The Film Awards 1981

Nominations
==Best Picture==
* Chariots of Fire
* Raiders of the Lost Ark
* For Your Eyes Only
* On Golden Pond
* Reds
* Atlantic City
* Arthur
* Ragtime
* The Fox and the Hound
* Das Boot
==Best Animated Film==
* The Fox and the Hound
* American Pop
* Heavy Metal
* The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie
* Peter No Tail
* The Little Fox
==Best Animated Sound Mixing==
* Maria, Mirabela (Dan Ionescu and Vladimir Kutuzov)
* Peter No Tail (Lennart Duner, Bengt Lothner and Lasse Summanen)
* American Pop (John Glascock, David M. Horton and Richard Portman)
* The Fox and the Hound (Herb Taylor, Robert Hathaway and Frank Regula)
* Heavy Metal (Austin & Joe Grimaldi and Don White)
==Best Animated Sound Editing==
* Peter No Tail (Bengt Lothner)
* Heavy Metal (Peter Thillaye)
==Best Horror Film==
* Friday the 13th Part II
* The Evil Dead
* An American Werewolf in London
* The Burning
* The Funhouse
* Halloween II
* Happy Birthday to Me
* The Howling
* Omen III: The Final Conflict
* Piranha II: The Spawning
* Nightmare
==Best Horror Sound Mixing==
* An American Werewolf in London (Gerry Humphreys, Ivan Sharrock and Don Banks)
* The Evil Dead (Mel Zelniker, John Mason, Jerrell Frederick and Josh Becker)
* Omen III: The Final Conflict (Roy Charman, Bill Rowe, Lionel Strutt and Mike Tucker)
* Halloween II (Steve Maslow, Gregg Landaker, Bill Varney and Thomas Causey)
* Friday the 13th Part II (Richard Murphy, David Platt and Lee Dichter)
==Best Horror Sound Editing==
* The Funhouse (David A. Whittaker)
* The Evil Dead (Joe Masefield and Lon Kleinman)
* Omen III: The Final Conflict (William Trent)
==Best Comedy Film==
* Stripes
* Arthur
* History of the World, Part 1
* The Cannonball Run
* Caveman
* The Incredible Shrinking Woman
* Buddy Buddy
* Polyester
* S.O.B.
* Carbon Copy
* Tarzan, The Ape Man
==Best Comedy Sound Mixing==
* Stripes (Tom Becker, Gene S. Cantamessa, Wayne Artman and Michael Jiron)
* Tarzan, The Ape Man (Robert Glass, Robert Knudson, Don Digirolamo and William Randall)
* Arthur (James & Louis Sabat, Dick Vorisek and Vito L. Ilardi)
* History of the World, Part 1 (Les Fresholtz, Gene S. Cantamessa, Arthur Piantadosi and Tex Rudloff)
* Caveman (Theodore Soderberg, Claude Hitchcock, Jay Wertz and Paul Wells)
==Best Comedy Sound Editing==
* Tarzan, The Ape Man (Virginia Cook-McGowan and Donald L. Warner Jr.)
* Arthur (Sanford Rackow and Melissa A. Higgins)
* Polyester (Skip Lievsay)
==Best Sci-Fi Film==
* Escape from New York
* Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
* Outland
* Inseminoid
* Scanners
* Time Bandits
* The Last Chase
* Looker
* Heartbeeps
* Lifepod
* Galaxy of Terror
* Blood Beach
==Best Sci-Fi Sound Mixing==
* Time Bandits (Paul Carr, Garth Marshall and Brian Paxton)
* Outland (John Wilkinson, Robert Glass Jr., Robert Thirlwell and Robin Gregory)
* Escape from New York (Steve Maslow, Gregg Landaker, Bill Varney and Thomas Causey)
* Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (Roger Savage, Bryon Kennedy, Bruce Lamshed and David Watts)
* Scanners (Don Cohen, Paul Coombe, Mike Hoogenboom and Gabor Vadnay)
==Best Sci-Fi Sound Editing==
* Inseminoid (Chris Reed and Jim Elderton)
* Outland (John Wilkinson)
* Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (Anne Breslin and Bruce Lamshed)