53rd Academy Awards (1981)

Best Picture

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

Best Director

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

Best Original Screenplay

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

Best Adapted Screenplay

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

Best Actor in a Leading Role

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

Best Actress in a Leading Role

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

Best Supporting Actor

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

Best Supporting Actress

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

Best Art Direction

Tess - Pierre Guffroy, Jack Stephens
Coal Miner's Daughter - John W. Corso, John M. Dwyer
The Elephant Man - Stuart Craig, Bob Cartwright, Hugh Scaife
The Empire Strikes Back - Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley, Harry Lange, Alan Tomkins, Michael Ford
Kagemusha - Yoshiro Muraki

Best Cinematography

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

Best Original Song

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

Best Original Score

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

Best Sound Mixing

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

Best Costume Design

Tess - Anthony Powell
The Elephant Man - Patricia Norris
My Brilliant Career - Anna Senior
Somewhere in Time - Jean-Pierre Dorleac
When Time Ran Out - Paul Zastupnevich

Best Animated Short Film

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

Best Documentary Feature

From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China - Murray Lerner
Agee - Ross Spears
The Day After Trinity - Jon Else
Front Line - David Bradbury
The Yellow Star - The Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933-45 - Bengt von zur Muehlen, Arthur Cohn

Best Documentary Short Subject

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

Best Foreign Language Film

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
Confidence
Kagemusha
The Last Metro
The Nest

Academy Honorary Award

Henry Fonda

Best Live Action Short Film

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

Best Film Editing

Raging Bull - Thelma Schoonmaker
Coal Miner's Daughter - Arthur Schmidt
The Competition - David Blewitt
The Elephant Man - Anne V. Coates
Fame - Gerry Hambling