Alternate Oscars—1970s

1970

Best Picture of 1970

Le Cercle Rouge

The Conformist

Five Easy Pieces

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

Kelly's Heroes

Little Big Man

Love Story

M*A*S*H

★ ✔ Patton

Woodstock

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Best Actor of 1970

Eric Braeden (Colossus: The Forbin Project)

Albert Finney (Scrooge)

★ Jack Nicholson (Five Easy Pieces)

✔ George C. Scott (Patton)

Donald Sutherland (M*A*S*H and Kelly's Heroes)

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Best Actress of 1970

Stéphane Audran (Le Boucher)

★ ✔ Glenda Jackson (Women in Love)

Ali McGraw (Love Story)

Sarah Miles (Ryan's Daughter)

Carrie Snodgress (Diary of a Mad Housewife)

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Best Director of 1970

★ Robert Altman (M*A*S*H)

Bernardo Bertolucci (The Conformist)

Jean-Pierre Melville (Le Cercle Rouge)

Bob Rafelson (Five Easy Pieces)

✔ Franklin J. Schaffner (Patton)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1970

★ Chief Dan George (Little Big Man)

Van Heflin (Airport)

Frank Langella (Diary of a Mad Housewife and Twelve Chairs)

Karl Malden (Patton)

David Warner (The Ballad of Cable Hogue)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1970

★ Karen Black (Five Easy Pieces)

✔ Helen Hayes (Airport)

Sally Kellerman (M*A*S*H)

Dominique Sanda (The Conformist)

Maureen Stapleton (Airport)

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Special Award

Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North, based on factual material by Ladislas Farago and Omar N. Bradley (Patton) (screenplay)

Jerry Goldsmith (Patton) (score)

"Thank You Very Much" (Scrooge) music and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse (song)

The Beatles (Let It Be) (original song score)

"Colossus" (Colossus: The Forbin Project) (a computer programmer's worst nightmare)

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1971

Best Picture of 1971

A Clockwork Orange

Dirty Harry

Fiddler on the Roof

✔ The French Connection

Get Carter

Harold and Maude

Klute

★ The Last Picture Show

McCabe & Mrs. Miller

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

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Best Actor of 1971

Michael Caine (Get Carter)

Peter Finch (Sunday Bloody Sunday)

★ ✔ Gene Hackman (The French Connection)

Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange)

Gene Wilder (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory)

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Best Actress of 1971

Julie Christie (McCabe and Mrs. Miller)

★ ✔ Jane Fonda (Klute)

Ruth Gordon (Harold and Maude)

Glenda Jackson (Sunday Bloody Sunday and Mary, Queen of Scots)

Jessica Walter (Play Misty For Me)

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Best Director of 1971

Robert Altman (McCabe & Mrs. Miller)

★ Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show)

✔ William Friedkin (The French Connection)

Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange)

Don Siegel (Dirty Harry)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1971

Jack Albertson (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory)

✔ Ben Johnson (The Last Picture Show)

★ Warren Oates (Two-Lane Blacktop and The Hired Hand)

Andy Robinson (Dirty Harry)

Roy Scheider (The French Connection)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1971

Eileen Brennan (The Last Picture Show)

Ellen Burstyn (The Last Picture Show)

★ ✔ Cloris Leachman (The Last Picture Show)

Ann-Margret (Carnal Knowledge)

Diana Rigg (The Hospital)

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Special Award

Larry McMurtry and Peter Bogdanovich, from the novel by Larry McMurtry (The Last Picture Show) (adapted screenplay)

Robert Surtees (The Last Picture Show) (cinematography)

"Theme From Shaft" music and lyrics by Issac Hayes (Shaft) (song)

The French Connection (best action sequence) (the car chase)

"Dog" (Big Jake) (best mind-reading dog)

Brian's Song (making grown men cry since 1971)

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1972

Best Picture of 1972

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

Cabaret

Deliverance

ƒ The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie

★ ✔ The Godfather

Pink Flamingos

The Poseidon Adventure

Sleuth

Solaris

The Way of the Dragon

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Best Actor of 1972

Charles Grodin (The Heartbreak Kid)

Stacy Keach (Fat City)

Klaus Kinski (Aguirre: The Wrath Of God)

Bruce Lee (The Way of the Dragon and Fist of Fury)

★ Al Pacino (The Godfather)

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Best Actress of 1972

Margit Carstensen (The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant)

Juliet Mills (Avanti!)

★ ✔ Liza Minnelli (Cabaret)

Diana Ross (Lady Sings the Blues)

Cicely Tyson (Sounder)

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Best Director of 1972

Luis Buñuel (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie)

★ Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather)

✔ Bob Fosse (Cabaret)

Werner Herzog (Aguirre: The Wrath of God)

Andrei Tarkovsky (Solaris)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1972

Ned Beatty (Deliverance)

★ ✱ Marlon Brando (The Godfather)

James Caan (The Godfather)

Robert Duvall (The Godfather)

✔ Joel Grey (Cabaret)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1972

Jeannie Berlin (The Heartbreak Kid)

✔ Eileen Heckart (Butterflies Are Free)

Talia Shire (The Godfather)

Susan Tyrrell (Fat City)

★ Shelley Winters (The Poseidon Adventure)

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Special Award

Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo, from the novel by Mario Puzo (The Godfather) (adapted screenplay)

Gordon Willis (The Godfather) (cinematography)

Nino Rota (The Godfather) (score)

Ralph Burns (music supervisor); John Kander & Fred Ebb (Cabaret) (song score)

"Superfly" (Superfly) music and lyrics by Curtis Mayfield (song)

John Waters (lifetime achievement)

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1973

Best Picture of 1973

American Graffiti

Cries and Whispers

ƒ Day for Night

The Exorcist

The Long Goodbye

Mean Streets

Sleeper

The Spirit of the Beehive

★ ✔ The Sting

Westworld

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Best Actor of 1973

Elliott Gould (The Long Goodbye)

Robert Mitchum (The Friends of Eddie Coyle)

Jack Nicholson (The Last Detail)

Vincent Price (Theater of Blood)

★ Robert Redford (The Sting and The Way We Were)

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Best Actress of 1973

Ellen Burstyn (The Exorcist)

✱ Tatum O'Neal (Paper Moon)

Barbra Streisand (The Way We Were)

Ingrid Thulin (Cries And Whispers)

★ Liv Ullmann (Cries and Whispers and Scenes from a Marriage)

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Best Director of 1973

★ Ingmar Bergman (Cries and Whispers and Scenes from a Marriage)

William Friedkin (The Exorcist)

✔ George Roy Hill (The Sting)

George Lucas (American Graffiti)

François Truffaut (Day for Night)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1973

Robert De Niro (Mean Streets and Bang the Drum Slowly)

✔ John Houseman (The Paper Chase)

Jason Miller (The Exorcist)

★ Robert Shaw (The Sting)

Max von Sydow (The Exorcist)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1973

★ Harriet Andersson (Cries and Whispers)

Linda Blair (The Exorcist)

Eileen Brennan (The Sting)

Candy Clark (American Graffiti)

Valentina Cortese (Day for Night)

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Special Award

Bruce Lee (lifetime achievement)

David S. Ward (The Sting) (original screenplay)

Marvin Hamlisch (music adaptor); Scott Joplin (composer) (The Sting) (adapted score)

"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" (Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid) music and lyrics by Bob Dylan (song)

Soylent Green (Soylent Green) (a dinner to die for)

Yul Brynner (Westworld) (employee of the month)

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1974

Best Picture of 1974

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

ƒ Amarcord

Badlands

Blazing Saddles

★ Chinatown

The Conversation

✔ The Godfather: Part II

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Young Frankenstein

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Best Actor of 1974

Gene Hackman (The Conversation)

Cleavon Little (Blazing Saddles)

★ Jack Nicholson (Chinatown)

Al Pacino (The Godfather: Part II)

Gene Wilder (Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein)

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Best Actress of 1974

✔ Ellen Burstyn (Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore)

Diahann Carroll (Claudine)

Faye Dunaway (Chinatown)

★ Gena Rowlands (A Woman Under the Influence)

Sissy Spacek (Badlands)

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Best Director of 1974

Mel Brooks (Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein)

John Cassavetes (A Woman Under the Influence)

✔ Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather: Part II and The Conversation)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Ali: Fear Eats the Soul)

★ Roman Polanski (Chinatown)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1974

Martin Balsam (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three)

Peter Boyle (Young Frankenstein)

✔ Robert De Niro (The Godfather: Part II)

★ Marty Feldman (Young Frankenstein)

Harvey Korman (Blazing Saddles)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1974

Teri Garr (Young Frankenstein)

★ Madeline Kahn (Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein)

Diane Ladd (Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore)

Cloris Leachman (Young Frankenstein)

Valerie Perrine (Lenny)

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Special Award

Robert Towne (Chinatown) (original screenplay)

John A. Alonso (Chinatown) (cinematography)

Jerry Goldsmith (Chinatown) (original score)

Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks, screen story and screenplay based on characters in the novel Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Young Frankenstein) (adapted screenplay)

Edwin Butterworth, Mary Keats and William Tuttle (Young Frankenstein) (makeup)

Walter Murch and Arthur Rochester (The Conversation) (sound)

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (best sneeze)

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1975

Best Picture of 1975

Barry Lyndon

Dog Day Afternoon

★ Jaws

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Love and Death

The Man Who Would Be King

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Nashville

✔ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Picnic at Hanging Rock

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Best Actor of 1975

Michael Caine (The Man Who Would Be King)

★ Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)

Sean Connery (The Man Who Would Be King)

✔ Jack Nicholson (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)

Al Pacino (Dog Day Afternoon)

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Best Actress of 1975

Isabelle Adjani (The Story Of Adele H.)

✔ Louise Fletcher (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)

Carol Kane (Hester Street)

★ Ann-Margret (Tommy)

Delphine Seyrig (Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles)

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Best Director of 1975

Chantal Akerman (Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles)

Robert Altman (Nashville)

✔ Milos Forman (One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest)

Sidney Lumet (Dog Day Afternoon)

★ Steven Spielberg (Jaws)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1975

✔ George Burns (The Sunshine Boys)

John Cazale (Dog Day Afternoon)

★ Tim Curry (The Rocky Horror Picture Show)

Brad Dourif (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest)

Robert Shaw (Jaws)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1975

Ronee Blakley (Nashville)

✔ Lee Grant (Shampoo)

Barbara Harris (Nashville)

Sylvia Miles (Farewell, My Lovely)

★ Lily Tomlin (Nashville)

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Special Award

John Williams (Jaws) (score)

Pete Townshend (Tommy) (song score)

Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin (Monty Python and the Holy Grail) (original screenplay)

two empty halves of a coconut (Monty Python and the Holy Grail) (best imitation of a horse)

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1976

Best Picture of 1976

All the President's Men

The Bad News Bears

Carrie

The Front

Kings of the Road

Network

1900

★ The Outlaw Josey Wales

✔ Rocky

Taxi Driver

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Best Actor of 1976

★ Robert De Niro (Taxi Driver)

William Holden (Network)

Walter Matthau (The Bad News Bears)

Sylvester Stallone (Rocky)

John Wayne (The Shootist)

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Best Actress of 1976

★ ✔ Faye Dunaway (Network)

Talia Shire (Rocky)

Sissy Spacek (Carrie)

Ana Torrent (Cria Cuervos)

Liv Ullmann (Face to Face)

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Best Director of 1976

Brian De Palma (Carrie)

★ Clint Eastwood (The Outlaw Josey Wales)

Sidney Lumet (Network)

Alan J. Pakula (All the President's Men)

Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1976

★ ✱ Peter Finch (Network)

Burgess Meredith (Rocky)

Zero Mostel (The Front)

Richard Pryor (Silver Streak)

✔ Jason Robards (All The President's Men)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1976

Geraldine Chaplin (Cría Cuervos)

Jodie Foster (Taxi Driver)

★ Piper Laurie (Carrie)

Tatum O'Neal (The Bad News Bears)

✔ Beatrice Straight (Network)

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Special Award

Paddy Chayefsky (Network) (original screenplay)

William Goldman, from the book by Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward (All the President’s Men) (adapted screenplay)

Harlan County, U.S.A. (documentary feature)

"Gonna Fly Now" (Rocky) music by Bill Conti; lyrics by Carol Connors and Ayn Robbins (song)

Murder by Death (best dinner party)

North Valley League Bears (The Bad News Bears) (best bad baseball team)

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1977

Best Picture of 1977

✔ Annie Hall

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

The Late Show

Saturday Night Fever

Slap Shot

Soldier of Orange

★ Star Wars (original theatrical release)

Stroszek

Suspiria

That Obscure Object of Desire

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Best Actor of 1977

Woody Allen (Annie Hall)

Art Carney (The Late Show)

✔ Richard Dreyfuss (The Goodbye Girl and Close Encounters of the Third Kind)

Paul Newman (Slap Shot)

★ John Travolta (Saturday Night Fever)

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Best Actress of 1977

Shelley Duvall (3 Women)

★ ✔ Diane Keaton (Annie Hall and Looking for Mr. Goodbar)

Marsha Mason (The Goodbye Girl)

Gena Rowlands (Opening Night)

Lily Tomlin (The Late Show)

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Best Director of 1977

★ ✔ Woody Allen (Annie Hall)

John Badham (Saturday Night Fever)

Luis Buñuel (That Obscure Object of Desire)

George Lucas (Star Wars) (original theatrical release)

Steven Spielberg (Close Encounters of the Third Kind)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1977

Peter Firth (Equus)

Harrison Ford (Star Wars) (original theatrical release)

Alec Guinness (Star Wars)

★ James Earl Jones and David Prowse (Star Wars)

✔ Jason Robards (Julia)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1977

Melinda Dillon (Close Encounters of the Third Kind)

★ Carrie Fisher (Star Wars)

Donna Pescow (Saturday Night Fever)

✔ Vanessa Redgrave (Julia)

Sissy Spacek (3 Women)

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Special Award

Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman (Annie Hall) (original screenplay)

Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb and Robin Gibb (original songs), David Shire (additional music) (Saturday Night Fever) (song score)

John Williams (Star Wars) (score)

John Stears, John Dykstra, Richard Edlund, Grant McCune and Robert Blalack (Star Wars) (visual effects)

John Barry, Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley and Roger Christian (Star Wars) (art direction / set decoration)

C3PO and R2D2 (Star Wars) (best odd couple)

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1978

Best Picture of 1978

Dawn of the Dead

Days of Heaven

✔ The Deer Hunter

Grease

Halloween

Heaven Can Wait

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Midnight Express

★ National Lampoon's Animal House

Superman

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Best Actor of 1978

Gary Busey (The Buddy Holly Story)

Jackie Chan (Drunken Master)

Robert De Niro (The Deer Hunter)

★ Christopher Reeve (Superman)

✔ Jon Voight (Coming Home)

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Best Actress of 1978

Ingrid Bergman (Autumn Sonata)

★ Jill Clayburgh (An Unmarried Woman)

✔ Jane Fonda (Coming Home)

Margot Kidder (Superman)

Romy Schneider (A Simple Story)

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Best Director of 1978

★ John Carpenter (Halloween)

✔ Michael Cimino (The Deer Hunter)

Richard Donner (Superman)

Terrence Malick (Days of Heaven)

Alan Parker (Midnight Express)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1978

John Belushi (National Lampoon's Animal House)

Gene Hackman (Superman)

John Vernon (National Lampoon's Animal House)

★ ✔ Christopher Walken (The Deer Hunter)

Jack Warden (Heaven Can Wait)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1978

Veronica Cartwright (Invasion of the Body Snatchers)

Stockard Channing (Grease)

★ Geraldine Page (Interiors)

✔ Maggie Smith (California Suite)

Meryl Streep (The Deer Hunter)

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Special Award

Harold Ramis, Douglas Kinney and Chris Miller (National Lampoon's Animal House) (original screenplay)

Elmer Bernstein (National Lampoon's Animal House) (score)

National Lampoon's Animal House (movie most strangely reminiscent of my legal career)

John Farrar and Andy Gibb (original songs), Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey (adapted songs). Bill Oakes (music supervisor) (Grease) (original song score and adapted song score)

Grease (best sing-a-long movie to take your wife to on her birthday)

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1979

Best Picture of 1979

Alien

All That Jazz

★ Apocalypse Now

Being There

Breaking Away

The In-Laws

✔ Kramer vs. Kramer

Life of Brian

Manhattan

The Muppet Movie

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Best Actor of 1979

★ Alan Arkin and Peter Falk (The In-Laws)

✔ Dustin Hoffman (Kramer vs. Kramer)

Nick Nolte (North Dallas Forty)

Roy Scheider (All That Jazz)

Peter Sellers (Being There)

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Best Actress of 1979

Judy Davis (My Brilliant Career)

★ ✔ Sally Field (Norma Rae)

Bette Midler (The Rose)

Hanna Schygulla (The Marriage of Maria Braun)

Sigourney Weaver (Alien)

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Best Director of 1979

Woody Allen (Manhattan)

★ Francis Ford Coppola (Apocalypse Now)

Bob Fosse (All That Jazz)

Ridley Scott (Alien)

Peter Yates (Breaking Away)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1979

Paul Dooley (Breaking Away)

✔ Melvyn Douglas (Being There)

★ Robert Duvall (Apocalypse Now)

Ian Holm (Alien)

Richard Libertini (The In-Laws)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1979

Jane Alexander (Kramer vs. Kramer)

Candice Bergen (Starting Over)

★ Mariel Hemingway (Manhattan)

Shirley MacLaine (Being There)

✔ Meryl Streep (Kramer vs. Kramer, Manhattan and The Seduction of Joe Tynan)

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Special Award

Gordon Willis (Manhattan) (cinematography)

Jerry Goldsmith (Star Trek: The Motion Picture) (score)

"Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" (Life of Brian) music and lyrics by Eric Idle (best song sung by a guy hanging on a cross)

"Rainbow Connection" (The Muppet Movie) music and lyrics by Paul Williams and Kenny Ascher (best song sung by a talking frog)

The Who (Quadrophenia) (adapted song score)

H.R. Giger, Carlo Rambaldi, Brian Johnson, Nick Alder and Denys Ayling (Alien) (special effects)

Walter Murch, Mark Berger, Richard Beggs and Nathan Boxer (Apocalypse Now) (sound)

Time After Time (best time-travel rom-com featuring H.G. Wells and Jack the Ripper)

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My choices are noted with a ★. A tie is indicated with a ✪. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best foreign-language picture winners are noted with an ƒ. A historical winner who won in a different category is noted with a ✱.

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