1979 awards

Academy Award for Best Picture

Winner The Deer HunterBarry Spikings, Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino, John Peverall

Academy Award for Best Director

Winner The Deer HunterMichael Cimino

Academy Award for Best Actor

Winner Coming HomeJon Voight

Academy Award for Best Actress

Winner Coming HomeJane Fonda

Golden Globe Awards

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Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama

Winner Midnight Express

Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy

Winner Heaven Can Wait

Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama

Winner Coming HomeJon Voight Winner Heaven Can WaitWarren Beatty

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama

Winner Coming HomeJane Fonda Winner Same Time, Next YearEllen Burstyn Winner California SuiteMaggie Smith

BAFTA Award for Best Film

Winner JuliaFred Zinnemann

BAFTA Award for Best Direction

Winner Midnight ExpressAlan Parker

BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role

Winner The Goodbye GirlRichard Dreyfuss

BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role

Winner JuliaJane Fonda

Main competition

Winner Francoise Sagan

Winner Sergio Amidei

Winner Rodolphe-Maurice Arlaud

Winner Luis García Berlanga

Winner Maurice Bessy

Winner Paul Claudon

Winner Jules Dassin

Winner Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács

Winner Robert Rozhdestvensky

Winner Susannah York

Winner Apocalypse NowFrancis Ford Coppola Winner The Tin DrumVolker Schlöndorff

Grand Prix

Winner SiberiadeAndrei Konchalovsky

Best Director

Winner Days of HeavenTerrence Malick

Best Actress

Winner Norma RaeSally Field

FIPRESCI Prize

Honorable Mention

Best Film

Pasinetti Award

Winner Осенний марафонGeorgiy Daneliya Winner Saint JackPeter Bogdanovich

Golden Bear

Silver Bear

Winner Alexandria... Why?Silver Bear – Special Jury Prize, Youssef Chahine

Winner The Marriage of Maria BraunRainer Werner Fassbinder

Silver Bear for Best Director

Winner Winterborn

Silver Bear for Best Actress

Winner The Marriage of Maria Braun

Golden Horse Award for Best Feature Film

Winner The Story of a Small Town

Golden Horse Award for Best Documentary

Best Animation – Runner Up

Golden Horse Award for Best Director

Winner Legend of the MountainKing Hu

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Miniseries

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie

Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

Winner The IncidentShinobu Otake

Japan Academy Film Prize

Winner 愛の亡霊Kazuko Yoshiyuki

César Award for Best Documentary Short Film

Honorary César

César Award for Best Original Screenplay or Adaptation

César Award for Best Supporting Actor

Winner Robert et RobertJacques Villeret

Baeksang Arts Award for Best New Actress - Film

Winner Portrait of a RockLee In Ok

Baeksang Arts Award for Best Director – Television

Baeksang Arts Award for Best New Actress – Television

David di Donatello for Best Film

Winner Christ Stopped at Eboli Winner The Tree of Wooden ClogsErmanno Olmi

David di Donatello Luchino Visconti

David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actor

Winner Days of HeavenRichard Gere

David di Donatello for Best Director

Winner Christ Stopped at Eboli

German Film Award for Best Actress

Winner The Marriage of Maria Braun

German Film Award for Best Feature Film

German Film Award

Filmband in Gold

Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay

Winner Coming HomeWaldo Salt, Robert C. Jones, Nancy Dowd

Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay

Winner Movie MovieLarry Gelbart, Sheldon Keller

Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

Winner Midnight ExpressOliver Stone, book, Billy Hayes

Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

Winner Heaven Can WaitElaine May, Warren Beatty, Harry Segall

Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film

Winner Superman

Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film

Winner Heaven Can Wait

Saturn Award for Best Horror Film

Winner The Wicker Man

Saturn Award for Best Actor on Television

Winner Heaven Can WaitWarren Beatty