The Complete Oscar Quest: 57th Academy Awards (1984)
1983
Best Picture
- The Big Chill
- The Dresser
- The Right Stuff
- Tender Mercies
- Terms of Endearment
Best Director
- Bruce Beresford, Tender Mercies
- Ingmar Bergman, Fanny and Alexander
- James L. Brooks, Terms of Endearment
- Mike Nichols, Silkwood
- Peter Yates, The Dresser
Best Actor
- Michael Caine, Educating Rita
- Tom Conti, Reuben, Reuben
- Tom Courtenay, The Dresser
- Robert Duvall, Tender Mercies
- Albert Finney, The Dresser
Best Actress
- Jane Alexander, Testament
- Shirley MacLaine, Terms of Endearment
- Meryl Streep, Silkwood
- Julie Walters, Educating Rita
- Debra Winger, Terms of Endearment
Best Supporting Actor
- Charles Durning, To Be or Not to Be
- John Lithgow, Terms of Endearment
- Jack Nicholson, Terms of Endearment
- Sam Shepard, The Right Stuff
- Rip Torn, Cross Creek
Best Supporting Actress
- Cher, Silkwood
- Glenn Close, The Big Chill
- Linda Hunt, The Year of Living Dangerously
- Amy Irving, Yentl
- Alfe Woodward, Cross Creek
Best Original Screenplay
- The Big Chill
- Fanny and Alexander
- Silkwood
- Tender Mercies
- WarGames
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Betrayal
- The Dresser
- Educating Rita
- Reuben, Reuben
- Terms of Endearment
Best Editing
- Blue Thunder
- Flashdance
- The Right Stuff
- Slikwood
- Terms of Endearment
Best Cinematography
- Fanny and Alexander
- Flashfance
- The Right Stuff
- WarGames
- Zelig
Best Original Score
- Cross Creek
- Return of the Jedi
- The Right Stuff
- Terms of Endearment
- Under Fire
Best Original Song Score or Adaptation
- The Sting II
- Trading Places
- Yentl
Best Original Song
- “Flashdance… What a Feeling,” from Flashdance
- “Maniac,” from Flashdance
- “Over You,” from Tender Mercies
- “Papa, Can You Hear Me?” from Yentl
- “The Way He Makes Me Feel,” from Yentl
Best Art Direction
- Fanny and Alexander
- Return of the Jedi
- The Right Stuff
- Terms of Endearment
- Yentl
Best Costume Design
- Cross Creek
- Fanny and Alexander
- Heart Like a Wheel
- The Return of Martin Guerre
- Zelig
Best Visual Effects
- Return of the Jedi
Best Sound Editing
- Return of the Jedi
- The Right Stuff
Best Sound Mixing
- Never Cry Wolf
- Return of the Jedi
- The Right Stuff
- Terms of Endearment
- WarGames
Best Foreign Language Film
- The Ball
- Carmen
- Entre Nous
- Fanny and Alexander
- Job’s Revolt
Best Documentary
- Children of Darkness
- First Contact
- He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin’
- The Profession of Arms
- Seeing Red
Best Documentary Short
- Flamenco at 5:15
- In the Nuclear Shadow: What Can the Children Tell Us?
- Sewing Woman
- Spaces: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph
- You Are Free Ihr Zent Frei
Best Live-Action Short
- Boys and Girls
- Goodie-Two-Shoes
- Overnight Sensation
Best Animated Short
- Mickey’s Christmas Carol
- Sound of Sunshine – Sound of Rain
- Sundae in New York
Total List of Films Nominated:
- Betrayal
- The Big Chill
- Blue Thunder
- Cross Creek
- The Dresser
- Educating Rita
- Fanny and Alexander
- Flashdance
- Heart Like a Wheel
- Never Cry Wolf
- The Return of Martin Guerre
- Return of the Jedi
- Reuben, Reuben
- The Right Stuff
- Silkwood
- The Sting II
- Tender Mercies
- Terms of Endearment
- To Be or Not to Be
- Trading Places
- Under Fire
- WarGames
- The Year of Living Dangerously
- Yentl
- Zelig
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