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1981 (54th Annual Awards)
Reminder List of Eligible Releases

Each year the Academy publishes a booklet for its members called the Reminder List of Eligible Releases. Listed below are the films that were eligible for Academy Award consideration according to the rules of 1981. TheOscar nominated marker symbol appears next to those films which ultimately received an Academy Award nomination.

Click on the name of one of those films to display more information about it. Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the Reminder List for that year.

All Night Long
. . . All the Marbles
American Pop
Amy
Back Roads
Beau Pere
Beyond the Reef
Black and White Like Day and Night
Blow Out
Body Heat
Buddy Buddy
Bustin’ Loose
Caddie
The Cannonball Run
Carbon Copy
Cattle Annie and Little Britches
Caveman
Chanel Solitaire
Cheech & Chong’s Nice Dreams
Chu Chu and the Philly Flash
City of Women
Clash of the Titans
Coboblanco
Comin’ at Ya!
Condor Man
Continental Divide
Cutter’s Way
Dead & Buried
Deadly Blessing
Death Hunt
The Devil and Max Devlin
Dirty Tricks
The Dogs of War
Earthbound
The Earthling
Escape from New York
Every Man for Himself
An Eye for an Eye
Eye of the Needle
Eyes of a Stranger
Eyewitness
The Fan
Fear No Evil
The Final Conflict
Firecracker
First Monday in October
Fort Apache, the Bronx
Foster Father! Tora
Four Friends
The Four Seasons
The Fox and the Hound
Friday the 13th Part 2
The Funhouse
Galaxy of Terror
Gallipoli
Gas
Ghost Story
The Girl with the Red Hair
Going Ape!
Graduation Day
Halloween II
The Hand
Happy Birthday to Me
Hard Country
Hardly Working
Harry’s War
Heart to Heart
Heartland
Heavy Metal
Hell Night
The High Country
History of the World—Part I
Honky Tonk Freeway
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Howling
I Sent a Letter to My Love
Improper Channels
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
King of the Mountain
Knightriders
La Cage Aux Folles II
The Last Chase
The Legend of the Lone Ranger
Lili Marleen
Lion of the Desert
Long Way Round
Looker
Loulou
Lovers and Liars
Man of Marble
Maniac
McVicar
Mel Brooks’ History of the World—Part I, (see: History of the World—Part I).
Message from the Future
Modern Problems
Modern Romance
Mommie Dearest
Montenegro
My Bloody Valentine
My Dinner with Andre
Neighbors
Neil Simon’s Only When I Laugh, (see: Only When I Laugh).
The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
Nighthawks
Nobody’s Perfekt
On Any Sunday II
On the Right Track
Paternity
Pixote
Polyester
Port Arthur
Portrait of a Girl
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Priest of Love
The Private Eyes
Private Lessons
The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper
Quartet
Raggedy Man
The Revolt
Rich and Famous
Richard’s Things
Road Games
Rollover
S.O.B.
Saturday the 14th
Savage Harvest
Scanners
Second Hand Hearts
Sharky’s Machine
Shock Treatment
Smokey Bites the Dust
So Fine
Southern Comfort
Sphinx
Strange Behavior
Stripes
Student Bodies
Sunday Lovers
Super Fuzz
Superman II
Take This Job and Shove It
Taps
Tarzan, the Ape Man
Tattoo
They All Laughed
Thief
This Is Elvis
Ticket to Heaven
Time Bandits
True Confessions
Under the Rainbow
Urgh! A Music War
Victory
Voyage en Douce
The Watcher in the Woods
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
The Wicked
Wolfen
The Woman Next Door
Young Rebel
Zoot Suit
Zorro, the Gay Blade