Golden Globes
1981


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1981 39th Golden Globe Awards

Best Picture - Drama
The French Lieutenant's Woman - Leon Clore
On Golden Pond - Bruce Gilbert
Prince of the City - Jay Presson Allen, Burtt Harris
Ragtime - Dino De Laurentiis
Reds - Warren Beatty

Best Picture - Comedy or Musical
Arthur - Robert Greenhut
The Four Seasons - Martin Bregman
Pennies from Heaven - Nora Kaye, Herbert Ross
S.O.B. - Tony Adams, Blake Edwards
Zoot Suit - Peter Burrell

Best Actor - Drama
Warren Beatty - Reds
Henry Fonda - On Golden Pond
Timothy Hutton - Taps
Burt Lancaster - Atlantic City
Treat Williams - Prince of the City

Best Actor - Comedy or Musical
Alan Alda - The Four Seasons
George Hamilton - Zorro, the Gay Blade
Steve Martin - Pennies from Heaven
Walter Matthau - The First Monday in October
Dudley Moore - Arthur

Best Actress - Drama
Sally Field - Absence of Malice
Katharine Hepburn - On Golden Pond
Diane Keaton - Reds
Sissy Spacek - Raggedy Man
Meryl Streep - The French Lieutenant's Woman

Best Actress - Comedy or Musical
Blair Brown - Continental Divide
Carol Burnett - The Four Seasons
Jill Clayburgh - The First Monday in October
Liza Minnelli - Arthur
Bernadette Peters - Pennies from Heaven

Best Supporting Actor
James Coco - Only When I Laugh
John Gielgud - Arthur
Jack Nicholson - Reds
Howard Rollins - Ragtime
Orson Welles - Butterfly

Best Supporting Actress
Jane Fonda - On Golden Pond
Joan Hackett - Only When I Laugh
Kristy McNichol - Only When I Laugh
Maureen Stapleton - Reds
Mary Steenburgen - Ragtime

Best Director
Warren Beatty - Reds
Milos Forman - Ragtime
Sidney Lumet - Prince of the City
Louis Malle - Atlantic City
Mark Rydell - On Golden Pond
Steven Spielberg - Raiders of the Lost Ark

Best Screenplay
Absence of Malice - Kurt Luedtke
The Four Seasons - Alan Alda
The French Lieutenant's Woman - Harold Pinter
On Golden Pond - Ernest Thompson
Reds - Warren Beatty, Trevor Griffiths

Best Song
"Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" - Arthur - Peter Allen, Burt Bacharach, Christopher Cross, Carole Bayer Sager
"Endless Love" - Endless Love - Lionel Richie
"For Your Eyes Only" - For Your Eyes Only - Bill Conti, Mick Leeson
"It's Wrong For Me to Love You" - Butterfly - Ennio Morricone, Carol Connors
"One More Hour" - Ragtime - Randy Newman

Best New Star of the Year
Elizabeth McGovern - Ragtime
Howard Rollins - Ragtime
Kathleen Turner - Body Heat
Rachel Ward - Sharky's Machine
Craig Wasson - Four Friends
Pia Zadora - Butterfly

Best Foreign Film
Atlantic City - Canada / France
Chariots of Fire - United Kingdom
Das Boot - West Germany
Gallipoli - Australia
Pixote - Brazil

Cecil B. DeMille Award
Sidney Poitier