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• Network, Written by Paddy Chayefsky
  • The Omen, Written by David Seltzer
  • Rocky, Written by Sylvester Stallone
  • Taxi Driver, Written by Paul Schrader
  • The Front, Written by Walter Bernstein

• The Bad News Bears, Written by Bill Lancaster
  • Murder by Death, Written by Neil Simon
  • Next Stop, Greenwich Village, Written by Paul Mazursky
  • Silent Movie, Written by Mel Brooks, Ron Clark, Rudy De Luca and Barry Levinson
  • Silver Streak, Written by Colin Higgins

• All the President's Men, Screenplay by William Goldman; Based on the book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
  • Bound for Glory, Screenplay by Robert Getchell; Based on the autobiography by Woody Guthrie
  • The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Screenplay by Nicholas Meyer; Based on the novel by Nicholas Meyer
  • Marathon Man, Screenplay by William Goldman, Based on his novel
  • The Shootist, Screenplay by Miles Hood Swarthout and Scott Hale; Based on the novel by Glendon Swarthout

• The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Screenplay by Frank Waldman and Blake Edwards
  • Family Plot, Screenplay by Ernest Lehman; Based on the novel by Victor Canning
  • Stay Hungry, Screenplay by Charles Gaines and Bob Rafelson; Based on the novel by Charles Gaines
  • The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings, Screenplay by Hal Barwood and Matthew Robbins; Based on the novel by William Brashler
  • The Ritz, Screenplay by Terrence McNally; Based on his play

• "Dear Sigmund" – M*A*S*H (CBS) – Alan Alda
  • "Joey's Baptism" – All in the Family (CBS) – Mel Tolkin, Larry Rhine and Milt Josefsberg
  • "Evacuation" – Barney Miller (ABC) – Danny Arnold and Chris Hayward
  • "Hawkeye Get Your Gun" – M*A*S*H (CBS) – Jay Folb, and Gene Reynolds
  • "Mary's Insomnia" – The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS) – David Lloyd
  • "My Son, the Genius" – The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS) – Bob Ellison

• "Crossing Fox River" – Lincoln (NBC) – Loring Mandel
  • "Flying Misfits" – Baa Baa Black Sheep (NBC) – Stephen J. Cannell
  • "The November Plan: Part 1, 2 & 3" – City of Angels (NBC) – Stephen J. Cannell and Roy Huggins
  • Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II (ABC) – Millard Lampell
  • "So Help Me God" – The Rockford Files (NBC) – Juanita Barltett

• Ryan's Hope (ABC) – Claire Labine, Paul Avila Mayer, Mary Munisteri and Jeffrey Lane
  • Days of Our Lives (NBC) – William J. Bell, Patricia Falken Smith, Bill Rega, Margaret Stewart and Kay Lenard
  • The Edge of Night (ABC) – Henry Slesar

• "Blind Sunday" – ABC Afterschool Special (ABC) – Arthur Barron
  • "Big Henry and the Polka Dot Kid" – NBC Special Treat (NBC) – W.W. Lewis
  • Bound for Freedom (NBC) – Jan Hartman
  • "Part II" – God's Country (CBS) – Alfa-Betty Olsen and Marshall Efron

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