53rd Academy Awards

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

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