| Best Picture |
Best Director |
- Annie Hall
- The Goodbye Girl
- Julia
- Star Wars
- The Turning Point
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- Woody Allen – Annie Hall
- Steven Spielberg – Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Fred Zinnemann – Julia
- George Lucas – Star Wars
- Herbert Ross – The Turning Point
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| Best Actor |
Best Actress |
- Richard Dreyfuss – The Goodbye Girl
- Woody Allen – Annie Hall
- Richard Burton – Equus
- John Travolta – Saturday Night Fever
- Marcello Mastroianni – A Special Day
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- Diane Keaton – Annie Hall
- Marsha Mason – The Goodbye Girl
- Jane Fonda – Julia
- Anne Bancroft – The Turning Point
- Shirley MacLaine – The Turning Point
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| Best Supporting Actor |
Best Supporting Actress |
- Jason Robards – Julia
- Peter Firth – Equus
- Maximilian Schell – Julia
- Alec Guinness – Star Wars
- Mikhail Baryshnikov – The Turning Point
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- Vanessa Redgrave – Julia
- Melinda Dillon – Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Quinn Cummings – The Goodbye Girl
- Tuesday Weld – Looking for Mr. Goodbar
- Leslie Browne – The Turning Point
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| Best Original Screenplay |
Best Adapted Screenplay |
- Annie Hall – Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman
- The Goodbye Girl – Neil Simon
- The Late Show – Robert Benton
- Star Wars – George Lucas
- The Turning Point – Arthur Laurents
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- Julia – Alvin Sargent
- Equus – Peter Shaffer
- I Never Promised You a Rose Garden – Gavin Lambert and Lewis John Carlino
- Oh, God! – Larry Gelbart
- That Obscure Object of Desire – Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière
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| Best Foreign Language Film |
- Madame Rosa (France)
- Iphigenia (Greece)
- Operation Thunderbolt (Israel)
- A Special Day (Italy)
- That Obscure Object of Desire (Spain)
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| Best Documentary Feature |
Best Documentary Short |
- Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?
- The Children of Theatre Street
- High Grass Circus
- Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love
- Union Maids
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- Gravity Is My Enemy
- Agueda Martinez: Our People, Our Country
- First Edition
- Of Time, Tombs and Treasures
- The Shetland Experience
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| Best Live Action Short |
Best Animated Short |
- I'll Find a Way
- The Absent-Minded Waiter
- Floating Free
- Notes on the Popular Arts
- Spaceborne
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- The Sand Castle
- Bead Game
- The Doonesbury Special
- Jimmy the C
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| Best Original Score |
Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score |
- Star Wars – John Williams
- Julia – Georges Delerue
- The Spy Who Loved Me – Marvin Hamlisch
- Mohammad, Messenger of God – Maurice Jarre
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind – John Williams
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- A Little Night Music – Jonathan Tunick
- Pete's Dragon – Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn, song; Irwin Kostal, adaptation
- The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella – Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, song; Angela Morley, adaptation
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| Best Original Song |
Best Costume Design |
- "You Light Up My Life" from You Light Up My Life – Music and Lyric by Joseph Brooks
- "Candle on the Water" from Pete's Dragon – Music and Lyric by Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn
- "Someone's Waiting for You" from The Rescuers – Music by Sammy Fain; Lyric by Carol Connors and Ayn Robbins
- "The Slipper and the Rose Waltz (He Danced with Me/She Danced with Me)" from The Slipper and the Rose – Music and Lyric by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
- "Nobody Does It Better" from The Spy Who Loved Me – Music by Marvin Hamlisch; Lyric by Carole Bayer Sager
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- Star Wars – John Mollo
- Airport '77 – Edith Head and Burton Miller
- A Little Night Music – Florence Klotz
- The Other Side of Midnight – Irene Sharaff
- Julia – Anthea Sylbert
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| Best Sound Mixing |
Best Sound Editing |
- Star Wars – Don MacDougall, Ray West, Bob Minkler and Derek Ball
- The Deep – Walter Goss, Dick Alexander, Tom Beckert and Robin Gregory
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind – Robert Knudson, Robert Glass, Don MacDougall and Gene Cantamessa
- Sorcerer – Robert Knudson, Robert Glass, Richard Tyler and Jean-Louis Ducarme
- The Turning Point – Theodore Soderberg, Paul Wells, Douglas O. Williams and Jerry Jost
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- Close Encounters of the Third Kind – Frank E. Warner
- Star Wars – Benjamin Burtt, Jr. for the creation of the alien, creature and robot voices
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| Best Art Direction |
Best Cinematography |
- Star Wars – Art Direction: John Barry, Norman Reynolds and Leslie Dilley; Set Decoration: Roger Christian
- The Spy Who Loved Me – Art Direction: Ken Adam and Peter Lamont; Set Decoration: Hugh Scaife
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind – Art Direction: Joe Alves and Dan Lomino; Set Decoration: Phil Abramson
- The Turning Point – Art Direction: Albert Brenner; Set Decoration: Marvin March
- Airport '77 – Art Direction: George C. Webb; Set Decoration: Mickey S. Michaels
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- Close Encounters of the Third Kind – Vilmos Zsigmond
- Looking for Mr. Goodbar – William A. Fraker
- Islands in the Stream – Fred J. Koenekamp
- Julia – Douglas Slocombe
- The Turning Point – Robert Surtees
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| Best Film Editing |
Best Visual Effects |
- Star Wars – Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas and Richard Chew
- Smokey and the Bandit – Walter Hannemann and Angelo Ross
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind – Michael Kahn
- Julia – Walter Murch
- The Turning Point – William Reynolds
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- Star Wars – John Stears, John Dykstra, Richard Edlund, Grant McCune and Robert Blalack
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind – Roy Arbogast, Douglas Trumbull, Matthew Yuricich, Gregory Jein and Richard Yuricich
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