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Best Film

	The Elephant Man - Jonathan Sanger
	Being There - Andrew Braunsberg
	Kagemusha - Akira Kurosawa and Tomoyuki Tanaka
	Kramer vs. Kramer - Stanley R. Jaffe

Best Direction

	Akira Kurosawa - Kagemusha
	Alan Parker - Fame
	David Lynch - The Elephant Man
	Robert Benton - Kramer vs. Kramer

Best Actor in a Leading Role

	John Hurt - The Elephant Man as Joseph Merrick
	Dustin Hoffman - Kramer vs. Kramer as Ted Kramer
	Roy Scheider - All That Jazz as Joseph Gideon
	Peter Sellers - Being There as Chauncey Gardiner

Best Actress in a Leading Role

	Judy Davis - My Brilliant Career as Sybylla Melvyn
	Bette Midler - The Rose as Mary Rose Foster
	Meryl Streep - Kramer vs. Kramer as Joanna Kramer
	Shirley MacLaine - Being There as Eve Rand

Best Screenplay

	Being There - Jerzy Kosiński
	Airplane! - Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker
	The Elephant Man - Christopher De Vore, Eric Bergren and David Lynch
	Kramer vs. Kramer - Robert Benton

Best Editing

	All That Jazz - Alan Heim
	The Elephant Man - Anne V. Coates
	Fame - Gerry Hambling
	Kramer vs. Kramer - Gerald B. Greenberg

Best Cinematography

	All That Jazz - Giuseppe Rotunno
	The Black Stallion - Caleb Deschanel
	The Elephant Man - Freddie Francis
	Kagemusha - Takao Saito and Masaharu Ueda

Best Production Design

	The Elephant Man - Stuart Craig
	All That Jazz - Philip Rosenberg
	The Empire Strikes Back - Norman Reynolds
	Flash Gordon - Danilo Donati

Best Costume Design

	Kagemusha - Seiichiro Momosawa
	All That Jazz - Albert Wolsky
	Don Giovanni - Frantz Salieri
	Flash Gordon - Danilo Donati

Best Original Music

	The Empire Strikes Back - John Williams
	Breaking Glass - Hazel O'Connor
	Fame - Michael Gore
	Flash Gordon - Queen and Howard Blake

Best Sound

	Fame - Chris Newman, Les Wiggins and Michael J. Kohut
	All That Jazz - Maurice Schell, Chris Newman and Dick Vorisek
	Don Giovanni - Jean-Louis Ducarme, Jacques Maumont and Michelle Nenny
	The Empire Strikes Back - Peter Sutton, Ben Burtt and Bill Varney
	The Rose - Jim Webb, Chris McLaughlin, Kay Rose and Theodore Soderberg

Best Short Film

	Sredni Vashtar - Andrew Birkin
	Box On - Lindsey Clennell
	The Dollar Bottom - Roger Christian
	Possessions - Andrew Bogle

Best Short Animation

	The Three Inventors - Michel Ocelot
	Bio Woman - Bob Godfrey
	The Cube - Kamil Pixa
	Seaside Woman - Oscar Grillo

Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles

	Judy Davis - My Brilliant Career as Sybylla Melvyn
	Debra Winger - Urban Cowboy as Sissy Davis
	John Gordon Sinclair - Gregory's Girl as Gregory Underwood
	Sônia Braga - Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands as Dona Flor