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The 51st Academy Awards|1979

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2 Nominations

Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) - Ingmar Bergman

Actress in a Leading Role - Ingrid Bergman in "Autumn Sonata"

1 Nomination

Writing (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) - Walter Newman

3 Nominations

Music (Original Score) - Jerry Goldsmith

Actor in a Leading Role - Laurence Olivier in "The Boys from Brazil"

Film Editing - Robert E. Swink

1 Nomination

Art Direction - Art Direction: Dean Tavoularis, Angelo Graham; Set Decoration: George R. Nelson, Bruce Kay

3 Nominations, 1 Win

Actor in a Leading Role - Gary Busey in "The Buddy Holly Story"

Sound - Tex Rudloff, Joel Fein, Curly Thirlwell, Willie Burton

* Music (Adaptation Score) - Joe Renzetti

3 Nominations, 1 Win

Art Direction - Art Direction: Albert Brenner; Set Decoration: Marvin March

Writing (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) - Neil Simon

* Actress in a Supporting Role - Maggie Smith in "California Suite"

1 Nomination

Costume Design - Renie Conley

1 Nomination

Actor in a Supporting Role - Richard Farnsworth in "Comes a Horseman"

8 Nominations, 3 Wins

Actor in a Supporting Role - Bruce Dern in "Coming Home"

Film Editing - Don Zimmerman

Best Picture - Jerome Hellman, Producer

Actress in a Supporting Role - Penelope Milford in "Coming Home"

* Actress in a Leading Role - Jane Fonda in "Coming Home"

* Actor in a Leading Role - Jon Voight in "Coming Home"

* Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) - Story by Nancy Dowd; Screenplay by Waldo Salt, Robert C. Jones

4 Nominations, 1 Win

Music (Original Score) - Ennio Morricone

Sound - John K. Wilkinson, Robert W. Glass, Jr., John T. Reitz, Barry Thomas

Costume Design - Patricia Norris

* Cinematography - Nestor Almendros

1 Win, 1 Nomination

* Costume Design - Anthony Powell

9 Nominations, 5 Wins

* Best Picture - Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino and John Peverall, Producers

* Actor in a Supporting Role - Christopher Walken in "The Deer Hunter"

* Directing - Michael Cimino

* Film Editing - Peter Zinner

* Sound - Richard Portman, William McCaughey, Aaron Rochin, Darin Knight

Actress in a Supporting Role - Meryl Streep in "The Deer Hunter"

Actor in a Leading Role - Robert De Niro in "The Deer Hunter"

Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) - Story by Michael Cimino, Deric Washburn, Louis Garfinkle, Quinn K. Redeker; Screenplay by Deric Washburn

Cinematography - Vilmos Zsigmond

1 Nomination

Short Film (Live Action) - Jim Belcher and Fern Field, Producers

1 Nomination

Documentary (Short Subject) - Jerry Aronson, Producer

1 Nomination

Documentary (Short Subject) - K.K. Kapil, Producer

1 Win, 1 Nomination

* Documentary (Short Subject) - Jacqueline Phillips Shedd and Ben Shedd, Producers

1 Nomination

Music (Original Song) - Ready To Take A Chance Again in "Foul Play" Music by Charles Fox; Lyrics by Norman Gimbel

1 Win, 1 Nomination

* Foreign Language Film - France

1 Nomination

Foreign Language Film - German Federal Republic

1 Nomination

Documentary (Short Subject) - August Cinquegrana, Producer

1 Nomination

Music (Original Song) - Hopelessly Devoted To You in "Grease" Music and Lyrics by John Farrar

9 Nominations, 1 Win

* Art Direction - Art Direction: Paul Sylbert, Edwin O'Donovan; Set Decoration: George Gaines

Music (Original Score) - Dave Grusin

Actress in a Supporting Role - Dyan Cannon in "Heaven Can Wait"

Writing (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) - Elaine May, Warren Beatty

Actor in a Supporting Role - Jack Warden in "Heaven Can Wait"

Actor in a Leading Role - Warren Beatty in "Heaven Can Wait"

Directing - Warren Beatty, Buck Henry

Best Picture - Warren Beatty, Producer

Cinematography - William A. Fraker

1 Nomination

Sound - Robert Knudson, Robert J. Glass, Don MacDougall, Jack Solomon

1 Nomination

Foreign Language Film - Hungary

5 Nominations

Art Direction - Art Direction: Mel Bourne; Set Decoration: Daniel Robert

Actress in a Leading Role - Geraldine Page in "Interiors"

Actress in a Supporting Role - Maureen Stapleton in "Interiors"

Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) - Woody Allen

1 Nomination

Documentary (Feature) - Albert Lamorisse, Producer

1 Nomination

Music (Original Song) - When You're Loved in "The Magic of Lassie" Music and Lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman

1 Nomination

Short Film (Live Action) - Andrew Sugerman, Producer

6 Nominations, 2 Wins

Best Picture - Alan Marshall and David Puttnam, Producers

Film Editing - Gerry Hambling

Actor in a Supporting Role - John Hurt in "Midnight Express"

* Music (Original Score) - Giorgio Moroder

* Writing (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) - Oliver Stone

1 Nomination

Documentary (Feature) - Alan Root, Producer

1 Nomination

Short Film (Animated) - Nico Crama, Producer

1 Nomination

Music (Adaptation Score) - Jerry Wexler

1 Nomination

Documentary (Feature) - Jean-Pierre Dutilleux, Barry Williams and Michel Gast, Producers

1 Nomination

Short Film (Animated) - Will Vinton, Producer

4 Nominations

Writing (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) - Bernard Slade

Actress in a Leading Role - Ellen Burstyn in "Same Time, Next Year"

Cinematography - Robert Surtees

Music (Original Song) - The Last Time I Felt Like This in "Same Time, Next Year" Music by Marvin Hamlisch; Lyrics by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman

1 Win, 1 Nomination

* Documentary (Feature) - Arnold Shapiro, Producer

1 Win, 1 Nomination

* Short Film (Animated) - Eunice Macaulay and John Weldon, Producers

1 Nomination

Documentary (Short Subject) - J. Gary Mitchell, Producer

1 Nomination

Short Film (Live Action) - Seth Pinsker, Producer

4 Nominations, 1 Win

Sound - Gordon K. McCallum, Graham Hartstone, Nicolas Le Messurier, Roy Charman

Music (Original Score) - John Williams

Film Editing - Stuart Baird

* Special Achievement Award (Visual Effects) - Les Bowie, Colin Chilvers, Denys Coop, Roy Field, Derek Meddings, Zoran Perisic

1 Nomination

Costume Design - Paul Zastupnevich

1 Win, 1 Nomination

* Short Film (Live Action) - Taylor Hackford, Producer

1 Win, 1 Nomination

* Music (Original Song) - Last Dance in "Thank God It's Friday" Music and Lyrics by Paul Jabara

3 Nominations

Actress in a Leading Role - Jill Clayburgh in "An Unmarried Woman"

Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) - Paul Mazursky

Best Picture - Paul Mazursky and Tony Ray, Producers

1 Nomination

Foreign Language Film - Italy

1 Nomination

Foreign Language Film - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

1 Nomination

Documentary (Feature) - Anne Bohlen, Lyn Goldfarb and Lorraine Gray, Producers

4 Nominations

Art Direction - Art Direction: Tony Walton, Philip Rosenberg; Set Decoration: Edward Stewart, Robert Drumheller

Cinematography - Oswald Morris

Music (Adaptation Score) - Quincy Jones

Costume Design - Tony Walton