Academy Awards 1979 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	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 Adaptation Score	Best Original Song
Best Sound	Best Art Direction
Best Cinematography	Best Costume Design
Best Film Editing

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Best Picture

• An Unmarried Woman
• Coming Home
• Heaven Can Wait
• Midnight Express
• The Deer Hunter

Best Director

• Coming Home (Hal Ashby)
• Heaven Can Wait (Warren Beatty)
• Interiors (Woody Allen)
• Midnight Express (Alan Parker)
• The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

• Coming Home (Jon Voight)
• Heaven Can Wait (Warren Beatty)
• The Boys from Brazil (Laurence Olivier)
• The Buddy Holly Story (Gary Busey)
• The Deer Hunter (Robert De Niro)

Best Actress in a Leading Role

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

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

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

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

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

Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

• An Unmarried Woman
• Autumn Sonata
• Coming Home
• Interiors
• The Deer Hunter

Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium

• Bloodbrothers
• California Suite
• Heaven Can Wait
• Midnight Express
• Same Time, Next Year

Best Foreign Language Film

• Die gläserne Zelle (West Germany)
• Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (France)
• Magyarok (Hungary)
• Viva Italia! (Italy)
• White Bim Black Ear (Russia)

Best Documentary Feature

• Mysterious Castles of Clay
• Raoni
• Scared Straight!
• The Lovers' Wind
• With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade

Best Documentary Short

• An Encounter with Faces
• Goodnight Miss Ann
• Squires of San Quentin
• The Divided Trail: A Native American Odyssey
• The Flight of the Gossamer Condor

Best Live Action Short Film

• A Different Approach
• Mandy's Grandmother
• Strange Fruit
• Teenage Father

Best Animated Short Film

• Oh My Darling
• Rip Van Winkle
• Special Delivery

Best Original Score

• Days of Heaven
• Heaven Can Wait
• Midnight Express
• Superman
• The Boys from Brazil

Best Adaptation Score

• Pretty Baby
• The Buddy Holly Story
• The Wiz

Best Original Song

• Foul Play ("Ready to Take a Chance Again")
• Grease ("Hopelessly Devoted to You")
• Same Time, Next Year ("The Last Time I Felt Like This")
• Thank God It's Friday ("Last Dance")
• The Magic of Lassie ("When You're Loved")

Best Sound

• Days of Heaven
• Hooper
• Superman
• The Buddy Holly Story
• The Deer Hunter

Best Art Direction

• California Suite
• Heaven Can Wait
• Interiors
• The Brink's Job
• The Wiz

Best Cinematography

• Days of Heaven
• Heaven Can Wait
• Same Time, Next Year
• The Deer Hunter
• The Wiz

Best Costume Design

• Caravans
• Days of Heaven
• Death on the Nile
• The Swarm
• The Wiz

Best Film Editing

• Coming Home
• Midnight Express
• Superman
• The Boys from Brazil
• The Deer Hunter