| Best New American Play | Leslie Lee, The First Breeze of Summer |
| Playwriting | Ed Bullins, The Taking of Miss Janie |
| Wallace Shawn, Our Late Night |
| Sam Shepard, Action |
| Lanford Wilson, The Mound Builders |
| Direction | Lawrence Kornfeld, Listen to Me |
| Marshall W. Mason, Battle of Angels and The Mound Builders |
| Gilbert Moses, The Talking of Miss Janie |
| Performances | Tanya Berezin, The Mound Builders |
| Cara Duff-MacCormick, Craig's Wife |
| Tovah Feldshuh, Yentl the Yeshiva Boy |
| Moses Gunn, The First Breeze of Summer |
| Dick Latessa, Philemon |
| Kevin McCarthy, Harry Outside |
| Stephen D. Newman, Polly |
| Reyno, The First Breeze of Summer |
| Priscilla Smith, Trilogy |
| Ian Trigger, The True History of Squire Jonathan |
| Christopher Walken, Kid Champion |
| Design | John Lee Beatty, distinguished set design, Down by the River…, Battle of Angels and The Mound Builders |
| Robert U. Taylor, distinguished set design, Polly |
| Special 20-Year Obies | Judith Malina and Julian Beck |
| Ted Mann and the Circle in the Square |
| Joseph Papp |
| Ellen Stewart |
| The Fantasticks |
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