Chariots of Fire – David Puttnam

• Atlantic City – Denis Héroux
• The French Lieutenant's Woman – Leon Clore
• Gregory's Girl – Davina Belling and Clive Parsons
• Raiders of the Lost Ark – Frank Marshall

Louis Malle – Atlantic City

• Bill Forsyth – Gregory's Girl
• Hugh Hudson – Chariots of Fire
• Karel Reisz – The French Lieutenant's Woman

Burt Lancaster – Atlantic City as Lou Pascal

• Bob Hoskins – The Long Good Friday as Harold Shand
• Jeremy Irons – The French Lieutenant's Woman as Charles Henry Smithson
• Robert De Niro – Raging Bull as Jake LaMotta

Meryl Streep – The French Lieutenant's Woman as Sarah Woodruff / Anna

• Maggie Smith – Quartet as Lois Heidler
• Mary Tyler Moore – Ordinary People as Beth Jarrett
• Sissy Spacek – Coal Miner's Daughter as Loretta Lynn

Ian Holm – Chariots of Fire as Sam Mussabini

• Denholm Elliott – Raiders of the Lost Ark as Marcus Brody
• John Gielgud – Arthur as Hobson
• Nigel Havers – Chariots of Fire as Lord Andrew Lindsay

Gregory's Girl – Bill Forsyth

• Atlantic City – John Guare
• Chariots of Fire – Colin Welland
• The French Lieutenant's Woman – Harold Pinter

Tess – Geoffrey Unsworth and Ghislain Cloquet

• Chariots of Fire – David Watkin
• The French Lieutenant's Woman – Freddie Francis
• Raiders of the Lost Ark – Douglas Slocombe

Chariots of Fire – Milena Canonero

• Excalibur – Bob Ringwood
• The French Lieutenant's Woman – Tom Rand
• Tess – Anthony Powell

Raging Bull – Thelma Schoonmaker

• Chariots of Fire – Terry Rawlings
• The French Lieutenant's Woman – John Bloom
• Raiders of the Lost Ark – Michael Kahn

The French Lieutenant's Woman – Carl Davis

• Arthur – Burt Bacharach
• Chariots of Fire – Vangelis
• Raiders of the Lost Ark – John Williams

Raiders of the Lost Ark – Norman Reynolds

• Chariots of Fire – Roger Hall
• The French Lieutenant's Woman – Assheton Gorton
• Tess – Pierre Guffroy

The French Lieutenant's Woman – Don Sharpe, Ivan Sharrock and Bill Rowe

• Chariots of Fire – Clive Winter, Bill Rowe and Jim Shields
• Coal Miner's Daughter – Gordon Ecker, James R. Alexander, Richard Portman and Roger Heman Jr
• Raiders of the Lost Ark – Roy Charman, Ben Burtt and Bill Varney

The Sweater – Sheldon Cohen

• Beginnings – Clorinda Warny
• Creole – Sam Weiss

Recluse – Bob Bentley

• Couples and Robbers – Clare Peploe
• Towers of Babel – Jonathan Lewis

Soldier Girls – Nick Broomfield and Joan Churchill

• Best Boy – Ira Wohl
• The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter – Connie Field
• Return Journey – Ian Potts

Joe Pesci – Raging Bull as Joey LaMotta

• Cathy Moriarty – Raging Bull as Vikki LaMotta
• Klaus Maria Brandauer – Mephisto as Hendrik Hoefgen
• Timothy Hutton – Ordinary People as Conrad Jarrett