| Winner? |
Film Title |
Year |
Category |
Nominee(s) |
| |
Absence of Malice |
1981 |
Best Actor |
Paul Newman |
| |
Absence of Malice |
1981 |
Best Original Screenplay |
Kurt Luedtke |
| |
Absence of Malice |
1981 |
Best Supporting Actress |
Melinda Dillon |
 |
An American Werewolf in London |
1981 |
Best Makeup |
Rick Baker |
| |
Arthur |
1981 |
Best Actor |
Dudley Moore |
| |
Arthur |
1981 |
Best Original Screenplay |
Steve Gordon |
|
Arthur |
1981 |
Best Song |
Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager, Christopher Cross, Peter Allen |
|
Arthur |
1981 |
Best Supporting Actor |
John Gielgud |
| |
Atlantic City |
1981 |
Best Actor |
Burt Lancaster |
| |
Atlantic City |
1981 |
Best Actress |
Susan Sarandon |
| |
Atlantic City |
1981 |
Best Director |
Louis Malle |
| |
Atlantic City |
1981 |
Best Original Screenplay |
John Guare (Screenplay) |
| |
Atlantic City |
1981 |
Best Picture |
|
|
Chariots of Fire |
1981 |
Best Costume Design |
Milena Canonero |
| |
Chariots of Fire |
1981 |
Best Director |
Hugh Hudson |
| |
Chariots of Fire |
1981 |
Best Film Editing |
Terry Rawlings |
|
Chariots of Fire |
1981 |
Best Original Screenplay |
Colin Welland |
|
Chariots of Fire |
1981 |
Best Picture |
|
|
Chariots of Fire |
1981 |
Best Score |
Vangelis |
| |
Chariots of Fire |
1981 |
Best Supporting Actor |
Ian Holm |
| |
Dragonslayer |
1981 |
Best Score |
Alex North |
| |
Dragonslayer |
1981 |
Best Visual Effects |
Dennis Muren, Phil Tippett, Ken Ralston, Brian Johnson |
| |
Endless Love |
1981 |
Best Song |
Lionel Richie (Music & Lyrics) |
| |
Excalibur |
1981 |
Best Cinematography |
Alex Thomson |
| |
For Your Eyes Only |
1981 |
Best Song |
Bill Conti (Music), Mick Leeson (Lyrics) |
| |
The French Lieutenant's Woman |
1981 |
Best Actress |
Meryl Streep |
| |
The French Lieutenant's Woman |
1981 |
Best Adapted Screenplay |
Harold Pinter (Screenplay) |
| |
The French Lieutenant's Woman |
1981 |
Best Art Direction |
Assheton Gorton (Art Direction), Ann Mollo (Set Decoration) |
| |
The French Lieutenant's Woman |
1981 |
Best Costume Design |
Tom Rand |
| |
The French Lieutenant's Woman |
1981 |
Best Film Editing |
John Bloom |
| |
The Great Muppet Caper |
1981 |
Best Song |
Joe Raposo (Music & Lyrics) |
| |
Heartbeeps |
1981 |
Best Makeup |
Stan Winston |
| |
Heaven's Gate |
1981 |
Best Art Direction |
Tambi Larsen (Art Direction), Jim Berkey (Set Decoration) |
| |
Man of Iron |
1981 |
Best Foreign Language Film |
|
|
Mephisto |
1981 |
Best Foreign Language Film |
|
| |
Muddy River |
1981 |
Best Foreign Language Film |
|
|
On Golden Pond |
1981 |
Best Actor |
Henry Fonda |
|
On Golden Pond |
1981 |
Best Actress |
Katharine Hepburn |
|
On Golden Pond |
1981 |
Best Adapted Screenplay |
Ernest Thompson |
| |
On Golden Pond |
1981 |
Best Cinematography |
Billy Williams |
| |
On Golden Pond |
1981 |
Best Director |
Mark Rydell |
| |
On Golden Pond |
1981 |
Best Film Editing |
Robert L. Wolfe |
| |
On Golden Pond |
1981 |
Best Picture |
|
| |
On Golden Pond |
1981 |
Best Score |
Dave Grusin |
| |
On Golden Pond |
1981 |
Best Sound |
Richard Portman, David Ronne |
| |
On Golden Pond |
1981 |
Best Supporting Actress |
Jane Fonda |
| |
Only When I Laugh |
1981 |
Best Actress |
Marsha Mason |
| |
Only When I Laugh |
1981 |
Best Supporting Actor |
James Coco |
| |
Only When I Laugh |
1981 |
Best Supporting Actress |
Joan Hackett |
| |
Outland |
1981 |
Best Sound |
John K. Wilkinson, Robert W. Glass, Jr., Robert Thirwell, Robin Gregory |
| |
Pennies From Heaven |
1981 |
Best Adapted Screenplay |
Dennis Potter |
| |
Pennies From Heaven |
1981 |
Best Costume Design |
Bob Mackie |
| |
Pennies From Heaven |
1981 |
Best Sound |
Michael J. Kohut, Jay M. Harding, Richard Tyler, Al Overton |
| |
Prince of the City |
1981 |
Best Adapted Screenplay |
Jay Presson Allen, Sidney Lumet |
| |
Ragtime |
1981 |
Best Adapted Screenplay |
Michael Weller |
| |
Ragtime |
1981 |
Best Art Direction |
John Graysmark, Patrizia Von Brandenstein, Anthony Reading, George DeTitta, Sr., George DeTitta, Jr., Peter Howitt |
| |
Ragtime |
1981 |
Best Cinematography |
Miroslav Ondricek |
| |
Ragtime |
1981 |
Best Costume Design |
Anna Hill Johnstone |
| |
Ragtime |
1981 |
Best Score |
Randy Newman |
| |
Ragtime |
1981 |
Best Song |
Randy Newman |
| |
Ragtime |
1981 |
Best Supporting Actor |
Howard E. Rollins, Jr. |
| |
Ragtime |
1981 |
Best Supporting Actress |
Elizabeth McGovern |
|
Raiders of the Lost Ark |
1981 |
Best Art Direction |
Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley, Michael Ford |
| |
Raiders of the Lost Ark |
1981 |
Best Cinematography |
Douglas Slocombe |
| |
Raiders of the Lost Ark |
1981 |
Best Director |
Steven Spielberg |
|
Raiders of the Lost Ark |
1981 |
Best Film Editing |
Michael Kahn |
| |
Raiders of the Lost Ark |
1981 |
Best Picture |
|
| |
Raiders of the Lost Ark |
1981 |
Best Score |
John Williams |
|
Raiders of the Lost Ark |
1981 |
Best Sound |
Bill Varney, Steve Maslow, Gregg Landaker, Roy Charman |
|
Raiders of the Lost Ark |
1981 |
Best Visual Effects |
Richard Edlund, Kit West, Bruce Nicholson, Joe Johnston |
| |
Reds |
1981 |
Best Actor |
Warren Beatty |
| |
Reds |
1981 |
Best Actress |
Diane Keaton |
| |
Reds |
1981 |
Best Art Direction |
Richard Sylbert, Michael Seirton |
|
Reds |
1981 |
Best Cinematography |
Vittorio Storaro |
| |
Reds |
1981 |
Best Costume Design |
Shirley Russell |
|
Reds |
1981 |
Best Director |
Warren Beatty |
| |
Reds |
1981 |
Best Film Editing |
Dede Allen, Craig McKay |
| |
Reds |
1981 |
Best Original Screenplay |
Warren Beatty, Trevor Griffiths |
| |
Reds |
1981 |
Best Picture |
|
| |
Reds |
1981 |
Best Sound |
Dick Vorisek, Tom Fleischman, Simon Kaye |
| |
Reds |
1981 |
Best Supporting Actor |
Jack Nicholson |
|
Reds |
1981 |
Best Supporting Actress |
Maureen Stapleton |
| |
Three Brothers |
1981 |
Best Foreign Language Film |
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