Rich Picks
19791981

Awards & Top Films

1980

Historical Award Archive

Before Rich Picks — Award selections for 1980 were not recorded. The categories below show nominees and winners from other award organizations.
WonNominee

Top 10 Films of 1980

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FameNo award data
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Ordinary PeopleNo award data
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Coal Miner's DaughterNo award data
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TessNo award data
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Raging BullNo award data
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The Stunt ManNo award data
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Melvin and HowardNo award data
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Private BenjaminNo award data
9
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The Ninth ConfigurationNo award data
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The IdolmakerNo award data

Film

Live-Action Feature

Coal Miner's Daughter
Producer: Bernard Schwartz
OscarGlobeNBR
Kramer vs. Kramer
Producer: Stanley R. Jaffe
OscarNBRBAFTA
The Elephant Man
Producer: Jonathan Sanger
OscarNBRBAFTA
Ordinary People
Producer: Ronald L. Schwary
OscarNBR
Being There
Producer: Andrew Braunsberg
GlobeNBRBAFTA
Melvin and Howard
GlobeNBR
Raging Bull
Producers: Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff
OscarNBR
Tess
Producers: Claude Berri, Timothy Burrill, and co-producer
OscarNBR
Airplane!
Globe
Fame
Globe
Kagemusha
Producers: Akira Kurosawa and Tomoyuki Tanaka
BAFTA
My Bodyguard
NBR
Resurrection
NBR
The Great Santini
NBR
The Idolmaker
Globe
The Stunt Man
NBR

International Feature

Tess
Producer: Roman Polanski
Globe
The Tin Drum
NBR
Breaker Morant
Producer: Bruce Beresford
Globe
Kagemusha
Producer: Akira Kurosawa
Globe
My Brilliant Career
Producer: Gillian Armstrong
Globe
Special Treatment
Producer: Goran Paskaljevic
Globe
The Last Metro
Producer: François Truffaut
Globe

Directing & Editing

Directing

Robert Redford
Ordinary People
OscarGlobeNBRDGA
Career Achievement Award: Gloria Swanson
Career Achievement Award: Gloria Swanson
NBR
Martin Scorsese
Raging Bull
OscarGlobeDGA
David Lynch
The Elephant Man
OscarGlobeDGA
Richard Rush
The Stunt Man
OscarGlobeDGA
Roman Polanski
Tess
OscarGlobe
Michael Apted
Coal Miner's Daughter
DGA

Editing

Alan Heim
All That Jazz
OscarBAFTA
Thelma Schoonmaker
Raging Bull
OscarBAFTA
Gerry Hambling
Fame
OscarBAFTA
Gerald B. Greenberg
Kramer vs. Kramer
OscarBAFTA
Anne V. Coates
The Elephant Man
OscarBAFTA
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Oscar
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Oscar
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The Competition
Oscar
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The Empire Strikes Back
Oscar

Acting

Actor in a Leading Role

Robert de Niro
Raging Bull
OscarGlobeNBR
Dustin Hoffman
Kramer vs. Kramer
OscarGlobeBAFTA
Peter Sellers
Being There
OscarNBRBAFTA
John Hurt
The Elephant Man
OscarGlobeBAFTA
Roy Scheider
All That Jazz
OscarBAFTA
Peter O'Toole
The Stunt Man
OscarGlobe
Jack Lemmon
Tribute
OscarGlobe
Donald Sutherland
Ordinary People
Globe
Robert Duvall
The Great Santini
Oscar

Actress in a Leading Role

Sissy Spacek
Coal Miner's Daughter
OscarNBRBAFTA
Judy Davis
My Brilliant Career
BAFTA
Meryl Streep
Kramer vs. Kramer
OscarBAFTA
Mary Tyler Moore
Ordinary People
OscarBAFTA
Bette Midler
The Rose
OscarBAFTA
Shirley MacLaine
Being There
BAFTA
Gena Rowlands
Gloria
Oscar
Goldie Hawn
Private Benjamin
Oscar
Ellen Burstyn
Resurrection
Oscar

Actor in a Supporting Role

Joe Pesci
Raging Bull
OscarNBR
Jason Robards
Melvin and Howard
Oscar
Timothy Hutton
Ordinary People
Oscar
Michael O'Keefe
The Great Santini
Oscar

Actress in a Supporting Role

Eva Le Gallienne
Resurrection
OscarNBR
Ordinary People
Alvin Sargent based on the novel by Judith Guest
Oscar
Melvin
Bo Goldman
Oscar
Howard
Bo Goldman
Oscar
Mary Steenburgen
Melvin and Howard
Oscar
The Elephant Man
Christopher De Vore, Eric Bergren and David Lynch based on the books The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences by Sir Frederick Treves and The Elephant Man: A Study in Human Dignity by Ashley Montagu
Oscar
Fame
Christopher Gore
Oscar
Diana Scarwid
Inside Moves
Oscar
Mon Oncle D'Amerique
Jean Gruault
Oscar
Breaker Morant
Jonathan Hardy, David Stevens and Bruce Beresford based on the play by Kenneth G. Ross
Oscar
Private Benjamin
Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer and Harvey Miller
Oscar
Eileen Brennan
Private Benjamin
Oscar
Cathy Moriarty
Raging Bull
Oscar
The Stunt Man
Screenplay by Lawrence B. Marcus; Adaptation by Richard Rush based on the novel by Paul Brodeur
Oscar
Brubaker
Screenplay by W. D. Richter; Story by W. D. Richter and Arthur A. Ross
Oscar
Coal Miner's Daughter
Thomas Rickman based on the autobiography by Loretta Lynn with George Vecsey
Oscar

Writing

Screenplay (Original)

Bo Goldman
Melvin and Howard
OscarWGA
Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer, and Harvey Miller
Private Benjamin
OscarWGA
William Peter Blatty
The Ninth Configuration
Globe
Christopher Gore
Fame
OscarWGA
Arthur A. Ross and W. D. Richter
Brubaker
Oscar
Jean Gruault
Mon oncle d'Amérique
Oscar
Alan Ormsby
My Bodyguard
WGA
Colin Higgins and Patricia Resnick
Nine to Five
WGA
Alvin Sargent
Ordinary People
Globe
Mardik Martin
Raging Bull
Globe
John Sayles
Return of the Secaucus Seven
WGA
Woody Allen
Stardust Memories
WGA
Eric Bergren
The Elephant Man
Globe
Lawrence B. Marcus
The Stunt Man
Globe

Screenplay (Adapted)

Alvin Sargent
Ordinary People
GlobeWGA
Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker
Airplane!
WGA
William Peter Blatty
The Ninth Configuration
Globe
Eric Bergren, David Lynch, and Christopher De Vore
The Elephant Man
GlobeWGA
Lawrence B. Marcus and Richard Rush
The Stunt Man
GlobeWGA
Thomas Rickman
Coal Miner's Daughter
WGA
Bryan Forbes and Brian Garfield
Hopscotch
WGA
Mardik Martin
Raging Bull
Globe
Lawrence Kasdan and Leigh Brackett
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
WGA
Lewis John Carlino
The Great Santini
WGA

Visual

Cinematography

Geoffrey Unsworth and Ghislain Cloquet
Tess
OscarBAFTA
Giuseppe Rotunno
All That Jazz
OscarBAFTA
Ralf D. Bode
Coal Miner's Daughter
Oscar
Takao Saito and Masaharu Ueda
Kagemusha
BAFTA
Michael Chapman
Raging Bull
Oscar
Caleb Deschanel
The Black Stallion
BAFTA
Néstor Almendros
The Blue Lagoon
Oscar
Freddie Francis
The Elephant Man
BAFTA
James Crabe
The Formula
Oscar

Art Direction

Philip Rosenberg
All That Jazz
Production design: Philip Rosenberg
OscarBAFTA
Art Direction, Set Decoration: Pierre Guffroy, and Jack Stephens
Tess
Production design: Art Direction, Set Decoration: Pierre Guffroy, and Jack Stephens
OscarBAFTA
Art Direction: Stuart Craig, Set Decoration: Hugh Scaife, Robert Cartwright, and Stuart Craig
The Elephant Man
Production design: Art Direction: Stuart Craig, Set Decoration: Hugh Scaife, Robert Cartwright, and Stuart Craig
OscarBAFTA
Art Direction: Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley, Harry Lange, Alan Tomkins, Set Decoration: Michael Ford, and Norman Reynolds
The Empire Strikes Back
Production design: Art Direction: Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley, Harry Lange, Alan Tomkins, Set Decoration: Michael Ford, and Norman Reynolds
OscarBAFTA
Art Direction: John W. Corso and Set Decoration: John M. Dwyer
Coal Miner's Daughter
Production design: Art Direction: John W. Corso and Set Decoration: John M. Dwyer
Oscar
Danilo Donati
Flash Gordon
Production design: Danilo Donati
BAFTA
Art Direction and Set Decoration: Yoshirō Muraki
Kagemusha
Production design: Art Direction and Set Decoration: Yoshirō Muraki
Oscar

Costuming

Albert Wolsky
All That Jazz
OscarBAFTA
Anthony Powell
Tess
OscarBAFTA
Seiichiro Momosawa
Kagemusha
BAFTA
Frantz Salieri
Don Giovanni
BAFTA
Danilo Donati
Flash Gordon
BAFTA
Anna Senior
My Brilliant Career
Oscar
Jean-Pierre Dorleac
Somewhere in Time
Oscar
Patricia Norris
The Elephant Man
Oscar
Paul Zastupnevich
When Time Ran Out
Oscar

Sound & Music

Original Score

John Williams
The Empire Strikes Back
BAFTA
Dominic Frontiere
The Stunt Man
Globe
Michael Gore
Fame
GlobeBAFTA
Giorgio Moroder
American Gigolo
Globe
Hazel O'Connor
Breaking Glass
BAFTA
Queen and Howard Blake
Flash Gordon
BAFTA
John Barry
Somewhere in Time
Globe
John Williams
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
Globe
Lalo Schifrin
The Competition
Globe

Original Song

Unknown Song
Fame
Music & lyrics: Michael Gore and Dean Pitchford
Globe
Unknown Song
American Gigolo
Music & lyrics: Debbie Harry, Giorgio Moroder, and Blondie
Globe
Unknown Song
Endless Love
Music & lyrics: Lionel Richie and Diana Ross
Globe
Unknown Song
Falling In Love Again
Music & lyrics: Johnny Mathis, Michel Legrand, and Carol Connors
Globe
Unknown Song
Nine to Five
Music & lyrics: Dolly Parton
Globe
Unknown Song
The Jazz Singer
Music & lyrics: Gilbert Bécaud and Neil Diamond
Globe

Sound Mixing

Chris Newman and Michael J. Kohut
Fame
BAFTA
Chris Newman and Dick Vorisek
All That Jazz
BAFTA
Jean-Louis Ducarme and Jacques Maumont
Don Giovanni
BAFTA
Ben Burtt, Bill Varney, and Peter Sutton
The Empire Strikes Back
BAFTA
Kay Rose, Theodore Soderberg, and Jim Webb
The Rose
BAFTA

Sound Editing

Chris Newman and Michael J. Kohut
Fame
BAFTA
Chris Newman and Dick Vorisek
All That Jazz
BAFTA
Jean-Louis Ducarme and Jacques Maumont
Don Giovanni
BAFTA
Ben Burtt, Bill Varney, and Peter Sutton
The Empire Strikes Back
BAFTA
Kay Rose, Theodore Soderberg, and Jim Webb
The Rose
BAFTA