Academy Award for Best Director 1980
52nd Academy Awards · held April 14, 1980 · 5 nominees
- Winner Robert Benton · Kramer vs. Kramer
- Nominee Bob Fosse · All That Jazz
- Nominee Francis Ford Coppola · Apocalypse Now
- Nominee Peter Yates · Breaking Away
- Nominee Édouard Molinaro · La Cage aux Folles