56th Academy Awards
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1. Terms of Endearment (1983)
PG | 132 min | Comedy, Drama
Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her daughter's family problems.
Director: James L. Brooks | Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito
Votes: 65,532 | Gross: $108.42M
Winner - Best Picture Winner - Best Director for James L. Brooks Winner - Best Actress for Shirley MacLaine Nominated - Best Actress for Debra Winger Winner - Best Supporting Actor for Jack Nicholson Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for John Lithgow Winner - Best Adapted Screenplay for James L. Brooks Nominated - Best Film Editing for Richard Marks Nominated - Best Original Score for Michael Gore Nominated - Best Sound Mixing Nominated - Best Art Direction
2. The Big Chill (1983)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Drama
A group of seven former college friends gather for a weekend reunion at a South Carolina vacation home after the funeral of another of their college friends.
Director: Lawrence Kasdan | Stars: Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt
Votes: 41,499 | Gross: $56.20M
Nominated - Best Picture Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Glenn Close Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Lawrence Kasdan and Barbara Benedek
3. The Dresser (1983)
PG | 118 min | Drama
Personal assistant Norman struggles to get deteriorating veteran actor Sir through a difficult performance of King Lear.
Director: Peter Yates | Stars: Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Edward Fox, Zena Walker
Votes: 5,706 | Gross: $5.31M
Nominated - Best Picture Nominated - Best Director for Peter Yates Nominated - Best Actor for Tom Courtenay Nominated - Best Actor for Albert Finney Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Ronald Harwood
4. The Right Stuff (1983)
PG | 193 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The U.S. space program's development from the breaking of the sound barrier to selection of the Mercury 7 astronauts, from a group of test pilots with a more seat-of-the-pants approach than the program's more cautious engineers preferred.
Director: Philip Kaufman | Stars: Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid
Votes: 65,388 | Gross: $21.50M
Nominated - Best Picture Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Sam Shepard Winner - Best Film Editing for Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Stephen A. Rotter, Douglas Stewart and Tom Rolf Winner - Best Original Score for Bill Conti Winner - Best Sound Mixing Winner - Best Sound Editing for Jay Boekelheide Nominated - Best Art Direction Nominated - Best Cinematography for Caleb Deschanel
5. Tender Mercies (1983)
PG | 92 min | Drama, Music
A broken-down, middle-aged country singer gets a new wife, reaches out to his long-lost daughter, and tries to put his troubled life back together.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, Betty Buckley, Wilford Brimley
Votes: 12,036 | Gross: $8.44M
Nominated - Best Picture Nominated - Best Director for Bruce Beresford Winner - Best Actor for Robert Duvall Winner - Best Original Screenplay for Horton Foote Nominated - Best Original Song for "Over You"
6. Fanny and Alexander (1982)
R | 188 min | Drama
Two young Swedish children in the 1900s experience the many comedies and tragedies of their lively and affectionate theatrical family, the Ekdahls.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Bertil Guve, Pernilla Allwin, Kristina Adolphson, Börje Ahlstedt
Votes: 67,524 | Gross: $4.97M
Nominated - Best Director for Ingmar Bergman Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Ingmar Bergman Winner - Best Foreign Language Film (Sweden) Winner - Best Costume Design for Marik Vos-Lundh Winner - Best Art Direction Winner - Best Cinematography for Sven Nykvist
7. Silkwood (1983)
R | 131 min | Biography, Drama, History
A worker at a plutonium processing plant is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing worker safety violations at the plant.
Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher, Craig T. Nelson
Votes: 22,225 | Gross: $35.62M
Nominated - Best Director for Mike Nichols Nominated - Best Actress for Meryl Streep Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Cher Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen Nominated - Best Film Editing for Sam O'Steen
8. Educating Rita (1983)
PG | 110 min | Comedy, Drama
An alcoholic professor has been hired by a working-class girl for higher education.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Michael Caine, Julie Walters, Michael Williams, Maureen Lipman
Votes: 14,929 | Gross: $14.65M
Nominated - Best Actor for Michael Caine Nominated - Best Actress for Julie Walters Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Willy Russell
9. Reuben, Reuben (1983)
R | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A drunken Scottish poet who has not written a word in years feels compelled to regain control of his life and work after meeting a beautiful young woman.
Director: Robert Ellis Miller | Stars: Tom Conti, Kelly McGillis, Roberts Blossom, Joel Fabiani
Votes: 1,329
Nominated - Best Actor for Tom Conti Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Julius J. Epstein
10. Testament (1983)
PG | 90 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
The life of a suburban American family is scarred after a nuclear attack.
Director: Lynne Littman | Stars: Jane Alexander, William Devane, Rossie Harris, Roxana Zal
Votes: 7,226 | Gross: $2.04M
Nominated - Best Actress for Jane Alexander
11. To Be or Not to Be (1983)
PG | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, War
At the onset of WW2, a Polish actor's family and the Polish Resistance help the troupe of a theatre escape Poland and the invading Nazis.
Director: Alan Johnson | Stars: Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Ronny Graham, Estelle Reiner
Votes: 12,039 | Gross: $13.03M
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Charles Durning
12. Cross Creek (1983)
PG | 127 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
In the 1930s, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editor and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American literature.
Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: Mary Steenburgen, Rip Torn, Peter Coyote, Dana Hill
Votes: 2,041 | Gross: $0.20M
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Rip Torn Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Alfre Woodard Nominated - Best Original Score for Leonard Rosenman Nominated - Best Costume Design for Joe I. Tompkins
13. The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
PG | 115 min | Drama, Romance, War
A young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno with the help of a diminutive photographer.
Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt, Bembol Roco
Votes: 22,911 | Gross: $10.28M
Winner - Best Supporting Actress for Linda Hunt
14. Yentl (1983)
PG | 133 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A Jewish girl disguises herself as a boy to enter religious training.
Director: Barbra Streisand | Stars: Barbra Streisand, Amy Irving, Mandy Patinkin, Nehemiah Persoff
Votes: 15,887 | Gross: $40.22M
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Amy Irving Winner - Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score Nominated - Best Original Song for "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" Nominated - Best Original Song for "The Way He Makes Me Feel" Nominated - Best Art Direction
15. WarGames (1983)
PG | 114 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III.
Director: John Badham | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, John Wood, Dabney Coleman
Votes: 110,858 | Gross: $79.57M
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes Nominated - Best Sound Mixing Nominated - Best Cinematography for William A. Fraker
16. Betrayal (1983)
R | 95 min | Drama, Thriller
An affair between a literary agent and his best friend's wife. The story unfolds in reverse-chronological order.
Director: David Hugh Jones | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Patricia Hodge, Avril Elgar
Votes: 1,746
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Harold Pinter
17. Carmen (I) (1983)
R | 102 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A group of flamenco dancers are rehearsing a very Spanish version of Bizet's dramatization of Prosper Merimee's novella Carmen. The choreographer Antonio falls in love with Carmen, the main... See full summary »
Director: Carlos Saura | Stars: Antonio Gades, Laura del Sol, Paco de Lucía, Marisol
Votes: 3,571
Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Spain)
18. Entre Nous (1983)
PG | 110 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor, gets pregnant, and marries him.
Director: Diane Kurys | Stars: Miou-Miou, Isabelle Huppert, Guy Marchand, Jean-Pierre Bacri
Votes: 2,262
Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (France)
19. The Revolt of Job (1983)
98 min | Drama
An elderly Jewish couple, adopt an unruly non-Jewish child to whom they intend to pass on their wealth and knowledge before Nazi oppression engulfs Hungary.
Directors: Imre Gyöngyössy, Barna Kabay | Stars: Hédi Temessy, Ferenc Zenthe, Gábor Fehér, Heinrich Starhemberg
Votes: 698
Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Hungary)
20. Le Bal (1983)
109 min | History, Musical
Dance moves, music and fashion mark the passage of time inside a Paris dance hall, throughout fifty years of history.
Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Étienne Guichard, Régis Bouquet, Francesco De Rosa, Arnault LeCarpentier
Votes: 3,035
Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Algeria)
21. Blue Thunder (1983)
R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The cop test pilot for an experimental police helicopter learns the sinister implications of the new vehicle.
Director: John Badham | Stars: Roy Scheider, Warren Oates, Candy Clark, Daniel Stern
Votes: 23,365 | Gross: $42.31M
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Frank Morriss and Edward Abroms
22. Flashdance (1983)
R | 95 min | Drama, Music, Romance
An 18-year-old female amateur dancer who performs nightly at a dancing bar, and works as a welder during the day, dreams of joining the Pittsburgh ballet school.
Director: Adrian Lyne | Stars: Jennifer Beals, Michael Nouri, Lilia Skala, Sunny Johnson
Votes: 59,609 | Gross: $94.90M
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Bud S. Smith and Walt Mulconery Winner - Best Original Song for "Flashdance... What a Feeling" Nominated - Best Film Editing for "Maniac" Nominated - Best Cinematography for Don Peterman
23. He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' (1983)
51 min | Documentary, Family
Jacques d'Amboise, a noted former American ballet star who had dancing roles in such films as Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) and Carousel (1956), and who later became a New York dancing instructor.
Director: Emile Ardolino | Stars: Jacques d'Amboise, Judy Collins, Kevin Kline, Tom McCaffrey
Votes: 150
Winner - Best Documentary Feature
24. Children of Darkness (1983)
57 min | Documentary
A significant number of American children and teenagers - from all social backgrounds - suffer from mental disorders, schizophrenia, autism and emotional problems, leading them to isolation... See full summary »
Directors: Ara Chekmayan, Richard Kotuk | Stars: Peter Thomas, Richard Kotuk, John Brooks, Billy Calhoun
Votes: 441
Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
25. First Contact (1982)
58 min | Documentary
Directors: Robin Anderson, Bob Connolly | Stars: Richard Oxenburgh, Daniel Leahy, Mick Leahy, James Taylor
Votes: 278
Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
26. The Profession of Arms (1983)
57 min | Documentary
Professional soldiers from six different nations discuss their combat experiences, job demands, and the effects of new technology.
Directors: Michael Bryans, Tina Viljoen | Star: Gwynne Dyer
Votes: 39
Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
27. Seeing Red (1983)
100 min | Documentary, History
A unique documentary that looks at the political activities of the American Communist Party in the early to mid-twentieth century.
Directors: Jim Klein, Julia Reichert | Stars: Oscar Hunter, Rose Podmaka, Sylvia Woods, Howard 'Stretch' Johnson
Votes: 171
Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
28. Flamenco at 5:15 (1983)
29 min | Documentary, Short
For a few weeks each year, in the depths of winter, senior students at the National Ballet School of Canada are treated to a style of dance that is unlike any other - flamenco.
Director: Cynthia Scott | Stars: Susana Robledo, Antonio Robledo, Rita Bozi, Catherine Hader
Votes: 213
Winner - Best Documentary Short
29. In the Nuclear Shadow: What Can the Children Tell Us? (1984)
25 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Eric Thiermann | Star: Vivienne Verdon-Roe
Votes: 27
Nominated - Best Documentary Short
30. Sewing Woman (1982)
14 min | Documentary, Short
Sewing Woman chronicles the bittersweet journey of one woman's determination to survive: from an arranged marriage in old China to working class comforts in modern America. Produced over 18... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Dong | Stars: Lisa Lu, Zem Ping Dong
Votes: 86
Nominated - Best Documentary Short
31. Spaces: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph (1983)
29 min | Documentary, Short
This documentary recreates a genuine sense of the personal presense of the late modern architect, Paul Rudolph, and the ambience of his studio. Mr. Rudolph was widely recognized within the ... See full synopsis »
Director: Bob Eisenhardt | Star: Cliff Robertson
Votes: 12
Nominated - Best Documentary Short
32. Ihr zent frei (1983)
20 min | Documentary, Short
Five former U.S. Servicemen and a prison camp survivor give accounts of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps in 1945.
Directors: Dea Brokman, Ilene Landis
Votes: 16
Nominated - Best Documentary Short
33. Boys and Girls (1983)
22 min | Short
A girl growing up on a fox farm in rural Canada must deal with the gender roles she is expected to conform to by her loving - yet unobservant parents.
Director: Don McBrearty | Stars: Megan Follows, David Fox, Clare Coulter, Ian Heath
Votes: 93
Winner - Best Live Action Short
34. Goodie-Two-Shoes (1984)
35 min | Short, Romance
A teacher volunteers a group of misfit students to take a new dance class including a goodie-two-shoes and his bully. Awkwardness, friendship, competition, and romance follows.
Director: Ian Emes | Stars: Michael Waterman, Ann-Marie Gwatkin, Suzanna Hamilton, Steve Sweeney
Votes: 26
Nominated - Best Live Action Short
35. Overnight Sensation (1984)
TV-PG | 28 min | Short, Drama
After housewife Eve Peregrine writes a sudden hit novel, her husband George, a successful fashion photographer, finds it difficult to deal with the attention being showered on her. His ... See full summary »
Director: Jon Bloom | Stars: Robert Loggia, Louise Fletcher, Shari Belafonte, Parley Baer
Votes: 51
Nominated - Best Live Action Short
36. Sundae in New York (1983)
4 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A character closely resembling then-mayor Ed Koch sings a variation on the "Theme from 'New York, New York'" in an entirely clay-animated film depicting a variety of locations and celebrities associated with New York City.
Director: Jimmy Picker | Star: Scott Record
Votes: 594
Winner - Best Animated Short
37. Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983)
G | 26 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The classic Disney animated characters play the roles in this animated retelling of the Charles Dickens masterpiece.
Director: Burny Mattinson | Stars: Alan Young, Wayne Allwine, Hal Smith, Will Ryan
Votes: 15,366 | Gross: $21.00M
Nominated - Best Animated Short
38. Sound of Sunshine - Sound of Rain (1983)
15 min | Animation, Short
A blind boy visualizes what he hears and experiences on a regular basis.
Director: Caroline Heyward | Stars: Damon Hines, Jimmy Arone, Lisa Bonet, Janet MacLachlan
Votes: 67
Nominated - Best Animated Short
39. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
PG | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
After rescuing Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebel Alliance attempt to destroy the second Death Star, while Luke struggles to help Darth Vader back from the dark side.
Director: Richard Marquand | Stars: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams
Votes: 1,122,347 | Gross: $309.13M
Nominated - Best Original Score for John Williams Nominated - Best Sound Mixing Nominated - Best Sound Editing for Ben Burtt Nominated - Best Art Direction
40. Under Fire (1983)
R | 128 min | Drama, War
Three journalists in a romantic triangle are involved in political intrigue during the last days of the corrupt Somoza regime in Nicaragua before it falls to a popular revolution in 1979.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Nick Nolte, Ed Harris, Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy
Votes: 8,519 | Gross: $5.70M
Nominated - Best Original Score for Jerry Goldsmith
41. The Sting II (1983)
PG | 101 min | Comedy, Crime
A team of cons is planning a new scam involving betting on a boxing match but one of its past victims aims to exact revenge by eliminating the whole group.
Director: Jeremy Kagan | Stars: Jackie Gleason, Mac Davis, Teri Garr, Karl Malden
Votes: 2,452 | Gross: $6.35M
Nominated - Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score
42. Trading Places (1983)
R | 116 min | Comedy
A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Director: John Landis | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche
Votes: 165,945 | Gross: $90.40M
Nominated - Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score
43. Heart Like a Wheel (1983)
PG | 113 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Shirley Muldowney is determined to be a top-fuel drag racer, although no woman has ever raced them before. Despite the high risks of this kind of racing and the burden it places on her family life, she perseveres in her dream.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan | Stars: Bonnie Bedelia, Beau Bridges, Diane Delano, Ellen Geer
Votes: 1,583 | Gross: $0.27M
Nominated - Best Costume Design for William Ware Theiss
44. The Return of Martin Guerre (1982)
Not Rated | 112 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
In medieval France, some villagers challenge a man's claim of identity when he (as he says) returns home from some time in the army.
Director: Daniel Vigne | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Maurice Barrier, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu
Votes: 4,827 | Gross: $0.02M
Nominated - Best Costume Design for Anne-Marie Marchand
45. Zelig (1983)
PG | 79 min | Comedy
"Documentary" about a man who can look and act like whoever he's around, and meets various famous people.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Patrick Horgan, John Buckwalter
Votes: 44,206 | Gross: $11.80M
Nominated - Best Costume Design for Santo Loquasto Nominated - Best Cinematography for Gordon Willis
46. Never Cry Wolf (1983)
PG | 105 min | Adventure, Drama
A government researcher, sent to research the "menace" of wolves in the north, learns about the true beneficial and positive nature of the species.
Director: Carroll Ballard | Stars: Charles Martin Smith, Brian Dennehy, Zachary Ittimangnaq, Samson Jorah
Votes: 8,789 | Gross: $29.60M
Nominated - Best Sound Mixing
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