The 51st Academy Awards (1978): Nominees and Winners

NOMINATIONS		AWARDS
9 9 8 6 5 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3	The Deer Hunter Heaven Can Wait Coming Home Midnight Express Interiors Days of Heaven Same Time, Next Year The Wiz The Boys from Brazil The Buddy Holly Story California Suite Superman An Unmarried Woman	5 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1	The Deer Hunter Coming Home Midnight Express The Buddy Holly Story California Suite Days of Heaven Death on the Nile The Flight of the Gossamer Condor Get Out Your Handkerchiefs Heaven Can Wait Scared Straight! Special Delivery Teenage Father Thank God It's Friday
NOMINATION/WIN TALLY LEGEND Best Picture winner Best Picture nominee Nominations are listed for all films receiving 3 or more

PICTURE (Best Picture)

• Coming Home - Jerome Hellman
• The Deer Hunter - Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino, John Peverall
• Heaven Can Wait - Warren Beatty
• Midnight Express - Alan Marshall, David Puttnam
• An Unmarried Woman - Paul Mazursky, Tony Ray

DIRECTING

• Coming Home - Hal Ashby
• The Deer Hunter - Michael Cimino
• Heaven Can Wait - Warren Beatty, Buck Henry
• Interiors - Woody Allen
• Midnight Express - Alan Parker

ACTOR (Actor in a Leading Role)

• 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

ACTRESS (Actress in a Leading Role)

• Ingrid Bergman - Autumn Sonata
• Ellen Burstyn - Same Time, Next Year
• Jill Clayburgh - An Unmarried Woman
• Jane Fonda - Coming Home
• Geraldine Page - Interiors

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Actor in a Supporting Role)

• Bruce Dern - Coming Home
• Richard Farnsworth - Comes a Horseman
• John Hurt - Midnight Express
• Christopher Walken - The Deer Hunter
• Jack Warden - Heaven Can Wait

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Actress in a Supporting Role)

• Dyan Cannon - Heaven Can Wait
• Penelope Milford - Coming Home
• Maggie Smith - California Suite
• Maureen Stapleton - Interiors
• Meryl Streep - The Deer Hunter

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)

• Autumn Sonata - Ingmar Bergman
• Coming Home - Story by Nancy Dowd; Screenplay by Waldo Salt, Robert C. Jones
• The Deer Hunter - Story by Michael Cimino, Deric Washburn, Louis Garfinkle, Quinn K. Redeker; Screenplay by Deric Washburn
• Interiors - Woody Allen
• An Unmarried Woman - Paul Mazursky

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium)

• Bloodbrothers - Walter Newman
• California Suite - Neil Simon
• Heaven Can Wait - Elaine May, Warren Beatty
• Midnight Express - Oliver Stone
• Same Time, Next Year - Bernard Slade

ORIGINAL SONG

• "Hopelessly Devoted To You" - Grease - Music, Lyrics by John Farrar
• "Last Dance" - Thank God It's Friday - Music, Lyrics by Paul Jabara
• "The Last Time I Felt Like This" - Same Time, Next Year - Music by Marvin Hamlisch; Lyrics by Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman
• "Ready To Take a Chance Again" - Foul Play - Music by Charles Fox; Lyrics by Norman Gimbel
• "When You're Loved" - The Magic of Lassie - Music, Lyrics by Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman

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

ADAPTATION SCORE

• The Buddy Holly Story - Joe Renzetti
• Pretty Baby - Jerry Wexler
• The Wiz - Quincy Jones

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

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

ART DIRECTION

• The Brink's Job - Art Direction: Dean Tavoularis, Angelo Graham; Set Decoration: George R. Nelson, Bruce Kay
• California Suite - Art Direction: Albert Brenner; Set Decoration: Marvin March
• Heaven Can Wait - Art Direction: Paul Sylbert, Edwin O'Donovan; Set Decoration: George Gaines
• Interiors - Art Direction: Mel Bourne; Set Decoration: Daniel Robert
• The Wiz - Art Direction: Tony Walton, Philip Rosenberg; Set Decoration: Edward Stewart, Robert Drumheller

COSTUME DESIGN

• Caravans - Renie Conley
• Days of Heaven - Patricia Norris
• Death on the Nile - Anthony Powell
• The Swarm - Paul Zastupnevich
• The Wiz - Tony Walton

SOUND

• The Buddy Holly Story - Tex Rudloff, Joel Fein, Curly Thirlwell, Willie Burton
• Days of Heaven - John K. Wilkinson, Robert W. Glass Jr., John T. Reitz, Barry Thomas
• The Deer Hunter - Richard Portman, William McCaughey, Aaron Rochin, Darin Knight
• Hooper - Robert Knudson, Robert J. Glass, Don MacDougall, Jack Solomon
• Superman - Gordon K. McCallum, Graham Hartstone, Nicolas Le Messurier, Roy Charman

VISUAL EFFECTS (Special Achievement Award)

• Superman - Les Bowie, Colin Chilvers, Denys Coop, Roy Field, Derek Meddings, Zoran Perisic

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

• Get Out Your Handkerchiefs - France
• The Glass Cell - German Federal Republic
• Hungarians - Hungary
• Viva Italia! - Italy
• White Bim Black Ear - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

DOCUMENTARY (Feature)

• The Lovers' Wind - Albert Lamorisse
• Mysterious Castles of Clay - Alan Root
• Raoni - Jean-Pierre Dutilleux, Barry Williams, Michel Gast
• Scared Straight! - Arnold Shapiro
• With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade - Anne Bohlen, Lyn Goldfarb, Lorraine Gray

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, Ben Shedd
• Goodnight Miss Ann - August Cinquegrana
• Squires of San Quentin - J. Gary Mitchell

SHORT FILM (Animated)

• Oh My Darling - Nico Crama
• Rip Van Winkle - Will Vinton
• Special Delivery - Eunice Macaulay, John Weldon

SHORT FILM (Live Action)

• A Different Approach - Jim Belcher, Fern Field
• Mandy's Grandmother - Andrew Sugerman
• Strange Fruit - Seth Pinsker
• Teenage Father - Taylor Hackford

HONORARY AWARDS

• To King Vidor for his incomparable achievements as a cinematic creator and innovator.
• To Laurence Olivier for the full body of his work, for the unique achievements of his entire career and his lifetime of contribution to the art of film.
• To The Museum of Modern Art Department of Film for the contribution it has made to the public's perception of movies as an art form.
• To Walter Lantz for bringing joy and laughter to every part of the world through his unique animated motion pictures.

JEAN HERSHOLT HUMANITARIAN AWARD

• Leo Jaffe

MEDAL OF COMMENDATION

• To Linwood G. Dunn in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
• To Loren L. Ryder in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
• To Waldon O. Watson in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE I (Academy Award of Merit)

• To PANAVISION, INCORPORATED, and its engineering staff under the direction of ROBERT E. GOTTSCHALK, for the concept, design and continuous development of the Panaflex Motion Picture Camera System. [Camera]
• To EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY for the research and development of a Duplicating Color film for Motion Pictures. [Film]
• To STEFAN KUDELSKI of Nagra Magnetic Recorders, Incorporated, for the continuing research, design and development of the Nagra Production Sound Recorder for Motion Pictures. [Sound]

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE II (Plaque)

• To RAY M. DOLBY, IOAN R. ALLEN, DAVID P. ROBINSON, STEPHEN M. KATZ and PHILIP S. J. BOOLE of Dolby Laboratories, Incorporated, for the development and implementation of an improved Sound Recording and Reproducing System for Motion Picture Production and Exhibition. [Sound]

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE III (Certificate)

• To JAMES L. FISHER of J.L. Fisher, Incorporated, for the design and manufacture of a small, mobile, motion picture camera platform known as the Fisher Model Ten Dolly. [Camera Cranes]
• To LEONARD CHAPMAN of Leonard Equipment Company, for the design and manufacture of a small, mobile, motion picture camera platform known as the Chapman Hustler Dolly. [Camera Cranes]
• To ROBERT STINDT of Production Grip Equipment Company, for the design and manufacture of a small, mobile, motion picture camera platform known as the Stindt Dolly. [Camera Cranes]
• To DAVID J. DEGENKOLB, ARTHUR L. FORD and FRED J. SCOBEY of DeLuxe General, Incorporated, for the development of a Method to Recycle Motion Picture Laboratory Photographic Wash Waters by Ion Exchange. [Laboratory]
• To KARL MACHER and GLENN M. BERGGREN of Isco Optische Werke for the development and introduction of the Cinelux-ULTRA Lens for 35mm Motion Picture Projection. [Lenses and Filters]
• To KIICHI SEKIGUCHI of CINE-FI International for the development of the CINE-FI Auto Radio Sound System for Drive-In Theaters. [Systems]