Winner

Dudley Moore

Arthur

Nominated

Alan Alda

The Four Seasons

George Hamilton

Zorro: The Gay Blade

Steve Martin

Pennies from Heaven

Walter Matthau

First Monday in October

Winner

Henry Fonda

On Golden Pond

Nominated

Timothy Hutton

Taps

Warren Beatty

Reds

Burt Lancaster

Atlantic City

Treat Williams

Prince of the City

Winner

John Gielgud

Arthur

Nominated

Jack Nicholson

Reds

James Coco

Only When I Laugh

Orson Welles

Butterfly

Howard E. Rollins Jr.

Ragtime

Winner

Bernadette Peters

Pennies from Heaven

Nominated

Carol Burnett

The Four Seasons

Blair Brown

Continental Divide

Liza Minnelli

Arthur

Jill Clayburgh

First Monday in October

Winner

Meryl Streep

The French Lieutenant's Woman

Nominated

Sally Field

Absence of Malice

Sissy Spacek

Raggedy Man

Diane Keaton

Reds

Katharine Hepburn

On Golden Pond

Winner

Joan Hackett

Only When I Laugh

Nominated

Maureen Stapleton

Reds

Jane Fonda

On Golden Pond

Kristy McNichol

Only When I Laugh

Mary Steenburgen

Ragtime

Winner

Warren Beatty

Reds

Nominated

Steven Spielberg

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

Sidney Lumet

Prince of the City

Milos Forman

Ragtime

Louis Malle

Atlantic City

Mark Rydell

On Golden Pond

Winner

Chariots of Fire

Nominated

Atlantic City

Das Boot

Gallipoli

Pixote

Winner

East of Eden

Nominated

Murder in Texas

Masada

A Long Way Home

Winner

Arthur

Nominated

S.O.B.

Zoot Suit

The Four Seasons

Pennies from Heaven

Winner

On Golden Pond

Nominated

Prince of the City

Reds

The French Lieutenant's Woman

Ragtime

Winner

Arthur

Burt Bacharach

Christopher Cross

Carole Bayer Sager

Peter Allen

Nominated

Endless Love

Lionel Richie

For Your Eyes Only

Bill Conti

Ragtime

Randy Newman

Butterfly

Ennio Morricone

Carol Connors

Winner

Mickey Rooney

Bill

Nominated

Dirk Bogarde

The Patricia Neal Story

Peter Strauss

Masada

Danny Kaye

Skokie

Ray Sharkey

The Ordeal of Bill Carney

Timothy Hutton

A Long Way Home

Peter O'Toole

Masada

Winner

Alan Alda

M*A*S*H

Nominated

Judd Hirsch

Taxi

James Garner

Bret Maverick

Gavin MacLeod

The Love Boat

Tony Randall

Love, Sidney

Winner

Daniel J. Travanti

Hill Street Blues

Nominated

John Forsythe

Dynasty

Tom Selleck

Magnum, P.I.

Edward Asner

Lou Grant

Larry Hagman

Dallas

Winner

Jane Seymour

East of Eden

Nominated

Jaclyn Smith

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy

Glenda Jackson

The Patricia Neal Story

Ellen Burstyn

The People vs. Jean Harris

Joanne Woodward

Crisis at Central High

Winner

Eileen Brennan

Private Benjamin

Nominated

Loni Anderson

WKRP in Cincinnati

Bonnie Franklin

One Day at a Time

Loretta Swit

M*A*S*H

Barbara Mandrell

Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters

Winner

Linda Evans

Dynasty

Nominated

Stefanie Powers

Hart to Hart

Joan Collins

Dynasty

Morgan Fairchild

Flamingo Road

Linda Gray

Dallas

Winner

On Golden Pond

Ernest Thompson

Nominated

Reds

Warren Beatty

Trevor Griffiths

The French Lieutenant's Woman

Harold Pinter

Absence of Malice

Kurt Luedtke

The Four Seasons

Alan Alda

Winner

John Hillerman

Magnum, P.I.

Nominated

Vic Tayback

Alice

Danny DeVito

Taxi

Pat Harrington Jr.

One Day at a Time

Hervé Villechaize

Fantasy Island

Winner

Valerie Bertinelli

One Day at a Time

Nominated

Lauren Tewes

The Love Boat

Danielle Brisebois

Archie Bunker's Place

Marilu Henner

Taxi

Beth Howland

Alice

Winner

M*A*S*H

Nominated

The Love Boat

Private Benjamin

Taxi

Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters

Winner

Hill Street Blues

Nominated

Dallas

Lou Grant

Hart to Hart

Dynasty

Winner

The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts

Nominated

Lily: Sold Out

Diana

The American Film Institute Salute to Fred Astaire

Winner

Butterfly

Pia Zadora

Nominated

Body Heat

Kathleen Turner

Sharky's Machine

Rachel Ward

Ragtime

Elizabeth McGovern

Four Friends

Craig Wasson