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Film

Best Motion Picture - Drama

	Ordinary People
	The Elephant Man
	The Ninth Configuration
	Raging Bull
	The Stunt Man

Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical

	Coal Miner's Daughter
	Airplane!
	Fame
	The Idolmaker
	Melvin and Howard

Best Director

	Robert Redford - Ordinary People
	David Lynch - The Elephant Man
	Roman Polanski - Tess
	Richard Rush - The Stunt Man
	Martin Scorsese - Raging Bull

Best Performance in a Motion Picture - Drama (Actor)

	Robert De Niro - Raging Bull as Jake La Motta
	John Hurt - The Elephant Man as John Merrick
	Jack Lemmon - Tribute as Scottie Templeton
	Peter O'Toole - The Stunt Man as Eli Cross
	Donald Sutherland - Ordinary People as Calvin Jarrett

Best Performance in a Motion Picture - Drama (Actress)

	Mary Tyler Moore - Ordinary People as Beth Jarrett
	Ellen Burstyn - Resurrection as Edna Mae McCauley
	Nastassja Kinski - Tess as Tess Durbeyfield
	Deborah Raffin - Touched by Love as Lena Canada
	Gena Rowlands - Gloria as Gloria Swenson

Best Performance in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical (Actor)

	Ray Sharkey - The Idolmaker as Vinnie Vacarri
	Neil Diamond - The Jazz Singer as Yussel Rabinovitch
	Tommy Lee Jones - Coal Miner's Daughter as Doolittle Mooney Lynn
	Paul Le Mat - Melvin and Howard as Melvin Dummar
	Walter Matthau - Hopscotch as Miles Kendig

Best Performance in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical (Actress)

	Sissy Spacek - Coal Miner's Daughter as Loretta Lynn
	Irene Cara - Fame as Coco Hernandez
	Goldie Hawn - Private Benjamin as Judy Benjamin
	Bette Midler - Divine Madness! as Herself / The Divine Miss M
	Dolly Parton - 9 to 5 as Doralee Rhodes

Best Supporting Performance in a Motion Picture - Drama, Comedy or Musical (Supporting Actor)

	Timothy Hutton - Ordinary People as Conrad Jarrett
	Judd Hirsch - Ordinary People as Tyrone Berger
	Joe Pesci - Raging Bull as Joey LaMotta
	Jason Robards - Melvin and Howard as Howard Hughes
	Scott Wilson - The Ninth Configuration as Capt. Billy Cutshaw

Best Supporting Performance in a Motion Picture - Drama, Comedy or Musical (Supporting Actress)

	Mary Steenburgen - Melvin and Howard as Lynda Dummar
	Lucie Arnaz - The Jazz Singer as Molly Bell
	Beverly D'Angelo - Coal Miner's Daughter as Patsy Cline
	Cathy Moriarty - Raging Bull as Vicki LaMotta
	Debra Winger - Urban Cowboy as Sissy Davis

Best Screenplay

	The Ninth Configuration - William Peter Blatty
	The Elephant Man - Eric Bergren and Christopher De Vore
	Ordinary People - Alvin Sargent
	Raging Bull - Mardik Martin and Paul Schrader
	The Stunt Man - Lawrence B. Marcus

Best Original Score

	The Stunt Man - Dominic Frontiere
	American Gigolo - Giorgio Moroder
	The Competition - Lalo Schifrin
	The Empire Strikes Back - John Williams
	Fame - Michael Gore
	Somewhere in Time - John Barry

Best Original Song

	"Fame" (Michael Gore, Dean Pitchford) - Fame
	"9 to 5" (Dolly Parton) - 9 to 5
	"Call Me" (Giorgio Moroder, Debbie Harry) - American Gigolo
	"Love on the Rocks" (Neil Diamond, Gilbert Bécaud) - The Jazz Singer
	"Yesterday's Dreams" (Michel Legrand, Carol Connors, Johnny Mathis) - Falling in Love Again

Best Foreign Film

	Tess (United Kingdom)
	'Breaker' Morant (Australia)
	Kagemusha (Japan)
	The Last Metro (France)
	My Brilliant Career (Australia)
	Special Treatment (Yugoslavia)

New Star of the Year - Actor

	Timothy Hutton - Ordinary People as Conrad Jarrett
	Christopher Atkins - The Blue Lagoon as Richard LeStrange
	William Hurt - Altered States as Dr. Edward Jessup
	Michael O'Keefe - The Great Santini as Ben Meechum
	Steve Railsback - The Stunt Man as Cameron

New Star of the Year - Actress

	Nastassja Kinski - Tess as Tess Durbeyfield
	Nancy Allen - Dressed to Kill as Liz Blake
	Cathy Moriarty - Raging Bull as Vicki LaMotta
	Dolly Parton - 9 to 5 as Doralee Rhodes
	Debra Winger - Urban Cowboy as Sissy Davis

Television

Best Television Series - Drama

	Shōgun
	Dallas
	Hart to Hart
	Lou Grant
	Vega$
	The Scarlett O'Hara War

Best Television Series - Musical or Comedy

	Taxi
	Alice
	The Love Boat
	M*A*S*H
	Soap

Best Miniseries or Television Film

	The Shadow Box
	The Diary of Anne Frank
	The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd
	Playing for Time
	A Tale of Two Cities

Best Performance in a Television Series Drama (Actor)

	Richard Chamberlain - Shōgun as John Blacthorne
	Edward Asner - Lou Grant as Lou Grant
	Larry Hagman - Dallas as J.R. Ewing
	Robert Urich - Vega$ as Dan Tanna
	Robert Wagner - Hart to Hart as Jonathan Hart

Best Performance in a Television Series Drama (Actress)

	Yoko Shimada - Shōgun as Lady Toda Mariko
	Barbara Bel Geddes - Dallas as Miss Ellie Ewing Farlow
	Melissa Gilbert - Little House on the Prairie as Laura Ingalls Wilder
	Linda Gray - Dallas as Sue Ellen Ewing
	Stefanie Powers - Hart to Hart as Jennifer Hart

Best Performance in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy (Actor)

	Alan Alda - M*A*S*H as Capt. Benjamin "Hawkeye" Pierce
	Judd Hirsch - Taxi as Alex Reiger
	Hal Linden - Barney Miller as Capt. Bernard "Barney" Miller
	Gavin MacLeod - The Love Boat as Capt. Merrill Stubing
	Wayne Rogers - House Calls as Dr. Charley Michaels

Best Performance in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy (Actress)

	Katherine Helmond - Soap as Jessica Tate
	Loni Anderson - WKRP in Cincinnati as Jennifer Marlowe
	Polly Holliday - Flo as Florence "Flo" Castleberry
	Linda Lavin - Alice as Alice Hyatt
	Lynn Redgrave - House Calls as Ann Atkinson

Best Supporting Performance in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film (Supporting Actor)

	Pat Harrington Jr. - One Day at a Time as Dwayne Schneider (tie)
	Vic Tayback - Alice as Mel Sharples (tie)
	Danny DeVito - Taxi as Louie De Palma
	Andy Kaufman - Taxi as Latka Gravas
	Geoffrey Lewis - Flo as Earl Tucker

Best Supporting Performance in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film (Supporting Actress)

	Valerie Bertinelli - One Day at a Time as Barbara Cooper Royer (tie)
	Diane Ladd - Alice as Isabelle "Belle" Dupree (tie)
	Marilu Henner - Taxi as Elaine O'Connor Nardo
	Beth Howland - Alice as Vera Gorman Novak
	Linda Kelsey - Lou Grant as Billie Newman