56th Academy Awards (1983)
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- DirectorJames L. BrooksStarsShirley MacLaineDebra WingerJack NicholsonFollows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her daughter's family problems.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 - DirectorLawrence KasdanStarsTom BerengerGlenn CloseJeff GoldblumA 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.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Glenn Close
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Lawrence Kasdan and Barbara Benedek - DirectorPeter YatesStarsAlbert FinneyTom CourtenayEdward FoxPersonal assistant Norman struggles to get deteriorating veteran actor Sir through a difficult performance of King Lear.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 - DirectorPhilip KaufmanStarsSam ShepardScott GlennEd HarrisThe 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.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 - DirectorBruce BeresfordStarsRobert DuvallTess HarperBetty BuckleyA 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.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" - DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsBertil GuvePernilla AllwinKristina AdolphsonTwo young Swedish children in the 1900s experience the many comedies and tragedies of their lively and affectionate theatrical family, the Ekdahls.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 - DirectorMike NicholsStarsMeryl StreepKurt RussellCherA 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.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 - DirectorLewis GilbertStarsMichael CaineJulie WaltersMichael WilliamsAn alcoholic professor has been hired by a working-class girl for higher education.Nominated - Best Actor for Michael Caine
Nominated - Best Actress for Julie Walters
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Willy Russell - DirectorRobert Ellis MillerStarsTom ContiKelly McGillisRoberts BlossomA 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.Nominated - Best Actor for Tom Conti
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Julius J. Epstein - DirectorLynne LittmanStarsJane AlexanderWilliam DevaneRossie HarrisThe life of a suburban American family is scarred after a nuclear attack.Nominated - Best Actress for Jane Alexander
- DirectorAlan JohnsonStarsMel BrooksAnne BancroftRonny GrahamAt 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.Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Charles Durning
- DirectorMartin RittStarsMary SteenburgenRip TornPeter CoyoteIn 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.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 - DirectorPeter WeirStarsMel GibsonSigourney WeaverLinda HuntA young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno with the help of a diminutive photographer.Winner - Best Supporting Actress for Linda Hunt
- DirectorBarbra StreisandStarsBarbra StreisandAmy IrvingMandy PatinkinA Jewish girl disguises herself as a boy to enter religious training.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 - DirectorJohn BadhamStarsMatthew BroderickAlly SheedyJohn WoodA young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III.Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes
Nominated - Best Sound Mixing
Nominated - Best Cinematography for William A. Fraker - DirectorDavid Hugh JonesStarsJeremy IronsBen KingsleyPatricia HodgeAn affair between a literary agent and his best friend's wife. The story unfolds in reverse-chronological order.Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Harold Pinter
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsAntonio GadesLaura del SolPaco de LucíaA 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 dancer. Their story then turns similar to the play.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Spain)
- DirectorDiane KurysStarsMiou-MiouIsabelle HuppertGuy MarchandA 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.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (France)
- DirectorImre GyöngyössyBarna KabayStarsHédi TemessyFerenc ZentheGábor FehérAn 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.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Hungary)
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsÉtienne GuichardRégis BouquetFrancesco De RosaDance moves, music and fashion mark the passage of time inside a Paris dance hall, throughout fifty years of history.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Algeria)
- DirectorJohn BadhamStarsRoy ScheiderWarren OatesCandy ClarkThe cop test pilot for an experimental police helicopter learns the sinister implications of the new vehicle.Nominated - Best Film Editing for Frank Morriss and Edward Abroms
- DirectorAdrian LyneStarsJennifer BealsMichael NouriLilia SkalaAn 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.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 - DirectorEmile ArdolinoStarsJacques d'AmboiseJudy CollinsKevin KlineJacques 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.Winner - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorAra ChekmayanRichard KotukStarsPeter ThomasRichard KotukJohn BrooksA significant number of American children and teenagers - from all social backgrounds - suffer from mental disorders, schizophrenia, autism and emotional problems, leading them to isolation from society while treating their issues in mental health facilities. But there's no end in sight for those young individuals when they face obstacles and mistreatments in inadequate places under the supervision of careless and inexperienced professionals. The documentary follows some of those public mental institutions and another private center dealing with troubled kids and reveals what's wrong with their procedures, and the irreparable harm they cause in those patients.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorRobin AndersonBob ConnollyStarsRichard OxenburghDaniel LeahyMick LeahyNominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorMichael BryansTina ViljoenStarsGwynne DyerProfessional soldiers from six different nations discuss their combat experiences, job demands, and the effects of new technology.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorJim KleinJulia ReichertStarsOscar HunterRose PodmakaSylvia WoodsA unique documentary that looks at the political activities of the American Communist Party in the early to mid-twentieth century.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorCynthia ScottStarsSusana RobledoAntonio RobledoRita BoziFor 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.Winner - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorEric ThiermannStarsVivienne Verdon-RoeNominated - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorArthur DongStarsLisa LuZem Ping DongSewing 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 years ago, this classic film continues to screen widely and is now treasured by a new generation of film goers it is considered by many cinema enthusiasts as an early prototype for the personal-diary genre made popular today with the recent handi-cam video explosion. Sewing Woman is based on a series of oral histories and the life story of the filmmaker's mother, Zem Ping Dong, an immigrant who has worked in San Francisco garment factories for over 30 years. With a candid first-person monologue spoken by veteran actress Lisa Lu, Sewing Woman reveals an inner strength which guides a journey through oppressive Chinese customs, U.S. immigration policies, family separation, and the conflicts of assimilation in America. Sewing Woman's story is interwoven with rare footage shot in rural villages of China and in factories of San Francisco Chinatown, treasured home movies, and intimate family photographs.Nominated - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorBob EisenhardtStarsCliff RobertsonThis 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 architectural profession as spontaneously brilliant, and the unchallanged master of space and the manipulation of form. The episode during the construction of the chapel at Emory University gives insight into the kinds of frustrations artists often suffer at the hands of short-sighted patrons. A fine film, based upon the reality it conveys, if for no other reason.Nominated - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorDea BrokmanIlene LandisFive former U.S. Servicemen and a prison camp survivor give accounts of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps in 1945.Nominated - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorDon McBreartyStarsMegan FollowsDavid FoxClare CoulterA 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.Winner - Best Live Action Short
- DirectorIan EmesStarsMichael WatermanAnn-Marie GwatkinSuzanna HamiltonA 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.Nominated - Best Live Action Short
- DirectorJon BloomStarsRobert LoggiaLouise FletcherShari BelafonteAfter 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 difficulty in getting through the book increases when he begins to suspect that the steamy affair in its plot is drawn from her real life.Nominated - Best Live Action Short
- DirectorJimmy PickerStarsScott RecordA 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.Winner - Best Animated Short
- DirectorBurny MattinsonStarsAlan YoungWayne AllwineHal SmithThe classic Disney animated characters play the roles in this animated retelling of the Charles Dickens masterpiece.Nominated - Best Animated Short
- DirectorCaroline HeywardStarsDamon HinesJimmy AroneLisa BonetA blind boy visualizes what he hears and experiences on a regular basis.Nominated - Best Animated Short
- DirectorRichard MarquandStarsMark HamillHarrison FordCarrie FisherAfter 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.Nominated - Best Original Score for John Williams
Nominated - Best Sound Mixing
Nominated - Best Sound Editing for Ben Burtt
Nominated - Best Art Direction - DirectorRoger SpottiswoodeStarsNick NolteEd HarrisGene HackmanThree 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.Nominated - Best Original Score for Jerry Goldsmith
- DirectorJeremy KaganStarsJackie GleasonMac DavisTeri GarrA 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.Nominated - Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score
- DirectorJohn LandisStarsEddie MurphyDan AykroydRalph BellamyA snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.Nominated - Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score
- DirectorJonathan KaplanStarsBonnie BedeliaBeau BridgesDiane DelanoShirley 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.Nominated - Best Costume Design for William Ware Theiss
- DirectorDaniel VigneStarsGérard DepardieuNathalie BayeMaurice BarrierIn medieval France, some villagers challenge a man's claim of identity when he (as he says) returns home from some time in the army.Nominated - Best Costume Design for Anne-Marie Marchand
- DirectorWoody AllenStarsWoody AllenMia FarrowPatrick Horgan"Documentary" about a man who can look and act like whoever he's around, and meets various famous people.Nominated - Best Costume Design for Santo Loquasto
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Gordon Willis - DirectorCarroll BallardStarsCharles Martin SmithBrian DennehyZachary IttimangnaqA government researcher, sent to research the "menace" of wolves in the north, learns about the true beneficial and positive nature of the species.Nominated - Best Sound Mixing