1983 (56th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1983 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Best Picture

Terms of Endearment, James L. Brooks Production; Paramount. James L. Brooks, Producer.

Actor in a Leading Role

Robert Duvall in Tender Mercies, EMI Presentation of an Antron Media Production; Universal/A.F.D.

Actress in a Leading Role

Shirley MacLaine in Terms of Endearment, James L. Brooks Production; Paramount.

Actor in a Supporting Role

Jack Nicholson in Terms of Endearment, James L. Brooks Production; Paramount.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Linda Hunt in The Year of Living Dangerously, Freddie Fields Presentation of a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Production; MGM/UA. (Australia, USA)

Directing

Terms of Endearment, James L. Brooks Production; Paramount. James L. Brooks.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

Fanny & Alexander, Cinematograph AB for the Swedish Film Institute/Swedish Television SVT 1 (Sweden)/Gaumont (France)/Personafilm and Tobis Filmkunst (BRD) Production; Embassy Pictures Corporation. (Sweden, France, West Germany) Anna Asp.

Cinematography

Fanny & Alexander, Cinematograph AB for the Swedish Film Institute/Swedish Television SVT 1 (Sweden)/Gaumont (France)/Personafilm and Tobis Filmkunst (BRD) Production; Embassy Pictures Corporation. (Sweden, France, West Germany) Sven Nykvist.

Costume Design

Fanny & Alexander, Cinematograph AB for the Swedish Film Institute/Swedish Television SVT 1 (Sweden)/Gaumont (France)/Personafilm and Tobis Filmkunst (BRD) Production; Embassy Pictures Corporation. (Sweden, France, West Germany) Marik Vos.

Documentary

(Feature)

He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin’, Edgar J. Scherick Associates Production. Emile Ardolino, Producer.

(Short Subject)

Flamenco at 5:15, National Film Board of Canada. (Canada) Cynthia Scott and Adam Symansky, Producers.

Film Editing

The Right Stuff, Robert Chartoff-Irwin Winkler Production; The Ladd Company through Warner Bros. Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Stephen A. Rotter, Douglas Stewart and Tom Rolf.

Foreign Language Film

Fanny & Alexander, Cinematograph AB for the Swedish Film Institute/Swedish Television SVT 1 (Sweden)/Gaumont (France)/Personafilm and Tobis Filmkunst (BRD) Production; Embassy Pictures Corporation. (Sweden, France, West Germany)

Music

(Original Score)

The Right Stuff, Robert Chartoff-Irwin Winkler Production; The Ladd Company through Warner Bros. Bill Conti.

(Original Song)

Flashdance . . . What a Feeling from Flashdance, Polygram Pictures Production; Paramount. Music by Giorgio Moroder; lyric by Keith Forsey and Irene Cara.

(Original Song Score or Adaptation Score)

Yentl, United Artists/Ladbroke Feature/Barwood Production; MGM/UA. (UK, USA) Song score by Michel Legrand, Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman.

Short Films

(Animated)

Sundae in New York, Motionpicker Production. Jimmy Picker, Producer.

(Live Action)

Boys and Girls, Atlantis Films Limited Production. (Canada) Janice L. Platt, Producer.

Sound

The Right Stuff, Robert Chartoff-Irwin Winkler Production; The Ladd Company through Warner Bros. Mark Berger, Tom Scott, Randy Thom and David MacMillan.

Sound Effects Editing

The Right Stuff, Robert Chartoff-Irwin Winkler Production; The Ladd Company through Warner Bros. Jay Boekelheide.

Special Achievement Award

(Visual Effects)

Return of the Jedi, Lucasfilm, Ltd. Production; 20th Century-Fox. Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Ken Ralston and Phil Tippett.

Writing

(Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium)

Terms of Endearment, James L. Brooks Production; Paramount. James L. Brooks.

(Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)

Tender Mercies, EMI Presentation of an Antron Media Production; Universal/A.F.D. Horton Foote.

Honorary Award

To Hal Roach, in recognition of his unparalleled record of distinguished contributions to the motion picture art form. [ [Statuette]]

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

M. J. Frankovich

Gordon E. Sawyer Award

Dr. John G. Frayne

Scientific or Technical Award

(Academy Award of Merit)

To Dr. Kurt Larche of OSRAM GmbH for the research and development of xenon short-arc discharge lamps for motion picture projection.

(Scientific and Engineering Award)

To Jonathan Erland and Roger Dorney of Apogee, Incorporated, for the engineering and development of a reverse bluescreen traveling matte process for special effects photography.

To Gerald L. Turpin of Lightflex International Limited for the design, engineering and development of an on-camera device providing contrast control, sourceless fill light and special effects for motion picture photography.

To Gunnar P. Michelson for the engineering and development of an improved, electronic, high-speed, precision light valve for use in motion picture printing machines.

(Technical Achievement Award)

To William G. Krokaugger of Mole-Richardson Company for the design and engineering of a portable, 12,000 watt, lighting-control dimmer for use in motion picture production.

To Charles J. Watson, Larry L. Langrehr and John H. Steiner for the development of the BHP (electro-mechanical) fader for use on continuous motion picture contact printers.

To Elizabeth D. De La Mare of De La Mare Engineering, Incorporated, for the progressive development and continuous research of special effects pyrotechnics originally designed by Glenn W. De La Mare for motion picture production.

To Douglas Fries, John Lacey and Michael Sigrist for the design and engineering of a 35mm reflex conversion camera system for special effects photography.

To Jack Cashin of Ultra-Stereo Labs, Incorporated, for the engineering and development of a 4-channel, stereophonic, decoding system for optical motion picture sound track reproduction.

To David J. Degenkolb for the design and development of an automated device used in the silver recovery process in motion picture laboratories.