52nd Academy Awards (1980)
Highlights of 52nd Academy Awards ceremony
The 52nd Academy Awards honored the best films of 1979.
The award ceremony was held on 14th April 1980 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California.
Anchor(s) - Johnny Carson
Kramer Vs Kramer won the Best Picture award.
Dustin Hoffman won the Best Actor award for his role in Kramer Vs Kramer.
Norma Rae won the Best Actess award for her role in Sally Field.
Robert Benton won the Best Director award for Kramer Vs Kramer.
- WINNER
Best Picture
Kramer vs. Kramer
All That Jazz
Apocalypse Now
Breaking Away
Norma Rae
Best Director
Kramer vs. Kramer
- Robert Benton
All That Jazz
- Bob Fosse
Apocalypse Now
- Francis Ford Coppola
Breaking Away
- Peter Yates
La Cage Aux Folles
- Edouard Molinaro
Best Original Screenplay
Breaking Away
- Steve Tesich
And Justice for All
- Valerie Curtin, Barry Levinson
All That Jazz
- Robert Alan Aurthur, Bob Fosse
The China Syndrome
- Mike Gray, T. S. Cook, James Bridges
Manhattan
- Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
Best Adapted Screenplay
Kramer vs. Kramer
- Robert Benton
Apocalypse Now
- Francis Ford Coppola, John Milius
La Cage Aux Folles
- Francis Veber, Edouard Molinaro, Marcello Danon, Jean Poiret
A Little Romance
- Allan Burns
Norma Rae
- Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr.
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Kramer vs. Kramer
- Dustin Hoffman
And Justice for All
- Al Pacino
All That Jazz
- Roy Scheider
Being There
- Peter Sellers
The China Syndrome
- Jack Lemmon
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Norma Rae
- Sally Field
Chapter Two
- Marsha Mason
The China Syndrome
- Jane Fonda
The Rose
- Bette Midler
Starting Over
- Jill Clayburgh
Best Supporting Actor
Being There
- Melvyn Douglas
Apocalypse Now
- Robert Duvall
The Black Stallion
- Mickey Rooney
Kramer vs. Kramer
- Justin Henry
The Rose
- Frederic Forrest
Best Supporting Actress
Kramer vs. Kramer
- Meryl Streep
Breaking Away
- Barbara Barrie
Kramer vs. Kramer
- Jane Alexander
Manhattan
- Mariel Hemingway
Starting Over
- Candice Bergen
Best Art Direction
All That Jazz
- Philip Rosenberg, Tony Walton, Edward Stewart, Gary J. Brink
Best Cinematography
Apocalypse Now
- Vittorio Storaro
Best Original Song
Norma Rae
- David Shire, Norman Gimbel
for "It Goes Like It Goes"
Best Original Score
A Little Romance
- Georges Delerue
Best Sound Editing
Apocalypse Now
- Walter Murch, Mark Berger, Richard Beggs, Nathan Boxer
Best Visual Effects
Alien
- H. R. Giger, Carlo Rambaldi, Brian Johnson, Denys Ayling, Nick Allder
Best Costume Design
All That Jazz
- Albert Wolsky
Best Animated Short Film
Every Child
Best Documentary Feature
Best Boy
Best Documentary Short Subject
Paul Robeson - Tribute to an Artist
Best Foreign Language Film
The Tin Drum
Best Live Action Short Film
Board and Care
Best Film Editing
All That Jazz
- Alan Heim
Best Original Musical or Comedy Score
All That Jazz
- Ralph Burns