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 Andrew Stevens – The Boys in Company C as Billy Ray Pike	*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)

The following films received multiple nominations:

Nominations	Title
8	Midnight Express
7	Foul Play
6	Coming Home
6	The Deer Hunter
5	An Unmarried Woman
5	Grease
4	Interiors
3	Heaven Can Wait
	Movie Movie
	Same Time, Next Year
2	Autumn Sonata
	California Suite
	Days of Heaven
	Stevie
	Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

The following films received multiple wins:

Wins	Title
6	Midnight Express
3	Heaven Can Wait
2	Coming Home

Television

Best Television Series
Drama	Musical or Comedy
*60 Minutes* Battlestar Galactica Family Holocaust Lou Grant	*Taxi* Alice All in the Family The Love Boat Three's Company
Best Performance in a Television Series Drama
Actor	Actress
*Michael Moriarty - Holocaust* as Eric Dorf** Ed Asner - Lou Grant as Lou Grant James Garner - The Rockford Files as Jim Rockford Richard Hatch - Battlestar Galactica as Captain Apollo John Houseman - The Paper Chase as Professor Charles W. Kingsfield, Jr. Michael Landon - Little House on the Prairie as Charles Ingalls	*Rosemary Harris - Holocaust* as Berta Palitz Weiss** Kate Jackson - Charlie's Angels as Sabrina Duncan Kristy McNichol - Family as Leticia "Buddy" Lawrence Lee Remick - Wheels as Erica Trenton Sada Thompson - Family as Kate Lawrence
Best Performance in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Actor	Actress
*Robin Williams - Mork & Mindy* as Mork** Alan Alda - MASH* as Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce Gavin MacLeod - The Love Boat as Captain Merrill Stubing Judd Hirsch - Taxi as Alex Reiger John Ritter - Three's Company as Jack Tripper	*Linda Lavin - Alice* as Alice Hyatt** Carol Burnett - The Carol Burnett Show as Various Characters Penny Marshall - Laverne & Shirley as Laverne DeFazio Suzanne Somers - Three's Company as Chrissy Snow Jean Stapleton - All in the Family as Edith Bunker
Best Supporting Performance in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film
Supporting Actor	Supporting Actress
*Norman Fell - Three's Company* as Stanley Roper** Jeff Conaway - Taxi as Bobby Wheeler Danny DeVito - Taxi as Louie De Palma Pat Harrington Jr. - One Day at a Time as Dwayne Schneider Andy Kaufman - Taxi as Latka Gravas	*Polly Holliday - Alice* as Florence "Flo" Castleberry** Marilu Henner - Taxi as Elaine O'Connor Nardo Julie Kavner - Rhoda as Brenda Morgenstern Linda Kelsey - Lou Grant as Billie Newman Audra Lindley - Three's Company as Helen Roper Nancy Walker - Rhoda as Ida Morgenstern

The following programs received multiple nominations:

Nominations	Title
6	Taxi
4	Three's Company
3	Alice
	Family
	Holocaust
	Lou Grant
2	All in the Family
	Battlestar Galactica
	The Love Boat
	Rhoda

The following programs received multiple wins:

Wins	Title
2	Alice
2	Holocaust

Cecil B. DeMille Award

Lucille Ball

References

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Winners and nominees

Film

Television

Cecil B. DeMille Award

See also

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