Winner photos

• Winner Alan Parker

• Parker thanks the Academy

• Browse the other categories at the Film Awards in 1979
• Explore the history of the Direction category at the Film Awards
• Watch Alan Parker receive the Academy Fellowship in 2013

Nominees

• Close Encounters Of The Third Kind

  • Steven Spielberg
• Julia

  • Fred Zinnemann
• Midnight Express

  • Alan Parker
• A Wedding

  • Robert Altman