- Rocky (Winner)
- All the President's Men
- Bound for Glory
- Network
- Taxi Driver
Best Actor
- Peter Finch – Network (Winner, posthumous)
- Giancarlo Giannini – Seven Beauties
- William Holden – Network
- Sylvester Stallone – Rocky
- Robert De Niro – Taxi Driver
Best Actress
- Faye Dunaway – Network (Winner)
- Marie-Christine Barrault – Cousin Angélique
- Talia Shire – Rocky
- Sissy Spacek – Carrie
- Liv Ullmann – Face to Face
Best Supporting Actor
- Jason Robards – All the President's Men (Winner)
- Ned Beatty – Network
- Burgess Meredith – Rocky
- Laurence Olivier – Marathon Man
- Burt Young – Rocky
Best Supporting Actress
- Beatrice Straight – Network (Winner)
- Jane Alexander – All the President's Men
- Jodie Foster – Taxi Driver
- Lee Grant – Voyage of the Damned
- Piper Laurie – Carrie
Best Director
- John G. Avildsen – Rocky (Winner)
- Ingmar Bergman – Face to Face
- Sidney Lumet – Network
- Alan J. Pakula – All the President's Men
- Lina Wertmüller – Seven Beauties
Best Adapted Screenplay
- All the President's Men – William Goldman (Winner)
- Bound for Glory – Robert Getchell
- Fellini's Casanova – Federico Fellini and Bernardino Zapponi
- The Seven-Per-Cent Solution – Nicholas Meyer
- Voyage of the Damned – David Butler and Steve Shagan
Best Original Screenplay
- Network – Paddy Chayefsky (Winner)
- Cousin Angélique – Jean-Charles Tacchella and Danièle Thompson
- Panic in Needle Park – Nancy Dowd
- Rocky – Sylvester Stallone
- Seven Beauties – Lina Wertmüller
