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53rd Academy Awards

Date

Tuesday, March 31, 1981

Site

Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles

Host

Producer

Director

Highlights

Ordinary People

Most awards

Ordinary People (4)

Most nominations

The Elephant Man and Raging Bull (8)

TV in the United States

Network

ABC

Duration

3 hours, 13 minutes

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The 53rd Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1980, were presented March 31, 1981, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies, which were presided over by Johnny Carson, were originally scheduled for the previous day but were postponed due to the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan.

David Lynch's The Elephant Man and Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull, with 8 nominations each, had the most nominations of this year's films. Their nominations included Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director. Michael Apted's Coal Miner's Daughter received 7 nominations while Ordinary People and The Stunt Man were also nominated.

The year's winner of acting categories also marked as the closest span ever between the four winners, all of whom were under 40 when they won the award. Robert De Niro was aged 37 when awarded Best Actor, Sissy Spacek was aged 31 when awarded Best Actress, Timothy Hutton was aged 20 when awarded Best Supporting Actor, and Mary Steenburgen was aged 28 when awarded Best Supporting Actress. In addition, Hutton was the youngest ever Best Supporting Actor winner.

Best Supporting Actress nominee Eva Le Gallienne was born in 1899, which made her the last acting nomination to ever happen at the Oscars for someone born in the 19th century.

Contents

1 Awards
2 See also
3 References

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.^[1]

Best Picture	Best Director
Ordinary People Coal Miner's Daughter The Elephant Man Raging Bull Tess	Robert Redford – Ordinary People David Lynch – The Elephant Man Martin Scorsese – Raging Bull Richard Rush – The Stunt Man Roman Polanski – Tess
Best Actor	Best Actress
Robert De Niro – Raging Bull Robert Duvall – The Great Santini John Hurt – The Elephant Man Jack Lemmon – Tribute Peter O'Toole – The Stunt Man	Sissy Spacek – Coal Miner's Daughter Ellen Burstyn – Resurrection Goldie Hawn – Private Benjamin Mary Tyler Moore – Ordinary People Gena Rowlands – Gloria
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Timothy Hutton – Ordinary People Judd Hirsch – Ordinary People Jason Robards - Melvin and Howard Michael O'Keefe – The Great Santini Joe Pesci – Raging Bull	Mary Steenburgen – Melvin and Howard Eileen Brennan – Private Benjamin Eva Le Gallienne – Resurrection Cathy Moriarty – Raging Bull Diana Scarwid – Inside Moves
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
Melvin and Howard – Bo Goldman Brubaker – Screenplay by W. D. Richter; Story by W. D. Richter and Arthur Ross Fame – Christopher Gore Mon Oncle D'Amerique – Jean Gruault Private Benjamin – Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer and Harvey Miller	Ordinary People – Alvin Sargent Breaker Morant – Jonathan Hardy, David Stevens and Bruce Beresford Coal Miner's Daughter – Tom Rickman The Elephant Man – Christopher DeVore, Eric Bergren and David Lynch The Stunt Man – Screenplay by Lawrence B. Marcus; Adaptation by Richard Rush
Best Foreign Language Film	Best Film Editing
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) Confidence (Hungary) Kagemusha (Japan) The Last Metro (France) The Nest (Spain)	Raging Bull – Thelma Schoonmaker Coal Miner's Daughter – Arthur Schmidt The Competition – David Blewitt The Elephant Man – Anne V. Coates Fame – Gerry Hambling
Best Documentary Feature	Best Documentary Short
From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China – Murray Lerner Agee – Ross Spears The Day After Trinity – Jon H. Else Front Line – David Bradbury The Yellow Star – The Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933-45 – Bengt von zur Muehlen and Arthur Cohn	Karl Hess: Toward Liberty – Roland Hallé and Peter W. Ladue Don't Mess with Bill – John Watson and Pen Densham The Eruption of Mount St. Helens – George Casey It's the Same World – Dick Young Luther Metke at 94 – Richard Hawkins and Jorge Preloran
Best Live Action Short	Best Animated Short
The Dollar Bottom – Lloyd Phillips Fall Line – Bob Carmichael and Greg Lowe A Jury of Her Peers – Sally Heckel	The Fly – Ferenc Rofusz All Nothing – Frédéric Back History of the World in Three Minutes Flat – Michael Mills
Best Original Score	Best Original Song
Fame – Michael Gore Altered States – John Corigliano The Elephant Man – John Morris The Empire Strikes Back – John Williams Tess – Philippe Sarde	*"Fame" from Fame* – Music by Michael Gore, Lyric by Dean Pitchford** "9 to 5" from 9 to 5 – Music and Lyric by Dolly Parton "On the Road Again" from Honeysuckle Rose – Music and Lyric by Willie Nelson "Out Here on My Own" from Fame – Music by Michael Gore; Lyric by Lesley Gore "People Alone" from The Competition – Music by Lalo Schifrin; Lyric by Wilbur Jennings
Best Art Direction	Best Cinematography
Tess – Art Direction and Set Decoration: Pierre Guffroy and Jack Stephens Coal Miner's Daughter – Art Direction: John W. Corso; Set Decoration: John M. Dwyer The Elephant Man – Art Direction: Stuart Craig and Bob Cartwright; Set Decoration: Hugh Scaife The Empire Strikes Back – Art Direction: Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley, Harry Lange and Alan Tomkins; Set Decoration: Michael Ford Kagemusha – Art Direction and Set Decoration: Yoshirō Muraki	Tess – Geoffrey Unsworth and Ghislain Cloquet The Blue Lagoon – Nestor Almendros Coal Miner's Daughter – Ralf D. Bode The Formula – James Crabe Raging Bull – Michael Chapman
Best Costume Design	Best Sound
Tess – Anthony Powell The Elephant Man – Patricia Norris My Brilliant Career – Anna Senior Somewhere in Time – Jean-Pierre Dorleac When Time Ran Out – Paul Zastupnevich	The Empire Strikes Back – Bill Varney, Steve Maslow, Gregg Landaker and Peter Sutton Altered States – Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Michael Minkler and Willie D. Burton Coal Miner's Daughter – Richard Portman, Roger Heman and James R. Alexander Fame – Michael J. Kohut, Aaron Rochin, Jay M. Harding and Christopher Newman Raging Bull – Donald O. Mitchell, Bill Nicholson, David J. Kimball and Les Lazarowitz

Academy Honorary Award

Henry Fonda

Special Achievement Award

The Empire Strikes Back (Brian Johnson, Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren and Bruce Nicholson)

Presenters

Alan Arkin and Margot Kidder (Presenters: Short Subjects Awards)
George Cukor and King Vidor (Presenters: Best Director)
Blythe Danner and Steve Martin (Presenters: Best Cinematography)
Angie Dickinson and Luciano Pavarotti (Presenters: Best Original Song)
Sally Field (Presenter: Best Actor)
Lillian Gish (Presenter: Best Picture)
Dustin Hoffman (Presenter: Best Actress)
Nastassja Kinski and Sigourney Weaver (Presenters: Best Costume Design)
Jack Lemmon and Mary Tyler Moore (Presenters: Best Supporting Actor)
The Nicholas Brothers (Presenters: Best Original Score)
Peter O'Toole and Sissy Spacek (Presenters: Best Art Direction)
Bernadette Peters and Billy Dee Williams (Presenter: Best Sound)
Richard Pryor and Jane Seymour (Presenters: Best Film Editing)
Robert Redford (Presenter: Honorary Award to Henry Fonda)
Diana Ross and Donald Sutherland (Presenters: Best Supporting Actress)
Brooke Shields and Franco Zeffirelli (Presenters: Best Foreign Language Film)
Peter Ustinov (Presenters: Writing Awards)
Jack Valenti (Presenter: Best Visual Effects)
Lily Tomlin (Presenter: Medal of Commendation)
Lesley-Anne Down and Richard Chamberlain (Presenters: Documentary Awards)

Performers

Lucie Arnaz ("Hooray for Hollywood")
Irene Cara ("Fame" and "Out Here On My Own" from Fame)
Willie Nelson ("On the Road Again" from Honeysuckle Rose)
Dolly Parton ("9 to 5" from Nine to Five)
Dionne Warwick ("People Alone" from The Competition)

Multiple nominations and awards

These films had multiple nominations:

8 nominations: The Elephant Man, Raging Bull
7 nominations: Coal Miner's Daughter
6 nominations: Fame, Ordinary People, Tess
3 nominations: The Empire Strikes Back, Melvin and Howard, Private Benjamin, The Stunt Man
2 nominations: Altered States, The Competition, The Great Santini, Kagemusha, Resurrection

The following films received multiple awards.

4 wins: Ordinary People
3 wins: Tess
2 wins: Fame, Melvin and Howard, Raging Bull

Academy Award portal

References

^ "The 53rd Academy Awards (1981) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/53rd-winners.html. Retrieved 2011-10-07.

"The Official Academy Awards Database". awardsdatabase.oscars.org. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/BasicSearchInput.jsp. Retrieved September 9, 2009.

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Merit awards	Best Picture Best Director Best Leading Actor Best Leading Actress Best Adapted Screenplay Best Original Screenplay Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress Best Animated Feature Best Art Direction Best Cinematography Best Costume Design Best Documentary Feature Best Documentary Short Subject Best Film Editing Best Foreign Language Film (Winners and nominees) Best Makeup Best Original Score Best Original Song Best Animated Short Film Best Live Action Short Film Best Sound Mixing Best Sound Editing Best Visual Effects

Special awards	Academy Honorary Award Special Achievement Academy Award Academy Scientific and Technical Award Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Gordon E. Sawyer Award

Retired awards	Best Assistant Director Best Dance Direction Best Director of a Comedy Picture Best Engineering Effects Best Short Subject, Two-reel Best Short Subject, Color Best Short Subject, Novelty Best Original Musical Best Original Story Best Title Writing Best Unique and Artistic Quality of Production Academy Juvenile Award

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