28th British Academy Film Awards

Lacombe, Lucien – Louis Malle

• Chinatown – Roman Polanski
• The Last Detail – Hal Ashby
• Murder on the Orient Express – Sidney Lumet

Roman Polanski – Chinatown

• Francis Ford Coppola – The Conversation
• Louis Malle – Lacombe, Lucien
• Sidney Lumet – Murder on the Orient Express
• Sidney Lumet – Serpico

Jack Nicholson – Chinatown as J. J. Gittes
Jack Nicholson – The Last Detail as Signalman First Class Billy Buddusky

• Albert Finney – Murder on the Orient Express as Hercule Poirot
• Al Pacino – Serpico as Frank Serpico
• Gene Hackman – The Conversation as Harry Caul

Joanne Woodward – Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams as Rita Walden

• Barbra Streisand – The Way We Were as Katie Morosky
• Cicely Tyson – The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman as Jane Pittman
• Faye Dunaway – Chinatown as Evelyn Cross Mulwray

John Gielgud – Murder on the Orient Express as Edward Beddoes

• Adam Faith – Stardust as Mike Menary
• John Huston – Chinatown as Noah Cross
• Randy Quaid – The Last Detail as Seaman Laurence Meadows

Ingrid Bergman – Murder on the Orient Express as Greta Ohlsson

• Cindy Williams – American Graffiti as Laurie Henderson
• Sylvia Sidney – Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams as Pritchett
• Sylvia Syms – The Tamarind Seed as Margaret Stephenson

Chinatown – Robert Towne
The Last Detail – Robert Towne

• Blazing Saddles – Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg,
  Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor and Alan Uger
• The Conversation – Francis Ford Coppola
• Lacombe, Lucien – Louis Malle and Patrick Modiano

The Great Gatsby – Douglas Slocombe

• Chinatown – John A. Alonzo
• Murder on the Orient Express – Geoffrey Unsworth
• The Three Musketeers – David Watkin
• Zardoz – Geoffrey Unsworth

The Great Gatsby – Theoni V. Aldredge

• Chinatown – Anthea Sylbert
• Murder on the Orient Express – Tony Walton
• The Three Musketeers – Yvonne Blake

The Conversation – Walter Murch and Richard Chew

• Chinatown – Sam O'Steen
• Murder on the Orient Express – Anne V. Coates
• The Three Musketeers – John Victor Smith

Murder on the Orient Express – Richard Rodney Bennett

• Chinatown – Jerry Goldsmith
• La bonne année – Francis Lai
• Serpico – Mikis Theodorakis
• The Three Musketeers – Michel Legrand

The Great Gatsby – John Box

• Chinatown – Richard Sylbert
• Murder on the Orient Express – Tony Walton
• The Three Musketeers – Brian Eatwell

The Conversation – Art Rochester, Nat Boxer, Mike Ejve and Walter Murch

• Earthquake – Melvin Metcalfe Sr. and Ronald Pierce
• The Exorcist – Chris Newman, Jean-Louis Ducarme, Robert Knudson, Frederick Brown,
  Bob Fine, Ross Taylor, Ron Nagle, Doc Siegel, Gonzalo Gavira and Hal Landaker
• Gold – Alan Somes, Rydal Love, Michael Crouch, John W. Mitchell and Gordon McCallum

Hunger (La Faim)

• Cat's Cradle

Cree Hunters of Mistassini

• Companero: Victor Jara of Chile
• Leprosy

Monet in London

• Adventure in Colour
• Child Part II
• Nobody's Fault

Location North Sea

• Acting in Turn
• Facets of Glass
• The Quiet Land

Lacombe, Lucien – Louis Malle

• The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman – John Korty

Georgina Hale – Mahler as Alma Mahler

• Cleavon Little – Blazing Saddles as Sheriff Bart
• Sissy Spacek – Badlands as Holly Sargis