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award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, located in Beverly Hills, California, U.S. It honors the film deemed the best of a given year—as determined by the academy’s voting members—and is typically regarded as the most prestigious of the various Academy Awards. The prize, which was initially known as ...
The 53rd Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 1980 and took place on March 31, 1981, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, beginning at 7:00 p.m. PST / 10:00 p.m. EST.
The competitive category was created in 1981 as the Academy Award for Best Makeup, after the academy received complaints that the makeup work in The Elephant Man (1980) was not being honored. Although no award was given to The Elephant Man , an entire category dedicated to honoring makeup effects in film was created for subsequent ceremonies.
Cinematography (Black-and-White) - Joseph LaShelle Music (Song) - Through A Long And Sleepless Night in "Come to the Stable" Music by Alfred Newman; Lyrics by Mack Gordon Writing (Motion Picture Story) - Clare Boothe Luce
Jane Campion, Tanya Seghatchian, Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Roger Frappier, Producers
Feb 22, 2017 · This is the fifth examination at every Academy Award for Best Picture winner, and this is where the history of winners really starts to slow down. After the blazing experimentations of the ‘60s and ‘70s winners, something happened in the ‘80s that created the phenomenon we all know as “Oscar Bait”.
* Best Picture - Saul Zaentz, Producer * Sound - Mark Berger, Tom Scott, Todd Boekelheide, Chris Newman * Writing (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) - Peter Shaffer Actor in a Leading Role - Tom Hulce Cinematography - Miroslav Ondricek
