Academy Awards

annual awards for cinematic achievements

Since 1929 99 editions in the catalogue Official site

1981 edition

• Academy Award for Best Sound

  🏆 Bill Varney

  🏆 Gregg Landaker

  🏆 Peter Sutton

  🏆 Steve Maslow

  For the film: The Empire Strikes Back

  Also nominated: Aaron Rochin · Arthur Piantadosi · Chris Newman · Coal Miner's Daughter · David J. Kimball · Donald O. Mitchell · Fame · James R. Alexander · Jay M. Harding · Les Fresholtz · Les Lazarowitz · Michael J. Kohut · Michael Minkler · Raging Bull · Richard Portman · Roger Heman Jr. · Altered States · William "Bill" Nicholson · Willie D. Burton

• Special Achievement Academy Award

  🏆 Brian Johnson

  🏆 Bruce Nicholson

  🏆 Dennis Muren

  🏆 Richard Edlund

• Academy Award for Best Cinematography

  🏆 Geoffrey Unsworth

  🏆 Ghislain Cloquet

  For the film: Tess

  Also nominated: The Formula · The Blue Lagoon · Coal Miner's Daughter · James Aubrey Crabe · Michael Chapman · Néstor Almendros · Raging Bull · Ralf D. Bode

• Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)

  🏆 Peter Ladue

  🏆 Roland Hallé

  For the film: Karl Hess: Toward Liberty

  Also nominated: Dick Young · Don't Mess with Bill · George Casey · It's the Same World · John Watson · Jorge Prelorán · Luther Metke at 94 · Pen Densham · Richard Hawkins · The Eruption of Mount St. Helens!

• Academy Award for Best Production Design

  🏆 Jack Stephens

  🏆 Pierre Guffroy

  For the film: Tess

  Also nominated: Alan Tomkins · Coal Miner's Daughter · Harry Lange · Hugh Scaife · John M. Dwyer · John W. Corso · Kagemusha · Leslie Dilley · Michael D. Ford · Norman Reynolds · The Elephant Man · Robert Cartwright · The Empire Strikes Back · Stuart Craig · Yoshirō Muraki

• Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

  🏆 Ferenc Rofusz

  For the film: The Fly

  Also nominated: Frédéric Back · Historia del mundo en tres minutos de plano · Michael Mills · All Nothing

• Academy Award for Best Costume Design

  🏆 Anthony Powell

  For the film: Tess

  Also nominated: Anna Senior · Jean-Pierre Dorleac · My Brilliant Career · The Elephant Man · Patricia Norris · Paul Zastupnevich · Somewhere in Time · When Time Ran Out...

• Academy Award for Best Director

  🏆 Robert Redford

  For the film: Ordinary People

  Also nominated: David Lynch · Martin Scorsese · The Elephant Man · Raging Bull · Richard Rush · Roman Polanski · Tess · The Stunt Man

• Academy Award for Best Film Editing

  🏆 Thelma Schoonmaker

  For the film: Raging Bull

  Also nominated: Anne V. Coates · Arthur Schmidt · Coal Miner's Daughter · David Blewitt · Fame · Gerry Hambling · The Elephant Man · The Competition

• Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film

  🏆 Lloyd Phillips

  For the film: The Dollar Bottom

  Also nominated: A Jury of Her Peers · Fall Line · Greg Lowe · Robert Carmichael · Sally Heckel

• Academy Award for Best Picture

  🏆 Ronald L. Schwary

  For the film: Ordinary People

  Also nominated: Bernard Schwartz · Claude Berri · Coal Miner's Daughter · Irwin Winkler · Jonathan Sanger · The Elephant Man · Raging Bull · Robert Chartoff · Tess · Timothy Burrill

• Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

  🏆 Timothy Hutton

  For the film: Ordinary People

  Also nominated: Jason Robards · Joe Pesci · Judd Hirsch · Melvin and Howard · Michael O'Keefe · Raging Bull · The Great Santini

• Academy Award for Best Original Score

  🏆 Fame

  Also nominated: John Corigliano · John Morris · John Williams · Michael Gore · The Elephant Man · Philippe Sarde · The Empire Strikes Back · Tess · Altered States

• Academy Award for Best Visual Effects

  🏆 John Baker

• Academy Award for Technical Achievement

  🏆 Peter Regla

• Academy Scientific and Technical Award

  🏆 Charles J. Watson

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