36th Golden Globe Awards (1979)

Highlights of 36th Golden Globes Awards ceremony

The 36th Golden Globe Awards honored the best in film and television of 1978.
The award ceremony was held on 27th January 1979.
Midnight Express won the Best Motion Picture - Drama award.
Heaven Can Wait won the Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy award.
- WINNER

Best Motion Picture - Drama

Midnight Express
Coming Home
Days of Heaven
The Deer Hunter
An Unmarried Woman

Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama

Coming Home - Jane Fonda
Autumn Sonata - Ingrid Bergman
An Unmarried Woman - Jill Clayburgh
Stevie - Glenda Jackson
Interiors - Geraldine Page

Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama

Coming Home - Jon Voight
Midnight Express - Brad Davis
The Deer Hunter - Robert De Niro
Magic - Anthony Hopkins
The Boys from Brazil - Gregory Peck

Best Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical

Heaven Can Wait
California Suite
Foul Play
Grease
Movie Movie

Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical

Same Time, Next Year - Ellen Burstyn
California Suite - Maggie Smith
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? - Jacqueline Bisset
Foul Play - Goldie Hawn
Grease - Olivia Newton-John

Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical

Heaven Can Wait - Warren Beatty
Same Time, Next Year - Alan Alda
The Buddy Holly Story - Gary Busey
Foul Play - Chevy Chase
Movie Movie - George C Scott
Grease - John Travolta

Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture

Heaven Can Wait - Dyan Cannon
A Wedding - Carol Burnett
Interiors - Maureen Stapleton
The Deer Hunter - Meryl Streep
Stevie - Mona Washbourne

Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture

Midnight Express - John Hurt
Coming Home - Bruce Dern
Foul Play - Dudley Moore
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? - Robert Morley
The Deer Hunter - Christopher Walken

Best Foreign Language Film

Autumn Sonata
Death on the Nile
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
A Dream of Passion
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
Going All the Way

Best Director - Motion Picture

The Deer Hunter - Michael Cimino
Interiors - Woody Allen
Coming Home - Hal Ashby
Days of Heaven - Terrence Malick
An Unmarried Woman - Paul Mazursky
Midnight Express - Alan Parker

Best Screenplay - Motion Picture

Midnight Express - Oliver Stone
Coming Home - Robert C. Jones, Waldo Salt
The Deer Hunter - Deric Washburn
Foul Play - Colin Higgins
Interiors - Woody Allen
An Unmarried Woman - Paul Mazursky

Best Original Score - Motion Picture

Midnight Express - Giorgio Moroder
The Children of Sanchez - Chuck Mangione
The Lord of the Rings - Leonard Rosenman
Superman - John Williams
An Unmarried Woman - Bill Conti

Best Original Song - Motion Picture

Thank God It's Friday - Paul Jabara for "Last Dance"
Foul Play - Charles Fox, Norman Gimbel for "Ready to Take a Chance Again"
Grease - Barry Gibb for "Grease"
Grease - John Farrar for "You're the One That I Want"
Same Time, Next Year - Marvin Hamlisch, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman for "The Last Time I Felt Like This"

Best Television Series - Drama

60 Minutes
Battlestar Galactica
Family
Holocaust
Lou Grant

Best Actress in a Television Series - Drama

Holocaust - Rosemary Harris
Charlie's Angels - Kate Jackson
Family - Kristy McNichol
Wheels - Lee Remick
Family - Sada Thompson

Best Actor in a Television Series - Drama

Holocaust - Michael Moriarty
Lou Grant - Edward Asner
The Rockford Files - James Garner
Battlestar Galactica - Richard Hatch
The Paper Chase - John Houseman
Little House on the Prairie - Michael Landon

Best Actress in a Television Series - Comedy Or Musical

Alice - Linda Lavin
The Carol Burnett Show - Carol Burnett
Laverne And Shirley - Penny Marshall
Three's Company - Suzanne Somers
All in the Family - Jean Stapleton

Best Actor in a Television Series - Comedy Or Musical

Mork and Mindy - Robin Williams
M*A*S*H - Alan Alda
The Love Boat - Gavin MacLeod
Taxi - Judd Hirsch
Three's Company - John Ritter
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