51st Academy Awards (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.Winner - Best Picture
Winner - Michael Cimino
Nominated - Best Actor for Robert De Niro
Winner - Best Supporting Actor for Christopher Walken
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Meryl Streep
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Michael Cimino, Deric Washburn, Louis Garfinkle and Quinn K. Redeker
Winner - Best Sound Mixing
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Vilmos Zsigmond
Winner - Best Film Editing for Peter Zinner - 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.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Hal Ashby
Winner - Best Actor for Jon Voight
Winner - Best Actress for Jane Fonda
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Bruce Dern
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Penelope Milford
Winner - Best Original Screenplay for Nancy Dowd, Waldo Salt and Robert C. Jones
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Don Zimmerman - 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.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Warren Beatty and Buck Henry
Nominated - Best Actor for Warren Beatty
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Jack Warden
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Dyan Cannon
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Elaine May and Warren Beatty
Nominated - Best Original Score for Dave Grusin
Winner - Best Art Direction
Nominated - Best Cinematography for William A. Fraker - DirectorAlan ParkerStarsBrad DavisIrene MiracleBo HopkinsBilly Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Alan Parker
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for John Hurt
Winner - Best Adapted Screenplay for Oliver Stone
Winner - Best Original Score for Giorgio Moroder
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Gerry Hambling - 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.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Actress for Jill Clayburgh
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Paul Mazursky - DirectorWoody AllenStarsDiane KeatonGeraldine PageKristin GriffithThree sisters find their lives spinning out of control in the wake of their parents' sudden, unexpected divorce.Nominated - Best Director for Woody Allen
Nominated - Best Actress for Geraldine Page
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Maureen Stapleton
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Woody Allen
Nominated - Best Art Direction - 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.Nominated - Best Actor for Gary Busey
Winner - Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score for Joe Renzetti
Nominated - Best Sound Mixing - DirectorFranklin J. SchaffnerStarsGregory PeckLaurence OlivierJames MasonA Nazi hunter in Paraguay discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.Nominated - Best Actor for Laurence Olivier
Nominated - Best Original Score for Jerry Goldsmith
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Robert E. Swink - DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsIngrid BergmanLiv UllmannLena NymanA devoted wife is visited by her mother, a successful concert pianist who had little time for her when she was young.Nominated - Best Actress for Ingrid Bergman
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Ingmar Bergman - DirectorRobert MulliganStarsAlan AldaEllen BurstynIvan BonarA married man and a married woman end up sleeping with each other, and decide to meet at the same place every year on the anniversary of their one night stand. As the years go by, they observe changes in each other and their relationship.Nominated - Best Actress for Ellen Burstyn
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Bernard Slade
Nominated - Best Original Song for "The Last Time I Felt Like This"
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Robert Surtees - DirectorAlan J. PakulaStarsJames CaanJane FondaJason RobardsA brave and proud woman struggles for her land, finding help and something more in unexpected way.Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Richard Farnsworth
- DirectorHerbert RossStarsJane FondaAlan AldaMaggie SmithMisadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.Winner - Best Supporting Actress for Maggie Smith
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Neil Simon
Nominated - Best Art Direction - DirectorRobert MulliganStarsPaul SorvinoTony Lo BiancoRichard GereA young man is torn between following in his brothers' footsteps or striking out on his own.Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Walter Newman
- 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.Winner - Best Foreign Language Film (France)
- DirectorHans W. GeissendörferStarsBrigitte FosseyHelmut GriemDieter LaserA man is wrongfully imprisoned for five years. Once out, he hears about his wife's supposed adventures outside of their marriage and becomes increasingly jealous.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (West Germany)
- DirectorZoltán FábriStarsGábor KonczÉva PapJózsef BihariMany Hungarian migrant workers work in Germany in good conditions and for good wages during WW2. They face the war only once they return home to Hungary.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Hungary)
- DirectorMario MonicelliDino RisiEttore ScolaStarsVittorio GassmanOrnella MutiAlberto SordiSeveral episodes depicting Italian's life in short humoristic stories.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Italy)
- DirectorStanislav RostotskiyStarsVyacheslav TikhonovValentina VladimirovaMikhail DadykoA white dog called Bim is looking for its owner. It encounters all kinds of people and situations.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (U.S.S.R.)
- 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?Winner - Best Costume Design for Anthony Powell
- DirectorJames FargoStarsAnthony QuinnMichael SarrazinChristopher LeeIn 1948, at the U.S. embassy in Zadestan, a young diplomat is ordered to find the missing daughter of an influential U.S. Senator.Nominated - Best Costume Design for Renie Conley
- 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.Nominated - Best Costume Design for Patricia Norris
Nominated - Best Original Score for Ennio Morricone
Nominated - Best Sound Mixing
Winner - Best Cinematography for Nestor Almendros - DirectorIrwin AllenStarsMichael CaineKatharine RossRichard WidmarkA huge swarm of deadly African bees spreads terror over American cities by killing thousands of people.Nominated - Best Costume Design for Paul Zastupnevich
- DirectorSidney LumetStarsDiana RossMichael JacksonNipsey RussellAn adaptation of "The Wizard of Oz" that tries to capture the essence of the African-American experience.Nominated - Best Costume Design for Tony Walton
Nominated - Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score for Quincy Jones
Nominated - Best Art Direction
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Oswald Morris - DirectorArnold ShapiroStarsPeter FalkMickie ColdDoug CroninThe filmed depiction of a program where convicts tell troubled kids about the horrors of prison life.Winner - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorAlbert LamorisseStarsManouchehr AnvarA tour of Iran filmed from a helicopter.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorAlan RootStarsOrson WellesPunctuating the skyline of the African plains with their distinctive silhouettes, giant termite mounds support an abundance of life, and not all of it invertebrate. The Oscar-nominated Mysterious Castles of Clay provides a dramatic and enthralling insight into the diverse ecosystem these towering monoliths help sustain.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorJean-Pierre DutilleuxLuiz Carlos SaldanhaStarsMarlon BrandoClive KellyJacques PerrinAn examination of issues surrounding the survival of the indigenous tribes of north central Brazil.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorLorraine GrayFrom December 1936 to February 1937 members of the United Auto Workers organized a sit-down strike inside the General Motors Fisher Body 1 and 2 plants in Flint, Michigan. They ultimately won recognition of their union and improved wages and conditions. "With Babies and Banners" tells the story of the Women's Emergency Brigade, composed of female GM workers and the wives of men involved in the sit-down strike, which not only provided support services (like running the union kitchens that provided food to the strikers occupying the plants) but did picket duty themselves. It intercuts footage from 1937 with interviews with the same women 40 years later, still active in union politics and still pressuring the UAW to acknowledge women as equals.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- 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.Winner - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorJerry AronsonThis documentary, filmed over eight years, chronicles the personal and political hardships faced by three Chippewa Indians.Nominated - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorVidhu Vinod ChopraAn account of the lives at Children home located in Dongri and Mankurd in MumbaiNominated - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorAugust CinquegranaNominated - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorJ. Gary MitchellNominated - Best Documentary Short
- 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.Winner - Best Live Action Short
- DirectorFern FieldStarsBeverly ArcherCarl BallantineSorrell BookeAn all-star educational film about the positive side of hiring people with disabilities. A board sit and watch the film Michael Keaton's character's assembled to sell companies on hiring the handicapped, which takes "a different approach" by combining several approaches--most of them suggested by Hollywood personalities.Nominated - Best Live Action Short
- DirectorAndrew SugermanStarsMaureen O'SullivanAmy LevitanKathryn WalkerA young tomboy and her prim grandmother quickly forget the disappointment of their first meeting and become friends.Nominated - Best Live Action Short
- DirectorSeth PinskerStarsRoger Aaron BrownMichael CassidyNyles HarrisA black painter in 1948 Georgia faces racism after becoming involved with voter registration.Nominated - Best Live Action Short
- 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.Winner - Best Animated Short
- DirectorBørge RingThe pure and unconditional love that parents have for a child is admirable, but, in this case, there is also value in letting go.Nominated - Best Animated Short
- DirectorWill VintonStarsWill GeerTim ConnerBob GriggsRip Van Winkle, a lazy American man, wanders off one day with his dog Wolf into the Kaatskill mountains where he runs into an odd group of men drinking and playing bowls. He drinks some of their mysterious brew and passes out. When he wakes up under a tree he is astonished to find that 20 years have passed and things are a lot different. This is a charming story about how America changed due to the revolutionary war, only in a different and more subtle way than ever told before.Nominated - Best Animated Short
- 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.Nominated - Best Original Score for John Williams
Nominated - Best Sound Mixing
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Stuart Baird
Winner - Best Visual Effects - DirectorLouis MalleStarsBrooke ShieldsKeith CarradineSusan SarandonA preteen girl lives as a prostitute in New Orleans in 1917.Nominated - Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score for Jerry Wexler
- DirectorRobert KlaneStarsDonna SummerValerie LandsburgTerri NunnA Friday in the life of the disco club The Zoo, where the staff and clients meet and dance their lives away.Winner - Best Original Song for "Last Dance"
- 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?Nominated - Best Original Song for "Hopelessly Devoted to You"
- DirectorColin HigginsStarsGoldie HawnChevy ChaseBurgess MeredithA San Francisco librarian picks up a hitchhiker whose car has broken down, which leads to her being stalked and hunted by shady individuals. A cop she briefly met during a function eventually comes to her rescue.Nominated - Best Original Song for "Ready to Take a Chance Again"
- DirectorDon ChaffeyStarsJames StewartMickey RooneyPernell RobertsLassie is trying to find her way home. She will have to run all the way from Colorado to California. Her loving owner is looking for her too.Nominated - Best Original Song for "When You're Loved"
- DirectorHal NeedhamStarsBurt ReynoldsJan-Michael VincentSally FieldAging Hollywood stuntman Sonny Hooper wants to prove that he's still got what it takes to be a great professional in this risky, under-recognized line of work.Nominated - Best Sound Mixing
- DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsPeter FalkPeter BoyleAllen GarfieldA fictional retelling of the infamous Boston Brink's Company robbery on January 17th, 1950, of $2.7M, and cost the American taxpayers $29M to apprehend the culprits with only $58,000 recovered.Nominated - Best Art Direction