Academy Awards

annual awards for cinematic achievements

Since 1929 99 editions in the catalogue Official site

1978 edition

Academy Award for Best Visual Effects

Grant McCune

John Dykstra

John Stears

Richard Edlund

Robert Blalack

For the film: Star Wars

Also nominated: Close Encounters of the Third Kind · Douglas Trumbull · Greg Jein · Matthew Yuricich · Richard Yuricich · Roy Arbogast
Academy Award for Best Production Design

John Barry

Leslie Dilley

Norman Reynolds

Roger Christian

For the film: Star Wars

Also nominated: Airport '77 · Albert Brenner · Close Encounters of the Third Kind · Daniel A. Lomino · George C. Webb · Hugh Scaife · Joe Alves · Ken Adam · Marvin March · Mickey S. Michaels · Peter Lamont · Phil Abramson · The Spy Who Loved Me · The Turning Point
Academy Award for Best Sound

Bob Minkler

Derek Ball

Don MacDougall

Ray West

For the film: Star Wars

Also nominated: Close Encounters of the Third Kind · Dick Alexander · Douglas Williams · Gene Cantamessa · Jean-Louis Ducarme · Jerry Jost · Sorcerer · Paul Wells · Richard Tyler · Robert Glass · Robert Knudson · Robin Gregory · The Deep · Theodore Soderberg · The Turning Point · Tom Beckert · Walter Goss
Academy Award for Best Film Editing

Marcia Lucas

Paul Hirsch

Richard Chew

For the film: Star Wars

Also nominated: Angelo Ross · Close Encounters of the Third Kind · Julia · Marcel Durham · Michael Kahn · Smokey and the Bandit · The Turning Point · Walter Hannemann · Walter Murch · William Reynolds
Academy Scientific and Technical Award

Alvah J. Miller

Jerry Jeffress

Ray Dolby

William R. Latady
Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film

Beverly Shaffer

I'll Find a Way

Yuki Yoshida

Also nominated: Floating Free · Jerry Butts · Notes on the Popular Arts · Philip Dauber · Saul Bass · Spaceborne · The Absent-Minded Waiter · William E. McEuen
Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

Co Hoedeman

For the film: The Sand Castle

Also nominated: A Doonesbury Special · The Bead Game · Craig Whitaker · Faith Hubley · Garry Trudeau · Ishu Patel · Jimmy Picker · Jimmy the C · John Hubley
Academy Award for Best Cinematography

Vilmos Zsigmond

For the film: Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Also nominated: Islands in the Stream · Douglas Slocombe · Fred J. Koenekamp · Julia · Looking for Mr. Goodbar · Robert Surtees · The Turning Point · William A. Fraker
Academy Award for Best Costume Design

John Mollo

For the film: Star Wars

Also nominated: Airport '77 · A Little Night Music · Anthea Sylbert · Burton Miller · Edith Head · Florence Klotz · Irene Sharaff · Julia · The Other Side of Midnight
Academy Award for Best Director

Woody Allen

For the film: Annie Hall

Also nominated: Close Encounters of the Third Kind · Fred Zinnemann · George Lucas · Herbert Ross · Julia · Star Wars · Steven Spielberg · The Turning Point
Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)

Gravity Is My Enemy

John C. Joseph

Also nominated: Agueda Martinez: Our People, Our Country · DeWitt Sage · Douglas Gordon · First Edition · Helen Whitney · James R. Messenger · Moctesuma Esparza · Of Time, Tombs and Treasures · Paul Raimondi · The Shetland Experience
Academy Award for Best Original Score

John Williams

For the film: Star Wars

Also nominated: The Message · Close Encounters of the Third Kind · Georges Delerue · Julia · Marvin Hamlisch · Maurice Jarre · The Spy Who Loved Me
Academy Award for Best Original Song Score

Jonathan Tunick

For the film: A Little Night Music

Also nominated: Al Kasha · Irwin Kostal · Joel Hirschhorn · Pete's Dragon · Richard M. Sherman · Robert B. Sherman · The Slipper and the Rose
Academy Award for Best Picture

Charles H. Joffe

For the film: Annie Hall

Also nominated: Arthur Laurents · Gary Kurtz · Herbert Ross · Julia · Ray Stark · Richard Roth · Star Wars · The Goodbye Girl · The Turning Point
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Jason Robards

For the film: Julia

Also nominated: Alec Guinness · Equus · Maximilian Schell · Mikhail Baryshnikov · Peter Firth · Star Wars · The Turning Point
Special Achievement Academy Award

Ben Burtt

Frank Warner