The Elephant Man – Jonathan Sanger

• Being There – Andrew Braunsberg
• Kagemusha – Akira Kurosawa and Tomoyuki Tanaka
• Kramer vs. Kramer – Stanley R. Jaffe

Akira Kurosawa – Kagemusha

• Alan Parker – Fame
• David Lynch – The Elephant Man
• Robert Benton – Kramer vs. Kramer

John Hurt – The Elephant Man as Joseph Merrick

• Dustin Hoffman – Kramer vs. Kramer as Ted Kramer
• Roy Scheider – All That Jazz as Joseph Gideon
• Peter Sellers – Being There as Chauncey Gardiner

Judy Davis – My Brilliant Career as Sybylla Melvyn

• Bette Midler – The Rose as Mary Rose Foster
• Meryl Streep – Kramer vs. Kramer as Joanna Kramer
• Shirley MacLaine – Being There as Eve Rand

Being There – Jerzy Kosiński

• Airplane! – Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker
• The Elephant Man – Christopher De Vore, Eric Bergren and David Lynch
• Kramer vs. Kramer – Robert Benton

All That Jazz – Giuseppe Rotunno

• The Black Stallion – Caleb Deschanel
• The Elephant Man – Freddie Francis
• Kagemusha – Takao Saito and Masaharu Ueda

Kagemusha – Seiichiro Momosawa

• All That Jazz – Albert Wolsky
• Don Giovanni – Frantz Salieri
• Flash Gordon – Danilo Donati

All That Jazz – Alan Heim

• The Elephant Man – Anne V. Coates
• Fame – Gerry Hambling
• Kramer vs. Kramer – Gerald B. Greenberg

The Empire Strikes Back – John Williams

• Breaking Glass – Hazel O'Connor
• Fame – Michael Gore
• Flash Gordon – Queen and Howard Blake

The Elephant Man – Stuart Craig

• All That Jazz – Philip Rosenberg
• The Empire Strikes Back – Norman Reynolds
• Flash Gordon – Danilo Donati

Fame – Chris Newman, Les Wiggins and Michael J. Kohut

• All That Jazz – Maurice Schell, Chris Newman and Dick Vorisek
• Don Giovanni – Jean-Louis Ducarme, Jacques Maumont and Michelle Nenny
• The Empire Strikes Back – Peter Sutton, Ben Burtt and Bill Varney
• The Rose – Jim Webb, Chris McLaughlin, Kay Rose and Theodore Soderberg

Judy Davis – My Brilliant Career as Sybylla Melvyn

• Debra Winger – Urban Cowboy as Sissy Davis
• John Gordon Sinclair – Gregory's Girl as Gregory Underwood
• Sônia Braga – Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands as Dona Flor

The Three Inventors – Michel Ocelot

• Bio Woman – Bob Godfrey
• The Cube – Kamil Pixa
• Seaside Woman – Oscar Grillo

Sredni Vashtar – Andrew Birkin

• Box On – Lindsey Clennell
• The Dollar Bottom – Roger Christian
• Possessions – Andrew Bogle