The 36th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1978, were held on January 27, 1979. The ceremony was not televised.
Winners and nominees
Film
Best Motion PictureDramaComedy or Musical Midnight Express Coming Home Days of Heaven The Deer Hunter An Unmarried Woman Heaven Can Wait California Suite Foul Play Grease Movie MovieBest Performance in a Motion Picture – DramaActorActress Jon Voight – Coming Home as Luke Martin Brad Davis – Midnight Express as Billy Hayes Robert De Niro – The Deer Hunter as Michael Vronsky Anthony Hopkins – Magic as Corky Withers / "Fats" Gregory Peck – The Boys from Brazil as Dr. Josef Mengele Jane Fonda – Coming Home as Sally Hyde Ingrid Bergman – Autumn Sonata as Charlotte Andergast Jill Clayburgh – An Unmarried Woman as Erica Glenda Jackson – Stevie as Stevie Smith Geraldine Page – Interiors as EveBest Performance in a Motion Picture – Comedy or MusicalActorActress Warren Beatty – Heaven Can Wait as Joe Pendleton Alan Alda – Same Time, Next Year as George Gary Busey – The Buddy Holly Story as Buddy Holly Chevy Chase – Foul Play as Det. Tony Carlson George C. Scott – Movie Movie as Gloves Malloy / Spats Baxter John Travolta – Grease as Danny Zuko Ellen Burstyn – Same Time, Next Year as Doris (TIE) Maggie Smith – California Suite as Diana Barrie (TIE) Jacqueline Bisset – Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? as Natasha O'Brien Goldie Hawn – Foul Play as Gloria Mundy Olivia Newton-John – Grease as Sandy OlssonBest Supporting Performance in a Motion Picture – Drama, Comedy or MusicalSupporting ActorSupporting Actress John Hurt – Midnight Express as Max Bruce Dern – Coming Home as Bob Hyde Dudley Moore – Foul Play as Stanley Tibbets Robert Morley – Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? as Max Christopher Walken – The Deer Hunter as Cpl. Nikanor "Nick" Chevotarevich Dyan Cannon – Heaven Can Wait as Julia Farnsworth Carol Burnett – A Wedding as Tulip Brenner Maureen Stapleton – Interiors as Pearl Meryl Streep – The Deer Hunter as Linda Mona Washbourne – Stevie as Aunt OtherBest DirectorBest Screenplay Michael Cimino – The Deer Hunter Woody Allen – Interiors Hal Ashby – Coming Home Terrence Malick – Days of Heaven Paul Mazursky – An Unmarried Woman Alan Parker – Midnight Express Midnight Express – Oliver Stone Coming Home – Robert C. Jones and Waldo Salt The Deer Hunter – Deric Washburn Foul Play – Colin Higgins Interiors – Woody Allen An Unmarried Woman – Paul MazurskyBest Original ScoreBest Original Song Midnight Express – Giorgio Moroder The Children of Sanchez – Chuck Mangione The Lord of the Rings – Leonard Rosenman Superman – John Williams An Unmarried Woman – Bill Conti "Last Dance" (Paul Jabara) – Thank God It's Friday "Grease" (Barry Gibb) – Grease "The Last Time I Felt Like This" (Marvin Hamlisch, Alan and Marilyn Bergman) – Same Time, Next Year "Ready to Take a Chance Again" (Charles Fox, Norman Gimbel) – Foul Play "You're the One That I Want" (John Farrar) – GreaseNew Star of the Year – ActorNew Star of the Year – ActressBrad Davis – Midnight Express as Billy Hayes Chevy Chase – Foul Play as Det. Tony Carlson Harry Hamlin – Movie Movie as Joey Popchik Doug McKeon – Uncle Joe Shannon as Robbie Eric Roberts – King of the Gypsies as Dave Stepanowicz Andrew Stevens – The Boys in Company C as Billy Ray Pike Irene Miracle – Midnight Express as Susan Anne Ditchburn – Slow Dancing in the Big City as Sarah Gantz Annie Potts – Corvette Summer as Vanessa Anita Skinner – Girlfriends as Jean Moreton Mary Steenburgen – Goin' South as Julie TateBest Foreign Film Autumn Sonata (Sweden) Death on the Nile (England) Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (Brazil) A Dream of Passion (Greece) Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (France) Lemon Popsicle (Israel) The following films received multiple nominations: NominationsTitle8Midnight Express7Foul Play6Coming HomeThe Deer Hunter5An Unmarried WomanGrease4Interiors3Heaven Can WaitMovie MovieSame Time, Next Year2Autumn SonataCalifornia SuiteDays of HeavenStevieWho Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? The following films received multiple wins: WinsTitle6Midnight Express3Heaven Can Wait2Coming Home
Television Best Television SeriesDramaMusical or Comedy 60 Minutes
Battlestar Galactica Family Holocaust Lou Grant Taxi
Alice All in the Family The Love Boat Three's CompanyBest Performance in a Television Series DramaActorActress Michael Moriarty - Holocaust as Eric Dorf
Ed Asner - Lou Grant as Lou Grant James Garner - The Rockford Files as Jim Rockford Richard Hatch - Battlestar Galactica as Captain Apollo John Houseman - The Paper Chase as Professor Charles W. Kingsfield, Jr. Michael Landon - Little House on the Prairie as Charles Ingalls Rosemary Harris - Holocaust as Berta Palitz Weiss
Kate Jackson - Charlie's Angels as Sabrina Duncan Kristy McNichol - Family as Leticia "Buddy" Lawrence Lee Remick - Wheels as Erica Trenton Sada Thompson - Family as Kate LawrenceBest Performance in a Television Series – Musical or ComedyActorActress Robin Williams - Mork & Mindy as Mork
Alan Alda - M*A*S*H as Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce Gavin MacLeod - The Love Boat as Captain Merrill Stubing Judd Hirsch - Taxi as Alex Reiger John Ritter - Three's Company as Jack Tripper Linda Lavin - Alice as Alice Hyatt
Carol Burnett - The Carol Burnett Show as Various Characters Penny Marshall - Laverne & Shirley as Laverne DeFazio Suzanne Somers - Three's Company as Chrissy Snow Jean Stapleton - All in the Family as Edith Bunker Best Supporting Performance in a Series, Miniseries or Television FilmSupporting ActorSupporting Actress Norman Fell - Three's Company as Stanley Roper
Jeff Conaway - Taxi as Bobby Wheeler Danny DeVito - Taxi as Louie De Palma Pat Harrington Jr. - One Day at a Time as Dwayne Schneider Andy Kaufman - Taxi as Latka GravasPolly Holliday - Alice as Florence "Flo" Castleberry
Marilu Henner - Taxi as Elaine O'Connor Nardo Julie Kavner - Rhoda as Brenda Morgenstern Linda Kelsey - Lou Grant as Billie Newman Audra Lindley - Three's Company as Helen Roper Nancy Walker - Rhoda as Ida Morgenstern The following programs received multiple nominations: NominationsTitle6Taxi4Three's Company3AliceFamilyHolocaustLou Grant2All in the FamilyBattlestar GalacticaThe Love BoatRhoda The following programs received multiple wins: WinsTitle2AliceHolocaust
Cecil B. DeMille Award Lucille Ball
See also 51st Academy Awards 30th Primetime Emmy Awards 31st Primetime Emmy Awards 32nd British Academy Film Awards 33rd Tony Awards 1978 in film 1978 in television
References IMdb 1979 Golden Globe Awards