1979


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Other films seen

    Alien
    ...And Justice for All
    The China Syndrome
    The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
    The Jerk
    Kramer vs Kramer
    Manhattan
    North Dallas Forty
    Stalker


Best of 1979

  1. Manhattan
  2. Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
  3. Marriage of Maria Braun
  4. Stalker
  5. Apocalypse Now
  1. The Jerk
  2. The China Syndrome
  3. Kramer vs Kramer
  4. Alien
  5. ...And Justice For All

LEADING ACTOR

Dustin Hoffman, Kramer vs Kramer
Jack Lemmon, The China Syndrome
Steve Martin, The Jerk
Al Pacino, ...And Justice for All
Martin Sheen, Apocalypse Now

LEADING ACTRESS

Jane Fonda, The China Syndrome
Diane Keaton, Manhattan
Hanna Schygulla, The Marriage of Maria Braun
Sigourney Weaver, Alien

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Marlon Brando, Apocalypse Now
Robert Duvall, Apocalypse Now
Michael Murphy, Manhattan

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Jane Alexander, Kramer vs Kramer
Veronica Cartwright, Alien
Mariel Hemingway, Manhattan
Meryl Streep, Kramer vs Kramer
Gisela Uhlen, The Marriage of Maria Braun

DIRECTION

Woody Allen, Manhattan
Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, The Marriage of Maria Braun
Raoul Ruiz, The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
Andrei Tarkovsky, Stalker

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Woody Allen & Marshall Brickman, Manhattan
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Pea Frohlich & Peter Märthesheimer, The Marriage of Maria Braun
Pierre Klossowski & Raoul Ruiz, The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
Steve Martin, Carl Gottlieb & Michael Elias, The Jerk

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

John Milius & Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now [novel Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad]
Andrei Tarkovsky, Arkadi & Boris Strugatsky, Stalker [novel The Roadside Panic, Arkadi & Boris Stugatsky]

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» Jeopardy 1953, John Sturges
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» Belle toujours 2007, Manoel de Oliveira
» Duel in the Sun 1946, King Vidor
» Dragonwyck 1946, Joseph L Mankiewicz
» The Spiral Staircase 1945, Robert Siodmak
» The Man Who Knew Too Much 1934, Alfred Hitchcock
» Tell No One 2008, Guillaume Canet

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