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The Academy Awards Year 1978 was held at Los Angeles, California, USA on 3 April 1978

BEST PICTURE 1978 WINNER

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ANNIE HALL (1977)

Director : Woody Allen
Writer : Woody Allen (written by), Marshall Brickman (written by)
Genre : Comedy | Drama | Romance
Main Cast : Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane, Janet Margolin

Plot : After breaking up with his girlfriend Annie Hall, neurotic comedian Alvy Singer goes on a stream of conciousness journey through his memories of their relationship, trying to find out what caused them to part ways. He often breaks the fourth wall, speaking to the camera, entering peoples’ stories, and even using animation. —IMDb

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OTHER NOMINEES

JULIA (1977)

Director : Fred Zinnemann
Writer : Lillian Hellman (novel), Alvin Sargent (writer)
Genre : Drama
Main Cast : Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Maximilian Schell, Meryl Streep

Plot : The film traces the lifelong relationship between playwright Lillian Hellman and Julia, a wealthy girl who turns her back on her upbringing to follow her ideals. In the 1930s, while the adult Hellman (Jane Fonda) struggles to establish herself as a playwright with the help of her lover, Dashiell Hammett (Jason Robards), Julia (Vanessa Redgrave) battles the exigencies of the Nazi regime. Visiting Julia in Germany, Lillian realizes how much her friend’s idealism has cost her, both physically and financially. Lillian is asked by Julia’s friend Johann (Maximilian Schell) to smuggle a large sum of money from Paris to Germany, the better to combat the Nazis from within. Nominated for 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and four acting awards, Julia won for Alvin Sargent’s screenplay and Robards’ and Redgrave’s performances, leading to Redgrave’s infamous “Zionist hoodlums” acceptance speech. —Allmovie

 

STAR WARS: EPISODE IV – A NEW HOPE (1977)

Director : George Lucas
Writer : George Lucas (written by)
Genre : Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Main Cast : Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness

Plot : Part IV in a George Lucas epic, Star Wars: A New Hope opens with a rebel ship being boarded by the tyrannical Darth Vader. The plot then follows the life of a simple farmboy, Luke Skywalker, as he and his newly met allies (Han Solo, Chewbacca, Ben Kenobi, C-3PO, R2-D2) attempt to rescue a rebel leader, Princess Leia, from the clutches of the Empire. The conclusion is culminated as the Rebels, including Skywalker and flying ace Wedge Antilles make an attack on the Empires most powerful and ominous weapon, the Death Star. —IMDb

 

THE GOODBYE GIRL (1977)

Director : Herbert Ross
Writer : Neil Simon (written by)
Genre : Comedy | Romance
Main Cast : Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings, Paul Benedict, Barbara Rhoades

Plot : A divorced woman and her daughter come home to find that her boyfriend has left for an out of town job with no warning. This has happened before. The second surprise comes in the form of another actor who has sublet the apartment from her boyfriend (who did not mention the pair of females who would be in residence). After some negotiation the two decide to share the apartment even though she has vowed to stay away from actors. —IMDb

 

 

THE TURNING POINT (1977)

Director : Herbert Ross
Writer : Arthur Laurents (written by)
Genre : Drama | Romance
Main Cast : Shirley MacLaine, Anne Bancroft, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Leslie Browne, Tom Skerritt

Plot : The story of two women whose lives are dedicated to ballet. Deedee left her promising dance career to become a wife and mother and now runs a ballet school in Oklahoma. Emma stayed with a company and became a star though her time is nearly past. Both want what the other has and reflects back on missed chances as they are brought together again through Deedee’s daughter who joins the company. —IMDb

 

 

 

 

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM WINNER 1978

MADAME ROSA (1977)

Also Known As : La Vie Devant Soi
Country : France
Director : Moshé Mizrahi
Writer : Romain Gary (novel), Moshé Mizrahi (adaptation)
Genre : Drama
Main Cast : Simone Signoret, Michal Bat-Adam, Samy Ben-Youb, Gabriel Jabbour, Geneviève Fontanel

Plot : Madame Rosa lives in a sixth-floor walkup in the Pigalle; she’s a retired prostitute, Jewish and an Auschwitz survivor, a foster mom to children of other prostitutes. Momo is the oldest and her favorite, an Algerian lad whom she raises as a Muslim. He asks about his parents; she answers evasively. As she ages and takes fewer children, Momo must do more for her; as money is tight, he tries to earn pennies on the street with a puppet. He’s a beautiful man-child, and Madame Rosa makes him promise never to sell himself or become a pimp. A film editor, Nadine, befriends him, and his father appears as well. Madame Rosa reaches her last days in fear of hospitals, and Momo must act. —IMDb

 

OTHER NOMINEES

CET OBSCUR OBJET DU DÉSIR (1977)

Also Known As : That Obscure Object Of Desire
Country : France | Spain
Director : Luis Buñuel
Writer : Luis Buñuel (scenario), Jean-Claude Carrière (collaboration)
Genre : Comedy | Drama | Romance
Main Cast : Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Ángela Molina, Julien Bertheau, André Weber

Plot : Just after boarding a train, much to the surprise of his fellow passengers, a man pours a bucket of water over a young girl on the platform. Over the next few hours he explains (and we see in flashback) how he became obsessed by her (so much so that he failed to notice that she was played by two different actresses, representing different sides of her personality), and how she tantalised him, but would never allow him to satisfy his desire for her. —IMDb

 

IFIGENEIA (1977)

Also Known As : Iphigenia
Country : Greece
Director : Mihalis Kakogiannis
Writer : Euripides (play), Mihalis Kakogiannis (writer)
Genre : Comedy | Crime | Drama | War
Main Cast : Irene Papas, Kostas Kazakos, Kostas Karras, Tatiana Papamoschou, Christos Tsagas

Plot : This production by Michael Cacoyannes is respectfully adapted from the ancient classical Greek play by Euripides (485-406 BCE). When the Athenians took off in ships to recover their fabled noble daughter Helen from Paris of Troy, their sailing ships were stalled for lack of wind among a group of islands. They didn’t have enough food onboard for a long stay at sea, and some of the expedition leaders, including Agamemnon (Costa Cazakos) and Meneleas (Costa Carras), the cuckolded husband of Helen, decide to go ashore and kill some deer. However, they know that those particular deer are sacred to the gods, and that killing them would bring a curse for impiety onto the whole group. The head of the expedition, on examining the subsequent oracles, tells Agamemnon that the Athenian fleet will have no wind until he sacrifices his own daughter Iphigehnia (Tatiana Papamoskou) to atone for the death of the sacred deer. Clytemnestre (Irene Papas), the girl’s mother, tries everything in her power to prevent the sacrifice but is unsuccessful. —Allmovie

 

MIVTSA YONATAN (1977)

Also Known As : Entebbe: Operations Thunderbolt
Country : Israel
Director : Menahem Golan
Writer : Ken Globus (dialogue), Menahem Golan (writer)
Genre : Action | Drama
Main Cast : Yehoram Gaon, Gila Almagor, Assi Dayan, Klaus Kinski, Sybil Danning

Plot : In July 1976, an Air France flight from Tel-Aviv to Paris via Athens was hijacked and forced to land in Entebbe, Uganda. The Jewish passengers were separated and held hostage in demand to release many terrorists held in Israeli prisons. After much debate, the Israeli government sent an elite commando unit to raid the airfield and release the hostages. The film is based on the true facts and follows the events since the flight’s takeoff and until the hostages’ return to Israel. —IMDb

 

UNA GIORNATA PARTICOLARE (1977)

Also Known As : A Special Day
Country : Italy
Director : Ettore Scola
Writer : Maurizio Costanzo (writer), Ruggero Maccari (writer)
Genre : Drama | Romance | War
Main Cast : Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon, Françoise Berd, Patrizia Basso

Plot : The film is set during the late 1930s: the occasion is the first meeting between Mussolini and Hitler. Left alone in her tenement home when her fascist husband runs off to attend the historic event, Sophia Loren strikes up a friendship with her homosexual neighbor Mastroianni. As the day segues into night, Loreon and Mastroianni develop a very special relationship that will radically alter both of their outlooks on life.—IMDb