Academy Award for Best Score (Musical or Adaptation) 1978
50th Academy Awards · held April 3, 1978 · 7 nominees
- Winner A Little Night Music · Jonathan Tunick
- Nominee Close Encounters of the Third Kind · John Williams
- Nominee Julia · Georges Delerue
- Nominee Pete's Dragon · Al Kasha, Joel Hirschhorn, Irwin Kostal
- Nominee The Message · Maurice Jarre
- Nominee The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella · Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman, Angela Morley
- Nominee The Spy Who Loved Me · Marvin Hamlisch