by Allan Fish
Best Picture Annie Hall, US (7 votes)
Best Director Woody Allen, Annie Hall (6 votes)
Best Actor John Travolta, Saturday Night Fever (4 votes)
Best Actress Diane Keaton, Annie Hall (9 votes)
Best Supp Actor Peter Firth, Equus (7 votes)
Best Supp Actress Vanessa Redgrave, Julia (13 votes)
Best Cinematography Luciano Tovoli Suspiria (6 votes)
Best Score John Williams, Star Wars (10 votes)
Best Short Powers of Ten, US. Charles Eames, Ray Eames (3 votes)
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on to 1978, an even more mediocre year…
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1978
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Best Picture/Director
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Ai No Borei (Japan/France…Nagisa Oshima)
Alexandria, Why? (Egypt…Youssef Chahine)
Amor de Perdicao (Portugal…Manoel de Oliveira)
Angi Vera (Hungary…Pal Gabor)
Autumn Sonata (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)
Baara (Mali…Souleymane Cissé)
Big Wednesday (US…John Milius)
Blue Collar (US…Paul Schrader)
La Cage aux Folles (France…Edouard Molinaro)
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (Australia…Fred Schepisi)
China 9, Liberty 37 (Italy…Monte Hellman)
Coming Home (US…Hal Ashby)
The Coming of Sin (Spain…José Ramon Larraz)
Danton’s Death (UK…Alan Clarke)
Dawn of the Dead (US…George A.Romero)
Days of Heaven (US…Terrence Malick)
Death of a President (Poland…Jerzy Kawalerowicz)
The Deer Hunter (US…Michael Cimino)
The Demon (Japan…Yoshitaro Nomura)
Despair (West Germany…Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
The Devil’s Crown (UK…Alan Cooke)
The Double Suicide of Sonezaki (Japan…Yasuzo Masumura)
The Driver (US…Walter Hill)
Ecce Bombo (Italy…Nanni Moretti)
Edward and Mrs Simpson (UK…Waris Hussein)
Exposure (Ireland…Kieran Hickey)
Fingers (US…James Toback)
Gates of Heaven (US…Errol Morris)
Germany in Autumn (West Germany…Alf Brustellin, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alexander Kluge, Maximiliane Mainka, Edgar Reitz, Beata Mainka-Jellinghaus, Bernhard Sinkel, Volker Schlondorff, Hans Peter Cloos, Katja Rupé)
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (France…Bertrand Blier)
Girlfriends (US…Claudia Weill)
Halloween (US…John Carpenter)
The Herd (Turkey…Zeki Okten)
Holocaust (US…Marvin J.Chomsky)
In a Year of Thirteen Moons (West Germany…Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Interiors (US…Woody Allen)
Je suis à Prendre (France…Francis Leroi)
Jubilee (UK…Derek Jarman)
Knife in the Head (West Germany…Reinhard Hauff)
The Last Waltz (US…Martin Scorsese)
The Left-Handed Woman (West Germany…Peter Handke)
Lillie (UK…John Gorrie, Christopher Hodson, Tony Wharmby)
Little Lips (Italy…Mimmo Cattarinich)
The Lost Boys (UK…Rodney Bennett)
Love Sublime (India…Raj Kapoor)
Magic (UK…Richard Attenborough)
Maraschino Cherry (US…Radley Metzger)
Martin (US…George A.Romero)
Mouth to Mouth (Australia…John Duigan)
My Way Home (UK…Bill Douglas)
National Lampoon’s Animal House (US…John Landis)
The National Shotgun (Spain…Luis Garcia Berlanga)
Occupation in 26 Pictures (Yugoslavia…Lordan Zafranovic)
The One and Only Phyllis Dixey (UK…Michael Tuchner)
The Orlovs (USSR…Mark Donskoi)
Pennies from Heaven (UK…Piers Haggard)
Perceval le Gallois (France…Eric Rohmer)
Place Without Limits (Mexico…Arturo Ripstein)
Pretty Baby (US…Louis Malle)
Richard Pryor – Live in Concert (US…Jeff Margolis)
The Roads of Exile (France…Claude Goretta)
Rough Treatment (Poland…Andrzej Wajda)
Satan’s Blood (Spain…Carlos Puerto)
The Second Awakening of Christa Klages (West Germany…Margarethe Von Trotta)
Shadows of a Hot Summer (Czechoslovakia…Frantisek Vlacil)
Special Delivery (Canada…Eunice Macaulay, John Weldon)
The Spongers (UK…Roland Joffé)
Stay as You Are (Italy…Alberto Lattuada)
Summer of My German Soldier (US…Michael Tuchner)
Superman (US…Richard Donner)
The Suspended Vacation (France…Raoul Ruiz)
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (Hong Kong…Liu Chia-Luang)
Those Wonderful Movie Cranks (Czechoslovakia…Jiri Menzel)
Top Dog (Poland…Feliks Falk)
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (Italy…Ermanno Olmi)
Violette Nozière (France…Claude Chabrol)
A Walk Through H (UK…Peter Greenaway)
A Wedding (US…Robert Altman)
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Best Actor
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Alan Alda Same Time Next Year
Michael Caine California Suite
Brian Cox The Devil’s Crown TV
Brad Davis Midnight Express
Robert de Niro The Deer Hunter
Gérard Depardieu Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
Patrick Dewaere Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
Edward Fox Edward & Mrs Simpson TV
Bruno Ganz Knife in the Head
Ian Holm The Lost Boys TV
Anthony Hopkins Magic
Bob Hoskins Pennies from Heaven TV
Harvey Keitel Fingers
Tommy Lewis The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Michael Moriarty Holocaust TV
Ken Ogata The Demon
Richard Pryor Blue Collar
Christopher Reeve Superman
Volker Spengler In a Year of 13 Moons
John Travolta Grease
Peter Ustinov Death on the Nile
Norman Rodway Danton’s Death TV
Jon Voight Coming Home
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Best Actress
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Francesca Annis Lillie TV
Ingrid Bergman Autumn Sonata
Ellen Burstyn Same Time Next Year
Jill Clayburgh An Unmarried Woman
Edith Clever The Left Handed Woman
Jamie Lee Curtis Halloween
Tina Engel The Second Awakening of Christa Klages
Jane Fonda Coming Home
Christine Hargreaves The Spongers TV
Cynthia Harris Edward & Mrs Simpson TV
Isabelle Huppert Violette Nozière
Shima Iwashita The Demon
Meiko Kaji The Double Suicide of Sonezaki
Jane Lapotaire The Devil’s Crown TV
Olivia Newton-John Grease
Geraldine Page Interiors
Veronika Papp Angi Vera
Meryl Streep Holocaust TV
Tuesday Weld Who’ll Stop the Rain?
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Best Supp Actor
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John Belushi National Lampoon’s Animal House
Michael Byrne The Devil’s Crown TV
John Cazale The Deer Hunter
Bruce Dern Coming Home
John Duttine The Devil’s Crown TV
Peter Egan Lillie TV
Richard Farnsworth Comes a Horseman
Nigel Hawthorne Edward & Mrs Simpson TV
Michael Higgins Danton’s Death TV
John Hurt Midnight Express
Charles Kay The Devil’s Crown TV
Laurence Olivier The Boys from Brazil
Donald Pleasence Halloween
Ian Richardson Danton’s Death TV
Sam Shepard Days of Heaven
Christopher Walken The Deer Hunter
David Warner Holocaust TV
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Best Supp Actress
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Eve Arden Grease
Peggy Ashcroft Edward & Mrs Simpson TV
Dyan Cannon Heaven Can Wait
Stockard Channing Grease
Gemma Craven Pennies from Heaven TV
Linda Manz Days of Heaven
Jessie Matthews Edward & Mrs Simpson TV
Penelope Milford Coming Home
Irene Miracle Midnight Express
Angela Punch-McGregor The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Maggie Smith California Suite
Maureen Stapleton Interiors
Meryl Streep The Deer Hunter
Liv Ullmann Autumn Sonata
Zoe Wanamaker Danton’s Death TV
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Best Cinematography
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Nestor Almendros, Haskell Wexler Days of Heaven
Ian Baker The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Dean Cundey Halloween
Sven Nykvist Interiors
Sven Nykvist Pretty Baby
Jean Rabier Violette Nozière
Giuseppe Rotunno China 9, Liberty 37
Robert L.Surtees Same Time, Next Year
Geoffrey Unsworth Superman
Vilmos Zsigmond The Deer Hunter
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Best Score *
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John Carpenter Halloween
Jerry Goldsmith The Boys from Brazil
Giorgio Moroder Midnight Express
Ennio Morricone Days of Heaven (does incorporate Saint-Saëns)
John Williams Superman
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* please note Stanley Myers’ score for The Deer Hunter not eligible as previously written for The Walking Stick (1970). Likewise Ennio Morricone’s Chi Mai, heard on The Life and Times of David Lloyd George (TV) was previously written in 1971.
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Best Short
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Bugs Bunny in King Arthur’s Court (US…Chuck Jones)
Burial Path (US…Stan Brakhage)
Hardware Wars (US…Ernie Fossellus)
Lmno (US…Robert Breer)
The Metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa (Canada…Caroline Leaf)
Riddles for a Candy (Czechoslovakia…Jiri Barta)
Rowing Across the Atlantic (France…Jean-Francois Laguionie)
Satiemania (Yugoslavia…Zdenko Gasparovic)
The Small One (US…Don Bluth)
Ubu (UK…Geoff Dunbar)
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Within the Woods (US…Sam Raimi)
Xenogenesis (US…James Cameron, Randall Frakes)
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