Awards - Academy Awards - 1975-1984

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• Terms of Endearment
• The Big Chill
• The Dresser
• The Right Stuff
• Tender Mercies

Best Achievement in Directing

• James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment)
• Bruce Beresford (Tender Mercies)
• Ingmar Bergman (Fanny and Alexander)
• Mike Nichols (Silkwood)
• Peter Yates (The Dresser)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Robert Duvall (Tender Mercies)
• Michael Caine (Educating Rita)
• Tom Conti (Reuben, Reuben)
• Tom Courtenay (The Dresser)
• Albert Finney (The Dresser)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Shirley MacLaine (Terms of Endearment)
• Jane Alexander (Testament)
• Meryl Streep (Silkwood)
• Julie Walters (Educating Rita)
• Debra Winger (Terms of Endearment)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• Jack Nicholson (Terms of Endearment)
• Charles Durning (To Be or Not to Be)
• John Lithgow (Terms of Endearment)
• Sam Shepard (The Right Stuff)
• Rip Torn (Cross Creek)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Linda Hunt (The Year of Living Dangerously)
• Cher (Silkwood)
• Glenn Close (The Big Chill)
• Amy Irving (Yentl)
• Alfre Woodard (Cross Creek)

Best Foreign Language Film

• Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman) Švédsko
• Carmen Story (Carlos Saura) Španělsko
• Entre Nous (Diane Kurys) Francie
• Le Bal (Ettore Scola) Alžírsko
• The Revolt of Job (Imre Gyöngyössy, Barna Kabay) Maďarsko

Best Documentary Feature

• He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin'
• First Contact
• Seeing Red
• The Profession of Arms
• Children of Darkness

Best Original Screenplay

• Horton Foote (Tender Mercies)
• Barbara Benedek, Lawrence Kasdan (The Big Chill)
• Ingmar Bergman (Fanny and Alexander)
• Alice Arlen, Nora Ephron (Silkwood)
• Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes (WarGames)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment)
• Harold Pinter (Betrayal)
• Ronald Harwood (The Dresser)
• Willy Russell (Educating Rita)
• Julius J. Epstein (Reuben, Reuben)

Best Achievement in Cinematography

• Sven Nykvist (Fanny and Alexander)
• Donald Peterman (Flashdance)
• Caleb Deschanel (The Right Stuff)
• William A. Fraker (WarGames)
• Gordon Willis (Zelig)

Best Achievement in Film Editing

• The Right Stuff
• Blue Thunder
• Flashdance
• Silkwood
• Terms of Endearment

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

• Bill Conti (The Right Stuff)
• Leonard Rosenman (Cross Creek)
• John Williams (Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi)
• Michael Gore (Terms of Endearment)
• Jerry Goldsmith (Under Fire)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

• Giorgio Moroder (Flashdance) - "Flashdance...What a Feeling"
• Flashdance - "Maniac"
• Tender Mercies - "Over You"
• Yentl - "Papa, Can You Hear Me?"
• Yentl -

Best Scoring of Music - Adaptation or Treatment

• Michel Legrand (Yentl)
• Lalo Schifrin (The Sting II)
• Elmer Bernstein (Trading Places)

Best Achievement in Production Design

• Fanny and Alexander
• Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
• The Right Stuff
• Terms of Endearment
• Yentl

Best Achievement in Costume Design

• Fanny and Alexander
• Cross Creek
• Heart Like a Wheel
• The Return of Martin Guerre
• Zelig

Best Sound Mixing

• The Right Stuff
• Never Cry Wolf
• Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
• Terms of Endearment
• WarGames

Best Sound Editing

• The Right Stuff
• Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

Best Live Action Short Film

• Boys and Girls
• Goodie-Two-Shoes
• Overnight Sensation

Best Animated Short Film

• Sundae in New York
• Mickey's Christmas Carol
• Sound of Sunshine - Sound of Rain

Best Documentary Short Film

• Flamenco at 5:15
• In the Nuclear Shadow: What Can the Children Tell Us?
• Sewing Woman
• Spaces: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph
• You Are Free

Honorary Award

• Hal Roach

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

• M.J. Frankovich

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• Gandhi
• E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
• Missing
• Tootsie
• The Verdict

Best Achievement in Directing

• Richard Attenborough (Gandhi)
• Sidney Lumet (The Verdict)
• Wolfgang Petersen (The Boat)
• Sydney Pollack (Tootsie)
• Steven Spielberg (E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Ben Kingsley (Gandhi)
• Dustin Hoffman (Tootsie)
• Jack Lemmon (Missing)
• Paul Newman (The Verdict)
• Peter O'Toole (My Favorite Year)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Meryl Streep (Sophie's Choice)
• Julie Andrews (Victor/Victoria)
• Jessica Lange (Frances)
• Sissy Spacek (Missing)
• Debra Winger (An Officer and a Gentleman)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• Louis Gossett Jr. (An Officer and a Gentleman)
• Charles Durning (The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas)
• John Lithgow (The World According to Garp)
• James Mason (The Verdict)
• Robert Preston (Victor/Victoria)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Jessica Lange (Tootsie)
• Glenn Close (The World According to Garp)
• Teri Garr (Tootsie)
• Kim Stanley (Frances)
• Lesley Ann Warren (Victor/Victoria)

Best Foreign Language Film

• Volver a empezar (José Luis Garci) Španělsko
• Alsino and the Condor (Miguel Littin) Nikaragua
• Coup de torchon (Clean Slate) (Bertrand Tavernier) Francie
• The Flight of the Eagle (Jan Troell) Švédsko
• Chastnaya zhizn (Yuliy Rayzman) Sovětský svaz

Best Documentary Feature

• The Fifth Estate
• After the Axe
• In Our Water
• A Portrait of Giselle
• Ben's Mill

Best Original Screenplay

• John Briley (Gandhi)
• Barry Levinson (Diner)
• Melissa Mathison (E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial)
• Douglas Day Stewart (An Officer and a Gentleman)
• Larry Gelbart, Murray Schisgal (Tootsie)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Costa-Gavras, Donald E. Stewart (Missing)
• Wolfgang Petersen (The Boat)
• Alan J. Pakula (Sophie's Choice)
• David Mamet (The Verdict)
• Blake Edwards (Victor/Victoria)

Best Achievement in Cinematography

• Ronnie Taylor, Billy Williams (Gandhi)
• Jost Vacano (The Boat)
• Allen Daviau (E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial)
• Néstor Almendros (Sophie's Choice)
• Owen Roizman (Tootsie)

Best Achievement in Film Editing

• Gandhi
• The Boat
• E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
• An Officer and a Gentleman
• Tootsie

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

• John Williams (E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial)
• George Fenton, Ravi Shankar (Gandhi)
• Jack Nitzsche (An Officer and a Gentleman)
• Jerry Goldsmith (Poltergeist)
• Marvin Hamlisch (Sophie's Choice)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

• Jack Nitzsche, Buffy Sainte-Marie (An Officer and a Gentleman) - "Up Where We Belong"
• Rocky III - "Eye of the Tiger"
• Best Friends - "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?"
• Yes, Giorgio - "If We Were In Love"
• Tootsie - "It Might Be You"

Best Scoring of Music - Adaptation or Treatment

• Leslie Bricusse, Henry Mancini (Victor/Victoria)
• Ralph Burns (Annie)
• Tom Waits (One from the Heart)

Best Achievement in Production Design

• Gandhi
• Annie
• Blade Runner
• La traviata
• Victor/Victoria

Best Achievement in Costume Design

• Gandhi
• La traviata
• Sophie's Choice
• TRON
• Victor/Victoria

Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling

• Quest for Fire
• Gandhi

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

• E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
• Blade Runner
• Poltergeist

Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing

• E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
• The Boat
• Poltergeist

Best Sound

• E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
• Tootsie
• Gandhi
• The Boat
• TRON

Best Live Action Short Film

• Shocking Accident, A
• The Silence
• Split Cherry Tree
• Sredni Vashtar
• Ballet Robotique

Best Animated Short Film

• Tango
• The Great Cognito
• The Snowman

Best Documentary Short Film

• If You Love This Planet
• Klan: A Legacy of Hate in America, The
• To Live or Let Die
• Traveling Hopefully
• Gods of Metal

Honorary Award

• Mickey Rooney

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

• Walter Mirisch

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• Chariots of Fire
• Atlantic City
• On Golden Pond
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Reds

Best Achievement in Directing

• Warren Beatty (Reds)
• Hugh Hudson (Chariots of Fire)
• Louis Malle (Atlantic City)
• Mark Rydell (On Golden Pond)
• Steven Spielberg (Raiders of the Lost Ark)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Henry Fonda (On Golden Pond)
• Warren Beatty (Reds)
• Burt Lancaster (Atlantic City)
• Dudley Moore (Arthur)
• Paul Newman (Absence of Malice)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Katharine Hepburn (On Golden Pond)
• Diane Keaton (Reds)
• Marsha Mason (Only When I Laugh)
• Susan Sarandon (Atlantic City)
• Meryl Streep (The French Lieutenant's Woman)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• John Gielgud (Arthur)
• James Coco (Only When I Laugh)
• Ian Holm (Chariots of Fire)
• Jack Nicholson (Reds)
• Howard E. Rollins Jr. (Ragtime)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Maureen Stapleton (Reds)
• Melinda Dillon (Absence of Malice)
• Jane Fonda (On Golden Pond)
• Joan Hackett (Only When I Laugh)
• Elizabeth McGovern (Ragtime)

Best Foreign Language Film

• Mephisto (István Szabó) Maďarsko
• The Boat Is Full (Markus Imhoof) Švýcarsko
• Man of Iron (Andrzej Wajda) Polsko
• Doro no kawa (Kôhei Oguri) Japonsko
• Three Brothers (Francesco Rosi) Itálie

Best Documentary Feature

• Genocide
• Brooklyn Bridge
• El Salvador: Another Vietnam
• Eight Minutes to Midnight: A Portrait of Dr. Helen Caldicott
• Against Wind and Tide: A Cuban Odyssey

Best Original Screenplay

• Colin Welland (Chariots of Fire)
• Kurt Luedtke (Absence of Malice)
• Steve Gordon (Arthur)
• John Guare (Atlantic City)
• Warren Beatty, Trevor Griffiths (Reds)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Ernest Thompson (On Golden Pond)
• Harold Pinter (The French Lieutenant's Woman)
• Dennis Potter (Pennies from Heaven)
• Jay Presson Allen, Sidney Lumet (Prince of the City)
• Michael Weller (Ragtime)

Best Achievement in Cinematography

• Vittorio Storaro (Reds)
• Alex Thomson (Excalibur)
• Billy Williams (On Golden Pond)
• Miroslav Ondříček (Ragtime)
• Douglas Slocombe (Raiders of the Lost Ark)

Best Achievement in Film Editing

• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Chariots of Fire
• The French Lieutenant's Woman
• On Golden Pond
• Reds

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

• Vangelis (Chariots of Fire)
• Alex North (Dragonslayer)
• Dave Grusin (On Golden Pond)
• Randy Newman (Ragtime)
• John Williams (Raiders of the Lost Ark)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

• Burt Bacharach (Arthur) - "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)"
• Endless Love - "Endless Love
• The Great Muppet Caper - "The First Time It Happens"
• For Your Eyes Only - "For Your Eyes Only"
• Ragtime - "One More Hour"

Best Achievement in Production Design

• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• The French Lieutenant's Woman
• Heaven's Gate
• Ragtime
• Reds

Best Achievement in Costume Design

• Chariots of Fire
• The French Lieutenant's Woman
• Pennies from Heaven
• Ragtime
• Reds

Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling

• An American Werewolf in London
• Heartbeeps

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Dragonslayer

Best Sound Mixing

• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• On Golden Pond
• Outland
• Pennies from Heaven
• Reds

Best Live Action Short Film

• Violet
• Couples and Robbers
• First Winter

Best Animated Short Film

• Crac
• Creation, The
• The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin

Best Documentary Short Film

• Close Harmony
• Americas in Transition
• Journey for Survival
• See What I Say
• Urge to Build

Honorary Award

• Barbara Stanwyck

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

• Danny Kaye

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• Ordinary People
• Coal Miner's Daughter
• The Elephant Man
• Raging Bull
• Tess

Best Achievement in Directing

• Robert Redford (Ordinary People)
• David Lynch (The Elephant Man)
• Roman Polański (Tess)
• Richard Rush (The Stunt Man)
• Martin Scorsese (Raging Bull)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Robert De Niro (Raging Bull)
• Robert Duvall (The Great Santini)
• John Hurt (The Elephant Man)
• Jack Lemmon (Tribute)
• Peter O'Toole (The Stunt Man)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Sissy Spacek (Coal Miner's Daughter)
• Ellen Burstyn (Resurrection)
• Goldie Hawn (Private Benjamin)
• Mary Tyler Moore (Ordinary People)
• Gena Rowlands (Gloria)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• Timothy Hutton (Ordinary People)
• Judd Hirsch (Ordinary People)
• Michael O'Keefe (The Great Santini)
• Joe Pesci (Raging Bull)
• Jason Robards (Melvin and Howard)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Mary Steenburgen (Melvin and Howard)
• Eileen Brennan (Private Benjamin)
• Eva Le Gallienne (Resurrection)
• Cathy Moriarty (Raging Bull)
• Diana Scarwid (Inside Moves)

Best Foreign Language Film

• Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (Vladimir Menshov) Sovětský Svaz
• Confidence (István Szabó) Maďarsko
• Kagemusha (黒澤明) Japonsko
• The Last Metro (François Truffaut) Francie
• El nido (Jaime de Armiñán) Španělsko

Best Documentary Feature

• From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China
• Agee
• The Day After Trinity
• Front Line
• The Yellow Star: The Persecution of the Jews in Europe - 1933-1945

Best Original Screenplay

• Bo Goldman (Melvin and Howard)
• W.D. Richter (Brubaker)
• Christopher Gore (Fame)
• Jean Gruault (My American Uncle)
• Nancy Meyers, Harvey Miller, Charles Shyer (Private Benjamin)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Alvin Sargent (Ordinary People)
• Bruce Beresford, Jonathan Hardy, David Stevens ('Breaker' Morant)
• Thomas Rickman (Coal Miner's Daughter)
• Eric Bergren, Christopher De Vore, David Lynch (The Elephant Man)
• Lawrence B. Marcus, Richard Rush (The Stunt Man)

Best Achievement in Cinematography

• Ghislain Cloquet, Geoffrey Unsworth (Tess)
• Néstor Almendros (The Blue Lagoon)
• Ralf D. Bode (Coal Miner's Daughter)
• James Crabe (The Formula)
• Michael Chapman (Raging Bull)

Best Achievement in Film Editing

• Raging Bull
• Coal Miner's Daughter
• The Competition
• The Elephant Man
• Fame

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

• Michael Gore (Fame)
• John Corigliano (Altered States)
• John Morris (The Elephant Man)
• John Williams (Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back)
• Philippe Sarde (Tess)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

• Michael Gore (Fame) - "Fame"
• Nine to Five - "Nine to Five"
• Willie Nelson (Honeysuckle Rose) - "On the Road Again"
• Fame - "Out Here on My Own"
• The Competition - "People Alone"

Best Achievement in Production Design

• Tess
• Coal Miner's Daughter
• The Elephant Man
• Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
• Kagemusha

Best Achievement in Costume Design

• Tess
• Altered States
• Coal Miner's Daughter
• Fame
• Raging Bull

Best Sound Mixing

• Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
• Altered States
• Coal Miner's Daughter
• Fame
• Raging Bull

Best Live Action Short Film

• Dollar Bottom, The
• Fall Line
• A Jury of Her Peers

Best Animated Short Film

• The Fly
• Tout rien
• History of the World in Three Minutes Flat

Best Documentary Short Film

• Karl Hess: Toward Liberty
• The Eruption of Mount St. Helens!
• Don't Mess with Bill
• It's the Same World
• Luther Metke a los 94

Honorary Award

• Henry Fonda

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• Kramer vs. Kramer
• All That Jazz
• Apocalypse Now
• Breaking Away
• Norma Rae

Best Achievement in Directing

• Robert Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer)
• Francis Ford Coppola (Apocalypse Now)
• Bob Fosse (All That Jazz)
• Édouard Molinaro (La Cage aux folles)
• Peter Yates (Breaking Away)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Dustin Hoffman (Kramer vs. Kramer)
• Jack Lemmon (The China Syndrome)
• Al Pacino (...And Justice for All)
• Roy Scheider (All That Jazz)
• Peter Sellers (Being There)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Sally Field (Norma Rae)
• Jill Clayburgh (Starting Over)
• Jane Fonda (The China Syndrome)
• Marsha Mason (Chapter Two)
• Bette Midler (The Rose)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• Melvyn Douglas (Being There)
• Robert Duvall (Apocalypse Now)
• Frederic Forrest (The Rose)
• Justin Henry (Kramer vs. Kramer)
• Mickey Rooney (The Black Stallion)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Meryl Streep (Kramer vs. Kramer)
• Jane Alexander (Kramer vs. Kramer)
• Barbara Barrie (Breaking Away)
• Candice Bergen (Starting Over)
• Mariel Hemingway (Manhattan)

Best Foreign Language Film

• The Tin Drum (Volker Schlöndorff) Západní Německo
• The Maids of Wilko (Andrzej Wajda) Polsko
• Mama Turns 100 (Carlos Saura) Španělsko
• Une histoire simple (Claude Sautet) Francie
• Dimenticare Venezia (Franco Brusati) Itálie

Best Documentary Feature

• Best Boy
• The War at Home
• Generation on the Wind
• Going the Distance
• The Killing Ground

Best Original Screenplay

• Steve Tesich (Breaking Away)
• Robert Alan Aurthur, Bob Fosse (All That Jazz)
• Valerie Curtin, Barry Levinson (...And Justice for All)
• James Bridges, T.S. Cook, Mike Gray (The China Syndrome)
• Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman (Manhattan)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Robert Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer)
• Francis Ford Coppola, John Milius (Apocalypse Now)
• Marcello Danon, Édouard Molinaro, Jean Poiret, Francis Veber (La Cage aux folles)
• Allan Burns (A Little Romance)
• Harriet Frank Jr., Irving Ravetch (Norma Rae)

Best Achievement in Cinematography

• Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now)
• Giuseppe Rotunno (All That Jazz)
• Frank V. Phillips (The Black Hole)
• Néstor Almendros (Kramer vs. Kramer)
• William A. Fraker (1941)

Best Achievement in Film Editing

• All That Jazz
• Apocalypse Now
• The Black Stallion
• Kramer vs. Kramer
• The Rose

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

• Georges Delerue (A Little Romance)
• Lalo Schifrin (The Amityville Horror)
• Dave Grusin (The Champ)
• Jerry Goldsmith (Star Trek: The Motion Picture)
• Henry Mancini (10)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

• David Shire (Norma Rae) - "It Goes Like It Goes"
• The Muppet Movie - "The Rainbow Connection"
• 10 - "Song from 10 (It's Easy to Say)"
• Ice Castles - "Theme from Ice Castles (Through the Eyes of Love)"
• Promise, The - "Theme from The Promise (I'll Never Say 'Goodbye')"

Best Scoring of Music - Adaptation or Treatment

• Ralph Burns (All That Jazz)
• Patrick Williams (Breaking Away)
• Kenny Ascher, Paul Williams (The Muppet Movie)

Best Achievement in Production Design

• All That Jazz
• Alien
• Apocalypse Now
• The China Syndrome
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Best Achievement in Costume Design

• All That Jazz
• Agatha
• Butch and Sundance: The Early Days
• The Europeans
• La Cage aux folles

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

• Alien
• The Black Hole
• Moonraker
• 1941
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Best Sound Mixing

• Apocalypse Now
• The Electric Horseman
• Meteor
• 1941
• The Rose

Best Live Action Short Film

• Board and Care
• Bravery in the Field
• Solar Film, The
• Solly's Diner
• Oh Brother, My Brother

Best Animated Short Film

• Every Child
• Dream Doll
• It's So Nice to Have a Wolf Around the House

Best Documentary Short Film

• Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist
• Dae
• Nails
• Koryo Celadon
• Remember Me

Honorary Award

• Alec Guinness
• Hal Elias

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

• Robert Benjamin

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• The Deer Hunter
• Coming Home
• Heaven Can Wait
• Midnight Express
• An Unmarried Woman

Best Achievement in Directing

• Michael Cimino (The Deer Hunter)
• Woody Allen (Interiors)
• Hal Ashby (Coming Home)
• Warren Beatty, Buck Henry (Heaven Can Wait)
• Alan Parker (Midnight Express)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Jon Voight (Coming Home)
• Warren Beatty (Heaven Can Wait)
• Gary Busey (The Buddy Holly Story)
• Robert De Niro (The Deer Hunter)
• Laurence Olivier (The Boys from Brazil)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Jane Fonda (Coming Home)
• Ingrid Bergman (Autumn Sonata)
• Ellen Burstyn (Same Time, Next Year)
• Jill Clayburgh (An Unmarried Woman)
• Geraldine Page (Interiors)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• Christopher Walken (The Deer Hunter)
• Bruce Dern (Coming Home)
• Richard Farnsworth (Comes a Horseman)
• John Hurt (Midnight Express)
• Jack Warden (Heaven Can Wait)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Maggie Smith (California Suite)
• Dyan Cannon (Heaven Can Wait)
• Penelope Milford (Coming Home)
• Maureen Stapleton (Interiors)
• Meryl Streep (The Deer Hunter)

Best Foreign Language Film

• Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Bertrand Blier) France
• Die gläserne Zelle (Hans W. Geißendörfer) Západní Německo
• Hungarians (Zoltán Fábri) Maďarsko
• Viva Italia! (Mario Monicelli, Dino Risi, Ettore Scola) Itálie
• White Bim, black ear (Stanislav Rostotskiy) Sovětský Svaz

Best Documentary Feature

• Scared Straight!
• Le Vent des amoureux
• Mysterious Castles of Clay
• Raoni: The Fight for the Amazon
• With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade

Best Original Screenplay

• Robert C. Jones, Waldo Salt (Coming Home)
• Ingmar Bergman (Autumn Sonata)
• Deric Washburn (The Deer Hunter)
• Woody Allen (Interiors)
• Paul Mazursky (An Unmarried Woman)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Oliver Stone (Midnight Express)
• Walter Newman (Bloodbrothers)
• Neil Simon (California Suite)
• Warren Beatty, Elaine May (Heaven Can Wait)
• Bernard Slade (Same Time, Next Year)

Best Achievement in Cinematography

• Néstor Almendros (Days of Heaven)
• Vilmos Zsigmond (The Deer Hunter)
• William A. Fraker (Heaven Can Wait)
• Robert Surtees (Same Time, Next Year)
• Oswald Morris (The Wiz)

Best Achievement in Film Editing

• The Deer Hunter
• The Boys from Brazil
• Coming Home
• Midnight Express
• Superman

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

• Giorgio Moroder (Midnight Express)
• Jerry Goldsmith (The Boys from Brazil)
• Ennio Morricone (Days of Heaven)
• Dave Grusin (Heaven Can Wait)
• John Williams (Superman)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

• Paul Jabara (Thank God It's Friday) - "Last Dance"
• Grease - "Hopelessly Devoted to You"
• Same Time, Next Year - "The Last Time I Felt Like This"
• Foul Play - "Ready to Take a Chance Again"
• The Magic of Lassie - "When You're Loved"

Best Scoring of Music - Adaptation or Treatment

• Joe Renzetti (The Buddy Holly Story)
• Quincy Jones (Pretty Baby)
• Quincy Jones (The Wiz)

Best Achievement in Production Design

• Heaven Can Wait
• The Brink's Job
• California Suite
• Interiors
• The Wiz

Best Achievement in Costume Design

• Death on the Nile
• Caravans
• Days of Heaven
• The Swarm
• The Wiz

Best Sound Mixing

• The Deer Hunter
• The Buddy Holly Story
• Days of Heaven
• Hooper
• Superman

Best Live Action Short Film

• Teenage Father
• A Different Approach
• Mandy's Grandmother
• Strange Fruit

Best Animated Short Film

• Special Delivery
• Oh My Darling
• Rip Van Winkle

Best Documentary Short Film

• The Flight of the Gossamer Condor
• An Encounter with Faces
• Divided Trail: A Native American Odyssey, The
• Goodnight Miss Ann
• Squires of San Quentin

Honorary Award

• Walter Lantz
• Laurence Olivier
• King Vidor
• Museum of Modern Art Department of Film

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

• Leo Jaffe

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• Annie Hall
• The Goodbye Girl
• Julia
• Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
• The Turning Point

Best Achievement in Directing

• Woody Allen (Annie Hall)
• George Lucas (Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope)
• Herbert Ross (The Turning Point)
• Steven Spielberg (Close Encounters of the Third Kind)
• Fred Zinnemann (Julia)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Richard Dreyfuss (The Goodbye Girl)
• Woody Allen (Annie Hall)
• Richard Burton (Equus)
• Marcello Mastroianni (A Special Day)
• John Travolta (Saturday Night Fever)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Diane Keaton (Annie Hall)
• Anne Bancroft (The Turning Point)
• Jane Fonda (Julia)
• Shirley MacLaine (The Turning Point)
• Marsha Mason (The Goodbye Girl)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• Jason Robards (Julia)
• Michail Baryšnikov (The Turning Point)
• Peter Firth (Equus)
• Alec Guinness (Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope)
• Maximilian Schell (Julia)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Vanessa Redgrave (Julia)
• Leslie Browne (The Turning Point)
• Quinn Cummings (The Goodbye Girl)
• Melinda Dillon (Close Encounters of the Third Kind)
• Tuesday Weld (Looking for Mr. Goodbar)

Best Foreign Language Film

• Madame Rosa (Moshé Mizrahi) Francie
• Iphigenia (Michalis Kakojannis) Řecko
• Operation Thunderbolt (Menahem Golan) Izrael
• A Special Day (Ettore Scola) Itálie
• That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Buñuel) Španělsko

Best Documentary Feature

• Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?
• The Children of Theatre Street
• Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love
• High Grass Circus
• Union Maids

Best Original Screenplay

• Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman (Annie Hall)
• Neil Simon (The Goodbye Girl)
• Robert Benton (The Late Show)
• George Lucas (Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope)
• Arthur Laurents (The Turning Point)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Alvin Sargent (Julia)
• Peter Shaffer (Equus)
• Lewis John Carlino, Gavin Lambert (I Never Promised You a Rose Garden)
• Larry Gelbart (Oh, God!)
• Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière (That Obscure Object of Desire)

Best Achievement in Cinematography

• Vilmos Zsigmond (Close Encounters of the Third Kind)
• Fred J. Koenekamp (Islands in the Stream)
• Douglas Slocombe (Julia)
• William A. Fraker (Looking for Mr. Goodbar)
• Robert Surtees (The Turning Point)

Best Achievement in Film Editing

• Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Julia
• Smokey and the Bandit
• The Turning Point

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

• John Williams (Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope)
• John Williams (Close Encounters of the Third Kind)
• Georges Delerue (Julia)
• Maurice Jarre (The Message)
• Marvin Hamlisch (The Spy Who Loved Me)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

• Joseph Brooks (You Light Up My Life) - "You Light Up My Life"
• Pete's Dragon - "Candle on the Water"
• The Spy Who Loved Me - "Nobody Does It Better"
• The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella - "The Slipper and the Rose Waltz (He Danced with Me/She Danced with Me)"
• The Rescuers - "Someone's Waiting For You"

Best Scoring of Music - Adaptation or Treatment

• A Little Night Music
• Pete's Dragon
• The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella

Best Achievement in Production Design

• Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
• Airport '77
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• The Spy Who Loved Me
• The Turning Point

Best Achievement in Costume Design

• Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
• Airport '77
• Julia
• A Little Night Music
• The Other Side of Midnight

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

• Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Best Sound Mixing

• Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• The Deep
• Sorcerer
• The Turning Point

Best Live Action Short Film

• I'll Find a Way
• The Absent-Minded Waiter
• Notes on the Popular Arts
• Floating Free
• Spaceborne

Best Animated Short Film

• Sand Castle, The
• The Bead Game
• Doonesbury Special, A
• Jimmy the C

Best Documentary Short Film

• Gravity Is My Enemy
• Agueda Martinez: Our People, Our Country
• First Edition
• Of Time, Tombs and Treasures
• The Shetland Experience

Honorary Award

• Margaret Booth

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

• Charlton Heston

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• Rocky (Robert Chartoff, Irwin Winkler)
• All the President's Men
• Bound for Glory
• Network
• Taxi Driver

Best Achievement in Directing

• John G. Avildsen (Rocky)
• Ingmar Bergman (Face to Face)
• Sidney Lumet (Network)
• Alan J. Pakula (All the President's Men)
• Lina Wertmüller (Seven Beauties)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Peter Finch (Network)
• Robert De Niro (Taxi Driver)
• Giancarlo Giannini (Seven Beauties)
• William Holden (Network)
• Sylvester Stallone (Rocky)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Faye Dunaway (Network)
• Marie-Christine Barrault (Cousin, cousine)
• Talia Shire (Rocky)
• Sissy Spacek (Carrie)
• Liv Ullmann (Face to Face)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• Jason Robards (All the President's Men)
• Ned Beatty (Network)
• Burgess Meredith (Rocky)
• Laurence Olivier (Marathon Man)
• Burt Young (Rocky)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Beatrice Straight (Network)
• Jane Alexander (All the President's Men)
• Jodie Foster (Taxi Driver)
• Lee Grant (Voyage of the Damned)
• Piper Laurie (Carrie)

Best Foreign Language Film

• Black and White in Color (Jean-Jacques Annaud) Pobřeží Slonoviny
• Cousin, cousine (Jean-Charles Tacchella) Francie
• Jakob the Liar (Frank Beyer) Východní Německo
• Noce i dnie (Jerzy Antczak) Polsko
• Seven Beauties (Lina Wertmüller) Itálie

Best Documentary Feature

• Harlan County, U.S.A.
• Hollywood on Trial
• People of the Wind
• Volcano: An Inquiry Into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry
• Off the Edge

Best Original Screenplay

• Paddy Chayefsky (Network)
• Jean-Charles Tacchella (Cousin, cousine)
• Walter Bernstein (The Front)
• Sylvester Stallone (Rocky)
• Lina Wertmüller (Seven Beauties)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• William Goldman (All the President's Men)
• Robert Getchell (Bound for Glory)
• Federico Fellini, Bernardino Zapponi (Fellini's Casanova)
• Nicholas Meyer, Steve Shagan (The Seven-Per-Cent Solution)
• David Butler (Voyage of the Damned)

Best Achievement in Cinematography

• Haskell Wexler (Bound for Glory)
• Richard H. Kline (King Kong)
• Ernest Laszlo (Logan's Run)
• Owen Roizman (Network)
• Robert Surtees (A Star Is Born)

Best Achievement in Film Editing

• Rocky
• All the President's Men
• Bound for Glory
• Network
• Two-Minute Warning

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

• Jerry Goldsmith (The Omen)
• Bernard Herrmann (Obsession)
• Jerry Fielding (The Outlaw Josey Wales)
• Bernard Herrmann (Taxi Driver)
• Lalo Schifrin (Voyage of the Damned)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

• Barbra Streisand (A Star Is Born) - "Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)"
• The Omen - "Ave Satani"
• The Pink Panther Strikes Again - "Come to Me"
• Rocky - "Gonna Fly Now"
• Half a House - "A World that Never Was"

Best Scoring of Music - Adaptation or Treatment

• Bound for Glory
• Bugsy Malone
• A Star Is Born

Best Achievement in Production Design

• All the President's Men
• The Incredible Sarah
• The Last Tycoon
• Logan's Run
• The Shootist

Best Achievement in Costume Design

• Fellini's Casanova
• Bound for Glory
• The Incredible Sarah
• Passover Plot, The
• The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

Best Sound Mixing

• All the President's Men
• King Kong
• Rocky
• Silver Streak
• A Star Is Born

Best Live Action Short Film

• In the Region of Ice
• Number One
• Kudzu
• Nightlife
• The Morning Spider

Best Animated Short Film

• Leisure
• Labyrinth
• The Street

Best Documentary Short Film

• Number Our Days
• Blackwood
• American Shoeshine
• The End of the Road
• Universe

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Barry Lyndon
• Dog Day Afternoon
• Jaws
• Nashville

Best Achievement in Directing

• Miloš Forman (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest)
• Robert Altman (Nashville)
• Sidney Lumet (Dog Day Afternoon)
• Federico Fellini (Amarcord)
• Stanley Kubrick (Barry Lyndon)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Jack Nicholson (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest)
• Walter Matthau (The Sunshine Boys)
• Al Pacino (Dog Day Afternoon)
• Maximilian Schell (The Man in the Glass Booth)
• James Whitmore (Give 'em Hell, Harry!)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Louise Fletcher (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest)
• Isabelle Adjani (The Story of Adele H)
• Ann-Margret (Tommy)
• Glenda Jackson (Hedda)
• Carol Kane (Hester Street)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• George Burns (The Sunshine Boys)
• Brad Dourif (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest)
• Burgess Meredith (The Day of the Locust)
• Chris Sarandon (Dog Day Afternoon)
• Jack Warden (Shampoo)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Lee Grant (Shampoo)
• Ronee Blakley (Nashville)
• Sylvia Miles (Farewell, My Lovely)
• Lily Tomlin (Nashville)
• Brenda Vaccaro (Once Is Not Enough)

Best Foreign Language Film

• Dersu Uzala (黒澤明) Sovětský Svaz
• Letters from Marusia (Miguel Littin) Mexiko
• Scent of a Woman (Dino Risi) Itálie
• The Promised Land (Andrzej Wajda) Polsko
• Sandakan hačibanšokan bókjó (Kei Kumai) Japonsko

Best Documentary Feature

• The Man Who Skied Down Everest
• The California Reich
• Incredible Machine, The
• Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir, The
• Fighting for Our Lives

Best Original Screenplay

• Frank R. Pierson (Dog Day Afternoon)
• Federico Fellini, Tonino Guerra (Amarcord)
• Claude Lelouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven (And Now My Love)
• Ted Allan (Lies My Father Told Me)
• Warren Beatty, Robert Towne (Shampoo)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Bo Goldman, Lawrence Hauben (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest)
• Stanley Kubrick (Barry Lyndon)
• Gladys Hill, John Huston (The Man Who Would Be King)
• Dino Risi (Scent of a Woman)
• Ruggero Maccari, Neil Simon (The Sunshine Boys)

Best Achievement in Cinematography

• John Alcott (Barry Lyndon)
• Conrad L. Hall (The Day of the Locust)
• James Wong Howe (Funny Lady)
• Robert Surtees (The Hindenburg)
• Bill Butler, Haskell Wexler (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest)

Best Achievement in Film Editing

• Jaws
• Dog Day Afternoon
• The Man Who Would Be King
• One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Three Days of the Condor

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

• John Williams (Jaws)
• Gerald Fried (Birds Do It, Bees Do It)
• Jerry Goldsmith (The Wind and the Lion)
• Alex North (Bite the Bullet)
• Jack Nitzsche (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest)

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

• Keith Carradine (Nashville) - "I'm Easy"
• Funny Lady - "How Lucky Can You Get"
• Whiffs - "Now That We're In Love"
• The Other Side of the Mountain - "Richard's Window"
• Mahogany - "Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)"

Best Scoring of Music - Adaptation or Treatment

• Leonard Rosenman (Barry Lyndon)
• Funny Lady
• Tommy

Best Achievement in Production Design

• Barry Lyndon
• The Hindenburg
• The Man Who Would Be King
• Shampoo
• The Sunshine Boys

Best Achievement in Costume Design

• Barry Lyndon
• The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge
• Funny Lady
• The Magic Flute
• The Man Who Would Be King

Best Sound Mixing

• Jaws
• Bite the Bullet
• Funny Lady
• The Hindenburg
• The Wind and the Lion

Best Live Action Short Film

• Angel and Big Joe
• Doubletalk
• A Day in the Life of Bonnie Consolo
• Dawn Flight
• Conquest of Light

Best Animated Short Film

• Great (Isambard Kingdom Brunel)
• Kick Me
• Monsieur Pointu
• Sisyphus (Marcell Jankovics)

Best Documentary Short Film

• The End of the Game
• Whistling Smith
• Arthur and Lillie
• Millions of Years Ahead of Man
• Probes in Space

Honorary Award

• Mary Pickford

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

• Jules C. Stein

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• The Godfather: Part II
• Chinatown
• The Conversation
• Lenny
• The Towering Inferno

Best Achievement in Directing

• Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather: Part II)
• John Cassavetes (A Woman Under the Influence)
• Bob Fosse (Lenny)
• Roman Polański (Chinatown)
• François Truffaut (Day for Night)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Art Carney (Harry and Tonto)
• Albert Finney (Murder on the Orient Express)
• Dustin Hoffman (Lenny)
• Jack Nicholson (Chinatown)
• Al Pacino (The Godfather: Part II)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Ellen Burstyn (Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore)
• Diahann Carroll (Claudine)
• Faye Dunaway (Chinatown)
• Valerie Perrine (Lenny)
• Gena Rowlands (A Woman Under the Influence)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• Robert De Niro (The Godfather: Part II)
• Fred Astaire (The Towering Inferno)
• Jeff Bridges (Thunderbolt and Lightfoot)
• Michael V. Gazzo (The Godfather: Part II)
• Lee Strasberg (The Godfather: Part II)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Ingrid Bergman (Murder on the Orient Express)
• Valentina Cortese (Day for Night)
• Madeline Kahn (Blazing Saddles)
• Diane Ladd (Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore)
• Talia Shire (The Godfather: Part II)

Best Foreign Language Film

• Amarcord (Federico Fellini) Itálie
• Catsplay (Károly Makk) Maďarsko
• Potop (Jerzy Hoffman) Polsko
• Lacombe Lucien (Louis Malle) Francie
• La tregua (Sergio Renán) Argentina

Best Documentary Feature

• Hearts and Minds
• Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art, The
• Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman
• Ha-Makah Hashmonim V'Echad
• Wild and the Brave, The

Best Original Screenplay

• Robert Towne (Chinatown)
• Robert Getchell (Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore)
• Francis Ford Coppola (The Conversation)
• Jean-Louis Richard, Suzanne Schiffman, François Truffaut (Day for Night)
• Josh Greenfeld, Paul Mazursky (Harry and Tonto)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo (The Godfather: Part II)
• Lionel Chetwynd, Mordecai Richler (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz)
• Julian Barry (Lenny)
• Paul Dehn (Murder on the Orient Express)
• Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder (Young Frankenstein)

Best Achievement in Cinematography

• Joseph F. Biroc, Fred J. Koenekamp (The Towering Inferno)
• John A. Alonzo (Chinatown)
• Philip H. Lathrop (Earthquake)
• Bruce Surtees (Lenny)
• Geoffrey Unsworth (Murder on the Orient Express)

Best Achievement in Film Editing

• The Towering Inferno
• Blazing Saddles
• Chinatown
• Earthquake
• The Longest Yard

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

• Joel Hirschhorn, Al Kasha (The Towering Inferno) - "We May Never Love Like This Again"
• Benji - "Benji's Theme (I Feel Love)"
• Blazing Saddles - "Blazing Saddles"
• The Little Prince - "Little Prince"
• The Great Gold Conspiracy - "Wherever Love Takes Me"

Best Scoring of Music - Adaptation or Treatment

• The Great Gatsby
• The Little Prince
• Phantom of the Paradise

Best Original Dramatic Score

• Carmine Coppola, Nino Rota (The Godfather: Part II)
• Jerry Goldsmith (Chinatown)
• Richard Rodney Bennett (Murder on the Orient Express)
• Alex North (Shanks)
• John Williams (The Towering Inferno)

Best Achievement in Production Design

• The Godfather: Part II
• Chinatown
• Earthquake
• The Island at the Top of the World
• The Towering Inferno

Best Achievement in Costume Design

• The Great Gatsby
• Chinatown
• Daisy Miller
• The Godfather: Part II
• Murder on the Orient Express

Best Sound Mixing

• Earthquake
• Chinatown
• The Conversation
• The Towering Inferno
• Young Frankenstein

Best Live Action Short Film

• ... les Borgnes sont rois
• Climb
• Concert, The
• Planet Ocean
• The Violin

Best Animated Short Film

• Closed Mondays
• The Family That Dwelt Apart
• Hunger
• Voyage to Next
• Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!

Best Documentary Short Film

• Don't
• City Out of Wilderness
• Exploratorium
• Planet Ocean
• Naked Yoga

Honorary Award

• Howard Hawks
• Jean Renoir

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

• Arthur Krim