Winner

Albert Finney

Scrooge

Nominated

Richard Benjamin

Diary of a Mad Housewife

Donald Sutherland

M*A*S*H

Jack Lemmon

The Out of Towners

Elliott Gould

M*A*S*H

Winner

George C. Scott

Patton

Nominated

James Earl Jones

The Great White Hope

Jack Nicholson

Five Easy Pieces

Ryan O'Neal

Love Story

Melvyn Douglas

I Never Sang for My Father

Winner

Carrie Snodgress

Diary of a Mad Housewife

Nominated

Angela Lansbury

Something for Everyone

Julie Andrews

Darling Lili

Barbra Streisand

The Owl and the Pussycat

Sandy Dennis

The Out of Towners

Winner

Ali MacGraw

Love Story

Nominated

Glenda Jackson

Women in Love

Melina Mercouri

Promise at Dawn

Faye Dunaway

Puzzle of a Downfall Child

Sarah Miles

Ryan's Daughter

Winner

Arthur Hiller

Love Story

Nominated

Ken Russell

Women in Love

Franklin J. Schaffner

Patton

Robert Altman

M*A*S*H

Bob Rafelson

Five Easy Pieces

Winner

Women in Love

Nominated

The Virgin and the Gypsy

The Hero

The Walking Major

Act of the Heart

Winner

Rider on the Rain

Nominated

Borsalino

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

The Confession

The Customer of the Off Season

Winner

M*A*S*H

Nominated

Scrooge

Darling Lili

Diary of a Mad Housewife

Lovers and Other Strangers

Winner

Love Story

Nominated

Five Easy Pieces

Airport

I Never Sang for My Father

Patton

Winner

Love Story

Francis Lai

Nominated

Cromwell

Frank Cordell

Wuthering Heights

Michel Legrand

Airport

Alfred Newman

Scrooge

Leslie Bricusse

Ian Fraser

Herbert W. Spencer

Winner

Darling Lili

Henry Mancini

Johnny Mercer

Nominated

Pieces of Dreams

Michel Legrand

Alan Bergman

Marilyn Bergman

Madron

Riz Ortolani

Arthur Hamilton

Little Fauss and Big Halsy

Scrooge

Leslie Bricusse

Winner

Love Story

Erich Segal

Nominated

Husbands

John Cassavetes

M*A*S*H

Ring Lardner Jr.

Five Easy Pieces

Carole Eastman

Bob Rafelson

Scrooge

Leslie Bricusse

Winner

John Mills

Ryan's Daughter

Nominated

Trevor Howard

Ryan's Daughter

John Marley

Love Story

George Kennedy

Airport

Chief Dan George

Little Big Man

Winner

James Brolin

Marcus Welby, M.D.

Nominated

Michael Constantine

Room 222

Zalman King

The Young Lawyers

Henry Gibson

Laugh-In

Tige Andrews

The Mod Squad

Winner

Maureen Stapleton

Airport

Nominated

Tina Chen

The Hawaiians

Sally Kellerman

M*A*S*H

Lee Grant

The Landlord

Winner

Gail Fisher

Mannix

Nominated

Lesley Ann Warren

Mission: Impossible

Miyoshi Umeki

The Courtship of Eddie's Father

Karen Valentine

Room 222

Sue Ane Langdon

Arnie

Winner

Flip Wilson

Flip

Nominated

Herschel Bernardi

Arnie

David Frost

The David Frost Show

Danny Thomas

Make Room for Granddaddy

Merv Griffin

The Merv Griffin Show

Winner

Peter Graves

Mission: Impossible

Nominated

Burt Reynolds

Dan August

Mike Connors

Mannix

Robert Young

Marcus Welby, M.D.

Chad Everett

Medical Center

Winner

Mary Tyler Moore

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Nominated

Elizabeth Montgomery

Bewitched

Juliet Mills

Nanny and the Professor

Shirley Jones

The Partridge Family

Carol Burnett

The Carol Burnett Show

Winner

Peggy Lipton

The Mod Squad

Nominated

Linda Cristal

The High Chaparral

Yvette Mimieux

The Most Deadly Game

Denise Nicholas

Room 222

Amanda Blake

Gunsmoke

Winner

The Carol Burnett Show

Nominated

The Partridge Family

Family Affair

The Courtship of Eddie's Father

The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour

Winner

Medical Center

Nominated

Marcus Welby, M.D.

The Young Lawyers

The Mod Squad

The Bold Ones: The Senator

Winner

Diary of a Mad Housewife

Carrie Snodgress

Nominated

Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You

Anna Calder-Marshall

The Great White Hope

Jane Alexander

The Liberation of L.B. Jones

Lola Falana

Jenny

Marlo Thomas

I Love My Wife

Angel Tompkins

Winner

The Great White Hope

James Earl Jones

Nominated

Diary of a Mad Housewife

Frank Langella

Norwood

Joe Namath

The Boys in the Band

Kenneth Nelson

Promise at Dawn

Assi Dayan