Oscar Rewrite: 1979

 

Best Picture: Kramer vs. Kramer   Alien

Best Director: Robert Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer) Bob Fosse (All That Jazz)

Best Actor: Dustin Hoffman (Kramer vs. Kramer)  Steve Martin (The Jerk)

Best Actress: Sally Field (Norma Rae)

Best Supporting Actor: Mevlyn Douglas (Being There) Robert Duvall (Apocalypse Now)

Best Supporting Actress: Meryl Streep (Kramer vs. Kramer / Manhattan)

Best Original Screenplay: Breaking Away

Best Adapted Screenplay: Kramer vs. Kramer Being There

Jason Fraley

Hailed by The Washington Post for “his savantlike ability to name every Best Picture winner in history," Jason Fraley began at WTOP as Morning Drive Writer in 2008, film critic in 2011 and Entertainment Editor in 2014, providing daily arts coverage on-air and online.

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