Winners are highlighted in bold.
| Best Picture |
Best Director |
- Rocky - Robert Chartoff, Irwin Winkler
- All the President's Men - Walter Coblenz
- Bound for Glory - Robert F. Blumofe, Harold Leventhal
- Network - Howard Gottfried
- Taxi Driver - Julia Phillips, Michael Phillips
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- John G. Avildsen – Rocky
- Ingmar Bergman – Face to Face
- Sidney Lumet – Network
- Alan J. Pakula – All the President's Men
- Lina Wertmüller – Seven Beauties
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| Best Actor |
Best Actress |
- Peter Finch – Network
- Robert De Niro – Taxi Driver
- Giancarlo Giannini – Seven Beauties
- William Holden – Network
- Sylvester Stallone – Rocky
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- Faye Dunaway – Network
- Marie-Christine Barrault – Cousin, cousine
- Talia Shire – Rocky
- Sissy Spacek – Carrie
- Liv Ullmann – Face to Face
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| Best Supporting Actor |
Best Supporting Actress |
- Jason Robards – All the President's Men
- Ned Beatty – Network
- Burgess Meredith – Rocky
- Laurence Olivier – Marathon Man
- Burt Young – Rocky
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- Beatrice Straight – Network
- Jane Alexander – All the President's Men
- Jodie Foster – Taxi Driver
- Lee Grant – Voyage of the Damned
- Piper Laurie – Carrie
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| Best Original Screenplay |
Best Adapted Screenplay |
- Network – Paddy Chayefsky
- Cousin, cousine – Jean-Charles Tacchella and Danièle Thompson
- The Front – Walter Bernstein
- Rocky – Sylvester Stallone
- Seven Beauties – Lina Wertmüller
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- All the President's Men – William Goldman
- Bound for Glory – Robert Getchell
- Fellini's Casanova – Federico Fellini and Bernardino Zapponi
- The Seven-Per-Cent Solution – Nicholas Meyer
- Voyage of the Damned – David Butler and Steve Shagan
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| Best Foreign Language Film |
Best Costume Design |
- Black and White in Color (Côte d'Ivoire)
- Cousin, cousine (France)
- Jacob the Liar (East Germany)
- Nights and Days (Poland)
- Seven Beauties (Italy)
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- Fellini's Casanova – Danilo Donati
- Bound for Glory – William Ware Theiss
- The Incredible Sarah – Anthony Mendleson
- The Passover Plot – Mary Wills
- The Seven-Per-Cent Solution – Alan Barrett
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| Best Documentary Feature |
Best Documentary Short |
- Harlan County, USA
- Hollywood on Trial
- Off the Edge
- People of the Wind
- Volcano: An Inquiry Into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry
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- Number Our Days - Lynne Littman
- American Shoeshine
- Blackwood
- The End of the Road
- Universe
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| Best Live Action Short |
Best Animated Short |
- In the Region of Ice - Peter Werner
- Kudzu - Marjorie Anne Short
- The Morning Spider - Julian Chagrin and Claude Chagrin
- Nightlife - Claire Wilbur and Robin Lehman
- Number One - Dyan Cannon and Vince Cannon
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- Leisure - Suzanne Baker
- Dedalo - Manfredo Manfredi
- The Street - Caroline Leaf and Guy Glover
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| Best Original Score |
Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score |
- The Omen – Jerry Goldsmith
- Obsession – Bernard Herrmann
- The Outlaw Josey Wales – Jerry Fielding
- Taxi Driver – Bernard Herrmann
- Voyage of the Damned – Lalo Schifrin
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- Bound for Glory – Leonard Rosenman
- Bugsy Malone – Paul Williams
- A Star Is Born – Roger Kellaway
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| Best Original Song |
Best Sound Mixing |
- "Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)" from A Star Is Born – Music: Barbra Streisand Lyrics: Paul Williams
- "A World That Never Was" from Half a House – Music: Sammy Fain Lyrics: Paul Francis Webster
- "Ave Satani" from The Omen – Music and lyrics by Jerry Goldsmith
- "Come to Me" from The Pink Panther Strikes Again – Music by Henry Mancini; lyrics by Don Black
- "Gonna Fly Now" from Rocky – Music by Bill Conti; lyrics by Carol Connors and Ayn Robbins
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- All the President's Men – Dick Alexander, Les Fresholtz, Arthur Piantadosi, and Jim Webb
- King Kong – William McCaughey, Aaron Rochin, Jack Solomon, and Harry W. Tetrick
- Rocky – Bud Alper, Lyle J. Burbridge, William McCaughey and Harry W. Tetrick
- Silver Streak – Harold M. Etherington, Donald O. Mitchell, Richard Tyler, and Douglas Williams
- A Star Is Born – Robert Glass, Robert Knudson, Tom Overton, and Dan Wallin
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| Best Art Direction |
Best Cinematography |
- All the President's Men – Art Direction: George Jenkins; Set Decoration: George Gaines
- The Incredible Sarah – Art Direction: Elliot Scott; Set Decoration: Norman Reynolds
- The Last Tycoon– Art Direction: Gene Callahan and Jack T. Collis; Set Decoration: Jerry Wunderlich
- Logan's Run – Art Direction: Dale Hennesy; Set Decoration: Robert De Vestel
- The Shootist – Art Direction: Robert F. Boyle; Set Decoration: Arthur Jeph Parker
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- Bound for Glory – Haskell Wexler
- King Kong – Richard H. Kline
- Logan's Run – Ernest Laszlo
- Network – Owen Roizman
- A Star Is Born – Robert L. Surtees
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| Best Film Editing |
- Rocky – Richard Halsey, Scott Conrad
- All the President's Men – Robert L. Wolfe
- Bound for Glory – Robert C. Jones, Pembroke J. Herring
- Network – Alan Heim
- Two-Minute Warning – Eve Newman, Walter Hannemann
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