One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – Miloš Forman

• All the President's Men – Alan J. Pakula
• Bugsy Malone – Alan Parker
• Taxi Driver – Martin Scorsese

Miloš Forman – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

• Alan J. Pakula – All the President's Men
• Alan Parker – Bugsy Malone
• Martin Scorsese – Taxi Driver

Jack Nicholson – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as Randle "R.P." McMurphy

• Dustin Hoffman – All the President's Men as Carl Bernstein
• Dustin Hoffman – Marathon Man as Thomas "Babe" Levy
• Robert De Niro – Taxi Driver as Travis Bickle
• Walter Matthau – The Bad News Bears as Morris Buttermaker
• Walter Matthau – The Sunshine Boys as Willy Clark

Louise Fletcher – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as Nurse Ratched

• Lauren Bacall – The Shootist as Bond Rogers
• Liv Ullmann – Face to Face as Jenny Isaksson
• Rita Moreno – The Ritz as Googie Gomez

Brad Dourif – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as Billy Bibbit

• Jason Robards – All the President's Men as Ben Bradlee
• Martin Balsam – All the President's Men as Howard Simons
• Michael Hordern – The Slipper and the Rose as King

Jodie Foster – Bugsy Malone as Tallulah
Jodie Foster – Taxi Driver as Iris

• Annette Crosbie – The Slipper and the Rose as Fairy Godmother
• Billie Whitelaw – The Omen as Mrs. Baylock
• Vivien Merchant – The Homecoming as Ruth

Bugsy Malone – Alan Parker

• All the President's Men – William Goldman
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman
• The Sunshine Boys – Neil Simon

Picnic at Hanging Rock – Russell Boyd

• Aces High – Gerry Fisher and Peter Allwork
• All the President's Men – Gordon Willis
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – Haskell Wexler, Bill Butler and William A. Fraker

The Marquise of O (Die Marquise von O...) – Moidele Bickel

• Bugsy Malone – Monica Howe
• Picnic at Hanging Rock – Judy Dorsman
• The Slipper and the Rose – Julie Harris

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – Richard Chew, Lynzee Klingman and Sheldon Kahn

• All the President's Men – Robert L. Wolfe
• Marathon Man – Jim Clark
• Taxi Driver – Marcia Lucas, Tom Rolf and Melvin Shapiro

Taxi Driver – Bernard Herrmann (posthumous)

• Bugsy Malone – Paul Williams
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – Jack Nitzsche
• The Slipper and the Rose – Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman

Bugsy Malone – Geoffrey Kirkland

• All the President's Men – George C. Jenkins
• King Kong – Mario Chiari and Dale Hennesy
• The Slipper and the Rose – Ray Simm

Bugsy Malone – Les Wiggins, Clive Winter and Ken Baker

• All the President's Men – Milton Burrow, Jim Webb, Les Fresholtz, Arthur Piantadosi and Dick Alexander
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – Mary McGlone, Robert Rutledge, Veronica Selver, Larry Jost and Mark Berger
• Picnic at Hanging Rock – Greg Bell and Dan Connelly

The Canadians (Los Canadienses) – Albert Kish

• White Rock – Tony Maylam

The End of the Road – John Armstrong

• Energy in Perspective – Peter De Normanville
• The Speed Sailors – John Spencer

Hydraulics – Anthony Searle

• For the Want of a Nail – Joe Mendoza
• Let's Sleep on It – Christopher Rolling
• Proteins – Lawrence Crabb
• Slender Chance – Michael Crosfield

Jodie Foster – Bugsy Malone / Taxi Driver as Tallulah and Iris, respectively