Academy Awards, USA

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Winner

Richard Dreyfuss

The Goodbye Girl

Nominated

Marcello Mastroianni

A Special Day

Richard Burton

Equus

Woody Allen

Annie Hall

John Travolta

Saturday Night Fever

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Winner

Jason Robards

Julia

Nominated

Alec Guinness

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

Maximilian Schell

Julia

Mikhail Baryshnikov

The Turning Point

Peter Firth

Equus

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Winner

Diane Keaton

Annie Hall

Nominated

Jane Fonda

Julia

Shirley MacLaine

The Turning Point

Marsha Mason

The Goodbye Girl

Anne Bancroft

The Turning Point

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Winner

Vanessa Redgrave

Julia

Nominated

Tuesday Weld

Looking for Mr. Goodbar

Leslie Browne

The Turning Point

Quinn Cummings

The Goodbye Girl

Melinda Dillon

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration

Winner

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

John Barry

Norman Reynolds

Leslie Dilley

Roger Christian

Nominated

The Turning Point

Albert Brenner

Marvin March

The Spy Who Loved Me

Ken Adam

Peter Lamont

Hugh Scaife

Airport '77

George C. Webb

Mickey S. Michaels

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Joe Alves

Daniel A. Lomino

Phil Abramson

Best Cinematography

Winner

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Vilmos Zsigmond

Nominated

Julia

Douglas Slocombe

Islands in the Stream

Fred J. Koenekamp

Looking for Mr. Goodbar

William A. Fraker

The Turning Point

Robert Surtees

Best Costume Design

Winner

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

John Mollo

Nominated

Julia

Anthea Sylbert

The Other Side of Midnight

Irene Sharaff

Airport '77

Edith Head

Burton Miller

A Little Night Music

Florence Klotz

Best Director

Winner

Woody Allen

Annie Hall

Nominated

George Lucas

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

Fred Zinnemann

Julia

Steven Spielberg

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Herbert Ross

The Turning Point

Best Documentary, Features

Winner

Who Are the DeBolts? and Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?

John Korty

Dan McCann

Warren Lockhart

Nominated

The Children of Theatre Street

Robert Dornhelm

Earle Mack

High Grass Circus

Bill Brind

Torben Schioler

Tony Ianzelo

Union Maids

Jim Klein

Julia Reichert

Miles Mogulescu

Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love

Harry Rasky

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

Winner

Gravity Is My Enemy

John C. Joseph

Jan Stussy

Nominated

Of Time, Tombs and Treasures

James R. Messenger

Paul Raimondi

First Edition

Helen Whitney

DeWitt Sage

Agueda Martinez: Our People, Our Country

Moctesuma Esparza

The Shetland Experience

Douglas Gordon

Best Effects, Visual Effects

Winner

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

John Stears

John Dykstra

Richard Edlund

Grant McCune

Robert Blalack

Nominated

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Roy Arbogast

Douglas Trumbull

Matthew Yuricich

Gregory Jein

Richard Yuricich

Best Film Editing

Winner

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

Paul Hirsch

Marcia Lucas

Richard Chew

Nominated

Smokey and the Bandit

Walter Hannemann

Angelo Ross

The Turning Point

William Reynolds

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Michael Kahn

Julia

Walter Murch

Marcel Durham

Best Foreign Language Film

Winner

Madame Rosa

Nominated

That Obscure Object of Desire

A Special Day

Iphigenia

Operation Thunderbolt

Best Music, Original Score

Winner

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

John Williams

Nominated

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

John Williams

The Message

Maurice Jarre

The Spy Who Loved Me

Marvin Hamlisch

Julia

Georges Delerue

Best Music, Original Song

Winner

You Light Up My Life

Joseph Brooks

Nominated

Pete's Dragon

Al Kasha

Joel Hirschhorn

The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella

Richard M. Sherman

Robert B. Sherman

The Spy Who Loved Me

Marvin Hamlisch

Carole Bayer Sager

The Rescuers

Sammy Fain

Carol Connors

Ayn Robbins

Best Music, Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score

Winner

A Little Night Music

Jonathan Tunick

Nominated

Pete's Dragon

Al Kasha

Joel Hirschhorn

Irwin Kostal

The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella

Richard M. Sherman

Robert B. Sherman

Angela Morley

Best Picture

Winner

Annie Hall

Charles H. Joffe

Nominated

The Turning Point

Herbert Ross

Arthur Laurents

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

Gary Kurtz

The Goodbye Girl

Ray Stark

Julia

Richard A. Roth

Best Short Film, Animated

Winner

Le château de sable

Co Hoedeman

Nominated

Jimmy the C

Jimmy Picker

Robert Grossman

Craig Whitaker

The Bead Game

Ishu Patel

A Doonesbury Special

John Hubley

Faith Hubley

Garry Trudeau

Best Short Film, Live Action

Winner

I'll Find a Way

Beverly Shaffer

Yuki Yoshida

Nominated

Notes on the Popular Arts

Saul Bass

The Absent-Minded Waiter

William E. McEuen

Floating Free

Jerry Butts

Spaceborne

Philip Dauber

Best Sound

Winner

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

Don MacDougall

Ray West

Bob Minkler

Derek Ball

Nominated

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Robert Knudson

Robert Glass

Don MacDougall

Gene S. Cantamessa

Sorcerer

Robert Knudson

Robert Glass

Richard Tyler

Jean-Louis Ducarme

The Turning Point

Theodore Soderberg

Paul Wells

Douglas O. Williams

Jerry Jost

The Deep

Walter Goss

Rick Alexander

Tom Beckert

Robin Gregory

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium

Winner

Julia

Alvin Sargent

Nominated

That Obscure Object of Desire

Luis Buñuel

Jean-Claude Carrière

Equus

Peter Shaffer

Oh, God!

Larry Gelbart

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Gavin Lambert

Lewis John Carlino

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

Winner

Annie Hall

Woody Allen

Marshall Brickman

Nominated

The Goodbye Girl

Neil Simon

The Turning Point

Arthur Laurents

The Late Show

Robert Benton

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

George Lucas