Golden Globe Awards 1979
The 36th Golden Globe Awards ceremony took place on January 27, 1979.
Award winners and nominations
Statistics (films with more than one nomination are listed) N = nomination; G = Won |
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Movie | N | G |
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12 noon - Midnight Express | 8th | 6th |
A very crooked tour | 7th | 0 |
Coming Home - you are coming home | 6th | 2 |
Those who go through hell | 6th | 1 |
An unmarried woman | 5 | 0 |
Grease | 5 | 0 |
Inner workings | 4th | 0 |
Heaven should wait | 3 | 3 |
Next year, same time | 3 | 1 |
Movie Movie | 3 | 0 |
The crazy California hotel | 2 | 1 |
Autumn sonata | 2 | 1 |
The gourmet orgy | 2 | 0 |
In the embers of the south | 2 | 0 |
Stevie | 2 | 0 |
Best film - drama
12 at night - Midnight Express (Midnight Express) - Director: Alan Parker
- Coming Home - Coming Home (Coming Home) - Director: Hal Ashby
- Who Go Through Hell (The Deer Hunter) - Director: Michael Cimino
- An Unmarried Woman - Director: Paul Mazursky
- In the Embers of the South (Days of Heaven) - Director: Terrence Malick
Best Film - Musical / Comedy
The Heaven Can Wait (Heaven Can Wait) - Director: Warren Beatty , Buck Henry
- The Crazy California Hotel (California Suite) - Director: Herbert Ross
- A Very Crooked Tour (Foul Play) - Directed by Colin Higgins
- Grease - Director: Randal Kleiser
- Movie Movie - Director: Stanley Donen
Best director
Michael Cimino - Those Who Go Through Hell (The Deer Hunter)
- Woody Allen - Interiors (Interiors)
- Hal Ashby - Coming Home - Coming Home (Coming Home)
- Terrence Malick - In the Embers of the South (Days of Heaven)
- Paul Mazursky - An Unmarried Woman
- Alan Parker - Midnight Express (Midnight Express)
Best Actor - Drama
Jon Voight - Coming Home - Coming Home (Coming Home)
- Brad Davis - Midnight Express (Midnight Express)
- Anthony Hopkins - Magic - A sinister love story (Magic)
- Robert De Niro - Those Going Through Hell (The Deer Hunter)
- Gregory Peck - The Boys from Brazil
Best Actress - Drama
Jane Fonda - Coming Home - Coming Home (Coming Home)
- Ingrid Bergman - Autumn Sonata (Höstsonatas)
- Jill Clayburgh - An Unmarried Woman
- Glenda Jackson - Stevie
- Geraldine Page - interior (Interiors)
Best Actor - Musical / Comedy
Warren Beatty - The Heaven Can Wait (Heaven Can Wait)
- Alan Alda - Same Time, Next Year (Same Time, Next Year)
- Gary Busey - The Buddy Holly Story (The Buddy Holly Story)
- Chevy Chase - Foul Play (Foul Play)
- George C. Scott - Movie Movie
- John Travolta - Grease
Best Actress - Musical / Comedy
Ellen Burstyn - Same Time, Next Year (Same Time, Next Year)
Maggie Smith - California Suite (California Suite)
- Jacqueline Bisset - Die Schlemmer-Orgy (Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?)
- Goldie Hawn - A Very Crooked Tour (Foul Play)
- Olivia Newton-John - Grease
Best supporting actor
John Hurt - Midnight Express (Midnight Express)
- Bruce Dern - Coming Home - Coming Home (Coming Home)
- Robert Morley - Die Schlemmer-Orgie (Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?)
- Dudley Moore - Foul Play (Foul Play)
- Christopher Walken - Those Going Through Hell (The Deer Hunter)
The best supporting actress
Dyan Cannon - The Heaven Can Wait (Heaven Can Wait)
- Carol Burnett - A wedding (A Wedding)
- Maureen Stapleton - interior (Interiors)
- Meryl Streep - Those Going Through Hell (The Deer Hunter)
- Mona Washbourne - Stevie
Best young actor
Brad Davis - Midnight Express (Midnight Express)
- Chevy Chase - Foul Play (Foul Play)
- Harry Hamlin - Movie Movie
- Doug McKeon - Solo with Trumpet (Uncle Joe Shannon)
- Eric Roberts - King of the Gypsies (King of the Gypsies)
- Andrew Stevens - The Boys of Company C. (The Boys in Company C)
Best Young Actress
Irene Miracle - Midnight Express (Midnight Express)
- Anne Ditchburn - With you in a big city (Slow Dancing in the Big City)
- Annie Potts - Two Hot Guys on the Highway (Corvette Summer)
- Anita Skinner - Girlfriends
- Mary Steenburgen - Goin (Goin 'South)
Best script
Oliver Stone - Midnight Express (Midnight Express)
- Woody Allen - Interiors (Interiors)
- Colin Higgins - A Very Crooked Tour (Foul Play)
- Robert C. Jones , Waldo Salt - Coming Home - You are returning home (Coming Home)
- Paul Mazursky - An Unmarried Woman
- Deric Washburn - Those Who Go Through Hell (The Deer Hunter)
Best film score
Giorgio Moroder - 12 p.m. - Midnight Express (Midnight Express)
- Bill Conti - An Unmarried Woman
- Chuck Mangione - The Children of Sanchez (The Children of Sanchez)
- Leonard Rosenman - The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings)
- John Williams - Superman
Best movie song
"Last Dance" from Thank God It's Friday (Thank God It's Friday) - Paul Jabara
- "Grease" from Grease - Barry Gibb
- “Ready to Take a Chance Again” from A Very Crooked Tour (Foul Play) - Charles Fox , Norman Gimbel
- "The Last Time I Felt Like This" from Next Year, Same Time (Next Year) - Alan Bergman , Marilyn Bergman , Marvin Hamlisch
- " You're the One That I Want " from Grease - John Farrar
Best foreign language film
Herbstsonate (Höstsonaten) , Sweden - Director: Ingmar Bergman
- Dona Flor and her two husbands (Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos) , Brazil - Director: Bruno Barreto
- Popsicle (Eskimo Limon) , Israel - Director: Boaz Davidson
- Wife to give away (Preparez vos mouchoirs) , France - Director: Bertrand Blier
- Death on the Nile (Death on the Nile) , United Kingdom - Director: John Guillermin
- Dream of a Passion (Kravgi gynaikon) , Greece - Director: Jules Dassin
Television nominations and winners
Statistics (series with more than one nomination are listed) N = nomination; G = Won |
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series | N | G |
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taxi | 6th | 1 |
Jack of hearts with two queens | 5 | 1 |
Holocaust - The History of the Weiss Family | 3 | 2 |
Snack with a bite | 3 | 2 |
An American family | 3 | 0 |
Lou Grant | 3 | 0 |
All in the family | 2 | 0 |
Battlestar Galactica | 2 | 0 |
Love Boat | 2 | 0 |
Rhoda | 2 | 0 |
Best Television Series - Drama
- An American Family (Family)
- Holocaust - The History of the Weiss Family ( Holocaust )
- Galactica (BSG)
- Lou Grant
Best Actor in a Television Series - Drama
Michael Moriarty - Holocaust - The History of the Weiss Family (Holocaust)
- Edward Asner - Lou Grant
- James Garner - Detective Rockford - Just Call (The Rockford Files)
- Richard Hatch - Battlestar Galactica (Battlestar Galactica)
- John Houseman - The Paper Chase
- Michael Landon - Our Little Farm (Little House on the Prairie)
Best Actress in a Television Series - Drama
Rosemary Harris - Holocaust - The Story of the Weiss Family ( Holocaust )
- Kate Jackson - Charlie's Angels (Charlie's Angels)
- Kristy McNichol - An American Family (Family)
- Lee Remick - wheels (Wheels)
- Sada Thompson - An American Family (Family)
Best TV Series - Comedy / Musical
- All in the family
- Jack of Hearts with Two Queens (Three's Company)
- Snack with a bite (Alice)
- Love Boat (The Love Boat)
Best Actor in a Television Series - Comedy / Musical
Robin Williams - Mork from the Ork (Mork & Mindy)
- Alan Alda - M * A * S * H
- Judd Hirsch - Taxi
- Gavin MacLeod - Love Boat (The Love Boat)
- John Ritter - Jack of Hearts with Two Queens (Three's Company)
Best Actress in a Television Series - Comedy / Musical
Linda Lavin - Snack with a Bite (Alice)
- Carol Burnett - The Carol Burnett Show
- Penny Marshall - Laverne & Shirley
- Suzanne Somers - Jack of Hearts with Two Ladies (Three's Company)
- Jean Stapleton - All in the Family
Best TV movie
What is going to happen to father? (A Family Upside Down)
- In the beginning you cry (First, You Cry)
- Love in court (A Question of Love)
- Little Women
- The bastard
- The immigrants
- Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women
Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries, or TV Movie
Norman Fell - Jack of Hearts with Two Ladies (Three's Company)
Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries, or TV Movie
Polly Holliday - Snack With a Bite (Alice)
- Marilu Henner - Taxi
- Julie Kavner - Rhoda
- Linda Kelsey - Lou Grant
- Audra Lindley - Jack of Hearts with Two Queens (Three's Company)
- Nancy Walker - Rhoda
Web links
- Golden Globe Awards 1979 in the Internet Movie Database (English)