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53rd Academy Awards

Held in 1981 · 17 categories

Best Picture

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

Best Actor

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

Best Actress

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

Best Supporting Actor

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

Best Supporting Actress

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

Best Director

Best Original Screenplay

Winner Melvin and Howard · Bo Goldman
Nominee Brubaker · Arthur A. Ross, W. D. Richter
Nominee Fame · Christopher Gore
Nominee My American Uncle · Jean Gruault
Nominee Private Benjamin · Charles Shyer, Harvey Miller, Nancy Meyers

Best Adapted Screenplay

Winner Ordinary People · Alvin Sargent
Nominee Breaker Morant · Bruce Beresford, David Stevens, Jonathan Hardy
Nominee Coal Miner's Daughter · Thomas Rickman
Nominee The Elephant Man · Christopher De Vore, David Lynch, Eric Bergren
Nominee The Stunt Man · Lawrence B. Marcus, Richard Rush

Best International Feature Film

Best Documentary Feature

Winner From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China · Murray Lerner
Nominee Agee
Nominee Front Line · David Bradbury
Nominee The Day After Trinity · Jon H. Else
Nominee The Yellow Star: The Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933–45 · Arthur Cohn

Best Original Score

Nominee Altered States · John Corigliano
Nominee Fame · Michael Gore
Nominee Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back · John Williams
Nominee Tess · Philippe Sarde
Nominee The Elephant Man · John Morris

Best Original Song

Winner Fame from Fame · Dean Pitchford
Nominee 9 to 5 from 9 to 5 · Dolly Parton
Nominee On the Road Again from Honeysuckle Rose · Willie Nelson
Nominee Out Here on My Own from Fame · Lesley Gore, Michael Gore
Nominee People Alone from The Competition · Lalo Schifrin, Will Jennings

Best Cinematography

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

Best Film Editing

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

Best Production Design

Winner Tess · Jack Stephens, Pierre Guffroy
Nominee Coal Miner's Daughter · John M. Dwyer, John W. Corso
Nominee Kagemusha · Yoshirō Muraki
Nominee Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back · Alan Tomkins, Harry Lange, Leslie Dilley, Michael D. Ford, Norman Reynolds
Nominee The Elephant Man · Hugh Scaife, Robert Cartwright, Stuart Craig

Best Costume Design

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

Best Sound

Winner Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back · Bill Varney, Gregg Landaker, Peter Sutton, Steve Maslow
Nominee Altered States · Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Michael Minkler, Willie D. Burton
Nominee Coal Miner's Daughter · James R. Alexander, Richard Portman, Roger Heman
Nominee Fame · Aaron Rochin, Chris Newman, Jay M. Harding, Michael J. Kohut
Nominee Raging Bull · David J. Kimball, Donald O. Mitchell, Les Lazarowitz, William "Bill" Nicholson