Winner

Art Carney

Harry and Tonto

Nominated

Walter Matthau

The Front Page

Burt Reynolds

The Longest Yard

Jack Lemmon

The Front Page

James Earl Jones

Claudine

Winner

Jack Nicholson

Chinatown

Nominated

Gene Hackman

The Conversation

Al Pacino

The Godfather Part II

Dustin Hoffman

Lenny

James Caan

The Gambler

Winner

Raquel Welch

The Three Musketeers

Nominated

Diahann Carroll

Claudine

Cloris Leachman

Young Frankenstein

Lucille Ball

Mame

Helen Hayes

Herbie Rides Again

Winner

Gena Rowlands

A Woman Under the Influence

Nominated

Ellen Burstyn

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Valerie Perrine

Lenny

Faye Dunaway

Chinatown

Liv Ullmann

Scenes from a Marriage

Winner

Roman Polanski

Chinatown

Nominated

Francis Ford Coppola

The Conversation

John Cassavetes

A Woman Under the Influence

Bob Fosse

Lenny

Winner

Beautiful People

Nominated

Birds Do It, Bees Do It

Janis

I Am a Dancer

Hearts and Minds

Winner

Scenes from a Marriage

Nominated

The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob

Amarcord

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

Lacombe, Lucien

Winner

The Longest Yard

Nominated

Harry and Tonto

The Little Prince

The Three Musketeers

The Front Page

Winner

Chinatown

Nominated

Earthquake

The Godfather Part II

A Woman Under the Influence

The Conversation

Winner

The Little Prince

Alan Jay Lerner

Frederick Loewe

Nominated

Chinatown

Jerry Goldsmith

The Godfather Part II

Nino Rota

Earthquake

John Williams

Phantom of the Paradise

Paul Williams

Winner

Benji

Euel Box

Betty E. Box

Nominated

The Little Prince

Frederick Loewe

Alan Jay Lerner

Claudine

Curtis Mayfield

The Dove

John Barry

Don Black

The Towering Inferno

Al Kasha

Joel Hirschhorn

Winner

Chinatown

Robert Towne

Nominated

The Conversation

Francis Ford Coppola

A Woman Under the Influence

John Cassavetes

The Godfather Part II

Francis Ford Coppola

Mario Puzo

The Towering Inferno

Stirling Silliphant

Winner

Fred Astaire

The Towering Inferno

Nominated

Sam Waterston

The Great Gatsby

Eddie Albert

The Longest Yard

Bruce Dern

The Great Gatsby

John Huston

Chinatown

Winner

Harvey Korman

The Carol Burnett Show

Nominated

Will Geer

The Waltons

Gavin MacLeod

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Whitman Mayo

Sanford and Son

Jimmie Walker

Good Times

Winner

Karen Black

The Great Gatsby

Nominated

Jennifer Jones

The Towering Inferno

Madeline Kahn

Young Frankenstein

Diane Ladd

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Bea Arthur

Mame

Winner

Betty Garrett

All in the Family

Nominated

Julie Kavner

Rhoda

Nancy Walker

McMillan & Wife

Ellen Corby

The Waltons

Vicki Lawrence

The Carol Burnett Show

Winner

Alan Alda

M*A*S*H

Nominated

Edward Asner

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Redd Foxx

Sanford and Son

Bob Newhart

The Bob Newhart Show

Carroll O'Connor

All in the Family

Winner

Telly Savalas

Kojak

Nominated

Richard Thomas

The Waltons

Michael Douglas

The Streets of San Francisco

Peter Falk

Columbo

Mike Connors

Mannix

Winner

Valerie Harper

Rhoda

Nominated

Mary Tyler Moore

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Esther Rolle

Good Times

Jean Stapleton

All in the Family

Carol Burnett

The Carol Burnett Show

Winner

Angie Dickinson

Police Woman

Nominated

Michael Learned

The Waltons

Jean Marsh

Upstairs, Downstairs

Lee Meriwether

Barnaby Jones

Teresa Graves

Get Christie Love!

Winner

Rhoda

Nominated

The Carol Burnett Show

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

All in the Family

Maude

Winner

Upstairs, Downstairs

Nominated

Police Story

Kojak

Columbo

The Streets of San Francisco

The Waltons

Winner

The Towering Inferno

Susan Flannery

Nominated

Airport 1975

Helen Reddy

Freebie and the Bean

Valerie Harper

Where the Lilies Bloom

Julie Gholson

99 and 44/100% Dead!

Ann Turkel

Winner

The Dove

Joseph Bottoms

Nominated

The Longest Yard

James Hampton

The Godfather Part II

Lee Strasberg

The Little Prince

Steven Warner

The Great Gatsby

Sam Waterston