Which Academy Award did Rocky win for Best Picture?

Rocky won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

At the 49th Academy Awards, honoring films released in 1976, Rocky won three Oscars: Best Picture, Best Director for John G. Avildsen, and Best Film Editing for Scott Conrad and Richard Halsey. Producers Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff accepted the Best Picture award.

The victory was notable because Rocky competed against films such as All the President’s Men, Network, and Taxi Driver. The film’s modest-budget underdog story matched the emotional idea at its center: a chance to compete could matter as much as the final result.

Sylvester Stallone received nominations for Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay, but he did not win either award. The screenplay category went to Paddy Chayefsky for Network, while Peter Finch and Faye Dunaway won the acting awards. Thus, Best Picture is the specific Oscar category Rocky won as a film.