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The 53rd ACADEMY AWARDS: 1980
The Dollar Bottom
- Winner: SHORT FILM (Dramatic Live Action) -- Lloyd Phillips, Producer
The Elephant Man
- ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE -- John Hurt {"John Merrick"}
- ART DIRECTION -- Art Direction: Stuart Craig, Bob Cartwright; Set Decoration: Hugh Scaife
- COSTUME DESIGN -- Patricia Norris
- DIRECTING -- David Lynch
- FILM EDITING -- Anne V. Coates
- MUSIC (Original Score) -- John Morris
- BEST PICTURE -- Jonathan Sanger, Producer
- WRITING (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) -- Christopher DeVore, Eric Bergren, David Lynch
Ordinary People
- ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Judd Hirsch {"Dr. Berger"}
- Winner: ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Timothy Hutton {"Conrad Jarrett"}
- ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE -- Mary Tyler Moore {"Beth Jarrett"}
- Winner: DIRECTING -- Robert Redford
- Winner: BEST PICTURE -- Ronald L. Schwary, Producer
- Winner: WRITING (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) -- Alvin Sargent
The 54th ACADEMY AWARDS: 1981
Atlantic City
- ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE -- Burt Lancaster {"Lou"}
- ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE -- Susan Sarandon {"Sally"}
- DIRECTING -- Louis Malle
- BEST PICTURE -- Denis Heroux and John Kemeny, Producers
- WRITING (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) -- John Guare
Dragonslayer
- MUSIC (Original Score) -- Alex North
- VISUAL EFFECTS -- Dennis Muren, Phil Tippett, Ken Ralston, Brian Johnson
Ragtime
- ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Howard E. Rollins, Jr. {"Coalhouse Walker, Jr."}
- ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Elizabeth McGovern {"Evelyn Nesbit"}
- ART DIRECTION -- Art Direction: John Graysmark, Patrizia Von Brandenstein, Anthony Reading; Set Decoration: George de Titta, Sr., George de Titta, Jr., Peter Howitt
- CINEMATOGRAPHY -- Miroslav Ondricek
- COSTUME DESIGN -- Anna Hill Johnstone
- MUSIC (Original Score) -- Randy Newman
- MUSIC (Original Song) -- "One More Hour," Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
- WRITING (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) -- Michael Weller
Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Winner: ART DIRECTION -- Art Direction: Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley; Set Decoration: Michael Ford
- CINEMATOGRAPHY -- Douglas Slocombe
- DIRECTING -- Steven Spielberg
- Winner: FILM EDITING -- Michael Kahn
- MUSIC (Original Score) -- John Williams
- BEST PICTURE -- Frank Marshall, Producer
- Winner: SOUND -- Bill Varney, Steve Maslow, Gregg Landaker, Roy Charman
- Winner: VISUAL EFFECTS -- Richard Edlund, Kit West, Bruce Nicholson, Joe Johnston
- Winner: SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (Sound Effects Editing) -- Ben Burtt, Richard L. Anderson
Reds
- ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE -- Warren Beatty {"John 'Jack' Reed"}
- ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Jack Nicholson {"Eugene O'Neill"}
- ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE -- Diane Keaton {"Louise Bryant"}
- Winner: ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Maureen Stapleton {"Emma Goldman"}
- ART DIRECTION -- Art Direction: Richard Sylbert; Set Decoration: Michael Seirton
- Winner: CINEMATOGRAPHY -- Vittorio Storaro
- COSTUME DESIGN -- Shirley Russell
- Winner: DIRECTING -- Warren Beatty
- FILM EDITING -- Dede Allen, Craig McKay
- BEST PICTURE -- Warren Beatty, Producer
- SOUND -- Dick Vorisek, Tom Fleischman, Simon Kaye
- WRITING (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) -- Warren Beatty, Trevor Griffiths
The 55th ACADEMY AWARDS: 1982
An Officer and a Gentleman
- Winner: ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Louis Gossett, Jr. {"Sgt. Emil Foley"}
- ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE -- Debra Winger {"Paula Pokrifki"}
- FILM EDITING -- Peter Zinner
- MUSIC (Original Score) -- Jack Nitzsche
- Winner: MUSIC (Original Song) -- "Up Where We Belong," Music by Jack Nitzsche and Buffy Sainte-Marie; Lyric by Will Jennings
- WRITING (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) -- Douglas Day Stewart
The 56th ACADEMY AWARDS: 1983
Flashdance
- CINEMATOGRAPHY -- Don Peterman
- FILM EDITING -- Bud Smith, Walt Mulconery
- Winner: MUSIC (Original Song) -- "Flashdance...What a Feeling," Music by Giorgio Moroder; Lyric by Keith Forsey and Irene Cara
- MUSIC (Original Song) -- "Maniac," Music and Lyric by Michael Sembello and Dennis Matkosky
Terms of Endearment
- ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- John Lithgow {"Sam Burns"}
- Winner: ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Jack Nicholson {"Garrett Breedlove"}
- Winner: ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE -- Shirley MacLaine {"Aurora Greenway"}
- ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE -- Debra Winger {"Emma Horton"}
- ART DIRECTION -- Art Direction: Polly Platt, Harold Michelson; Set Decoration: Tom Pedigo, Anthony Mondello
- Winner: DIRECTING -- James L. Brooks
- FILM EDITING -- Richard Marks
- MUSIC (Original Score) -- Michael Gore
- Winner: BEST PICTURE -- James L. Brooks, Producer
- SOUND -- Donald O. Mitchell, Rick Kline, Kevin O'Connell, Jim Alexander
- Winner: WRITING (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) -- James L. Brooks
Testament
- ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE -- Jane Alexander {"Carol Wetherly"}
Trading Places
- MUSIC (Original Song Score or Adaptation Score) -- Adaptation Score by Elmer Bernstein
The 57th ACADEMY AWARDS: 1984
Beverly Hills Cop
- WRITING (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) -- Screenplay by Daniel Petrie, Jr.; Story by Danilo Bach, Daniel Petrie, Jr.
Footloose
- MUSIC (Original Song) -- "Footloose," Music and Lyric by Kenny Loggins and Dean Pitchford
- MUSIC (Original Song) -- "Let's Hear It for the Boy," Music and Lyric by Tom Snow and Dean Pitchford
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- MUSIC (Original Score) -- John Williams
- Winner: VISUAL EFFECTS -- Dennis Muren, Michael McAlister, Lorne Peterson, George Gibbs
The 58th ACADEMY AWARDS: 1985
Witness
- ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE -- Harrison Ford {"John Book"}
- ART DIRECTION -- Art Direction: Stan Jolley; Set Decoration: John Anderson
- CINEMATOGRAPHY -- John Seale
- DIRECTING -- Peter Weir
- Winner: FILM EDITING -- Thom Noble MUSIC (Original Score) -- Maurice Jarre
- BEST PICTURE -- Edward S. Feldman, Producer
- Winner: WRITING (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) -- Screenplay by Earl W. Wallace, William Kelley; Story by William Kelley, Pamela Wallace, Earl W. Wallace
Young Sherlock Holmes
- VISUAL EFFECTS -- Dennis Muren, Kit West, John Ellis, David Allen
The 59th ACADEMY AWARDS: 1986
Children of a Lesser God
- ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE -- William Hurt {"James"}
- Winner: ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE -- Marlee Matlin {"Sarah"}
- ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Piper Laurie {"Mrs. Norman"}
- BEST PICTURE -- Burt Sugarman and Patrick Palmer, Producers
- WRITING (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) -- Hesper Anderson, Mark Medoff
'Crocodile' Dundee
- WRITING (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) -- Screenplay by Paul Hogan, Ken Shadie, John Cornell; Story by Paul Hogan
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
- CINEMATOGRAPHY -- Don Peterman
- MUSIC (Original Score) -- Leonard Rosenman
- SOUND -- Terry Porter, Dave Hudson, Mel Metcalfe, Gene S. Cantamessa
- SOUND EFFECTS EDITING -- Mark Mangini
Top Gun
- FILM EDITING -- Billy Weber, Chris Lebenzon
- Winner: MUSIC (Original Song) -- "Take My Breath Away," Music by Giorgio Moroder; Lyric by Tom Whitlock
- SOUND -- Donald O. Mitchell, Kevin O'Connell, Rick Kline, William B. Kaplan
- SOUND EFFECTS EDITING -- Cecelia Hall, George Watters II
The 60th ACADEMY AWARDS: 1987
Beverly Hills Cop II
- MUSIC (Original Song) -- "Shakedown," Music by Harold Faltermeyer and Keith Forsey; Lyric by Harold Faltermeyer, Keith Forsey and Bob Seger
Fatal Attraction
- ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE -- Glenn Close {"Alex Forrest"}
- ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Anne Archer {"Beth Gallagher"}
- DIRECTING -- Adrian Lyne
- FILM EDITING -- Michael Kahn, Peter E. Berger
- BEST PICTURE -- Stanley R. Jaffe and Sherry Lansing, Producers
- WRITING (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) -- James Dearden
The Untouchables
- Winner: ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Sean Connery {"Jim Malone"}
- ART DIRECTION -- Art Direction: Patrizia Von Brandenstein, William A. Elliott; Set Decoration: Hal Gausman
- COSTUME DESIGN -- Marilyn Vance-Straker
- MUSIC (Original Score) -- Ennio Morricone
The 61st ACADEMY AWARDS: 1988
The Accused
- Winner: ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE -- Jodie Foster {"Sarah Tobias"}
Coming to America
- COSTUME DESIGN -- Deborah Nadoolman
- MAKEUP -- Rick Baker
Scrooged
- MAKEUP -- Tom Burman, Bari Dreiband-Burman
Tucker The Man and His Dream
- ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE -- Martin Landau {"Abe"}
- ART DIRECTION -- Art Direction: Dean Tavoularis; Set Decoration: Armin Ganz
- COSTUME DESIGN -- Milena Canonero
The 62nd ACADEMY AWARDS: 1989
Black Rain
- SOUND -- Donald O. Mitchell, Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, Keith A. Wester
- SOUND EFFECTS EDITING -- Milton C. Burrow, William L. Manger
Harlem Nights
- COSTUME DESIGN -- Joe I. Tompkins
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- MUSIC (Original Score) -- John Williams
- SOUND -- Ben Burtt, Gary Summers, Shawn Murphy, Tony Dawe
- Winner: SOUND EFFECTS EDITING -- Ben Burtt, Richard Hymns
Shirley Valentine
- ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE -- Pauline Collins {"Shirley Valentine"}
- MUSIC (Original Song) -- "The Girl Who Used To Be Me," Music by Marvin Hamlisch; Lyric by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman