37th Golden Globe Awards

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The 37th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1979, were held on 26 January 1980.

Winners

Film

Best Actor - Drama

Dustin Hoffman – Kramer vs. Kramer

• Jack Lemmon – The China Syndrome
• Al Pacino – ...And Justice for All
• Jon Voight – The Champ
• James Woods – The Onion Field

Best Actor - Musical or Comedy

Peter Sellers – Being There

• George Hamilton – Love at First Bite
• Dudley Moore – 10
• Burt Reynolds – Starting Over
• Roy Scheider – All That Jazz

Best Actress - Drama

Sally Field – Norma Rae

• Jill Clayburgh – Luna (La luna)
• Lisa Eichhorn – Yanks
• Jane Fonda – The China Syndrome
• Marsha Mason – Promises in the Dark

Best Actress - Musical or Comedy

Bette Midler – The Rose

• Julie Andrews – 10
• Jill Clayburgh – Starting Over
• Shirley MacLaine – Being There
• Marsha Mason – Chapter Two

Best Director

Francis Ford Coppola – Apocalypse Now

• Hal Ashby – Being There
• Robert Benton – Kramer vs. Kramer
• James Bridges – The China Syndrome
• Peter Yates – Breaking Away

Best Film - Drama

Kramer vs. Kramer

• Apocalypse Now
• The China Syndrome
• Manhattan
• Norma Rae

Best Film - Musical or Comedy

Breaking Away

• 10
• Being There
• Hair
• The Rose

Best Foreign Language Film

Birds of a Feather (La cage aux folles) • France/Italy

• The Marriage of Maria Braun (Die Ehe der Maria Braun) • West Germany
• The Europeans • Great Britain
• Mio Dio come sono caduta in basso! • Italy
• Soldaat van Oranje • Netherlands

Best Original Score

"Apocalypse Now" – Carmine and Francis Ford Coppola

• "10" – Henry Mancini
• "Alien" – Jerry Goldsmith
• "The Amityville Horror" – Lalo Schifrin
• "The Black Stallion" – Carmine Coppola
• "A Little Romance" – Georges Delerue
• "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" – Jerry Goldsmith

Best Original Song

"The Rose" performed by Bette Midler – The Rose

• "Through the Eyes of Love" – Ice Castles
• "The Main Event" – The Main Event
• "Rainbow Connection" – The Muppet Movie
• "Better Than Ever" – Starting Over

Best Screenplay

Kramer vs. Kramer – Robert Benton

• Being There – Jerzy Kosinski
• Breaking Away – Steve Tesich
• The China Syndrome – James Bridges, T. S. Cook and Mike Gray
• Norma Rae – Harriet Frank, Jr. and Irving Ravetch

Best Supporting Actor

Melvyn Douglas – Being There (tie)
Robert Duvall – Apocalypse Now

• Frederic Forrest – The Rose
• Justin Henry – Kramer vs. Kramer
• Laurence Olivier – A Little Romance

Best Supporting Actress

Meryl Streep – Kramer vs. Kramer

• Jane Alexander – Kramer vs. Kramer
• Kathleen Beller – Promises in the Dark
• Candice Bergen – Starting Over
• Valerie Harper – Chapter Two

Other

• New Star of the Year in a Motion Picture - Male:
  • Rick Schroder - The Champ
• New Star of the Year in a Motion Picture - Female:
  • Bette Midler - The Rose

Television

Best Actor - Drama Series

Ed Asner – Lou Grant

• Richard Chamberlain – Centennial
• Erik Estrada – CHiPs
• James Garner – The Rockford Files
• John Houseman – The Paper Chase
• Martin Sheen – Blind Ambition
• Robert Urich – Vega$
• Robert Wagner – Hart to Hart

Best Actor - Musical or Comedy Series

Alan Alda – M*A*S*H

• Judd Hirsch – Taxi
• Wilfrid Hyde-White – The Associates
• John Ritter – Three's Company
• Robin Williams – Mork & Mindy

Best Actress - Drama Series

Natalie Wood – From Here to Eternity

• Barbara Bel Geddes – Dallas
• Kate Mulgrew – Mrs. Columbo
• Stefanie Powers – Hart to Hart
• Sada Thompson – Family

Best Actress - Musical or Comedy Series

Linda Lavin – Alice

• Penny Marshall – Laverne & Shirley
• Donna Pescow – Angie
• Jean Stapleton – All in the Family
• Loretta Swit – M*A*S*H

Best Supporting Actor

Danny DeVito – Taxi
Vic Tayback – Alice

• Jeff Conaway – Taxi
• Tony Danza – Taxi
• David Doyle – Charlie's Angels

See also

• 52nd Academy Awards
• 31st Primetime Emmy Awards
• 32nd Primetime Emmy Awards
• 33rd British Academy Film Awards
• 34th Tony Awards
• 1979 in film
• 1979 in television