# 38th Golden Globe Awards

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) – 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) ||
The following films received multiple nominations:
| Nominations | Title |
| 8 | Ordinary People |
| 7 | Raging Bull |
| 5 | The Stunt Man |
| 4 | Coal Miner's Daughter |
| 4 | The Elephant Man |
| 4 | Fame |
| 3 | 9 to 5 |
| 3 | The Jazz Singer |
| 3 | Melvin and Howard |
| 3 | The Ninth Configuration |
| 3 | Tess |
| 2 | American Gigolo |
| 2 | The Idolmaker |
| 2 | Urban Cowboy |
The following films received multiple wins:
| Wins | Title |
| 5 | Ordinary People |
| 2 | Coal Miner's Daughter |
| 2 | Tess |

### Television

Best Television Series :
| Drama | Musical or Comedy |
| Shōgun Dallas Hart to Hart Lou Grant Vega$ The Scarlett O'Hara War | Taxi Alice The Love Boat M*A*S*H Soap |
| Best Performance in a Television Series Drama ||
| Actor | Actress |
| Richard Chamberlain - Shōgun as John Blacthorne Edward Asner - Lou Grant as Lou Grant Larry Hagman - Dallas as J.R. Ewing Robert Urich - Vega$ as Dan Tanna Robert Wagner - Hart to Hart as Jonathan Hart | Yoko Shimada - Shōgun as Lady Toda Mariko Barbara Bel Geddes - Dallas as Miss Ellie Ewing Farlow Melissa Gilbert - Little House on the Prairie as Laura Ingalls Wilder Linda Gray - Dallas as Sue Ellen Ewing Stefanie Powers - Hart to Hart as Jennifer Hart |
| Best Performance in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy ||
| Actor | Actress |
| Alan Alda - M*A*S*H as Capt. Benjamin "Hawkeye" Pierce Judd Hirsch - Taxi as Alex Reiger Hal Linden - Barney Miller as Capt. Bernard "Barney" Miller Gavin MacLeod - The Love Boat as Capt. Merrill Stubing Wayne Rogers - House Calls as Dr. Charley Michaels | Katherine Helmond - Soap as Jessica Tate Loni Anderson - WKRP in Cincinnati as Jennifer Marlowe Polly Holliday - Flo as Florence "Flo" Castleberry Linda Lavin - Alice as Alice Hyatt Lynn Redgrave - House Calls as Ann Atkinson |
| Best Supporting Performance in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film ||
| Supporting Actor | Supporting Actress |
| Pat Harrington - One Day at a Time as Dwayne Schneider (tie) Vic Tayback - Alice as Mel Sharples (tie) Danny DeVito - Taxi as Louie De Palma Andy Kaufman - Taxi as Latka Gravas Geoffrey Lewis - Flo as Earl Tucker | Valerie Bertinelli - One Day at a Time as Barbara Cooper Royer (tie) Diane Ladd - Alice as Isabelle "Belle" Dupree (tie) Marilu Henner - Taxi as Elaine O'Connor Nardo Beth Howland - Alice as Vera Gorman Novak Linda Kelsey - Lou Grant as Billie Newman |
| Best Miniseries or Television Film ||
| The Shadow Box The Diary of Anne Frank The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd Playing for Time A Tale of Two Cities ||
The following programs received multiple nominations:
| Nominations | Title |
| 5 | Taxi |
| 4 | Alice |
| 4 | Dallas |
| 3 | Lou Grant |
| 3 | Shōgun |
| 2 | Flo |
| 2 | Hart to Hart |
| 2 | House Calls |
| 2 | The Love Boat |
| 2 | M*A*S*H |
| 2 | One Day at a Time |
| 2 | Soap |
| 2 | Vega$ |
The following programs received multiple wins:
| Wins | Title |
| 3 | Shōgun |
| 2 | Alice |
| 2 | Once Day at a Time |

### Cecil B. DeMille Award

Gene Kelly