1978 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

4th LAFCA Awards

Date

December 16, 1978

Highlights

Best Picture

Coming Home

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The 4th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in film for 1978, were announced on 16 December 1978.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Winners

Best Picture:
- Coming Home
Best Director:
- Michael Cimino – The Deer Hunter
- Runners-up: Woody Allen – Interiors and Alan Parker – Midnight Express
Best Actor:
- Jon Voight – Coming Home
- Runner-up: Gary Busey – The Buddy Holly Story
Best Actress:
- Jane Fonda – Coming Home, Comes a Horseman and California Suite
- Runner-up: Ingrid Bergman – Autumn Sonata (Höstsonaten)
Best Supporting Actor:
- Robert Morley – Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
Best Supporting Actress (tie):
- Maureen Stapleton – Interiors
- Mona Washbourne – Stevie
Best Screenplay:
- Paul Mazursky – An Unmarried Woman
- Runners-up: Woody Allen – Interiors and Larry Gelbart and Sheldon Keller – Movie Movie
Best Cinematography:
- Néstor Almendros – Days of Heaven
- Runners-up: Sven Nykvist – Pretty Baby
Best Music Score:
- Giorgio Moroder – Midnight Express
Best Foreign Film:
- Madame Rosa (La vie devant soi) • France
New Generation Award:
- Gary Busey
Career Achievement Award:
- Orson Welles

^ FILM CRITICS VOTE^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "L.A. critics rate 'Coming Home' best". The Spokesman-Review. 23 December 1978. Retrieved 28 December 2017 – via Google News Archive.
^ "Los Angeles Film Critics Association".