The 53rd Academy Awards (1980): Nominees and Winners

NOMINATIONS		AWARDS
8 8 7 6 6 6 3 3 3 3	The Elephant Man Raging Bull Coal Miner's Daughter Fame Ordinary People Tess The Empire Strikes Back Melvin and Howard Private Benjamin The Stunt Man	4 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1	Ordinary People Tess Fame Melvin and Howard Raging Bull Coal Miner's Daughter The Dollar Bottom The Empire Strikes Back The Fly From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China Karl Hess: Toward Liberty Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
NOMINATION/WIN TALLY LEGEND Best Picture winner Best Picture nominee Nominations are listed for all films receiving 3 or more

PICTURE (Best Picture)

• Coal Miner's Daughter - Bernard Schwartz
• The Elephant Man - Jonathan Sanger
• Ordinary People - Ronald L. Schwary
• Raging Bull - Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff
• Tess - Claude Berri, Timothy Burrill

DIRECTING

• The Elephant Man - David Lynch
• Ordinary People - Robert Redford
• Raging Bull - Martin Scorsese
• The Stunt Man - Richard Rush
• Tess - Roman Polanski

ACTOR (Actor in a Leading Role)

• Robert De Niro - Raging Bull
• Robert Duvall - The Great Santini
• John Hurt - The Elephant Man
• Jack Lemmon - Tribute
• Peter O'Toole - The Stunt Man

ACTRESS (Actress in a Leading Role)

• Ellen Burstyn - Resurrection
• Goldie Hawn - Private Benjamin
• Mary Tyler Moore - Ordinary People
• Gena Rowlands - Gloria
• Sissy Spacek - Coal Miner's Daughter

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Actor in a Supporting Role)

• Judd Hirsch - Ordinary People
• Timothy Hutton - Ordinary People
• Michael O'Keefe - The Great Santini
• Joe Pesci - Raging Bull
• Jason Robards - Melvin and Howard

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Actress in a Supporting Role)

• Eileen Brennan - Private Benjamin
• Eva Le Gallienne - Resurrection
• Cathy Moriarty - Raging Bull
• Diana Scarwid - Inside Moves
• Mary Steenburgen - Melvin and Howard

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)

• Brubaker - Screenplay by W. D. Richter; Story by W. D. Richter, Arthur Ross
• Fame - Christopher Gore
• Melvin and Howard - Bo Goldman
• Mon Oncle D'Amerique - Jean Gruault
• Private Benjamin - Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer, Harvey Miller

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium)

• Breaker Morant - Jonathan Hardy, David Stevens, Bruce Beresford
• Coal Miner's Daughter - Tom Rickman
• The Elephant Man - Christopher DeVore, Eric Bergren, David Lynch
• Ordinary People - Alvin Sargent
• The Stunt Man - Screenplay by Lawrence B. Marcus; Adaptation by Richard Rush

ORIGINAL SONG

• "Fame" - Fame - Music by Michael Gore; Lyric by Dean Pitchford
• "Nine to Five" - Nine to Five - Music, Lyric by Dolly Parton
• "On the Road Again" - Honeysuckle Rose - Music, Lyric by Willie Nelson
• "Out Here On My Own" - Fame - Music by Michael Gore; Lyric by Lesley Gore
• "People Alone" - The Competition - Music by Lalo Schifrin; Lyric by Wilbur Jennings

ORIGINAL SCORE

• Altered States - John Corigliano
• The Elephant Man - John Morris
• The Empire Strikes Back - John Williams
• Fame - Michael Gore
• Tess - Philippe Sarde

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

CINEMATOGRAPHY

• The Blue Lagoon - Nestor Almendros
• Coal Miner's Daughter - Ralf D. Bode
• The Formula - James Crabe
• Raging Bull - Michael Chapman
• Tess - Geoffrey Unsworth, Ghislain Cloquet

ART DIRECTION

• Coal Miner's Daughter - Art Direction: John W. Corso; Set Decoration: John M. Dwyer
• The Elephant Man - Art Direction: Stuart Craig, Bob Cartwright; Set Decoration: Hugh Scaife
• The Empire Strikes Back - Art Direction: Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley, Harry Lange, Alan Tomkins; Set Decoration: Michael Ford
• Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior) - Yoshiro Muraki
• Tess - Art Direction: Pierre Guffroy, Jack Stephens

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

SOUND

• Altered States - Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Michael Minkler, Willie D. Burton
• Coal Miner's Daughter - Richard Portman, Roger Heman, Jim Alexander
• The Empire Strikes Back - Bill Varney, Steve Maslow, Gregg Landaker, Peter Sutton
• Fame - Michael J. Kohut, Aaron Rochin, Jay M. Harding, Chris Newman
• Raging Bull - Donald O. Mitchell, Bill Nicholson, David J. Kimball, Les Lazarowitz

VISUAL EFFECTS (Special Achievement Award)

• The Empire Strikes Back - Brian Johnson, Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Bruce Nicholson

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

• Confidence - Hungary
• Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior) - Japan
• The Last Metro - France
• Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
• The Nest - Spain

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, Arthur Cohn

DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject)

• Don't Mess with Bill - John Watson, Pen Densham
• The Eruption of Mount St. Helens - George Casey
• It's the Same World - Dick Young
• Karl Hess: Toward Liberty - Roland Hall, Peter W. Ladue
• Luther Metke at 94 - Richard Hawkins, Jorge Preloran

SHORT FILM (Animated)

• All Nothing - Frdric Back
• The Fly - Ferenc Rofusz
• History of the World in Three Minutes Flat - Michael Mills

SHORT FILM (Live Action)

• The Dollar Bottom - Lloyd Phillips
• Fall Line - Bob Carmichael, Greg Lowe
• A Jury of Her Peers - Sally Heckel

HONORARY AWARDS

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

MEDAL OF COMMENDATION

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

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE I (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. [Laboratory]

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE II (Plaque)

• 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. [Camera Cranes]
• To EDWARD B. KRAUSE of Filmline Corporation for the engineering and manufacture of the micro-demand drive for continuous motion picture film processors. [Laboratory]
• To DAVID A. GRAFTON for the optical design and engineering of a telecentric anamorphic lens for motion picture optical effects printers. [Lenses and Filters]
• To DR. BERNHARD KHL and DR. WERNER BLOCK of OSRAM GmbH, for the progressive engineering and manufacture of the OSRAM HMI light source for motion picture color photography. [Lighting]
• To ROSS TAYLOR for the concept and development of a system of air guns for propelling objects used in special effects motion picture production. [Stage Operations]

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE III (Certificate)

• To ANDR DEBRIE S.A. for the development of a continuous contact, total immersion, additive color motion picture printer. [Laboratory]
• To CARTER EQUIPMENT COMPANY for the development of a continuous contact, total immersion, additive color motion picture printer. [Laboratory]
• To HOLLYWOOD FILM COMPANY for the development of a continuous contact, total immersion, additive color motion picture printer. [Laboratory]
• 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. [Laboratory]
• 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. [Photography]
• To WORTH BAIRD of LaVezzi Machine Works, Incorporated, for the advanced design and manufacture of a film sprocket for motion picture projectors. [Projection]
• 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. [Systems]