Best Film – Drama
* The Turning Point
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Julia
Star Wars
Best Film – Musical or Comedy
* The Goodbye Girl
Annie Hall
High Anxiety
New York, New York
Saturday Night Fever
Best Actor – Drama
* Richard Burton – Equus
Marcello Mastroianni – A Special Day (Una giornata particolare)
Al Pacino – Bobby Deerfield
Gregory Peck – MacArthur
Henry Winkler – Heroes
Best Actor – Musical or Comedy
* Richard Dreyfuss – The Goodbye Girl
Woody Allen – Annie Hall
Mel Brooks – High Anxiety
Robert De Niro – New York, New York
John Travolta – Saturday Night Fever
Best Actress – Drama
* Jane Fonda – Julia
Anne Bancroft – The Turning Point
Diane Keaton – Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Kathleen Quinlan – I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Gena Rowlands – Opening Night
Best Actress – Musical or Comedy
* Diane Keaton – Annie Hall (tie)
* Marsha Mason – The Goodbye Girl (tie)
Sally Field – Smokey and the Bandit
Liza Minnelli – New York, New York
Helen Reddy – Pete’s Dragon
Lily Tomlin – The Late Show
Best Supporting Actor
* Peter Firth – Equus
Mikhail Baryshnikov – The Turning Point
Alec Guinness – Star Wars
Jason Robards – Julia
Maximilian Schell – Julia
Best Supporting Actress
* Vanessa Redgrave – Julia
Joan Blondell – Opening Night
Leslie Browne – The Turning Point
Quinn Cummings – The Goodbye Girl
Ann-Margret – Joseph Andrews
Lilia Skala – Roseland
Best Director
* Herbert Ross – The Turning Point
Woody Allen – Annie Hall
George Lucas – Star Wars
Steven Spielberg – Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Fred Zinnemann – Julia
Best Foreign Language Film
* A Special Day (Una giornata particolare), Italy
An Elephant Can Be Extremely Deceptive (Un éléphant ça trompe énormément), France
A Life Ahead (La vie devant soi), France
That Obscure Object of Desire (Cet obscur objet du désir), France/Spain
Raise Ravens (Cría cuervos), Spain
Best Music, Original Score
* Star Wars – John Williams
Close Encounters of the Third Kind – John Williams
Pete’s Dragon – Joel Hirschhorn and Al Kasha
Saturday Night Fever – Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb and David Shire
The Spy Who Loved Me – Marvin Hamlisch and Carole Bayer Sager
Best Original Song
* “You Light Up My Life” by Joseph Brooks – You Light Up My Life
“Down Deep Inside” – The Deep
“New York, New York” – New York, New York
“How Deep Is Your Love” – Saturday Night Fever
“Nobody Does It Better” – The Spy Who Loved Me
Best Screenplay
* The Goodbye Girl – Neil Simon
Annie Hall – Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman
Close Encounters of the Third Kind – Steven Spielberg
Julia – Alvin Sargent
The Turning Point – Arthur Laurents