title: 1978 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
text: # 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.
  
  ## Winners
  
  * 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
  