52nd Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1980)

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  • Date of Ceremony: Monday, April 14, 1980
  • For films released in: 1979
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Here is a complete list of nominations for the 52nd Annual Academy Awards.

And the nominees are:

Best Picture

  • All That Jazz
    Robert Alan Arthur [Producer]
  • Apocalypse Now
    Francis Ford Coppola [Producer], Fred Ross [Co-Producer], Gray Frederickson [Co-Producer] and Tom Sternberg [Co-Producer]
  • Breaking Away
    Peter Yates [Producer]
  • Kramer vs. Kramer
    Stanley R. Jaffe [Producer]
  • Norma Rae
    Tamara Asseyev [Producer] and Alex Rose [Producer]

Best Directing

  • All That Jazz
    Bob Fosse
  • Apocalypse Now
    Francis Ford Coppola
  • Breaking Away
    Peter Yates
  • Kramer vs. Kramer
    Robert Benton
  • La Cage aux Folles
    Edouard Molinaro

Best Actor in a Leading Role

  • All That Jazz
    Roy Scheider
  • And Justice for All
    Al Pacino
  • Being There
    Peter Sellers
  • The China Syndrome
    Jack Lemmon
  • Kramer vs. Kramer
    Dustin Hoffman

Best Actress in a Leading Role

  • Chapter Two
    Marsha Mason
  • The China Syndrome
    Jane Fonda
  • Norma Rae
    Sally Field
  • The Rose
    Bette Midler
  • Starting Over
    Jill Clayburgh

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

  • Apocalypse Now
    Robert Duvall
  • Being There
    Melvyn Douglas
  • The Black Stallion
    Mickey Rooney
  • Kramer vs. Kramer
    Justin Henry
  • The Rose
    Frederic Forrest

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

  • Breaking Away
    Barbara Barrie
  • Kramer vs. Kramer
    Jane Alexander
  • Kramer vs. Kramer
    Meryl Streep
  • Manhattan
    Mariel Hemingway
  • Starting Over
    Candice Bergen

Best Foreign Language Film

  • The Maids of Wilko
  • Mama Turns a Hundred
  • A Simple Story
  • The Tin Drum
  • To Forget Venice

Best Art Direction

  • Alien
    Michael Seymour [Art Direction], Les Dilley [Art Direction], Roger Christian [Art Direction] and Ian Whittaker [Set Decoration]
  • All That Jazz
    Philip Rosenberg [Art Direction], Tony Walton [Art Direction], Edward Stewart [Set Decoration] and Gary Brink [Set Decoration]
  • Apocalypse Now
    Dean Tavoularis [Art Direction], Angelo Graham [Art Direction] and George R. Nelson [Set Decoration]
  • The China Syndrome
    George Jenkins [Art Direction] and Arthur Jeph Parker [Set Decoration]
  • Star Trek - The Motion Picture
    Harold Michelson [Art Direction], Joe Jennings [Art Direction], Leon Harris [Art Direction], John Vallone [Art Direction] and Linda DeScenna [Set Decoration]

Best Cinematography

  • 1941
    William A. Fraker
  • All That Jazz
    Giuseppe Rotunno
  • Apocalypse Now
    Vittorio Storaro
  • The Black Hole
    Frank Phillips
  • Kramer vs. Kramer
    Nestor Almendros

Best Costume Design

  • Agatha
    Shirley Russell
  • All That Jazz
    Albert Wolsky
  • Butch and Sundance: The Early Days
    William Ware Theiss
  • The Europeans
    Judy Moorcroft
  • La Cage aux Folles
    Piero Tosi and Ambra Danon

Best Documentary (Feature)

  • Best Boy
    Ira Wohl
  • Generation on the Wind
    David A. Vassar
  • Going the Distance
    Paul Cowan and Jacques Bobet
  • The Killing Ground
    Steve Singer and Tom Priestley
  • The War at Home
    Glenn Sibler and Barry Alexander Brown

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

  • Dae
    Risto Teofilovski
  • Koryo Celadon
    Donald A. Connolly and James R. Messenger
  • Nails
    Philip Borsos
  • Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist
    Saul J. Turell
  • Remember Me
    Dick Young

Best Film Editing

  • All That Jazz
    Alan Heim
  • Apocalypse Now
    Richard Marks, Walter Murch, Gerald B. Greenberg and Lisa Fruchtman
  • The Black Stallion
    Robert Dalva
  • Kramer vs. Kramer
    Jerry Greenberg
  • The Rose
    Robert L. Wolfe and C. Timothy O'Meara

Best Music (Original Score)

  • 10
    Henry Mancini
  • The Amityville Horror
    Lalo Schifrin
  • The Champ
    Dave Grusin
  • A Little Romance
    Georges Delerue
  • Star Trek - The Motion Picture
    Jerry Goldsmith

Best Music (Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score)

  • All That Jazz
    Ralph Burns [Adaptation Score by]
  • Breaking Away
    Patrick Williams [Adaptation Score by]
  • The Muppet Movie
    Paul Williams [Song and Adaptation Score by] and Kenny Ascher [Song Score by]

Best Music (Original Song)

  • 10 "It's Easy To Say"
    Henry Mancini [Music by] and Robert Wells [Lyric by]
  • Ice Castles "Through the Eyes of Love"
    Marvin Hamlisch [Music by] and Carole Bayer Sager [Lyric by]
  • The Muppet Movie "The Rainbow Connection"
    Paul Williams [Music and Lyric by] and Kenny Ascher [Music and Lyric by]
  • Norma Rae "It Goes Like It Goes"
    David Shire [Music by] and Norman Gimbel [Lyric by]
  • The Promise "I'll Never Say 'Goodbye"
    David Shire [Music by], Alan Bergman [Lyric by] and Marilyn Bergman [Lyric by]

Best Short Film (Animated)

  • Dream Doll
    Bob Godfrey and Zlatko Grgic
  • Every Child
    Derek Lamb
  • It's So Nice to Have a Wolf around the House
    Paul Fierlinger

Best Short Film (Live Action)

  • Board and Care
    Sarah Pillsbury and Ron Ellis
  • Bravery in the Field
    Roman Kroitor and Stefan Wodoslawsky
  • Oh Brother, My Brother
    Carol Lowell and Ross Lowell
  • The Solar Film
    Saul Bass and Michael Britton
  • Solly's Diner
    Harry Mathias, Jay Zukerman and Larry Hankin

Best Sound

  • 1941
    Robert Knudson, Robert J. Glass, Don MacDougall and Gene S. Cantamessa
  • Apocalypse Now
    Walter Murch, Mark Berger, Richard Beggs and Nat Boxer
  • The Electric Horseman
    Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Michael Minkler and Al Overton
  • Meteor
    William McCaughey, Aaron Rochin, Michael J. Kohut and Jack Solomon
  • The Rose
    Theodore Soderberg, Douglas Williams, Paul Wells and Jim Webb

Best Visual Effects

  • 1941
    William A. Fraker, A.D. Flowers and Gregory Jein
  • Alien
    H.R. Giger, Carlo Rambaldi, Brian Johnson, Nick Allder and Denys Ayling
  • The Black Hole
    Peter Ellenshaw, Art Cruickshank, Eustace Lycett, Danny Lee, Harrison Ellenshaw and Joe Hale
  • Moonraker
    Derek Meddings, Paul Wilson and John Evans
  • Star Trek - The Motion Picture
    Douglas Trumbull, John Dykstra, Richard Yuricich, Robert Swarthe, Dave Stewart and Grant McCune

Best Writing (Screenplay - based on material from another medium)

  • Apocalypse Now
    John Milius and Francis Ford Coppola
  • Kramer vs. Kramer
    Robert Benton
  • La Cage aux Folles
    Francis Veber, Edouard Molinaro, Marcello Danon and Jean Poiret
  • A Little Romance
    Allan Burns
  • Norma Rae
    Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr

Best Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)

  • ...And Justice for All
    Valerie Curtain and Barry Levinson
  • All That Jazz
    Robert Alan Arthur and Bob Fosse
  • Breaking Away
    Steve Tesich
  • The China Syndrome
    Mike Gray, T.S. Cook and James Bridges
  • Manhattan
    Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman
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