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The 50th National Board of Review Awards were announced on December 19, 1978.

1. Days of Heaven
2. Coming Home
3. Interiors
4. Superman
5. Movie Movie
6. Midnight Express
7. An Unmarried Woman
8. Pretty Baby
9. Girlfriends
10. Comes a Horseman

1. Autumn Sonata
2. Dear Detective
3. Madame Rosa
4. A Slave of Love
5. Bread and Chocolate

• Best Film:
  • Days of Heaven
• Best Foreign Film:
  • Autumn Sonata
• Best Actor:
  • Jon Voight - Coming Home
  • Laurence Olivier - The Boys from Brazil
• Best Actress:
  • Ingrid Bergman - Autumn Sonata
• Best Supporting Actor:
  • Richard Farnsworth - Comes a Horseman
• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Angela Lansbury - Death on the Nile
• Best Director:
  • Ingmar Bergman - Autumn Sonata

National Board of Review of Motion Pictures :: Awards for 1978