hbilly

The Shining is now regarded as one of the greatest horror films ever made, but wasn't upon release.

In what Oscar categories do you think The Shining should have won? Multiple voting options.

For those in need to weigh in and compare, here are all the 1980 Oscar nominees and winners:

Best Picture:

Ordinary People – Ronald L. Schwary (Won)
Coal Miner's Daughter – Bernard Schwartz
The Elephant Man – Jonathan Sanger
Raging Bull – Robert Chartoff, Irwin Winkler
Tess – Claude Berri

Best Director:

Robert Redford – Ordinary People (Won)
David Lynch – The Elephant Man
Martin Scorsese – Raging Bull
Richard Rush – The Stunt Man
Roman Polanski – Tess

Best Actor:

Robert De Niro – Raging Bull as Jake LaMotta (Won)
Robert Duvall – The Great Santini as Lt. Col. Wilbur "Bull" Meechum
John Hurt – The Elephant Man as Joseph Merrick
Jack Lemmon – Tribute as Scottie Templeton
Peter O'Toole – The Stunt Man as Eli Cross

Best Actress:

Sissy Spacek – Coal Miner's Daughter as Loretta Lynn (Won)
Ellen Burstyn – Resurrection as Edna Mae McCauley
Goldie Hawn – Private Benjamin as Judy Benjamin
Mary Tyler Moore – Ordinary People as Beth Jarrett
Gena Rowlands – Gloria as Gloria Swenson

Best Supporting Actor:

Timothy Hutton – Ordinary People as Conrad Jarrett (Won)
Judd Hirsch – Ordinary People as Dr. Tyrone C. Berger
Michael O'Keefe – The Great Santini as Ben
Joe Pesci – Raging Bull as Joey LaMotta
Jason Robards – Melvin and Howard as Howard Hughes

Best Adapted Screenplay:

Ordinary People – Alvin Sargent (Won)
Breaker Morant – Jonathan Hardy, David Stevens and Bruce Beresford
Coal Miner's Daughter – Tom Rickman
The Elephant Man – Christopher De Vore, Eric Bergren and David Lynch
The Stunt Man – Screenplay by Lawrence B. Marcus; Adaptation by Richard Rush

Best Film Editing:

Raging Bull – Thelma Schoonmaker (Won)
Coal Miner's Daughter – Arthur Schmidt
The Competition – David Blewitt
The Elephant Man – Anne V. Coates
Fame – Gerry Hambling

Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score:

Fame – Michael Gore (Won)
Altered States – John Corigliano
The Elephant Man – John Morris
The Empire Strikes Back – John Williams
Tess – Philippe Sarde

Best Art Direction:

Tess – Art Direction and Set Decoration: Pierre Guffroy and Jack Stephens (Won)
Coal Miner's Daughter – Art Direction: John W. Corso; Set Decoration: John M. Dwyer
The Elephant Man – Art Direction: Stuart Craig and Bob Cartwright; Set Decoration: Hugh Scaife
The Empire Strikes Back – Art Direction: Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley, Harry Lange and Alan Tomkins; Set Decoration: Michael Ford
Kagemusha – Art Direction and Set Decoration: Yoshirō Muraki

Best Cinematography:

Tess – Geoffrey Unsworth and Ghislain Cloquet (Won)
The Blue Lagoon – Nestor Almendros
Coal Miner's Daughter – Ralf D. Bode
The Formula – James Crabe
Raging Bull – Michael Chapman

Best Costume Design:

Tess – Anthony Powell (Won)
The Elephant Man – Patricia Norris
My Brilliant Career – Anna Senior
Somewhere in Time – Jean-Pierre Dorleac
When Time Ran Out – Paul Zastupnevich

Best Sound:

The Empire Strikes Back – Bill Varney, Steve Maslow, Gregg Landaker and Peter Sutton (Won)
Altered States – Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Michael Minkler and Willie D. Burton
Coal Miner's Daughter – Richard Portman, Roger Heman and James R. Alexander
Fame – Michael J. Kohut, Aaron Rochin, Jay M. Harding and Christopher Newman
Raging Bull – Donald O. Mitchell, Bill Nicholson, David J. Kimball and Les Lazarowitz

Best Visual Effects:

No Nominees that year

story

Am I weighing the categories against the real nominees that year? Can you put up that list?

hbilly

Will do.

RichC2

Here are the nominees and winners from the 53rd Academy Awards (held March 31st, 1981):

TomOpus

Really? Who decided it?

Where's the selection in the poll for Worst Adaptation of a Stephen King Novel?

inri222

I love The Shining and just about every Kubrick film, but IMO Raging Bull got the shaft that year by only winning best actor and editing.

RichC2

If that were a realistic option I'm sure it'd be there, unfortunately we live in a world where Cell exists.

EddieMoney

Solid Snake

Was that a copy and paste from wikipedia that somehow brought along the code for the links and such?

Mabuse

I love the Shining. It's one of my favorites. In a just world it would have been recognized for the brilliant film that it is right away. But lining it up with Raging Bull in those categories I have to give Raging Bull the win. For instance, the use of sound in the Shining is brilliant, but I think Raging Bull still beats it.

Groucho

Danny Lloyd for Best Supporting Actor? Come on.

inri222

RichC2

I did source view on the wiki and copied the table code

Decker

It probably should have gotten some nominations (especially for Cinematography and Art Direction), but NO WAY is it a better film, or better directed or acted than Raging Bull. If there were a film that got hosed that night in 1981, it was Raging Bull.

d2cheer

The Shining was a bit ahead of its time but it is still mediocre.

Ash Ketchum

I don't care what Oscars THE SHINING did or didn't get. I still can't believe THE STUNT MAN got any noms. That's one of the most pretentious pieces of nonsense I've ever seen. And I see enough unpretentious nonsense to know the difference.

The best film of 1980 remains:

Ky-Fi

You bastard.

Numanoid

Worse than Maximum Overdrive, Cujo, Children of the Corn, Firestarter, The Lawnmower Man, Sleepwalkers, The Mangler, Thinner, etc., etc., etc?

inri222

I like the Stunt Man and the best film of 1980 is still Raging Bull.

EddieMoney

Followed by Atlantic City and Out of the Blue.

PhantomStranger

It probably didn't even deserve to make the best director category that year. There are four nominees I see that clearly outrank it.

Hollywood really doesn't like awarding repeat winners for the big categories unless you are one of the lucky few in their inner circle. Kubrick never cared much about playing the game in Hollywood.

inri222

Both great films but AC wasn't released in the US until 1981 and it was also ripped off at the Oscars, especially Burt Lancaster.

james2025a

I think pretty much everyone thinks it's one of the greatest horror movies of all time. Of course the book snobs disagree.

Oh and worst adaptation? Seriously? How many of his adapted stories into movies have you seen? There are tonnes of piss poor movies based on half decent books. Plenty of piss poor movies based on piss poor books as well. King usually has good ideas but the end results can be very hit and miss.

Crocker Jarmen

Of all the adaptations made of his work, The Shining is the one King has hammered over the years. Junk like Graveyard Shift, Children of the Corn etc. he doesn't seem to give a crap about, but clearly The Shining was a very personal story, and it bothers him that the film turns Jack into a villain instead of the hero, because, let's face it, Jack Torrence is young Stephen King.

Shannon Nutt

Where's the "None of the Above" option in the poll? I like The Shining, but to claim it should have won major Oscars given what did win that year is a bit of revisionist history. It's not THAT good.