1979 Academy Awards – Best Picture Winner
![The Deer Hunter Barry Spikings](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-deer-hunter-michael-cimino-image.jpg)
The Deer Hunter
Barry Spikings
An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.
1979 Academy Awards – Best Picture Nominees
![An Unmarried Woman Paul Mazursky](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/an-unmarried-woman-paul-mazursky-image.jpg)
An Unmarried Woman
Paul Mazursky
![Coming Home Jerome Hellman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/coming-home-hal-ashby-image.jpg)
Coming Home
Jerome Hellman
![Heaven Can Wait Warren Beatty](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/heaven-can-wait-warren-beatty-buck-henry-image.jpg)
Heaven Can Wait
Warren Beatty
![Midnight Express Alan Marshall](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/midnight-express-image.jpg)