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
Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner
Robert Benton
Kramer vs. Kramer
Music
Best Original Score
Winner
Georges Delerue
A Little Romance
Best Score (Adaptation)
Winner
Ralph Burns
All That Jazz
Best Original Song
Winner
"It Goes Like It Goes" — David Shire, Norman Gimbel
Norma Rae
Technical
Best Cinematography
Winner
Vittorio Storaro
Apocalypse Now
Best Film Editing
Winner
Alan Heim
All That Jazz
Art Direction & Costume
Best Art Direction
Winner
Philip Rosenberg, Tony Walton, Edward Stewart, Gary Brink
All That Jazz
Best Costume Design
Winner
Albert Wolsky
All That Jazz
Sound & Visual Effects
Best Sound Recording
Winner
Walter Murch, Mark Berger, Richard Beggs, Nat Boxer
Apocalypse Now
Best Visual Effects (Special Achievement)
Winner
H.R. Giger, Carlo Rambaldi, Brian Johnson, Nick Allder, Denys Ayling
Alien
Documentary & Short Films
Best Animated Short
Winner
Every Child
National Film Board of Canada — Derek Lamb
Best Documentary Feature
Winner
Best Boy
Ira Wohl — a mentally disabled man gains independence
International Film
Best Foreign Language Film
Winner
The Tin Drum
West Germany — Volker Schlondorff