Awards
Academy Awards:
- Best Picture: Chariots of Fire - Enigma, The Ladd Company/Warner Bros.
- Best Director: Warren Beatty - Reds
- Best Actor: Henry Fonda - On Golden Pond
- Best Actress: Katharine Hepburn - On Golden Pond
- Best Supporting Actor: John Gielgud - Arthur
- Best Supporting Actress: Maureen Stapleton - Reds
- Best Foreign Language Film: Mephisto, directed by Istvan Szabo, Hungary
Golden Globe Awards:
- Drama:
- Best Picture: On Golden Pond
- Best Actor: Henry Fonda - On Golden Pond
- Best Actress: Meryl Streep - The French Lieutenant's Woman
- Musical or comedy:
- Best Picture: Arthur
- Best Actor: Dudley Moore - Arthur
- Best Actress: Bernadette Peters - Pennies from Heaven
- Other
- Best Director: Warren Beatty - Reds
- Best Foreign Film: Chariots of Fire, United Kingdom
Golden Raspberry Awards:
- Worst Picture: Mommie Dearest
- Worst Director: Michael Cimino - Heaven's Gate
- Worst Actor: Klinton Spilsbury - The Legend of the Lone Ranger
- Worst Actress: Bo Derek - Tarzan, the Ape Man; Faye Dunaway - Mommie Dearest
- Worst Supporting Actor: Steve Forrest - Mommie Dearest
- Worst Supporting Actress: Diana Scarwid - Mommie Dearest
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
- Man of Iron (Człowiek z żelaza), directed by Andrzej Wajda, Poland
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
- Marianne and Juliane (Die Bleierne Zeit), directed by Margarethe von Trotta, W. Germany
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
- Faster, Faster (Deprisa, deprisa / Vivre vite), directed by Carlos Saura, Spain / France
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