51st Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1979)

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  • Date of Ceremony: Monday, April 9, 1979
  • For films released in: 1978
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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
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