• 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 as Douglas MacArthur
  • Henry Winkler – Heroes as Jack Dunne

• Jane Fonda – Julia as Lillian 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 as Obi-Wan Kenobi
  • Jason Robards – Julia as Dashiell 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 and Marshall 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 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

• "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 and Robin 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 as Lt. Columbo
• James Garner - The Rockford Files as Jim 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 as Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli (TIE)

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

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

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