The biopic of Loretta Lynn, "Coal Miner's Daughter," was nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture, It won one Oscar for Actress Sissy Spacek, but depriverd its helmer Michael Apted from a Director nomination.

In 1980, Redford's feature debut “Ordinary People,” which swept the most important Oscars, competed with two superlative films (both in black-and-white): Lynch's “The Elephant Man,” which received 8 nominations but lost in each one of them, and Scorsese's “Raging Bull,” which also received 8 nods, winning two: For Actor Robert DeNiro and for Thelma Schoonmaker's editing.

“Day for Night” was nominated for four Oscars, including Best Director for Francois Truffaut, and won the Foreign-Language Film Award.

The Russian film, “The Dawns Here Are Quiet,” was nominated for the Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar.

“The Dawn Patrol” won the Original Story Oscar for John Monk Saunders.