Oscar Nominated Movies 1977

A small-time Philadelphia boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight the world heavyweight champion in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.

"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.

The early life of Woody Guthrie as a vagabond folk singer.

A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about mass media for its own profit, but finds that his message may be difficult to control.

A mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action.

The defense of honor, a strong value in Neapolitan society, and its effects on the life of everyman Pasquale Frafuso.

Two distant cousins meet at a wedding banquet for an elderly couple. Over time, a close friendship develops between them, but their spouses begin to think that they are more than just friends.

Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.

Two psychiatrists have their marriage tested when one suffers a mental breakdown.

After the murder of his older brother, a New York history student is hounded by shadowy government agents on the trail of a Nazi war criminal who is trying to retrieve smuggled diamonds.

The tragic 1939 voyage of SS St. Louis carrying hundreds of German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that seemingly no nation is willing to save from certain doom.

In 1953, a cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.

Giacomo Casanova uses his sexuality to find his place in life amid eccentric and strange characters.

To treat his friend's cocaine induced delusions, Watson lures Sherlock Holmes to Sigmund Freud.

A petroleum exploration expedition comes to an isolated island and encounters a colossal giant gorilla.

A police officer in the future uncovers the deadly secret behind a society that worships youth.

Has-been singing idol John Norman Howard falls in love with young, up-and-coming songstress Esther Hoffman in Frank Pierson's version of the classic love story updated to the rock and roll era.

The life of the great actress, Sarah Bernhardt.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.

A dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity.

Dramatization of the controversial best-seller that posits an alternate version of the birth of Christianity. In this version, Jesus planned for His crucifixion by taking a drug that would simulate death. After His unconscious body was placed in the tomb, a religious sect known as the Zealots would secretly steal Christ's body from the tomb, then spread the rumor that He had risen, thus fulfilling Biblical prophecy.

On a long-distance train trip, a man finds romance but also finds himself in danger of being killed, or at least pushed off the train.

A crazed sniper is set to kill spectators at an L.A. Coliseum football championship game and the police race against time to eliminate him.

Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil's own son?

After escaping from an insane asylum, the bonkers Charles Dreyfus sends 26 assassins on the trail of the forever bumbling Inspector Clouseau.