Oscars - Season 29 / Year 1981

Season 29 / Year 1981
53rd Academy Awards
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The 53rd Annual Academy Awards
The 53rd Academy Awards were broadcast on ABC and hosted by Johnny Carson. Ordinary People won four awards, including Best Picture. Other winners included Tess with three awards, The Empire Strikes Back, Fame, Melvin and Howard, and Raging Bull with two, and Coal Miner's Daughter, The Dollar Bottom, The Fly, From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China, Karl Hess: Toward Liberty, and Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears with one. The telecast garnered 39.9 million viewers in the United States.
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