1978 New York Film Critics Circle Awards

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The 44th New York Film Critics Circle Awards honored the best filmmaking of 1978. The winners were announced on 20 December 1978 and the awards were given on 28 January 1979.

Winners

Best Actor:

Jon Voight - Coming Home

Runners-up: Gary Busey - The Buddy Holly Story and Robert De Niro - The Deer Hunter

Best Actress:

Ingrid Bergman - Autumn Sonata (Höstsonaten)

Runners-up: Jill Clayburgh - An Unmarried Woman and Jane Fonda - Coming Home and Comes a Horseman

Best Director:

Terrence Malick - Days of Heaven

Runners-up: Paul Mazursky - An Unmarried Woman and Ingmar Bergman - Autumn Sonata (Höstsonaten)

Best Film:

The Deer Hunter

Runners-up: Days of Heaven and An Unmarried Woman

Best Foreign Language Film:

Bread and Chocolate (Pane e cioccolata) • Italy

Runners-up: Autumn Sonata (Höstsonaten) and A Slave of Love (Raba lyubvi)

Best Screenplay:

Paul Mazursky - An Unmarried Woman

Runners-up: Larry Gelbart and Sheldon Keller - Movie Movie, Franco Brusati, Jaja Fiastri and Nino Manfredi - Bread and Chocolate (Pane e cioccolata) and Bertrand Blier - Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Préparez vos mouchoirs)

Best Supporting Actor:

Christopher Walken - The Deer Hunter

Runners-up: Richard Farnsworth - Comes a Horseman and Barry Bostwick - Movie Movie

Best Supporting Actress:

Maureen Stapleton - Interiors

Runners-up: Maggie Smith - California Suite and Meryl Streep - The Deer Hunter

References

1978 New York Film Critics Circle Awards Wikipedia

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