Oscar Rewrite: 1980

 

Best Picture: Ordinary People   Raging Bull

Best Director: Robert Redford (Ordinary People)    Stanley Kubrick (The Shining)

Best Actor: Robert DeNiro (Raging Bull)

Best Actress: Sissy Spacek (Coal Miner’s Daughter) Mary Tyler Moore (Ordinary People)

Best Supporting Actor: Timothy Hutton (Ordinary People) Bill Murray (Caddyshack)

Best Supporting Actress: Mary Steenburgen (Melvin & Howard) Betsy Palmer (Friday the 13th)

Best Original Screenplay: Melvin & Howard   Airplane!

Best Adapted Screenplay: Ordinary People   The Elephant Man

Jason Fraley

Hailed by The Washington Post for “his savantlike ability to name every Best Picture winner in history," Jason Fraley began at WTOP as Morning Drive Writer in 2008, film critic in 2011 and Entertainment Editor in 2014, providing daily arts coverage on-air and online.

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