| Best Motion Picture | | Drama | Comedy or Musical |
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- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Barry Lyndon
- Dog Day Afternoon
- Jaws
- Nashville
| - The Sunshine Boys
- Funny Lady
- The Return of the Pink Panther
- Shampoo
- Tommy
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| Best Performance in a Motion Picture – Drama |
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| Actor | Actress |
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- Jack Nicholson — One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as Randle McMurphy
- Gene Hackman — French Connection II as Det. Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle
- Al Pacino — Dog Day Afternoon as Sonny Wortzik
- Maximilian Schell — The Man in the Glass Booth as Arthur Goldman
- James Whitmore — Give 'em Hell, Harry! as Harry S. Truman
| - Louise Fletcher — One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as Nurse Ratched
- Karen Black — The Day of the Locust as Faye Greener
- Faye Dunaway — Three Days of the Condor as Kathy Hale
- Marilyn Hassett — The Other Side of the Mountain as Jill Kinmont
- Glenda Jackson — Hedda as Hedda Gabler
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| Best Performance in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical |
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| Actor | Actress |
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- George Burns — The Sunshine Boys as Al Lewis
- Walter Matthau — The Sunshine Boys as Willy Clark
- Warren Beatty — Shampoo as George Roundy
- James Caan — Funny Lady as Billy Rose
- Peter Sellers — The Return of the Pink Panther as Inspector Jacques Clouseau
| - Ann-Margret — Tommy as Nora Walker
- Julie Christie — Shampoo as Jackie Shawn
- Goldie Hawn — Shampoo as Jill
- Liza Minnelli — Lucky Lady as Claire
- Barbra Streisand — Funny Lady as Fanny Brice
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| Best Supporting Performance in a Motion Picture – Drama, Comedy or Musical |
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| Supporting Actor | Supporting Actress |
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- Richard Benjamin — The Sunshine Boys as Ben Clark
- John Cazale — Dog Day Afternoon as Sal
- Charles Durning — Dog Day Afternoon as Eugene Moretti
- Henry Gibson — Nashville as Haven Hamilton
- Burgess Meredith — The Day of the Locust as Harry Greener
| - Brenda Vaccaro — Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough as Linda Riggs
- Ronee Blakley — Nashville as Barbara Jean
- Geraldine Chaplin — Nashville as Opal
- Lee Grant — Shampoo as Felicia Karpf
- Barbara Harris — Nashville as Albuquerque
- Lily Tomlin — Nashville as Linnea Reese
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| Other |
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| Best Director | Best Screenplay |
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- ' Miloš Forman — One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Robert Altman — Nashville
- Stanley Kubrick — Barry Lyndon
- Sidney Lumet — Dog Day Afternoon
- Steven Spielberg — Jaws
| - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest — Bo Goldman and Lawrence Hauben
- Dog Day Afternoon — Frank Pierson
- Jaws — Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb
- Nashville — Joan Tewkesbury
- The Sunshine Boys — Neil Simon
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| Best Original Score | Best Original Song |
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- Jaws — John Williams
- Funny Lady — Fred Ebb and John Kander
- The Man Who Would Be King — Maurice Jarre
- The Other Side of the Mountain — Charles Fox
- The Return of the Pink Panther — Henry Mancini
| - ' "I'm Easy" (Keith Carradine) – Nashville
- "How Lucky Can You Get" (John Kander, Fred Ebb) – Funny Lady
- "My Little Friend" (Roy Budd, Sammy Cahn) – Paper Tiger
- "Now That We're in Love" (George Barrie, Sammy Cahn) – Whiffs
- "Richard's Window" (Charles Fox, Norman Gimbel) – The Other Side of the Mountain
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| Best Foreign Film | Best Documentary Film |
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- Lies My Father Told Me (Canada)
- And Now My Love (France)
- Hedda (United Kingdom)
- The Magic Flute (Sweden)
- Section spéciale (France)
| - Youthquake!
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
- The Gentleman Tramp
- Mustang: The House That Joe Built
- A China Memoir
- Past, Present, and Future
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| New Star of the Year – Actor | New Star of the Year – Actress |
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- Brad Dourif — One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as Billy Bibbit
- Roger Daltrey — Tommy as Tommy Walker
- Jeffrey Lynas — Lies My Father Told Me as David Herman
- Chris Sarandon — Dog Day Afternoon as Leon Shermer
- Ben Vereen — Funny Lady as Bert Robbins
| - Marilyn Hassett — The Other Side of the Mountain as Jill Kinmont
- Ronee Blakley — Nashville as Barbara Jean
- Barbara Carrera — The Master Gunfighter as Eula
- Stockard Channing — The Fortune as Fredrika Quintessa Bigard
- Jeannette Clift — The Hiding Place as Corrie ten Boom
- Lily Tomlin — Nashville as Linnea Reese
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