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Best Picture
 COMING HOME - Hellman, UA. Produced by Jerome Hellman
 THE DEER HUNTER (Won 5 Awards) - EMI Films/Cimino, Universal. Produced by Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino and John Peverall
HEAVEN CAN WAIT - Dogwood, Paramount. Produced by Warren Beatty
MIDNIGHT EXPRESS - Casablanca-Filmworks, Columbia. Produced by Alan Marshall and David Puttnam
AN UNMARRIED WOMAN - 20th Century-Fox. Produced by Paul Mazursky and Tony Ray
Actor
Warren Beatty in HEAVEN CAN WAIT
Gary Busey in THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY
Robert De Niro in THE DEER HUNTER
Lord Laurence Olivier in THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL
Jon Voight in COMING HOME
Actress
Ingrid Bergman in HÖSTSONATEN (AUTUMN SONATA)
Ellen Burstyn in SAME TIME, NEXT YEAR
Jill Clayburgh in AN UNMARRIED WOMAN
Jane Fonda in COMING HOME
Geraldine Page in INTERIORS
Supporting Actor
Bruce Dern in COMING HOME
Richard Farnsworth in COMES A HORSEMAN
John Hurt in MIDNIGHT EXPRESS
Christopher Walken in THE DEER HUNTER
Jack Warden in HEAVEN CAN WAIT
Supporting Actress
Dyan Cannon in HEAVEN CAN WAIT
Penelope Milford in COMING HOME
Dame Maggie Smith in CALIFORNIA SUITE
Maureen Stapleton in INTERIORS
Meryl Streep in THE DEER HUNTER
Director
Woody Allen for INTERIORS
Hal Ashby for COMING HOME
Warren Beatty & Buck Henry for HEAVEN CAN WAIT
Michael Cimino for THE DEER HUNTER
Alan Parker for MIDNIGHT EXPRESS
Writing: Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Ingmar Bergman - HÖSTSONATEN (AUTUMN SONATA)
Nancy Dowd, Waldo Salt & Robert C. Jones - COMING HOME
Michael Cimino, Deric Washburn, Louis Garfinkle & Quinn K. Redeker - THE DEER HUNTER
Woody Allen - INTERIORS
Paul Mazursky - AN UNMARRIED WOMAN
Writing: Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
Walter Newman - BLOODBROTHERS
Neil Simon - CALIFORNIA SUITE
Elaine May & Warren Beatty - HEAVEN CAN WAIT
Oliver Stone - MIDNIGHT EXPRESS
Bernard Slade - SAME TIME, NEXT YEAR
Foreign Language Film
PRÉPAREZ VOS MOUCHOIRS (GET OUT YOUR HANDKERCHIEFS, France)
DIE GLÄSERNE ZELLE (THE GLASS CELL, West Germany)
MAGYAROK (HUNGARIANS, Hungary)
VIVA ITALIA! (Italy)
BELYJ BIM - CHYORNOYE UKHO (WHITE BIM WITH BLACK EAR, U.S.S.R.
Art Direction/Set Decoration
Dean Tavoularis & Angelo Graham - Art Direction, George R. Nelson & Bruce Kay - Set Decoration THE BRINK'S JOB
Albert Brenner - Art Direction, Marvin March - Set Decoration CALIFORNIA SUITE
Paul Sylbert & Edwin O'Donovan - Art Direction, George Gaines - Set Decoration HEAVEN CAN WAIT
Mel Bourne & Daniel Robert - Art Direction INTERIORS
Tony Walton & Philip Rosenberg - Art Direction, Edward Stewart & Robert Drumheller - Set Decoration THE WIZ
Cinematography
Nestor Almendros - DAYS OF HEAVEN
Vilmos Zsigmond - THE DEER HUNTER
William A. Fraker - HEAVEN CAN WAIT
Robert L. Surtees - SAME TIME, NEXT YEAR
Oswald Morris - THE WIZ
Costume Design
Renie Conley - CARAVANS
Patricia Norris - DAYS OF HEAVEN
Anthony Powell - DEATH ON THE NILE
Paul Zastupnevich - THE SWARM
Tony Walton - THE WIZ
Documentary (Features)
Albert Lamorisse - Producer THE LOVERS' WIND
Alan Root - Producer MYSTERIOUS CASTLES OF CLAY
Jean-Pierre Dutilleux, Barry Williams & Michel Gast - Producers RAONI
Arnold Shapiro - Producer SCARED STRAIGHT!
Anne Bohlen, Lyn Goldfarb & Lorraine Gray - Producers WITH BABIES AND BANNERS: STORY OF THE WOMEN'S EMERGENCY BRIGADE
Documentary (Short Subjects)
Jerry Aronson - Producer THE DIVIDED TRAIL: A NATIVE AMERICAN ODYSSEY
K. K. Kapil - Producer AN ENCOUNTER WITH FACES
Jacqueline Phillips Shedd & Ben Shedd - Producers THE FLIGHT OF THE GOSSAMER CONDOR
August Cinquegrana - Producer GOODNIGHT MISS ANN
J. Gary Mitchell - Producer SQUIRES OF SAN QUENTIN
Film Editing
Robert E. Swink - THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL
Don Zimmerman - COMING HOME
Peter Zinner - THE DEER HUNTER
Gerry Hambling - MIDNIGHT EXPRESS
Stuart Baird - SUPERMAN
Music: Original Score
Jerry Goldsmith - THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL
Ennio Morricone - DAYS OF HEAVEN
Dave Grusin - HEAVEN CAN WAIT
Giorgio Moroder - MIDNIGHT EXPRESS
John Williams - SUPERMAN
Music: Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score
Joe Renzetti - THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY
Jerry Wexler - PRETTY BABY
Quincy Jones - Music Adaptation THE WIZ
Music: Original Song
John Farrar - Music & Lyric GREASE "Hopelessly Devoted to You"
Paul Jabara - Music & Lyric THANK GOD, IT'S FRIDAY "Last Dance" 
Marvin Hamlisch - Music, Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman - Lyric SAME TIME, NEXT YEAR "The Last Time I Felt Like This"
Charles Fox - Music, Norman Gimbel - Lyric FOUL PLAY "Ready to Take a Chance Again"
Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman - Music & Lyric THE MAGIC OF LASSIE "When You're Loved"
Short Films (Animated)
Nico Crama - Producer OH MY DARLING
Will Vinton - Producer RIP VAN WINKLE
Eunice Macaulay & John Weldon - Producers SPECIAL DELIVERY
Short Films (Live Action)
Jim Belcher & Fern Field - Producers A DIFFERENT APPROACH
Andrew Sugerman - Producer MANDY'S GRANDMOTHER
Seth Pinsker - Producer STRANGE FRUIT
Taylor Hackford - Producer TEENAGE FATHER
Sound
Tex Rudloff, Joel Fein, Edward "Curly" Thirlwell & Willie Burton - THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY
John K. Wilkinson, Robert W. Glass, Jr., John T. Reitz & Barry Thomas - DAYS OF HEAVEN
Richard Portman, William McCaughey, Aaron Rochin & Darin Knight - THE DEER HUNTER
Robert Knudson, Robert J. Glass, Don MacDougall & Jack Solomon - HOOPER
Gordon K. McCallum, Graham V. Hartstone, Nicolas LeMessurier & Roy Charman - SUPERMAN
Special Achievement Awards
Les Bowie, Colin Chilvers, Denys Coop, Roy Field, Derek Meddings & Zoran Perisic - Visual Effects SUPERMAN
Scientific Or Technical
Effective 1978, Class I became Academy Award of Merit, Class II became Scientific and Engineering Award and Class III became Technical Achievement Award.
Academy Award of Merit (Statuette):
Eastman Kodak Company - For the research and development of a Duplicating Color Film for motion pictures.
Stefan Kudelski (Nagra Magnetic Recorders Inc.) - For the continuing research, design and development of the Nagra Production Sound Recorder for motion pictures.
Panavision Inc., Robert E. Gottschalk - Staff Supervisor - For the concept, design and continuous development of the Panaflex Motion Picture Camera System.
Scientific and Engineering Award (Plaque):
 Ray M. Dolby, Ioan R. Allen, David P. Robinson, Stephen M. Katz & Philip S. J. Boole (Dolby Laboratories Inc.) - For the development and implementation of an improved sound recording and reproducing system for motion picture production and exhibition.
Technical Achievement Award (Citation)
 Karl Macher & Glenn M. Berggren (Isco Optische Werke) - For the development and introduction of the Cinelux-ULTRA Lens for 35mm motion picture projection.
David J. Degenkolb, Arthur L. Ford & Fred J. Scobey (DeLuxe General Inc.) - For the development of a method to recycle motion picture laboratory photographic wash waters by ion exchange.
Kiichi Sekiguchi (Cine-Fi International) - For the development of the Cine-Fi Auto Radio Sound System for drive-In theaters.
Leonard Chapman (Leonard Equipment Company) - For the design and manufacture of a small, mobile, motion picture camera platform known as the Chapman Hustler Dolly.
James L. Fisher (J. L. Fisher Inc.) - For the design and manufacture of a small, mobile, motion picture camera platform known as the Fisher
Model Ten Dolly.
Robert Stindt (Production Grip Equipment Company) - For the design and manufacture of a small, mobile, motion picture camera platform known as the Stindt Dolly.
Honorary and Other Awards
Walter Lantz - For bringing joy and laughter to every part of the world through his unique animated motion pictures. Winner presented a Statuette.
Museum of Modern Art Department of Film - For the contribution it has made to the public's perception of movies as an art form. Winner presented a Statuette.
Laurence Olivier - For the full body of his work, for the unique achievements of his entire career and his lifetime of contribution to the art of film. Winner presented a Statuette.
King Vidor - For his incomparable achievements as a cinematic creator and innovator. Winner presented a Statuette.
Linwood G. Dunn, Loren L. Ryder & Waldon O. Watson - Presented in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Winners presented Medals of Commendation.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
No award given for 1978.
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Leo Jaffe
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FIRSTS
· Maggie Smith wins her Oscar® for playing an Oscar® loser.
· Warren Beatty first person to be nominated for Picture, Actor, Director & Screenplay since Orson Welles for Citizen Kane in 1941.
· Laurence Olivier's appearance at the Awards is his first as a nominee since 1939.
· All the nominated songs are performed by the singers who originally peformed them in their respective films.
AND LAST
Autumn Sonata marks the end of Ingrid Bergman's big-screen career.
RULE CHANGES
· Visual Effects reclassified as a "Special Achievement Award."
· The three classes of "Scientific or Technical Awards" reclassified as "Academy Award of Merit," "Scientific and Engineering" and "Technical Achievement" Awards.
SINS OF OMISSION
Picture: Days of Heaven, Interiors
Director: Paul Mazursky - An Unmarried Woman
Actor: Brad Davis - Midnight Express
Supporting Actor: John Belushi - Animal House
Song: "Grease," "You're the One That I Want"
Foreign Film: The Chess Players (India)
ROLE REVERSALS
· Laurence Olivier was nominated for playing a Nazi hunter in The Boys from Brazil. His previous nomination was for playing a Nazi in hiding in Marathon Man.
· The role of the paraplegic vet in Coming Home was offered to Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, and Sylvester Stallone.
· Bruce Dern, who ended up playing the jilted husband, said, "I've been so many tortured vets. I would love to have played the Jon Voight role but no one asked me."
· Kate Jackson and Cary Grant passed on roles in Heaven Can Wait. She was replaced by Julie Christie, he by James Mason.
UNMENTIONABLES
· Nancy Dowd, the writer originally hired by Jane Fonda for what would become Coming Home, had this to say about Waldo Salt's revisions to her screenplay: "I'm ashamed. It is a male supremacist film; men choose between ideas and women choose between men."
· Fonda was seen in 3 major releases in 1978: Coming Home, Comes a Horseman, and California Suite.
· Paramount gave away over 100,000 posters for Heaven Can Wait that featured Warren Beatty standing on a cloud in a sweat suit with angel wings. There was no film title mentioned.
· Woody Allen denied that Interiors imitated Ingmar Bergman, even though Liz Smith said: "If you have always wanted to see a Bergman movie undubbed and performed in English, Interiors seems to be that film (one wouldn't want to call it a mere 'movie')."
· Although his musical experience touring with Leon Russell and Kris Kristofferson was an asset, Gary Busey claimed he won the title role in The Buddy Holly Story because "they finally realized I have the same-sized teeth."
· Despite the critical ballyhoo that praised Terence Malick's artistic impulse and Nestor Almenros' lush cinematography, Days of Heaven failed at the box office.
· Allan Carr, brought in by Universal to consult on the opening of the year's most controversial film, The Deer Hunter, told the studio to scrap its scheduled fall realease and open it for one week only in LA and NYC in December.
· Jane Fonda actively campaigned against The Deer Hunter after the nominations were released, even though she admitted she hadn't seen the film.
· Her dad, Henry, shared her cavalier attitude about seeing all the nominees before marking his ballot. His wife Shirley told Gene Siskel that she had filled out her husband's ballot a number of times.
· Just before presenting the Best Director Award, Ali MacGraw received word that her 8-year-old son was in Malibu Emergency Hospital receiving stitches after a freak accident with a baseball bat. She stood by as co-presenter Francis Ford Coppola launched into a spiel about "digital electronics" and a "communications revolution". When Michael Cimino finished his acceptance speech, MacGraw rushed to the hospital.
· Use this link to view the text of Laurence Olivier's speech accepting his Honorary Award.
· Presenting the Best Actress Award with Richard Dreyfuss, Shirley MacLaine editorialized, "I want to take this opportunity to say how proud I am of my little brother [Warren Beatty]. Just imagine what you could have accomplished if you tried celibacy."
· John Wayne made his last appearance on the Awards show to present the Best Picture Oscar®. He'd arrived at the Chandler early and had remained in a bed backstage until the end of the show. As he walked onstage, he received a standing ovation, and the TV audience saw Laurence Olivier standing up for the Duke. Wayne thanked the audience and said, "Well, Oscar and I have something in common. Oscar first came to the Hollywood scene in 1928 -- so did I. We're both a little weather-beaten but we're still here, and plan to be around a whole lot longer." After Wayne presented the Award to Michael Cimino, host Johnny Carson detained Wayne and told him "a few friends want to say hello." All the presenters and winners, including Jane Fonda, returned to greet the Duke. Sammy Davis Jr. gave him one of his patented hugs and the show was over. John Wayne died two months later.
· After the ceremony, honorary recipient Walter Lantz returned to his car only to find that he had been pick pocketed.
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