Academy Awards archive

Apocalypse Now Oscar Nominations & Wins

Apocalypse Now has 8 Academy Award records in the AwardWentTo archive, including 2 wins.

Wins recorded in the archive

All 8 award records

Counts reflect film-linked records in this archive. Historical, special and honorary awards may be included; these are not a verified competitive-award total. Years identify the source film eligibility year.

Apocalypse Now: all recorded nominations and wins
Film yearCategory / credited nomineeRecorded result
Film year1979Best Supporting Actor
Credited nominee / recipientRobert Duvall

Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore

Nomination recorded
Recorded winner in this categoryBeing ThereBenjamin Rand
Melvyn Douglas
Film year1979Art Direction
Credited nominee / recipientArt Direction: Dean Tavoularis, Angelo Graham; Set Decoration: George R. Nelson
Nomination recorded
Recorded winner in this categoryAll That Jazz
Art Direction: Philip Rosenberg, Tony Walton; Set Decoration: Edward Stewart, Gary Brink
Film year1979Cinematography
Credited nominee / recipientVittorio Storaro
Win recorded
Film year1979Best Director
Credited nominee / recipientFrancis Coppola
Nomination recorded
Recorded winner in this categoryKramer vs. Kramer
Robert Benton
Film year1979Film Editing
Credited nominee / recipientRichard Marks, Walter Murch, Gerald B. Greenberg, Lisa Fruchtman
Nomination recorded
Recorded winner in this categoryAll That Jazz
Alan Heim
Film year1979Best Picture
Credited nominee / recipientFrancis Coppola, Producer; Fred Roos, Gray Frederickson and Tom Sternberg, Co-Producers
Nomination recorded
Recorded winner in this categoryKramer vs. Kramer
Stanley R. Jaffe, Producer
Film year1979Sound Mixing
Credited nominee / recipientWalter Murch, Mark Berger, Richard Beggs, Nat Boxer
Win recorded
Film year1979Adapted Screenplay
Credited nominee / recipientJohn Milius, Francis Coppola
Nomination recorded
Recorded winner in this categoryKramer vs. Kramer
Robert Benton

Who else was nominated?

Compare Apocalypse Now with the film-linked nominees recorded in the same category and ceremony. Each performance or song keeps its own credit; winners are marked in gold.

Comparisons are shown only for unambiguous competitive results. Honorary awards, ties and groups with unresolved source notes remain in the award history above.

Best Supporting Actor 1979 film year · Ceremony 52
Best Supporting Actor winner historyAll 1979 film-year results
Art Direction 1979 film year · Ceremony 52
  • Alien
    Art Direction: Michael Seymour, Les Dilley, Roger Christian; Set Decoration: Ian Whittaker
    Nominee
  • All That Jazz
    Art Direction: Philip Rosenberg, Tony Walton; Set Decoration: Edward Stewart, Gary Brink
    ★ Winner
  • Apocalypse Now This film
    Art Direction: Dean Tavoularis, Angelo Graham; Set Decoration: George R. Nelson
    Nominee
  • The China Syndrome
    Art Direction: George Jenkins; Set Decoration: Arthur Jeph Parker
    Nominee
  • Star Trek - The Motion Picture
    Art Direction: Harold Michelson, Joe Jennings, Leon Harris, John Vallone; Set Decoration: Linda DeScenna
    Nominee
Art Direction winner historyAll 1979 film-year results
Cinematography 1979 film year · Ceremony 52
Cinematography winner historyAll 1979 film-year results
Best Director 1979 film year · Ceremony 52
Best Director winner historyAll 1979 film-year results
Film Editing 1979 film year · Ceremony 52
Film Editing winner historyAll 1979 film-year results
Best Picture 1979 film year · Ceremony 52
  • All That Jazz
    Robert Alan Aurthur, Producer
    Nominee
  • Apocalypse Now This film
    Francis Coppola, Producer; Fred Roos, Gray Frederickson and Tom Sternberg, Co-Producers
    Nominee
  • Breaking Away
    Peter Yates, Producer
    Nominee
  • Kramer vs. Kramer
    Stanley R. Jaffe, Producer
    ★ Winner
  • Norma Rae
    Tamara Asseyev and Alex Rose, Producers
    Nominee
Best Picture winner historyAll 1979 film-year results
Sound Mixing 1979 film year · Ceremony 52
  • Apocalypse Now This film
    Walter Murch, Mark Berger, Richard Beggs, Nat Boxer
    ★ Winner
  • The Electric Horseman
    Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Michael Minkler, Al Overton
    Nominee
  • Meteor
    William McCaughey, Aaron Rochin, Michael J. Kohut, Jack Solomon
    Nominee
  • 1941
    Robert Knudson, Robert J. Glass, Don MacDougall, Gene S. Cantamessa
    Nominee
  • The Rose
    Theodore Soderberg, Douglas Williams, Paul Wells, Jim Webb
    Nominee
Sound Mixing winner historyAll 1979 film-year results
Adapted Screenplay 1979 film year · Ceremony 52
Adapted Screenplay winner historyAll 1979 film-year results
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