Golden Globe Awards 1979

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The 36th Golden Globe Awards ceremony took place on January 27, 1979.

Award winners and nominations

Movie	N	G
Statistics (films with more than one nomination are listed) N = nomination; G = Won
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

series	N	G
Statistics (series with more than one nomination are listed) N = nomination; G = Won
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

taxi

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)