38th Golden Globe Awards (1981)
Highlights of 38th Golden Globes Awards ceremony
The 38th Golden Globe Awards honored the best in film and television of 1980.
The award ceremony was held on 31st January 1981.
Ordinary People won the Best Motion Picture - Drama award.
Coal Miner's Daughter won the Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy award.
- WINNER
Best Motion Picture - Drama
Ordinary People
The Elephant Man
The Ninth Configuration
Raging Bull
The Stunt Man
Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
Ordinary People
- Mary Tyler Moore
Resurrection
- Ellen Burstyn
Gloria
- Gena Rowlands
Tess
- Nastassja Kinski
Touched by Love
- Deborah Raffin
Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Raging Bull
- Robert De Niro
The Elephant Man
- John Hurt
Tribute
- Jack Lemmon
The Stunt Man
- Peter O'Toole
Ordinary People
- Donald Sutherland
Best Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical
Coal Miner's Daughter
Airplane!
Fame
The Idolmaker
Melvin and Howard
Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical
Coal Miner's Daughter
- Sissy Spacek
Fame
- Irene Cara
Private Benjamin
- Goldie Hawn
Divine Madness!
- Bette Midler
Nine to Five
- Dolly Parton
Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical
The Idolmaker
- Ray Sharkey
The Jazz Singer
- Neil Diamond
Coal Miner's Daughter
- Tommy Lee Jones
Melvin and Howard
- Paul Le Mat
Hopscotch
- Walter Matthau
Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
Melvin and Howard
- Mary Steenburgen
The Jazz Singer
- Lucie Arnaz
Coal Miner's Daughter
- Beverly D'Angelo
Raging Bull
- Cathy Moriarty
Urban Cowboy
- Debra Winger
Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
Ordinary People
- Timothy Hutton
Ordinary People
- Judd Hirsch
Raging Bull
- Joe Pesci
Melvin and Howard
- Jason Robards
The Ninth Configuration
- Scott Wilson
Best Foreign Language Film
Tess
Breaker Morant
The Last Metro
The Shadow Warrior
My Brilliant Career
Special Treatment
Best Director - Motion Picture
Ordinary People
- Robert Redford
The Elephant Man
- David Lynch
Tess
- Roman Polanski
The Stunt Man
- Richard Rush
Raging Bull
- Martin Scorsese
Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
The Ninth Configuration
- William Peter Blatty
The Elephant Man
- Eric Bergren, Christopher De Vore
Ordinary People
- Alvin Sargent
Raging Bull
- Mardik Martin, Paul Schrader
Lawrence B. Marcus
- The Stunt Man
Best Original Score - Motion Picture
The Stunt Man
- Dominic Frontiere
American Gigolo
- Giorgio Moroder
The Competition
- Lalo Schifrin
Fame
- Michael Gore
Somewhere in Time
- John Barry
Star Wars Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
- John Williams
Best Original Song - Motion Picture
Fame
for "Fame"
Nine to Five
for "9 to 5"
American Gigolo
for "Call Me"
The Jazz Singer
for "Love on the Rocks"
Falling in Love Again
for "Yesterday's Dreams"
Best Television Series - Drama
Shogun
Dallas
Hart to Hart
Lou Grant
Vega$
The Scarlett O'Hara War
Best Actress in a Television Series - Drama
Shogun
- Yoko Shimada
Dallas
- Barbara Bel Geddes
Little House on the Prairie
- Melissa Gilbert
Dallas
- Linda Gray
Hart to Hart
- Stefanie Powers
Best Actor in a Television Series - Drama
Shogun
- Richard Chamberlain
Lou Grant
- Edward Asner
Dallas
- Larry Hagman
Vega$
- Robert Urich
Hart to Hart
- Robert Wagner
Best Television Series - Comedy Or Musical
Taxi
Alice
The Love Boat
M*A*S*H
Soap
Best Actress in a Television Series - Comedy Or Musical
Soap
- Katherine Helmond
WKRP in Cincinnati
- Loni Anderson
Flo
- Polly Holliday
Alice
- Linda Lavin
House Calls
- Lynn Redgrave
Best Actor in a Television Series - Comedy Or Musical
M*A*S*H
- Alan Alda
Taxi
- Judd Hirsch
Barney Miller
- Hal Linden
The Love Boat
- Gavin MacLeod
House Calls
- Wayne Rogers
Best Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made for Television
The Shadow Box
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd
Playing For Time
A Tale of Two Cities
Best Supporting Actress In A Mini-series or Motion Picture (TV)
One Day at a Time
- Valerie Bertinelli
Alice
- Diane Ladd
Taxi
- Marilu Henner
Alice
- Beth Howland
Lou Grant
- Linda Kelsey
Best Supporting Actor In A Mini-series or Motion Picture (TV)
Alice
- Vic Tayback
One Day at a Time
- Pat Harrington
Taxi
- Danny DeVito
Taxi
- Andy Kaufman
Flo
- Geoffrey Lewis