52nd Academy Awards
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- DirectorRobert BentonStarsDustin HoffmanMeryl StreepJane AlexanderAfter his wife leaves him, a work-obsessed Manhattan advertising executive is forced to learn long-neglected parenting skills, but a heated custody battle over the couple's young son deepens the wounds left by the separation.Winner - Best Picture
Winner - Best Director for Robert Benton
Winner - Best Actor for Dustin Hoffman
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Justin Henry
Winner - Best Supporting Actress for Maryl Streep
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Jane Alexander
Winner - Best Adapted Screenplay for Robert Benton
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Nestor Almendros
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Jerry Greenberg - DirectorBob FosseStarsRoy ScheiderJessica LangeAnn ReinkingDirector/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid career of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Bob Fosse
Nominated - Best Actor for Roy Scheider
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Robert Alan Aurthur and Bob Fosse
Winner - Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score for Ralph Burns
Winner - Best Art Direction
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Giuseppe Rotunno
Winner - Best Costume Design for Albert Wolsky
Winner - Best Film Editing for Alan Heim - DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMartin SheenMarlon BrandoRobert DuvallA U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Francis Ford Coppola
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Robert Duvall
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Francis Ford Coppola and John Milius
Winner - Best Sound Mixing
Nominated - Best Art Direction
Winner - Best Cinematography for Vittorio Storaro
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Richard Marks, Walter Murch, Gerald B. Greenberg and Lisa Fruchtman - DirectorPeter YatesStarsDennis ChristopherDennis QuaidDaniel SternA working-class Indiana teen obsessed with the Italian cycling team vies for the affections of a college girl while searching for life goals with his friends.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Peter Yates
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Barbara Barrie
Winner - Best Original Screenplay for Steve Tesich
Nominated - Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score for Patrick Williams - DirectorMartin RittStarsSally FieldBeau BridgesRon LeibmanA young single mother and textile worker agrees to help unionize her mill despite the problems and dangers involved.Nominated - Best Picture
Winner - Best Actress for Sally Field
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank, Jr.
Winner - Best Original Song for "It Goes Like It Goes" - DirectorÉdouard MolinaroStarsUgo TognazziMichel SerraultClaire MaurierThe manager of a Saint-Tropez nightclub featuring drag entertainment, and his star attraction, are a gay couple. Madness ensues when his straight son brings home a fiancée and her ultra-conservative parents to meet them.Nominated - Best Director for Édouard Molinaro
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Francis Veber, Édouard Molinaro, Marcello Danon and Jean Poiret
Nominated - Best Costume Design for Piero Tosi and Ambra Danon - DirectorJames BridgesStarsJane FondaJack LemmonMichael DouglasA reporter finds what appears to be a cover-up of safety hazards at a nuclear power plant.Nominated - Best Actor for Jack Lemmon
Nominated - Best Actress for Jane Fonda
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Mike Gray, T. S. Cook and James Bridges
Nominated - Best Art Direction - DirectorNorman JewisonStarsAl PacinoJack WardenJohn ForsytheA lawyer is forced to defend a judge, while defending other clients, and trying to find punishment for the guilty and provide justice for the innocent.Nominated - Best Actor for Al Pacino
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Valerie Curtin and Barry Levinson - DirectorHal AshbyStarsPeter SellersShirley MacLaineMelvyn DouglasAfter the death of his employer forces him out of the only home he's ever known, a simpleminded, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful tycoon and an insider in Washington politics.Nominated - Best Actor for Peter Sellers
Winner - Best Supporting Actor for Melvyn Douglas - DirectorAlan J. PakulaStarsBurt ReynoldsJill ClayburghCandice BergenA divorced man falls in love, but somehow he can't get over his ex-wife. This affects his love life in comic ways. Based on Dan Wakefield's novel.Nominated - Best Actress for Jill Clayburgh
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Candice Bergen - DirectorRobert MooreStarsJames CaanMarsha MasonJoseph BolognaGeorge Schneider is an author whose wife had just died. His brother Leo gives him the number of Jennie MacLaine, and somehow they hit it off, and just when things are moving along, the memory of his first wife comes between them.Nominated - Best Actress for Marsha Mason
- DirectorMark RydellStarsBette MidlerAlan BatesFrederic ForrestThe tragic life of a self-destructive female rock star who struggles to deal with the constant pressures of her career and the demands of her ruthless business manager.Nominated - Best Actress for Bette Midler
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Frederic Forrest
Nominated - Best Sound Mixing
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Robert L. Wolfe and C. Timothy O'Meara - DirectorCarroll BallardStarsKelly RenoMickey RooneyTeri GarrAfter being shipwrecked with a magnificent horse off the coast of Africa in the 1940s, a boy bonds with the stallion, and trains him to race after their rescue.Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Mickey Rooney
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Robert Dalva - DirectorWoody AllenStarsWoody AllenDiane KeatonMariel HemingwayThe life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Mariel Hemingway
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman - DirectorGeorge Roy HillStarsLaurence OlivierDiane LaneThelonious BernardAmerican teenager Lauren King living in Paris, meets and falls in love with a local boy named Daniel Michon. They befriend storyteller Julius and take a trip to Venice in George Roy Hill's romantic comedy.Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Allan Burns
Winner - Best Original Score for Georges Delerue - DirectorVolker SchlöndorffStarsDavid BennentMario AdorfAngela WinklerIn 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.Winner - Best Foreign Language Film (West Germany)
- DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsDaniel OlbrychskiAnna SeniukMaja KomorowskaSet in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. He decides to go home to his aunt and uncle for a while, but gets involved with a family of five women who had been in love with him at one time though he had apparently loved only one, who, unknown to him, has died since his departure. The women are mainly disillusioned with life or estranged from husbands while the youngest has a crush on him.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Poland)
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsGeraldine ChaplinAmparo MuñozFernando Fernán GómezAna is alive and married with Antonio; they arrive in the manor in the countryside of Spain where she worked as a nanny many years ago, for the centennial birthday of the matriarch. In their reunion, she finds that Jose died three years ago; Juan left his wife Luchy; Fernando is still living with his mother and unsuccessfully trying to fly a hang glider; and the three little girls are grown-up. Further, she discovers that the dysfunctional family is completely broken, and Luchy in embezzling mother's money. When Juan arrives for the celebration, he plots with Fernando and Luchy to kill the mother to get the inheritance. Meanwhile, Antonio has a brief affair with Natalia.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Spain)
- DirectorClaude SautetStarsRomy SchneiderClaude BrasseurBruno CremerA simple story about simple people. A 38 year old divorced woman (Marie), who now has a lover (Serge) but decides to leave him, abort his baby, and then returns with her ex-husband (Georges). Their daily life and of their friends, who have the same typical problems.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (France)
- DirectorFranco BrusatiStarsMariangela MelatoEleonora GiorgiErland JosephsonA gay brother visits his childhood home where his sister still lives with her lesbian niece and her girlfriend. They reminisce about the better past and their parents.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Italy)
- DirectorIra WohlStarsIra WohlPhilip WohlZero MostelIn this documentary, the director follows the day-to-day activities of his mentally ill, middle-aged cousin Philly, over a three-year period.Winner - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorDavid VassarA group of young artists, mechanics and environmental activists successfully built the largest electrical generating windmill in the world.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorPaul CowanStarsMichael KaneFilbert BayiGeoff CapesA documentary about the XI Commonwealth Games, held in Canada in 1978.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorTom PriestleyStarsDavid AxelrodWilliam CarrocinoMichael ConnorThe Killing Ground examines toxic waste, its effects on public health, and failures by government agencies and chemical companies to keep it contained.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorsBarry Alexander BrownGlenn SilberStarsKarleton ArmstrongBetty BoardmanAllen GinsbergInterviews with people involved with and leading the Madison, Wisconsin area resistance to the Vietnam war.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature