1980 Alternate Oscars

Best Picture of 1980 (Poll Closed)

• Airplane!  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• The Blues Brothers  1.96%  (1 votes)  
   
• Breaker Morant  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• Caddyshack  5.88%  (3 votes)  
   
• The Elephant Man  9.8%  (5 votes)  
   
• The Empire Strikes Back  9.8%  (5 votes)  
   
• Kagemusha  3.92%  (2 votes)  
   
• ✔ Ordinary People  15.69%  (8 votes)  
   
• ★ Raging Bull  45.1%  (23 votes)  
   
• The Shining  7.84%  (4 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 51

 

Best Actor of 1980 (Poll Closed)

• ★ ✔ Robert De Niro (Raging Bull)  75.82%  (69 votes)  
   
• John Hurt (The Elephant Man)  4.4%  (4 votes)  
   
• ✱ Timothy Hutton (Ordinary People)  9.89%  (9 votes)  
   
• Walter Matthau (Hopscotch)  4.4%  (4 votes)  
   
• Jack Nicholson (The Shining)  5.49%  (5 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 91

 

Best Actress of 1980 (Poll Closed)

• Ellen Burstyn (Resurrection)  2.75%  (3 votes)  
   
• Catherine Deneuve (The Last Metro)  11.01%  (12 votes)  
   
• Goldie Hawn (Private Benjamin)  4.59%  (5 votes)  
   
• Nastassja Kinski (Tess)  8.26%  (9 votes)  
   
• ★ ✔ Sissy Spacek (Coal Miner's Daughter)  73.39%  (80 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 109

 

Best Director of 1980 (Poll Closed)

• Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker (Airplane!)  1.43%  (1 votes)  
   
• Akira Kurosawa (Kagemusha)  5.71%  (4 votes)  
   
• David Lynch (The Elephant Man)  7.14%  (5 votes)  
   
• ✔ Robert Redford (Ordinary People)  15.71%  (11 votes)  
   
• ★ Martin Scorsese (Raging Bull)  70%  (49 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 70

 

Best Supporting Actor of 1980 (Poll Closed)

• Judd Hirsch (Ordinary People)  13.59%  (14 votes)  
   
• Bill Murray (Caddyshack)  23.3%  (24 votes)  
   
• Joe Pesci (Raging Bull)  48.54%  (50 votes)  
   
• Jack Thompson (Breaker Morant)  2.91%  (3 votes)  
   
• ★ Jack Warden (Used Cars)  11.65%  (12 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 103

 

Best Supporting Actress of 1980 (Poll Closed)

• Eileen Brennan (Private Benjamin)  3.45%  (4 votes)  
   
• ★ Mary Tyler Moore (Ordinary People)  67.24%  (78 votes)  
   
• Cathy Moriarty (Raging Bull)  14.66%  (17 votes)  
   
• Charlotte Rampling (Stardust Memories)  5.17%  (6 votes)  
   
• ✔ Mary Steenburgen (Melvin and Howard)  9.48%  (11 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 116

 

Special Award (Poll Closed)

• Michael Chapman (Raging Bull) (cinematography)  14.55%  (8 votes)  
   
• Thelma Schoonmaker (Raging Bull) (film editing)  32.73%  (18 votes)  
   
• Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley, Harry Lange, Alan Tomkins and Michael Ford (The Empire Strikes Back) (art direction / set decoration)  7.27%  (4 votes)  
   
• Brian Johnson, Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren and Bruce Nicholson (The Empire Strikes Back) (visual effects)  3.64%  (2 votes)  
   
• The Blues Brothers (best soundtrack)  9.09%  (5 votes)  
   
• Lloyd Bridges as Steve McCroskey (Airplane!) (character most in need of a 12-step program)  7.27%  (4 votes)  
   
• Jimmy Carter (Used Cars) (funniest Presidential cameo)  3.64%  (2 votes)  
   
• Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight and Bill Murray (Caddyshack) (best golfing foursome since Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods)  21.81%  (12 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 55

 

My choices are noted with a ★. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. A historical winner who won in a different category is noted with a ✱.

The Academy nominated Mary Tyler Moore as the lead in Ordinary People and Timothy Hutton as supporting actor, I think largely based on their stature in the film industry — this was Hutton's first feature whereas Moore had been a star of television for twenty years. But I think it's pretty clear Hutton was the lead, so I've nominated Hutton and Moore for alternate Oscars in the categories where I think they belong.

I've blogged ahead to the middle of June so that there will be no interruption in the weekly voting, but starting tomorrow I won't be here to read or answer comments for quite a while. Feel free to have your say and I'll catch up later this Spring.

Oh, and a happy 25th anniversary today to Turner Classic Movies, the best movie network on the planet! Fingers crossed for another 25!