51st Academy Awards
Held in 1979 · 17 categories
Best Picture
- Winner The Deer Hunter
- Nominee An Unmarried Woman
- Nominee Coming Home from Country Strong
- Nominee Heaven Can Wait
- Nominee Midnight Express
Best Actor
- Winner Coming Home from Country Strong · Jon Voight
- Nominee Heaven Can Wait · Warren Beatty
- Nominee The Boys from Brazil · Laurence Olivier
- Nominee The Buddy Holly Story · Gary Busey
- Nominee The Deer Hunter · Robert De Niro
Best Actress
- Winner Coming Home from Country Strong · Jane Fonda
- Nominee An Unmarried Woman · Jill Clayburgh
- Nominee Autumn Sonata · Ingrid Bergman
- Nominee Interiors · Geraldine Page
- Nominee Same Time, Next Year · Ellen Burstyn
Best Supporting Actor
- Winner The Deer Hunter · Christopher Walken
- Nominee Comes a Horseman · Richard Farnsworth
- Nominee Coming Home from Country Strong · Bruce Dern
- Nominee Heaven Can Wait · Jack Warden
- Nominee Midnight Express · John Hurt
Best Supporting Actress
- Winner California Suite · Maggie Smith
- Nominee Coming Home from Country Strong · Penelope Milford
- Nominee Heaven Can Wait · Dyan Cannon
- Nominee Interiors · Maureen Stapleton
- Nominee The Deer Hunter · Meryl Streep
Best Director
- Winner The Deer Hunter · Michael Cimino
- Nominee Coming Home from Country Strong · Hal Ashby
- Nominee Heaven Can Wait · Warren Beatty
- Nominee Heaven Can Wait · Buck Henry
- Nominee Interiors · Woody Allen
- Nominee Midnight Express · Alan Parker
Best Original Screenplay
- Winner Coming Home from Country Strong · Nancy Dowd, Robert C. Jones, Waldo Salt
- Nominee An Unmarried Woman · Paul Mazursky
- Nominee Autumn Sonata · Ingmar Bergman
- Nominee Interiors · Woody Allen
- Nominee The Deer Hunter · Deric Washburn, Louis Garfinkle, Michael Cimino, Quinn Redeker
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Winner Midnight Express · Oliver Stone
- Nominee Bloodbrothers · Walter Newman
- Nominee California Suite · Neil Simon
- Nominee Heaven Can Wait · Elaine May, Warren Beatty
- Nominee Same Time, Next Year · Bernard Slade
Best International Feature Film
- Winner Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
- Nominee Hungarians
- Nominee I nuovi mostri
- Nominee The Glass Cell
- Nominee White Bim Black Ear
Best Documentary Feature
- Winner Scared Straight! · Arnold Shapiro
- Nominee Mysterious Castles of Clay · Alan Root
- Nominee Raoni · Barry Hugh Williams, Jean-Pierre Dutilleux, Michel Gast
- Nominee The Lovers' Wind · Albert Lamorisse
- Nominee With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade · Anne Bohlen, Lorraine Gray, Lyn Goldfarb
Best Original Score
- Winner Midnight Express · Giorgio Moroder
- Winner The Buddy Holly Story · Joe Renzetti
- Nominee Days of Heaven · Ennio Morricone
- Nominee Heaven Can Wait · Dave Grusin
- Nominee Pretty Baby · Jerry Wexler
- Nominee Superman · John Williams
- Nominee The Boys from Brazil · Jerry Goldsmith
- Nominee The Wiz · Quincy Jones
Best Original Song
- Winner Last Dance from Thank God It's Friday · Paul Jabara
- Nominee Hopelessly Devoted to You from Grease · John Farrar
- Nominee Ready to Take a Chance Again from Foul Play · Charles Fox, Norman Gimbel
- Nominee The Last Time I Felt Like This from Same Time, Next Year · Marvin Hamlisch
- Nominee When You're Loved from The Magic of Lassie · Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman
Best Cinematography
- Winner Days of Heaven · Néstor Almendros
- Nominee Heaven Can Wait · William A. Fraker
- Nominee Same Time, Next Year · Robert L. Surtees
- Nominee The Deer Hunter · Vilmos Zsigmond
- Nominee The Wiz · Oswald Morris
Best Film Editing
- Winner The Deer Hunter · Peter Zinner
- Nominee Coming Home from Country Strong · Don Zimmerman
- Nominee Midnight Express · Gerry Hambling
- Nominee Superman · Stuart Baird
- Nominee The Boys from Brazil · Robert Swink
Best Production Design
- Winner Heaven Can Wait · Edwin O'Donovan, George Gaines, Paul Sylbert
- Nominee California Suite · Albert Brenner, Marvin March
- Nominee Interiors · Daniel Robert, Mel Bourne
- Nominee The Brink's Job · Angelo P. Graham, Bruce Kay, Dean Tavoularis, George R. Nelson
- Nominee The Wiz · Edward Stewart, Philip Rosenberg, Robert Drumheller, Tony Walton
Best Costume Design
- Winner Death on the Nile · Anthony Powell
- Nominee Caravans · Renié
- Nominee Days of Heaven · Patricia Norris
- Nominee The Swarm · Paul Zastupnevich
- Nominee The Wiz · Tony Walton
Best Sound
- Winner The Deer Hunter · Aaron Rochin, Darin Knight, Richard Portman, William McCaughey
- Nominee Days of Heaven · Barry Thomas, John T. Reitz, John Wilkinson, Robert W. Glass, Jr.
- Nominee Hooper · Don MacDougall, Jack Solomon, Robert Glass, Robert Knudson
- Nominee Superman · Gordon McCallum, Graham V. Hartstone, Nicolas Le Messurier, Roy Charman
- Nominee The Buddy Holly Story · Curly Thirlwell, Joel Fein, Tex Rudloff, Willie D. Burton