1980 (53rd Annual Awards)
Nominations and Winners

Listed below are the Academy Award nominations and winners for the year 1980. The symbol appears next to the winner in each category. Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song. Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the nominations and winners from that year.

Best Picture

Coal Miner’s Daughter, Bernard Schwartz-Universal Pictures Production; Universal. Bernard Schwartz, Producer.

The Elephant Man, Brooksfilms Limited Production; Paramount. (USA, UK) Jonathan Sanger, Producer.

Ordinary People, Wildwood Enterprises Inc. Production; Paramount. Ronald L. Schwary, Producer.

Raging Bull, Robert Chartoff-Irwin Winkler Production; United Artists. Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff, Producers.

Tess, Renn-Burrill Co-production with the participation of the Societe Francaise de Production (S.F.P.); Columbia. (UK, France) Claude Berri, Producer; Timothy Burrill, Co-Producer.

Actor in a Leading Role

Robert De Niro in Raging Bull, Robert Chartoff-Irwin Winkler Production; United Artists.

Robert Duvall in The Great Santini, Orion Pictures-Bing Crosby Production; Orion Pictures Company.

John Hurt in The Elephant Man, Brooksfilms Limited Production; Paramount. (USA, UK)

Jack Lemmon in Tribute, Lawrence Turman-David Foster Presentation of a Joel B. Michaels-Garth H. Drabinsky Production; 20th Century-Fox. (Canada)

Peter O’Toole in The Stunt Man, Melvin Simon Productions; 20th Century-Fox.

Actress in a Leading Role

Ellen Burstyn in Resurrection, Universal Pictures Production; Universal.

Goldie Hawn in Private Benjamin, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros.

Mary Tyler Moore in Ordinary People, Wildwood Enterprises Inc. Production; Paramount.

Gena Rowlands in Gloria, Columbia Pictures Production; Columbia.

Sissy Spacek in Coal Miner’s Daughter, Bernard Schwartz-Universal Pictures Production; Universal.

Actor in a Supporting Role

Judd Hirsch in Ordinary People, Wildwood Enterprises Inc. Production; Paramount.

Timothy Hutton in Ordinary People, Wildwood Enterprises Inc. Production; Paramount.

Michael O’Keefe in The Great Santini, Orion Pictures-Bing Crosby Production; Orion Pictures Company.

Joe Pesci in Raging Bull, Robert Chartoff-Irwin Winkler Production; United Artists.

Jason Robards in Melvin and Howard, Linson/Phillips/Demme-Universal Pictures Production; Universal.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Eileen Brennan in Private Benjamin, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros.

Eva Le Gallienne in Resurrection, Universal Pictures Production; Universal.

Cathy Moriarty in Raging Bull, Robert Chartoff-Irwin Winkler Production; United Artists.

Diana Scarwid in Inside Moves, Goodmark Production; AFD (Associated Film Distribution).

Mary Steenburgen in Melvin and Howard, Linson/Phillips/Demme-Universal Pictures Production; Universal.

Directing

The Elephant Man, Brooksfilms Limited Production; Paramount. (USA, UK) David Lynch.

Ordinary People, Wildwood Enterprises Inc. Production; Paramount. Robert Redford.

Raging Bull, Robert Chartoff-Irwin Winkler Production; United Artists. Martin Scorsese.

The Stunt Man, Melvin Simon Productions; 20th Century-Fox. Richard Rush.

Tess, Renn-Burrill Co-production with the participation of the Societe Francaise de Production (S.F.P.); Columbia. (UK, France) Roman Polanski.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

Coal Miner’s Daughter, Bernard Schwartz-Universal Pictures Production; Universal. Art direction by John W. Corso; set decoration by John M. Dwyer.

The Elephant Man, Brooksfilms Limited Production; Paramount. (USA, UK) Art direction by Stuart Craig and Bob Cartwright; set decoration by Hugh Scaife.

The Empire Strikes Back, Lucasfilm, Ltd. Production; 20th Century-Fox. Art direction by Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley, Harry Lange and Alan Tomkins; set decoration by Michael Ford.

Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior), Toho Company, Ltd.-Kurosawa Productions, Ltd. Co-production; 20th Century-Fox. (Japan, USA) Yoshiro Muraki.

Tess, Renn-Burrill Co-production with the participation of the Societe Francaise de Production (S.F.P.); Columbia. (UK, France) Pierre Guffroy and Jack Stephens.

Cinematography

The Blue Lagoon, Columbia Pictures Production; Columbia. Nestor Almendros.

Coal Miner’s Daughter, Bernard Schwartz-Universal Pictures Production; Universal. Ralf D. Bode.

The Formula, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (West Germany, USA) James Crabe.

Raging Bull, Robert Chartoff-Irwin Winkler Production; United Artists. Michael Chapman.

Tess, Renn-Burrill Co-production with the participation of the Societe Francaise de Production (S.F.P.); Columbia. (UK, France) Geoffrey Unsworth and Ghislain Cloquet.

Costume Design

The Elephant Man, Brooksfilms Limited Production; Paramount. (USA, UK) Patricia Norris.

My Brilliant Career, Margaret Fink Films Pty., Ltd. Production; Analysis Film Releasing. (Australia) Anna Senior.

Somewhere in Time, Rastar-Stephen Deutsch-Universal Pictures Production; Universal. Jean-Pierre Dorleac.

Tess, Renn-Burrill Co-production with the participation of the Societe Francaise de Production (S.F.P.); Columbia. (UK, France) Anthony Powell.

When Time Ran Out, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros. (Canada, USA) Paul Zastupnevich.

Documentary

(Feature)

Agee, James Agee Film Project. Ross Spears, Producer.

The Day After Trinity, Jon Else Productions. Jon Else, Producer.

From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China, The Hopewell Foundation. Murray Lerner, Producer.

Front Line, David Bradbury Productions. David Bradbury, Producer.

The Yellow Star—The Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933-45, Chronos Film GmbH. (West Germany, Liechtenstein) Bengt von zur Muehlen and Arthur Cohn, Producers.

(Short Subject)

Don’t Mess with Bill, John Watson and Pen Densham’s Insight Productions Inc. John Watson and Pen Densham, Producers.

The Eruption of Mount St. Helens, Graphic Films Corporation. George Casey, Producer.

It’s the Same World, Dick Young Productions, Ltd. Dick Young, Producer.

Karl Hess: Toward Liberty, Hallé/Ladue, Incorporated. Roland Hallé and Peter W. Ladue, Producers.

Luther Metke at 94, U.C.L.A. Ethnographic Film Project. (Argentina) Richard Hawkins and Jorge Preloran, Producers.

Film Editing

Coal Miner’s Daughter, Bernard Schwartz-Universal Pictures Production; Universal. Arthur Schmidt.

The Competition, Rastar Films Production; Columbia. David Blewitt.

The Elephant Man, Brooksfilms Limited Production; Paramount. (USA, UK) Anne V. Coates.

Fame, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Gerry Hambling.

Raging Bull, Robert Chartoff-Irwin Winkler Production; United Artists. Thelma Schoonmaker.

Foreign Language Film

Confidence, Mafilm Studios Production. (Hungary)

Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior), Toho Company, Ltd.-Kurosawa Productions, Ltd. Co-production; 20th Century-Fox. (Japan, USA)

The Last Metro, Les Films du Carrosse Production. (France)

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears, Mosfilm Studios Production. (Soviet Union)

The Nest, A. Punto E.L. S.A. Production. (Spain, Argentina)

Music

(Original Score)

Altered States, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros. John Corigliano.

The Elephant Man, Brooksfilms Limited Production; Paramount. (USA, UK) John Morris.

The Empire Strikes Back, Lucasfilm, Ltd. Production; 20th Century-Fox. John Williams.

Fame, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Michael Gore.

Tess, Renn-Burrill Co-production with the participation of the Societe Francaise de Production (S.F.P.); Columbia. (UK, France) Philippe Sarde.

(Original Song)

Fame from Fame, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Music by Michael Gore; lyric by Dean Pitchford.

Nine to Five from Nine to Five, 20th Century-Fox Production; 20th Century-Fox. Music and lyric by Dolly Parton.

On the Road Again from Honeysuckle Rose, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros. Music and lyric by Willie Nelson.

Out Here on My Own from Fame, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Music by Michael Gore; lyric by Lesley Gore.

People Alone from The Competition, Rastar Films Production; Columbia. Music by Lalo Schifrin; lyric by Wilbur Jennings.

Short Films

(Animated)

All Nothing, Société Radio Canada. (Canada) Frédéric Back, Producer.

The Fly, Pannonia Film, Budapest. (Hungary) Ferenc Rofusz, Producer.

History of the World in Three Minutes Flat, Michael Mills Productions Ltd. (Canada) Michael Mills, Producer.

(Dramatic Live Action)

The Dollar Bottom, Rocking Horse Films Limited; Paramount. (UK) Lloyd Phillips, Producer.

Fall Line, Sports Imagery, Inc. Bob Carmichael and Greg Lowe, Producers.

A Jury of Her Peers, Sally Heckel Productions. Sally Heckel, Producer.

Sound

Altered States, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros. Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Michael Minkler and Willie D. Burton.

Coal Miner’s Daughter, Bernard Schwartz-Universal Pictures Production; Universal. Richard Portman, Roger Heman and Jim Alexander.

The Empire Strikes Back, Lucasfilm, Ltd. Production; 20th Century-Fox. Bill Varney, Steve Maslow, Gregg Landaker and Peter Sutton.

Fame, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Michael J. Kohut, Aaron Rochin, Jay M. Harding and Chris Newman.

Raging Bull, Robert Chartoff-Irwin Winkler Production; United Artists. Donald O. Mitchell, Bill Nicholson, David J. Kimball and Les Lazarowitz.

Special Achievement Award

(Visual Effects)

The Empire Strikes Back, Lucasfilm, Ltd. Production; 20th Century-Fox. Brian Johnson, Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren and Bruce Nicholson.

Writing

(Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium)

Breaker Morant, Produced in association with Australian Film Commission, the South Australian Film Corporation and the Seven Network and Pact Productions; New World Pictures/Quartet/Films Incorporated. (Australia) Jonathan Hardy, David Stevens and Bruce Beresford.

Coal Miner’s Daughter, Bernard Schwartz-Universal Pictures Production; Universal. Tom Rickman.

The Elephant Man, Brooksfilms Limited Production; Paramount. (USA, UK) Christopher DeVore, Eric Bergren and David Lynch.

Ordinary People, Wildwood Enterprises Inc. Production; Paramount. Alvin Sargent.

The Stunt Man, Melvin Simon Productions; 20th Century-Fox. Screenplay by Lawrence B. Marcus; adaptation by Richard Rush.

(Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)

Brubaker, 20th Century-Fox Production; 20th Century-Fox. Screenplay by W. D. Richter; story by W. D. Richter and Arthur Ross.

Fame, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Christopher Gore.

Melvin and Howard, Linson/Phillips/Demme-Universal Pictures Production; Universal. Bo Goldman.

Mon oncle d’Amerique, Philippe Dussart-Andrea Films T.F. 1 Production; New World Pictures. (France) Jean Gruault.

Private Benjamin, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros. Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer and Harvey Miller.

Honorary Award

To Henry Fonda, the consummate actor, in recognition of his brilliant accomplishments and enduring contribution to the art of motion pictures. [ [Statuette]]

To Fred Hynes, in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. [ [Medal of Commendation]]

Scientific or Technical Award

(Academy Award of Merit)

To Linwood G. Dunn, Cecil D. Love and Acme Tool and Manufacturing Company for the concept, engineering and development of the Acme-Dunn Optical Printer for motion picture special effects.

(Scientific and Engineering Award)

To Jean-Marie Lavalou, Alain Masseron and David Samuelson of Samuelson Alga Cinema S.A. and Samuelson Film Service, Limited, for the engineering and development of the Louma Camera Crane and remote control system for motion picture production.

To Edward B. Krause of Filmline Corporation for the engineering and manufacture of the micro-demand drive for continuous motion picture film processors.

To Ross Taylor for the concept and development of a system of air guns for propelling objects used in special effects motion picture production.

To Dr. Bernhard Kühl and Dr. Werner Block of OSRAM GmbH, for the progressive engineering and manufacture of the OSRAM HMI light source for motion picture color photography.

To David A. Grafton for the optical design and engineering of a telecentric anamorphic lens for motion picture optical effects printers.

(Technical Achievement Award)

To Carter Equipment Company for the development of a continuous contact, total immersion, additive color motion picture printer.

To Hollywood Film Company for the development of a continuous contact, total immersion, additive color motion picture printer.

To André DeBrie S.A. for the development of a continuous contact, total immersion, additive color motion picture printer.

To Charles Vaughn and Eugene Nottingham of Cinetron Computer Systems, Incorporated, for the development of a versatile general purpose computer system for animation and optical effects motion picture photography.

To John W. Lang, Walter Hrastnik and Charles J. Watson of Bell and Howell Company for the development and manufacture of a modular continuous contact motion picture film printer.

To Worth Baird of LaVezzi Machine Works, Incorporated, for the advanced design and manufacture of a film sprocket for motion picture projectors.

To Peter A. Regla and Dan Slater of Elicon for the development of a follow-focus system for motion picture optical effects printers and animation stands.