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

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

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

Best Supporting Actor
Comes a Horseman	Coming Home	The Deer Hunter	Heaven Can Wait	Midnight Express
Richard Farnsworth	Bruce Dern	Christopher Walken	Jack Warden	John Hurt

Best Supporting Actress
California Suite	Coming Home	The Deer Hunter	Heaven Can Wait	Interiors
Maggie Smith	Penelope Milford	Meryl Streep	Dyan Cannon	Maureen Stapleton

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

Best Original Screenplay
Autumn Sonata	Coming Home	The Deer Hunter	Interiors	An Unmarried Woman
Ingmar Bergman	Nancy Dowd, Waldo Salt, Robert C. Jones	Michael Cimino, Deric Washburn, Louis Garfinkle, Quinn K. Redeker	Woody Allen	Paul Mazursky

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

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

Best Art Direction
The Brink's Job	California Suite	Heaven Can Wait	Interiors	The Wiz
Dean Tavoularis, Angelo P. Graham, George R. Nelson	Albert Brenner, Marvin March	Paul Sylbert, Edwin O'Donovan, George Gaines	Mel Bourne, Daniel Robert	Tony Walton, Philip Rosenberg, Edward Stewart, Robert Drumheller

Best Costume Design
Caravans	Days of Heaven	Death on the Nile	The Swarm	The Wiz
Renié	Patricia Norris	Anthony Powell	Paul Zastupnevich	Tony Walton

Best Sound
The Buddy Holly Story	Days of Heaven	The Deer Hunter	Hooper	Superman
Tex Rudloff, Joel Fein, Curly Thirlwell, Willie D. Burton	John Wilkinson, Robert W. Glass Jr., John T. Reitz, Barry Thomas	Richard Portman, William L. McCaughey, Aaron Rochin, C. Darin Knight	Robert Knudson, Robert Glass, Don MacDougall, Jack Solomon	Gordon K. McCallum, Graham V. Hartstone, Nicolas Le Messurier, Roy Charman

Best Editing
The Boys from Brazil	Coming Home	The Deer Hunter	Midnight Express	Superman
Robert Swink	Don Zimmerman	Peter Zinner	Gerry Hambling	Stuart Baird

Best Original Song
Foul Play	Grease	The Magic of Lassie	Same Time, Next Year	Thank God It's Friday
Ready to Take a Chance Again	Hopelessly Devoted to You	When You're Loved	The Last Time I Felt Like This	Last Dance

Best Original Score
The Boys from Brazil	Days of Heaven	Heaven Can Wait	Midnight Express	Superman
Jerry Goldsmith	Ennio Morricone	Dave Grusin	Giorgio Moroder	John Williams

Best Adaptation Score
The Buddy Holly Story	Pretty Baby	The Wiz
Joe Renzetti	Jerry Wexler	Quincy Jon