Winner

Ray Sharkey

The Idolmaker

Nominated

Neil Diamond

The Jazz Singer

Paul Le Mat

Melvin and Howard

Tommy Lee Jones

Coal Miner's Daughter

Walter Matthau

Hopscotch

Winner

Robert De Niro

Raging Bull

Nominated

Peter O'Toole

The Stunt Man

Donald Sutherland

Ordinary People

Jack Lemmon

Tribute

John Hurt

The Elephant Man

Winner

Timothy Hutton

Ordinary People

Nominated

Scott Wilson

The Ninth Configuration

Joe Pesci

Raging Bull

Judd Hirsch

Ordinary People

Jason Robards

Melvin and Howard

Winner

Sissy Spacek

Coal Miner's Daughter

Nominated

Goldie Hawn

Private Benjamin

Bette Midler

Divine Madness

Dolly Parton

Nine to Five

Irene Cara

Fame

Winner

Mary Tyler Moore

Ordinary People

Nominated

Gena Rowlands

Gloria

Ellen Burstyn

Resurrection

Deborah Raffin

Touched by Love

Nastassja Kinski

Tess

Winner

Mary Steenburgen

Melvin and Howard

Nominated

Beverly D'Angelo

Coal Miner's Daughter

Debra Winger

Urban Cowboy

Cathy Moriarty

Raging Bull

Lucie Arnaz

The Jazz Singer

Winner

Robert Redford

Ordinary People

Nominated

David Lynch

The Elephant Man

Martin Scorsese

Raging Bull

Richard Rush

The Stunt Man

Roman Polanski

Tess

Winner

Tess

Nominated

The Last Metro

Kagemusha

My Brilliant Career

Breaker Morant

Poseban tretman

Winner

Coal Miner's Daughter

Nominated

Airplane!

Melvin and Howard

Fame

The Idolmaker

Winner

Ordinary People

Nominated

The Stunt Man

The Ninth Configuration

The Elephant Man

Raging Bull

Winner

The Shadow Box

Nominated

The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd

A Tale of Two Cities

The Diary of Anne Frank

Playing for Time

Winner

The Stunt Man

Dominic Frontiere

Nominated

Somewhere in Time

John Barry

American Gigolo

Giorgio Moroder

Fame

Michael Gore

The Competition

Lalo Schifrin

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

John Williams

Winner

Fame

Michael Gore

Dean Pitchford

Nominated

American Gigolo

Debbie Harry

Giorgio Moroder

Nine to Five

Dolly Parton

Falling in Love Again

Michel Legrand

Carol Connors

The Jazz Singer

Neil Diamond

Gilbert Bécaud

Winner

Alan Alda

M*A*S*H

Nominated

Wayne Rogers

House Calls

Judd Hirsch

Taxi

Hal Linden

Barney Miller

Gavin MacLeod

The Love Boat

Winner

Richard Chamberlain

Shogun

Nominated

Robert Urich

Vega$

Robert Wagner

Hart to Hart

Edward Asner

Lou Grant

Larry Hagman

Dallas

Winner

Katherine Helmond

Soap

Nominated

Linda Lavin

Alice

Lynn Redgrave

House Calls

Polly Holliday

Flo

Loni Anderson

WKRP in Cincinnati

Winner

Yôko Shimada

Shogun

Nominated

Stefanie Powers

Hart to Hart

Barbara Bel Geddes

Dallas

Linda Gray

Dallas

Melissa Gilbert

Little House on the Prairie

Winner

The Ninth Configuration

William Peter Blatty

Nominated

The Elephant Man

Eric Bergren

Christopher De Vore

The Stunt Man

Lawrence B. Marcus

Ordinary People

Alvin Sargent

Raging Bull

Paul Schrader

Mardik Martin

Winner

Vic Tayback

Alice

Nominated

Geoffrey Lewis

Flo

Danny DeVito

Taxi

Andy Kaufman

Taxi

Winner

Diane Ladd

Alice

Nominated

Marilu Henner

Taxi

Linda Kelsey

Lou Grant

Beth Howland

Alice

Winner

Taxi

Nominated

Soap

The Love Boat

M*A*S*H

Alice

Winner

Shogun

Nominated

Dallas

Hart to Hart

Lou Grant

Vega$

The Scarlett O'Hara War

Winner

Tess

Nastassja Kinski

Nominated

Nine to Five

Dolly Parton

Dressed to Kill

Nancy Allen

Urban Cowboy

Debra Winger

Raging Bull

Cathy Moriarty

Winner

Ordinary People

Timothy Hutton

Nominated

The Great Santini

Michael O'Keefe

Altered States

William Hurt

The Stunt Man

Steve Railsback

The Blue Lagoon

Christopher Atkins