51st Academy Awards (1979)
Highlights of 51st Academy Awards ceremony
The 51st Academy Awards honored the best films of 1978.
The award ceremony was held on 9th April 1979 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California.
Anchor(s) - Johnny Carson
The Deer Hunter won the Best Picture award.
Jon Voight won the Best Actor award for his role in Coming Home.
Jane Fonda won the Best Actess award for her role in Coming Home.
Michael Cimino won the Best Director award for The Deer Hunter.
- WINNER
Best Picture
The Deer Hunter
Coming Home
Heaven Can Wait
Midnight Express
An Unmarried Woman
Best Director
The Deer Hunter
- Michael Cimino
Coming Home
- Hal Ashby
Heaven Can Wait
- Warren Beatty and Buck Henry
Interiors
- Woody Allen
Midnight Express
- Alan Parker
Best Original Screenplay
Coming Home
- Nancy Dowd, Waldo Salt, Robert C. Jones
Autumn Sonata
- Ingmar Bergman
The Deer Hunter
- Michael Cimino, Deric Washburn, Louis Garfinkle, Quinn K. Redeker
Interiors
- Woody Allen
An Unmarried Woman
- Paul Mazursky
Best Adapted Screenplay
Midnight Express
- Oliver Stone
Bloodbrothers
- Walter Newman
California Suite
- Neil Simon
Heaven Can Wait
- Elaine May, Warren Beatty
Same Time, Next Year
- Bernard Slade
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Coming Home
- Jon Voight
The Boys from Brazil
- Laurence Olivier
The Buddy Holly Story
- Gary Busey
The Deer Hunter
- Robert De Niro
Heaven Can Wait
- Warren Beatty
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Coming Home
- Jane Fonda
Autumn Sonata
- Ingrid Bergman
Interiors
- Geraldine Page
Same Time, Next Year
- Ellen Burstyn
An Unmarried Woman
- Jill Clayburgh
Best Supporting Actor
The Deer Hunter
- Christopher Walken
Comes a Horseman
- Richard Farnsworth
Coming Home
- Bruce Dern
Heaven Can Wait
- Jack Warden
Midnight Express
- John Hurt
Best Supporting Actress
California Suite
- Maggie Smith
Coming Home
- Penelope Milford
The Deer Hunter
- Meryl Streep
Heaven Can Wait
- Dyan Cannon
Interiors
- Maureen Stapleton
Best Art Direction
Heaven Can Wait
- Paul Sylbert, Edwin O'Donovan, George Gaines
The Brink's Job
- Dean Tavoularis, Angelo Graham, George R. Nelson, Bruce Kay
California Suite
- Albert Brenner, Marvin March
Interiors
- Mel Bourne, Daniel Robert
The Wiz
- Tony Walton, Philip Rosenberg, Edward Stewart, Robert Drumheller
Best Cinematography
Days of Heaven
- Nestor Almendros
The Deer Hunter
- Vilmos Zsigmond
Heaven Can Wait
- William A Fraker
Same Time, Next Year
- Robert Surtees
The Wiz
- Oswald Morris
Best Original Song
Thank God It's Friday
- Paul Jabara
for "Last Dance"
Best Original Score
Midnight Express
- Giorgio Moroder
The Boys from Brazil
- Jerry Goldsmith
Days of Heaven
- Ennio Morricone
Heaven Can Wait
- Dave Grusin
Superman
- John Williams
Best Sound Mixing
The Deer Hunter
- Richard Portman, William L. McCaughey, Aaron Rochin, C. Darin Knight
Best Costume Design
Death on the Nile
- Anthony Powell
Caravans
- Renie Conley
Days of Heaven
- Patricia Norris
The Swarm
- Paul Zastupnevich
The Wiz
- Tony Walton
Best Animated Short Film
Special Delivery
Oh My Darling
Rip Van Winkle
Best Documentary Feature
Scared Straight!
The Lovers' Wind
Mysterious Castles of Clay
Raoni
With Babies and Banners - Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade
Best Documentary Short Subject
The Flight of the Gossamer Condor
The Divided Trail - A Native American Odyssey
An Encounter with Faces
Goodnight Miss Ann
Squires of San Quentin
Best Foreign Language Film
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
The Glass Cell
Hungarians
Viva Italia!
White Bim Black Ear
Academy Honorary Award
Lord Laurence Olivier
Best Live Action Short Film
Teenage Father
A Different Approach
Mandy's Grandmother
Strange Fruit
Best Film Editing
The Deer Hunter
- Peter Zinner