Academy Awards

annual awards for cinematic achievements

Since 1929 99 editions in the catalogue Official site

1979 edition

• Special Achievement Academy Award

  🏆 Colin Chilvers

  🏆 Denys Coop

  🏆 Derek Meddings

  🏆 Les Bowie

  🏆 Roy Field

  🏆 Zoran Perisic

• Academy Award for Best Picture

  🏆 Barry Spikings

  🏆 John Peverall

  🏆 Michael Cimino

  🏆 Michael Deeley

  For the film: The Deer Hunter

  Also nominated: Alan Marshall · Anthony Ray · An Unmarried Woman · Coming Home · David Puttnam · Jerome Hellman · Heaven Can Wait · Midnight Express · Paul Mazursky · Warren Beatty

• Academy Award for Best Sound

  🏆 Aaron Rochin

  🏆 Darin Knight

  🏆 Richard Portman

  🏆 William McCaughey

  For the film: The Deer Hunter

  Also nominated: Barry Thomas · Curly Thirlwell · Days of Heaven · Don MacDougall · Gordon McCallum · Graham V. Hartstone · Hooper · Jack Solomon · Joel Fein · John T. Reitz · John Wilkinson · Nicolas Le Messurier · Robert Glass · Robert Knudson · Robert W. Glass Jr. · Roy Charman · Superman · Tex Rudloff · The Buddy Holly Story · Willie D. Burton

• Academy Award for Best Production Design

  🏆 Edwin O'Donovan

  🏆 George Gaines

  🏆 Paul Sylbert

  For the film: Heaven Can Wait

  Also nominated: Albert Brenner · Angelo P. Graham · Bruce Kay · California Suite · Daniel Robert · Dean Tavoularis · Edward Stewart · George R. Nelson · Interiors · Marvin March · Mel Bourne · Philip Rosenberg · Robert Drumheller · The Brink's Job · The Wiz · Tony Walton

• Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

  🏆 Eunice Macaulay

  🏆 John Weldon

  For the film: Special Delivery

  Also nominated: Nico Crama · Oh My Darling · Rip Van Winkle · Will Vinton

• Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)

  🏆 Ben Shedd

  🏆 Jacqueline Phillips Shedd

  For the film: The Flight of the Gossamer Condor

  Also nominated: An Encounter with Faces · August Cinquegrana · Goodnight Miss Ann · Jerry Aronson · J. Gary Mitchell · K.K. Kapil · Squires of San Quentin · The Divided Trail: A Native American Odyssey

• Academy Award for Best Original Score

  🏆 Giorgio Moroder

  🏆 Midnight Express

  For the film: Midnight Express

  Also nominated: Dave Grusin · Days of Heaven · Ennio Morricone · Jerry Goldsmith · John Williams · Heaven Can Wait · Superman · The Boys from Brazil

• Academy Award for Best Cinematography

  🏆 Néstor Almendros

  For the film: Days of Heaven

  Also nominated: Heaven Can Wait · Oswald Morris · Robert Surtees · Same Time, Next Year · The Deer Hunter · The Wiz · Vilmos Zsigmond · William A. Fraker

• Academy Award for Best Costume Design

  🏆 Anthony Powell

  For the film: Death on the Nile

  Also nominated: Caravans · Days of Heaven · Patricia Norris · Paul Zastupnevich · Renié · The Swarm · The Wiz · Tony Walton

• Academy Award for Best Director

  🏆 Michael Cimino

  For the film: The Deer Hunter

  Also nominated: Alan Parker · Buck Henry · Coming Home · Hal Ashby · Interiors · Heaven Can Wait · Midnight Express · Warren Beatty · Woody Allen

• Academy Award for Best Film Editing

  🏆 Peter Zinner

  For the film: The Deer Hunter

  Also nominated: Coming Home · Don Zimmerman · Gerry Hambling · Midnight Express · Robert Swink · Stuart Baird · Superman · The Boys from Brazil

• Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film

  🏆 Taylor Hackford

  For the film: Teenage Father

  Also nominated: A Different Approach · Andrew Sugerman · Fern Field · Jim Belcher · Mandy's Grandmother · Seth Pinsker · Strange Fruit

• Academy Award for Best Original Song Score

  🏆 Joe Renzetti

  For the film: The Buddy Holly Story

  Also nominated: Jerry Wexler · Pretty Baby · Quincy Jones · The Wiz

• Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

  🏆 Christopher Walken

  For the film: The Deer Hunter

  Also nominated: Bruce Dern · Comes a Horseman · Coming Home · Jack Warden · John Hurt · Heaven Can Wait · Midnight Express · Richard Farnsworth

• Academy Award for Technical Achievement

  🏆 James L. Fisher

  🏆 Leonard T. Chapman

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