1978 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

The 4th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in film for 1978, were announced on 16 December 1978.

• Best Picture:

  • Coming Home

• Best Director:

  • Michael Cimino – The Deer Hunter
  • Runners-up: Woody Allen – Interiors and Alan Parker – Midnight Express

• Best Actor:

  • Jon Voight – Coming Home
  • Runner-up: Gary Busey – The Buddy Holly Story

• Best Actress:

  • Jane Fonda – Coming Home, Comes a Horseman and California Suite
  • Runner-up: Ingrid Bergman – Autumn Sonata (Höstsonaten)

• Best Supporting Actor:

  • Robert Morley – Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

• Best Supporting Actress (tie):

  • Maureen Stapleton – Interiors
  • Mona Washbourne – Stevie

• Best Screenplay:

  • Paul Mazursky – An Unmarried Woman
  • Runners-up: Woody Allen – Interiors and Larry Gelbart and Sheldon Keller – Movie Movie

• Best Cinematography:

  • Néstor Almendros – Days of Heaven
  • Runners-up: Sven Nykvist – Pretty Baby

• Best Music Score:

  • Giorgio Moroder – Midnight Express

• Best Foreign Film:

  • Madame Rosa (La vie devant soi) • France

• New Generation Award:

  • Gary Busey

• Career Achievement Award:

  • Orson Welles

• 4th Annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards