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The 51st Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 1978 and took place on April 9, 1979, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, beginning at 7:00 p.m. PST / 10:00 p.m. EST.
This is a list of Academy Award–winning films. If a film won the Academy Award for Best Picture , its entry is listed in a shaded background with a boldface title. Competitive Oscars are separated from non-competitive Oscars (i.e. Honorary Award, Special Achievement Award, Juvenile Award); as such, any films that were awarded a non ...
52nd Academy Awards, the 1980 ceremony honoring the best in film for 1979 This page was last edited on 27 February 2021 ... 1979 Academy Awards.
40 years ago: 51st Academy Awards, 1979. Big shots: You guessed it ... That top category was won by Jane Fonda, who hugged Best Actor winner Jon Voight as the photographers snapped away.
Of the 89 films that won Best Picture and were also nominated for Best Director, 68 won the award. [7] [8] The award has been criticised in recent years for failing to recognise female directors. [9] Of the 257 individual directors nominated in the history of the award, only 9 have been women; [10] and only 3 of the 75 winners have been women. [11]
Here's a list of the best actor Oscar winners since the very beginning. ... 1979 - Jon Voight, "Coming Home" 1978 - Richard Dreyfuss, "The Goodbye Girl" 1977 - Peter Finch, "Network"
The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards (also known as Oscars) presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929. This award goes to the producers of the film and is the only category in which every member of the Academy is eligible to submit a nomination and ...
In January 2017, Bradford Young became the first African-American cinematographer to be nominated for an Academy Award, for his work on Arrival. In 2018, Rachel Morrison became the first woman to receive a nomination. [3] Prior to that, it had been the last non-acting Academy Award category to never nominate a woman. [4] [5]