53rd Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1981)

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• Date of Ceremony: Tuesday, March 31, 1981
• For films released in: 1980

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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