Winner

Ray Sharkey

The Idolmaker

Nominated

Tommy Lee Jones

Coal Miner's Daughter

Neil Diamond

The Jazz Singer

Paul Le Mat

Melvin and Howard

Walter Matthau

Hopscotch

Winner

Robert De Niro

Raging Bull

Nominated

John Hurt

The Elephant Man

Donald Sutherland

Ordinary People

Jack Lemmon

Tribute

Peter O'Toole

The Stunt Man

Winner

Timothy Hutton

Ordinary People

Nominated

Jason Robards

Melvin and Howard

Joe Pesci

Raging Bull

Judd Hirsch

Ordinary People

Scott Wilson

The Ninth Configuration

Winner

Sissy Spacek

Coal Miner's Daughter

Nominated

Goldie Hawn

Private Benjamin

Bette Midler

Divine Madness

Irene Cara

Fame

Dolly Parton

Nine to Five

Winner

Mary Tyler Moore

Ordinary People

Nominated

Gena Rowlands

Gloria

Ellen Burstyn

Resurrection

Deborah Raffin

Touched by Love

Nastassja Kinski

Tess

Winner

Mary Steenburgen

Melvin and Howard

Nominated

Debra Winger

Urban Cowboy

Lucie Arnaz

The Jazz Singer

Beverly D'Angelo

Coal Miner's Daughter

Cathy Moriarty

Raging Bull

Winner

Robert Redford

Ordinary People

Nominated

Richard Rush

The Stunt Man

Martin Scorsese

Raging Bull

Roman Polanski

Tess

David Lynch

The Elephant Man

Winner

Tess

Nominated

Breaker Morant

Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior

My Brilliant Career

The Last Metro

Poseban tretman

Winner

Coal Miner's Daughter

Nominated

Airplane!

Melvin and Howard

Fame

The Idolmaker

Winner

Ordinary People

Nominated

Raging Bull

The Ninth Configuration

The Stunt Man

The Elephant Man

Winner

The Shadow Box

Nominated

Playing for Time

The Diary of Anne Frank

A Tale of Two Cities

The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd

Winner

The Stunt Man

Dominic Frontiere

Nominated

American Gigolo

Giorgio Moroder

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

John Williams

Fame

Michael Gore

Somewhere in Time

John Barry

The Competition

Lalo Schifrin

Winner

Fame

Michael Gore

Dean Pitchford

Nominated

Falling in Love Again

Michel Legrand

Carol Connors

Nine to Five

Dolly Parton

American Gigolo

Debbie Harry

Giorgio Moroder

The Jazz Singer

Neil Diamond

Gilbert Bécaud

Winner

Alan Alda

M*A*S*H

Nominated

Wayne Rogers

House Calls

Gavin MacLeod

The Love Boat

Judd Hirsch

Taxi

Hal Linden

Barney Miller

Winner

Richard Chamberlain

Shogun

Nominated

Larry Hagman

Dallas

Edward Asner

Lou Grant

Robert Urich

Vega$

Robert Wagner

Hart to Hart

Winner

Katherine Helmond

Soap

Nominated

Lynn Redgrave

House Calls

Polly Holliday

Flo

Linda Lavin

Alice

Loni Anderson

WKRP in Cincinnati

Winner

Yôko Shimada

Shogun

Nominated

Melissa Gilbert

Little House on the Prairie

Barbara Bel Geddes

Dallas

Linda Gray

Dallas

Stefanie Powers

Hart to Hart

Winner

The Ninth Configuration

William Peter Blatty

Nominated

The Elephant Man

Eric Bergren

Christopher De Vore

The Stunt Man

Lawrence B. Marcus

Ordinary People

Alvin Sargent

Raging Bull

Paul Schrader

Mardik Martin

Winner

Pat Harrington Jr.

One Day at a Time

Nominated

Andy Kaufman

Taxi

Geoffrey Lewis

Flo

Danny DeVito

Taxi

Winner

Valerie Bertinelli

One Day at a Time

Nominated

Beth Howland

Alice

Linda Kelsey

Lou Grant

Marilu Henner

Taxi

Winner

Taxi

Nominated

The Love Boat

Alice

M*A*S*H

Soap

Winner

Shogun

Nominated

Dallas

Vega$

The Scarlett O'Hara War

Lou Grant

Hart to Hart

Winner

Tess

Nastassja Kinski

Nominated

Nine to Five

Dolly Parton

Dressed to Kill

Nancy Allen

Raging Bull

Cathy Moriarty

Urban Cowboy

Debra Winger

Winner

Ordinary People

Timothy Hutton

Nominated

The Stunt Man

Steve Railsback

The Great Santini

Michael O'Keefe

Altered States

William Hurt

The Blue Lagoon

Christopher Atkins