Winner 51st Academy Awards
The 1978 file: winners first, ballot trails on demand, and the films that shaped the ceremony.
Year
1978
Nominations
119
Categories Decided
All 28
Top Winner
The Deer Hunter
Ceremony at a glance
Best Picture went to The Deer Hunter. The winning leader is The Deer Hunter with 5 wins. The most nominated title is The Deer Hunter with 9 nominations. 40 winners named across 28 categories.
Most awarded titles
- The Deer Hunter 5 wins9 nominations
- Coming Home 3 wins8 nominations
- Midnight Express 2 wins6 nominations
- Heaven Can Wait 1 win9 nominations
- Days of Heaven 1 win4 nominations
Best Picture Nominees
The major races
The 1978 ceremony centers on The Deer Hunter. Picture, Director, Actor and Actress: 4 of 4 decided, 20 nominees in all.
Best Picture Winner
- An Unmarried Woman Paul Mazursky | Tony Ray
- Coming Home Jerome Hellman
- Heaven Can Wait Warren Beatty
- Midnight Express Alan Marshall | David Puttnam
Best Director Winner
- Hal Ashby Coming Home
- Warren Beatty, Buck Henry Heaven Can Wait
- Woody Allen Interiors
- Alan Parker Midnight Express
Best Actor Winner
Best Actress Winner
Complete Ceremony Ledger
Every winner and nominee in every category, with film, person and review links.
21 categories119 records40 winners
1 winner5 records
Winner
Nominee
Nominee
Coming Home
Credit: Jerome Hellman
Nominee
Heaven Can Wait
Credit: Warren Beatty
Nominee
1 winner5 records
Winner
The Deer Hunter
Credit: Michael Cimino
Nominee
Coming Home
Credit: Hal Ashby
Nominee
Nominee
Interiors
Credit: Woody Allen
Nominee
Midnight Express
Credit: Alan Parker
1 winner5 records
Winner
Nominee
Nominee
Nominee
Nominee
1 winner5 records
Winner
Nominee
Nominee
Nominee
Nominee
1 winner5 records
Winner
Nominee
Nominee
Nominee
Nominee
1 winner5 records
Winner
Nominee
Nominee
Nominee
Nominee
1 winner5 records
Winner
Nominee
An Unmarried Woman
Credit: Paul Mazursky
Nominee
Autumn Sonata
Credit: Ingmar Bergman
Nominee
Interiors
Credit: Woody Allen
Nominee
1 winner5 records
Winner
Midnight Express
Credit: Oliver Stone
Nominee
Bloodbrothers
Credit: Walter Newman
Nominee
California Suite
Credit: Neil Simon
Nominee
Nominee
Same Time, Next Year
Credit: Bernard Slade
1 winner5 records
Winner
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
Credit: France
Nominee
Hungarians
Credit: Hungary
Nominee
The Glass Cell
Credit: German Federal Republic
Nominee
Viva Italia!
Credit: Italy
Nominee
White Bim Black Ear
Credit: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
1 winner5 records
Winner
Midnight Express
Credit: Giorgio Moroder
Nominee
Days of Heaven
Credit: Ennio Morricone
Nominee
Heaven Can Wait
Credit: Dave Grusin
Nominee
Superman
Credit: John Williams
Nominee
The Boys from Brazil
Credit: Jerry Goldsmith
1 winner5 records
Winner
Nominee
Nominee
Nominee
Same Time, Next Year
Credit: Marvin HamlischAlan BergmanMarilyn Bergman
The Last Time I Felt Like This
Nominee
1 winner5 records
Winner
Death on the Nile
Credit: Anthony Powell
Nominee
Caravans
Credit: Renie Conley
Nominee
Days of Heaven
Credit: Patricia Norris
Nominee
The Swarm
Credit: Paul Zastupnevich
Nominee
The Wiz
Credit: Tony Walton
1 winner5 records
Winner
Days of Heaven
Credit: Nestor Almendros
Nominee
Heaven Can Wait
Credit: William A. Fraker
Nominee
Same Time, Next Year
Credit: Robert Surtees
Nominee
The Deer Hunter
Credit: Vilmos Zsigmond
Nominee
The Wiz
Credit: Oswald Morris
1 winner5 records
Winner
The Deer Hunter
Credit: Peter Zinner
Nominee
Coming Home
Credit: Don Zimmerman
Nominee
Midnight Express
Credit: Gerry Hambling
Nominee
Superman
Credit: Stuart Baird
Nominee
The Boys from Brazil
Credit: Robert E. Swink
1 winner5 records
1 winner5 records
Winner
Scared Straight!
Credit: Arnold Shapiro
Nominee
Mysterious Castles of Clay
Credit: Alan Root
Nominee
Nominee
The Lovers' Wind
Credit: Albert Lamorisse
Nominee
1 winner5 records
Winner
Nominee
An Encounter with Faces
Credit: K.K. Kapil
Nominee
Goodnight Miss Ann
Credit: August Cinquegrana
Nominee
Nominee
1 winner3 records
Winner
The Buddy Holly Story
Credit: Joe Renzetti
Nominee
Pretty Baby
Credit: Jerry Wexler
Nominee
The Wiz
Credit: Quincy Jones
1 winner3 records
1 winner4 records
Winner
Teenage Father
Credit: Taylor Hackford
Nominee
Nominee
Mandy's Grandmother
Credit: Andrew Sugerman
Nominee
Strange Fruit
Credit: Seth Pinsker
1 winner5 records
Winner
Nominee
Nominee
Nominee
Nominee
Ceremony Highlights
Winner California Suite
Winner Days of Heaven
Winner Death on the Nile
Winner Scared Straight!
Winner The Flight of the Gossamer Condor
Winner Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
Winner The Buddy Holly Story
Winner Thank God It's Friday
Winner Special Delivery
Winner Teenage Father
Winner Superman
The Boys from Brazil
Comes a Horseman
Categories in this ceremony
Best Actor
Best Supporting Actor
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actress
ART DIRECTION
Best Picture
CINEMATOGRAPHY
COSTUME DESIGN
Best Director
DOCUMENTARY (Feature)
DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject)
FILM EDITING
HONORARY AWARD
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
JEAN HERSHOLT HUMANITARIAN AWARD
MEDAL OF COMMENDATION
MUSIC (Original Score)
MUSIC (Original Song Score or Adaptation Score)
MUSIC (Original Song)
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Academy Award of Merit)
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Scientific and Engineering Award)
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
SHORT FILM (Animated)
SHORT FILM (Live Action)
SOUND MIXING
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (Visual Effects)
WRITING (Adapted Screenplay)
WRITING (Original Screenplay)
Winner Circle
The Deer Hunter
Michael Cimino
Jane Fonda
Jon Voight
Maggie Smith
Christopher Walken
Coming Home
Midnight Express
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
Midnight Express
Last Dance
Anthony Powell
Nestor Almendros
Peter Zinner
Art Direction: Paul Sylbert, Edwin O'Donovan; Set Decoration: George Gaines
Arnold Shapiro, Producer
Jacqueline Phillips Shedd and Ben Shedd, Producers
King Vidor
Laurence Olivier
HONORARY AWARD
The Museum of Modern Art
Walter Lantz
JEAN HERSHOLT HUMANITARIAN AWARD
Leo Jaffe
MEDAL OF COMMENDATION
Linwood G. Dunn
Loren L. Ryder
MEDAL OF COMMENDATION
Waldon O. Watson
Joe Renzetti
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Academy Award of Merit)
Eastman Kodak Company
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Academy Award of Merit)
Panavision Incorporated and Robert E. Gottschalk
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Academy Award of Merit)
STEFAN KUDELSKI
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Scientific and Engineering Award)
Ray M. Dolby, IOAN R. ALLEN, DAVID P. ROBINSON, STEPHEN M. KATZ and PHILIP S. J. BOOLE
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
David J. Degenkolb, ARTHUR L. FORD and FRED J. SCOBEY
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
JAMES L. FISHER
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
KARL MACHER and GLENN M. BERGGREN
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
KIICHI SEKIGUCHI
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
LEONARD CHAPMAN
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
ROBERT STINDT
Eunice Macaulay and John Weldon, Producers
Taylor Hackford, Producer
Richard Portman, William McCaughey, Aaron Rochin, Darin Knight
Les Bowie, Colin Chilvers, Denys Coop, Roy Field, Derek Meddings, Zoran Perisic
Sortable ledger
Every nomination from this ceremony as a sortable table, for research that needs the raw record beside the posters and winners above.