1983 Academy Award® Nominations: winners are underlined.

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 Alfre Woodard, Cross Creek

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

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

Best Foreign Film: Le Bal, Algeria Carmen, Spain Coup de foudre, France Fanny and Alexander, Sweden Jób lázadása, Hungary

Best Cinematography: Fanny and Alexander Flashdance The Right Stuff WarGames Zelig

Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score: The Sting II Trading Places Yentl

Best Sound Effects Editing: Return of the Jedi The Right Stuff

Best Costumes: Cross Creek Fanny and Alexander Heart Like a Wheel Le Retour de Martin Guerre Zelig

Best Sound: Never Cry Wolf Return of the Jedi The Right Stuff Terms of Endearment WarGames

Film Editing: Blue Thunder Flashdance The Right Stuff Silkwood Terms of Endearment

Best Art Direction: Fanny and Alexander Return of the Jedi The Right Stuff Terms of Endearment Yentl

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

Best Original Song:
Michel Legrand, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" from Yentl
Michel Legrand, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, "The Way He Makes Me Feel" from Yentl
Giorgio Moroder, Keith Forsey, Irene Cara, "Flashdance...What a Feeling" from Flashdance
Austin Roberts, Bobby Hart, "Over You" from Tender Mercies
Michael Sembello, Dennis Matkosky, "Maniac" from Flashdance

Documentary Feature: Children of Darkness First Contact He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' The Profession of Arms Seeing Red

Documentary, Short Subject: Flamenco at 5:15 Ihr zent frei In the Nuclear Shadow: What Can the Children Tell Us? Sewing Woman Spaces: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph

Live Action Short Film: Boys and Girls Goodie-Two-Shoes Overnight Sensation

Animated Short Film: Mickey's Christmas Carol Sound of Sunshine - Sound of Rain Sundae in New York

The Academy Award® ceremonies were held on April 9th, 1984


Winners:
(11 movies)
Terms of Endearment (5) - Picture, Director, Actress, Supporting Actor, Adapted Screenplay
Fanny and Alexander (4) - Foreign Film, Cinematography, Costumes, Art Direction
The Right Stuff (4) - Sound Effects Editing, Sound, Editing, Original Score
Tender Mercies (2) - Actor, Original Screenplay
Flashdance (1) - Original Song
The Year of Living Dangerously (1) - Supporting Actress
Yentl (1) - Original Song Score or Adaptation Score
He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' (1) - Documentary Feature
Flamenco at 5:15 (1) - Documentary, Short Subject
Boys and Girls (1) - Live Action Short Film
Sundae in New York (1) - Animated Short Film

Nomination Totals:
(46 movies)
Commercial English language films:
Betrayal (1) - Adapted Screenplay
The Big Chill (3) - Picture, Supporting Actress, Original Screenplay
Blue Thunder (1) - Editing
Cross Creek (4) - Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Costumes, Original Score
The Dresser (5) - Picture, Director, Actor, Actor, Adapted Screenplay
Educating Rita (3) - Actor, Actress, Adapted Screenplay
Flashdance (4) - Cinematography, Editing, Original Song, Original Song
Heart Like a Wheel (1) - Costumes
Never Cry Wolf (1) - Sound
Return of the Jedi (4) - Sound Effects Editing, Sound, Art Direction, Original Score
Reuben, Reuben (2) - Actor, Adapted Screenplay
The Right Stuff (8) - Picture, Supporting Actor, Cinematography, Sound Effects Editing, Sound, Editing, Art Direction, Original Score
Silkwood (5) - Director, Actress, Supporting Actress, Original Screenplay, Editing
The Sting II (1) - Original Song Score or Adaptation Score
Tender Mercies (5) - Picture, Director, Actor, Original Screenplay, Original Song
Terms of Endearment (11) - Picture, Director, Actress, Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actor, Adapted Screenplay, Sound, Editing, Art Direction, Original Score
Testament (1) - Actress
To Be or Not to Be (1) - Supporting Actor
Trading Places (1) - Original Song Score or Adaptation Score
Under Fire (1) - Original Score
WarGames (3) - Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Sound
The Year of Living Dangerously (1) - Supporting Actress
Yentl (5) - Supporting Actress, Original Song Score or Adaptation Score, Art Direction, Original Song, Original Song
Zelig (2) - Cinematography, Costumes

Foreign language films:
Le Bal (1) - Foreign Film
Carmen (1) - Foreign Film
Coup de foudre (1) - Foreign Film
Fanny and Alexander (6) - Foreign Film, Director, Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Costumes, Art Direction
Jób lázadása (1) - Foreign Film
Le Retour de Martin Guerre (1) - Costumes

Documentaries and short films:
Boys and Girls (1) - Live Action Short Film
Children of Darkness (1) - Documentary Feature
First Contact (1) - Documentary Feature
Flamenco at 5:15 (1) - Documentary, Short Subject
Goodie-Two-Shoes (1) - Live Action Short Film
He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' (1) - Documentary Feature
Ihr zent frei (1) - Documentary, Short Subject
In the Nuclear Shadow: What Can the Children Tell Us? (1) - Documentary, Short Subject
Mickey's Christmas Carol (1) - Animated Short Film
Overnight Sensation (1) - Live Action Short Film
The Profession of Arms (1) - Documentary Feature
Seeing Red (1) - Documentary Feature
Sewing Woman (1) - Documentary, Short Subject
Sound of Sunshine - Sound of Rain (1) - Animated Short Film
Spaces: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph (1) - Documentary, Short Subject
Sundae in New York (1) - Animated Short Film

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