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
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