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Best Film

	Providence
	Le Crabe-tambour
	The Lacemaker
	Pardon Mon Affaire, Too!

Best Director

	Alain Resnais - Providence
	Luis Buñuel - That Obscure Object of Desire
	Pierre Schoendoerffer - Le Crabe-tambour
	Claude Miller - This Sweet Sickness

Best Actor

	Jean Rochefort - Le Crabe-tambour
	Gérard Depardieu - This Sweet Sickness
	Charles Denner - The Man Who Loved Women
	Patrick Dewaere - Le Juge Fayard dit Le Shériff
	Alain Delon - Death of a Corrupt Man

Best Actress

	Simone Signoret - Madame Rosa
	Isabelle Huppert - The Lacemaker
	Miou-Miou - This Sweet Sickness
	Brigitte Fossey - Closet Children
	Delphine Seyrig - Repérages

Best Supporting Actor

	Jacques Dufilho - Le Crabe-tambour
	Michel Aumont - Spoiled Children
	Jean Bouise - Le Juge Fayard dit Le Shériff
	Philippe Léotard - Le Juge Fayard dit Le Shériff
	Jean-François Balmer - La Menace

Best Supporting Actress

	Marie Dubois - La Menace
	Florence Giorgetti - The Lacemaker
	Nelly Borgeaud - The Man Who Loved Women
	Geneviève Fontanel - The Man Who Loved Women
	Valérie Mairesse - Repérages

Best Screenplay, Dialogue or Adaptation

	Providence - David Mercer
	That Obscure Object of Desire - Jean-Claude Carrière, Luis Buñuel
	Death of a Corrupt Man - Michel Audiard
	Pardon Mon Affaire, Too! - Jean-Loup Dabadie

Best Editing

	Albert Jurgenson - Providence
	Chris Marker - A Grin Without a Cat
	Henri Lanoë - La Menace
	Françoise Bonno - The Simple Past

Best Cinematography

	Raoul Coutard - Le Crabe-tambour
	Pierre Lhomme - This Sweet Sickness
	Andréas Winding - The Accuser
	Ricardo Aronovich - Providence

Best Production Design

	Jacques Saulnier - Providence
	Hilton McConnico - This Sweet Sickness
	Jean-Pierre Kohut-Svelko - Pardon Mon Affaire, Too!
	Bernard Evein - Madame Rosa

Best Original Music

	Miklós Rózsa - Providence
	Vladimir Cosma - Animal
	Francis Lai - Bilitis
	Philippe Sarde - Le Crabe-tambour

Best Sound

	René Magnol and Jacques Maumont - Providence
	Bernard Aubouy - Peppermint Soda
	Paul Lainé, François Bel and Pierre Ley - This Sweet Sickness
	Jean-Pierre Ruh - Madame Rosa

Best Foreign Film

	A Special Day
	The American Friend
	Annie Hall
	Bread and Chocolate

Best Animated Short Film

	Rêve
	Fracture
	Kubrick à brac
	Mordillissimo
	La Nichée

Best Documentary Short Film

	Le Maréchal-ferrant
	Ben Chavis
	La Loterie de la vie
	Naissance
	Samara

Best Fiction Short Film

	500 grammes de foie de veau
	Le Blanc des yeux
	Je veux mourir dans la patrie de Jean-Paul Sartre
	Sauf dimanches et fêtes
	Temps souterrain

Honorary César

	Robert Dorfmann
	René Goscinny