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Best Film:

	Reds
	Runners-up: Prince of the City, Atlantic City and Chariots of Fire

Best Director:

	Sidney Lumet - Prince of the City
	Runners-up: Louis Malle - Atlantic City, Hugh Hudson - Chariots of Fire and Warren Beatty - Reds

Best Actor:

	Burt Lancaster - Atlantic City
	Runners-up: Henry Fonda - On Golden Pond and Robert Duvall - True Confessions

Best Actress:

	Glenda Jackson - Stevie
	Runners-up: Faye Dunaway - Mommie Dearest and Diane Keaton - Reds

Best Supporting Actor:

	John Gielgud - Arthur
	Runners-up: Jack Nicholson - Reds, Jerry Orbach - Prince of the City and Howard E. Rollins Jr. - Ragtime

Best Supporting Actress:

	Mona Washbourne - Stevie
	Runners-up: Marília Pêra - Pixote (Pixote: a Lei do Mais Fraco) and Maureen Stapleton - Reds

Best Screenplay:

	John Guare - Atlantic City
	Runners-up: Sidney Lumet and Jay Presson Allen - Prince of the City, Dennis Potter - Pennies from Heaven and Steve Gordon - Arthur

Best Cinematography:

David Watkin - Chariots of Fire

Best Foreign Language Film:

	Pixote (Pixote: a Lei do Mais Fraco) • Brazil
	Runners-up: Man of Iron (Człowiek z żelaza) • Poland, Man of Marble (Człowiek z marmuru) • Poland and The Last Metro (Le dernier métro) • France

Special Awards:

	Andrzej Wajda
	Krzysztof Zanussi
	Abel Gance's Napoléon