# 36th Golden Globe Awards

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 |
| 3 | Movie Movie |
| 3 | Same Time, Next Year |
| 2 | Autumn Sonata |
| 2 | California Suite |
| 2 | Days of Heaven |
| 2 | Stevie |
| 2 | 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 - M*A*S*H 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 |
| 3 | Family |
| 3 | Holocaust |
| 3 | Lou Grant |
| 2 | All in the Family |
| 2 | Battlestar Galactica |
| 2 | The Love Boat |
| 2 | Rhoda |
The following programs received multiple wins:
| Wins | Title |
| 2 | Alice |
| 2 | Holocaust |

### Cecil B. DeMille Award

Lucille Ball