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    Oscar

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    Best Actor in a Leading Role

    • Jon Voight at an event for The 66th Primetime Emmy Awards (2014)
      Winner
      • Jon Voight
      • Coming Home
    • Warren Beatty
      • Warren Beatty
      • Heaven Can Wait
    • Gary Busey at an event for The Queen (2006)
      • Gary Busey
      • The Buddy Holly Story
    • Robert De Niro at an event for A Single Man (2009)
      • Robert De Niro
      • The Deer Hunter
    • Laurence Olivier
      • Laurence Olivier
      • The Boys from Brazil

    Best Actor in a Supporting Role

    • Christopher Walken at an event for Wedding Crashers (2005)
      Winner
      • Christopher Walken
      • The Deer Hunter
    • Bruce Dern at an event for All the Pretty Horses (2000)
      • Bruce Dern
      • Coming Home
    • Richard Farnsworth
      • Richard Farnsworth
      • Comes a Horseman
    • John Hurt
      • John Hurt
      • Midnight Express
    • Jack Warden at an event for The Twilight Zone (1959)
      • Jack Warden
      • Heaven Can Wait

    Best Actress in a Leading Role

    • Jane Fonda at an event for U (2006)
      Winner
      • Jane Fonda
      • Coming Home
    • Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca (1942)
      • Ingrid Bergman
      • Autumn Sonata
    • Ellen Burstyn at an event for Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)
      • Ellen Burstyn
      • Same Time, Next Year
    • Jill Clayburgh
      • Jill Clayburgh
      • An Unmarried Woman
    • Geraldine Page in The Trip to Bountiful (1985)
      • Geraldine Page
      • Interiors

    Best Actress in a Supporting Role

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

    Best Art Direction-Set Decoration

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Heaven Can Wait

      6.9 (25K)
      Paul Sylbert
      Edwin O'Donovan
      George Gaines
    • [object Object]

      The Brink's Job

      6.5 (3.8K)
      Dean Tavoularis
      Angelo P. Graham
      George R. Nelson
    • [object Object]

      California Suite

      6.2 (8.8K)
      Albert Brenner
      Marvin March
    • [object Object]

      Interiors

      7.3 (22K)
      Mel Bourne
      Daniel Robert
    • [object Object]

      The Wiz

      5.6 (19K)
      Tony Walton
      Philip Rosenberg
      Edward Stewart
      Robert Drumheller

    Best Cinematography

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Days of Heaven

      7.7 (67K)
      Néstor Almendros
    • [object Object]

      The Deer Hunter

      8.1 (379K)
      Vilmos Zsigmond
    • [object Object]

      Heaven Can Wait

      6.9 (25K)
      William A. Fraker
    • [object Object]

      Same Time, Next Year

      7.2 (7.1K)
      Robert Surtees
    • [object Object]

      The Wiz

      5.6 (19K)
      Oswald Morris

    Best Costume Design

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Death on the Nile

      7.3 (43K)
      Anthony Powell
    • [object Object]

      Caravans

      5.9 (1.2K)
      Renié
    • [object Object]

      Days of Heaven

      7.7 (67K)
      Patricia Norris
    • [object Object]

      The Swarm

      4.5 (9.1K)
      Paul Zastupnevich
    • [object Object]

      The Wiz

      5.6 (19K)
      Tony Walton

    Best Director

    • Michael Cimino in Desperate Hours (1990)
      Winner
      • Michael Cimino
      • The Deer Hunter
    • Woody Allen at an event for Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
      • Woody Allen
      • Interiors
    • Hal Ashby in Bound for Glory (1976)
      • Hal Ashby
      • Coming Home
    • Warren Beatty
      Buck Henry
      • Warren Beatty
      • Buck Henry
      • Heaven Can Wait
    • Alan Parker in The Life of David Gale (2003)
      • Alan Parker
      • Midnight Express

    Best Documentary, Features

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Scared Straight!

      7.7 (882)
      Arnold Shapiro
    • [object Object]

      The Lovers' Wind

      8.2 (356)
      Albert Lamorisse
      Posthumously.
    • Mysterious Castles of Clay

      7.9 (94)
      Alan Root
    • [object Object]

      Raoni

      6.6 (104)
      Jean-Pierre Dutilleux
      Barry Hugh Williams
      Michel Gast
    • [object Object]

      With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade

      7.0 (82)
      Anne Bohlen
      Lyn Goldfarb
      Lorraine Gray

    Best Documentary, Short Subjects

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Flight of the Gossamer Condor

      6.8 (82)
      Jacqueline Phillips
      Ben Shedd
    • [object Object]

      The Divided Trail: A Native American Odyssey

      6.8 (39)
      Jerry Aronson
    • [object Object]

      An Encounter with Faces

      7.2 (65)
      K.K. Kapil
    • Goodnight Miss Ann

      August Cinquegrana
    • [object Object]

      Squires of San Quentin

      7.3 (14)
      J. Gary Mitchell

    Best Film Editing

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Deer Hunter

      8.1 (379K)
      Peter Zinner
    • [object Object]

      The Boys from Brazil

      7.0 (33K)
      Robert Swink
    • [object Object]

      Coming Home

      7.3 (16K)
      Don Zimmerman
    • [object Object]

      Midnight Express

      7.5 (92K)
      Gerry Hambling
    • [object Object]

      Superman

      7.4 (203K)
      Stuart Baird

    Best Foreign Language Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Get Out Your Handkerchiefs

      6.9 (4.6K)
      France.
    • [object Object]

      The Glass Cell

      6.6 (316)
      West Germany.
    • [object Object]

      Hungarians

      6.9 (431)
      Hungary.
    • [object Object]

      Viva Italia!

      7.0 (2.3K)
      Italy.
    • [object Object]

      White Bim Black Ear

      8.0 (2.6K)
      Soviet Union.

    Best Music, Original Score

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Midnight Express

      7.5 (92K)
      Giorgio Moroder
    • [object Object]

      The Boys from Brazil

      7.0 (33K)
      Jerry Goldsmith
    • [object Object]

      Days of Heaven

      7.7 (67K)
      Ennio Morricone
    • [object Object]

      Heaven Can Wait

      6.9 (25K)
      Dave Grusin
    • [object Object]

      Superman

      7.4 (203K)
      John Williams

    Best Music, Original Song

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Thank God It's Friday

      5.5 (3.4K)
      Paul Jabara
      For the song "Last Dance"
    • [object Object]

      Grease

      7.2 (318K)
      John Farrar
      For the song "Hopelessly Devoted to You"
    • [object Object]

      Same Time, Next Year

      7.2 (7.1K)
      Marvin Hamlisch(music)
      Alan Bergman(lyrics)
      Marilyn Bergman(lyrics)
      For the song "The Last Time I Felt Like This"
    • [object Object]

      Foul Play

      6.8 (18K)
      Charles Fox(music)
      Norman Gimbel(lyrics)
      For the song "Ready to Take a Chance Again"
    • [object Object]

      The Magic of Lassie

      5.5 (706)
      Richard M. Sherman
      Robert B. Sherman
      For the song "When You're Loved"

    Best Music, Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Buddy Holly Story

      7.2 (10K)
      Joe Renzetti
    • [object Object]

      Pretty Baby

      6.5 (14K)
      Jerry Wexler
    • [object Object]

      The Wiz

      5.6 (19K)
      Quincy Jones

    Best Picture

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Deer Hunter

      8.1 (379K)
      Barry Spikings
      Michael Deeley
      Michael Cimino
      John Peverall
    • [object Object]

      Coming Home

      7.3 (16K)
      Jerome Hellman
    • [object Object]

      Heaven Can Wait

      6.9 (25K)
      Warren Beatty
    • [object Object]

      Midnight Express

      7.5 (92K)
      Alan Marshall
      David Puttnam
    • [object Object]

      An Unmarried Woman

      7.2 (6.5K)
      Paul Mazursky
      Anthony Ray

    Best Short Film, Animated

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Special Delivery

      7.3 (1.2K)
      Eunice Macaulay
      John Weldon
    • [object Object]

      Oh My Darling ...

      6.4 (224)
      Nico Crama
    • [object Object]

      Rip Van Winkle

      6.5 (172)
      Will Vinton

    Best Short Film, Live Action

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Teenage Father

      6.9 (110)
      Taylor Hackford
    • [object Object]

      A Different Approach

      7.2 (92)
      Jim Belcher
      Fern Field
    • [object Object]

      Mandy's Grandmother

      6.4 (35)
      Andrew Sugerman
    • [object Object]

      Strange Fruit

      5.9 (37)
      Seth Pinsker

    Best Sound

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Deer Hunter

      8.1 (379K)
      Richard Portman
      William L. McCaughey
      Aaron Rochin
      C. Darin Knight
    • [object Object]

      The Buddy Holly Story

      7.2 (10K)
      Tex Rudloff
      Joel Fein
      Curly Thirlwell
      Willie D. Burton
    • [object Object]

      Days of Heaven

      7.7 (67K)
      John Wilkinson
      Robert W. Glass Jr.
      John T. Reitz
      Barry Thomas
    • [object Object]

      Hooper

      6.4 (8.4K)
      Robert Knudson
      Robert Glass
      Don MacDougall
      Jack Solomon
    • [object Object]

      Superman

      7.4 (203K)
      Gordon K. McCallum
      Graham V. Hartstone
      Nicolas Le Messurier
      Roy Charman

    Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Midnight Express

      7.5 (92K)
      Oliver Stone
    • [object Object]

      Bloodbrothers

      5.8 (1.1K)
      Walter Newman
    • [object Object]

      California Suite

      6.2 (8.8K)
      Neil Simon
    • [object Object]

      Heaven Can Wait

      6.9 (25K)
      Elaine May
      Warren Beatty
    • [object Object]

      Same Time, Next Year

      7.2 (7.1K)
      Bernard Slade

    Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Coming Home

      7.3 (16K)
      Nancy Dowd(story)
      Waldo Salt(screenplay)
      Robert C. Jones(screenplay)
    • [object Object]

      Autumn Sonata

      8.1 (41K)
      Ingmar Bergman
    • [object Object]

      The Deer Hunter

      8.1 (379K)
      Michael Cimino(story)
      Deric Washburn(screenplay/story)
      Louis Garfinkle(story)
      Quinn K. Redeker(story)
    • [object Object]

      Interiors

      7.3 (22K)
      Woody Allen
    • [object Object]

      An Unmarried Woman

      7.2 (6.5K)
      Paul Mazursky

    Special Achievement Award

    Edit
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Superman

      7.4 (203K)
      Les Bowie
      Colin Chilvers
      Denys N. Coop
      Roy Field
      Derek Meddings
      Zoran Perisic
      For visual effects.

    Honorary Award

    Edit
    • Walter Lantz
      Winner
      • Walter Lantz
      For bringing joy and laughter to every part of the world through his unique animated motion pictures.
    • Winner
        For the contribution it has made to the public's perception of movies as an art form.
      • Laurence Olivier
        Winner
        • Laurence Olivier
        For the full body of his work, for the unique achievements of his entire career and his lifetime of contribution to the art of film.
      • King Vidor
        Winner
        • King Vidor
        For his incomparable achievements as a cinematic creator and innovator.

      Medal of Commendation

      Edit
      • Linwood G. Dunn at an event for The 57th Annual Academy Awards (1985)
        Loren L. Ryder
        Winners
        • Linwood G. Dunn
        • Loren L. Ryder
        • Waldon O. Watson
        In appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

      Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

      Edit
      • Winner
        • Leo Jaffe

      Academy Award of Merit

      Edit
      • Winner
          For the research and development of a Duplicating Color Film for Motion Pictures.
        • Winner
            For the continuing research, design and development of the Nagra Production Sound Recorder for Motion Pictures.
          • Winner
              For the concept, design, and continuous development of the Panaflex Motion Picture Camera System.

            Scientific and Engineering Award

            Edit
            • Winners
              • David P. Robinson(Dolby Laboratories, Inc.)
              • Stephen Katz(Dolby Laboratories, Inc.)
              For the development and implementation of an improved Sound Recording and Reproducing System for motion picture production and exhibition.

            Technical Achievement Award

            Edit
            • Winner
              • James L. Fisher
              J.L. Fisher
              For the design and manufacture of a small, mobile motion picture camera platform known as the Fisher Model Ten Dolly.
            • Winner
                For the development and introduction of the Cinelux-ULTRA Lens for 35mm Motion Picture Projection.
              • Winner
                  For the development of a Method to Recycle Motion Picture Laboratory Photographic Wash Waters by Ion Exchange.
                • Winner
                    For the development of the CINE-FI Auto Radio Sound System for Drive-In Theaters.
                  • Winner
                    • Leonard Chapman(Leonard Equipment Company)
                    For the design and manufacture of a small, mobile, motion picture camera platform known as the Chapman Hustler Dolly.
                  • Winner
                      For the design and manufacture of a small, mobile, motion picture camera platform known as the Stindt Dolly.

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                    April 6, 1979

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                    Los Angeles, California, USA

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