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1978 (51st Annual Awards)
Nomination Statistics by Film

Listed below are statistics for the films nominated for Academy Awards in 1978. In the chart, the term “Top Six” refers to the number of nominations or wins in the top six award categories (Best Picture, Best Actor and Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Actress, and Directing). TheWinner marker symbol appears next to those films that ultimately won at least one award. Click on the name of a film in the list to display more information about that film. Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the nomination statistics for that year.

  Nominations  Wins
Film Title Top Six Total Top Six Total
Autumn Sonata
 1 2 0 0
Bloodbrothers
 0 1 0 0
The Boys from Brazil
 1 3 0 0
The Brink’s Job
 0 1 0 0
Winner markerThe Buddy Holly Story
 1 3 0 1
Winner markerCalifornia Suite
 1 3 1 1
Caravans
 0 1 0 0
Comes a Horseman
 1 1 0 0
Winner markerComing Home
 6 8 2 3
Winner markerDays of Heaven
 0 4 0 1
Winner markerDeath on the Nile
 0 1 0 1
Winner markerThe Deer Hunter
 5 9 3 5
A Different Approach
 0 1 0 0
The Divided Trail: A Native American Odyssey
 0 1 0 0
An Encounter with Faces
 0 1 0 0
Winner markerThe Flight of the Gossamer Condor
 0 1 0 1
Foul Play
 0 1 0 0
Winner markerGet Out Your Handkerchiefs
 0 1 0 1
The Glass Cell
 0 1 0 0
Goodnight Miss Ann
 0 1 0 0
Grease
 0 1 0 0
Winner markerHeaven Can Wait
 5 9 0 1
Hooper
 0 1 0 0
Hungarians
 0 1 0 0
Interiors
 3 5 0 0
The Lovers’ Wind
 0 1 0 0
The Magic of Lassie
 0 1 0 0
Mandy’s Grandmother
 0 1 0 0
Winner markerMidnight Express
 3 6 0 2
Mysterious Castles of Clay
 0 1 0 0
Oh My Darling
 0 1 0 0
Pretty Baby
 0 1 0 0
Raoni
 0 1 0 0
Rip Van Winkle
 0 1 0 0
Same Time, Next Year
 1 4 0 0
Winner markerScared Straight!
 0 1 0 1
Winner markerSpecial Delivery
 0 1 0 1
Squires of San Quentin
 0 1 0 0
Strange Fruit
 0 1 0 0
Winner markerSuperman
 0 4 0 1
The Swarm
 0 1 0 0
Winner markerTeenage Father
 0 1 0 1
Winner markerThank God It’s Friday
 0 1 0 1
An Unmarried Woman
 2 3 0 0
Viva Italia!
 0 1 0 0
White Bim Black Ear
 0 1 0 0
With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women’s Emergency Brigade
 0 1 0 0
The Wiz
 0 4 0 0
Winning Films: 15 30 101 6 22
Total Films: 48