52nd Academy Awards

Infobox Academy Awards
name = 52nd
caption = "Kramer vs. Kramer"
date = Monday, April 14, 1980
site = Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles
host = Johnny Carson
producer = Howard W. Koch
director = Marty Pasetta
duration = 3 hours, 12 minutes
network = ABC
last = 51st
next = 53rdThe 52nd Academy Awards were presented April 14, 1980 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Johnny Carson.

Winners & Nominees

Best Picture

"Kramer vs. Kramer"
*"All That Jazz"
*"Apocalypse Now"
*"Breaking Away"
*"Norma Rae"

Best Director

"Kramer vs. Kramer - Robert Benton"
*"All That Jazz - Bob Fosse"
*"Apocalypse Now - Francis Ford Coppola"
*"Birds of a Feather - Edouard Molinaro"
*"Breaking Away - Peter Yates"

Best Actor in a Leading Role

"Kramer vs. Kramer - Dustin Hoffman"
*"...And Justice for All - Al Pacino"
*"All That Jazz - Roy Scheider"
*"Being There - Peter Sellers"
*"The China Syndrome - Jack Lemmon"

Best Actress in a Leading Role

"Norma Rae - Sally Field"
*"Chapter Two - Marsha Mason"
*"The China Syndrome - Jane Fonda"
*"The Rose - Bette Midler"
*"Starting Over - Jill Clayburgh"

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

"Being There - Melvyn Douglas"
*"Apocalypse Now - Robert Duvall"
*"The Black Stallion - Mickey Rooney"
*"Kramer vs. Kramer - Justin Henry"
*"The Rose - Frederic Forrest"

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

"Kramer vs. Kramer - Meryl Streep"
*"Breaking Away - Barbara Barrie"
*"Kramer vs. Kramer - Jane Alexander"
*"Manhattan - Mariel Hemingway"
*"Starting Over - Candice Bergen"

Best Original Screenplay

"Breaking Away - Steve Tisech"
*"...And Justice for All - Valerie Curtin and Barry Levinson"
*"All That Jazz - Robert Alan Aurthur and Bob Fosse"
*"The China Syndrome - Mike Gray , T. S. Cook and James Bridges"
*"Manhattan - Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman"

Best Adapted Screenplay

"Kramer vs. Kramer - Robert Benton"
*"Apocalypse Now - Francis Ford Coppola and John Milius"
*"Birds of a Feather - Francis Veber , Edouard Molinaro , Marcello Danon and Jean Poiret"
*"A Little Romance - Allan Burns"
*"Norma Rae - Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr."

Best Cinematography

"Apocalypse Now - Vittorio Storaro"

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration

"All That Jazz - Philip Rosenberg , Tony Walton , Edward Stewart and Gary J. Brink"

Best Costume Design

"All That Jazz - Albert Wolsky"

Best Sound

"Apocalypse Now - Walter Murch , Mark Berger , Richard Beggs and Nathan Boxer"

Best Film Editing

"All That Jazz - Alan Heim"

Best Effects, Visual Effects

"Alien - H. R. Giger , Carlo Rambaldi , Brian Johnson , Denys Ayling and Nick Allder"

Best Music, Original Song

"Norma Rae - David Shire and Norman Gimbel for the song It Goes Like It Goes"

Best Music, Original Score

"A Little Romance - Georges Delerue"

Best Music, Original Song Score and Its Adaptation

"All That Jazz - Ralph Burns"

Best Short Film, Animated

"Every Child"

Best Short Film, Live Action

"Board and Care"

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

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Best Documentary, Features

"Best Boy"

Best Foreign Language Film

"The Tin Drum - West Germany"

Trivia

Host Johnny Carson, noting the long duration of the Academy Awards production, joked that President Jimmy Carter was working hard for their "release" from the ceremonies, a clear reference to the Iranian hostage crisis.