1983 Oscar Shouldabeens

[Kellens101]

Best Picture: The Right Stuff
Best Director: Ingmar Bergman for Fanny and Alexander
Best Actor: Robert Duvall in Tender Mercies
Best Actress: Shirley MacLaine in Terms of Endearment
Best Supporting Actor: Jack Nicholson in Terms of Endearment
Best Supporting Actress: Linda Hunt in The Year of Living Dangerously
Best Original Screenplay: Fanny and Alexander
Best Adapted Screenplay: The Right Stuff
Best Score: The Right Stuff
Best Art Direction: Fanny and Alexander
Best Costume Design: Fanny and Alexander
Best Editing: The Right Stuff
Best Cinematography: Fanny and Alexander
Best Sound: The Right Stuff
Best Foreign Film: Fanny and Alexander

[ksrymy]

BEST PICTURE
01. Videodrome
02. Fanny and Alexander
03. L'argent
04. Angst
05. The King of Comedy
06. A Christmas Story
07. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
08. Testament
09. The Big Chill
10. The Right Stuff

BEST DIRECTOR
01. Gerald Kargl, Angst
02. David Cronenberg, Videodrome
03. Ingmar Bergman, Fanny and Alexander
04. Robert Bresson, L'argent
05. Martin Scorsese, The King of Comedy

BEST ACTOR
01. Erwin Leder, Angst
02. Robert De Niro, The King of Comedy
03. Eric Roberts, Star 80
04. Tom Conti, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
05. Tom Courtenay, The Dresser

BEST ACTRESS
01. Jane Alexander, Testament
02. Shirley MacLaine, Terms of Endearment
03. Debra Winger, Terms of Endearment
04. Meryl Streep, Silkwood
05. Mariel Hemingway, Star 80

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
01. Jack Nicholson, Terms of Endearment
02. John Lithgow, Terms of Endearment
03. Denholm Elliott, Trading Places
04. Takeshi Kitano, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
05. Jerry Lewis, The King of Comedy

BBEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
01. Greta Scacchi, Heat and Dust
02. Mary Kay Place, The Big Chill
03. Glenn Close, The Big Chill
04. Sandra Bernhard, The King of Comedy
05. Jamie Lee Curtis, Trading Places

[Reza]

Not that I recall (though I liked her and her movie alot). Streisand in Yentl and Bonnie Bedelia in Heart Like a Wheel were the non-nominated mentioned probably the most.

I think I remember seeing Cassidy's name mentioned in Entertainment Weekly, in the annual article they did on possible Oscar nominees. However, the mention was for her in the supporting category for Under Fire.

Except Entertainment Weekly didn't start publication until 1990!!!

I checked and you are right about the magazine starting in 1990. Then I must have read about Cassidy in People magazine or The Washingtonian. Both magazines covered the Oscar nominations.

[FilmFan720]

Just saw Joanna Cassidy was runner-up to Debra Winger for Best Actress in NSFC voting that year – was she ever, at all, in the talks for a nod?

Not that I recall (though I liked her and her movie alot). Streisand in Yentl and Bonnie Bedelia in Heart Like a Wheel were the non-nominated mentioned probably the most.

I think I remember seeing Cassidy's name mentioned in Entertainment Weekly, in the annual article they did on possible Oscar nominees. However, the mention was for her in the supporting category for Under Fire.

Except Entertainment Weekly didn't start publication until 1990!!!

[Reza]

Just saw Joanna Cassidy was runner-up to Debra Winger for Best Actress in NSFC voting that year – was she ever, at all, in the talks for a nod?

Not that I recall (though I liked her and her movie alot). Streisand in Yentl and Bonnie Bedelia in Heart Like a Wheel were the non-nominated mentioned probably the most.

I think I remember seeing Cassidy's name mentioned in Entertainment Weekly, in the annual article they did on possible Oscar nominees. However, the mention was for her in the supporting category for Under Fire.

[Mister Tee]

Just saw Joanna Cassidy was runner-up to Debra Winger for Best Actress in NSFC voting that year – was she ever, at all, in the talks for a nod?

Not that I recall (though I liked her and her movie alot). Streisand in Yentl and Bonnie Bedelia in Heart Like a Wheel were the non-nominated mentioned probably the most.

[mayukh]

Just saw Joanna Cassidy was runner-up to Debra Winger for Best Actress in NSFC voting that year – was she ever, at all, in the talks for a nod?

[Big Magilla]

Did anybody talk about Jeff Goldblum come Oscar time?

Not until three years later when he was in The Fly. If I recall correctly Mary Kay Place got the best notices, but Glenn Close's career was in the ascendency at the time and her nomination, though not a surprise, was certainly more awards worthy than the one she got the following year for The Natural. See the 1983 Supporting Actress thread for a more detailed discussion.

[Sabin]

I just rewatched The Big Chill for the first time what has to be over a decade and was left astonishingly cold by it. Oh sure, it's incredibly packed with star-power, but it's so often the wrong kind of star power. Every actor's instinct marks the central indulgences that would plague them for their careers. Kevin Kline's accent is so wrong-headed! He's in love with it the entire time and it's so phony. William Hurt's impotent veteran just a touch out of synch with reality is one of his studies in blandness. I think a better film would see the actors trading their roles. Kline can't locate his character's closeted self-loathing against conformity, whereas that's all Hurt is capable of doing. Glenn Close is fine, but she's also just an impossibly bland blond, quietly suffering self-imposed matriarch and I've seen her do that far too many times. Meg Tilly succeeds in being hot and annoying. And so on and so on. Tom Berenger, Mary Kay Place, and Jeff Goldblum fare better, if only because of their casting. I mean, who else could play Goldlum than Goldblum? In fact, I think the reason Jeff Goldblum gives my favorite performance in the film is because his character knows exactly who he is without spewing homework lessons. Did anybody talk about Jeff Goldblum come Oscar time?

That's really what The Big Chill felt like to me. A giant homework lesson in people in their mid-30's filled with regret for what they've left behind. I'm having an impossibly difficult time processing that these people are perhaps five years older than me. I love movies that are long parties, but this is one I always halfway wanted to get away from. It's best when it plays like an album, but the entire film is composed of scenes set to Greatest Hits, which really rubbed me the wrong way. Each individual Song Scene would play like the emotional centerpiece of the film, but all of them lumped together feels fraudulent.

[Eric]

Good call on Dee Wallace tho.

[Penelope]

No Jane Alexander for Testament, Pen? One of the best performance of the first half of the 80's, I think.

Nope.



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[flipp525]

No Jane Alexander for Testament, Pen? One of the best performance of the first half of the 80's, I think.

[Penelope]

Best Picture:

1. The Right Stuff
2. Danton
3. A Christmas Story
4. Terms of Endearment
5. Educating Rita

Best Director:

1. Philip Kaufman (The Right Stuff)
2. Andrzej Wajda (Danton)
3. Bob Clark (A Christmas Story)
4. Bob Fosse (Star 80)
5. Lewis Teague (Cujo)

Best Actor:

1. Michael Caine (Educating Rita)
2. Eric Roberts (Star 80)
3. Tom Courtenay (The Dresser)
4. Gerard Depardieu (Danton)
5. Albert Finney (The Dresser)

Best Actress:

1. Shirley MacLaine (Terms of Endearment)
2. Debra Winger (Terms of Endearment)
3. Julie Walters (Educating Rita)
4. Mariel Hemingway (Star 80)
5. Dee Wallace (Cujo)

Best Supporting Actor:

1. Wojciech Pszoniak (Danton)
2. Jack Nicholson (Terms of Endearment)
3. Darrin McGavin (A Christmas Story)
4. Sam Shepard (The Right Stuff)
5. Fred Ward (The Right Stuff)

Best Supporting Actress:

1. Linda Hunt (The Year of Living Dangerously)
2. Barbara Carrera (Never Say Never Again)
3. Cher (Silkwood)
4. Melinda Dillon (A Christmas Story)
5. Mary Kay Place (The Big Chill)

[Precious Doll]

Good to see appreciation of Scorsese's King of Comedy, perhaps his best film, as well as the career best performances of De Niro, Lewis & Bernhard.

[paperboy]

BEST PICTURE
A Christmas Story
The King of Comedy
The Right Stuff
Terms of Endearment
Zelig

BEST DIRECTOR
Woody Allen - Zelig
James L. Brooks - Terms of Endearment
Bob Clark - A Christmas Story
Philip Kaufman - The Right Stuff
Martin Scorsese - The King of Comedy

BEST ACTOR
Peter Billingsley - A Christmas Story
Michael Caine - Educating Rita
Robert DeNiro - The King of Comedy
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
Ed Harris - The Right Stuff
William Hurt - The Big Chill
Jerry Lewis - The King of Comedy
Jack Nicholson - Terms of Endearment
Dennis Quaid - The Right Stuff

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Sandra Bernhard - The King of Comedy
Veronica Cartwright - The Right Stuff
Cher - Silkwood
Linda Hunt - The Year of Living Dangerously
Alfre Woodard - Cross Creek

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Big Chill - Lawrence Kasdan, Barbara Benedek
The King of Comedy - Paul D. Zimmerman
Local Hero - Bill Forsyth
Tender Mercies - Horton Foote
Zelig - Woody Allen

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
A Christmas Story - Jean Shepard, Leigh Brown, Bob Clark
The Dresser - Ronald Harwood
Educating Rita - Willy Russell
The Right Stuff - Philip Kaufman
Terms of Endearment - James L. Brooks



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