The Complete Oscar Quest: 53rd Academy Awards (1980)
1980
Best Picture
- Coal Miner’s Daughter
- The Elephant Man
- Ordinary People
- Raging Bull
- Tess
Best Director
- David Lynch, The Elephant Man
- Robert Redford, Ordinary People
- Roman Polanski, Tess
- Richard Rush, The Stunt Man
- Martin Scorsese, Raging Bull
Best Actor
- Robert De Niro, Raging Bull
- Robert Duvall, The Great Santini
- John Hurt, The Elephant Man
- Jack Lemmon, Tribute
- Peter O’Toole, The Stunt Man
Best Actress
- Ellen Burstyn, Resurrection
- Goldie Hawn, Private Benjamin
- Mary Tyler Moore, Ordinary People
- Gena Rowlands, Gloria
- Sissy Spacek, Coal Miner’s Daughter
Best Supporting Actor
- Judd Hirsch, Ordinary People
- Timothy Hutton, Ordinary People
- Michael O’Keefe, The Great Santini
- Joe Pesci, Raging Bull
- Jason Robards, Melvin and Howard
Best Supporting Actress
- Eileen Brennan, Private Benjamin
- Eve La Gallienne, Resurrection
- Cathy Moriarty, Raging Bull
- Diana Scarwid, Inside Moves
- Mary Steenburgen, Melvin and Howard
Best Original Screenplay
- Brubaker
- Fame
- Melvin and Howard
- Mon Oncle D’Amerique
- Private Benjamin
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Breaker Morant
- Coal Miner’s Daughter
- The Elephant Man
- Ordinary People
- The Stunt Man
Best Editing
- Coal Miner’s Daughter
- The Competition
- The Elephant Man
- Fame
- Raging Bull
Best Cinematography
- The Blue Lagoon
- Coal Miner’s DAughter
- The Formula
- Raging Bull
- Tess
Best Original Score
- Altered States
- The Elephant Man
- The Empire Strikes Back
- Fame
- Tess
Best Original Song
- “9 to 5,” from 9 to 5
- “Fame,” from Fame
- “On the Road Again,” from Honeysuckle Rose
- “Out Here on My Own,” from Fame
- “People Alone,” from The Competition
Best Art Direction
- Coal Miner’s Daughter
- The Elephant Man
- The Empire Strike Back
- Kagemusha
- Tess
Best Costume Design
- The Elephant Man
- My Brilliant Career
- Somewhere in Time
- Tess
- When Time Ran Out
Best Visual Effects
- The Empire Strikes Back
Best Sound Mixing
- Altered States
- Coal Miner’s Daughter
- The Empire Strikes Back
- Fame
- Raging Bull
Best Foreign Language Film
- Confidence
- Kagemusha
- The Last Metro
- Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
- The Nest
Best Documentary
- Agee
- The Day After Trinity
- From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China
- Front Line
- The Yellow Star – The Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933-45
Best Documentary Short
- Don’t Mess with Bill
- The Eruption of Mount St. Helens
- It’s the Same World
- Karl Hess: Toward Liberty
- Luther Metke at 94
Best Live-Action Short
- The Dollar Bottom
- Fall Line
- A Jury of Her Peers
Best Animated Short
- All Nothing
- The Fly
- History of the World in Three Minutes Flat
Total List of Films Nominated:
- 9 to 5
- Altered States
- The Blue Lagoon
- Breaker Morant
- Brubaker
- Coal Miner’s Daughter
- The Competition
- The Elephant Man
- The Empire Strikes Back
- Fame
- The Formula
- Gloria
- The Great Santini
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Inside Moves
- Kagemusha
- Melvin and Howard
- Mon Oncle D’Amerique
- My Brilliant Career
- Ordinary People
- Private Benjamin
- Raging Bull
- Resurrection
- Somewhere in Time
- The Stunt Man
- Tess
- Tribute
- When Time Ran Out
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