1979 Golden Globe Awards – Best Director Winner and Nominees

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.

An Unmarried Woman

Paul Mazursky

Coming Home

Hal Ashby

Days of Heaven

Terrence Malick

Interiors

Woody Allen

Midnight Express

Alan Parker