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What films were nominated for Oscars in 1981?

Here are the films nominated for Oscars in 1981, which were awarded for films released in 1980:

Best Picture

* Ordinary People (Winner)

* The Elephant Man

* Coal Miner's Daughter

* Raging Bull

* Tess

Best Director

* Robert Redford, Ordinary People (Winner)

* David Lynch, The Elephant Man

* Martin Scorsese, Raging Bull

* Richard Brooks, Coal Miner's Daughter

* Roman Polanski, Tess

Best Actor

* Robert De Niro, Raging Bull (Winner)

* Robert Duvall, The Great Santini

* John Hurt, The Elephant Man

* Peter O'Toole, The Stunt Man

* Jack Lemmon, Tribute

Best Actress

* Sissy Spacek, Coal Miner's Daughter (Winner)

* Ellen Burstyn, Resurrection

* Mary Tyler Moore, Ordinary People

* Gena Rowlands, Gloria

* Gilda Radner, Gilda Live

Best Supporting Actor

* Timothy Hutton, Ordinary People (Winner)

* John Hurt, The Elephant Man

* Joe Pesci, Raging Bull

* Jason Robards, Melvin and Howard

* Scott Wilson, The Ninth Configuration

Best Supporting Actress

* Mary Steenburgen, Melvin and Howard (Winner)

* Eva Le Gallienne, Resurrection

* Carole Bouquet, Tess

* Diana Scarwid, Inside Moves

* Lynn-Holly Johnson, Ice Castles

Best Original Screenplay

* Ordinary People (Winner)

* Coal Miner's Daughter

* Melvin and Howard

* The Elephant Man

* Caddyshack

Best Adapted Screenplay

* The Elephant Man (Winner)

* Raging Bull

* Tess

* 9 to 5

* Kramer vs. Kramer

Best Cinematography

* Raging Bull (Winner)

* The Elephant Man

* Tess

* The Empire Strikes Back

* The Black Hole

Best Art Direction

* Tess (Winner)

* The Elephant Man

* The Empire Strikes Back

* Coal Miner's Daughter

* Heaven's Gate

Best Costume Design

* Tess (Winner)

* The Elephant Man

* Coal Miner's Daughter

* The Empire Strikes Back

* The Jewel of the Nile

Best Film Editing

* Raging Bull (Winner)

* The Elephant Man

* Coal Miner's Daughter

* The Empire Strikes Back

* The Blues Brothers

Best Sound

* The Empire Strikes Back (Winner)

* Raging Bull

* Coal Miner's Daughter

* The Black Hole

* Heaven's Gate

Best Original Score

* Coal Miner's Daughter (Winner)

* The Elephant Man

* Raging Bull

* The Empire Strikes Back

* Tess

Best Original Song

* "Fame" from Fame (Winner)

* "Xanadu" from Xanadu

* "The Rainbow Connection" from The Muppet Movie

* "It Goes Like It Goes" from Coal Miner's Daughter

* "Yesterday When I Was Young" from The Little Drummer Girl

Best Foreign Language Film

* Moscow on the Hudson (Winner)

* La Cage aux Folles (France)

* The Last Metro (France)

* Three Brothers (Hungary)

* The Tin Drum (West Germany)

Best Documentary Feature

* The Act of Killing (Winner)

* From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China

* The Killing Fields

* My Lai

* The Day After Trinity

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

* The Johnstown Flood (Winner)

* The Killing Ground

Best Live Action Short Film

* The Drifters (Winner)

* The Seduction

* The Pitch

* The Last Flight

Best Animated Short Film

* The Dot and the Line (Winner)

* History of the World - Part 1

* The Ballad of Little Joe

Best Sound Effects Editing

* The Empire Strikes Back (Winner)

* Star Trek: The Motion Picture

This list includes all the major categories and highlights the winners in each.

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