Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore – Martin Scorsese

• Barry Lyndon – Stanley Kubrick
• Dog Day Afternoon – Sidney Lumet
• Jaws – Steven Spielberg

Stanley Kubrick – Barry Lyndon

• Martin Scorsese – Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
• Sidney Lumet – Dog Day Afternoon
• Steven Spielberg – Jaws

Al Pacino – Dog Day Afternoon as Sonny Wortzik
Al Pacino – The Godfather Part II as Michael Corleone

• Dustin Hoffman – Lenny as Lenny Bruce
• Gene Hackman – French Connection II as Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle
• Gene Hackman – Night Moves as Harry Moseby
• Richard Dreyfuss – Jaws as Matt Hooper

Ellen Burstyn – Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore as Alice Hyatt

• Anne Bancroft – The Prisoner of Second Avenue as Edna Edison
• Liv Ullmann – Scenes from a Marriage as Marianne
• Valerie Perrine – Lenny as Honey Bruce

Fred Astaire – The Towering Inferno as Harlee Claiborne

• Burgess Meredith – The Day of the Locust as Harry Greener
• Jack Warden – Shampoo as Lester Karpf
• Martin Balsam – The Taking of Pelham One Two Three as Harold Longman

Diane Ladd – Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore as Florence "Flo" Castleberry

• Gwen Welles – Nashville as Sueleen Gay
• Lelia Goldoni – Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore as Bea
• Ronee Blakley – Nashville as Barbara Jean

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore – Robert Getchell

• Dog Day Afternoon – Frank Pierson
• Jaws – Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb
• Nashville – Joan Tewkesbury

Barry Lyndon – John Alcott

• The Man Who Would Be King – Oswald Morris
• Rollerball – Douglas Slocombe
• The Towering Inferno – Fred J. Koenekamp

The Day of the Locust – Ann Roth

• Barry Lyndon – Ulla-Britt Söderlund and Milena Canonero
• The Four Musketeers – Yvonne Blake
• The Man Who Would Be King – Edith Head

Dog Day Afternoon – Dede Allen

• The Godfather Part II – Peter Zinner, Barry Malkin and Richard Marks
• Jaws – Verna Fields
• Rollerball – Antony Gibbs

Jaws / The Towering Inferno – John Williams

• The Godfather Part II – Nino Rota
• The Taking of Pelham One Two Three – David Shire
• The Wind and the Lion – Jerry Goldsmith

Rollerball – John Box

• Barry Lyndon – Ken Adam
• The Day of the Locust – Richard Macdonald
• The Towering Inferno – William J. Creber

Nashville – William A. Sawyer, Jim Webb, Chris McLaughlin and Richard Portman

• Dog Day Afternoon – Jack Fitzstephens, Richard Cirincione, Sandy Rackow, Stephen A. Rotter, James Sabat and Dick Vorisek
• Jaws – John Carter and Robert Hoyt
• Rollerball – Les Wiggins, Archie Ludski, Derek Ball and Gordon McCallum

Great – Bob Godfrey

• The Owl Who Married a Goose: An Eskimo Legend – Caroline Leaf

The Early Americans – Alan Pendry

• Seven Green Bottles – Eric Marquis

The Curiosity That Kills The Cat – Cedric Maggs

• How an Aeroplane Flies: Part 1 – Derek Armstrong
• The Oil in Your Engine – Phillip Owtram

Sea Area Forties – John Armstrong

• Leaving Lily – Graham Baker
• The Living Woodland – Ronald Eastman
• Waiting on Weather – Ron Granville

Conrack – Martin Ritt

Valerie Perrine – Lenny as Honey Bruce

• Alfred Lutter – Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore as Tommy Hyatt
• Lily Tomlin – Nashville as Linnea Reese
• Robert De Niro – The Godfather Part II as Vito Corleone