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- DirectorBob FosseStarsRoy ScheiderJessica LangeAnn ReinkingDirector/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid career of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer.BEST PICTURE
All That Jazz
Apocalypse Now
The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel)
Alien
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Kramer vs. Kramer
The China Syndrome
Being There
Mad Max
Nosferatu the Vampyre (Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht) - DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMartin SheenMarlon BrandoRobert DuvallA U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.BEST DIRECTOR
Francis Ford Coppola - Apocalypse Now
Bob Fosse - All That Jazz
Volker Schlöndorff - The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel)
Ridley Scott - Alien
Rainer Werner Fassbinder - The Marriage of Maria Braun (Die Ehe der Maria Braun)
Robert Benton - Kramer vs. Kramer - DirectorRobert BentonStarsDustin HoffmanMeryl StreepJane AlexanderAfter his wife leaves him, a work-obsessed Manhattan advertising executive is forced to learn long-neglected parenting skills, but a heated custody battle over the couple's young son deepens the wounds left by the separation.BEST ACTOR
Dustin Hoffman - Kramer vs. Kramer
Roy Scheider - All That Jazz
Martin Sheen - Apocalypse Now
Jack Lemmon - The China Syndrome
Peter Sellers - Being There
David Bennent - The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel) - DirectorMartin RittStarsSally FieldBeau BridgesRon LeibmanA young single mother and textile worker agrees to help unionize her mill despite the problems and dangers involved.BEST ACTRESS
Sally Field - Norma Rae
Jane Fonda - The China Syndrome
Hanna Schygulla - The Marriage of Maria Braun (Die Ehe der Maria Braun)
Sigourney Weaver - Alien - DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMartin SheenMarlon BrandoRobert DuvallA U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Robert Duvall - Apocalypse Now
Ian Holm - Alien
John Hurt - Alien
Marlon Brando - Apocalypse Now
Melvyn Douglas - Being There
Justin Henry - Kramer vs. Kramer - DirectorRobert BentonStarsDustin HoffmanMeryl StreepJane AlexanderAfter his wife leaves him, a work-obsessed Manhattan advertising executive is forced to learn long-neglected parenting skills, but a heated custody battle over the couple's young son deepens the wounds left by the separation.BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Meryl Streep - Kramer vs. Kramer
Jane Alexander - Kramer vs. Kramer
Veronica Cartwright - Alien
Leland Palmer - All That Jazz
Vanessa Redgrave - Yanks - DirectorRobert BentonStarsDustin HoffmanMeryl StreepJane AlexanderAfter his wife leaves him, a work-obsessed Manhattan advertising executive is forced to learn long-neglected parenting skills, but a heated custody battle over the couple's young son deepens the wounds left by the separation.BEST CASTING
Kramer vs. Kramer
The China Syndrome
Apocalypse Now
Alien
Being There
Monty Python's Life of Brian - DirectorTerry JonesStarsGraham ChapmanJohn CleeseMichael PalinBorn on the original Christmas in the stable next door to Jesus Christ, Brian of Nazareth spends his life being mistaken for a messiah.BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Monty Python's Life of Brian
The China Syndrome
All That Jazz
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Die Ehe der Maria Braun)
Alien - DirectorRobert BentonStarsDustin HoffmanMeryl StreepJane AlexanderAfter his wife leaves him, a work-obsessed Manhattan advertising executive is forced to learn long-neglected parenting skills, but a heated custody battle over the couple's young son deepens the wounds left by the separation.BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Kramer vs. Kramer
Apocalypse Now
Being There
The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel)
Norma Rae
Nosferatu the Vampyre (Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht) - DirectorTerry JonesStarsGraham ChapmanJohn CleeseMichael PalinBorn on the original Christmas in the stable next door to Jesus Christ, Brian of Nazareth spends his life being mistaken for a messiah.BEST TITLES/CREDITS DESIGN
Monty Python's Life of Brian
All That Jazz
Mad Max
Alien
Moonraker
Apocalypse Now - DirectorBob FosseStarsRoy ScheiderJessica LangeAnn ReinkingDirector/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid career of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer.BEST EDITING
All That Jazz
Apocalypse Now
Alien
Kramer vs. Kramer
Mad Max
The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel) - DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMartin SheenMarlon BrandoRobert DuvallA U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Apocalypse Now
Alien
Nosferatu the Vampyre (Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht)
All That Jazz
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Die Ehe der Maria Braun)
The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel) - DirectorRidley ScottStarsSigourney WeaverTom SkerrittJohn HurtThe crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin.BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Alien
All That Jazz
The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel)
Nosferatu the Vampyre (Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht)
Apocalypse Now
Moonraker - DirectorBob FosseStarsRoy ScheiderJessica LangeAnn ReinkingDirector/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid career of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer.BEST COSTUME DESIGN
All That Jazz
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Die Ehe der Maria Braun)
The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel)
Yanks
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Nosferatu the Vampyre (Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht) - DirectorRidley ScottStarsSigourney WeaverTom SkerrittJohn HurtThe crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin.BEST MAKE-UP & HAIR
Alien
Nosferatu the Vampyre (Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht)
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Apocalypse Now
All That Jazz
The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel) - DirectorRidley ScottStarsSigourney WeaverTom SkerrittJohn HurtThe crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin.BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Alien
Moonraker
The Amityville Horror - DirectorStuart RosenbergStarsJames BrolinMargot KidderRod SteigerNewlyweds and their three children move into a large house where a mass murder was committed. They start to experience strange, inexplicable manifestations which have strong effects on everyone living in or visiting the house.BEST SCORE
The Amityville Horror
Alien
The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel)
Mad Max - DirectorBob FosseStarsRoy ScheiderJessica LangeAnn ReinkingDirector/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid career of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer.BEST SOUNDTRACK/ADAPTED SCORE
All That Jazz
Apocalypse Now
Kramer vs. Kramer - DirectorTerry JonesStarsGraham ChapmanJohn CleeseMichael PalinBorn on the original Christmas in the stable next door to Jesus Christ, Brian of Nazareth spends his life being mistaken for a messiah.BEST SONG
Monty Python's Life of Brian - "Bright Side of Life"
Norma Rae - "It Goes Like It Goes"
Monty Python's Life of Brian - "Brian"
Moonraker - "Moonraker" - DirectorBob FosseStarsRoy ScheiderJessica LangeAnn ReinkingDirector/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid career of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer.BEST DANCE CHOREOGRAPHY
All That Jazz - DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMartin SheenMarlon BrandoRobert DuvallA U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.BEST SOUND
Apocalypse Now
Alien
All That Jazz
The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel)
Moonraker
Mad Max - DirectorRidley ScottStarsSigourney WeaverTom SkerrittJohn HurtThe crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin.BEST SOUND EDITING
Alien
Moonraker
Apocalypse Now
Mad Max
The Amityville Horror
Nosferatu the Vampyre (Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht) - DirectorLewis GilbertStarsRoger MooreLois ChilesMichael LonsdaleJames Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle, and discovers a plot to commit global genocide.BEST STUNTS
Moonraker
Mad Max
Alien
Apocalypse Now - DirectorVolker SchlöndorffStarsDavid BennentMario AdorfAngela WinklerIn 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.BEST FOREIGN FILM
The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel)
Nosferatu the Vampyre (Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Die Ehe der Maria Braun)