51st Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1979)
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- Date of Ceremony: Monday, April 9, 1979
- For films released in: 1978
Here is a complete list of nominations for the 51st Annual Academy Awards.
And the nominees are:
Best Picture
- Coming Home
Jerome Hellman - The Deer Hunter
Barry Spikings [Producer], Michael Deeley [Producer], Michael Cimino [Producer] and John Peverall [Producer] - Heaven Can Wait
Warren Beatty - Midnight Express
Alan Marshall and David Puttnam - An Unmarried Woman
Paul Mazursky and Tony Ray
Best Directing
- Coming Home
Hal Ashby - The Deer Hunter
Michael Cimino - Heaven Can Wait
Warren Beatty and Buck Henry - Interiors
Woody Allen - Midnight Express
Alan Parker
Best Actor in a Leading Role
- The Boys from Brazil
Laurence Olivier - The Buddy Holly Story
Gary Busey - Coming Home
Jon Voight - The Deer Hunter
Robert De Niro - Heaven Can Wait
Warren Beatty
Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Autumn Sonata
Ingrid Bergman - Coming Home
Jane Fonda - Interiors
Geraldine Page - Same Time, Next Year
Ellen Burstyn - An Unmarried Woman
Jill Clayburgh
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- Comes a Horseman
Richard Farnsworth - Coming Home
Bruce Dern - The Deer Hunter
Christopher Walken - Heaven Can Wait
Jack Warden - Midnight Express
John Hurt
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- California Suite
Maggie Smith - Coming Home
Penelope Milford - The Deer Hunter
Meryl Streep - Heaven Can Wait
Dyan Cannon - Interiors
Maureen Stapleton
Best Foreign Language Film
- Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
- The Glass Cell
- Hungarians
- Viva Italia!
- White Bim Black Ear
Best Art Direction
- The Brink's Job
Dean Tavoularis [Art Direction], Angelo Graham [Art Direction], George R. Nelson [Set Decoration] and Bruce Kay [Set Decoration] - California Suite
Albert Brenner [Art Direction] and Marvin March [Set Decoration] - Heaven Can Wait
Paul Sylbert [Art Direction], Edwin O'Donovan [Art Direction] and George Gaines [Set Decoration] - Interiors
Mel Bourne [Art Direction] and Daniel Robert [Set Decoration] - The Wiz
Tony Walton [Art Direction], Philip Rosenberg [Art Direction], Edward Stewart [Set Decoration] and Robert Drumheller [Set Decoration]
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 Costume Design
- Caravans
Renie Conley - Days of Heaven
Patricia Norris - Death on the Nile
Anthony Powell - The Swarm
Paul Zastupnevich - The Wiz
Tony Walton
Best Documentary (Feature)
- The Lovers' Wind
Albert Lamorisse - Mysterious Castles of Clay
Alan Root - Raoni
Jean-Pierre Dutilleux, Barry Williams and Michel Gast - Scared Straight!
Arnold Shapiro - With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade
Anne Bohlen, Lyn Goldfarb and Lorraine Gray
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
- The Divided Trail: A Native American Odyssey
Jerry Aronson - An Encounter with Faces
K.K. Kapil - The Flight of the Gossamer Condor
Jacqueline Phillips Shedd and Ben Shedd - Goodnight Miss Ann
August Cinquegrana - Squires of San Quentin
J. Gary Mitchell
Best Film Editing
- The Boys from Brazil
Robert E. Swink - Coming Home
Don Zimmerman - The Deer Hunter
Peter Zinner - Midnight Express
Gerry Hambling - Superman
Stuart Baird
Best Music (Adaptation Score)
- The Buddy Holly Story
Joe Renzetti - Pretty Baby
Jerry Wexler - The Wiz
Quincy Jones
Best Music (Original Score)
- The Boys from Brazil
Jerry Goldsmith - Days of Heaven
Ennio Morricone - Heaven Can Wait
Dave Grusin - Midnight Express
Giorgio Moroder - Superman
John Williams
Best Music (Original Song)
- Foul Play "Ready To Take a Chance Again"
Charles Fox [Music by] and Norman Gimbel [Lyrics by] - Grease "Hopelessly Devoted To You"
John Farrar [Music and Lyrics by] - The Magic of Lassie "When You're Loved"
Richard M. Sherman [Music and Lyrics by] and Robert B. Sherman [Music and Lyrics by] - Same Time, Next Year "The Last Time I Felt Like This"
Marvin Hamlisch [Music by], Alan Bergman [Lyrics by] and Marilyn Bergman [Lyrics by] - Thank God It's Friday "Last Dance"
Paul Jabara [Music and Lyrics by]
Best Short Film (Animated)
- Oh My Darling
Nico Crama - Rip Van Winkle
Will Vinton - Special Delivery
Eunice Macaulay and John Weldon
Best Short Film (Live Action)
- A Different Approach
Jim Belcher and Fern Field - Mandy's Grandmother
Andrew Sugerman - Strange Fruit
Seth Pinsker - Teenage Father
Taylor Hackford
Best Sound
- The Buddy Holly Story
Tex Rudloff, Joel Fein, Curly Thirlwell and Willie Burton - Days of Heaven
John K. Wilkinson, Robert W. Glass Jr., John T. Reitz and Barry Thomas - The Deer Hunter
Richard Portman, William McCaughey, Aaron Rochin and Darin Knight - Hooper
Robert Knudson, Robert J. Glass, Don MacDougall and Jack Solomon - Superman
Gordon K. McCallum, Graham Hartstone, Nicholas Le Messurier and Roy Charman
Best Writing (Screenplay - based on material from another medium)
- Bloodbrothers
Walter Newman - California Suite
Neil Simon - Heaven Can Wait
Elaine May and Warren Beatty - Midnight Express
Oliver Stone - Same Time, Next Year
Bernard Slade
Best Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)
- Autumn Sonata
Ingmar Bergman - Coming Home
Nancy Dowd [Story by], Waldo Salt [Screenplay by] and Robert C. Jones [Screenplay by] - The Deer Hunter
Michael Cimino [Story by], Deric Washburn [Story and Screenplay by], Louis Garfinkle [Story by] and Quinnn K. Redeker [Story by] - Interiors
Woody Allen - An Unmarried Woman
Paul Mazursky