51st Academy Awards

51st Academy Awards

Infobox Academy Awards
name = 51st
caption = "The Deer Hunter"
date = Monday, April 9, 1979
site = Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles
host = Johnny Carson
producer = Jack Haley, Jr.
director = Marty Pasetta
duration = 3 hours, 25 minutes
network = ABC
last = 50th
next = 52nd
The 51st Academy Awards were presented April 9, 1979 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Johnny Carson.

Winners & Nominees

Best Picture

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

Best Director

"The Deer Hunter - Michael Cimino"
*"Coming Home - Hal Ashby"
*"Heaven Can Wait - Warren Beatty and Buck Henry"
*"Interiors - Woody Allen"
*"Midnight Express - Alan Parker"

Best Actor in a Leading Role

"Coming Home - Jon Voight"
*"The Boys from Brazil - Laurence Olivier"
*"The Buddy Holly Story - Gary Busey"
*"The Deer Hunter - Robert De Niro"
*"Heaven Can Wait - Warren Beatty"

Best Actress in a Leading Role

"Coming Home - Jane Fonda"
*"Autumn Sonata - Ingrid Bergman"
*"Interiors - Geraldine Page"
*"Same Time, Next Year - Ellen Burstyn"
*"An Unmarried Woman - Jill Clayburgh"

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

"The Deer Hunter - Christopher Walken"
*"Comes a Horseman - Richard Farnsworth"
*"Coming Home - Bruce Dern"
*"Heaven Can Wait - Jack Warden"
*"Midnight Express - John Hurt"

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

"California Suite - Maggie Smith"
*"Coming Home - Penelope Milford"
*"The Deer Hunter - Meryl Streep"
*"Heaven Can Wait - Dyan Cannon"
*"Interiors - Maureen Stapleton"

Best Original Screenplay

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

Best Adapted Screenplay

"Midnight Express - Oliver Stone"
*"Bloodbrothers - Walter Newman"
*"California Suite - Neil Simon"
*"Heaven Can Wait - Elaine May and Warren Beatty"
*"Same Time, Next Year - Bernard Slade"

Best Cinematography

"Days of Heaven - Nestor Almendros"

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration

"Heaven Can Wait - Paul Sylbert , Edwin O'Donovan and George Gaines"

Best Costume Design

"Death on the Nile - Anthony Powell"

Best Sound

"The Deer Hunter - Richard Portman , William L. McCaughey , Aaron Rochin and C. Darin Knight"

Best Film Editing

"The Deer Hunter - Peter Zinner"

Best Music, Original Song

"Thank God It's Friday - Paul Jabara for the song Last Dance"

Best Music, Original Score

"Midnight Express - Giorgio Moroder"

Best Music, Original Song Score and Its Adaptation

"The Buddy Holly Story - Joe Renzetti"

Best Short Film, Animated

"Special Delivery"

Best Short Film, Live Action

"Teenage Father"

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

"The Flight of the Gossamer Condor"

Best Documentary, Features

"Scared Straight!"

Best Foreign Language Film

"Get Out Your Handkerchiefs"

Other Awards

Notable Events

A ravaged John Wayne, who would die of stomach cancer two months later, made his final public appearance to present the Best Picture Oscar to the producers of "The Deer Hunter".


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