| Best Picture |
Best Director |
- The Deer Hunter
- Coming Home
- Heaven Can Wait
- Midnight Express
- An Unmarried Woman
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- Michael Cimino – The Deer Hunter
- Hal Ashby – Coming Home
- Warren Beatty and Buck Henry – Heaven Can Wait
- Woody Allen – Interiors
- Alan Parker – Midnight Express
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| Best Actor |
Best Actress |
- Jon Voight – Coming Home
- Laurence Olivier – The Boys from Brazil
- Gary Busey – The Buddy Holly Story
- Robert De Niro – The Deer Hunter
- Warren Beatty – Heaven Can Wait
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- Jane Fonda – Coming Home
- Ingrid Bergman – Autumn Sonata
- Geraldine Page – Interiors
- Ellen Burstyn – Same Time, Next Year
- Jill Clayburgh – An Unmarried Woman
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| Best Supporting Actor |
Best Supporting Actress |
- Christopher Walken – The Deer Hunter
- Richard Farnsworth – Comes a Horseman
- Bruce Dern – Coming Home
- Jack Warden – Heaven Can Wait
- John Hurt – Midnight Express
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- Maggie Smith – California Suite
- Penelope Milford – Coming Home
- Meryl Streep – The Deer Hunter
- Dyan Cannon – Heaven Can Wait
- Maureen Stapleton – Interiors
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| Best Original Screenplay |
Best Adapted Screenplay |
- Coming Home – Nancy Dowd, Waldo Salt and Robert C. Jones
- Autumn Sonata – Ingmar Bergman
- The Deer Hunter – Michael Cimino, Deric Washburn, Louis Garfinkle and Quinn K. Redeker
- Interiors – Woody Allen
- An Unmarried Woman – Paul Mazursky
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- Midnight Express – Oliver Stone
- Bloodbrothers – Walter Newman
- California Suite – Neil Simon
- Heaven Can Wait – Elaine May and Warren Beatty
- Same Time, Next Year – Bernard Slade
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| Best Foreign Language Film |
Best Costume Design |
- Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (France)
- The Glass Cell (West Germany)
- Hungarians (Hungary)
- Viva Italia! (Italy)
- White Bim Black Ear (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
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- Death on the Nile – Anthony Powell
- Caravans – Renie Conley
- Days of Heaven – Patricia Norris
- The Swarm – Paul Zastupnevich
- The Wiz – Tony Walton
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| Best Documentary Feature |
Best Documentary Short |
- Scared Straight!
- The Lovers' Wind
- Mysterious Castles of Clay
- Raoni
- With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade
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- The Flight of the Gossamer Condor
- The Divided Trail: A Native American Odyssey
- An Encounter with Faces
- Goodnight Miss Ann
- Squires of San Quentin
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| Best Live Action Short |
Best Animated Short |
- Teenage Father
- A Different Approach
- Mandy's Grandmother
- Strange Fruit
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- Special Delivery
- Oh My Darling
- Rip Van Winkle
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| Best Original Score |
Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score |
- Midnight Express – Giorgio Moroder
- The Boys from Brazil – Jerry Goldsmith
- Days of Heaven – Ennio Morricone
- Heaven Can Wait – Dave Grusin
- Superman – John Williams
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- The Buddy Holly Story – Joe Renzetti
- The Wiz – Quincy Jones
- Pretty Baby – Jerry Wexler
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| Best Original Song |
Best Sound Mixing |
- "Last Dance" from Thank God It's Friday – Music and Lyric by Paul Jabara
- "Hopelessly Devoted to You" from Grease – Music and Lyric by John Farrar
- "The Last Time I Felt Like This" from Same Time, Next Year – Music by Marvin Hamlisch; Lyric by Alan and Marilyn Bergman
- "Ready to Take a Chance Again" from Foul Play – Music by Charles Fox; Lyric by Norman Gimbel
- "When You're Loved" from The Magic of Lassie – Music and Lyric by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
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- The Deer Hunter – Richard Portman, William McCaughey, Aaron Rochin and Darin Knight
- Hooper – Robert Knudson, Robert Glass, Don MacDougall and Jack Solomon
- Superman – Gordon K. McCallum, Graham V. Hartstone, Nicolas Le Messurier and Roy Charman
- The Buddy Holly Story – Tex Rudloff, Joel Fein, Curly Thirlwell and Willie D. Burton
- Days of Heaven – John Wilkinson, Robert W. Glass, Jr., John T. Reitz and Barry Thomas
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| Best Art Direction |
Best Cinematography |
- Heaven Can Wait – Art Direction: Paul Sylbert and Edwin O'Donovan; Set Decoration: George Gaines
- The Brink's Job – Art Direction: Dean Tavoularis and Angelo Graham; Set Decoration: George R. Nelson and Bruce Kay
- California Suite– Art Direction: Albert Brenner; Set Decoration: Marvin March
- Interiors – Art Direction: Mel Bourne; Set Decoration: Daniel Robert
- The Wiz – Art Direction: Tony Walton and Philip Rosenberg; Set Decoration: Edward Stewart and Robert Drumheller
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- Days of Heaven – Nestor Almendros
- The Deer Hunter – Vilmos Zsigmond
- Heaven Can Wait – William A. Fraker
- Same Time, Next Year – Robert Surtees
- The Wiz – Oswald Morris
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| Best Film Editing |
Best Visual Effects |
- The Deer Hunter – Peter Zinner
- Superman – Stuart Baird
- Midnight Express – Gerry Hambling
- The Boys From Brazil – Robert E. Swink
- Coming Home – Don Zimmerman
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- Superman – Les Bowie, Colin Chilvers, Denys Coop, Roy Field, Derek Meddings and Zoran Perisic
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