Oscar Rewrite: 1976

 

Best Picture: Rocky

Best Director: John G. Avildsen (Rocky)  Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver)

Best Actor: Peter Finch (Network)  Clint Eastwood (The Outlaw Josey Wales)

Best Actress: Faye Dunaway (Network)  Sissy Spacek (Carrie)

Best Supporting Actor: Jason Robards (All the President’s Men) Laurence Olivier (Marathon Man)

Best Supporting Actress: Beatrice Straight (Network) Billie Whitelaw (The Omen)

Best Original Screenplay: Network

Best Adapted Screenplay: All the President’s Men

Jason Fraley

Hailed by The Washington Post for “his savantlike ability to name every Best Picture winner in history," Jason Fraley began at WTOP as Morning Drive Writer in 2008, film critic in 2011 and Entertainment Editor in 2014, providing daily arts coverage on-air and online.

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