Garrone, Davide Bassan
BEST MAKE-UP DESIGN
Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Bob Westmoreland
Equus - Ron Berkeley, Ken Brooke
The Spy Who Loved Me - Paul Engelen
* Star Wars - Stuart Freeborn, Rick Baker, Doug Beswick
Suspiria - Pierantonio Macacci, Pierino Macacci
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Black Sunday
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
The Spy Who Loved Me
* Star Wars
BEST SOUND MIXING
ABBA: The Movie
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Eraserhead
Saturday Night Fever
* Star Wars
BEST SOUND EDITING
ABBA: The Movie
Black Sunday
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
* Star Wars
Suspiria
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
BEST DOCUMENTARY
no award given
BEST ANIMATED FILM
* The Rescuers
The Man Who Loved Women (L’Homme qui aimait les femmes) (France)
Operation Thunderbolt (Mivtsa Yonatan) (Israel)
* Soldier of Orange (Soldaat van Oranje) (Netherlands)
Wizards
HALL OF FAME
Charles Chaplin (1889-1977) (Actor/Writer/Director/Producer/Composer) (The Kid, The Gold Rush, The Circus, City Lights, Modern Times, The Great Dictator, Monsieur Verdoux, Limelight)
Joan Crawford (1904-1977) (Actress) (Grand Hotel, The Women, Mildred Pierce, Humoresque, Possessed, Sudden Fear, Johnny Guitar, Queen Bee, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?)
Bing Crosby (1903-1977) (Actor) (Road to Singapore, Holiday Inn, Going My Way, The Bells of St. Mary’s, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, The Country Girl, High Society)
Howard Hawks (1896-1977) (Writer/Director/Producer) (Scarface, Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, Sergeant York, To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, Red River, Rio Bravo, Hatari!)
Groucho Marx (1890-1977) (Actor) (The Cocoanuts, Animal Crackers, Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, Duck Soup, A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races, A Night in Casablanca)
Leon Shamroy (1901-1974) (Cinematographer) (Forever Amber, Prince of Foxes, The Robe, The Egyptian, The King and I, Cleopatra, The Cardinal, The Agony and the Ecstasy, Planet of the Apes)