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
Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner
Alvin Sargent
Ordinary People
Music
Best Original Score
Winner
Michael Gore
Fame
Best Score (Adaptation)
Winner
Michael Gore
Fame
Best Original Song
Winner
"Fame" — Michael Gore, Dean Pitchford
Fame
Technical
Best Cinematography
Winner
Geoffrey Unsworth, Ghislain Cloquet
Tess
Best Film Editing
Winner
Thelma Schoonmaker
Raging Bull
Art Direction & Costume
Best Art Direction
Winner
Pierre Guffroy, Jack Stephens
Tess
Best Costume Design
Winner
Anthony Powell
Tess
Sound & Visual Effects
Best Sound Recording
Winner
Bill Varney, Steve Maslow, Gregg Landaker, Peter Sutton
The Empire Strikes Back
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
Best Documentary Feature
Winner
From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China
Murray Lerner
International Film
Best Foreign Language Film
Winner
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
Soviet Union — Vladimir Menshov