The 1983 Academy Awards^®
Host: Johnny Carson
Date: April 9, 1984

Best Picture
The Big Chill
The Dresser
The Right Stuff
Tender Mercies
Terms of Endearment--winner

Best Director
Bruce Beresford, Tender Mercies
Ingmar Bergman, Fanny och Alexander
James L. Brooks, Terms of Endearment--winner
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--winner
Albert Finney, The Dresser

Best Actress
Jane Alexander, Testament
Shirley MacLaine, Terms of Endearment--winner
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--winner
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--winner
Amy Irving, Yentl
Alfre Woodard, Cross Creek

Best Foreign Language Film
Ballando ballando (Algeria)
Carmen (Spain)
Coup de foudre (France)
Fanny och Alexander (Sweden)--winner
Jób lázadása (Hungary)

Best Original Screenplay
The Big Chill (Lawrence Kasdan, Barbara Benedek)
Fanny och Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
Silkwood (Nora Ephron, Alice Arlen)
Tender Mercies (Horton Foote)--winner
WarGames (Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes)

Best Adapted Screenplay
Betrayal (Harold Pinter)
The Dresser (Ronald Harwood)
Educating Rita (Willy Russell)
Reuben, Reuben (Julius J. Epstein)
Terms of Endearment (James L. Brooks)--winner

Best Original Score
Cross Creek (Leonard Rosenman)
The Return of the Jedi (John Williams)
The Right Stuff (Bill Conti)--winner
Terms of Endearment (Michael Gore)
Under Fire (Jerry Goldsmith)

Best Cinematography
Fanny och Alexander (Sven Nykvist)--winner
Flashdance (Donald Peterman)
The Right Stuff (Caleb Deschanel)
WarGames (William A. Fraker)
Zelig (Gordon Willis)

Other Categories:

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
Fanny och Alexander (Anna Asp, Susanne Lingheim)

Best Costume Design
Fanny och Alexander (Marik Vos-Lundh)

Best Film Editing
The Right Stuff (Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Stephen A. Rotter, Douglas Stewart, Tom Rolf)

Best Visual Effects (given as a Special Achievement Award)
Return of the Jedi (Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Ken Ralston, Phil Tippett)

Best Sound
The Right Stuff (Mark Berger, Thomas Scott, Randy Thom, David MacMillan)

Best Sound Effects Editing
The Right Stuff (Jay Boekelheide)

Best Original Song
Flashdance, for the song "Flashdance... What a Feeling," written by Giorgo Moroder (music), Keith Forsey (lyrics), and Irene Cara (lyrics); performed by Irene Cara.

Best Original Song Score/Best Adaptation Score
Yentl, for the song "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" written by Michel Legrand (music), Alan Bergman (lyrics), Marilyn Bergman (lyrics).

Best Animated Short Film
Sundae in New York (Jimmy Picker)

Best Live Action Short Film
Boys and Girls (Janice L. Platt)

Best Documentary, Short Subject
Flamenco at 5:15 (Cynthia Scott, Adam Symansky)

Best Documentary, Feature
He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' (Emile Ardolino)

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