1980 Film Year: Oscar Winners & Nominees
The AwardWentTo archive contains 97 Academy Award records for the 1980 film year, covering 48 films and including 21 wins.
Years follow the source film eligibility/dataset year, which may differ from the ceremony calendar year. Counts describe film-linked archive records, including historical and special-award context where supplied.
Best Picture result
- ★ Ordinary PeopleRonald L. Schwary, Producer
5 Best Picture award records for this film year. See the full result · Best Picture history
Acting category results
Leading winning films
Ranked by winning records in this film-year selection.
- Ordinary People
4 wins from 6 award records
- Tess
3 wins from 6 award records
- Raging Bull
2 wins from 8 award records
- Fame
2 wins from 6 award records
- The Empire Strikes Back
2 wins from 4 award records
- Melvin and Howard
2 wins from 3 award records
Category winners
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- ★ Raging Bull — Jake LaMotta
- ★ Ordinary People — Conrad Jarrett
- ★ Coal Miner's Daughter — Loretta Lynn
- ★ Melvin and Howard — Lynda Dummar
- ★ Tess
- ★ Tess
- ★ Tess
- ★ Fame
- ★ Fame — Fame
- ★ The Fly
Nominations and award records by category
Showing 97 of 97 archive records. Gold stars mark winning records.
Best Picture
- ★ Ordinary People IMDB — Ronald L. Schwary, Producer
- Coal Miner's Daughter IMDB — Bernard Schwartz, Producer
- The Elephant Man IMDB — Jonathan Sanger, Producer
- Raging Bull IMDB — Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff, Producers
- Tess IMDB — Claude Berri, Producer; Timothy Burrill, Co-Producer
Best Actor
- ★ Raging Bull IMDB — Robert De NiroJake LaMotta
- The Great Santini IMDB — Robert DuvallBull Meechum
- The Elephant Man IMDB — John HurtJohn Merrick
- Tribute IMDB — Jack LemmonScottie Templeton
- The Stunt Man IMDB — Peter O'TooleEli Cross
Best Supporting Actor
- ★ Ordinary People IMDB — Timothy HuttonConrad Jarrett
- Ordinary People IMDB — Judd HirschDr. Berger
- The Great Santini IMDB — Michael O'KeefeBen Meechum
- Raging Bull IMDB — Joe PesciJoey LaMotta
- Melvin and Howard IMDB — Jason RobardsHoward Hughes
Best Actress
- ★ Coal Miner's Daughter IMDB — Sissy SpacekLoretta Lynn
- Resurrection IMDB — Ellen BurstynEdna May
- Private Benjamin IMDB — Goldie HawnJudy Benjamin
- Ordinary People IMDB — Mary Tyler MooreBeth Jarrett
- Gloria IMDB — Gena RowlandsGloria Swenson
Best Supporting Actress
- ★ Melvin and Howard IMDB — Mary SteenburgenLynda Dummar
- Private Benjamin IMDB — Eileen BrennanCaptain Doreen Lewis
- Resurrection IMDB — Eva Le GallienneGrandma Pearl
- Raging Bull IMDB — Cathy MoriartyVicki LaMotta
- Inside Moves IMDB — Diana ScarwidLouise
Art Direction
- ★ Tess IMDB — Art Direction: Pierre Guffroy, Jack Stephens
- Coal Miner's Daughter IMDB — Art Direction: John W. Corso; Set Decoration: John M. Dwyer
- The Elephant Man IMDB — Art Direction: Stuart Craig, Bob Cartwright; Set Decoration: Hugh Scaife
- The Empire Strikes Back IMDB — Art Direction: Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley, Harry Lange, Alan Tomkins; Set Decoration: Michael Ford
- Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior) IMDB — Yoshiro Muraki
Cinematography
- ★ Tess IMDB — Geoffrey Unsworth, Ghislain Cloquet
- The Blue Lagoon IMDB — Nestor Almendros
- Coal Miner's Daughter IMDB — Ralf D. Bode
- The Formula IMDB — James Crabe
- Raging Bull IMDB — Michael Chapman
Costume Design
Best Director
Documentary Feature
- ★ From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China IMDB — Murray Lerner, Producer
- Agee IMDB — Ross Spears, Producer
- The Day after Trinity IMDB — Jon Else, Producer
- Front Line IMDB — David Bradbury, Producer
- The Yellow Star - The Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933-45 IMDB — Bengt von zur Muehlen and Arthur Cohn, Producers
Documentary Short Subject
- ★ Karl Hess: Toward Liberty IMDB — Roland Hallé and Peter W. Ladue, Producers
- Don't Mess with Bill IMDB — John Watson and Pen Densham, Producers
- The Eruption of Mount St. Helens IMDB — George Casey, Producer
- It's the Same World IMDB — Dick Young, Producer
- Luther Metke at 94 IMDB — Richard Hawkins and Jorge Preloran, Producers
Film Editing
International Feature Film
- ★ Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears IMDB — Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- Confidence IMDB — Hungary
- Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior) IMDB — Japan
- The Last Metro IMDB — France
- The Nest IMDB — Spain
Original Score
Original Song
- ★ Fame IMDB — Music by Michael Gore; Lyric by Dean PitchfordFame
- Nine to Five IMDB — Music and Lyric by Dolly PartonNine To Five
- Honeysuckle Rose IMDB — Music and Lyric by Willie NelsonOn The Road Again
- Fame IMDB — Music by Michael Gore; Lyric by Lesley GoreOut Here On My Own
- The Competition IMDB — Music by Lalo Schifrin; Lyric by Wilbur JenningsPeople Alone
Animated Short Film
- ★ The Fly IMDB — Ferenc Rofusz, Producer
- All Nothing IMDB — Frédéric Back, Producer
- History of the World in Three Minutes Flat IMDB — Michael Mills, Producer
Live Action Short Film
- ★ The Dollar Bottom IMDB — Lloyd Phillips, Producer
- Fall Line IMDB — Bob Carmichael and Greg Lowe, Producers
- A Jury of Her Peers IMDB — Sally Heckel, Producer
Sound Mixing
- ★ The Empire Strikes Back IMDB — Bill Varney, Steve Maslow, Gregg Landaker, Peter Sutton
- Altered States IMDB — Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Michael Minkler, Willie D. Burton
- Coal Miner's Daughter IMDB — Richard Portman, Roger Heman, Jim Alexander
- Fame IMDB — Michael J. Kohut, Aaron Rochin, Jay M. Harding, Chris Newman
- Raging Bull IMDB — Donald O. Mitchell, Bill Nicholson, David J. Kimball, Les Lazarowitz
Special Achievement Award (Visual Effects)
- ★ The Empire Strikes Back IMDB — Brian Johnson, Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Bruce Nicholson
Adapted Screenplay
- ★ Ordinary People IMDB — Alvin Sargent
- Breaker Morant IMDB — Jonathan Hardy, David Stevens, Bruce Beresford
- Coal Miner's Daughter IMDB — Tom Rickman
- The Elephant Man IMDB — Christopher DeVore, Eric Bergren, David Lynch
- The Stunt Man IMDB — Screenplay by Lawrence B. Marcus; Adaptation by Richard Rush
Original Screenplay
- ★ Melvin and Howard IMDB — Bo Goldman
- Brubaker IMDB — Screenplay by W. D. Richter; Story by W. D. Richter, Arthur Ross
- Fame IMDB — Christopher Gore
- Mon Oncle D'Amerique IMDB — Jean Gruault
- Private Benjamin IMDB — Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer, Harvey Miller
Nominated films and other recorded entries
48 films represented in the 1980 archive selection.
- A Jury of Her Peers
- Agee
- All Nothing
- Altered States
- Breaker Morant
- Brubaker
- Coal Miner's Daughter
- Confidence
- Don't Mess with Bill
- Fall Line
- Fame
- From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China
- Front Line
- Gloria
- History of the World in Three Minutes Flat
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Inside Moves
- It's the Same World
- Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior)
- Karl Hess: Toward Liberty
- Luther Metke at 94
- Melvin and Howard
- Mon Oncle D'Amerique
- Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
- My Brilliant Career
- Nine to Five
- Ordinary People
- Private Benjamin
- Raging Bull
- Resurrection
- Somewhere in Time
- Tess
- The Blue Lagoon
- The Competition
- The Day after Trinity
- The Dollar Bottom
- The Elephant Man
- The Empire Strikes Back
- The Eruption of Mount St. Helens
- The Fly
- The Formula
- The Great Santini
- The Last Metro
- The Nest
- The Stunt Man
- The Yellow Star - The Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933-45
- Tribute
- When Time Ran Out
About these award records
This independent archive groups film-linked award records by film, credited name, category and eligibility year. The film year can differ from the year the ceremony took place. Ceremony numbers are shown where supplied by the records.
Each distinct performance, song or award credit remains a separate record, even when it belongs to the same film. Shared credits stay together. A person's page covers the name shown, without combining aliases or shared credits into a complete career total.
Totals can include honorary, special and historical awards alongside competitive nominations. Awards without a linked film are outside these page totals. Source notes and uncertain records are retained; category comparisons omit groups with unresolved notes, ties or conflicting identities.
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