Winner

Dustin Hoffman

Tootsie

Nominated

Robert Preston

Victor/Victoria

Peter O'Toole

My Favorite Year

Al Pacino

Author! Author!

Henry Winkler

Night Shift

Winner

Ben Kingsley

Gandhi

Nominated

Paul Newman

The Verdict

Jack Lemmon

Missing

Richard Gere

An Officer and a Gentleman

Albert Finney

Shoot the Moon

Winner

Louis Gossett Jr.

An Officer and a Gentleman

Nominated

James Mason

The Verdict

Raul Julia

Tempest

David Keith

An Officer and a Gentleman

Jim Metzler

Tex

Winner

Julie Andrews

Victor/Victoria

Nominated

Carol Burnett

Annie

Sally Field

Kiss Me Goodbye

Dolly Parton

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

Aileen Quinn

Annie

Goldie Hawn

Best Friends

Winner

Meryl Streep

Sophie's Choice

Nominated

Diane Keaton

Shoot the Moon

Sissy Spacek

Missing

Jessica Lange

Frances

Debra Winger

An Officer and a Gentleman

Winner

Jessica Lange

Tootsie

Nominated

Cher

Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean

Lesley Ann Warren

Victor/Victoria

Lainie Kazan

My Favorite Year

Kim Stanley

Frances

Winner

Richard Attenborough

Gandhi

Nominated

Steven Spielberg

E.T.

Sydney Pollack

Tootsie

Sidney Lumet

The Verdict

Costa-Gavras

Missing

Winner

Gandhi

Nominated

La Traviata

Yol

Fitzcarraldo

Quest for Fire

The Man from Snowy River

Winner

Brideshead Revisited

Nominated

A Woman Called Golda

Eleanor, First Lady of the World

In the Custody of Strangers

Two of a Kind

Winner

Tootsie

Nominated

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

My Favorite Year

Victor/Victoria

Diner

Winner

E.T.

Nominated

The Verdict

Sophie's Choice

Missing

An Officer and a Gentleman

Winner

E.T.

John Williams

Nominated

Blade Runner

Vangelis

Cat People

Giorgio Moroder

Victor/Victoria

Henry Mancini

Six Weeks

Dudley Moore

Winner

An Officer and a Gentleman

Jack Nitzsche

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Will Jennings

Nominated

Making Love

Burt Bacharach

Bruce Roberts

Carole Bayer Sager

Rocky III

Jim Peterik

Frankie Sullivan

Yes, Giorgio

John Williams

Alan Bergman

Marilyn Bergman

Cat People

Giorgio Moroder

David Bowie

Winner

Anthony Andrews

Brideshead Revisited

Nominated

Philip Anglim

The Elephant Man

Jeremy Irons

Brideshead Revisited

Sam Waterston

Oppenheimer

Robby Benson

Two of a Kind

Winner

Lionel Stander

Hart to Hart

Nominated

Anson Williams

Happy Days

Lorenzo Lamas

Falcon Crest

Pat Harrington Jr.

One Day at a Time

John Hillerman

Magnum, P.I.

Winner

Alan Alda

M*A*S*H

Nominated

Tony Randall

Love, Sidney

Judd Hirsch

Taxi

Bob Newhart

Newhart

Robert Guillaume

Benson

Winner

John Forsythe

Dynasty

Nominated

Tom Selleck

Magnum, P.I.

Daniel J. Travanti

Hill Street Blues

Larry Hagman

Dallas

Robert Wagner

Hart to Hart

Winner

Ingrid Bergman

A Woman Called Golda

Nominated

Carol Burnett

Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice

Lee Remick

The Letter

Ann Jillian

Mae West

Jean Stapleton

Eleanor, First Lady of the World

Lucy Gutteridge

Little Gloria... Happy at Last

Winner

Shelley Long

Cheers

Nominated

Valerie Bertinelli

One Day at a Time

Beth Howland

Alice

Marilu Henner

Taxi

Carol Kane

Taxi

Loretta Swit

M*A*S*H

Winner

Debbie Allen

Fame

Nominated

Eileen Brennan

Private Benjamin

Nell Carter

Gimme a Break!

Bonnie Franklin

One Day at a Time

Isabel Sanford

The Jeffersons

Rita Moreno

Nine to Five

Winner

Joan Collins

Dynasty

Nominated

Stefanie Powers

Hart to Hart

Linda Evans

Dynasty

Jane Wyman

Falcon Crest

Victoria Principal

Dallas

Winner

Gandhi

John Briley

Nominated

E.T.

Melissa Mathison

Missing

Costa-Gavras

Donald E. Stewart

The Verdict

David Mamet

Tootsie

Larry Gelbart

Murray Schisgal

Winner

Fame

Nominated

Love, Sidney

Cheers

Taxi

M*A*S*H

Winner

Hill Street Blues

Nominated

Dallas

Magnum, P.I.

Hart to Hart

Dynasty

Winner

Conan the Barbarian

Sandahl Bergman

Nominated

Love Child

Amy Madigan

Six Weeks

Katherine Healy

Tempest

Molly Ringwald

Annie

Aileen Quinn

An Officer and a Gentleman

Lisa Blount

Winner

Gandhi

Ben Kingsley

Nominated

An Officer and a Gentleman

David Keith

48 Hrs.

Eddie Murphy

E.T.

Henry Thomas

Sophie's Choice

Kevin Kline