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
Ingmar Bergman— Autumn Sonata
Nancy Dowd, Waldo Salt, Robert C. Jones— Coming Home
Michael Cimino, Deric Washburn, Louis Garfinkle, Quinn K. Redeker— The Deer Hunter
Woody Allen— Interiors
Paul Mazursky— An Unmarried Woman
Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner
Oliver Stone
Midnight Express
Walter Newman— Bloodbrothers
Neil Simon— California Suite
Elaine May, Warren Beatty— Heaven Can Wait
Bernard Slade— Same Time, Next Year
Music
Best Original Score
Winner
Giorgio Moroder
Midnight Express
Jerry Goldsmith— The Boys from Brazil
Ennio Morricone— Days of Heaven
Dave Grusin— Heaven Can Wait
John Williams— Superman
Best Score (Adaptation)
Winner
Joe Renzetti
The Buddy Holly Story
Jerry Wexler— Pretty Baby
Quincy Jones— The Wiz
Best Original Song
Winner
"Last Dance" — Paul Jabara
Thank God It's Friday
“Ready To Take a Chance Again” — Charles Fox, Norman Gimbel— Foul Play
“Hopelessly Devoted To You” — John Farrar— Grease
“When You’re Loved” — Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman— The Magic of Lassie
“The Last Time I Felt Like This” — Marvin Hamlisch, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman— Same Time, Next Year
“Last Dance” — Paul Jabara— Thank God It’s Friday
Technical
Best Cinematography
Winner
Nestor Almendros
Days of Heaven
Vilmos Zsigmond— The Deer Hunter
William A. Fraker— Heaven Can Wait
Robert Surtees— Same Time, Next Year
Oswald Morris— The Wiz
Best Film Editing
Winner
Peter Zinner
The Deer Hunter
Robert E. Swink— The Boys from Brazil
Don Zimmerman— Coming Home
Gerry Hambling— Midnight Express
Stuart Baird— Superman
Art Direction & Costume
Best Art Direction
Winner
Paul Sylbert, Edwin O'Donovan, George Gaines
Heaven Can Wait
Dean Tavoularis, Angelo Graham, George R. Nelson, Bruce Kay— The Brink's Job
Albert Brenner, Marvin March— California Suite
Paul Sylbert, Edwin O’Donovan, George Gaines— Heaven Can Wait
Mel Bourne, Daniel Robert— Interiors
Tony Walton, Philip Rosenberg, Edward Stewart, Robert Drumheller— The Wiz
Best Costume Design
Winner
Anthony Powell
Death on the Nile
Renie Conley— Caravans
Patricia Norris— Days of Heaven
Paul Zastupnevich— The Swarm
Tony Walton— The Wiz
Sound & Visual Effects
Best Sound Recording
Winner
Richard Portman, William McCaughey, Aaron Rochin, Darin Knight
The Deer Hunter
Tex Rudloff, Joel Fein, Curly Thirlwell, Willie Burton— The Buddy Holly Story
John K. Wilkinson, Robert W. Glass Jr., John T. Reitz, Barry Thomas— Days of Heaven
Robert Knudson, Robert J. Glass, Don MacDougall, Jack Solomon— Hooper
Gordon K. McCallum, Graham Hartstone, Nicholas Le Messurier, Roy Charman— Superman
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
Nico Crama— Oh My Darling
Will Vinton— Rip Van Winkle
Best Documentary Feature
Winner
Scared Straight!
Arnold Shapiro
Albert Lamorisse— The Lovers’ Wind
Alan Root— Mysterious Castles of Clay
Jean-Pierre Dutilleux, Barry Williams, Michel Gast— Raoni
Anne Bohlen, Lyn Goldfarb, Lorraine Gray— With Babies and Banners
International Film
Best Foreign Language Film
Winner
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
France — Bertrand Blier
The Glass Cell
Hungarians
Viva Italia!
White Bim Black Ear