Winner

Warren Beatty

Heaven Can Wait

Nominated

George C. Scott

Movie Movie

Alan Alda

Same Time, Next Year

Chevy Chase

Foul Play

John Travolta

Grease

Gary Busey

The Buddy Holly Story

Winner

Jon Voight

Coming Home

Nominated

Robert De Niro

The Deer Hunter

Anthony Hopkins

Magic

Brad Davis

Midnight Express

Gregory Peck

The Boys from Brazil

Winner

John Hurt

Midnight Express

Nominated

Bruce Dern

Coming Home

Dudley Moore

Foul Play

Christopher Walken

The Deer Hunter

Robert Morley

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

Winner

Norman Fell

Three's Company

Nominated

Andy Kaufman

Taxi

Danny DeVito

Taxi

Jeff Conaway

Taxi

Pat Harrington Jr.

One Day at a Time

Winner

Robin Williams

Mork & Mindy

Nominated

Alan Alda

M*A*S*H

John Ritter

Three's Company

Judd Hirsch

Taxi

Gavin MacLeod

The Love Boat

Winner

Michael Moriarty

Holocaust

Nominated

Edward Asner

Lou Grant

James Garner

The Rockford Files

Michael Landon

Little House on the Prairie

John Houseman

The Paper Chase

Richard Hatch

Battlestar Galactica

Winner

Ellen Burstyn

Same Time, Next Year

Nominated

Goldie Hawn

Foul Play

Jacqueline Bisset

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

Olivia Newton-John

Grease

Winner

Jane Fonda

Coming Home

Nominated

Glenda Jackson

Stevie

Ingrid Bergman

Autumn Sonata

Jill Clayburgh

An Unmarried Woman

Geraldine Page

Interiors

Winner

Dyan Cannon

Heaven Can Wait

Nominated

Meryl Streep

The Deer Hunter

Carol Burnett

A Wedding

Mona Washbourne

Stevie

Maureen Stapleton

Interiors

Winner

Polly Holliday

Alice

Nominated

Marilu Henner

Taxi

Audra Lindley

Three's Company

Nancy Walker

Rhoda

Julie Kavner

Rhoda

Linda Kelsey

Lou Grant

Winner

Linda Lavin

Alice

Nominated

Jean Stapleton

All in the Family

Carol Burnett

The Carol Burnett Show

Penny Marshall

Laverne & Shirley

Suzanne Somers

Three's Company

Winner

Rosemary Harris

Holocaust

Nominated

Kristy McNichol

Family

Kate Jackson

Charlie's Angels

Lee Remick

Wheels

Sada Thompson

Family

Winner

Michael Cimino

The Deer Hunter

Nominated

Woody Allen

Interiors

Alan Parker

Midnight Express

Terrence Malick

Days of Heaven

Paul Mazursky

An Unmarried Woman

Hal Ashby

Coming Home

Winner

Autumn Sonata

Nominated

Death on the Nile

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs

Lemon Popsicle

A Dream of Passion

Winner

Heaven Can Wait

Nominated

California Suite

Foul Play

Movie Movie

Grease

Winner

Midnight Express

Nominated

An Unmarried Woman

The Deer Hunter

Coming Home

Days of Heaven

Winner

Midnight Express

Irene Miracle

Nominated

Goin' South

Mary Steenburgen

Girlfriends

Anita Skinner

Corvette Summer

Annie Potts

Slow Dancing in the Big City

Anne Ditchburn

Winner

Midnight Express

Brad Davis

Nominated

Foul Play

Chevy Chase

King of the Gypsies

Eric Roberts

Movie Movie

Harry Hamlin

Uncle Joe Shannon

Doug McKeon

The Boys in Company C

Andrew Stevens

Winner

A Family Upside Down

Nominated

The Immigrants

A Question of Love

The Bastard

First, You Cry

Little Women

Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women

Winner

Midnight Express

Giorgio Moroder

Nominated

The Children of Sanchez

Chuck Mangione

An Unmarried Woman

Bill Conti

Superman

John Williams

The Lord of the Rings

Leonard Rosenman

Winner

Thank God It's Friday

Paul Jabara

Nominated

Grease

John Farrar

Same Time, Next Year

Marvin Hamlisch

Alan Bergman

Marilyn Bergman

Foul Play

Charles Fox

Norman Gimbel

Winner

Midnight Express

Oliver Stone

Nominated

Coming Home

Waldo Salt

Robert C. Jones

Foul Play

Colin Higgins

An Unmarried Woman

Paul Mazursky

The Deer Hunter

Deric Washburn

Interiors

Woody Allen

Winner

Taxi

Nominated

The Love Boat

Three's Company

All in the Family

Alice

Winner

60 Minutes

Nominated

Family

Holocaust

Lou Grant

Battlestar Galactica