THE 10 BEST FILMS OF 1978

By: DOUGLAS REESE

BEST ACTOR
01. volker spengler – in a year of 13 moons
02. richard pryor – blue collar
03. jan-michael vincent – big wednesday
04. anthony hopkins – magic
05. stephen archibald – my way home
06. dustin hoffman – straight time
07. giancarlo giannini – the end of the world in our usual bed in a night full of rain
08. jon voight – coming home
09. brad davis – midnight express
10. robert de niro – the deer hunter

BEST ACTRESS
01. candice bergen – the end of the world in our usual bed in a night full of rain
02. aurore clement – les rendez-vous d’anna
03. shima iwashita – the demon
04. jamie lee curtis – halloween
05. kazuko yoshiyuki – empire of passion
06. jill clayburgh – an unmarried woman
07. ingrid bergman – autumn sonata
08. brooke shields – pretty baby
09. isabelle adjani – the driver
10. geraldine page – interiors

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
01. christopher walken – the deer hunter
02. john savage – the deer hunter
03. michael v. gazzo – fingers
04. john hurt – midnight express
05. bruce dern – the driver
06. michael caine – california suite
07. jason mason – the boys from brazil
08. richard gere – days of heaven
09. m. emmet walsh – straight time
10. harry dean stanton – straight time

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
01. susan sarandon – pretty baby
02. nancy loomis – halloween
03. irene miracle – midnight express
04. maggie smith – california suite
05. brooke adams – days of heaven
06. susannah york – the shout
07. stockard channing – grease
08. meryl streep – the deer hunter
09. elizabeth ashley – coma
10. dyan cannon – heaven can wait

• 01
  American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince
  Martin Scorsese
• 02
  Autumn Sonata
  Ingmar Bergman
• 03
  Big Wednesday
  John Milius
• 04
  Blue Collar
  Paul Schrader
• 05
  The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
  Fred Schepisi
• 06
  Coming Home
  Hal Ashby
• 07
  The Contract
  Michael Hui
• 08
  Dawn of the Dead
  George A. Romero
• 09
  Days of Heaven
  Terrence Malick
• 10
  The Deer Hunter
  Michael Cimino
• 11
  The Demon
  Yoshitaro Nomura
• 12
  The Driver
  Walter Hill
• 13
  Drunken Master
  Yuen Woo-ping
• 14
  Empire of Passion
  Nagisa Ôshima
• 15
  The End of the World in Our Usual Bed in a Night Full of Rain
  Lina Wertmüller
• 16
  Gates of Heaven
  Errol Morris
• 17
  The Glacier Fox
  Koreyoshi Kurahara
• 18
  Halloween
  John Carpenter
• 19
  In a Year with 13 Moons
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 20
  Interiors
  Woody Allen
• 21
  Jubilee
  Derek Jarman
• 22
  Midnight Express
  Alan Parker
• 23
  My Way Home
  Bill Douglas
• 24
  Pretty Baby
  Louis Malle
• 25
  The Shout
  Jerzy Skolimowski
• 26
  Watership Down
  Martin Rosen
• 27
  Les rendez-vous d’Anna
  Chantal Akerman
• 28
  Coma
  Michael Crichton
• 29
  Straight Time
  Ulu Grosbard
• 30
  You Are Not Alone
  Ernst Johansen
• 31
  Snake in the Eagle's Shadow
  Yuen Woo-ping
• 32
  Long Weekend
  Colin Eggleston
• 33
  Paradise Alley
  Sylvester Stallone