Best Picture |
| Coal Miner's Daughter |
The Elephant Man |
Ordinary People |
Raging Bull |
Tess |
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Best Actor |
| The Elephant Man |
The Great Santini |
Raging Bull |
The Stunt Man |
Tribute |
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| John Hurt |
Robert Duvall |
Robert De Niro |
Peter O'Toole |
Jack Lemmon |
Best Actress |
| Coal Miner's Daughter |
Gloria |
Ordinary People |
Private Benjamin |
Resurrection |
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| Sissy Spacek |
Gena Rowlands |
Mary Tyler Moore |
Goldie Hawn |
Ellen Burstyn |
Best Supporting Actor |
| The Great Santini |
Melvin and Howard |
Ordinary People |
Ordinary People |
Raging Bull |
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| Michael O'Keefe |
Jason Robards |
Judd Hirsch |
Timothy Hutton |
Joe Pesci |
Best Supporting Actress |
| Inside Moves |
Melvin and Howard |
Private Benjamin |
Raging Bull |
Resurrection |
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| Diana Scarwid |
Mary Steenburgen |
Eileen Brennan |
Cathy Moriarty |
Eva Le Gallienne |
Best Director |
| The Elephant Man |
Ordinary People |
Raging Bull |
The Stunt Man |
Tess |
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| David Lynch |
Robert Redford |
Martin Scorsese |
Richard Rush |
Roman Polanski |
Best Original Screenplay |
| Brubaker |
Fame |
Melvin and Howard |
My American Uncle |
Private Benjamin |
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| W.D. Richter, Arthur A. Ross |
Christopher Gore |
Bo Goldman |
Jean Gruault |
Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer, Harvey Miller |
Best Adapted Screenplay |
| Breaker Morant |
Coal Miner's Daughter |
The Elephant Man |
Ordinary People |
The Stunt Man |
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| Jonathan Hardy, David Stevens, Bruce Beresford |
Thomas Rickman |
Christopher De Vore, Eric Bergren, David Lynch |
Alvin Sargent |
Lawrence B. Marcus, Richard Rush |
Best Cinematography |
| The Blue Lagoon |
Coal Miner's Daughter |
The Formula |
Raging Bull |
Tess |
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| Néstor Almendros |
Ralf D. Bode |
James Crabe |
Michael Chapman |
Geoffrey Unsworth |
Best Art Direction |
| Coal Miner's Daughter |
The Elephant Man |
The Empire Strikes Back |
Kagemusha |
Tess |
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| John W. Corso, John M. Dwyer |
Stuart Craig, Robert Cartwright, Hugh Scaife |
Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley, Harry Lange, Alan Tomkins, Michael Ford |
Yoshirô Muraki |
Pierre Guffroy, Jack Stephens |
Best Costume Design |
| The Elephant Man |
My Brilliant Career |
Somewhere in Time |
Tess |
When Time Ran Out… |
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| Patricia Norris |
Anna Senior |
Jean-Pierre Dorléac |
Anthony Powell |
Paul Zastupnevich |
Best Sound |
| Altered States |
Coal Miner's Daughter |
The Empire Strikes Back |
Fame |
Raging Bull |
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| Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Michael Minkler, Willie D. Burton |
Richard Portman, Roger Heman Jr., James R. Alexander |
Bill Varney, Steve Maslow, Gregg Landaker, Peter Sutton |
Michael J. Kohut, Aaron Rochin, Jay M. Harding, Christopher Newman |
Donald O. Mitchell, Bill Nicholson, David J. Kimball, Les Lazarowitz |
Best Editing |
| Coal Miner's Daughter |
The Competition |
The Elephant Man |
Fame |
Raging Bull |
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| Arthur Schmidt |
David E. Blewitt |
Anne V. Coates |
Gerry Hambling |
Thelma Schoonmaker |
Best Original Song |
| The Competition |
Fame |
Fame |
Honeysuckle Rose |
9 to 5 |
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| People Alone |
Out Here on My Own |
Fame |
On the Road Again |
Nine to Five |
Best Original Score |
| Altered States |
The Elephant Man |
The Empire Strikes Back |
Fame |
Tess |
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| John Corigliano |
John Morris |
John Williams |
Michael Gore |
Philippe Sarde |
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