1979

Best Picture

Apocolypse Now
-The China Syndrome
-Kramer vs. Kramer
-The Jerk
-Alien

Best Director

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like...victory."
Francis Ford Coppola for Apocolypse Now
-Ridley Scott for Alien
-Robert Benton for Kramer vs. Kramer
-Hal Ashby for Being There
-Woody Allen for Manhattan

Best Actor

"Lord loves a workin' man; don't trust whitey; catch something, see a doctor and get rid of it."
Steve Martin as Navin R. Johnson in The Jerk
-Martin Sheen as Capt. Benjamin L. Willard in Apocolypse Now
-Peter Sellers as Chance in Being There
-Dustin Hoffman as Ted Kramer in Kramer vs. Kramer
-Al Pacino as Arthur Kirkland in ...And Justice For All

Best Actress

"Forget it! I'm stayin' right where I am. It's gonna take you and the police department and the fire department and the National Guard to get me outta here!"
Sally Field as Norma Rae in Norma Rae
-Marsha Mason as Jenny MacLaine in Chapter Two
-Jane Fonda as Kimberly Wells in The China Syndrome
-Diane Keaton as Mary Wilkie in Manhattan
-Bernadette Peters as Marie Kimble Johnson in The Jerk

Best Supporting Actor

"Have you ever considered any real freedoms? Freedoms from the opinion of others... even the opinions of yourself?"
Marlon Brando as Col. Walter E. Kurtz in Apocolypse Now
-Robert Duvall as Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore in Apocolypse Now
-Melvyn Douglas as Benjamin Rand in Being There
-Justin Henry as Billy Kramer in Kramer vs. Kramer
-Burgess Meredith as Mickey Goldmill in Rocky II

Best Supporting Actress

"I came here to take my son home. And I realized he already is home."
Meryl Streep as Joanna Kramer in Kramer vs. Kramer
-Mariel Hemingway as Tracy in Manhattan
-Shirley MacLaine as Eve Rand in Being There
-Valerie Harper as Faye Medwick in Chapter Two
-Jane Alexander as Margaret Phelps in Kramer vs. Kramer

Best Screenplay

"What are they gonna say about him? What are they gonna say? That he was a kind man? That he was a wise man? That he had plans, man? That he had wisdom? Bullshit, man!"
Apocolypse Now
-Manhattan
-...And Justice For All
-The Jerk
-Kramer vs. Kramer
-The China Syndrome