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Best Film

	Julia - Fred Zinnemann
	Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Steven Spielberg
	Midnight Express - Alan Parker
	Star Wars - George Lucas

Direction

	Alan Parker - Midnight Express
	Fred Zinnemann - Julia
	Robert Altman - A Wedding
	Steven Spielberg - Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Best Actor in a Leading Role

	Richard Dreyfuss - The Goodbye Girl as Elliot Garfield
	Anthony Hopkins - Magic as Corky Withers
	Brad Davis - Midnight Express as Billy Hayes
	Peter Ustinov - Death on the Nile as Hercule Poirot

Best Actress in a Leading Role

	Jane Fonda - Julia as Lillian Hellman
	Anne Bancroft - The Turning Point as Emma Jacklin
	Jill Clayburgh - An Unmarried Woman as Erica Benton
	Marsha Mason - The Goodbye Girl as Paula McFadden

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

	John Hurt - Midnight Express as Max
	François Truffaut - Close Encounters of the Third Kind as Claude Lacombe
	Gene Hackman - Superman as Lex Luthor
	Jason Robards - Julia as Dashiell Hammett

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

	Geraldine Page - Interiors as Eve
	Angela Lansbury - Death on the Nile as Salome Otterbourne
	Maggie Smith - Death on the Nile as Miss Bowers
	Mona Washbourne - Stevie as Aunt

Best Screenplay

	Julia - Alvin Sargent
	Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Steven Spielberg
	The Goodbye Girl - Neil Simon
	A Wedding - John Considine, Patricia Resnick, Allan F. Nicholls and Robert Altman

Best Editing

	Midnight Express - Gerry Hambling
	Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Michael Kahn
	Julia - Walter Murch
	Star Wars - Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas and Richard Chew

Best Cinematography

	Julia - Douglas Slocombe
	Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Vilmos Zsigmond
	The Duellists - Frank Tidy
	Superman - Geoffrey Unsworth

Best Production Design

	Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Joe Alves
	Julia - Gene Callahan, Willy Holt and Carmen Dillon
	Star Wars - John Barry
	Superman - John Barry

Best Costume Design

	Death on the Nile - Anthony Powell
	The Duellists - Tom Rand
	Julia - Anthea Sylbert, Joan Bridge and Annalisa Nasalli Rocca
	Star Wars - John Mollo

Best Original Music

	Star Wars - John Williams
	Close Encounters of the Third Kind - John Williams
	Julia - Georges Delerue
	Saturday Night Fever - Bee Gees

Best Sound

	Star Wars - Sam Shaw, Robert Rutledge, Gordon Davidson, Gene Corso, Derek Ball, Don MacDougall, Bob Minkler, Ray West, Michael Minkler, Les Fresholtz, Richard Portman and Ben Burtt
	Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Gene Cantamessa, Robert Knudson, Don MacDougall, Robert Glass, Steve Katz, Frank Warner, Richard Oswald, David Horton, Sam Gemette, Gary Gerlich, Chet Slomka and Neil Burrow
	Saturday Night Fever - Michael Colgan, Les Lazarowitz, John Wilkinson, Robert W. Glass Jr. and John T. Reitz
	Superman - Chris Greenham, Gordon McCallum, Peter Pennell,
	Mike Hopkins, Pat Foster, Stan Fiferman, John Foster, Roy Charman, Norman Bolland, Brian Marshall, Charles Schmitz, Dick Ragusa and Chris Large

Best Documentary

	The Silent Witness - David Rolfe
	No other nominees

Best Short Factual Film

	Hokusai: An Animated Sketchbook - Tony White
	I'll Find a Way - Beverly Shaffer
	Planet Water - Derek Williams
	Sunday Muddy Sunday - Lindsay Dale

Best Specialised Film

	Twenty Times More Likely - Robert Young
	How a Man Schall Be Armyd - Anthony Wilkinson
	Leonard Lewis - Safety Net
	Play Safe - David Eady

Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles

	Christopher Reeve - Superman as Superman
	Brad Davis - Midnight Express as Billy Hayes
	Mary Beth Hurt - Interiors as Joey
	Melanie Mayron - Girlfriends as Susan Weinblatt