1980 (53rd Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1980 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Best Picture

Ordinary People, Wildwood Enterprises Inc. Production; Paramount. Ronald L. Schwary, Producer.

Actor in a Leading Role

Robert De Niro in Raging Bull, Robert Chartoff-Irwin Winkler Production; United Artists.

Actress in a Leading Role

Sissy Spacek in Coal Miner’s Daughter, Bernard Schwartz-Universal Pictures Production; Universal.

Actor in a Supporting Role

Timothy Hutton in Ordinary People, Wildwood Enterprises Inc. Production; Paramount.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Mary Steenburgen in Melvin and Howard, Linson/Phillips/Demme-Universal Pictures Production; Universal.

Directing

Ordinary People, Wildwood Enterprises Inc. Production; Paramount. Robert Redford.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

Tess, Renn-Burrill Co-production with the participation of the Societe Francaise de Production (S.F.P.); Columbia. (UK, France) Pierre Guffroy and Jack Stephens.

Cinematography

Tess, Renn-Burrill Co-production with the participation of the Societe Francaise de Production (S.F.P.); Columbia. (UK, France) Geoffrey Unsworth and Ghislain Cloquet.

Costume Design

Tess, Renn-Burrill Co-production with the participation of the Societe Francaise de Production (S.F.P.); Columbia. (UK, France) Anthony Powell.

Documentary

(Feature)

From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China, The Hopewell Foundation. Murray Lerner, Producer.

(Short Subject)

Karl Hess: Toward Liberty, Hallé/Ladue, Incorporated. Roland Hallé and Peter W. Ladue, Producers.

Film Editing

Raging Bull, Robert Chartoff-Irwin Winkler Production; United Artists. Thelma Schoonmaker.

Foreign Language Film

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears, Mosfilm Studios Production. (Soviet Union)

Music

(Original Score)

Fame, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Michael Gore.

(Original Song)

Fame from Fame, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Music by Michael Gore; lyric by Dean Pitchford.

Short Films

(Animated)

The Fly, Pannonia Film, Budapest. (Hungary) Ferenc Rofusz, Producer.

(Dramatic Live Action)

The Dollar Bottom, Rocking Horse Films Limited; Paramount. (UK) Lloyd Phillips, Producer.

Sound

The Empire Strikes Back, Lucasfilm, Ltd. Production; 20th Century-Fox. Bill Varney, Steve Maslow, Gregg Landaker and Peter Sutton.

Special Achievement Award

(Visual Effects)

The Empire Strikes Back, Lucasfilm, Ltd. Production; 20th Century-Fox. Brian Johnson, Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren and Bruce Nicholson.

Writing

(Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium)

Ordinary People, Wildwood Enterprises Inc. Production; Paramount. Alvin Sargent.

(Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)

Melvin and Howard, Linson/Phillips/Demme-Universal Pictures Production; Universal. Bo Goldman.

Honorary Award

To Henry Fonda, the consummate actor, in recognition of his brilliant accomplishments and enduring contribution to the art of motion pictures. [ [Statuette]]

To Fred Hynes, in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. [ [Medal of Commendation]]

Scientific or Technical Award

(Academy Award of Merit)

To Linwood G. Dunn, Cecil D. Love and Acme Tool and Manufacturing Company for the concept, engineering and development of the Acme-Dunn Optical Printer for motion picture special effects.

(Scientific and Engineering Award)

To Jean-Marie Lavalou, Alain Masseron and David Samuelson of Samuelson Alga Cinema S.A. and Samuelson Film Service, Limited, for the engineering and development of the Louma Camera Crane and remote control system for motion picture production.

To Edward B. Krause of Filmline Corporation for the engineering and manufacture of the micro-demand drive for continuous motion picture film processors.

To Ross Taylor for the concept and development of a system of air guns for propelling objects used in special effects motion picture production.

To Dr. Bernhard Kühl and Dr. Werner Block of OSRAM GmbH, for the progressive engineering and manufacture of the OSRAM HMI light source for motion picture color photography.

To David A. Grafton for the optical design and engineering of a telecentric anamorphic lens for motion picture optical effects printers.

(Technical Achievement Award)

To Carter Equipment Company for the development of a continuous contact, total immersion, additive color motion picture printer.

To Hollywood Film Company for the development of a continuous contact, total immersion, additive color motion picture printer.

To André DeBrie S.A. for the development of a continuous contact, total immersion, additive color motion picture printer.

To Charles Vaughn and Eugene Nottingham of Cinetron Computer Systems, Incorporated, for the development of a versatile general purpose computer system for animation and optical effects motion picture photography.

To John W. Lang, Walter Hrastnik and Charles J. Watson of Bell and Howell Company for the development and manufacture of a modular continuous contact motion picture film printer.

To Worth Baird of LaVezzi Machine Works, Incorporated, for the advanced design and manufacture of a film sprocket for motion picture projectors.

To Peter A. Regla and Dan Slater of Elicon for the development of a follow-focus system for motion picture optical effects printers and animation stands.