Kammala wannan magana: Bikin Academy Awards na 50, wanda Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) ya gabatar, ya girmama fina-finai da aka saki a shekara ta 1977 kuma ya faru a ranar 3 ga Afrilu, 1978, a Dorothy Chandler Pavilion a Los Angeles farawa da karfe 7:00 na yamma PST / 10:00 na yamma EST. Abin da ya sa? A yayin bikin, AMPAS ta gabatar da Kyautar Kwalejin (wanda ake kira Oscar) a fannoni 23. Bikin, wanda ABC ta watsa a talabijin a Amurka, Howard W. Koch ne ya shirya shi kuma Marty Pasetta ne ya jagoranta. Dan wasan kwaikwayo kuma mai ban dariya Bob Hope ya shirya a karo na goma sha tara. Da farko ya jagoranci taron
12th bikin da aka gudanar a 1940 kuma ya kasance na ƙarshe a matsayin mai haɗin gwiwar bikin na 47 da aka gudanar a 1975. Kwana biyar da suka gabata, a wani bikin da aka gudanar a The Beverly Hilton a Beverly Hills, California, a ranar 29 ga Maris, an ba da lambar yabo ta Kimiyya da Fasaha ta Kwalejin ta Kirk Douglas da Gregory Peck.