Oscar Nominations and Winners (1978)

Best Picture

• Coming Home
• The Deer Hunter
• Heaven Can Wait
• Midnight Express
• An Unmarried Woman

Best Director

• Woody Allen (Interiors)
• Hal Ashby (Coming Home)
• Warren Beatty (Heaven Can Wait)
• Michael Cimino (The Deer Hunter)
• Buck Henry (Heaven Can Wait)
• Alan Parker (Midnight Express)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

• Warren Beatty (Heaven Can Wait)
• Gary Busey (The Buddy Holly Story)
• Robert DeNiro (The Deer Hunter)
• Laurence Olivier (The Boys From Brazil)
• Jon Voight (Coming Home)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Bruce Dern (Coming Home)
• Richard Farnsworth (Comes a Horseman)
• John Hurt (Midnight Express)
• Christopher Walken (The Deer Hunter)
• Jack Warden (Heaven Can Wait)

Best Actress in a Leading Role

• Ingrid Bergman (Autumn Sonata)
• Ellen Burstyn (Same Time, Next Year)
• Jill Clayburgh (An Unmarried Woman)
• Jane Fonda (Coming Home)
• Geraldine Page (Interiors)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Dyan Cannon (Heaven Can Wait)
• Penelope Milford (Coming Home)
• Maggie Smith (California Suite)
• Maureen Stapleton (Interiors)
• Meryl Streep (The Deer Hunter)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Bloodbrothers (Walter Newman)
• California Suite (Neil Simon)
• Heaven Can Wait (Elaine May and Warren Beatty)
• Midnight Express (Oliver Stone)
• Smae Time, Next Year (Bernard Slade)

Best Original Screenplay

• Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman)
• Coming Home (Nacny Dowd, Waldo Salt and Robert C. Jones)
• The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino, Deric Washburn, Louis Garfinkle and Quinn K. Redeker)
• Interiors (Woody Allen)
• An Unmarried Woman (Paul Mazursky)

Best Foreign Language Film

• Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (France)
• The Glass Cell (Gernam Federal Republic)
• Hungarians (Hungary)
• Viva Italia! (Italy)
• White Bim Black Ear (U.S.S.R.)

Art Direction

• The Brink's Job
• California Suite
• Heaven Can Wait
• Interiors
• The Wiz

Cinematography

• Days of Heaven
• The Deer Hunter
• Heaven Can Wait
• Same Time, Next Year
• The Wiz

Costume Design

• Caravans
• Days of Heaven
• Death on the Nile
• The Swarm
• The Wiz

Documentary Feature

• The Lovers' Wind
• Mysterious Castles of Clay
• Raoni
• Scared Straight
• With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade

Documentary Short Subject

• The Divided Trail: A Native American Odyssey
• An Encounter With Faces
• The Flight of the Gossamer Condor
• Goodnight Miss Ann
• Squires of San Quentin

Film Editing

• The Boys From Brazil
• Coming Home
• The Deer Hunter
• Midnight Express
• Superman

Adaptation Score

• The Buddy Holly Story (Joe Renzetti)
• Pretty Baby (Jerry Wexler)
• The Wiz (Quincy Jones)

Original Score

• The Boys From Brazin (Jerry Goldsmith)
• Days of Heaven (Ennio Morricone)
• Heaven Can Wait (Dave Grusin)
• Midnight Express (Giorgio Moroder)
• Superman (John Williams)

Original Song

• "Hopelessly Devoted to You" (Grease) Music and Lyrics by John Farrar.
• "Last Dance" (Thank God It's Friday) Music and Lyrics by Paul Jabara.
• "The Last Time I Felt Like This" (Same Time, Next Year) Music by Marvin Hamlisch. Lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman.
• "Ready to Take a Chance Again" (Foul Play) Music by Charles Fox. Lyrics by Norman Gimbel.
• "When You're Loved" (The Magic of Lassie) Music and Lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman.

Animated Short Film

• Oh My Darling
• Rip Van Winkle
• Special Delivery

Live Action Short Film

• A Different Approach
• Mandy's Grandmother
• Strange Fruit
• Teenage Father

Sound

• The Buddy Holly Story
• Days of Heaven
• The Deer Hunter
• Hooper
• Superman

Visual Effects

• Superman