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
- Best Supporting Actor:
- *Robert Morley – Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
- Best Supporting Actress :
- *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 • France
- New Generation Award:
- *Gary Busey
- Career Achievement Award:
- *Orson Welles