Academy Awards 1981 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 Dramatic Live Action Short Film
Best Animated Short Film	Best Original Score
Best Original Song	Best Sound
Best Art Direction	Best Cinematography
Best Costume Design	Best Film Editing

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Best Picture

• Coal Miner's Daughter
• Ordinary People
• Raging Bull
• Tess
• The Elephant Man

Best Director

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

Best Actor in a Leading Role

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

Best Actress in a Leading Role

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

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

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

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

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

Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

• Brubaker
• Fame
• Melvin and Howard
• My American Uncle
• Private Benjamin

Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium

• Breaker Morant
• Coal Miner's Daughter
• Ordinary People
• The Elephant Man
• The Stunt Man

Best Foreign Language Film

• Bizalom (Hungary)
• El nido (Spain)
• Kagemusha (Japan)
• Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (Russia)
• The Last Metro (France)

Best Documentary Feature

• Agee
• From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China
• Front Line
• The Day After Trinity
• The Yellow Star: The Persecution of the Jews in Europe - 1933-1945

Best Documentary Short

• Don't Mess with Bill
• It's the Same World
• Karl Hess: Toward Liberty
• Luther Metke at 94
• The Eruption of Mount St. Helens!

Best Dramatic Live Action Short Film

• A Jury of Her Peers
• Fall Line
• The Dollar Bottom

Best Animated Short Film

• History of the World in Three Minutes Flat
• The Fly
• Tout rien

Best Original Score

• Altered States
• Fame
• Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
• Tess
• The Elephant Man

Best Original Song

• 9 to 5 ("Nine to Five")
• Fame ("Fame")
• Fame ("Out Here on My Own")
• Honeysuckle Rose ("On the Road Again")
• The Competition ("People Alone")

Best Sound

• Altered States
• Coal Miner's Daughter
• Fame
• Raging Bull
• Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Best Art Direction

• Coal Miner's Daughter
• Kagemusha
• Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
• Tess
• The Elephant Man

Best Cinematography

• Coal Miner's Daughter
• Raging Bull
• Tess
• The Blue Lagoon
• The Formula

Best Costume Design

• My Brilliant Career
• Somewhere in Time
• Tess
• The Elephant Man
• When Time Ran Out...

Best Film Editing

• Coal Miner's Daughter
• Fame
• Raging Bull
• The Competition
• The Elephant Man