1979 Oscars 51st Academy Awards |
Winners Announced: April 9, 1979 Intriguing Trivia and HighlightsTable of Contents
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1979 Oscar Nominees and Winners |
Best Picture: The Deer Hunter – Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino and John Peverall, producers (WINNER) Coming Home – Jerome Hellman, producer Heaven Can Wait – Warren Beatty, producer Midnight Express – Alan Marshall and David Puttnam, producers An Unmarried Woman – Paul Mazursky and Anthony Ray, producers |
Best Director: Michael Cimino – The Deer Hunter (WINNER) Hal Ashby – Coming Home Warren Beatty and Buck Henry – Heaven Can Wait Woody Allen – Interiors Alan Parker – Midnight Express |
Best Actor: Jon Voight – Coming Home as Luke Martin (WINNER) Warren Beatty – Heaven Can Wait as Joe Pendleton/Leo Farnsworth/Tom Jarrett Gary Busey – The Buddy Holly Story as Buddy Holly Robert De Niro – The Deer Hunter as Sergeant Michael “Mike” Vronsky Laurence Olivier – The Boys from Brazil as Ezra Lieberman |
Best Actress: Jane Fonda – Coming Home as Sally Hyde (WINNER) Ingrid Bergman – Autumn Sonata as Charlotte Andergast Ellen Burstyn – Same Time, Next Year as Doris Jill Clayburgh – An Unmarried Woman as Erica Benton Geraldine Page – Interiors as Eve |
Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Walken – The Deer Hunter as Corporal Nikanor “Nick” Chevotarevich (WINNER) Bruce Dern – Coming Home as Captain Bob Hyde Richard Farnsworth – Comes a Horseman as Dodger John Hurt – Midnight Express as Max Jack Warden – Heaven Can Wait as Max Corkle |
Best Supporting Actress: Maggie Smith – California Suite as Diana Barrie (WINNER) Dyan Cannon – Heaven Can Wait as Julia Farnsworth Penelope Milford – Coming Home as Vi Munson Maureen Stapleton – Interiors as Pearl Meryl Streep – The Deer Hunter as Linda |
Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen: Coming Home – Story by Nancy Dowd; Screenplay by Waldo Salt and Robert C. Jones (WINNER) Autumn Sonata – Ingmar Bergman The Deer Hunter – Story by Michael Cimino, Deric Washburn, Louis Garfinkle and Quinn Redeker; Screenplay by Deric Washburn Interiors – Woody Allen An Unmarried Woman – Paul Mazursky |
Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium: Midnight Express – Oliver Stone based on the book by Billy Hayes and William Hoffer (WINNER) Bloodbrothers – Walter Newman based on the novel by Richard Price California Suite – Neil Simon based on his play Heaven Can Wait – Elaine May and Warren Beatty based on the play by Harry Segall Same Time, Next Year – Bernard Slade based on his play |
Best Foreign Language Film: Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (France) (WINNER) The Glass Cell (West Germany) Hungarians (Hungary) Viva Italia! (Italy) White Bim Black Ear (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) |
Best Documentary Feature: Scared Straight! – Arnold Shapiro (WINNER) The Lovers’ Wind (Le vent des amoureux) – Albert Lamorisse (posthumous nomination) Mysterious Castles of Clay – Joan Root and Alan Root Raoni – Jean-Pierre Dutilleux and Luiz Carlos Saldanha With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women’s Emergency Brigade – Lorraine Gray |
Best Documentary Short Subject: The Flight of the Gossamer Condor – Jacqueline Phillips Shedd and Ben Shedd (WINNER) The Divided Trail: A Native American Odyssey An Encounter with Faces – Vidhu Vinod Chopra and K. K. Kapil Goodnight Miss Ann Squires of San Quentin |
Best Live Action Short Film: Teenage Father – Taylor Hackford (WINNER) A Different Approach – Jim Belcher and Fern Field Mandy’s Grandmother – Andrew Sugerman Strange Fruit – Seth Pinsker |
Best Animated Short Film: Special Delivery – Eunice Macauley and John Weldon (WINNER) Oh My Darling – Nico Crama Rip Van Winkle – Will Vinton |
Best Original Score: Midnight Express – Giorgio Moroder (WINNER) The Boys from Brazil – Jerry Goldsmith Days of Heaven – Ennio Morricone Heaven Can Wait – Dave Grusin Superman – John Williams |
Best Adaptation Score: The Buddy Holly Story – Joe Renzetti (WINNER) Pretty Baby – Jerry Wexler The Wiz – Quincy Jones |
Best Original Song: “Last Dance” from Thank God It’s Friday – Music and Lyrics by Paul Jabara (WINNER) “Hopelessly Devoted to You” from Grease – Music and Lyrics by John Farrar “The Last Time I Felt Like This” from Same Time, Next Year – Music by Marvin Hamlisch; Lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman “Ready to Take a Chance Again” from Foul Play – Music by Charles Fox; Lyrics by Norman Gimbel “When You’re Loved” from The Magic of Lassie – Music and Lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman |
Best Sound: The Deer Hunter – Richard Portman, William McCaughey, Aaron Rochin and Darin Knight (WINNER) The Buddy Holly Story – Tex Rudloff, Joel Fein, Curly Thirlwell and Willie D. Burton Days of Heaven – John Wilkinson, Robert W. Glass Jr., John T. Reitz and Barry Thomas Hooper – Robert Knudson, Robert Glass, Don MacDougall and Jack Solomon Superman – Gordon McCallum, Graham V. Hartstone, Nicolas Le Messurier and Roy Charman |
Best Costume Design: Death on the Nile – Anthony Powell (WINNER) Caravans – Renié Days of Heaven – Patricia Norris The Swarm – Paul Zastupnevich The Wiz – Tony Walton |
Best Art Direction: Heaven Can Wait – Art Direction: Paul Sylbert and Edwin O’Donovan; Set Decoration: George Gaines (WINNER) The Brink’s Job – Art Direction: Dean Tavoularis and Angelo P. Graham; Set Decoration: George R. Nelson and Bruce Kay California Suite – Art Direction: Albert Brenner; Set Decoration: Marvin March Interiors – Art Direction: Mel Bourne; Set Decoration: Daniel Robert The Wiz – Art Direction: Tony Walton and Philip Rosenberg; Set Decoration: Edward Stewart and Robert Drumheller |
Best Cinematography: Days of Heaven – Néstor Almendros (WINNER) The Deer Hunter – Vilmos Zsigmond Heaven Can Wait – William A. Fraker Same Time, Next Year – Robert Surtees The Wiz – Oswald Morris |
Best Film Editing: The Deer Hunter – Peter Zinner (WINNER) The Boys from Brazil – Robert E. Swink Coming Home – Don Zimmerman Midnight Express – Gerry Hambling Superman – Stuart Baird |
Academy Honorary Awards: Laurence Olivier Walter Lantz King Vidor Museum of Modern Art Department of Film |
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award: Leo Jaffe |
Special Achievement Award: Les Bowie, Colin Chilvers, Denys Coop, Roy Field, Derek Meddings and Zoran Perisic for the visual effects of Superman. |
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