1979 Academy Awards – Directing Winner
![The Deer Hunter Michael Cimino](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-deer-hunter-michael-cimino-image.jpg)
The Deer Hunter
Michael Cimino
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 – Directing Nominees
![Coming Home Hal Ashby](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/coming-home-hal-ashby-image.jpg)
Coming Home
Hal Ashby
![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
![Interiors Woody Allen](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/interiors-woody-allen-image.jpg)
Interiors
Woody Allen
![Midnight Express Alan Parker](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/midnight-express-image.jpg)