Oscars Rematch: 1978
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- DirectorMichael CiminoStarsRobert De NiroChristopher WalkenJohn CazaleAn in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania.Best Picture!
Winner: The Deer Hunter!
Nominees:
Coming Home
Days of Heaven
Heaven Can Wait
Midnight Express - DirectorMichael CiminoStarsRobert De NiroChristopher WalkenJohn CazaleAn in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania.Best Director!
Winner: Michael Cimino!
Nominees:
Ingmar Bergman - Autumn Sonata
Hal Ashby - Coming Home
Terrence Malick - Days of Heaven
Alan Parker - Midnight Express - DirectorHal AshbyStarsJane FondaJon VoightBruce DernIn 1968 California, a woman whose husband is a Marine officer fighting in Vietnam falls in love with a former high school classmate who suffered a paralyzing combat injury in the war.Best Actor!
Winner: Jon Voight!
Nominees:
Warren Beatty - Heaven Can Wait
Brad Davis - Midnight Express
Robert De Niro - The Deer Hunter
Peter Ustinov - Death on the Nile - DirectorPaul MazurskyStarsJill ClayburghAlan BatesMichael MurphyA wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.Best Actress!
Winner: Jill Clayburgh!
Nominees:
Ingrid Bergman - Autumn Sonata
Jane Fonda - Coming Home
Geraldine Page - Interiors
Liv Ullmann - Autumn Sonata - DirectorMichael CiminoStarsRobert De NiroChristopher WalkenJohn CazaleAn in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania.Best Supporting Actor!
Winner: Christopher Walken!
Nominees:
Richard Farnsworth - Comes a Horseman
Gene Hackman - Superman
John Hurt - Midnight Express
John Savage - The Deer Hunter - DirectorHerbert RossStarsJane FondaAlan AldaMaggie SmithMisadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.Best Supporting Actress!
Winner: Maggie Smith!
Nominees:
Dyan Cannon - Heaven Can Wait
Angela Lansbury - Death on the Nile
Maureen Stapleton - Interiors
Meryl Streep - The Deer Hunter - DirectorMichael CiminoStarsRobert De NiroChristopher WalkenJohn CazaleAn in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania.Best Original Screenplay!
Winner: Michael Cimino, Deric Washburn, Louis Garfinkle and Quinn K. Redeker!
Nominees:
Ingmar Bergman - Autumn Sonata
Nancy Dowd, Waldo Salt and Robert C. Jones - Coming Home
Woody Allen - Interiors
Paul Mazursky - An Unmarried Woman - DirectorAlan ParkerStarsBrad DavisIrene MiracleBo HopkinsBilly Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.Best Adapted Screenplay!
Winner: Oliver Stone!
Nominees:
Neil Simon - California Suite
Anthony Shaffer - Death on the Nile
Elaine May and Warren Beatty - Heaven Can Wait
Bernard Slade - Same Time, Next Year - DirectorBertrand BlierStarsGérard DepardieuCarole LaurePatrick DewaereA worried husband finds a lover for his depressed wife, but she falls in love with a bullied thirteen-year-old math prodigy and wants to have the boy's baby.Best Foreign Language Film!
Winner: Get Out Your Handkerchiefs!
Nominees:
The Glass Cell
Hungarians
Viva Italia!
White Bim Black Ear - DirectorJohn GuillerminStarsPeter UstinovMia FarrowSimon MacCorkindaleAs Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board. Can Poirot identify the killer before the ship reaches the end of its journey?Best Costume Design!
Winner: Death on the Nile!
Nominees:
Caravans
Days of Heaven
The Swarm
The Wiz - DirectorArnold ShapiroStarsPeter FalkMickie ColdDoug CroninThe filmed depiction of a program where convicts tell troubled kids about the horrors of prison life.Best Documentary Feature!
Winner: Scared Straight!
Nominees:
Brigade
The Lovers' Wind
Mysterious Castles of Clay
Raoni
With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency - DirectorBen SheddStarsBryan AllenPaul B. MacCreadyTyler MacCreadyThe Flight of the Gossamer Condor tells the inspiring true story of history's first successful human-powered flight. Renowned inventor Dr. Paul MacCready and his team were filmed creating the world-famous pedal-powered airplane as it happened. Producing this film which documents the development of a man's dream into a scientific and historic achievement was, in itself, an extraordinary effort. There was an immense risk involved in making a commitment to film a scientist's effort at achieving something which had never done before successfully.Best Documentary Short!
Winner: The Flight of the Gossamer Condor!
Nominees:
The Divided Trail: A Native American Odyssey
An Encounter with Faces
Goodnight Miss Ann
Squires of San Quentin - DirectorTaylor HackfordStarsJeannie Dimter BartonSusan CronkiteSuzanne CroughThis film explores the life of a 17-year-old senior boy who is a soon to be father with his girlfriend, a 15 year old sophomore. They evaluate the decisions about how they got here, and the decisions on what they will do next.Best Live Action Short!
Winner: Teenage Father!
Nominees:
A Different Approach
Mandy's Grandmother
Strange Fruit - DirectorEunice MacaulayJohn WeldonStarsSandy SandersonJean MarchandA hapless husband neglects to clear the icy walk, which leads to the mailman slipping and breaking his neck. A comedy of errors results from his attempts to hide the body.Best Animated Short!
Winner: Special Delivery!
Nominees:
Oh My Darling
Rip Van Winkle - DirectorAlan ParkerStarsBrad DavisIrene MiracleBo HopkinsBilly Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.Best Original Score!
Winner: Midnight Express!
Nominees:
The Boys from Brazil
Days of Heaven
Heaven Can Wait
Superman - DirectorSteve RashStarsGary BuseyDon StroudCharles Martin SmithThe story of the life and career of the early rock and roll singer, from his meteoric rise to stardom, to his marriage and untimely death.Best Original Song or Adaptation Score!
Winner: The Buddy Holly Story!
Nominees:
Pretty Baby
The Wiz - DirectorRandal KleiserStarsJohn TravoltaOlivia Newton-JohnStockard ChanningGood girl Sandy Olsson and greaser Danny Zuko fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance?Best Original Song!
Winner: "Hopelessly Devoted for You", Grease!
Nominees:
"Last Dance" - Thank God It's Friday
"The Last Time I Felt Like This" - Same Time, Next Year
"Ready to Take a Chance Again" - Foul Play
"When You're Loved" - The Magic of Lassie - DirectorMichael CiminoStarsRobert De NiroChristopher WalkenJohn CazaleAn in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania.Best Sound Mixing!
Winner: The Deer Hunter!
Nominees:
The Buddy Holly Story
Days of Heaven
Hooper
Superman - DirectorWarren BeattyBuck HenryStarsWarren BeattyJames MasonJulie ChristieA Los Angeles Rams quarterback, accidentally taken away from his body by an overanxious angel before he was meant to die, returns to life in the body of a recently murdered millionaire.Best Art Direction!
Winner: Heaven Can Wait!
Nominees:
The Brink's Job
California Suite
Interiors
The Wiz - DirectorTerrence MalickStarsRichard GereBrooke AdamsSam ShepardA hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune.Best Cinematography!
Winner: Days of Heaven!
Nominees:
The Deer Hunter
Heaven Can Wait
Same Time, Next Year
The Wiz - DirectorMichael CiminoStarsRobert De NiroChristopher WalkenJohn CazaleAn in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania.Best Film Editing!
Winner: The Deer Hunter!
Nominees:
The Boys From Brazil
Coming Home
Midnight Express
Superman - DirectorRichard DonnerStarsChristopher ReeveMargot KidderGene HackmanAn alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home's first and greatest superhero.Best Visual Effects!
Winner: Superman!