| 211 | 1976 | Rocky - Richard Halsey, Scott Conrad |
| 212 | 1976 | All the President's Men - Robert L. Wolfe |
| 213 | 1976 | Bound for Glory - Robert C. Jones, Pembroke J. Herring |
| 214 | 1976 | Network - Alan Heim |
| 215 | 1976 | Two-Minute Warning - Eve Newman, Walter Hannemann |
| 216 | 1977 | Star Wars - Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas, Richard Chew |
| 217 | 1977 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Michael Kahn |
| 218 | 1977 | Julia - Walter Murch, Marcel Durham |
| 219 | 1977 | Smokey and the Bandit - Walter Hannemann, Angelo Ross |
| 220 | 1977 | The Turning Point - William H. Reynolds |
| 221 | 1978 | The Deer Hunter - Peter Zinner |
| 222 | 1978 | The Boys from Brazil - Robert E. Swink |
| 223 | 1978 | Coming Home - Don Zimmerman |
| 224 | 1978 | Midnight Express - Gerry Hambling |
| 225 | 1978 | Superman - Stuart Baird |
| 226 | 1979 | All That Jazz - Alan Heim |
| 227 | 1979 | Apocalypse Now - Richard Marks, Walter Murch, Gerald B. Greenberg, Lisa Fruchtman |
| 228 | 1979 | The Black Stallion - Robert Dalva |
| 229 | 1979 | Kramer vs. Kramer - Gerald B. Greenberg |
| 230 | 1979 | The Rose - Robert L. Wolfe, C. Timothy O'Meara |
| 231 | 1980 | Raging Bull - Thelma Schoonmaker |
| 232 | 1980 | Coal Miner's Daughter - Arthur Schmidt |
| 233 | 1980 | The Competition - David Blewitt |
| 234 | 1980 | The Elephant Man - Anne V. Coates |
| 235 | 1980 | Fame - Gerry Hambling |
| 236 | 1981 | Raiders of the Lost Ark - Michael Kahn |
| 237 | 1981 | Chariots of Fire - Terry Rawlings |
| 238 | 1981 | The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Bloom |
| 239 | 1981 | On Golden Pond - Robert L. Wolfe (posthumous nomination) |
| 240 | 1981 | Reds - Dede Allen, Craig McKay |