• The Turning Point
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  • I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
  • Julia
  • Star Wars

• The Goodbye Girl
  • Annie Hall
  • High Anxiety
  • New York, New York
  • Saturday Night Fever

• Richard Burton –Equus as Dr. Martin Dysart
  • Marcello Mastroianni –A Special Day as Gabriele
  • Al Pacino –Bobby Deerfield as Bobby Deerfield
  • Gregory Peck –MacArthur asDouglas MacArthur
  • Henry Winkler –Heroes as Jack Dunne

• Jane Fonda –Julia asLillian Hellman
  • Anne Bancroft –The Turning Point as Emma Jacklin
  • Diane Keaton –Looking for Mr. Goodbar as Theresa Dunn
  • Kathleen Quinlan –I Never Promised You a Rose Garden as Deborah Blake
  • Gena Rowlands –Opening Night as Myrtle Gordon

• Richard Dreyfuss –The Goodbye Girl as Elliott Garfield
  • Woody Allen –Annie Hall as Alvy Singer
  • Mel Brooks –High Anxiety as Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke
  • Robert De Niro –New York, New York as Jimmy Doyle
  • John Travolta –Saturday Night Fever as Tony Manero

• Diane Keaton –Annie Hall as Annie Hall
• Marsha Mason –The Goodbye Girl as Paula McFadden
  • Sally Field –Smokey and the Bandit as Carrie
  • Liza Minnelli –New York, New York as Francine Evans
  • Lily Tomlin –The Late Show as Margo Sperling

• Peter Firth –Equus as Alan Strang
  • Mikhail Baryshnikov –The Turning Point as Yuri Kopeikine
  • Alec Guinness –Star Wars asObi-Wan Kenobi
  • Jason Robards –Julia asDashiell Hammett
  • Maximilian Schell –Julia as Johann

• Vanessa Redgrave –Julia as Julia
  • Ann-Margret –Joseph Andrews as Lady Booby
  • Joan Blondell –Opening Night as Sarah Goode
  • Leslie Browne –The Turning Point as Emilia Rodgers
  • Quinn Cummings –The Goodbye Girl as Lucy McFadden
  • Lilia Skala –Roseland as Rosa

• Herbert Ross –The Turning Point
  • Woody Allen –Annie Hall
  • George Lucas –Star Wars
  • Steven Spielberg –Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  • Fred Zinnemann –Julia

• The Goodbye Girl –Neil Simon
  • Annie Hall –Woody Allen andMarshall Brickman
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind –Steven Spielberg
  • Julia –Alvin Sargent
  • The Turning Point –Arthur Laurents

• Star Wars –John Williams
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind –John Williams
  • Pete's Dragon –Joel Hirschhorn andAl Kasha
  • Saturday Night Fever –Barry,Maurice andRobin Gibb andDavid Shire
  • The Spy Who Loved Me –Marvin Hamlisch andCarole Bayer Sager

• "You Light Up My Life" (Joseph Brooks) –You Light Up My Life
  • "Down Deep Inside" (John Barry) –The Deep
  • "How Deep Is Your Love" (Barry,Maurice andRobin Gibb) –Saturday Night Fever
  • "New York, New York" (John Kander,Fred Ebb) –New York, New York
  • "Nobody Does It Better" (Marvin Hamlisch,Carole Bayer Sager) –The Spy Who Loved Me

• A Special Day (Italy)
  • Cría Cuervos (Spain)
  • Madame Rosa (France)
  • Pardon Mon Affaire (France)
  • That Obscure Object of Desire (France/Spain)

• Charlie's Angels
• Columbo
• Family
• Starsky & Hutch
• Upstairs, Downstairs

• Barney Miller
• The Carol Burnett Show
• Happy Days
• Laverne & Shirley

• Robert Conrad -Baa Baa Black Sheep as Gregory "Pappy" Boyington
• Peter Falk -Columbo asLt. Columbo
• James Garner -The Rockford Files asJim Rockford
• Telly Savalas -Kojak as Lt. Theo Kojak

• Angie Dickinson -Police Woman as Sgt. Suzanne "Pepper" Anderson
• Kate Jackson -Charlie's Angels as Sabrina Duncan
• Leslie Uggams -Roots as Kizzy Reynolds
• Lindsay Wagner -The Bionic Woman as Jaime Sommers

Henry Winkler -Happy Days asArthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli (TIE)

• Alan Alda -M*A*S*H asBenjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce
• Hal Linden -Barney Miller as Captain Barney Miller
• Carroll O'Connor -All in the Family asArchie Bunker

• Bea Arthur -Maude asMaude Findlay
• Penny Marshall -Laverne & Shirley as Laverne DeFazio
• Isabel Sanford -The Jeffersons asLouise "Weezy" Jefferson
• Jean Stapleton -All in the Family asEdith Bunker
• Cindy Williams -Laverne & Shirley as Shirley Feeney

• Just a Little Inconvenience
• Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night
• Mary White
• Something for Joey