Winner 53rd Academy Awards
The 1980 file: winners first, ballot trails on demand, and the films that shaped the ceremony.
Year
1980
Nominations
112
Categories Decided
All 26
Top Winner
Ordinary People
Ceremony at a glance
Best Picture went to Ordinary People. The winning leader is Ordinary People with 4 wins. The most nominated title is Raging Bull with 8 nominations. 36 winners named across 26 categories.
Most awarded titles
- Ordinary People 4 wins6 nominations
- Tess 3 wins6 nominations
- Raging Bull 2 wins8 nominations
- Fame 2 wins6 nominations
- The Empire Strikes Back 2 wins4 nominations
Best Picture Nominees
The major races
The 1980 ceremony centers on Ordinary People. Picture, Director, Actor and Actress: 4 of 4 decided, 20 nominees in all.
Best Picture Winner
- Coal Miner's Daughter Bernard Schwartz
- Raging Bull Irwin Winkler | Robert Chartoff
- Tess Claude Berri | Timothy Burrill
- The Elephant Man Jonathan Sanger
Best Director Winner
Best Actor Winner
Best Actress Winner
Complete Ceremony Ledger
Every winner and nominee in every category, with film, person and review links.
20 categories112 records36 winners
1 winner5 records
Winner
Ordinary People
Credit: Ronald L. Schwary
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Tess
Credit: Claude BerriTimothy Burrill
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The Elephant Man
Credit: Jonathan Sanger
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Ordinary People
Credit: Robert Redford
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Raging Bull
Credit: Martin Scorsese
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Tess
Credit: Roman Polanski
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The Elephant Man
Credit: David Lynch
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The Stunt Man
Credit: Richard Rush
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Melvin and Howard
Credit: Bo Goldman
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Brubaker
Credit: W. D. RichterArthur Ross
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Fame
Credit: Christopher Gore
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Mon Oncle D'Amerique
Credit: Jean Gruault
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Ordinary People
Credit: Alvin Sargent
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Coal Miner's Daughter
Credit: Tom Rickman
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Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
Credit: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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Confidence
Credit: Hungary
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Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior)
Credit: Japan
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The Last Metro
Credit: France
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The Nest
Credit: Spain
1 winner5 records
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Fame
Credit: Michael Gore
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Altered States
Credit: John Corigliano
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Tess
Credit: Philippe Sarde
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The Elephant Man
Credit: John Morris
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The Empire Strikes Back
Credit: John Williams
1 winner5 records
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Tess
Credit: Anthony Powell
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My Brilliant Career
Credit: Anna Senior
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Somewhere in Time
Credit: Jean-Pierre Dorleac
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The Elephant Man
Credit: Patricia Norris
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When Time Ran Out
Credit: Paul Zastupnevich
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Coal Miner's Daughter
Credit: Ralf D. Bode
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Raging Bull
Credit: Michael Chapman
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The Blue Lagoon
Credit: Nestor Almendros
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The Formula
Credit: James Crabe
1 winner5 records
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Raging Bull
Credit: Thelma Schoonmaker
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Coal Miner's Daughter
Credit: Arthur Schmidt
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Fame
Credit: Gerry Hambling
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The Competition
Credit: David Blewitt
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The Elephant Man
Credit: Anne V. Coates
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Agee
Credit: Ross Spears
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Front Line
Credit: David Bradbury
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The Day after Trinity
Credit: Jon Else
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1 winner3 records
1 winner3 records
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The Dollar Bottom
Credit: Lloyd Phillips
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A Jury of Her Peers
Credit: Sally Heckel
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Fall Line
Credit: Bob CarmichaelGreg Lowe
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Ceremony Highlights
Categories in this ceremony
Best Actor
Best Supporting Actor
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actress
ART DIRECTION
Best Picture
CINEMATOGRAPHY
COSTUME DESIGN
Best Director
DOCUMENTARY (Feature)
DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject)
FILM EDITING
HONORARY AWARD
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
MEDAL OF COMMENDATION
MUSIC (Original Score)
MUSIC (Original Song)
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Academy Award of Merit)
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Scientific and Engineering Award)
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
SHORT FILM (Animated)
SHORT FILM (Live Action)
SOUND MIXING
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (Visual Effects)
WRITING (Adapted Screenplay)
WRITING (Original Screenplay)
Winner Circle
Ordinary People
Robert Redford
Sissy Spacek
Robert De Niro
Mary Steenburgen
Timothy Hutton
Melvin and Howard
Ordinary People
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
Fame
Fame
Anthony Powell
Geoffrey Unsworth, Ghislain Cloquet
Thelma Schoonmaker
Art Direction: Pierre Guffroy, Jack Stephens
Murray Lerner, Producer
Roland Hallé and Peter W. Ladue, Producers
Henry Fonda
MEDAL OF COMMENDATION
Fred Hynes
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Academy Award of Merit)
Linwood G. Dunn, Cecil D. Love and Acme Tool And Manufacturing Company
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Scientific and Engineering Award)
David A. Grafton
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Scientific and Engineering Award)
DR. BERNHARD KÜHL and WERNER BLOCK
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Scientific and Engineering Award)
EDWARD B. KRAUSE
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Scientific and Engineering Award)
JEAN-MARIE LAVALOU, ALAIN MASSERON, DAVID SAMUELSON and Samuelson Film Service Limited
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Scientific and Engineering Award)
Ross Taylor
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
ANDRÉ DeBRIE
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
Carter Equipment Company
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
CHARLES VAUGHN and EUGENE NOTTINGHAM
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
Hollywood Film Company
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
John W. Lang, WALTER HRASTNIK and CHARLES J. WATSON
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
PETER A. REGLA and DAN SLATER
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
WORTH BAIRD
Ferenc Rofusz, Producer
Lloyd Phillips, Producer
Bill Varney, Steve Maslow, Gregg Landaker, Peter Sutton
Brian Johnson, Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Bruce Nicholson
Sortable ledger
Every nomination from this ceremony as a sortable table, for research that needs the raw record beside the posters and winners above.