| Robert Greenwald – Xanadu*John G. Avildsen – The Formula*Brian De Palma – Dressed to Kill*William Friedkin – Cruising*Sidney J. Furie and Richard Fleischer – The Jazz Singer*Stanley Kubrick – The Shining*Michael Ritchie – The Island*John Trent – Middle Age Crazy*Nancy Walker – Can't Stop the Music*Gordon Willis – Windows |
| Neil Diamond – The Jazz Singer as Yussel Rabinovitch/Jess Robin*Michael Beck – Xanadu as Sonny Malone*Robert Blake – Coast to Coast as Charles Callahan*Michael Caine – Dressed to Kill and The Island as Dr. Robert Elliott/Bobbi and Blair Maynard *Kirk Douglas – Saturn 3 as Adam*Richard Dreyfuss – The Competition as Paul Dietrich*Anthony Hopkins – A Change of Seasons as Adam Evans*Bruce Jenner – Can't Stop the Music as Ron White*Sam J. Jones – Flash Gordon as Flash Gordon | Brooke Shields – The Blue Lagoon as Emmeline*Nancy Allen – Dressed to Kill as Liz Blake*Faye Dunaway – The First Deadly Sin as Barbara Delaney*Shelley Duvall – The Shining as Wendy Torrance*Farrah Fawcett – Saturn 3 as Alex*Sondra Locke – Bronco Billy as Antoinette Lily*Olivia Newton-John – Xanadu as Kira*Valerie Perrine – Can't Stop the Music as Samantha Simpson*Deborah Raffin – Touched by Love as Lena Canada*Talia Shire – Windows as Emily Hollander |
| John Adames – Gloria as Phil Dawn Laurence Olivier – The Jazz Singer as Cantor Rabinovitch *Marlon Brando – The Formula as Adam Stieffel*Charles Grodin – Seems Like Old Times as Ira Parks*David Selby – Raise the Titanic as Dr. Gene Seagram | Amy Irving – Honeysuckle Rose as Lily Ramsey*Elizabeth Ashley – Windows as Andrea Glassen*Georg Stanford Brown – Stir Crazy as Rory Schutlebrand*Betsy Palmer – Friday the 13th as Mrs. Pamela Voorhees*Marilyn Sokol – Can't Stop the Music as Lulu Brecht |
| Can't Stop the Music – Bronte Woodard and Allan Carr*A Change of Seasons – Erich Segal and Ronni Kern and Fred Segal*Cruising – William Friedkin*The Formula – Steve Shagan*It's My Turn – Eleanor Bergstein*Middle Age Crazy – Carl Kleinschmidt*Raise the Titanic – Adam Kennedy and Eric Hughes, from the novel by Clive Cussler*Touched by Love – Hesper Anderson*Windows – Barry Siegel*Xanadu – Richard C. Danus and Marc R. Rubel | "The Man with Bogart's Face" from The Man with Bogart's Face – Music by George Duning; Lyrics by Andrew Fenady*" Can't Stop the Music" from Can't Stop the Music – Music and Lyrics by Jacques Morali*"Suspended in Time" from Xanadu – Music and Lyrics by John Farrar*"Where Do You Catch the Bus for Tomorrow?" from A Change of Seasons – Music by Henry Mancini; Lyrics by Marilyn Bergman and Alan Bergman*"You, Baby, Baby!" from The Jazz Singer – Music and Lyrics by Neil Diamond |
