Academy Awards 1980 Nominations

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Best Picture	Best Director
Best Actor in a Leading Role	Best Actress in a Leading Role
Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen	Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
Best Foreign Language Film	Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary Short	Best Live Action Short Film
Best Animated Short Film	Best Original Score
Best Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score	Best Original Song
Best Sound	Best Art Direction
Best Cinematography	Best Costume Design
Best Film Editing	Best Visual Effects

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Best Picture

• All That Jazz
• Apocalypse Now
• Breaking Away
• Kramer vs. Kramer
• Norma Rae

Best Director

• All That Jazz (Bob Fosse)
• Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
• Breaking Away (Peter Yates)
• Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton)
• La cage aux folles (Édouard Molinaro)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

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

Best Actress in a Leading Role

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

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

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

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

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

Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

• All That Jazz
• And Justice for All
• Breaking Away
• Manhattan
• The China Syndrome

Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium

• A Little Romance
• Apocalypse Now
• Kramer vs. Kramer
• La cage aux folles
• Norma Rae

Best Foreign Language Film

• A Simple Story (France)
• Mama Turns 100 (Spain)
• The Maids of Wilko (Poland)
• The Tin Drum (West Germany)
• To Forget Venice (Italy)

Best Documentary Feature

• Best Boy
• Generation on the Wind
• Going the Distance
• The Killing Ground
• The War at Home

Best Documentary Short

• Dae
• Koryo Celadon
• Nails
• Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist
• Remember Me

Best Live Action Short Film

• Board and Care
• Bravery in the Field
• Oh Brother, My Brother
• Solly's Diner
• The Solar Film

Best Animated Short Film

• Dream Doll
• Every Child
• It's So Nice to Have a Wolf Around the House

Best Original Score

• 10
• A Little Romance
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture
• The Amityville Horror
• The Champ

Best Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score

• All That Jazz
• Breaking Away
• The Muppet Movie

Best Original Song

• 10 ("Song from 10 (It's Easy to Say)")
• Ice Castles ("Theme from Ice Castles (Through the Eyes of Love)")
• Norma Rae ("It Goes Like It Goes")
• The Muppet Movie ("The Rainbow Connection")
• The Promise ("Theme from The Promise (I'll Never Say 'Goodbye')")

Best Sound

• 1941
• Apocalypse Now
• Meteor
• The Electric Horseman
• The Rose

Best Art Direction

• Alien
• All That Jazz
• Apocalypse Now
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture
• The China Syndrome

Best Cinematography

• 1941
• All That Jazz
• Apocalypse Now
• Kramer vs. Kramer
• The Black Hole

Best Costume Design

• Agatha
• All That Jazz
• Butch and Sundance: The Early Days
• La cage aux folles
• The Europeans

Best Film Editing

• All That Jazz
• Apocalypse Now
• Kramer vs. Kramer
• The Black Stallion
• The Rose

Best Visual Effects

• 1941
• Alien
• Moonraker
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture
• The Black Hole