Best Picture & Directing
Best Picture
Winner
Kramer vs. Kramer
Stanley R. Jaffe, producer
All That Jazz
Apocalypse Now
Breaking Away
Norma Rae
Best Director
Winner
Robert Benton
Kramer vs. Kramer
Bob Fosse— All That Jazz
Francis Ford Coppola— Apocalypse Now
Peter Yates— Breaking Away
Edouard Molinaro— La Cage aux Folles
Acting
Best Actor
Winner
Dustin Hoffman
Kramer vs. Kramer
Jack Lemmon— The China Syndrome
Al Pacino— ...And Justice for All
Roy Scheider— All That Jazz
Peter Sellers— Being There
Best Actress
Winner
Sally Field
Norma Rae
Jill Clayburgh— Starting Over
Jane Fonda— The China Syndrome
Marsha Mason— Chapter Two
Bette Midler— The Rose
Best Supporting Actor
Winner
Melvyn Douglas
Being There
Robert Duvall— Apocalypse Now
Frederic Forrest— The Rose
Mickey Rooney— The Black Stallion
Best Supporting Actress
Winner
Meryl Streep
Kramer vs. Kramer
Jane Alexander— Kramer vs. Kramer
Barbara Barrie— Breaking Away
Candice Bergen— Starting Over
Writing
Best Original Screenplay
Winner
Steve Tesich
Breaking Away
Valerie Curtain, Barry Levinson— …And Justice for All
Robert Alan Aurthur, Bob Fosse— All That Jazz
Mike Gray, T.S. Cook, James Bridges— The China Syndrome
Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman— Manhattan
Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner
Robert Benton
Kramer vs. Kramer
John Milius, Francis Ford Coppola— Apocalypse Now
Francis Veber, Edouard Molinaro, Marcello Danon, Jean Poiret— La Cage aux Folles
Allan Burns— A Little Romance
Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr.— Norma Rae
Music
Best Original Score
Winner
Georges Delerue
A Little Romance
Henry Mancini— 10
Lalo Schifrin— The Amityville Horror
Dave Grusin— The Champ
Jerry Goldsmith— Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Best Score (Adaptation)
Winner
Ralph Burns
All That Jazz
Patrick Williams— Breaking Away
Paul Williams, Kenny Ascher— The Muppet Movie
Best Original Song
Winner
"It Goes Like It Goes" — David Shire, Norman Gimbel
Norma Rae
“It’s Easy To Say” — Henry Mancini, Robert Wells— 10
“Through the Eyes of Love” — Marvin Hamlisch, Carole Bayer Sager— Ice Castles
“The Rainbow Connection” — Paul Williams, Kenny Ascher— The Muppet Movie
“It Goes Like It Goes” — David Shire, Norman Gimbel— Norma Rae
“I’ll Never Say Goodbye” — David Shire, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman— The Promise
Technical
Best Cinematography
Winner
Vittorio Storaro
Apocalypse Now
William A. Fraker— 1941
Giuseppe Rotunno— All That Jazz
Frank Phillips— The Black Hole
Nestor Almendros— Kramer vs. Kramer
Best Film Editing
Winner
Alan Heim
All That Jazz
Richard Marks, Walter Murch, Gerald B. Greenberg, Lisa Fruchtman— Apocalypse Now
Robert Dalva— The Black Stallion
Jerry Greenberg— Kramer vs. Kramer
Robert L. Wolfe, C. Timothy O’Meara— The Rose
Art Direction & Costume
Best Art Direction
Winner
Philip Rosenberg, Tony Walton, Edward Stewart, Gary Brink
All That Jazz
Michael Seymour, Les Dilley, Roger Christian, Ian Whittaker— Alien
Dean Tavoularis, Angelo Graham, George R. Nelson— Apocalypse Now
George Jenkins, Arthur Jeph Parker— The China Syndrome
Harold Michelson, Joe Jennings, Leon Harris, John Vallone, Linda DeScenna— Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Best Costume Design
Winner
Albert Wolsky
All That Jazz
Shirley Russell— Agatha
William Ware Theiss— Butch and Sundance: The Early Days
Judy Moorcroft— The Europeans
Piero Tosi, Ambra Danon— La Cage aux Folles
Sound & Visual Effects
Best Sound Recording
Winner
Walter Murch, Mark Berger, Richard Beggs, Nat Boxer
Apocalypse Now
Robert Knudson, Robert J. Glass, Don MacDougall, Gene S. Cantamessa— 1941
Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Michael Minkler, Al Overton— The Electric Horseman
William McCaughey, Aaron Rochin, Michael J. Kohut, Jack Solomon— Meteor
Theodore Soderberg, Douglas Williams, Paul Wells, Jim Webb— The Rose
Best Visual Effects (Special Achievement)
Winner
H.R. Giger, Carlo Rambaldi, Brian Johnson, Nick Allder, Denys Ayling
Alien
William A. Fraker, A.D. Flowers, Gregory Jein— 1941
Peter Ellenshaw, Art Cruickshank, Eustace Lycett, Danny Lee, Harrison Ellenshaw, Joe Hale— The Black Hole
Derek Meddings, Paul Wilson, John Evans— Moonraker
Douglas Trumbull, John Dykstra, Richard Yuricich, Robert Swarthe, Dave Stewart, Grant McCune— Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Documentary & Short Films
Best Animated Short
Winner
Every Child
National Film Board of Canada — Derek Lamb
Bob Godfrey, Zlatko Grgic— Dream Doll
Paul Fierlinger— It's So Nice to Have a Wolf around the House
Best Documentary Feature
Winner
Best Boy
Ira Wohl — a mentally disabled man gains independence
David A. Vassar— Generation on the Wind
Paul Cowan, Jacques Bobet— Going the Distance
Steve Singer, Tom Priestley— The Killing Ground
Glenn Silber, Barry Alexander Brown— The War at Home
International Film
Best Foreign Language Film
Winner
The Tin Drum
West Germany — Volker Schlondorff
The Maids of Wilko
Mama Turns a Hundred
A Simple Story
To Forget Venice