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Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Best Picture	Best Director
*Kramer vs. Kramer* All That Jazz Apocalypse Now Breaking Away Norma Rae	Robert Benton – Kramer vs. Kramer Bob Fosse – All That Jazz Francis Ford Coppola – Apocalypse Now Peter Yates – Breaking Away Édouard Molinaro – La Cage aux Folles
Best Actor	Best Actress
Dustin Hoffman – Kramer vs. Kramer Al Pacino – ...And Justice for All Roy Scheider – All That Jazz Peter Sellers – Being There Jack Lemmon – The China Syndrome	Sally Field – Norma Rae Marsha Mason – Chapter Two Jane Fonda – The China Syndrome Bette Midler – The Rose Jill Clayburgh – Starting Over
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Melvyn Douglas – Being There Robert Duvall – Apocalypse Now Mickey Rooney – The Black Stallion Justin Henry – Kramer vs. Kramer Frederic Forrest – The Rose	Meryl Streep – Kramer vs. Kramer Barbara Barrie – Breaking Away Jane Alexander – Kramer vs. Kramer Mariel Hemingway – Manhattan Candice Bergen – Starting Over
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
Breaking Away – Steve Tesich ...And Justice for All – Valerie Curtin and Barry Levinson All That Jazz – Robert Alan Aurthur and Bob Fosse The China Syndrome – Mike Gray, T.S. Cook and James Bridges Manhattan – Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman	Kramer vs. Kramer – Robert Benton Apocalypse Now – Francis Ford Coppola and John Milius La Cage aux Folles – Francis Veber, Édouard Molinaro, Marcello Danon and Jean Poiret A Little Romance – Allan Burns Norma Rae – Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank, Jr.
Best Foreign Language Film
The Tin Drum (Federal Republic of Germany - West) The Maids of Wilko (Poland) Mama Turns a Hundred (Spain) A Simple Story (France) To Forget Venice (Italy)
Best Documentary Feature	Best Documentary Short
Best Boy – Ira Wohl Generation on the Wind – David A. Vassar Going the Distance – Paul Cowan and Jacques Bobet The Killing Ground – Steve Singer and Tom Priestley The War at Home – Glenn Silber and Barry Alexander Brown	Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist – Saul J. Turell Dae – Risto Teofilovski Koryo Celadon – Donald A. Connolly and James R. Messenger Nails – Phillip Borsos Remember Me – Dick Young
Best Live Action Short	Best Animated Short
Board and Care – Sarah Pillsbury and Ron Ellis Bravery in the Field – Roman Kroitor and Stefan Wodoslawsky Oh Brother, My Brother – Carol Lowell and Ross Lowell The Solar Film – Saul Bass and Michael Britton Solly's Diner – Harry Mathias, Jay Zukerman and Larry Hankin	Every Child – Derek Lamb Dream Doll – Bob Godfrey It's So Nice to Have a Wolf Around the House – Paul Fierlinger
Best Original Score	Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score
A Little Romance – Georges Delerue Star Trek: The Motion Picture – Jerry Goldsmith The Champ – Dave Grusin 10 – Henry Mancini The Amityville Horror – Lalo Schifrin	All That Jazz – Ralph Burns Breaking Away – Patrick Williams The Muppet Movie – Song by Paul Williams and Kenny Ascher; Adaptation by Paul Williams
Best Sound Editing	Best Sound Mixing
The Black Stallion – Alan Splet	Apocalypse Now – Walter Murch, Mark Berger, Richard Beggs and Nat Boxer 1941 – Robert Knudson, Robert Glass, Don MacDougall and Gene Cantamessa Meteor – William McCaughey, Aaron Rochin, Michael J. Kohut and Jack Solomon The Electric Horseman – Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Michael Minkler and Al Overton, Jr. The Rose – Theodore Soderberg, Douglas O. Williams, Paul Wells and Jim Webb
Best Art Direction	Best Cinematography
All That Jazz – Art Direction: Philip Rosenberg and Tony Walton; Set Decoration: Edward Stewart and Gary Brink The China Syndrome – Art Direction: George Jenkins; Set Decoration: Arthur Jeph Parker Star Trek: The Motion Picture – Art Direction: Harold Michelson, Joe Jennings, Leon Harris and John Vallone; Set Decoration: Linda DeScenna Alien – Art Direction: Michael Seymour, Les Dilley and Roger Christian; Set Decoration: Ian Whittaker Apocalypse Now – Art Direction: Dean Tavoularis and Angelo Graham; Set Decoration: George R. Nelson	Apocalypse Now – Vittorio Storaro Kramer vs. Kramer – Nestor Almendros 1941 – William A. Fraker The Black Hole – Frank Phillips All That Jazz – Giuseppe Rotunno
Best Costume Design	Best Original Song
All That Jazz – Albert Wolsky The Europeans – Judy Moorcroft Agatha – Shirley Russell Butch and Sundance: The Early Days – William Ware Theiss La Cage aux Folles – Piero Tosi and Ambra Danon	*"It Goes Like It Goes" from Norma Rae* – Music by David Shire; Lyrics by Norman Gimbel** "I'll Never Say Goodbye" from The Promise – Music by David Shire; Lyric by Alan and Marilyn Bergman "It's Easy to Say" from 10 – Music by Henry Mancini; Lyric by Robert Wells "The Rainbow Connection" from The Muppet Movie – Music and Lyric by Paul Williams and Kenny Ascher "Through the Eyes of Love" from Ice Castles – Music by Marvin Hamlisch; Lyric by Carole Bayer Sager
Best Film Editing	Best Visual Effects
All That Jazz – Alan Heim The Black Stallion – Robert Dalva Kramer vs. Kramer – Jerry Greenberg Apocalypse Now – Richard Marks, Walter Murch, Gerald B. Greenberg and Lisa Fruchtmlan The Rose – Robert L. Wolfe and C. Timothy O'Meara	Alien – H.R. Giger, Carlo Rambaldi, Brian Johnson, Nick Allder and Denys Ayling The Black Hole – Peter Ellenshaw, Art Cruickshank, Eustace Lycett, Danny Lee, Harrison Ellenshaw and Joe Hale 1941 – William A. Fraker, A. D. Flowers and Gregory Jein Moonraker – Derek Meddings, Paul Wilson and John Evans Star Trek: The Motion Picture – Douglas Trumbull, John Dykstra, Richard Yuricich, Robert Swarthe, Dave Stewart and Grant McCune