Winner

Robert De Niro

Raging Bull

Nominated

Jack Lemmon

Tribute

Peter O'Toole

The Stunt Man

Robert Duvall

The Great Santini

John Hurt

The Elephant Man

Winner

Timothy Hutton

Ordinary People

Nominated

Judd Hirsch

Ordinary People

Jason Robards

Melvin and Howard

Joe Pesci

Raging Bull

Michael O'Keefe

The Great Santini

Winner

Sissy Spacek

Coal Miner's Daughter

Nominated

Goldie Hawn

Private Benjamin

Mary Tyler Moore

Ordinary People

Ellen Burstyn

Resurrection

Gena Rowlands

Gloria

Winner

Mary Steenburgen

Melvin and Howard

Nominated

Cathy Moriarty

Raging Bull

Eva Le Gallienne

Resurrection

Diana Scarwid

Inside Moves

Eileen Brennan

Private Benjamin

Winner

Tess

Pierre Guffroy

Jack Stephens

Nominated

The Elephant Man

Stuart Craig

Robert Cartwright

Hugh Scaife

Kagemusha

Yoshirô Muraki

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Norman Reynolds

Leslie Dilley

Harry Lange

Alan Tomkins

Michael Ford

Coal Miner's Daughter

John W. Corso

John M. Dwyer

Winner

Tess

Geoffrey Unsworth

Ghislain Cloquet

Nominated

The Blue Lagoon

Néstor Almendros

Coal Miner's Daughter

Ralf D. Bode

Raging Bull

Michael Chapman

The Formula

James Crabe

Winner

Tess

Anthony Powell

Nominated

Somewhere in Time

Jean-Pierre Dorléac

The Elephant Man

Patricia Norris

My Brilliant Career

Anna Senior

When Time Ran Out...

Paul Zastupnevich

Winner

Robert Redford

Ordinary People

Nominated

Martin Scorsese

Raging Bull

Richard Rush

The Stunt Man

David Lynch

The Elephant Man

Roman Polanski

Tess

Winner

From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China

Murray Lerner

Nominated

Agee

Ross Spears

The Day After Trinity

Jon Else

Front Line

David Bradbury

The Yellow Star: The Persecution of the Jews in Europe - 1933-1945

Bengt von zur Mühlen

Arthur Cohn

Winner

Karl Hess: Toward Liberty

Roland Hallé

Peter W. Ladue

Nominated

It's the Same World

Dick Young

Luther Metke a los 94

Jorge Preloran

The Eruption of Mount St. Helens!

George Casey

Don't Mess with Bill

John Watson

Pen Densham

Winner

Raging Bull

Thelma Schoonmaker

Nominated

Coal Miner's Daughter

Arthur Schmidt

Fame

Gerry Hambling

The Competition

David E. Blewitt

The Elephant Man

Anne V. Coates

Winner

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears

Nominated

El nido

Confidence

The Last Metro

Kagemusha

Winner

Fame

Michael Gore

Nominated

Tess

Philippe Sarde

The Elephant Man

John Morris

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

John Williams

Altered States

John Corigliano

Nominated

Nine to Five

Dolly Parton

Honeysuckle Rose

Willie Nelson

The Competition

Lalo Schifrin

Will Jennings

Fame

Michael Gore

Lesley Gore

Winner

Ordinary People

Ronald L. Schwary

Nominated

The Elephant Man

Jonathan Sanger

Raging Bull

Irwin Winkler

Robert Chartoff

Tess

Claude Berri

Timothy Burrill

Coal Miner's Daughter

Bernard Schwartz

Winner

A légy

Ferenc Rofusz

Nominated

History of the World in Three Minutes Flat

Michael Mills

Tout rien

Frédéric Back

Winner

The Dollar Bottom

Lloyd Phillips

Nominated

Fall Line

Bob Carmichael

A Jury of Her Peers

Sally Heckel

Winner

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Bill Varney

Steve Maslow

Gregg Landaker

Peter Sutton

Nominated

Coal Miner's Daughter

Richard Portman

Roger Heman Jr.

James R. Alexander

Raging Bull

Donald O. Mitchell

Bill Nicholson

David J. Kimball

Les Lazarowitz

Fame

Michael J. Kohut

Aaron Rochin

Jay M. Harding

Christopher Newman

Altered States

Arthur Piantadosi

Les Fresholtz

Michael Minkler

Willie D. Burton

Winner

Ordinary People

Alvin Sargent

Nominated

The Stunt Man

Lawrence B. Marcus

Richard Rush

Breaker Morant

Jonathan Hardy

David Stevens

Bruce Beresford

Coal Miner's Daughter

Thomas Rickman

The Elephant Man

Christopher De Vore

Eric Bergren

David Lynch

Winner

Melvin and Howard

Bo Goldman

Nominated

Fame

Christopher Gore

Private Benjamin

Nancy Meyers

Charles Shyer

Harvey Miller

Brubaker

W.D. Richter

Arthur A. Ross

My American Uncle

Jean Gruault