Winner

Art Carney

Harry and Tonto

Nominated

Jack Lemmon

The Front Page

James Earl Jones

Claudine

Walter Matthau

The Front Page

Burt Reynolds

The Longest Yard

Winner

Jack Nicholson

Chinatown

Nominated

Dustin Hoffman

Lenny

James Caan

The Gambler

Al Pacino

The Godfather Part II

Gene Hackman

The Conversation

Winner

Raquel Welch

The Three Musketeers

Nominated

Lucille Ball

Mame

Diahann Carroll

Claudine

Helen Hayes

Herbie Rides Again

Cloris Leachman

Young Frankenstein

Winner

Gena Rowlands

A Woman Under the Influence

Nominated

Valerie Perrine

Lenny

Ellen Burstyn

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Faye Dunaway

Chinatown

Liv Ullmann

Scenes from a Marriage

Winner

Roman Polanski

Chinatown

Nominated

Francis Ford Coppola

The Conversation

John Cassavetes

A Woman Under the Influence

Bob Fosse

Lenny

Winner

Beautiful People

Nominated

Birds Do It, Bees Do It

Hearts and Minds

Janis

I Am a Dancer

Winner

Scenes from a Marriage

Nominated

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

Lacombe, Lucien

The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob

Amarcord

Winner

The Longest Yard

Nominated

The Three Musketeers

The Front Page

Harry and Tonto

The Little Prince

Winner

Chinatown

Nominated

Earthquake

The Godfather Part II

The Conversation

A Woman Under the Influence

Winner

The Little Prince

Alan Jay Lerner

Frederick Loewe

Nominated

Earthquake

John Williams

Chinatown

Jerry Goldsmith

The Godfather Part II

Nino Rota

Phantom of the Paradise

Paul Williams

Winner

Benji

Euel Box

Betty E. Box

Nominated

The Towering Inferno

Al Kasha

Joel Hirschhorn

The Dove

John Barry

Don Black

The Little Prince

Frederick Loewe

Alan Jay Lerner

Claudine

Curtis Mayfield

Winner

Chinatown

Robert Towne

Nominated

The Conversation

Francis Ford Coppola

The Godfather Part II

Francis Ford Coppola

Mario Puzo

The Towering Inferno

Stirling Silliphant

A Woman Under the Influence

John Cassavetes

Winner

Fred Astaire

The Towering Inferno

Nominated

John Huston

Chinatown

Sam Waterston

The Great Gatsby

Eddie Albert

The Longest Yard

Bruce Dern

The Great Gatsby

Winner

Harvey Korman

The Carol Burnett Show

Nominated

Gavin MacLeod

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Whitman Mayo

Sanford and Son

Jimmie 'JJ' Walker

Good Times

Will Geer

The Waltons

Winner

Karen Black

The Great Gatsby

Nominated

Jennifer Jones

The Towering Inferno

Diane Ladd

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Bea Arthur

Mame

Madeline Kahn

Young Frankenstein

Winner

Betty Garrett

All in the Family

Nominated

Julie Kavner

Rhoda

Ellen Corby

The Waltons

Nancy Walker

McMillan & Wife

Vicki Lawrence

The Carol Burnett Show

Winner

Alan Alda

M*A*S*H

Nominated

Redd Foxx

Sanford and Son

Bob Newhart

The Bob Newhart Show

Edward Asner

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Carroll O'Connor

All in the Family

Winner

Telly Savalas

Kojak

Nominated

Peter Falk

Columbo

Michael Douglas

The Streets of San Francisco

Richard Thomas

The Waltons

Mike Connors

Mannix

Winner

Valerie Harper

Rhoda

Nominated

Mary Tyler Moore

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Jean Stapleton

All in the Family

Carol Burnett

The Carol Burnett Show

Esther Rolle

Good Times

Winner

Angie Dickinson

Police Woman

Nominated

Teresa Graves

Get Christie Love!

Lee Meriwether

Barnaby Jones

Michael Learned

The Waltons

Jean Marsh

Upstairs, Downstairs

Winner

Rhoda

Nominated

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

All in the Family

Maude

The Carol Burnett Show

Winner

Upstairs, Downstairs

Nominated

Police Story

The Streets of San Francisco

Kojak

The Waltons

Columbo

Winner

The Towering Inferno

Susan Flannery

Nominated

Where the Lilies Bloom

Julie Gholson

99 and 44/100% Dead!

Ann Turkel

Airport 1975

Helen Reddy

Freebie and the Bean

Valerie Harper

Winner

The Dove

Joseph Bottoms

Nominated

The Godfather Part II

Lee Strasberg

The Great Gatsby

Sam Waterston

The Little Prince

Steven Warner

The Longest Yard

James Hampton