The Complete Oscar Quest: 51st Academy Awards (1978)
1978
Best Picture
- An Unmarried Woman
- Coming Home
- The Deer Hunter
- Heaven Can Wait
- An Unmarried Woman
Best Director
- Woody Allen, Interiors
- Hal Ashby, Coming Home
- Warren Beatty & Buck Henry, Heaven Can Wait
- Michael Cimino, The Deer Hunter
- Alan Parker, Midnight Express
Best Actor
- Warren Beatty, Heaven Can Wait
- Gary Busey, The Buddy Holly Story
- Robert De Niro, The Deer Hunter
- Laurence Olivier, The Boys from Brazil
- Jon Voight, Coming Home
Best Actress
- Ingrid Bergman, Autumn Sonata
- Ellen Burstyn, Same Time, Next Year
- Jill Clayburgh, An Unmarried Woman
- Jane Fonda, Coming Home
- Geraldine Page, Interiors
Best Supporting Actor
- Bruce Dern, Coming Home
- Richard Farnsworth, Comes a Horseman
- John Hurt, Midnight Express
- Christopher Walken, The Deer Hunter
- Jack Warden, Heaven Can Wait
Best Supporting Actress
- Dyan Cannon, Heaven Can Wait
- Penelope Milford, Coming Home
- Maggie Smith, California Suite
- Maureen Stapleton, Interiors
- Meryl Streep, The Deer Hunter
Best Original Screenplay
- Autumn Sonata
- Coming Home
- The Deer Hunter
- Interiors
- An Unmarried Woman
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Bloodbrothers
- California Suite
- Heaven Can Wait
- Midnight Express
- Same Time, Next Year
Best Editing
- The Boys from Brazil
- Coming Home
- The Deer Hunter
- Midnight Express
- Superman
Best Cinematography
- Days of Heaven
- The Deer Hunter
- Heaven Can Wait
- Same Time, Next Year
- The Wiz
Best Original Score
- The Boys from Brazil
- Days of Heaven
- Heaven Can Wait
- Midnight Express
- Superman
Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score
- The Buddy Holly Story
- Pretty Baby
- The Wiz
Best Original Song
- “Hopelessly Devoted to You,” from Grease
- “Last Dance,” from Thank God It’s Friday
- “The Last Time I Felt Like This,” from Same Time, Next Year
- “Ready to Take a Chance Again,” from Foul Play
- “When You’re Loved,” from The Magic of Lassie
Best Art Direction
- The Brink’s Job
- California Suite
- Heaven Can Wait
- Interiors
- The Wiz
Best Costume Design
- Caravans
- Days of Heaven
- Death on the Nile
- The Swarm
- The Wiz
Best Visual Effects
- Superman
Best Sound Mixing
- The Buddy Holly Story
- Days of Heaven
- The Deer Hunter
- Hooper
- Superman
Best Foreign Language Film
- Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
- The Glass Cell
- Hungarians
- Viva Italia!
- White Bim Black Ear
Best Documentary
- The Lovers’ Wind
- Mysterious Castles of Clay
- Raoni
- Scared Straight!
- With Babies and Banners: Story of the women’s Emergency Brigade
Best Documentary Short
- The Divided Trail: A Native American Odyssey
- An Encounter with Faces
- The Flight of the Gossamer Condor
- Goodnight Miss Ann
- Squires of San Quentin
Best Live-Action Short
- A Different Approach
- Mandy’s Grandmother
- Strange Fruit
- Teenage Father
Best Animated Short
- Oh My Darling
- Rip Van Winkle
- Special Delivery
Total List of Films Nominated:
- An Unmarried Woman
- Autumn Sonata
- Bloodbrothers
- The Boys from Brazil
- The Brink’s Job
- The Buddy Holly Story
- California Suite
- Caravans
- Comes a Horseman
- Coming Home
- Days of Heaven
- Death on the Nile
- The Deer Hunter
- Foul Play
- Grease
- Heaven Can Wait
- Hooper
- Interiors
- The Magic of Lassie
- Midnight Express
- Pretty Baby
- Same Time, Next Year
- Superman
- The Swarm
- Thank God It’s Friday
- The Wiz
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