Best Picture

WINNER

The Deer Hunter: Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino, John Peverall

NOMINEES

Coming Home: Jerome Hellman

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Heaven Can Wait: Warren Beatty

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Midnight Express: Alan Marshall, David Puttnam

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An Unmarried Woman: Paul Mazursky, Anthony Ray

Best Actor in a Leading Role

WINNER

Coming Home: Jon Voight

NOMINEES

Heaven Can Wait: Warren Beatty

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The Buddy Holly Story: Gary Busey

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The Deer Hunter: Robert De Niro

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The Boys from Brazil: Laurence Olivier

Best Actress in a Leading Role

WINNER

Coming Home: Jane Fonda

NOMINEES

Autumn Sonata: Ingrid Bergman

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Same Time, Next Year: Ellen Burstyn

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An Unmarried Woman: Jill Clayburgh

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Interiors: Geraldine Page

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

WINNER

The Deer Hunter: Christopher Walken

NOMINEES

Coming Home: Bruce Dern

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Comes a Horseman: Richard Farnsworth

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Midnight Express: John Hurt

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Heaven Can Wait: Jack Warden

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

WINNER

California Suite: Maggie Smith

NOMINEES

Heaven Can Wait: Dyan Cannon

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Coming Home: Penelope Milford

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Interiors: Maureen Stapleton

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The Deer Hunter: Meryl Streep

Best Director

WINNER

The Deer Hunter: Michael Cimino

NOMINEES

Interiors: Woody Allen

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Coming Home: Hal Ashby

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Heaven Can Wait: Warren Beatty, Buck Henry

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Midnight Express: Alan Parker

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

WINNER

Coming Home: Nancy Dowd (story), Waldo Salt (screenplay), Robert C. Jones (screenplay)

NOMINEES

Autumn Sonata: Ingmar Bergman

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The Deer Hunter: Michael Cimino (story), Deric Washburn (screenplay/story), Louis Garfinkle (story), Quinn K. Redeker (story)

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Interiors: Woody Allen

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An Unmarried Woman: Paul Mazursky

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium

WINNER

Midnight Express: Oliver Stone

NOMINEES

Bloodbrothers: Walter Newman

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California Suite: Neil Simon

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Heaven Can Wait: Elaine May, Warren Beatty

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Same Time, Next Year: Bernard Slade

Best Cinematography

WINNER

Days of Heaven: Néstor Almendros

NOMINEES

The Deer Hunter: Vilmos Zsigmond

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Heaven Can Wait: William A. Fraker

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Same Time, Next Year: Robert Surtees

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The Wiz: Oswald Morris

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration

WINNER

Heaven Can Wait: Paul Sylbert, Edwin O'Donovan, George Gaines

NOMINEES

The Brink's Job: Dean Tavoularis, Angelo P. Graham, George R. Nelson

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California Suite: Albert Brenner, Marvin March

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Interiors: Mel Bourne, Daniel Robert

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The Wiz: Tony Walton, Philip Rosenberg, Edward Stewart, Robert Drumheller

Best Costume Design

WINNER

Death on the Nile: Anthony Powell

NOMINEES

Caravans: Renié

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Days of Heaven: Patricia Norris

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The Swarm: Paul Zastupnevich

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The Wiz: Tony Walton

Best Sound

WINNER

The Deer Hunter: Richard Portman, William L. McCaughey, Aaron Rochin, C. Darin Knight

NOMINEES

The Buddy Holly Story: Tex Rudloff, Joel Fein, Curly Thirlwell, Willie D. Burton

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Days of Heaven: John Wilkinson, Robert W. Glass Jr., John T. Reitz, Barry Thomas

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Hooper: Robert Knudson, Robert Glass, Don MacDougall, Jack Solomon

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Superman: Gordon K. McCallum, Graham V. Hartstone, Nicolas Le Messurier, Roy Charman

Best Film Editing

WINNER

The Deer Hunter: Peter Zinner

NOMINEES

The Boys from Brazil: Robert Swink

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Coming Home: Don Zimmerman

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Midnight Express: Gerry Hambling

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Superman: Stuart Baird

Best Music, Original Song

WINNER

Thank God It's Friday: Paul Jabara
For the song "Last Dance"

NOMINEES

Grease: John Farrar
For the song "Hopelessly Devoted to You"

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Same Time, Next Year: Marvin Hamlisch (music), Alan Bergman (lyrics), Marilyn Bergman (lyrics)
For the song "The Last Time I Felt Like This"

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Foul Play: Charles Fox (music), Norman Gimbel (lyrics)
For the song "Ready to Take a Chance Again"

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The Magic of Lassie: Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman
For the song "When You're Loved"

Best Music, Original Score

WINNER

Midnight Express: Giorgio Moroder

NOMINEES

The Boys from Brazil: Jerry Goldsmith

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Days of Heaven: Ennio Morricone

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Heaven Can Wait: Dave Grusin

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Superman: John Williams

Best Music, Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score

WINNER

The Buddy Holly Story: Joe Renzetti

NOMINEES

Pretty Baby: Jerry Wexler

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The Wiz: Quincy Jones

Best Short Film, Animated

WINNER

Special Delivery: Eunice Macaulay, John Weldon

NOMINEES

Oh My Darling: Nico Crama

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Rip Van Winkle: Will Vinton

Best Short Film, Live Action

WINNER

Teenage Father: Taylor Hackford

NOMINEES

A Different Approach: Jim Belcher, Fern Field

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Mandy's Grandmother: Andrew Sugerman

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Strange Fruit: Seth Pinsker

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

WINNER

The Flight of the Gossamer Condor: Jacqueline Phillips Shedd, Ben Shedd

NOMINEES

The Divided Trail: A Native American Odyssey: Jerry Aronson

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An Encounter with Faces: K.K. Kapil

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Goodnight Miss Ann: August Cinquegrana

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Squires of San Quentin: J. Gary Mitchell

Best Documentary, Features

WINNER

Scared Straight!: Arnold Shapiro

NOMINEES

Le vent des amoureux: Albert Lamorisse

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Mysterious Castles of Clay: Alan Root

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Raoni: Jean-Pierre Dutilleux, Barry Hugh Williams, Michel Gast

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With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade: Anne Bohlen, Lyn Goldfarb, Lorraine Gray

Best Foreign Language Film

WINNER

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
France.

NOMINEES

Die gläserne Zelle
West Germany.

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Magyarok
Hungary.

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Viva Italia!
Italy.

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Belyy Bim - Chyornoe ukho
Soviet Union.

WINNER

Superman: Les Bowie, Colin Chilvers, Denys N. Coop, Roy Field, Derek Meddings, Zoran Perisic
For visual effects.

WINNERS

Walter Lantz
For bringing joy and laughter to every part of the world through his unique animated motion pictures.

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(Museum of Modern Art, Dept. of Film)
For the contribution it has made to the public's perception of movies as an art form.

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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.

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King Vidor
For his incomparable achievements as a cinematic creator and innovator.

WINNER

Linwood G. Dunn, Loren L. Ryder, Waldon O. Watson
In appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

WINNER

Leo Jaffe

WINNERS

(Eastman Kodak Co.)
For the research and development of a Duplicating Color Film for Motion Pictures.

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Stefan Kudelski (Nagra Magnetic Recorders, Inc.)
For the continuing research, design and development of the Nagra Production Sound Recorder for Motion Pictures.

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(Panavision, Inc. and its engineering staff under the direction of Robert E. Gottschalk)
For the concept, design, and continuous development of the Panaflex Motion Picture Camera System.

WINNER

Ray M. Dolby (Dolby Laboratories, Inc.), Ioan R. Allen (Dolby Laboratories, Inc.), David P. Robinson (Dolby Laboratories, Inc.), Stephen Katz (Dolby Laboratories, Inc.), Phillip 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.

WINNERS

Karl Macher (Isco Optische Werke), Glenn M. Berggren (Isco Optische Werke)
For the development and introduction of the Cinelux-ULTRA Lens for 35mm Motion Picture Projection.

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David J. Degenkolb (DeLuxe General, Inc.), Arthur L. Forde (DeLuxe General, Inc.), Fred J. Scobey (DeLuxe General, Inc.)
For the development of a Method to Recycle Motion Picture Laboratory Photographic Wash Waters by Ion Exchange.

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Kiichi Sekiguchi (CINE-FI Int'l)
For the development of the CINE-FI Auto Radio Sound System for Drive-In Theaters.

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Leonard Chapman (Leonard Equipment Company)
For the design and manufacture of a small, mobile, motion picture camera platform known as the Chapman Hustler Dolly.

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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.

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Robert Stindt (Production Grip Equipment Company)
For the design and manufacture of a small, mobile, motion picture camera platform known as the Stindt Dolly.