Winner

Robert Redford

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Nominated

Paul Newman

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Elliott Gould

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

George C. Scott

Patton

Winner

Katharine Ross

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Nominated

Sarah Miles

Ryan's Daughter

Goldie Hawn

Cactus Flower

Jane Fonda

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Winner

Henry 9 'til 5

Bob Godfrey

Nominated

Children and Cars

John Halas

Espolio

Sidney Goldsmith

It's Tough to Be a Bird

Ward Kimball

Winner

Waterloo

Mario Garbuglia

Nominated

Ryan's Daughter

Stephen B. Grimes

Scrooge

Terence Marsh

Anne of the Thousand Days

Maurice Carter

Winner

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Conrad L. Hall

Nominated

Catch-22

David Watkin

Ryan's Daughter

Freddie Young

Waterloo

Armando Nannuzzi

Winner

Waterloo

Maria De Matteis

Nominated

Cromwell

Vittorio Nino Novarese

Ryan's Daughter

Jocelyn Rickards

Anne of the Thousand Days

Margaret Furse

Winner

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

George Roy Hill

Nominated

M*A*S*H

Robert Altman

Kes

Ken Loach

Ryan's Daughter

David Lean

Winner

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Nominated

Kes

M*A*S*H

Ryan's Daughter

Winner

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

John C. Howard

Richard C. Meyer

Nominated

M*A*S*H

Danford B. Greene

Ryan's Daughter

Norman Savage

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Fredric Steinkamp

Winner

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

William Goldman

Nominated

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

Paul Mazursky

Larry Tucker

Kes

Barry Hines

Ken Loach

Tony Garnett

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

James Poe

Robert E. Thompson

Winner

The Shadow of Progress

Derek Williams

Nominated

The Gallery

Philip Mark Law

The Winds of Fogo

Colin Low

Blake

Bill Mason

Winner

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Don Hall

David Dockendorf

Bill Edmondson

Nominated

Ryan's Daughter

Winston Ryder

Gordon K. McCallum

Patton

Don Hall

Douglas O. Williams

Don J. Bassman

M*A*S*H

Don Hall

David Dockendorf

Bernard Freericks

Winner

The Rise and Fall of the Great Lakes

Bill Mason

Nominated

Continental Drift

Co Hoedeman

Policeman

Eric Marquis

A Study in Change

Michael Orrom

Winner

Colin Welland

Kes

Nominated

Gig Young

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Bernard Cribbins

The Railway Children

John Mills

Ryan's Daughter

Winner

Susannah York

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Nominated

Evin Crowley

Ryan's Daughter

Maureen Stapleton

Airport

Estelle Parsons

Watermelon Man

Winner

Kes

David Bradley

Nominated

The Sterile Cuckoo

Liza Minnelli

The Railway Children

Sally Thomsett

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Michael Sarrazin