| Best Picture |
Best Director |
- Kramer vs. Kramer
- All That Jazz
- Apocalypse Now
- Breaking Away
- Norma Rae
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- Robert Benton – Kramer vs. Kramer
- Bob Fosse – All That Jazz
- Francis Ford Coppola – Apocalypse Now
- Peter Yates – Breaking Away
- Édouard Molinaro – La Cage aux Folles
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| Best Actor |
Best Actress |
- Dustin Hoffman – Kramer vs. Kramer
- Al Pacino – ...And Justice for All
- Roy Scheider – All That Jazz
- Peter Sellers – Being There
- Jack Lemmon – The China Syndrome
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- Sally Field – Norma Rae
- Marsha Mason – Chapter Two
- Jane Fonda – The China Syndrome
- Bette Midler – The Rose
- Jill Clayburgh – Starting Over
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| Best Supporting Actor |
Best Supporting Actress |
- Melvyn Douglas – Being There
- Robert Duvall – Apocalypse Now
- Mickey Rooney – The Black Stallion
- Justin Henry – Kramer vs. Kramer
- Frederic Forrest – The Rose
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- Meryl Streep – Kramer vs. Kramer
- Barbara Barrie – Breaking Away
- Jane Alexander – Kramer vs. Kramer
- Mariel Hemingway – Manhattan
- Candice Bergen – Starting Over
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| Best Original Screenplay |
Best Adapted Screenplay |
- Breaking Away – Steve Tesich
- ...And Justice for All – Valerie Curtin and Barry Levinson
- All That Jazz – Robert Alan Aurthur and Bob Fosse
- The China Syndrome – Mike Gray, T.S. Cook and James Bridges
- Manhattan – Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman
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- Kramer vs. Kramer – Robert Benton
- Apocalypse Now – Francis Ford Coppola and John Milius
- La Cage aux Folles – Francis Veber, Édouard Molinaro, Marcello Danon and Jean Poiret
- A Little Romance – Allan Burns
- Norma Rae – Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank, Jr.
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| Best Foreign Language Film |
- The Tin Drum (Federal Republic of Germany - West)
- The Maids of Wilko (Poland)
- Mama Turns a Hundred (Spain)
- A Simple Story (France)
- To Forget Venice (Italy)
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| Best Documentary Feature |
Best Documentary Short |
- Best Boy – Ira Wohl
- Generation on the Wind – David A. Vassar
- Going the Distance – Paul Cowan and Jacques Bobet
- The Killing Ground – Steve Singer and Tom Priestley
- The War at Home – Glenn Silber and Barry Alexander Brown
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- Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist – Saul J. Turell
- Dae – Risto Teofilovski
- Koryo Celadon – Donald A. Connolly and James R. Messenger
- Nails – Phillip Borsos
- Remember Me – Dick Young
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| Best Live Action Short |
Best Animated Short |
- Board and Care – Sarah Pillsbury and Ron Ellis
- Bravery in the Field – Roman Kroitor and Stefan Wodoslawsky
- Oh Brother, My Brother – Carol Lowell and Ross Lowell
- The Solar Film – Saul Bass and Michael Britton
- Solly's Diner – Harry Mathias, Jay Zukerman and Larry Hankin
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- Every Child – Derek Lamb
- Dream Doll – Bob Godfrey
- It's So Nice to Have a Wolf Around the House – Paul Fierlinger
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| Best Original Score |
Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score |
- A Little Romance – Georges Delerue
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture – Jerry Goldsmith
- The Champ – Dave Grusin
- 10 – Henry Mancini
- The Amityville Horror – Lalo Schifrin
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- All That Jazz – Ralph Burns
- Breaking Away – Patrick Williams
- The Muppet Movie – Song by Paul Williams and Kenny Ascher; Adaptation by Paul Williams
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| Best Sound Editing |
Best Sound Mixing |
- The Black Stallion – Alan Splet
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- Apocalypse Now – Walter Murch, Mark Berger, Richard Beggs and Nat Boxer
- 1941 – Robert Knudson, Robert Glass, Don MacDougall and Gene Cantamessa
- Meteor – William McCaughey, Aaron Rochin, Michael J. Kohut and Jack Solomon
- The Electric Horseman – Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Michael Minkler and Al Overton, Jr.
- The Rose – Theodore Soderberg, Douglas O. Williams, Paul Wells and Jim Webb
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| Best Art Direction |
Best Cinematography |
- All That Jazz – Art Direction: Philip Rosenberg and Tony Walton; Set Decoration: Edward Stewart and Gary Brink
- The China Syndrome – Art Direction: George Jenkins; Set Decoration: Arthur Jeph Parker
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture – Art Direction: Harold Michelson, Joe Jennings, Leon Harris and John Vallone; Set Decoration: Linda DeScenna
- Alien – Art Direction: Michael Seymour, Les Dilley and Roger Christian; Set Decoration: Ian Whittaker
- Apocalypse Now – Art Direction: Dean Tavoularis and Angelo Graham; Set Decoration: George R. Nelson
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- Apocalypse Now – Vittorio Storaro
- Kramer vs. Kramer – Nestor Almendros
- 1941 – William A. Fraker
- The Black Hole – Frank Phillips
- All That Jazz – Giuseppe Rotunno
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| Best Costume Design |
Best Original Song |
- All That Jazz – Albert Wolsky
- The Europeans – Judy Moorcroft
- Agatha – Shirley Russell
- Butch and Sundance: The Early Days – William Ware Theiss
- La Cage aux Folles – Piero Tosi and Ambra Danon
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- "It Goes Like It Goes" from Norma Rae – Music by David Shire; Lyrics by Norman Gimbel
- "I'll Never Say Goodbye" from The Promise – Music by David Shire; Lyric by Alan and Marilyn Bergman
- "It's Easy to Say" from 10 – Music by Henry Mancini; Lyric by Robert Wells
- "The Rainbow Connection" from The Muppet Movie – Music and Lyric by Paul Williams and Kenny Ascher
- "Through the Eyes of Love" from Ice Castles – Music by Marvin Hamlisch; Lyric by Carole Bayer Sager
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| Best Film Editing |
Best Visual Effects |
- All That Jazz – Alan Heim
- The Black Stallion – Robert Dalva
- Kramer vs. Kramer – Jerry Greenberg
- Apocalypse Now – Richard Marks, Walter Murch, Gerald B. Greenberg and Lisa Fruchtmlan
- The Rose – Robert L. Wolfe and C. Timothy O'Meara
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- Alien – H.R. Giger, Carlo Rambaldi, Brian Johnson, Nick Allder and Denys Ayling
- The Black Hole – Peter Ellenshaw, Art Cruickshank, Eustace Lycett, Danny Lee, Harrison Ellenshaw and Joe Hale
- 1941 – William A. Fraker, A. D. Flowers and Gregory Jein
- Moonraker – Derek Meddings, Paul Wilson and John Evans
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture – Douglas Trumbull, John Dykstra, Richard Yuricich, Robert Swarthe, Dave Stewart and Grant McCune
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