53rd Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1981)
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- Date of Ceremony: Tuesday, March 31, 1981
- For films released in: 1980
Here is a complete list of nominations for the 53rd Annual Academy Awards.
And the nominees are:
Best Picture
- Coal Miner's Daughter
Bernard Schwartz [Producer] - The Elephant Man
Jonathan Sanger [Producer] - Ordinary People
Robert L. Schwary [Producer] - Raging Bull
Irwin Winkler [Producer] and Robert Chartoff [Producer] - Tess
Claude Berri [Producer] and Timothy Burrill [Co-Producer]
Best Directing
- The Elephant Man
David Lynch - Ordinary People
Robert Redford - Raging Bull
Martin Scorsese - The Stunt Man
Richard Rush - Tess
Roman Polanski
Best Actor in a Leading Role
- The Elephant Man
John Hurt - The Great Santini
Robert Duvall - Raging Bull
Robert De Niro - The Stunt Man
Peter O'Toole - Tribute
Jack Lemmon
Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Coal Miner's Daughter
Sissy Spacek - Gloria
Gena Rowlands - Ordinary People
Mary Tyler Moore - Private Benjamin
Goldie Hawn - Resurrection
Ellen Burstyn
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- The Great Santini
Michael O'Keefe - Melvin and Howard
Jason Robards - Ordinary People
Judd Hirsch - Ordinary People
Timothy Hutton - Raging Bull
Joe Pesci
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- Inside Moves
Diana Scarwid - Melvin and Howard
Mary Steenburgen - Private Benjamin
Eileen Brennan - Raging Bull
Cathy Moriarty - Resurrection
Eva Le Gallienne
Best Foreign Language Film
- Confidence
- Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior)
- The Last Metro
- Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
- The Nest
Best Art Direction
- Coal Miner's Daughter
John W. Corso [Art Direction] and John M. Dwyer [Set Decoration] - The Elephant Man
Stuart Craig [Art Direction], Bob Cartwright [Art Direction] and Hugh Scaife [Set Decoration] - The Empire Strikes Back
Norman Reynolds [Art Direction], Leslie Dilley [Art Direction], Harry Lange [Art Direction], Alan Tomkins [Art Direction] and Michael Ford [Set Decoration] - Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior)
Yoshiro Muraki - Tess
Pierre Guffroy [Art Direction] and Jack Stephens [Art Direction]
Best Cinematography
- The Blue Lagoon
Nestor Almendros - Coal Miner's Daughter
Ralf D. Bode - The Formula
James Crabe - Raging Bull
Michael Chapman - Tess
Geoffrey Unsworth and Ghislain Cloquet
Best Costume Design
- The Elephant Man
Patricia Norris - My Brilliant Career
Anna Senior - Somewhere in Time
Jean-Pierre Dorleac - Tess
Anthony Powell - When Time Ran Out
Paul Zastupnevich
Best Documentary (Feature)
- Agee
Ross Spears - The Day after Trinity
Jon Else - From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China
Murray Lerner - Front Line
David Bradbury - The Yellow Star - The Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933-45
Bengt von zur Muehlen and Arthur Cohn
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
- Don't Mess with Bill
John Watson and Pen Densham - The Eruption of Mount St. Helens
George Casey - It's the Same World
Dick Young - Karl Hess: Toward Liberty
Roland Hallé and Peter W. Ladue - Luther Metke at 94
Richard Hawkins and Jorge Preloran
Best Film Editing
- Coal Miner's Daughter
Arthur Schmidt - The Competition
David Blewitt - The Elephant Man
Anne V. Coates - Fame
Gerry Hambling - Raging Bull
Thelma Schoonmaker
Best Music (Original Score)
- Altered States
John Corigliano - The Elephant Man
John Morris - The Empire Strikes Back
John Williams - Fame
Michael Gore - Tess
Phillippe Sarde
Best Music (Original Song)
- The Competition "People Alone"
Lalo Schifrin [Music by] and Wilbur Jennings [Lyric by] - Fame "Fame"
Michael Gore [Music by] and Dean Pitchford [Lyric by] - Fame "Out Here On My Own"
Michael Gore [Music by] and Lesley Gore [Lyric by] - Honeysuckle Rose "On the Road Again"
Willie Nelson [Music and Lyric by] - Nine to Five "Nine to Five"
Dolly Parton [Music and Lyric by]
Best Short Film (Animated)
- All Nothing
Frédéric Back - The Fly
Ferenc Rofusz - History of the World in Three Minutes Flat
Michael Mills
Best Short Film (Dramatic Live Action)
- The Dollar Bottom
Lloyd Phillips - Fall Line
Bob Carmichael and Greg Lowe - A Jury of Her Peers
Sally Heckel
Best Sound
- Altered States
Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Michael Minkler and Willie D. Burton - Coal Miner's Daughter
Richard Portman, Roger Heman and Jim Alexander - The Empire Strikes Back
Bill Varney, Steve Maslow, Gregg Landaker and Peter Sutton - Fame
Michael J. Kohut, Aaron Rochin, Jay M. Harding and Chris Newman - Raging Bull
Donald O. Mitchell, Bill Nicholson, David J. Kimball and Les Lazarowitz
Best Writing (Screenplay - based on material from another medium)
- Breaker Morant
Jonathan Hardy, David Stevens and Bruce Beresford - Coal Miner's Daughter
Tom Rickman - The Elephant Man
Christopher DeVore, Eric Bergren and David Lynch - Ordinary People
Alvin Sargent - The Stunt Man
Lawrence B. Marcus [Screenplay by] and Richard Rush [Adaptation by]
Best Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)
- Brubaker
W. D. Richter [Screenplay and Story by] and Arthur Ross [Story by] - Fame
Christopher Gore - Melvin and Howard
Bo Goldman - Mon Oncle D'Amerique
Jean Gruault - Private Benjamin
Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer and Harvey Miller