1980 Academy Award® Nominations: winners are underlined.

Best Picture: Coal Miner's Daughter The Elephant Man Ordinary People Raging Bull Tess

Best Director: Robert Redford, Ordinary People David Lynch, The Elephant Man Martin Scorsese, Raging Bull Richard Rush, The Stunt Man Roman Polanski, Tess

Best Actor: John Hurt, The Elephant Man Robert De Niro, Raging Bull Robert Duvall, The Great Santini Peter O'Toole, The Stunt Man Jack Lemmon, Tribute

Best Actress: Gena Rowlands, Gloria Mary Tyler Moore, Ordinary People Goldie Hawn, Private Benjamin Sissy Spacek, Coal Miner's Daughter Ellen Burstyn, Resurrection

Best Supporting Actor: Michael O'Keefe, The Great Santini Timothy Hutton, Ordinary People Jason Robards, Melvin and Howard Judd Hirsch, Ordinary People Joe Pesci, Raging Bull

Best Supporting Actress: Diana Scarwid, Inside Moves Eileen Brennan, Private Benjamin Mary Steenburgen, Melvin and Howard Cathy Moriarty, Raging Bull Eva Le Gallienne, Resurrection

Best Original Screenplay:
Bo Goldman, Melvin and Howard
W.D. Richter, Arthur A. Ross, Brubaker
Christopher Gore, Fame
Jean Gruault, My American Uncle
Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer, Harvey Miller, Private Benjamin

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Alvin Sargent, Ordinary People
Jonathan Hardy, David Stevens, Bruce Beresford, Breaker Morant
Thomas Rickman, Coal Miner's Daughter
Christopher De Vore, Eric Bergren, David Lynch, The Elephant Man
Lawrence B. Marcus, Richard Rush, The Stunt Man

Best Art Direction: Coal Miner's Daughter The Elephant Man Tess Kagemusha The Empire Strikes Back

Best Foreign Film: Bizalom, Hungary Le Dernier métro, France Kagemusha, Japan Moskva slezam ne verit, Soviet Union El Nido, Spain

Best Cinematography: The Blue Lagoon Coal Miner's Daughter Tess The Formula Raging Bull

Best Costumes: Tess The Elephant Man My Brilliant Career Somewhere in Time When Time Ran Out

Film Editing: Coal Miner's Daughter The Competition Raging Bull The Elephant Man Fame

Best Sound: Altered States The Empire Strikes Back Coal Miner's Daughter Fame Raging Bull

Best Original Score:
John Corigliano, Altered States
John Morris, The Elephant Man
John Williams, The Empire Strikes Back
Philippe Sarde, Tess
Michael Gore, Fame

Best Original Song:
Lalo Schifrin, Will Jennings, "People Alone" from The Competition
Michael Gore, Lesley Gore, "Out Here on My Own" from Fame
Michael Gore, Dean Pitchford, "Fame" from Fame
Willie Nelson, "On the Road Again" from Honeysuckle Rose
Dolly Parton, "Nine to Five" from Nine to Five

Documentary Feature: Agee The Day After Trinity From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China Front Line Der Gelbe Stern

Documentary, Short Subject: Don't Mess with Bill The Eruption of Mount St. Helens It's the Same World Karl Hess: Toward Liberty Luther Metke at 94

Live Action Short Film: The Dollar Bottom Fall Line A Jury of Her Peers

Animated Short Film: History of the World in Three Minutes Flat A Légy Tout rien

The Academy Award® ceremonies were held on March 31st, 1981


Winners:
(11 movies)
Ordinary People (4) - Picture, Director, Supporting Actor, Adapted Screenplay
Tess (3) - Art Direction, Cinematography, Costumes
Fame (2) - Original Score, Original Song
Melvin and Howard (2) - Supporting Actress, Original Screenplay
Raging Bull (2) - Actor, Editing
Coal Miner's Daughter (1) - Actress
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1) - Sound
Moskva slezam ne verit (1) - Foreign Film
From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China (1) - Documentary Feature
Karl Hess: Toward Liberty (1) - Documentary, Short Subject
The Dollar Bottom (1) - Live Action Short Film
A Légy (1) - Animated Short Film

Nomination Totals:
(48 movies)
Commercial English language films:
Altered States (2) - Sound, Original Score
The Blue Lagoon (1) - Cinematography
Breaker Morant (1) - Adapted Screenplay
Brubaker (1) - Original Screenplay
Coal Miner's Daughter (7) - Picture, Actress, Adapted Screenplay, Art Direction, Cinematography, Editing, Sound
The Competition (2) - Editing, Original Song
The Elephant Man (8) - Picture, Director, Actor, Adapted Screenplay, Art Direction, Costumes, Editing, Original Score
Fame (6) - Original Screenplay, Editing, Sound, Original Score, Original Song, Original Song
The Formula (1) - Cinematography
Gloria (1) - Actress
The Great Santini (2) - Actor, Supporting Actor
Honeysuckle Rose (1) - Original Song
Inside Moves (1) - Supporting Actress
Melvin and Howard (3) - Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Original Screenplay
My American Uncle (1) - Original Screenplay
My Brilliant Career (1) - Costumes
Nine to Five (1) - Original Song
Ordinary People (6) - Picture, Director, Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actor, Adapted Screenplay
Private Benjamin (3) - Actress, Supporting Actress, Original Screenplay
Raging Bull (8) - Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Cinematography, Editing, Sound
Resurrection (2) - Actress, Supporting Actress
Somewhere in Time (1) - Costumes
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (3) - Art Direction, Sound, Original Score
The Stunt Man (3) - Director, Actor, Adapted Screenplay
Tess (6) - Picture, Director, Art Direction, Cinematography, Costumes, Original Score
Tribute (1) - Actor
When Time Ran Out (1) - Costumes

Foreign language films:
Bizalom (1) - Foreign Film
Le Dernier métro (1) - Foreign Film
Kagemusha (2) - Foreign Film, Art Direction
Moskva slezam ne verit (1) - Foreign Film
El Nido (1) - Foreign Film

Documentaries and short films:
Agee (1) - Documentary Feature
The Day After Trinity (1) - Documentary Feature
The Dollar Bottom (1) - Live Action Short Film
Don't Mess with Bill (1) - Documentary, Short Subject
The Eruption of Mount St. Helens (1) - Documentary, Short Subject
Fall Line (1) - Live Action Short Film
From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China (1) - Documentary Feature
Front Line (1) - Documentary Feature
Der Gelbe Stern (1) - Documentary Feature
History of the World in Three Minutes Flat (1) - Animated Short Film
It's the Same World (1) - Documentary, Short Subject
A Jury of Her Peers (1) - Live Action Short Film
Karl Hess: Toward Liberty (1) - Documentary, Short Subject
A Légy (1) - Animated Short Film
Luther Metke at 94 (1) - Documentary, Short Subject
Tout rien (1) - Animated Short Film

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