The Film Awards 1978

Nominations
==Best Picture==
* The Deer Hunter
* Coming Home
* Heaven Can Wait
* Midnight Express
* An Unmarried Woman
* Hooper
* The Lord of the Rings
* The Buddy Holly Story
* Grease
* The Wiz
==Best Animated Film==
* The Lord of the Rings
* Watership Down
* The Water Babies
* The Stingiest Man in Town
* Ringing Bell
==Best Animated Sound Mixing==
* The Lord of the Rings (Bill Mumford, Bob Minkler, Bill Varney and Stephen Katz)
* The Water Babies (Otto Snel and Cyril Collick)
* Watership Down (Ray Mervin and Bill Rowe)
* The Stingiest Man in Town (John Curcio, John Richards, Bob Elder and Dave Iveland)
* Black Beauty (Alan Dinehart)
==Best Animated Sound Editing==
* The Water Babies (Mike Le Mare)
* Ringing Bell (Mitsuru Kashiwabara)
==Best Horror Film==
* Halloween
* Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
* Jaws 2
* Damien: Omen II
* Dawn of the Dead
* Piranha
* Magic
* I Spit on your Grave
* The Legacy
* Martin
* The Toolbox Murders
==Best Horror Sound Mixing==
* Magic (Gerry Humphreys, Clint Althouse and Larry Jost)
* Jaws 2 (James R. Alexander, Robert L. Hoyt, Aisle L. Florence and George E. Marshall Jr.)
* Halloween (Thomas Causey, Tex Rudloff, Lee Strosnider and Joseph F. Brennan)
* Damien: Omen II (Al Overton, Theodore Soderberg, Paul Wells and Douglas O' Williams)
* Piranha (Joel Goldsmith, Anthony Santa Croce and Velcie Yewdall)
==Best Horror Sound Editing==
* Piranha (Richard L. Anderson and David Lewis Yewdall)
==Best Comedy Film==
* Grease
* National Lampoon's Animal House
* Revenge of the Pink Panther
* Foul Play
* Corvette Summer
* The End
* The Cheap Detective
* Movie Movie
* The Big Fix
* Up in Smoke
* Same Time, Next Year
==Best Comedy Sound Mixing==
* Movie Movie (David Dockendorf, James E. Webb and Lee Strosnider)
* Grease (Bill Varney, Jerry Jost, Jack Snyder and Joesph Kite)
* Corvette Summer (William L. McCaughey, Michael J. Kohut, Willie D. Burton and Aaron Rochin)
* The End (Richard Portman, Jack Solomon and John Roesch)
* National Lampoon's Animal House (Bill Varney, Howard S. Wollman, Alan Holly and William B. Kaplan)
==Best Comedy Sound Editing==
* Grease (Charles E. Moran)
* The Cheap Detective (Gene Eliot)
==Best Sci-Fi Film==
* Invasion of the Body Snatchers
* Superman
* Coma
* Laserblast
* The Cat From Outer Space
* The Medusa Touch
* The Fury
* The Swarm
* Patrick
* The Manitou
* A Fire in the Sky
* Avalanche
==Best Sci-Fi Sound Mixing==
* The Cat From Outer Space (Bud Maffett and Herb Taylor)
* Coma (William Griffith, William L. McCaughey, Michael J. Kohut and Aaron Rochin)
* Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Mark Berger, Art Rochester, Andy Wiskes and Steve Powell)
* The Swarm (Michael Minkler, Les Fresholtz, Arthur Piantadosi and Herman Lewis)
* Superman (Gordon K. McCallum, Graham V. Hartstone, Nicolas Le Messurier and Roy Charman)
==Best Sci-Fi Sound Editing==
* Superman (Chris Greenham and Peter Pennell)