36th Golden Globe Awards

36th Golden Globe Awards
Date	January 27, 1979
Highlights
Best Film: Drama	Midnight Express
Best Film: Musical or Comedy	Heaven Can Wait
Best Drama Series	60 Minutes
Best Musical or Comedy Series	Taxi
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The 36th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1978, were held on January 27, 1979.

Winners and nominees[]

Film[]

Best Motion Picture
Drama	Comedy or Musical
Midnight Express Coming Home Days of Heaven The Deer Hunter An Unmarried Woman	Heaven Can Wait California Suite Foul Play Grease Movie Movie
Best Performance in a Motion Picture – Drama
Actor	Actress
Jon Voight – Coming Home as Luke Martin Brad Davis – Midnight Express as Billy Hayes Robert De Niro – The Deer Hunter as Michael Vronsky Anthony Hopkins – Magic as Corky Withers / "Fats" Gregory Peck – The Boys from Brazil as Dr. Josef Mengele	Jane Fonda – Coming Home as Sally Hyde Ingrid Bergman – Autumn Sonata as Charlotte Andergast Jill Clayburgh – An Unmarried Woman as Erica Glenda Jackson – Stevie as Stevie Smith Geraldine Page – Interiors as Eve
Best Performance in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Actor	Actress
Warren Beatty – Heaven Can Wait as Joe Pendleton Alan Alda – Same Time, Next Year as George Gary Busey – The Buddy Holly Story as Buddy Holly Chevy Chase – Foul Play as Det. Tony Carlson George C. Scott – Movie Movie as Gloves Malloy / Spats Baxter John Travolta – Grease as Danny Zuko	Ellen Burstyn – Same Time, Next Year as Doris (TIE) Maggie Smith – California Suite as Diana Barrie (TIE) Jacqueline Bisset – Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? as Natasha O'Brien Goldie Hawn – Foul Play as Gloria Mundy Olivia Newton-John – Grease as Sandy Olsson
Best Supporting Performance in a Motion Picture – Drama, Comedy or Musical
Supporting Actor	Supporting Actress
John Hurt – Midnight Express as Max Bruce Dern – Coming Home as Bob Hyde Dudley Moore – Foul Play as Stanley Tibbets Robert Morley – Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? as Max Christopher Walken – The Deer Hunter as Cpl. Nikanor "Nick" Chevotarevich	Dyan Cannon – Heaven Can Wait as Julia Farnsworth Carol Burnett – A Wedding as Tulip Brenner Maureen Stapleton – Interiors as Pearl Meryl Streep – The Deer Hunter as Linda Mona Washbourne – Stevie as Aunt
Other
Best Director	Best Screenplay
Michael Cimino – The Deer Hunter Woody Allen – Interiors Hal Ashby – Coming Home Terrence Malick – Days of Heaven Paul Mazursky – An Unmarried Woman Alan Parker – Midnight Express	Midnight Express – Oliver Stone Coming Home – Robert C. Jones and Waldo Salt The Deer Hunter – Deric Washburn Foul Play – Colin Higgins Interiors – Woody Allen An Unmarried Woman – Paul Mazursky
Best Original Score	Best Original Song
Midnight Express – Giorgio Moroder The Children of Sanchez – Chuck Mangione The Lord of the Rings – Leonard Rosenman Superman – John Williams An Unmarried Woman – Bill Conti	"Last Dance" (Paul Jabara) – Thank God It's Friday "Grease" (Barry Gibb) – Grease "The Last Time I Felt Like This" (Marvin Hamlisch, Alan and Marilyn Bergman) – Same Time, Next Year "Ready to Take a Chance Again" (Charles Fox, Norman Gimbel) – Foul Play "You're the One That I Want" (John Farrar) – Grease
New Star of the Year – Actor	New Star of the Year – Actress
Brad Davis – Midnight Express as Billy Hayes Chevy Chase – Foul Play as Det. Tony Carlson Harry Hamlin – Movie Movie as Joey Popchik Doug McKeon – Uncle Joe Shannon as Robbie Eric Roberts – King of the Gypsies as Dave Stepanowicz	Irene Miracle – Midnight Express as Susan Anne Ditchburn – Slow Dancing in the Big City as Sarah Gantz Annie Potts – Corvette Summer as Vanessa Anita Skinner – Girlfriends as Jean Moreton Mary Steenburgen – Goin' South as Julie Tate
Best Foreign Film
Autumn Sonata (Sweden) Death on the Nile (England) Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (Brazil) A Dream of Passion (Greece) Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (France) Lemon Popsicle (Israel)

Television[]

Best Series - Drama[]

60 Minutes

• Battlestar Galactica
• Family
• Holocaust
• Lou Grant

Best Series - Comedy or Musical[]

Taxi

• Alice
• All in the Family
• The Love Boat
• Three's Company

Best Actor - Drama Series[]

Michael Moriarty - Holocaust

• Edward Asner - Lou Grant
• James Garner - The Rockford Files
• Richard Hatch - Battlestar Galactica
• John Houseman - The Paper Chase
• Michael Landon - Little House on the Prairie

Best Actress - Drama Series[]

Rosemary Harris - Holocaust

• Kate Jackson - Charlie's Angels
• Kristy McNichol - Family
• Lee Remick - Wheels
• Sada Thompson - Family

Best Actor - Comedy or Musical Series[]

Robin Williams - Mork and Mindy

• Alan Alda - M*A*S*H
• Gavin MacLeod - The Love Boat
• Judd Hirsch - Taxi
• John Ritter - Three's Company

Best Actress - Comedy or Musical Series[]

Linda Lavin - Alice

• Carol Burnett - The Carol Burnett Show
• Penny Marshall - Laverne & Shirley
• Suzanne Somers - Three's Company
• Jean Stapleton - All in the Family

Best Supporting Actor[]

Norman Fell - Three's Company

• Jeff Conaway - Taxi
• Danny DeVito - Taxi
• Pat Harrington, Jr. - One Day at a Time
• Andy Kaufman - Taxi

Best Supporting Actress[]

Polly Holliday - Alice

• Marilu Henner - Taxi
• Julie Kavner - Rhoda
• Linda Kelsey - Lou Grant
• Audra Lindley - Three's Company
• Nancy Walker - Rhoda

See also[]

• 51st Academy Awards
• 30th Primetime Emmy Awards
• 31st Primetime Emmy Awards
• 32nd British Academy Film Awards
• 33rd Tony Awards
• 1978 in film
• 1978 in television

References[]

• IMdb 1979 Golden Globe Awards