Winner

Art Carney

Harry and Tonto

Nominated

Burt Reynolds

The Longest Yard

Walter Matthau

The Front Page

Jack Lemmon

The Front Page

James Earl Jones

Claudine

Winner

Jack Nicholson

Chinatown

Nominated

Al Pacino

The Godfather Part II

Gene Hackman

The Conversation

James Caan

The Gambler

Dustin Hoffman

Lenny

Winner

Raquel Welch

The Three Musketeers

Nominated

Lucille Ball

Mame

Cloris Leachman

Young Frankenstein

Diahann Carroll

Claudine

Helen Hayes

Herbie Rides Again

Winner

Gena Rowlands

A Woman Under the Influence

Nominated

Liv Ullmann

Scenes from a Marriage

Faye Dunaway

Chinatown

Ellen Burstyn

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Valerie Perrine

Lenny

Winner

Roman Polanski

Chinatown

Nominated

Francis Ford Coppola

The Conversation

Bob Fosse

Lenny

John Cassavetes

A Woman Under the Influence

Winner

Beautiful People

Nominated

Hearts and Minds

Birds Do It, Bees Do It

Janis

I Am a Dancer

Winner

Scenes from a Marriage

Nominated

Lacombe, Lucien

Amarcord

The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

Winner

The Longest Yard

Nominated

The Little Prince

The Front Page

The Three Musketeers

Harry and Tonto

Winner

Chinatown

Nominated

The Godfather Part II

The Conversation

Earthquake

A Woman Under the Influence

Winner

The Little Prince

Alan Jay Lerner

Frederick Loewe

Nominated

Earthquake

John Williams

Chinatown

Jerry Goldsmith

The Godfather Part II

Nino Rota

Phantom of the Paradise

Paul Williams

Winner

Benji

Euel Box

Betty E. Box

Nominated

Claudine

Curtis Mayfield

The Dove

John Barry

Don Black

The Little Prince

Frederick Loewe

Alan Jay Lerner

The Towering Inferno

Al Kasha

Joel Hirschhorn

Winner

Chinatown

Robert Towne

Nominated

The Godfather Part II

Francis Ford Coppola

Mario Puzo

The Towering Inferno

Stirling Silliphant

A Woman Under the Influence

John Cassavetes

The Conversation

Francis Ford Coppola

Winner

Fred Astaire

The Towering Inferno

Nominated

Eddie Albert

The Longest Yard

John Huston

Chinatown

Sam Waterston

The Great Gatsby

Bruce Dern

The Great Gatsby

Winner

Harvey Korman

The Carol Burnett Show

Nominated

Will Geer

The Waltons

Jimmie Walker

Good Times

Gavin MacLeod

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Whitman Mayo

Sanford and Son

Winner

Karen Black

The Great Gatsby

Nominated

Madeline Kahn

Young Frankenstein

Diane Ladd

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Jennifer Jones

The Towering Inferno

Bea Arthur

Mame

Winner

Betty Garrett

All in the Family

Nominated

Vicki Lawrence

The Carol Burnett Show

Julie Kavner

Rhoda

Nancy Walker

McMillan & Wife

Ellen Corby

The Waltons

Winner

Alan Alda

M*A*S*H

Nominated

Carroll O'Connor

All in the Family

Edward Asner

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Redd Foxx

Sanford and Son

Bob Newhart

The Bob Newhart Show

Winner

Telly Savalas

Kojak

Nominated

Michael Douglas

The Streets of San Francisco

Mike Connors

Mannix

Richard Thomas

The Waltons

Peter Falk

Columbo

Winner

Valerie Harper

Rhoda

Nominated

Carol Burnett

The Carol Burnett Show

Mary Tyler Moore

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Esther Rolle

Good Times

Jean Stapleton

All in the Family

Winner

Angie Dickinson

Police Woman

Nominated

Michael Learned

The Waltons

Jean Marsh

Upstairs, Downstairs

Teresa Graves

Get Christie Love!

Lee Meriwether

Barnaby Jones

Winner

Rhoda

Nominated

The Carol Burnett Show

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

All in the Family

Maude

Winner

Upstairs, Downstairs

Nominated

The Waltons

The Streets of San Francisco

Columbo

Kojak

Police Story

Winner

The Towering Inferno

Susan Flannery

Nominated

Freebie and the Bean

Valerie Harper

99 and 44/100% Dead!

Ann Turkel

Airport 1975

Helen Reddy

Where the Lilies Bloom

Julie Gholson

Winner

The Dove

Joseph Bottoms

Nominated

The Godfather Part II

Lee Strasberg

The Little Prince

Steven Warner

The Great Gatsby

Sam Waterston

The Longest Yard

James Hampton