The 51st Academy Awards | 1979 (2023)

Actor in a Leading Role

winner

Jon Voight

Return home

nominees

Warren Beatty

Heaven Can Wait

Gary Busy

Die Buddy-Holly-Story

Robert De Niro

The deer hunter

Laurence Olivier

The boys from Brazil

Actor in a supporting role

winner

Christopher Walken

The deer hunter

nominees

Bruce Dern

Return home

Richard Farnsworth

Comes a rider

John Hurt

Midnight Express

Jack Warden

Heaven Can Wait

Actress in a Leading Role

winner

Jane Fonda

Return home

nominees

Ingrid Bergmann

autumn sonata

Von Ellen Burstyn

Same time, next year

Jill Clayburgh

An unmarried woman

Geraldine Page

inside rooms

Actress in a supporting role

winner

Maggie Smith

California suite

nominees

This is cannon

Heaven Can Wait

Penelope Milford

Return home

Maureen Stapleton

inside rooms

Meryl Streep

The deer hunter

art direction

winner

Heaven Can Wait

Artistic Direction: Paul Sylbert, Edwin O'Donovan; Set Decoration: George Gaines

nominees

The Brink job

Artistic Direction: Dean Tavoularis, Angelo Graham; Set Decoration: George R. Nelson, Bruce Kay

California suite

Artistic direction: Albert Brenner; Set decoration: Marvin March

inside rooms

Artistic Direction: Mel Bourne; Set design: Daniel Robert

The Wizard

Artistic Direction: Tony Walton, Philip Rosenberg; Set design: Edward Stewart, Robert Drumheller

Kinematographie

winner

days of heaven

Nestor Almendros

nominees

The deer hunter

Vilmos Zsigmond

Heaven Can Wait

William A. Fraker

Same time, next year

Robert Surtees

The Wizard

Oswald Morris

costume design

winner

Death on the Nile

Anthony Powell

nominees

caravan

René Conley

days of heaven

Patricia Norris

The swarm

Paul Zastupnewitsch

The Wizard

Toni Walton

directing

winner

The deer hunter

Michael Chimin

nominees

Return home

Hal Ashby

Heaven Can Wait

Warren Beatty, Buck Henry

inside rooms

Woody Allen

Midnight Express

Alan Parker

Documentary (feature film)

winner

afraid straight!

Arnold Shapiro, Produzent

nominees

The Wind of Lovers

Albert Lamorisse, producer

Mysterious clay castles

Alan Root, producer

raoni

Jean-Pierre Dutilleux, Barry Williams and Michel Gast, producers

With Babies and Banners: History of the Women's Emergency Brigade

Anne Bohlen, Lyn Goldfarb and Lorraine Gray, Producers

Documentary (Short Subject)

winner

The Flight of the Gossamer Condor

Jacqueline Phillips Shedd and Ben Shedd, producers

nominees

The Divided Trail: A Native American Odyssey

Jerry Aronson, producer

An encounter with faces

K.K. Kapil, Producer

Good night Miss Ann

August Cinquegrana, Producer

Squires of San Quentin

J. Gary Mitchell, producer

cut

winner

The deer hunter

Peter Zinner

(Video) The Opening of the Academy Awards: 1979 Oscars

nominees

The boys from Brazil

Robert E. Swink

Return home

Don Zimmermann

Midnight Express

Gerry Hambling

superman

Stuart Baird

Foreign language film

winner

Get out your tissues

France

nominees

The Glaszelle

German Federal Republic

Hungary

Hungary

Long live Italy!

Italy

White Bim Black Ear

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Jean Hersholt Prize for Humanitarian Aid

winner

Leo Jaffe

Music (adaptation score)

winner

Die Buddy-Holly-Story

Joe Renzetti

nominees

pretty baby

Jerry Wexler

Music (Original Score)

winner

Midnight Express

Georg Moroder

nominees

The boys from Brazil

Jerry Goldschmied

days of heaven

Ennio Morricone

Heaven Can Wait

David Grusin

superman

John Williams

Music (Original Song)

winner

Thank god it's Friday

Last Dance in Thank God It's Friday Music and lyrics by Paul Jabara

nominees

Fett

Hopeless Devoted To You in "Grease" Musik und Text von John Farrar

Same time, next year

The last time I felt this way was in "Same Time, Next Year" music by Marvin Hamlisch; Texts by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman

foul play

Ready to Take A Chance Again in „Foul Play“-Musik von Charles Fox; Text von Norman Gimbel

The magic of Lassie

When You're Loved in "The Magic of Lassie" Music and lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman

best picture

winner

The deer hunter

Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino and John Peverall, producers

nominees

Return home

Jerome Hellman, Produzent

Heaven Can Wait

Warren Beatty, producer

Midnight Express

Alan Marshall and David Puttnam, producers

An unmarried woman

Paul Mazursky and Tony Ray, producers

short film (animated)

winner

special delivery

Eunice Macaulay and John Weldon, producers

nominees

Oh my dear

Nico Crama, Producer

Rip Van Winkle

Will Vinton, producer

Short Film (Live Action)

winner

Teenage father

Taylor Hackford, producer

nominees

Another try

Jim Belcher and Fern Field, producers

Mandy's grandmother

Andrew Sugarman, Producer

Strange Fruit

Seth Pinsker, producer

Klang

winner

The deer hunter

Richard Portman, William McCaughey, Aaron Rochin, Darin Knight

nominees

Die 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

Hooper

Robert Knudson, Robert J. Glass, Don MacDougall, Jack Solomon

superman

Gordon K. McCallum, Graham Hartstone, Nicolas Le Messurier, Roy Charman

Special Achievement Award (Visual Effects)

winner

superman

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

Writing (screenplay based on material from another medium)

winner

Midnight Express

Oliver Stein

nominees

Blutsbrüder

Walter Neumann

California suite

neil simon

Heaven Can Wait

Elaine May, Warren Beatty

Same time, next year

Bernhard Slade

Writing (screenplay written directly for the screen)

winner

Return home

story by Nancy Dowd; Screenplay by Waldo Salt, Robert C. Jones

nominees

autumn sonata

Ingmar Bergmann

The deer hunter

Story by Michael Cimino, Deric Washburn, Louis Garfinkle, Quinn K. Redeker; Screenplay by Deric Washburn

inside rooms

Woody Allen

(Video) 51th Academy Awards 1979 - Medley of the Best Original Score

An unmarried woman

Paul Masursky

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A

autumn sonata

2 nominations

Writing (screenplay written directly for the screen) - Ingmar Bergman

Actress in a Leading Role - Ingrid Bergman in "Autumn Sonata"

B

Blutsbrüder

1 nomination

Writing (screenplay based on material from another medium) - Walter Newman

The boys from Brazil

3 nominations

Musik (Originalpartitur) - Jerry Goldsmith

Actor in a Leading Role - Laurence Olivier in "The Boys from Brazil"

Film editing - Robert E. Swink

The Brink job

1 nomination

Artistic Direction – Artistic Direction: Dean Tavoularis, Angelo Graham; Set Decoration: George R. Nelson, Bruce Kay

Die Buddy-Holly-Story

3 nominations,1 Sieg

Hauptdarsteller - Gary Busey in "The Buddy Holly Story"

Wave - Tex Rudloff, Joel Fein, Curly Thirlwell, Willie Burton

*Music (adaptation score) - Joe Renzetti

C

California suite

3 nominations,1 Sieg

Artistic direction - Artistic direction: Albert Brenner; Set decoration: Marvin March

Writing (screenplay based on material from Another Medium) - Neil Simon

*Actress in a Supporting Role - Maggie Smith in "California Suite"

caravan

1 nomination

Costumedesign - Renie Conley

Comes a rider

1 nomination

Actor in a Supporting Role - Richard Farnsworth in 'Comes a Horseman'

Return home

8 nominations,3 Siege

Actor in a Supporting Role - Bruce Dern in 'Coming Home'

Film Editing - Don Zimmerman

Directed by: Hal Ashby

Best Picture – Jerome Hellman, Producer

Supporting Actress - Penelope Milford in "Coming Home"

*Actress in a Leading Role - Jane Fonda in "Coming Home"

*Leading Actor - Jon Voight in 'Coming Home'

*Writing (Screenplay Written Directly For Screen) - Story by Nancy Dowd; Screenplay by Waldo Salt, Robert C. Jones

D

days of heaven

4 nominations,1 Sieg

Musik (Original partitur) - Ennio Morricone

Ton – John K. Wilkinson, Robert W. Glass, Jr., John T. Reitz, Barry Thomas

Costume Design - Patricia Norris

*Kinematographie - Nestor Almendros

Death on the Nile

1 Sieg, 1 nomination

*Costume Design - Anthony Powell

The deer hunter

9 nominations,5 Siege

*Best Picture - Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino and John Peverall, producers

*Actor in a Supporting Role - Christopher Walken in 'The Deer Hunter'

*Regie - Michael Cimino

*Film cut - Peter Zinner

*Ton - Richard Portman, William McCaughey, Aaron Rochin, Darin Knight

Supporting Actress - Meryl Streep in The Deer Hunter

Leading Actor - Robert De Niro in 'The Deer Hunter'

Writing (Screenplay Direct-to-Screen) - Story by Michael Cimino, Deric Washburn, Louis Garfinkle, Quinn K. Redeker; Screenplay by Deric Washburn

Cinematography - Vilmos Zsigmond

Another try

1 nomination

Short Film (Live Action) – Jim Belcher and Fern Field, Producers

(Video) The Deer Hunter and Michael Cimino winning Best Picture and Directing: 1979 Oscars

The Divided Trail: A Native American Odyssey

1 nomination

Documentary (Short Subject) – Jerry Aronson, Producer

E

An encounter with faces

1 nomination

Documentary (Short Subject) - K.K. Kapil, producer

F

The Flight of the Gossamer Condor

1 Sieg, 1 nomination

*Documentary (Short Subject) - Jacqueline Phillips Shedd and Ben Shedd, Producers

foul play

1 nomination

Musik (Original-Song) – Ready To Take A Chance Again in „Foul Play“ Musik von Charles Fox; Text von Norman Gimbel

G

Get out your tissues

1 Sieg, 1 nomination

*Foreign language film - France

The Glaszelle

1 nomination

Foreign language film - Federal Republic of Germany

Good night Miss Ann

1 nomination

Documentary (Short Subject) - August Cinquegrana, Producer

Fett

1 nomination

Music (Original Song) - Hopeless Devoted To You in "Grease" Music and lyrics by John Farrar

H

Heaven Can Wait

9 nominations,1 Sieg

*Artistic Direction - Artistic Direction: Paul Sylbert, Edwin O'Donovan; Set Decoration: George Gaines

Music (Original score) - Dave Grusin

Supporting Actress - Dyan Cannon in Heaven Can Wait

Writing (Screenplay Based on Material From Another Medium) - Elaine May, Warren Beatty

Actor in a Supporting Role - Jack Warden in 'Heaven Can Wait'

Actor in a Leading Role - Warren Beatty in 'Heaven Can Wait'

Regie: Warren Beatty, Buck Henry

Best Picture – Warren Beatty, Producer

Kinematographie - William A. Fraker

Hooper

1 nomination

Ton - Robert Knudson, Robert J. Glass, Don MacDougall, Jack Solomon

Hungary

1 nomination

Foreign language film - Hungary

I

inside rooms

5 nominations

Artistic Direction – Artistic Direction: Mel Bourne; Set design: Daniel Robert

Leading Actress - Geraldine Page in "Interiors"

Actress in a Supporting Role - Maureen Stapleton in "Interiors"

Directed by: Woody Allen

Writing (Screenplay Written Directly For Screen) - Woody Allen

L

The Wind of Lovers

1 nomination

Documentary (Feature) - Albert Lamorisse, Producer

M

The magic of Lassie

1 nomination

Musik (Originalsong) – When You’re Loved in „The Magic of Lassie“ Musik und Text von Richard M. Sherman und Robert B. Sherman

Mandy's grandmother

1 nomination

Short Film (Live Action) – Andrew Sugerman, Producer

Midnight Express

6 nominations,2 Siege

Best Picture - Alan Marshall and David Puttnam, Producers

Directed by: Alan Parker

Film Editing - Gerry Hambling

Actor in a Supporting Role - John Hurt in 'Midnight Express'

*Music (Original score) - Giorgio Moroder

*Writing (screenplay based on material from another medium) - Oliver Stone

(Video) Jane Fonda winning Best Actress | 51st Oscars (1979)

Mysterious clay castles

1 nomination

Documentary (Feature) – Alan Root, Producer

Ö

Oh my dear

1 nomination

Short Film (Animated) – Nico Crama, Producer

P

pretty baby

1 nomination

Music (adaptation score) - Jerry Wexler

R

raoni

1 nomination

Documentary (Feature) – Jean-Pierre Dutilleux, Barry Williams and Michel Gast, Producers

Rip Van Winkle

1 nomination

Short Film (Animated) – Will Vinton, Producer

S

Same time, next year

4 nominations

Writing (screenplay based on material from another medium) - Bernard Slade

Actress in a Leading Role – Ellen Burstyn in Same Time, Next Year

Kinematographie - Robert Surtees

Music (Original Song) - The Last Time I Feel Like This in "Same Time, Next Year" Music by Marvin Hamlisch; Texts by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman

afraid straight!

1 Sieg, 1 nomination

*Documentary (Feature) – Arnold Shapiro, Producer

special delivery

1 Sieg, 1 nomination

*Short Film (Animated) – Eunice Macaulay and John Weldon, Producers

Squires of San Quentin

1 nomination

Documentary (Short Subject) - J. Gary Mitchell, Producer

Strange Fruit

1 nomination

Short Film (Live Action) – Seth Pinsker, Producer

superman

4 nominations,1 Sieg

Ton – Gordon K. McCallum, Graham Hartstone, Nicolas Le Messurier, Roy Charman

Music (Original Score) - John Williams

Film Editing - Stuart Baird

*Special Achievement Award (Visual Effects) - Les Bowie, Colin Chilvers, Denys Coop, Roy Field, Derek Meddings, Zoran Perisic

The swarm

1 nomination

Kostümdesign - Paul Zastupnevich

T

Teenage father

1 Sieg, 1 nomination

*Short Film (Live Action) - Taylor Hackford, Producer

Thank god it's Friday

1 Sieg, 1 nomination

*Music (Original Song) - Last Dance in Thank God It's Friday Music and lyrics by Paul Jabara

U

An unmarried woman

3 nominations

Actress in a Leading Role - Jill Clayburgh in "An Unmarried Woman"

Writing (screenplay written directly for the screen) - Paul Mazursky

Best Picture - Paul Mazursky and Tony Ray, Producers

v

Long live Italy!

1 nomination

Foreign language film - Italy

W

White Bim Black Ear

1 nomination

Foreign language film - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

With Babies and Banners: History of the Women's Emergency Brigade

1 nomination

Documentary (Feature) – Anne Bohlen, Lyn Goldfarb and Lorraine Gray, Producers

The Wizard

4 nominations

Artistic Direction – Artistic Direction: Tony Walton, Philip Rosenberg; Set design: Edward Stewart, Robert Drumheller

Kamera - Oswald Morris

Musik (Adaption Score) - Quincy Jones

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Costume Design - Tony Walton

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