Winner

Richard Dreyfuss

The Goodbye Girl

Nominated

Anthony Hopkins

Magic

Peter Ustinov

Death on the Nile

Brad Davis

Midnight Express

Winner

Jane Fonda

Julia

Nominated

Anne Bancroft

The Turning Point

Jill Clayburgh

An Unmarried Woman

Marsha Mason

The Goodbye Girl

Winner

Julia

Douglas Slocombe

Nominated

Superman

Geoffrey Unsworth

The Duellists

Frank Tidy

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Vilmos Zsigmond

Winner

Death on the Nile

Anthony Powell

Nominated

The Duellists

Tom Rand

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

John Mollo

Julia

Anthea Sylbert

Joan Bridge

Annalisa Nasalli-Rocca

Winner

Midnight Express

Alan Parker

Nominated

A Wedding

Robert Altman

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Steven Spielberg

Julia

Fred Zinnemann

Winner

Julia

Nominated

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

Midnight Express

Winner

Midnight Express

Gerry Hambling

Nominated

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Michael Kahn

Julia

Walter Murch

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

Paul Hirsch

Marcia Lucas

Richard Chew

Winner

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Joe Alves

Nominated

Superman

John Barry

Julia

Gene Callahan

Willy Holt

Carmen Dillon

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

John Barry

Winner

Julia

Alvin Sargent

Nominated

The Goodbye Girl

Neil Simon

A Wedding

John Considine

Patricia Resnick

Allan F. Nicholls

Robert Altman

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Steven Spielberg

Winner

Hokusai: An Animated Sketchbook

Tony White

Nominated

I'll Find a Way

Beverly Shaffer

Sunday Muddy Sunday

Lindsay Dale

Planet Water

Derek Williams

Winner

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

Sam Shaw

Robert R. Rutledge

Gordon Davidson

Gene Corso

Derek Ball

Don MacDougall

Bob Minkler

Ray West

Michael Minkler

Les Fresholtz

Richard Portman

Ben Burtt

Nominated

Superman

Chris Greenham

Gordon K. McCallum

Peter Pennell

Mike Hopkins

Pat Foster

Stan Fiferman

John Foster

Roy Charman

Norman Bolland

Brian Marshall

Charles Schmitz

Richard Raguse

Chris Large

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Gene S. Cantamessa

Robert Knudson

Don MacDougall

Robert Glass

Stephen Katz

Frank E. Warner

Richard Oswald

David Horton Sr.

Sam Gemette

Gary S. Gerlich

Chester Slomka

Neil Burrow

Saturday Night Fever

Michael Colgan

Les Lazarowitz

John Wilkinson

Robert W. Glass Jr.

John T. Reitz

Winner

Twenty Times More Likely

Robert Young

Nominated

How a Man Schall Be Armyd

Anthony Wilkinson

The Safety Net

Leonard Lewis

Play Safe

David Eady

Winner

John Hurt

Midnight Express

Nominated

François Truffaut

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Jason Robards

Julia

Gene Hackman

Superman

Winner

Geraldine Page

Interiors

Nominated

Mona Washbourne

Stevie

Maggie Smith

Death on the Nile

Angela Lansbury

Death on the Nile

Winner

Superman

Christopher Reeve

Nominated

Girlfriends

Melanie Mayron

Midnight Express

Brad Davis

Interiors

Mary Beth Hurt