Winner

Robert Redford

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Nominated

Elliott Gould

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

Paul Newman

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

George C. Scott

Patton

Winner

Katharine Ross

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Nominated

Sarah Miles

Ryan's Daughter

Jane Fonda

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Goldie Hawn

Cactus Flower

Winner

Henry 9 'til 5

Bob Godfrey

Nominated

It's Tough to Be a Bird

Ward Kimball

Children and Cars

John Halas

Espolio

Sidney Goldsmith

Winner

Waterloo

Mario Garbuglia

Nominated

Anne of the Thousand Days

Maurice Carter

Scrooge

Terence Marsh

Ryan's Daughter

Stephen B. Grimes

Winner

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Conrad L. Hall

Nominated

Ryan's Daughter

Freddie Young

Waterloo

Armando Nannuzzi

Catch-22

David Watkin

Winner

Waterloo

Maria De Matteis

Nominated

Cromwell

Vittorio Nino Novarese

Anne of the Thousand Days

Margaret Furse

Ryan's Daughter

Jocelyn Rickards

Winner

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

George Roy Hill

Nominated

Kes

Ken Loach

M*A*S*H

Robert Altman

Ryan's Daughter

David Lean

Winner

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Nominated

Ryan's Daughter

Kes

M*A*S*H

Winner

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

John C. Howard

Richard C. Meyer

Nominated

Ryan's Daughter

Norman Savage

M*A*S*H

Danford B. Greene

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Fredric Steinkamp

Winner

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

William Goldman

Nominated

Kes

Barry Hines

Ken Loach

Tony Garnett

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

Paul Mazursky

Larry Tucker

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

James Poe

Robert E. Thompson

Winner

The Shadow of Progress

Derek Williams

Nominated

Blake

Bill Mason

The Gallery

Philip Mark Law

The Winds of Fogo

Colin Low

Winner

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Don Hall

David Dockendorf

Bill Edmondson

Nominated

M*A*S*H

Don Hall

David Dockendorf

Bernard Freericks

Patton

Don Hall

Douglas O. Williams

Don J. Bassman

Ryan's Daughter

Winston Ryder

Gordon K. McCallum

Winner

The Rise and Fall of the Great Lakes

Bill Mason

Nominated

A Study in Change

Michael Orrom

Continental Drift

Co Hoedeman

Policeman

Eric Marquis

Winner

Colin Welland

Kes

Nominated

Bernard Cribbins

The Railway Children

John Mills

Ryan's Daughter

Gig Young

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Winner

Susannah York

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Nominated

Evin Crowley

Ryan's Daughter

Estelle Parsons

Watermelon Man

Maureen Stapleton

Airport

Winner

Kes

David Bradley

Nominated

The Sterile Cuckoo

Liza Minnelli

The Railway Children

Sally Thomsett

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Michael Sarrazin