Academy Awards 1978 Nominations

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Best Picture	Best Director
Best Actor in a Leading Role	Best Actress in a Leading Role
Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen based on factual material or on story material not previously published or produced	Best Screenplay based on material from another medium
Best Foreign Language Film	Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary Short	Best Live Action Short Film
Best Animated Short Film	Best Original Score
Best Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score	Best Original Song
Best Sound	Best Art Direction
Best Cinematography	Best Costume Design
Best Film Editing	Best Visual Effects

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Best Picture

• Annie Hall
• Julia
• Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
• The Goodbye Girl
• The Turning Point

Best Director

• Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg)
• Julia (Fred Zinnemann)
• Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (George Lucas)
• The Turning Point (Herbert Ross)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

• A Special Day (Marcello Mastroianni)
• Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
• Equus (Richard Burton)
• Saturday Night Fever (John Travolta)
• The Goodbye Girl (Richard Dreyfuss)

Best Actress in a Leading Role

• Annie Hall (Diane Keaton)
• Julia (Jane Fonda)
• The Goodbye Girl (Marsha Mason)
• The Turning Point (Anne Bancroft)
• The Turning Point (Shirley MacLaine)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Equus (Peter Firth)
• Julia (Maximilian Schell)
• Julia (Jason Robards)
• Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (Alec Guinness)
• The Turning Point (Mikhail Baryshnikov)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Melinda Dillon)
• Julia (Vanessa Redgrave)
• Looking for Mr. Goodbar (Tuesday Weld)
• The Goodbye Girl (Quinn Cummings)
• The Turning Point (Leslie Browne)

Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen based on factual material or on story material not previously published or produced

• Annie Hall
• Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
• The Goodbye Girl
• The Late Show
• The Turning Point

Best Screenplay based on material from another medium

• Equus
• I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
• Julia
• Oh, God!
• That Obscure Object of Desire

Best Foreign Language Film

• A Special Day (Italy)
• Iphigenia (Greece)
• Madame Rosa (France)
• Operation Thunderbolt (Israel)
• That Obscure Object of Desire (Spain)

Best Documentary Feature

• High Grass Circus
• Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love
• The Children of Theatre Street
• Union Maids
• Who Are the DeBolts? and Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?

Best Documentary Short

• Agueda Martinez: Our People, Our Country
• First Edition
• Gravity Is My Enemy
• Of Time, Tombs and Treasures
• The Shetland Experience

Best Live Action Short Film

• Floating Free
• I'll Find a Way
• Notes on the Popular Arts
• Spaceborne
• The Absent-Minded Waiter

Best Animated Short Film

• A Doonesbury Special
• Jimmy the C
• The Bead Game
• The Sand Castle

Best Original Score

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Julia
• Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
• The Message
• The Spy Who Loved Me

Best Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score

• A Little Night Music
• Pete's Dragon
• The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella

Best Original Song

• Pete's Dragon ("Candle on the Water")
• The Rescuers ("Someone's Waiting For You")
• The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella ("The Slipper and the Rose Waltz (He Danced with Me/She Danced with Me)")
• The Spy Who Loved Me ("Nobody Does It Better")
• You Light Up My Life ("You Light Up My Life")

Best Sound

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Sorcerer
• Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
• The Deep
• The Turning Point

Best Art Direction

• Airport '77
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
• The Spy Who Loved Me
• The Turning Point

Best Cinematography

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Islands in the Stream
• Julia
• Looking for Mr. Goodbar
• The Turning Point

Best Costume Design

• A Little Night Music
• Airport '77
• Julia
• Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
• The Other Side of Midnight

Best Film Editing

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Julia
• Smokey and the Bandit
• Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
• The Turning Point

Best Visual Effects

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope