Best Picture & Directing
Best Picture
Winner
Ordinary People
Ronald L. Schwary, producer
Coal Miner's Daughter
The Elephant Man
Raging Bull
Tess
Best Director
Winner
Robert Redford
Ordinary People
David Lynch— The Elephant Man
Roman Polanski— Tess
Martin Scorsese— Raging Bull
Richard Rush— The Stunt Man
Acting
Best Actor
Winner
Robert De Niro
Raging Bull
Robert Duvall— The Great Santini
John Hurt— The Elephant Man
Jack Lemmon— Tribute
Peter O'Toole— The Stunt Man
Best Actress
Winner
Sissy Spacek
Coal Miner's Daughter
Ellen Burstyn— Resurrection
Goldie Hawn— Private Benjamin
Mary Tyler Moore— Ordinary People
Gena Rowlands— Gloria
Best Supporting Actor
Winner
Timothy Hutton
Ordinary People
Judd Hirsch— Ordinary People
Michael O'Keefe— The Great Santini
Joe Pesci— Raging Bull
Best Supporting Actress
Winner
Mary Steenburgen
Melvin and Howard
Eileen Brennan— Private Benjamin
Eva Le Gallienne— Resurrection
Cathy Moriarty— Raging Bull
Writing
Best Original Screenplay
Winner
Bo Goldman
Melvin and Howard
W.D. Richter, Arthur Ross— Brubaker
Christopher Gore— Fame
Jean Gruault— Mon Oncle d’Amérique
Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer, Harvey Miller— Private Benjamin
Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner
Alvin Sargent
Ordinary People
Jonathan Hardy, David Stevens, Bruce Beresford— Breaker Morant
Tom Rickman— Coal Miner's Daughter
Christopher DeVore, Eric Bergren, David Lynch— The Elephant Man
Lawrence B. Marcus, Richard Rush— The Stunt Man
Music
Best Original Score
Winner
Michael Gore
Fame
John Corigliano— Altered States
John Morris— The Elephant Man
John Williams— The Empire Strikes Back
Philippe Sarde— Tess
Best Score (Adaptation)
Winner
Michael Gore
Fame
Best Original Song
Winner
"Fame" — Michael Gore, Dean Pitchford
Fame
“People Alone” — Lalo Schifrin, Wilbur Jennings— The Competition
“Fame” — Michael Gore, Dean Pitchford— Fame
“Out Here On My Own” — Michael Gore, Lesley Gore— Fame
“On the Road Again” — Willie Nelson— Honeysuckle Rose
“Nine to Five” — Dolly Parton— Nine to Five
Technical
Best Cinematography
Winner
Geoffrey Unsworth, Ghislain Cloquet
Tess
Nestor Almendros— The Blue Lagoon
Ralf D. Bode— Coal Miner's Daughter
James Crabe— The Formula
Michael Chapman— Raging Bull
Best Film Editing
Winner
Thelma Schoonmaker
Raging Bull
Arthur Schmidt— Coal Miner's Daughter
David Blewitt— The Competition
Anne V. Coates— The Elephant Man
Gerry Hambling— Fame
Art Direction & Costume
Best Art Direction
Winner
Pierre Guffroy, Jack Stephens
Tess
John W. Corso, John M. Dwyer— Coal Miner's Daughter
Stuart Craig, Bob Cartwright, Hugh Scaife— The Elephant Man
Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley, Harry Lange, Alan Tomkins, Michael Ford— The Empire Strikes Back
Yoshiro Muraki— Kagemusha
Best Costume Design
Winner
Anthony Powell
Tess
Patricia Norris— The Elephant Man
Anna Senior— My Brilliant Career
Jean-Pierre Dorleac— Somewhere in Time
Paul Zastupnevich— When Time Ran Out
Sound & Visual Effects
Best Sound Recording
Winner
Bill Varney, Steve Maslow, Gregg Landaker, Peter Sutton
The Empire Strikes Back
Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Michael Minkler, Willie D. Burton— Altered States
Richard Portman, Roger Heman, Jim Alexander— Coal Miner's Daughter
Michael J. Kohut, Aaron Rochin, Jay M. Harding, Chris Newman— Fame
Donald O. Mitchell, Bill Nicholson, David J. Kimball, Les Lazarowitz— Raging Bull
Best Visual Effects (Special Achievement)
Winner
Brian Johnson, Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Bruce Nicholson
The Empire Strikes Back
Documentary & Short Films
Best Animated Short
Winner
The Fly
Ferenc Rofusz, Hungary — fly's-eye view of the world
Frédéric Back— All Nothing
Michael Mills— History of the World in Three Minutes Flat
Best Documentary Feature
Winner
From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China
Murray Lerner
Ross Spears— Agee
Jon Else— The Day after Trinity
David Bradbury— Front Line
Bengt von zur Muehlen, Arthur Cohn— The Yellow Star
International Film
Best Foreign Language Film
Winner
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
Soviet Union — Vladimir Menshov
Confidence
Kagemusha
The Last Metro
The Nest