1978 Academy Awards – Directing Winner
![Annie Hall Woody Allen](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/annie-hall-woody-allen-image.jpg)
Annie Hall
Woody Allen
Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditzy Annie Hall.
1978 Academy Awards – Directing Nominees
![Close Encounters of the Third Kind Steven Spielberg](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-steven-spielberg-image.jpg)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Steven Spielberg
![Julia Fred Zinnemann](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/julia-fred-zinnemann-image.jpg)
Julia
Fred Zinnemann
![Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope George Lucas](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/star-wars-episode-iv-a-new-hope-george-lucas-image.jpg)
Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope
George Lucas
![The Turning Point Herbert Ross](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-turning-point-herbert-ross-image.jpg)