1981 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role Winner
![Coal Miner's Daughter Sissy Spacek](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/coal-miners-daughter-michael-apted-image.jpg)
Coal Miner’s Daughter
Sissy Spacek
Biographical story of the legendary country singer’s rise from humble, poverty-stricken beginnings in Kentucky to worldwide superstardom and how she changed the sound and style of country music forever.
1981 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role Nominees
![Gloria Gena Rowlands](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/gloria-john-cassavetes-image.jpg)
Gloria
Gena Rowlands
![Ordinary People Mary Tyler Moore](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ordinary-people-robert-redford-image.jpg)
Ordinary People
Mary Tyler Moore
![Private Benjamin Goldie Hawn](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/private-benjamin-howard-zieff-image.jpg)
Private Benjamin
Goldie Hawn
![Resurrection Ellen Burstyn](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/resurrection-daniel-petrie-image.jpg)