Nominations 1979

Award ceremony for films of 1978

Actor in a Leading Role

Actor in a Supporting Role

Actress in a Leading Role

Actress in a Supporting Role

Best Picture

The Deer Hunter
Nominees
Coming Home
Nominees
- Jerome Hellman
Heaven Can Wait (1978)
Nominees
- Warren Beatty
Midnight Express
Nominees
- Alan Marshall
- David Puttnam
An Unmarried Woman
Nominees
- Anthony Ray
- Paul Mazursky

Cinematography

Days of Heaven
Nominees
- Néstor Almendros
The Deer Hunter
Nominees
- Vilmos Zsigmond
Heaven Can Wait (1978)
Nominees
- William A. Fraker
Same Time Next Year
Nominees
- Robert Surtees
The Wiz
Nominees
- Oswald Morris

Costume Design

Death on the Nile
Nominees
- Anthony Powell
Caravans
Nominees
- Renié
Days of Heaven
Nominees
- Patricia Norris
The Swarm
Nominees
- Paul Zastupnevich
The Wiz
Nominees
- Tony Walton

Directing

Documentary (Feature Film)

Scared Straight!
Nominees
- Arnold Shapiro
The Lovers' Wind (Le vent des amoureux)
Nominees
- Albert Lamorisse
Mysterious Castles of Clay
Nominees
- Alan Root
- Joan Root
Raoni
Nominees
- Jean-Pierre Dutilleux
- Luiz Carlos Saldanha
With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade
Nominees
- Lorraine Gray

Documentary (Short Film)

The Flight of the Gossamer Condor
Nominees
- Ben Shedd
- Jacqueline Phillips Shedd And
The Divided Trail: A Native American Odyssey
Nominees
- Jerry Aronson
An Encounter with Faces
Nominees
- K. K. Kapil
- Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Goodnight Miss Ann
Nominees
- August Cinquegrana
Squires of San Quentin
Nominees
- J. Gary Mitchell

Film Editing

The Deer Hunter
Nominees
- Peter Zinner
The Boys from Brazil
Nominees
- Robert E. Swink
Coming Home
Nominees
- Don Zimmerman
Midnight Express
Nominees
- Gerry Hambling
Superman (1978)
Nominees
- Stuart Baird

International Feature Film

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
Nominees
- Bertrand Blier
The Glass Cell
Nominees
- Hans W. Geißendörfer
Hungarians
Nominees
- Zoltán Fábri
Viva Italia!
Nominees
White Bim Black Ear
Nominees
- Stanislav Rostotsky

Music (Adapted Score)

The Buddy Holly Story
Nominees
- Joe Renzetti
Pretty Baby
Nominees
- Jerry Wexler
The Wiz
Nominees
- Quincy Jones

Music (Original Score)

Music (Original Song)

Hopelessly Devoted to You
Grease
- John Farrar
Last Dance
Thank God It's Friday
- Paul Jabara
Ready to Take a Chance Again
Foul Play
- Norman Gimbel
Same Time
Same Time Next Year
- Alan
- Marilyn Bergman
When You’re Loved
The Magic of Lassie
- Richard M. Sherman
- Robert B. Sherman

Production Design

Short Film (Animated)

Special Delivery
Nominees
- Eunice Macauley And
- John Weldon
Oh My Darling
Nominees
- Nico Crama
Rip Van Winkle
Nominees
- Will Vinton

Short Film (Live Action)

Teenage Father
Nominees
- Taylor Hackford
A Different Approach
Nominees
- Jim Belcher Fern Field
Mandy's Grandmother
Nominees
- Andrew Sugerman
Strange Fruit
Nominees
- Seth Pinsker

Writing (Adapted)

Midnight Express
Nominees
Bloodbrothers
Nominees
- Richard Price
- Walter Newman
California Suite
Nominees
- his play
- Neil Simon
Heaven Can Wait (1978)
Nominees
Same Time Next Year
Nominees
- Bernard Slade
- his play

Writing (Original)

Coming Home
Nominees
Autumn Sonata
Nominees
- Ingmar Bergman
The Deer Hunter
Nominees
Interiors
Nominees
- Woody Allen
An Unmarried Woman
Nominees
- Paul Mazursky

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