1981 awards

Academy Award for Best Picture

Winner Ordinary PeopleRonald L. Schwary

Academy Award for Best Director

Winner Ordinary PeopleRobert Redford

Academy Award for Best Actor

Academy Award for Best Actress

Winner Coal Miner's DaughterSissy Spacek

Golden Globe Awards

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Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama

Winner Ordinary People

Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy

Winner Coal Miner's Daughter

Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama

Winner Raging BullRobert De Niro

Winner The IdolmakerRay Sharkey

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama

Winner Ordinary PeopleMary Tyler Moore Winner Coal Miner's DaughterSissy Spacek

BAFTA Award for Best Film

Winner The Elephant ManJonathan Sanger

BAFTA Award for Best Direction

Winner KagemushaAkira Kurosawa

BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role

Winner The Elephant ManJohn Hurt

BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role

Winner My Brilliant CareerJudy Davis Winner Kramer vs. KramerMeryl Streep

Palme d'Or

Winner Czlowiek z zelazaAndrzej Wajda

Grand Prix

Winner Light Years AwayAlain Tanner

Best Screenplay

Winner MephistoIstván Szabó

Best Actress

Winner QuartetIsabelle Adjani

Golden Lion

Winner Marianne and JulianeMargarethe von Trotta

Special Jury Prize

IN-COMPETITION

Winner Sweet DreamsNanni Moretti Winner They Don't Wear Black TieLeon Hirszman

Silver Lion

Winner Do You Remember Dolly Bell?Emir Kusturica

Golden Bear

Winner Faster, FasterCarlos Saura

Silver Bear

Winner Akaler SandhaneSilver Bear – Special Jury Prize, Mrinal Sen

Silver Bear for Best Actress

Winner FeverBarbara Grabowska

Silver Bear for Best Actor

Golden Horse Award for Best Feature Film

Winner If I Were for Real

Golden Horse Award for Best Documentary

Golden Horse Award for Best Animated Feature

Golden Horse Award for Best Director

Winner All the Wrong CluesTsui Hark

Best Film

Winner Legend of Tianyun Mountain Winner 巴山夜雨

Golden Rooster Award for Best Director

Winner Legend of Tianyun MountainXie Jin

Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress

Winner Romance on Lushan MountainZhang Yu

Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actor

Winner 巴山夜雨Shi Ling, Ouyang Ruqiu, Mao Weihui, Lin Bin, Zhong Xinghuo, Lu Qing

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie

Winner Playing for Time

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Miniseries

Winner Shogun

Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

Winner 遥かなる山の呼び声Chieko Baisho

Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

Winner The Revolt

Japan Academy Prize for Most Popular Actor

Winner セーラー服と機関銃Hiroko Yakushimaru

César Award

Honorary César

César Award for Best Foreign Film

Winner KagemushaAkira Kurosawa

David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress

Winner The Last Metro

David di Donatello for Best Director

Winner Three Brothers

David di Donatello for Best Costumes

Winner FontamaraLuciano Calosso

David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress

German Film Award for Best Feature Film

Filmband in Gold

Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film

Winner Ordinary PeopleRobert Redford

Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Drama Series

Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Comedy Series

Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Musical Variety

Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay

Winner Melvin and HowardBo Goldman

Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay

Winner Private BenjaminNancy Meyers, Charles Shyer

Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

Winner Ordinary PeopleAlvin Sargent, Judith Guest

Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

Winner Airplane!Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Arthur Hailey

Winsor McCay Award

Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film

Winner The Empire Strikes Back

Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film

Winner Somewhere in Time

Saturn Award for Best Horror Film

Winner The Howling

Saturn Award for Best International Film

Winner Scanners

Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture

Winner Can't Stop the MusicAFD

Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director

Winner XanaduRobert Greenwald

Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor

Winner The Jazz SingerNeil Diamond

Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress

Winner The Blue LagoonBrooke Shields