Best Picture Coal Miner's Daughter, Bernard Schwartz, producer (Universal) The Elephant Man, Jonathan Sanger, producer (Paramount) Ordinary People, Ronald L. Schwary, producer (Paramount) Raging Bull, Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff, producers (United Artists) Tess, Claude Berri, producer; Timothy Burrill, co-producer (Columbia) Actor in a Leading Role Robert De Niro, Raging Bull Robert Duvall, The Great Santini John Hurt, The Elephant Man Jack Lemmon, Tribute Peter O'Toole, The Stunt Man Actress in a Leading Role Ellen Burstyn, Resurrection Goldie Hawn, Private Benjamin Mary Tyler Moore, Ordinary People Gena Rowlands, Gloria Sissy Spacek, Coal Miner's Daughter Actor in a Supporting Role Judd Hirsch, Ordinary People Timothy Hutton, Ordinary People Michael O'Keefe, The Great Santini Joe Pesci, Raging Bull Jason Robards, Melvin and Howard Actress in a Supporting Role Eileen Brennan, Private Benjamin Eva Le Gallienne, Resurrection Cathy Moriarty, Raging Bull Diana Scarwid, Inside Moves Mary Steenburgen, Melvin and Howard Directing David Lynch, The Elephant Man Roman Polanski, Tess Robert Redford, Ordinary People Richard Rush, The Stunt Man Martin Scorsese, Raging Bull Writing Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen Bo Goldman, Melvin and Howard Christopher Gore, Fame Jean Gruault, Mon Oncle D'Amerique Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer and Harvey Miller, Private Benjamin W. D. Richter, screenplay; W. D. Richter and Arthur Ross, story, Brubaker Screenplay Based on Material From Another Medium Christopher DeVore, Eric Bergren and David Lynch, The Elephant Man Jonathan Hardy, David Stevens and Bruce Beresford, Breaker Morant Lawrence B. Marcus and Richard Rush, The Stunt Man Tom Rickman, Coal Miner's Daughter Alvin Sargent, Ordinary People Cinematography Nestor Almendros, The Blue Lagoon Ralf D. Bode, Coal Miner's Daughter Michael Chapman, Raging Bull James Crabe, The Formula Geoffrey Unsworth and Ghislain Cloquet, Tess Art Direction John W. Corso, art direction; John M. Dwyer, set decoration, Coal Miner's Daughter Stuart Craig and Bob Cartwright, art direction; Hugh Scaife, set decoration, The Elephant Man Pierre Guffroy and Jack Stephens, art direction, Tess Yoshiro Muraki, art direction, Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior) Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley, Harry Lange and Alan Tomkins, art direction; Michael Ford, set decoration, The Empire Strikes Back Sound Michael J. Kohut, Aaron Rochin, Jay M. Harding and Chris Newman, Fame Donald O. Mitchell, Bill Nicholson, David J. Kimball and Les Lazarowitz, Raging Bull Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Michael Minkler and Willie D. Burton, Altered States Richard Portman, Roger Heman and Jim Alexander, Coal Miner's Daughter Bill Varney, Steve Maslow, Gregg Landaker and Peter Sutton, The Empire Strikes Back Music Original Song �Fame,� Fame, Michael Gore, music; Dean Pitchford, lyrics �Nine to Five,� Nine to Five, Dolly Parton, music and lyrics �On the Road Again,� Honeysuckle Rose, Willie Nelson, music and lyrics �Out Here on My Own,� Fame, Michael Gore, music; Lesley Gore, lyrics �People Alone,� The Competition, Lalo Schifrin, music; Wilbur Jennings, lyrics Original Score John Corigliano, Altered States Michael Gore, Fame John Morris, The Elephant Man Philippe Sarde, Tess John Williams, The Empire Strikes Back Film Editing David Blewitt, The Competition Anne V. Coates, The Elephant Man Gerry Hambling, Fame Arthur Schmidt, Coal Miner's Daughter Thelma Schoonmaker, Raging Bull Costume Design Jean-Pierre Dorleac, Somewhere in Time Patricia Norris, The Elephant Man Anthony Powell, Tess Anna Senior, My Brilliant Career Paul Zastupnevich, When Time Ran Out Short Films Animated All Nothing (Fr�d�ric Back, producer; Soci�t� Radio Canada) The Fly (Ferenc Rofusz, producer; Pannonia Film) History of the World in Three Minutes Flat (Michael Mills, producer; Michael Mills Productions Ltd.) Dramatic Live Action The Dollar Bottom (Rocking Horse Films, Ltd.; Paramount) Fall Line (Bob Carmichael and Greg Lowe, producers; Sports Imagery, Inc.) A Jury of Her Peers (Sally Heckel, producer; Sally Heckel Productions) Documentary Short Subject Don't Mess With Bill (John Watson and Pen Densham, producers; John Watson and Pen Densham's Insight Productions Inc.) The Eruption of Mount St. Helens (George Casey, producer; Graphic Films Corporation) It's the Same World (Dick Young, producer; Dick Young Productions, Ltd.) Karl Hess: Toward Liberty (Roland Hall� and Peter W. Ladue, producers; Hall�/Ladue, Inc.) Luther Metke at 94, U.C.L.A. (Richard Hawkins and Jorge Preloran, producers; U.C.L.A. Ethnographic Film Program) Feature Agee (Ross Spears, producer; James Agee Film Project) The Day After Trinity (Jon Else, producer; Jon Else Productions) From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China (Murray Lerner, producer; The Hopewell Foundation) Front Line (David Bradbury, producer; David Bradbury Productions) The Yellow Star�The Persecution of the Jews in Europe, 1933�45 (Bengt von zur Muehlen and Arthur Cohn, producers; Chronos Film GmbH) Foreign Language Film Confidence, Hungary Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior), Japan The Last Metro, France Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears, U.S.S.R. The Nest, Spain Visual Effects Brian Johnson, Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren and Bruce Nicholson, The Empire Strikes Back Honorary Awards To Henry Fonda, the consummate actor, in recognition of his brilliant accomplishments and enduring contribution to the art of motion pictures To Fred Hynes in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Facts:

  • Winners Announced: March 31, 1981
  • Held at: Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California
  • Host: Johnny Carson
  • Eligibility Year: 1980
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