Best Picture & Directing
Best Picture
Winner
Annie Hall
Charles H. Joffe, producer
The Goodbye Girl
Julia
Star Wars
The Turning Point
Best Director
Winner
Woody Allen
Annie Hall
Steven Spielberg— Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Fred Zinnemann— Julia
George Lucas— Star Wars
Herbert Ross— The Turning Point
Acting
Best Actor
Winner
Richard Dreyfuss
The Goodbye Girl
Woody Allen— Annie Hall
Richard Burton— Equus
Marcello Mastroianni— A Special Day
John Travolta— Saturday Night Fever
Best Actress
Winner
Diane Keaton
Annie Hall
Anne Bancroft— The Turning Point
Jane Fonda— Julia
Shirley MacLaine— The Turning Point
Marsha Mason— The Goodbye Girl
Best Supporting Actor
Winner
Jason Robards
Julia
Mikhail Baryshnikov— The Turning Point
Peter Firth— Equus
Alec Guinness— Star Wars
Best Supporting Actress
Winner
Vanessa Redgrave
Julia
Leslie Browne— The Turning Point
Quinn Cummings— The Goodbye Girl
Melinda Dillon— Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Writing
Best Original Screenplay
Winner
Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
Annie Hall
Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner
Alvin Sargent
Julia
Music
Best Original Score
Winner
John Williams
Star Wars
Best Score (Adaptation)
Winner
Jonathan Tunick
A Little Night Music
Best Original Song
Winner
"You Light Up My Life" — Joseph Brooks
You Light Up My Life
Technical
Best Cinematography
Winner
Vilmos Zsigmond
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Best Film Editing
Winner
Michael Kahn
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Art Direction & Costume
Best Art Direction
Winner
John Barry, Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley, Roger Christian
Star Wars
Best Costume Design
Winner
John Mollo
Star Wars
Sound & Visual Effects
Best Sound Recording
Winner
Don MacDougall, Ray West, Bob Minkler, Derek Ball
Star Wars
Best Visual Effects (Special Achievement)
Winner
John Stears, John Dykstra, Richard Edlund, Grant McCune, Robert Blalack
Star Wars
Documentary & Short Films
Best Animated Short
Winner
Sand Castle
Co Hoedeman, National Film Board of Canada
Best Documentary Feature
Winner
Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?
John Korty
International Film
Best Foreign Language Film
Winner
Madame Rosa
France — Moshe Mizrahi