| Best Picture |
Best Director |
- Ordinary People
- Coal Miner's Daughter
- The Elephant Man
- Raging Bull
- Tess
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- Robert Redford – Ordinary People
- David Lynch – The Elephant Man
- Martin Scorsese – Raging Bull
- Richard Rush – The Stunt Man
- Roman Polanski – Tess
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| 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
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- Sissy Spacek – Coal Miner's Daughter
- Ellen Burstyn – Resurrection
- Goldie Hawn – Private Benjamin
- Mary Tyler Moore – Ordinary People
- Gena Rowlands – Gloria
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| 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
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- Mary Steenburgen – Melvin and Howard
- Eileen Brennan – Private Benjamin
- Eva Le Gallienne – Resurrection
- Cathy Moriarty – Raging Bull
- Diana Scarwid – Inside Moves
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| 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
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- 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
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| 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)
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- Raging Bull – Thelma Schoonmaker
- Coal Miner's Daughter – Arthur Schmidt
- The Competition – David Blewitt
- The Elephant Man – Anne V. Coates
- Fame – Gerry Hambling
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| 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
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- 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
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| 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
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- The Fly – Ferenc Rofusz
- All Nothing – Frédéric Back
- History of the World in Three Minutes Flat – Michael Mills
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| 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
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- "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
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| 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
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- 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
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| 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
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- 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
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