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Best Picture |
| Coming Home | The Deer Hunter | Heaven Can Wait | Midnight Express | An Unmarried Woman |
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Best Actor |
| The Boys from Brazil | The Buddy Holly Story | Coming Home | The Deer Hunter | Heaven Can Wait |
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| Laurence Olivier | Gary Busey | Jon Voight | Robert De Niro | Warren Beatty |
Best Actress |
| Autumn Sonata | Coming Home | Interiors | Same Time, Next Year | An Unmarried Woman |
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| Ingrid Bergman | Jane Fonda | Geraldine Page | Ellen Burstyn | Jill Clayburgh |
Best Supporting Actor |
| Comes a Horseman | Coming Home | The Deer Hunter | Heaven Can Wait | Midnight Express |
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| Richard Farnsworth | Bruce Dern | Christopher Walken | Jack Warden | John Hurt |
Best Supporting Actress |
| California Suite | Coming Home | The Deer Hunter | Heaven Can Wait | Interiors |
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| Maggie Smith | Penelope Milford | Meryl Streep | Dyan Cannon | Maureen Stapleton |
Best Director |
| Coming Home | The Deer Hunter | Heaven Can Wait | Interiors | Midnight Express |
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| Hal Ashby | Michael Cimino | Warren Beatty, Buck Henry | Woody Allen | Alan Parker |
Best Original Screenplay |
| Autumn Sonata | Coming Home | The Deer Hunter | Interiors | An Unmarried Woman |
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| Ingmar Bergman | Nancy Dowd, Waldo Salt, Robert C. Jones | Michael Cimino, Deric Washburn, Louis Garfinkle, Quinn K. Redeker | Woody Allen | Paul Mazursky |
Best Adapted Screenplay |
| Bloodbrothers | California Suite | Heaven Can Wait | Midnight Express | Same Time, Next Year |
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| Walter Newman | Neil Simon | Elaine May, Warren Beatty | Oliver Stone | Bernard Slade |
Best Cinematography |
| Days of Heaven | The Deer Hunter | Heaven Can Wait | Same Time, Next Year | The Wiz |
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| Néstor Almendros | Vilmos Zsigmond | William A. Fraker | Robert Surtees | Oswald Morris |
Best Art Direction |
| The Brink's Job | California Suite | Heaven Can Wait | Interiors | The Wiz |
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| Dean Tavoularis, Angelo P. Graham, George R. Nelson | Albert Brenner, Marvin March | Paul Sylbert, Edwin O'Donovan, George Gaines | Mel Bourne, Daniel Robert | Tony Walton, Philip Rosenberg, Edward Stewart, Robert Drumheller |
Best Costume Design |
| Caravans | Days of Heaven | Death on the Nile | The Swarm | The Wiz |
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| Renié | Patricia Norris | Anthony Powell | Paul Zastupnevich | Tony Walton |
Best Sound |
| The Buddy Holly Story | Days of Heaven | The Deer Hunter | Hooper | Superman |
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| Tex Rudloff, Joel Fein, Curly Thirlwell, Willie D. Burton | John Wilkinson, Robert W. Glass Jr., John T. Reitz, Barry Thomas | Richard Portman, William L. McCaughey, Aaron Rochin, C. Darin Knight | Robert Knudson, Robert Glass, Don MacDougall, Jack Solomon | Gordon K. McCallum, Graham V. Hartstone, Nicolas Le Messurier, Roy Charman |
Best Editing |
| The Boys from Brazil | Coming Home | The Deer Hunter | Midnight Express | Superman |
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| Robert Swink | Don Zimmerman | Peter Zinner | Gerry Hambling | Stuart Baird |
Best Original Song |
| Foul Play | Grease | The Magic of Lassie | Same Time, Next Year | Thank God It's Friday |
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| Ready to Take a Chance Again | Hopelessly Devoted to You | When You're Loved | The Last Time I Felt Like This | Last Dance |
Best Original Score |
| The Boys from Brazil | Days of Heaven | Heaven Can Wait | Midnight Express | Superman |
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| Jerry Goldsmith | Ennio Morricone | Dave Grusin | Giorgio Moroder | John Williams |
Best Adaptation Score |
| The Buddy Holly Story | Pretty Baby | The Wiz |
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| Joe Renzetti | Jerry Wexler | Quincy Jones |
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