38th Golden Globe Awards

38th Golden Globe Awards
Date	January 31, 1981
Highlights
Best Film: Drama	Ordinary People
Best Film: Musical or Comedy	Coal Miner's Daughter

The 38th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1980, were held on January 31, 1981.

Winners and nominees

Film

Best Motion Picture
Drama	Comedy or Musical
Ordinary People The Elephant Man The Ninth Configuration Raging Bull The Stunt Man	Coal Miner's Daughter Airplane! Fame The Idolmaker Melvin and Howard
Best Performance in a Motion Picture – Drama
Actor	Actress
Robert De Niro – Raging Bull as Jake La Motta John Hurt – The Elephant Man as John Merrick Jack Lemmon – Tribute as Scottie Templeton Peter O'Toole – The Stunt Man as Eli Cross Donald Sutherland – Ordinary People as Calvin Jarrett	Mary Tyler Moore – Ordinary People as Beth Jarrett Ellen Burstyn – Resurrection as Edna Mae McCauley Nastassja Kinski – Tess as Tess Durbeyfield Deborah Raffin – Touched by Love as Lena Canada Gena Rowlands – Gloria as Gloria Swenson
Best Performance in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Actor	Actress
Ray Sharkey – The Idolmaker as Vinnie Vacarri Neil Diamond – The Jazz Singer as Yussel Rabinovitch Tommy Lee Jones – Coal Miner's Daughter as Doolittle Mooney Lynn Paul Le Mat – Melvin and Howard as Melvin Dummar Walter Matthau – Hopscotch as Miles Kendig	Sissy Spacek – Coal Miner's Daughter as Loretta Lynn Irene Cara – Fame as Coco Hernandez Goldie Hawn – Private Benjamin as Judy Benjamin Bette Midler – Divine Madness! as Herself / The Divine Miss M Dolly Parton – 9 to 5 as Doralee Rhodes
Best Supporting Performance in a Motion Picture – Drama, Comedy or Musical
Supporting Actor	Supporting Actress
Timothy Hutton – Ordinary People as Conrad Jarrett Judd Hirsch – Ordinary People as Tyrone Berger Joe Pesci – Raging Bull as Joey LaMotta Jason Robards – Melvin and Howard as Howard Hughes Scott Wilson – The Ninth Configuration as Capt. Billy Cutshaw	Mary Steenburgen – Melvin and Howard as Lynda Dummar Lucie Arnaz – The Jazz Singer as Molly Bell Beverly D'Angelo – Coal Miner's Daughter as Patsy Cline Cathy Moriarty – Raging Bull as Vicki LaMotta Debra Winger – Urban Cowboy as Sissy Davis
Other
Best Director	Best Screenplay
Robert Redford – Ordinary People David Lynch – The Elephant Man Roman Polanski – Tess Richard Rush – The Stunt Man Martin Scorsese – Raging Bull	The Ninth Configuration – William Peter Blatty The Elephant Man – Eric Bergren and Christopher De Vore Ordinary People – Alvin Sargent Raging Bull – Mardik Martin and Paul Schrader The Stunt Man – Lawrence B. Marcus
Best Original Score	Best Original Song
The Stunt Man – Dominic Frontiere American Gigolo – Giorgio Moroder The Competition – Lalo Schifrin The Empire Strikes Back – John Williams Fame – Michael Gore Somewhere in Time – John Barry	"Fame" (Michael Gore, Dean Pitchford) – Fame "9 to 5" (Dolly Parton) – 9 to 5 "Call Me" (Giorgio Moroder, Debbie Harry, Blondie) – American Gigolo "Love on the Rocks" (Neil Diamond, Gilbert Bécaud) – The Jazz Singer "Yesterday's Dreams" (Michel Legrand, Carol Connors, Johnny Mathis) – Falling in Love Again
New Star of the Year – Actor	New Star of the Year – Actress
Timothy Hutton – Ordinary People as Conrad Jarrett Christopher Atkins – The Blue Lagoon as Richard LeStrange William Hurt – Altered States as Dr. Edward Jessup Michael O'Keefe – The Great Santini as Ben Meechum Steve Railsback – The Stunt Man as Cameron	Nastassja Kinski – Tess as Tess Durbeyfield Nancy Allen – Dressed to Kill as Liz Blake Cathy Moriarty – Raging Bull as Vicki LaMotta Dolly Parton – 9 to 5 as Doralee Rhodes Debra Winger – Urban Cowboy as Sissy Davis
Best Foreign Film
Tess (United Kingdom) 'Breaker' Morant (Australia) Kagemusha (Japan) The Last Metro (France) My Brilliant Career (Australia) Special Treatment (Yugoslavia)

Television

Best Series - Drama

Shōgun

• Dallas
• Hart to Hart
• Lou Grant
• Vega$
• The Scarlett O'Hara War

Best Series - Comedy or Musical

Taxi

• Alice
• The Love Boat
• M*A*S*H
• Soap

Best Miniseries or TV Film

The Shadow Box

• The Diary of Anne Frank
• The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd
• Playing for Time
• A Tale of Two Cities

Best Actor - Drama Series

Richard Chamberlain - Shōgun

• Edward Asner - Lou Grant
• Larry Hagman - Dallas
• Robert Urich - Vega$
• Robert Wagner - Hart to Hart

Best Actress - Drama Series

Yoko Shimada - Shōgun

• Barbara Bel Geddes - Dallas
• Melissa Gilbert - Little House on the Prairie
• Linda Gray - Dallas
• Stefanie Powers - Hart to Hart

Best Actor - Comedy or Musical Series

Alan Alda - M*A*S*H

• Judd Hirsch - Taxi
• Hal Linden - Barney Miller
• Gavin MacLeod - The Love Boat
• Wayne Rogers - House Calls

Best Actress - Comedy or Musical Series

Katherine Helmond - Soap

• Loni Anderson - WKRP in Cincinnati
• Polly Holliday - Flo
• Linda Lavin - Alice
• Lynn Redgrave - House Calls

Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or TV Film

Pat Harrington - One Day at a Time (tie)

Vic Tayback - Alice (tie)

• Danny DeVito - Taxi
• Andy Kaufman - Taxi
• Geoffrey Lewis - Flo

Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries or TV Film

Valerie Bertinelli - One Day at a Time
Diane Ladd - Alice

• Marilu Henner - Taxi
• Beth Howland - Alice
• Linda Kelsey - Lou Grant

See also

• 53rd Academy Awards
• 1st Golden Raspberry Awards
• 32nd Primetime Emmy Awards
• 33rd Primetime Emmy Awards
• 34th British Academy Film Awards
• 35th Tony Awards
• 1980 in film
• 1980 in American television

References

• IMdb 1981 Golden Globe Awards