The15th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 6 January 1981, honored the best filmmaking of1980.^[1][2]

1.Melvin and Howard
2.Raging Bull
2.Every Man for Himself (Sauve qui peut (la vie))

1.Martin Scorsese –Raging Bull
2.Jonathan Demme –Melvin and Howard
3.Jean-Luc Godard –Every Man for Himself (Sauve qui peut (la vie))

1.Peter O'Toole –The Stunt Man
2.Robert De Niro –Raging Bull
3.Robert Duvall –The Great Santini

1.Sissy Spacek –Coal Miner's Daughter
2.Mary Tyler Moore –Ordinary People
3.Goldie Hawn –Private Benjamin

1.Joe Pesci –Raging Bull
2.Timothy Hutton –Ordinary People
3.Jason Robards –Melvin and Howard

1.Mary Steenburgen –Melvin and Howard
2.Debra Winger –Urban Cowboy
3.Cathy Moriarty –Raging Bull

1.Bo Goldman –Melvin and Howard
2.John Sayles –Return of the Secaucus 7
3.Jean Gruault –Mon Oncle d'Amérique

1.Michael Chapman –Raging Bull
2.Freddie Francis –The Elephant Man
3.Ghislain Cloquet andGeoffrey Unsworth –Tess

• Past Awards

• National Society of Film Critics Awards
• 1980 film awards
• 1981 in American cinema
• January 1981 in the United States

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