Die 51ste Oscar-toekenningsaand is op 9 April 1979 deur die Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles gehou om erkenning te gee aan die rolprente van 1978. Dit was die eerste van verskeie agtereenvolgende seremonies waarvan die geselsprogramaanbieder Johnny Carson die aanbieder was.
Die twee gunstelinge vir beste prent was Coming Home en The Deer Hunter, albei anti-oorlogsflieks wat die Amerikaners se afkeer van die Viëtnamoorlog versinnebeeld het. John Wayne, wat twee maande later aan maagkanker oorlede is, het sy laaste openbare verskyning gemaak om die Oscar aan die vervaardigers van The Deer Hunter te oorhandig.
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Hier volg ’n lys van die belangrikste wenners en benoemdes (die wenners word eerste genoem en is in vet druk):The Official Acadademy Awards® Database
Beste rolprent Beste regisseur The Deer Hunter Coming Home Heaven Can Wait Midnight Express An Unmarried Woman Michael Cimino – The Deer Hunter Hal Ashby – Coming Home Warren Beatty, Buck Henry – Heaven Can Wait Woody Allen – Interiors Alan Parker – Midnight Express Beste akteur Beste aktrise Jon Voight – Coming Home Warren Beatty – Heaven Can Wait Gary Busey – The Buddy Holly Story Robert De Niro – The Deer Hunter Laurence Olivier – The Boys from Brazil Jane Fonda – Coming Home Ingrid Bergman – Autumn Sonata Ellen Burstyn – Same Time, Next Year Jill Clayburgh – An Unmarried Woman Geraldine Page – Interiors Beste manlike byspeler Beste vroulike byspeler Christopher Walken – The Deer Hunter Bruce Dern – Coming Home Richard Farnsworth – Comes a Horseman John Hurt – Midnight Express Jack Warden – Heaven Can Wait Maggie Smith – California Suite Dyan Cannon – Heaven Can Wait Penelope Milford – Coming Home Maureen Stapleton – Interiors Meryl Streep – The Deer Hunter Beste oorspronklike draaiboek Beste verwerkte draaiboek ''Coming Home – Nancy Dowd, Waldo Salt, Robert C. Jones Autumn Sonata – Ingmar Bergman The Deer Hunter – Michael Cimino, Deric Washburn, Louis Garfinkle, Quinn K. Redeker Interiors – Woody Allen An Unmarried Woman – Paul Mazursky | valign="top" | Midnight Express – Oliver Stone Bloodbrothers – Walter Newman California Suite – Neil Simon Heaven Can Wait – Elaine May, Warren Beatty Same Time, Next Year – Bernard Slade |- ! style="background:#FAF0BE" | Beste buitelandse rolprent ! style="background:#FAF0BE" | Beste oorspronklike musiek (drama) |- | valign="top" | Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Frankryk) The Glass Cell (Wes-Duitsland) Hungarians (Hongarye) Viva Italia! (Italië) White Bim Black Ear (Sowjetunie) | valign="top" | Midnight Express – Giorgio Moroder The Boys from Brazil – Jerry Goldsmith Days of Heaven – Ennio Morricone Heaven Can Wait – Dave Grusin Superman – John Williams |- ! style="background:#FAF0BE" | Beste kunsredigering ! style="background:#FAF0BE" | Beste kinematografie |- | valign="top" | Heaven Can Wait – Paul Sylbert, Edwin O'Donovan, George Gaines The Brink's Job – Dean Tavoularis, Angelo Graham, George R. Nelson, Bruce Kay California Suite– Albert Brenner, Marvin March Interiors – Mel Bourne, Daniel Robert The Wiz – Tony Walton, Philip Rosenberg, Edward Stewart, Robert Drumheller | valign="top" | Days of Heaven – Nestor Almendros The Deer Hunter – Vilmos Zsigmond Heaven Can Wait – William A. Fraker Same Time, Next Year – Robert Surtees The Wiz – Oswald Morris |- ! style="background:#FAF0BE" | Beste redigering ! style="background:#FAF0BE" | Beste visuele effekte |- | valign="top" | The Deer Hunter – Peter Zinner Superman – Stuart Baird Midnight Express – Gerry Hambling The Boys From Brazil – Robert E. Swink Coming Home – Don Zimmerman | valign="top" | Superman'' – Les Bowie, Colin Chilvers, Denys Coop, Roy Field, Derek Meddings, Zoran Perisic
Erepryse Laurence Olivier Walter Lantz King Vidor Museum of Modern Art
Medalje van aanbeveling Linwood G. Dunn, Loren L. Ryder en Waldon O. Watson
Jean Hersholt- Humanitêre Prys Leo Jaffe
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