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All 1979 Film Awards

List of winners and nominees for all of the major movie awards from 1979!

Click through each award to see the full list of nominees and winners!

Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury

Siberiade

Andrey Konchalovskiy

Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or

Apocalypse Now

Francis Ford Coppola

Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or

The Tin Drum

Volker Schlndorff

DGA Awards – Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film

The Deer Hunter

Michael Cimino

Golden Globe Awards – Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical

Heaven Can Wait

Golden Globe Awards – Best Motion Picture – Drama

Midnight Express

Golden Globe Awards – Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language

Autumn Sonata

LAFCA Award – Best Foreign Film

Soldier of Orange

Paul Verhoeven

LAFCA Award – Best Picture

Kramer vs. Kramer

National Board of Review – Best Film

Manhattan

New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Film

Kramer vs. Kramer

New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Foreign Language Film

The Tree of Wooden Clogs

Academy Awards – Best Picture

The Deer Hunter

Barry Spikings

Academy Awards – International Feature Film

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs

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Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

Midnight Express

Oliver Stone

Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Original Screenplay

Coming Home

Waldo Salt