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