Best Picture & Directing
Best Picture
Winner
The Deer Hunter
Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino, John Peverall, producers
Coming Home
Heaven Can Wait
Midnight Express
An Unmarried Woman
Best Director
Winner
Michael Cimino
The Deer Hunter
Hal Ashby— Coming Home
Warren Beatty and Buck Henry— Heaven Can Wait
Alan Parker— Midnight Express
Woody Allen— Interiors
Acting
Best Actor
Winner
Jon Voight
Coming Home
Warren Beatty— Heaven Can Wait
Gary Busey— The Buddy Holly Story
Robert De Niro— The Deer Hunter
Laurence Olivier— The Boys from Brazil
Best Actress
Winner
Jane Fonda
Coming Home
Ingrid Bergman— Autumn Sonata
Ellen Burstyn— Same Time Next Year
Jill Clayburgh— An Unmarried Woman
Geraldine Page— Interiors
Best Supporting Actor
Winner
Christopher Walken
The Deer Hunter
Bruce Dern— Coming Home
Richard Farnsworth— Comes a Horseman
Jack Nicholson— Coming Home
Best Supporting Actress
Winner
Maggie Smith
California Suite
Dyan Cannon— Heaven Can Wait
Penelope Milford— Coming Home
Maureen Stapleton— Interiors
Writing
Best Original Screenplay
Winner
Nancy Dowd (story); Waldo Salt, Robert C. Jones (screenplay)
Coming Home
Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner
Oliver Stone
Midnight Express
Music
Best Original Score
Winner
Giorgio Moroder
Midnight Express
Best Score (Adaptation)
Winner
Joe Renzetti
The Buddy Holly Story
Best Original Song
Winner
"Last Dance" — Paul Jabara
Thank God It's Friday
Technical
Best Cinematography
Winner
Nestor Almendros
Days of Heaven
Best Film Editing
Winner
Peter Zinner
The Deer Hunter
Art Direction & Costume
Best Art Direction
Winner
Paul Sylbert, Edwin O'Donovan, George Gaines
Heaven Can Wait
Best Costume Design
Winner
Anthony Powell
Death on the Nile
Sound & Visual Effects
Best Sound Recording
Winner
Richard Portman, William McCaughey, Aaron Rochin, Darin Knight
The Deer Hunter
Best Visual Effects (Special Achievement)
Winner
Les Bowie, Colin Chilvers, Denys Coop, Roy Field, Derek Meddings, Zoran Perisic
Superman
Documentary & Short Films
Best Animated Short
Winner
Special Delivery
National Film Board of Canada
Best Documentary Feature
Winner
Scared Straight!
Arnold Shapiro
International Film
Best Foreign Language Film
Winner
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
France — Bertrand Blier