52nd Academy Awards
Held in 1980 · 18 categories
Best Picture
- Winner Kramer vs. Kramer
- Nominee All That Jazz
- Nominee Apocalypse Now
- Nominee Breaking Away
- Nominee Norma Rae
Best Actor
- Winner Kramer vs. Kramer · Dustin Hoffman
- Nominee ...And Justice for All · Al Pacino
- Nominee All That Jazz · Roy Scheider
- Nominee Being There · Peter Sellers
- Nominee The China Syndrome · Jack Lemmon
Best Actress
- Winner Norma Rae · Sally Field
- Nominee Chapter Two · Marsha Mason
- Nominee Starting Over · Jill Clayburgh
- Nominee The China Syndrome · Jane Fonda
- Nominee The Rose · Bette Midler
Best Supporting Actor
- Winner Being There · Melvyn Douglas
- Nominee Apocalypse Now · Robert Duvall
- Nominee Kramer vs. Kramer · Justin Henry
- Nominee The Black Stallion · Mickey Rooney
- Nominee The Rose · Frederic Forrest
Best Supporting Actress
- Winner Kramer vs. Kramer · Meryl Streep
- Nominee Breaking Away · Barbara Barrie
- Nominee Kramer vs. Kramer · Jane Alexander
- Nominee Manhattan · Mariel Hemingway
- Nominee Starting Over · Candice Bergen
Best Director
- Winner Kramer vs. Kramer · Robert Benton
- Nominee All That Jazz · Bob Fosse
- Nominee Apocalypse Now · Francis Ford Coppola
- Nominee Breaking Away · Peter Yates
- Nominee La Cage aux Folles · Édouard Molinaro
Best Original Screenplay
- Winner Breaking Away · Steve Tesich
- Nominee ...And Justice for All · Barry Levinson, Valerie Curtin
- Nominee All That Jazz · Bob Fosse, Robert Alan Aurthur
- Nominee Manhattan · Marshall Brickman, Woody Allen
- Nominee The China Syndrome · James Bridges, Mike Gray, T. S. Cook
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Winner Kramer vs. Kramer · Robert Benton
- Nominee A Little Romance · Allan Burns
- Nominee Apocalypse Now · Francis Ford Coppola, John Milius
- Nominee La Cage aux Folles · Francis Veber, Marcello Danon, Édouard Molinaro
- Nominee Norma Rae · Harriet Frank Jr., Irving Ravetch
Best International Feature Film
- Winner The Tin Drum
- Nominee A Simple Story
- Nominee Mamá cumple cien años
- Nominee The Maids of Wilko
- Nominee To Forget Venice
Best Documentary Feature
- Winner Best Boy · Ira Wohl
- Nominee Generation on the Wind · David Vassar
- Nominee Going the Distance · Jacques Bobet, Paul Cowan
- Nominee The Killing Ground · Steve Singer, Tom Priestley
- Nominee The War at Home · Barry Alexander Brown
Best Original Score
- Winner A Little Romance · Georges Delerue
- Winner All That Jazz · Ralph Burns
- Nominee 10 · Henry Mancini
- Nominee Breaking Away · Patrick Williams
- Nominee Star Trek: The Motion Picture · Jerry Goldsmith
- Nominee The Amityville Horror · Lalo Schifrin
- Nominee The Champ · Dave Grusin
- Nominee The Muppet Movie · Kenneth Ascher, Paul Williams
Best Original Song
- Winner It Goes Like It Goes from Norma Rae · David Shire, Norman Gimbel
- Nominee I'll Never Say Goodbye from The Promise · David Shire
- Nominee It's Easy To Say from 10 · Henry Mancini, Robert Wells
- Nominee Rainbow Connection from The Muppet Movie · Kenneth Ascher, Paul Williams
- Nominee Through the Eyes of Love from Ice Castles · Carole Bayer Sager, Marvin Hamlisch
Best Cinematography
- Winner Apocalypse Now · Vittorio Storaro
- Nominee 1941 · William A. Fraker
- Nominee All That Jazz · Giuseppe Rotunno
- Nominee Kramer vs. Kramer · Néstor Almendros
- Nominee The Black Hole · Frank V. Phillips
Best Film Editing
- Winner All That Jazz · Alan Heim
- Nominee Apocalypse Now · Gerald B. Greenberg, Lisa Fruchtman, Richard Marks, Walter Murch
- Nominee Kramer vs. Kramer · Gerald B. Greenberg
- Nominee The Black Stallion · Robert Dalva
- Nominee The Rose · Carroll Timothy O'Meara, Robert L. Wolfe
Best Production Design
- Winner All That Jazz · Edward Stewart, Gary J. Brink, Philip Rosenberg, Tony Walton
- Nominee Alien · Ian Whittaker, Leslie Dilley, Michael Seymour, Roger Christian
- Nominee Apocalypse Now · Angelo P. Graham, Dean Tavoularis, George R. Nelson
- Nominee Star Trek: The Motion Picture · Harold Michelson, John Vallone, Joseph R. Jennings, Leon Harris, Linda DeScenna
- Nominee The China Syndrome · Arthur Jeph Parker, George C. Jenkins
Best Costume Design
- Winner All That Jazz · Albert Wolsky
- Nominee Agatha · Shirley Ann Russell
- Nominee Butch and Sundance: The Early Days · William Ware Theiss
- Nominee La Cage aux Folles · Ambra Danon, Piero Tosi
- Nominee The Europeans · Judy Moorcroft
Best Sound
- Winner Apocalypse Now · Mark Berger, Nat Boxer, Richard Beggs, Walter Murch
- Nominee 1941 · Don MacDougall, Gene Cantamessa, Robert Glass, Robert Knudson
- Nominee Meteor · Aaron Rochin, Jack Solomon, Michael J. Kohut, William McCaughey
- Nominee The Electric Horseman · Al Overton, Jr., Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Michael Minkler
- Nominee The Rose · Douglas Williams, Jim Webb, Paul Wells, Theodore Soderberg
Best Visual Effects
- Winner Alien · Brian Johnson, Carlo Rambaldi, Dennis Ayling, H. R. Giger, Nick Allder
- Nominee 1941 · A. D. Flowers, Greg Jein, William A. Fraker
- Nominee Moonraker · Derek Meddings, John Evans, Paul Wilson
- Nominee Star Trek: The Motion Picture · David K. Stewart, Douglas Trumbull, Grant McCune, John Dykstra, Richard Yuricich, Robert Swarthe
- Nominee The Black Hole · Art Cruickshank, Danny Lee, Eustace Lycett, Harrison Ellenshaw, Joe Hale, Peter Ellenshaw