32nd British Academy Film Awards
Appearance
32nd British Academy Film Awards | |
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Date | 22 March 1979 |
Hosted by | Sue Lawley Michael York |
Highlights | |
Best Film | Julia |
Best Actor | Richard Dreyfuss The Goodbye Girl |
Best Actress | Jane Fonda Julia |
Most awards | Julia (4) |
Most nominations | Julia (10) |
The 32nd British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts at the Wembley Conference Centre, London in 1979, honoured the best films of 1978.[1]
Winners and nominees
Best Film
Best Actor
Richard Dreyfuss in The Goodbye Girl [2]
Best Actress
Jane Fonda in Julia [2]
- Marsha Mason in The Goodbye Girl
- Anne Bancroft in The Turning Point
- Jill Clayburgh in An Unmarried Woman
Best Supporting Actor
John Hurt in Midnight Express [2]
- Jason Robards in Julia
- François Truffaut in Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Gene Hackman in Superman
Best Supporting Actress
Geraldine Page in Interiors [2]
Best Direction
Alan Parker for Midnight Express [2]
- Steven Spielberg for Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Fred Zinnemann for Julia
- Robert Altman for A Wedding