Winner

Barbra Streisand

Yentl

Nominated

Ingmar Bergman

Fanny and Alexander

Bruce Beresford

Tender Mercies

James L. Brooks

Terms of Endearment

Peter Yates

The Dresser

Mike Nichols

Silkwood

Winner

Fanny and Alexander

Nominated

The Dresser

Educating Rita

Carmen

The Grey Fox

Winner

The Thorn Birds

Nominated

Kennedy

Who Will Love My Children?

The Winds of War

Heart of Steel

Winner

Yentl

Nominated

Flashdance

Zelig

The Big Chill

Trading Places

Winner

Terms of Endearment

Nominated

Reuben, Reuben

Tender Mercies

The Right Stuff

Silkwood

Winner

Flashdance

Giorgio Moroder

Nominated

Under Fire

Jerry Goldsmith

Rumble Fish

Stewart Copeland

Scarface

Giorgio Moroder

Yentl

Michel Legrand

Alan Bergman

Marilyn Bergman

Winner

Flashdance

Giorgio Moroder

Keith Forsey

Irene Cara

Nominated

Tender Mercies

Bobby Hart

Austin Roberts

Yentl

Michel Legrand

Alan Bergman

Marilyn Bergman

Staying Alive

Frank Stallone

Vince DiCola

Winner

Richard Chamberlain

The Thorn Birds

Nominated

Louis Gossett Jr.

Sadat

Peter Strauss

Heart of Steel

Martin Sheen

Kennedy

Robert Blake

Blood Feud

Winner

Michael Caine

Educating Rita

Nominated

Tom Cruise

Risky Business

Woody Allen

Zelig

Mandy Patinkin

Yentl

Eddie Murphy

Trading Places

Winner

Robert Duvall

Tender Mercies

Nominated

Tom Conti

Reuben, Reuben

Al Pacino

Scarface

Eric Roberts

Star 80

Albert Finney

The Dresser

Richard Farnsworth

The Grey Fox

Winner

Jack Nicholson

Terms of Endearment

Nominated

Gene Hackman

Under Fire

Steven Bauer

Scarface

Charles Durning

To Be or Not to Be

Kurt Russell

Silkwood

Winner

Richard Kiley

The Thorn Birds

Nominated

Jan-Michael Vincent

The Winds of War

John Houseman

The Winds of War

Perry King

The Hasty Heart

Rob Lowe

Thursday's Child

Bryan Brown

The Thorn Birds

Winner

John Ritter

Three's Company

Nominated

Bob Newhart

Newhart

Robert Guillaume

Benson

Ted Danson

Cheers

Dabney Coleman

Buffalo Bill

Winner

John Forsythe

Dynasty

Nominated

James Brolin

Hotel

Robert Wagner

Hart to Hart

Daniel J. Travanti

Hill Street Blues

Tom Selleck

Magnum, P.I.

Winner

Ann-Margret

Who Will Love My Children?

Nominated

Rachel Ward

The Thorn Birds

Blair Brown

Kennedy

Susan Blakely

Will There Really Be a Morning?

Gena Rowlands

Thursday's Child

Winner

Julie Walters

Educating Rita

Nominated

Linda Ronstadt

The Pirates of Penzance

Barbra Streisand

Yentl

Jennifer Beals

Flashdance

Anne Bancroft

To Be or Not to Be

Winner

Shirley MacLaine

Terms of Endearment

Nominated

Meryl Streep

Silkwood

Debra Winger

Terms of Endearment

Jane Alexander

Testament

Bonnie Bedelia

Heart Like a Wheel

Winner

Cher

Silkwood

Nominated

Barbara Carrera

Never Say Never Again

Linda Hunt

The Year of Living Dangerously

Joanna Pacula

Gorky Park

Tess Harper

Tender Mercies

Winner

Barbara Stanwyck

The Thorn Birds

Nominated

Piper Laurie

The Thorn Birds

Jean Simmons

The Thorn Birds

Victoria Tennant

The Winds of War

Polly Holliday

The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story

Angela Lansbury

The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story

Winner

Joanna Cassidy

Buffalo Bill

Nominated

Madeline Kahn

Oh Madeline

Shelley Long

Cheers

Isabel Sanford

The Jeffersons

Debbie Allen

Fame

Winner

Jane Wyman

Falcon Crest

Nominated

Tyne Daly

Cagney & Lacey

Stefanie Powers

Hart to Hart

Joan Collins

Dynasty

Linda Evans

Dynasty

Winner

Terms of Endearment

James L. Brooks

Nominated

The Big Chill

Lawrence Kasdan

Barbara Benedek

Reuben, Reuben

Julius J. Epstein

The Dresser

Ronald Harwood

Educating Rita

Willy Russell

Winner

Fame

Nominated

Cheers

Buffalo Bill

Taxi

Newhart

Winner

Dynasty

Nominated

Hart to Hart

Hill Street Blues

Dallas

Cagney & Lacey