1981

Best Picture

Excalibur
-Reds
-Raiders of the Lost Ark
-Ragtime
-Arthur

Best Director

Warren Beatty for Reds
-John Boorman for Excalibur
-Steven Spielberg for Raiders of the Lost Ark
-Wolfgang Peterson for Das Boot
-Milos Forman for Ragtime

Best Actor

"You're a hooker? Jesus, I forgot! I just thought I was doing GREAT with you!"
Dudley Moore as Arthur Bach in Arthur
-Warren Beatty as John Reed in Reds
-Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark
-Paul Newman as Michael Colin Gallagher in Absence of Malice
-James Caan as Frank in Thief

Best Actress

"I'm sure we know a lot of the same people."
Liza Minelli as Linda Morolla in Arthur
-Diane Keaton as Louise Bryant in Reds
-Kathleen Turner as Matty Walker in Body Heat
-Katherine Hepburn as Ethel Thayer in On Golden Pond
-Sally Field as Megan Carter in Absense of Malice

Best Supporting Actor

"Of course you hate it here. People work here."
John Gielgud as Hobson in Arthur
-Howard E. Rollins as Coalhouse Walker Jr. in Ragtime
-Ian Holm as Sam Mussabini in Chariots of Fire
-Jack Nicholson as Eugene O'Neill in Reds
-Tom Cruise as Cadet Capt. David Shawn in Taps

Best Supporting Actress

"I think voting is the opium of the masses in this country. Every four years you deaden the pain."
Maureen Stapleton as "Red" Emma Goldman in Reds
-Helen Mirren as Morgana in Excalibur
-Jane Fonda as Chelsea Thayer Wayne in On Golden Pond
-Melinda Dillon as Teresa Perrone in Absence of Malice
-Elizabeth McGovern as Evelyn Nesbit in Ragtime

Best Screenplay

"Everyone who drinks is not a poet. Maybe some of us drink because we're not poets."
Arthur
-Stripes
-Ragtime
-Reds
-Raiders of the Lost Ark
-Excalibur