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Best Picture

	1. Breaking Away
	2. Kramer vs. Kramer
	3. Manhattan
	4. 10

Best Director

	1. Woody Allen - Manhattan
	1. Robert Benton - Kramer vs. Kramer
	3. Peter Yates - Breaking Away
	4. Blake Edwards - 10

Best Actor

	1. Dustin Hoffman - Kramer vs. Kramer and Agatha
	2. Peter Sellers - Being There
	3. Nick Nolte - North Dallas Forty
	4. Jack Lemmon - The China Syndrome
	5. Klaus Kinski - Nosferatu the Vampyre (Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht) and Woyzeck
	5. Richard Pryor - Richard Pryor: Live in Concert
	5. Roy Scheider - All That Jazz

Best Actress

	1. Sally Field - Norma Rae
	2. Hanna Schygulla - The Marriage of Maria Braun (Die Ehe der Maria Braun)
	3. Bette Midler - The Rose
	4. Diane Keaton - Manhattan

Best Supporting Actor

	1. Frederic Forrest - Apocalypse Now and The Rose
	2. Melvyn Douglas - Being There and The Seduction of Joe Tynan
	3. Paul Dooley - Breaking Away
	4. James Mason - Murder by Decree
	4. James Woods - The Onion Field

Best Supporting Actress

	1. Meryl Streep - Kramer vs. Kramer, Manhattan and The Seduction of Joe Tynan
	2. Barbara Harris - The Seduction of Joe Tynan
	3. Jane Alexander - Kramer vs. Kramer
	3. Barbara Barrie - Breaking Away

Best Screenplay

	1. Steve Tesich - Breaking Away
	2. Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman - Manhattan
	3. Robert Benton - Kramer vs. Kramer
	4. Jerzy Kosinski and Robert C. Jones - Being There
	5. Blake Edwards - 10

Best Cinematography

	1. Caleb Deschanel - The Black Stallion and Being There
	2. Vittorio Storaro - Apocalypse Now and Agatha
	3. Néstor Almendros - Kramer vs. Kramer
	4. Gordon Willis - Manhattan