53rd Annual Academy Awards
March 31, 1981

The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles

"Film Is Forever"

Your Host: Johnny Carson

Televised over ABC

Welcoming address:President Ronald Reagan (filmed a week before)
In Memoriam tribute:Lucie Arnaz
Welcome and opening remarks:Academy President Fay Kanin
Supporting Actor:Jack Lemmon & Mary Tyler Moore
Award of Merit for the Optical Printer:Lily Tomlin
Short Films:Alan Arkin & Margot Kidder
Art Direction:Peter O'Toole & Sissy Spacek
Costume Design:Nastassja Kinski & Sigourney Weaver
Documentary Awards: (?)
Special Achievement Award (Visual Effects):Jack Valenti
Sound:Bernadette Peters & Billy Dee Williams
Foreign Film:Brooke Shields & Franco Zeffirelli
Original Score:The Nicholas Brothers
Film Editing:Richard Pryor & Jane Seymour
Supporting Actress:Diana Ross & Donald Sutherland
Song:Angie Dickinson & Luciano Pavarotti
Writing Awards:Peter Ustinov
Honorary Award to Henry Fonda:Robert Redford
Cinematography:Blythe Danner & Steve Martin
Director:George Cukor & King Vidor
Actor:Sally Field
Actress:Dustin Hoffman
Best Picture:Lillian Gish
"Fame"-- Irene Cara
"9 to 5"-- Dolly Parton
"On the Road Again"-- Willie Nelson
"Out Here on My Own"-- Irene Cara
"People Alone"-- Dionne Warwick

Robert Redford with his Oscar® for Best Director
Robert De Niro and Sissy Spacek with their Oscars® for Best Actor and Best Actress
Timothy Hutton (w. presenters Jack Lemmon and Mary Tyler Moore) and his Oscar® for Best Supporting Actor
Mary Steenburgen (w. presenters Donald Sutherland and Diana Ross) and her Oscar® for Best Supporting Actress

Thelma Schoonmaker (w. presenters Jane Seymour and Richard Pryor) and her Award for Film Editing
Pierre Guffroy and Jack Stephens with their Awards for Art Direction
Anthony Powell (w. presenters Sigourney Weaver and Natassja Kinski) and his Oscar® for Costume Design
Geoffrey Unsworth & Ghislain Cloquet (w. presenters Steve Martin and Blythe Danner) and the Oscars® for Cinematography
Show Producer:Norman Jewison
Telecast Director for ABC:Marty Pasetta