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[Bogie56]

Leading vs. Supporting Categories in 1982 …

IMO both Mariel Hemingway and Patrice Donnelly are leads in Personal Best.

John Cassavetes is the only lead in Tempest.

Paul Newman is the only lead in The Verdict.

 

[Bogie56]

It’s time for 1982.  We will be on 1982 for one week so plenty of time for everyone to respond.

 

Here are Oscar’s choices for 1982.  Winners in bold. 

 

Best Actor

 

Ben Kingsley, Gandhi*

Dustin Hoffman, Tootsie

Jack Lemmon, Missing

Paul Newman, The Verdict

Peter O’Toole, My Favorite Year

 

Best Actress

 

Meryl Streep, Sophie’s Choice*

Julie Andrews, Victor/Victoria

Jessica Lange, Frances

Sissy Spacek, Missing

Debra Winger, An Officer and a Gentleman

 

Best Supporting Actor

 

Louis Gossett, Jr., An Officer and a Gentleman*

Charles Durning, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

John Lithgow, The World According to Garp

James Mason, The Verdict

Robert Preston, Victor/Victoria

 

Best Supporting Actress

 

Jessica Lange, Tootise*  

Glenn Close, The World According to Garp

Teri Garr, Tootsie

Kim Stanley, Frances

Lesley Ann Warren, Victor/Victoria

[Bogie56]

My choice for the Juvenile Acting award for 1982 is…

 

MOLLY RINGWALD (Miranda Dimitrius), Tempest*

 

 

Best Performance by an extra:

BOGIE56, The Grey Fox

 

[LawrenceA]

1982

 

BEST ACTOR

Robert De Niro  The King of Comedy****

Ben Kingsley  Gandhi

Peter O'Toole  My Favorite Year

Dustin Hoffman  Tootsie

Paul Newman  The Verdict

Richard Farnsworth  The Grey Fox

Klaus Kinski  Fitzcarraldo

Jack Lemmon  Missing

Michael Caine  Deathtrap

 

BEST ACTRESS

Meryl Streep  Sophie's Choice****

Jessica Lange  Frances

Debra Winger  An Officer and a Gentleman

Jessica Lange  Tootsie

Sissy Spacek  Missing

Julie Andrews  Victor/Victoria

Hanna Schygulla  That Night in Varennes

 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Rutger Hauer  Blade Runner****

Sean Penn  Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Ricardo Montalban  Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

James Earl Jones  Conan the Barbarian

Marcello Mastroianni  That Night in Varennes

Charles Durning  Tootsie

Lou Gossett Jr.  An Officer and a Gentleman

James Mason  The Verdict

Hal Holbrook  Creepshow

William Sanderson  Blade Runner

David Clennon  The Thing

Jack Warden  The Verdict

James Woods  Split Image

Robert Preston  Victor/Victoria

Warren Clarke  Firefox

Brion James  Blade Runner

 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Sandra Bernhard  The King of Comedy****

Kim Stanley  Frances

Daryl Hannah  Blade Runner

Linda Hunt  The Year of Living Dangerously

Karen Black  Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean

Teri Garr  Tootsie

Glenn Close  The World According to Garp

Zelda Rubinstein  Poltergeist

 

BEST JUVENILE PERFORMANCE

Henry Thomas  E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial****

Drew Barrymore  E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

Heather O'Rourke  Poltergeist

[Swithin]

1982 Favorites

My favorite Marcello Mastroianni performance, as the aging Casanova (La Nuit de Varennes)

Best Actor

 

Dustin Hoffman (Tootsie)

Klaus Kinski (Fitzcarraldo)

Marcello Mastroianni (La Nuit de Varennes)

Peter O’Toole (My Favorite Year)

Denis Quilley (Privates on Parade)

 

Best Actress

 

Jessica Lange (Frances)

Hanna Schygulla (La Nuit de Varennes)

Meryl Streep (Sophie’s Choice)

Mary Woronov (Eating Raoul)

Rosel Zech (Veronika Voss)

 

Best Supporting Actor

 

Jean-Louis Barrault (La Nuit de Varennes)

Nicholas Clay (Evil Under the Sun)

Lou Gossett, Jr. (An Officer and a Gentleman)

Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner)

Erland Josephson (Fanny and Alexander)

 

Best Supporting Actress

 

Laura Betti (La Nuit de Varennes)

Karen Black (Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean)

Linda Hunt (The Year of Living Dangerously)

Lainie Kazan (My Favorite Year)

Gunn Wallgren (Fanny and Alexander)

 

Best Juvenile

 

Bertil Guve as Alexander (Fanny and Alexander)

 

Best Line:

 

“Sukarno feed your people” (The Year of Living Dangerously)

 

Best Music Scenes 

 

“Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves (Querelle)

“Irene Goodnight” sung by The Weavers (The Weavers: Wasn’t that a Time!)

"The Little Things We Used to Do” sung by Denis Quilley channeling Vera Lynn (Privates on Parade) 

“Memories Are Made of This” sung by Rosel Zech (Veronika Voss)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8sH6ztFkfE

 

[Bogie56]

Here are my choices of the 82 films I've seen from 1982 for…

 

Best Supporting Actress of 1982

 

1.  KIM STANLEY (Mrs. Lillian Farmer), Frances

2.  SANDRA BERNHARD (Masha), The King of Comedy

3.  LINDA HUNT (Billy Kwan), The Year of Living Dangerously

4.  JESSICA LANGE (Julie Nichols), Tootsie

5.  GLENN CLOSE (Jenny Fields), The World According to Garp

 

6.  JACKIE BURROUGHS (Katherine Flynn), The Grey Fox

7.  MOLLY RINGWALD (Miranda Dimitrius), Tempest

8.  TERI GARR (Sandra ‘Sandy’ Lester), Tootsie

9.  SUSAN SARANDON (Aretha Tomlan), Tempest

10. CHER (Sissy), Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean

 

and ...

 

LISA BLOUNT (Lynnette Pomeroy), An Officer and a Gentleman

ELLEN BARKIN (Beth Schreiber), Diner

GENA ROWLANDS (Antonia Demetrius), Tempest

JULIE BOVASSO (Maureen Rooney), The Verdict

NICOLA PAGETT (Acting Lt. Sylvia Morgan), Privates on Parade

LINDSAY CROUSE (Kaitlin Costello Price), The Verdict

CLAUDIA CARDINALE (Molly), Fitzcarraldo

MAGGIE SMITH (Lady Isabel Ames), The Missionary

JULIE HAGERTY (Dulcy Ford), A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy

CHARLOTTE RAMPLING (Laura Fischer), The Verdict

SWOOSIE KURTZ (‘the Hooker”), The World According to Garp

DIAHNNE ABBOTT (Rita Keane), The King of Comedy

LAINIE KAZAN (Maggie), One From the Heart

[Bogie56]

Here are my choices of the 82 films I've seen from 1982 for…

 

Best Supporting Actor of 1982

 

1.  JOHN LITHGOW (Roberta Muldoon), The World According to Garp

2.  RAUL JULIA (Kalibanos), Tempest

3.  JAMES MASON (Ed Concannon), The Verdict

4.  LOUIS GOSSETT, JR., (Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley, USMC), An Officer and a Gentleman

5.  A. WILFORD BRIMLEY (Dr. Blair), The Thing

 

6.  DENIS QUILLEY (Acting Capt. Terri Dennis), Privates on Parade

7.  JERRY LEWIS (Jerry Langford), The King of Comedy

8.  VITTORIO GASSMAN (Alberto Alonzo), Tempest

9.  ROBERT PRESTON (Carol Todd/”Toddy”), Victor/Victoria

10.  JACK WARDEN (Mickey Morrissey), The Verdict

 

and ...

 

MILO O'SHEA (Judge Hoyle), The Verdict

TONY ROBERTS (Dr. Maxwell Jordan), A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy

WAYNE ROBSON (William “Shorty” Dunn), The Grey Fox

DONALD MOFFAT (Garry), The Thing

DAVID KEITH (Aviation Officer Candidate Sid Worley), An Officer and a Gentleman

THOMAS WAITES ("Windows"), The Thing

KEITH DAVID (Childs), The Thing    

E.G. MARSHALL (Upson Pratt), Creepshow

MICHAEL MURPHY (Peter Curtis), The Year of Living Dangerously

KEN POGUE (Jack Budd), The Grey Fox 

SYDNEY POLLACK (George Fields), Tootsie

SAEED JAFFREY (Sadar Vallabhbhai Patel), Gandhi

ROBERT VOGEL (Hotel Manager), Basket Case    

MAURICE BARRIER (Uncle Pierre Guerre), The Return of Martin Guerre

[Jlewis]

favorite actress:  Jessica Lange in Frances. The movie itself is only slightly better than Mommie Dearest, but she delightfully chews the scenery. Sophie, I mean Meryl, probably deserved the win, but more so because of the character.

 

favorite actor: Ben Kingsley in Gandhi. You have to admit that he looks convincing in the role even if he is getting too British in his accent as the movie progresses. That is a big movie that rides on one performance. Not even John Gielgud can compare.

 

favorite supporting actress: Carol Burnett in Annie. The musical has a lot of flaws, but she is not one of them. You can turn the volume off in the "Little Girls" number and still laugh at her facial expressions and movements. Although I enjoyed Lesley Anne Warren in Victor/Victoria, she wasn't as funny.

 

favorite supporting actor: Jarl Kulle in Fanny och Alexander even if he is a trifle hammy with those long whiskers of his.

 

Some honorable mentions:

 

I do love Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie. However he looks less comfortable than Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in Some Like It Hot or even Robin Williams in Mrs. Doubtfire (a performance that everybody still likes long after he has gone). Also it suffers from its time period, given the growing homophobia in America at that time (not all AIDS oriented, but mostly with the new politics) so that Dustin's character must prove how "straight" he is repeatedly. Yet I am not harshly critical of films that reflect their eras, both positively and negatively.

 

In a fun way, Robert Preston in Victor/Victoria is, well, Robert Preston. He hadn't changed all that much since The Music Man and I am grateful for it. Certainly less concerned about his "masculinity" than either Dustin Hoffman or James Garner. Norma (Lesley Ann Warren) to Toddy (Preston): "You know... I think that the right woman could reform you." Toddy's reply: "You know, I think that the right woman could reform you, too." Ha ha!

 

Julia Andrews never gets respect, but she pulled it off well in the same movie.

 

Glenn Close in The World According to Garp. The Mommy of all mommies. 1982 was Hollywood's "coming out" party (a.k.a. Personal Best, Making Love, etc.) and I am surprised she just didn't admit she was a lesbian since the only man she did-the-deed with was a dying soldier!

 

Klaus Kinski in Fitzcarraldo and every bit as jungle stubborn as he was in Aguirre the Wrath of God.

 

Henry Thomas in E.T. The Extra Terrestrial. We tend to overlook the child actors even when they carry the biggest hits.

 

Paul Newman and James Mason in The Verdict. Not their best work but a nice acting ensemble with Milo O'Shea doing just as well.

 

Yeah... Meryl Streep too. Such a depressing movie though. However our president should watch it and not just because of Meryl.

 

The one popular performance I cared the least for: Lou Grosset Jr. in An Officer and a Gentleman.

[Bogie56]

 

Paul Newman and James Mason in The Verdict. Not their best work but a nice acting ensemble with Milo O'Shea doing just as well.

 

The one popular performance I cared the least for: Lou Grosset Jr. in An Officer and a Gentleman.

 

Different strokes.  I thought The Verdict was by far Paul Newman's best all time performance.  And I spent a month watching all of his films back-to-back.  It wasn't even close.

I think we remember the cliched drill sergeant character when we think of Gossett in An Officer and a Gentleman but when I am actually watching it I am impressed by how good he is in this role.

[LawrenceA]

 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

 

David Clennon  The Thing

 

 

 

 

Best Supporting Actor of 1982

 

5.  A. WILFORD BRIMLEY (Dr. Blair), The Thing

 

DONALD MOFFAT (Garry), The Thing

THOMAS WAITES ("Windows"), The Thing

KEITH DAVID (Childs), The Thing    

 

Bogie, I like that you nominated 4 guys from The Thing, and none were the one that I nominated. The Thing has a wonderful ensemble cast, which is why the movie works. I debated about nominating Moffat as well. He spends most of the movie being treated poorly by everyone, and everyone seems to be hoping that he may be the creature just so they can kill him, so when he finally says his great line - "I'd rather not spend the rest of the winter TIED TO THIS @#$%^&* COUCH!!!" - it has a great impact.

 

 

Keith David has one of the best voices in the industry, and he does tons of voiceover work now. He made for an intimidating presence, and director John Carpenter would work with him again in They Live.

 

 

Thomas G. Waites plays the nervous radio man Windows, and he has a few stand-out scenes. After The Thing he seemed to settle on playing thugs and gangsters, a far cry from his role in this film.

 

 

 

Wilford Brimley is also excellent as the one scientist at the arctic station that understands what they are up against and what the implications are for the rest of the world, a burden that sends him over the edge. His ranting scene as he smashes the radio equipment is a stand-out.

 

 

My pick, though, was David Clennon, who plays the stoner burnout Palmer. He's funny, providing some much needed humor to lighten the mood. Clennon is also playing a character much removed from most of his other screen performances that I have seen, as he most often appears as uptight, suit-wearing repressed types. In The Thing he gets a chance to stretch, and he has the best line of the film.

 

 

Many of the other cast members were good as well, such as Richard Dysart, Charles Hallahan, Richard Masur, TK Carter, and of course Kurt Russell. They add up to one of my favorite casts of the era.

[Jlewis]

Different strokes.  I thought The Verdict was by far Paul Newman's best all time performance.  And I spent a month watching all of his films back-to-back.  It wasn't even close.

I think we remember the cliched drill sergeant character when we think of Gossett in An Officer and a Gentleman but when I am actually watching it I am impressed by how good he is in this role.

 I wasn't pooh-poohing his performance. Humorously my favorite Newman is his other lawyer role (not that we see him 'lawyer' all that much) in Mr. and Mrs. Bridge.

[Bogie56]

The New York Film Critics Circle Awards for 1982 were …

 

Best Actor

Ben Kingsley, Gandhi*

Dustin Hoffman, Tootsie

Peter O’Toole, My Favorite Year

 

Best Actress

Meryl Streep, Sophie’s Choice* 

Diane Keaton, Shoot the Moon

Jessica Lange, Frances

 

Best Supporting Actor

John Lithgow, The World According to Garp*

George Gaynes, Tootsie

Robert Preston, Victor/Victoria

 

Best Supporting Actress

Jessica Lange, Tootsie*

Glenn Close, The World According to Garp

Lesley Ann Warren, Victor/Victoria

[skimpole]

Actor

 

Ben Kingsley, Gandhi

Bertil Guve, Fanny and Alexander*

Paul Newman, The Verdict
Jack Lemmon, Missing
Klaus Kinski, Fitzcarraldo
Dustin Hoffman, Tootsie

 

*Juvenile performance of the year

Runner-ups: Bob Geldof (Pink Floyd:  the Wall), James Garner (Victor/Victoria), Kurt Russell (The Thing), Seyit Ali (Yol), Jurgen Prochnow (Das Boot), Jerzy Radziwilowicz (Passion), Harrison Ford (Blade Runner), Michael Palin (The Missionary), Hilmar Thate (Veronika Voss), Malcolm McDowell (Cat People), Robin Williams (The World According to Garp),

Actress

Julie Andrews, Victor/Victoria
Anna Wiazemsky, L'Enfant Secret
Sissy Spacek, Missing
Meryl Streep, Sophie's Choice
Micol Guidelli, The Night of the Shooting Stars

Runner-ups:  Rosel Zech (Veronika Voss), Jennifer Jason Leigh (Fast Times at Ridgemont High), Janet Suzman (The Draughtman's Contract), JoBeth Williams (Poltergeist), Nastassja Kinski (Cat People)

Supporting Actor

 

Erland Josephson, Fanny and Alexander
James Mason, The Verdict

Jan Malmsjo, Fanny and Alexander

Roshan Seth, Gandhi
Mickey Rourke, Diner
Robert Preston, Victor/Victoria
Jack Warden, The Verdict

Runner-ups:  Jarl Kulle (Fanny and Alexander), Tim Daly (Diner), Paul Reiser (Diner), Borje Ahlstedit (Fanny and Alexander), Herbert Gronemeyer (Das Boot), Judge Reinhold (Fast Times at Ridgemont High), Allan Edwall (Fanny and Alexander), Leonard Nimoy (Star Trek 2:  the Wrath of Khan), Joe Turkel (Blade Runner), Ricardo Montalban (Star Trek 2: the Wrath of Khan), William Sanderson (Blade Runner), John Gielgud (Gandhi), A. Wilford Brimley (The Thing), Sean Penn (Fast Times at Ridgemont High), Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner), Charles Durning (Tootsie), Edward James Olmos (Blade Runner),  Alyque Padamsee (Gandhi), Milo O'Shea (The Verdict), Donald Moffat (The Thing), Omero Antonutti (The Night of the Shooting Stars), Halil Ergun (Yol), James Earl Jones (Conan the Barbarian), Michael Keaton (Night Shift), Jose Ferrer (A Midsummer's Night Sex Comedy), Dabney Coleman (Tootsie), Bill Murray (Tootsie), William Shatner (Airplane II: the sequel), Alex Karras (Victor/Victoria), Keith David (The Thing), Michel Piccoli (Passion)

Supporting Actress

Gunn Wallgren, Fanny and Alexander

Jessica Lange, Tootsie
Ellen Barkin, Diner
Charlotte Rampling, The Verdict
Claudia Cardinale, Fitzcarraldo
Isabelle Huppert, Passion

Runner-ups:  Mona Malm (Fanny and Alexander), Teri Garr (Tootsie), Ewa Froling (Fanny and Alexander), Lesley Ann Warren (Victor/Victoria), Rohini Hattangadi (Gandhi), Annemarie Duringer (Veronika Voss), Serif Sezer (Yol), Harriet Anderson (Fanny and Alexander), Stina Ekblad (Fanny and Alexander), Pernilla Allwin (Fanny and Alexander), Drew Barrymore (E.T.  the Extra-Terrestrial), Pernilla August (Fanny and Alexander), Margarita Lozano (The Night of the Shooting Stars), Lindsay Crouse (The Verdict), Phoebe Cates (Fast Times at Ridgemont High), Cornelia Froboess (Veronika Voss), Heather O'Rourke (Poltergeist), Candice Bergen (Gandhi), Darryl Hannah (Blade Runner), Hanna Schygulla (Passion), Sean Young (Blade Runner), Christina Schollin (Fanny and Alexander), Meral Orhonsay (Yol), Glenn Close (The World According to Garp)

Not seen:  Frances, An Officer and a Gentleman, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

 

 

--------10 out of the 15 Academy nominations get a nomination from me.  That may be a record.

 

--------James Mason become the first actor to get a nomination in five consecutive decades.  (Charles Chaplin was the first to get one in four)

 

--------The nominations are larger this year, since once again I consider Fanny and Alexander a 1983 film and the extra nominations are for the 1982 movies.  In my view Guve, Josephson and Wallgren would have been the winners of 1983's actor, supporting actor, and supporting actress respectively.  Guve is my juvenile performer of the year.

[skimpole]

Delete the post I had here.

[Swithin]

I think it should have been made clear before hand that Fanny and Alexander and The Year of Living Dangerously are being considered 1982 films, since they were both nominated for the 1983 Awards.

 

I don't need an imprimatur or clarification to know which films belong to which years. I just use the original release dates, usually by checking IMDB or Wikipedia. If there's a discrepancy, I pick the one that makes most sense to me. I'm only moderately interested in what awards any given film or actor may have won, but I'm glad Bogie gives us that information. My lists are of my favorites.

 

And this is my single most favorite performance of 1982, and my favorite Marcello performance of all time:

 

[Bogie56]

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards for 1982 were …

 

Best Actor

Ben Kingsley, Gandhi*

Peter O’Toole, My Favorite Year

 

Best Actress

Meryl Streep, Sophie’s Choice*

Jessica Lange, Frances

 

Best Supporting Actor

John Lithgow, The World According to Garp*

James Mason, The Verdict

 

Best Supporting Actress

Glenn Close, The World According to Garp*

Cher, Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean

[Bogie56]

Here are my choices of the 82 films I've seen from 1982 for…

 

Best Actress of 1982

 

1.  SISSY SPACEK (Beth Horman), Missing

2.  JESSICA LANGE (Frances Farmer), Frances

3.  MERYL STREEP (Sophie Zawistowska), Sophie's Choice

4.  MARIEL HEMINGWAY (Chris Cahill), Personal Best

5.  DEBRA WINGER (Paula Pokrifki), An Officer and a Gentleman

 

6.  PATRICE DONNELLY (Tory Skinner), Personal Best

7.  JULIE ANDREWS (Victoria Grant/”Count Victor Grazinski”), Victor/Victoria

8.  WENDY HUGHES (Patricia Curnow), Lonely Hearts

9.  BARBARA HERSHEY (Carla Moran), The Entity

10.  NATHALIE BAYE (Bertrande de Rols Guerre), The Return of Martin Guerre

 

and ...

 

KRYSTYNA JANDA (Antonia “Tonia” Diwisz), Interrogation

SIGOURNEY WEAVER (Jill Edith Bryant), The Year of Living Dangerously

TERI GARR (Frannie), One From the Heart

[Bogie56]

Here are my choices of the 82 films I've seen from 1982 for…

 

Best Actor of 1982

 

1.  PAUL NEWMAN (Francis "Frank" P. Galvin), The Verdict

2.  ROBERT DE NIRO (Rupert Pupkin), The King of Comedy

3.  JACK LEMMON (Ed Horman), Missing

4.  ROBIN WILLIAMS (T.S. Garp), The World According to Garp

5.  DUSTIN HOFFMAN (Michael Dorsey/"Dorothy Michaels"/”Dottie”/”Tootsie”), Tootsie

 

6.  JEREMY IRONS (Nowak), Moonlighting

7.  BEN KINGSLEY (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi/"Mahatma"), Gandhi

8.  JOHN CASSAVETES (Phillip Demetrius), Tempest

9.  KLAUS KINSKI (Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald/”Fitzcarraldo”), Fitzcarraldo

10.  JACK NICHOLSON (Charlie Smith), The Border

 

and ...

 

PETER O'TOOLE (Alan Swann/"Clarence Duffy"), My Favorite Year

RICHARD FARNSWORTH (Bill Miner/"George Edwards"), The Grey Fox

GERARD DEPARDIEU ("Martin Guerre”/Arnaud di Tihi/"Ponsette"), The Return of Martin Guerre

RICHARD GERE (Aviation Officer Candidate Zack Mayo/"Mayonese"), An Officer and a Gentleman

MICHAEL CAINE (Sidney Bruhl), Deathtrap

STEVE GUTTENBURG (Edward “Eddie” Simmons), Diner

[CoraSmith]

ACTOR:

1. Robert De Niro - The King of Comedy

2. Dustin Hoffman - Tootsie

3. Paul Newman - The Verdict

4. Ben Kingsley - Gandhi

5. Steve Martin - Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

6. Robin Williams - The World According to Garp

7. Peter Ustinov - Evil Under the Sun

8. Anthony Franciosa - Tenebrae

 

ACTRESS:

1. Nastassja Kinski - Cat People

2. Béatrice Romand - Le Beau Mariage

3. Aileen Quinn - Annie

4. Sissy Spacek - Missing

5. Mia Farrow - A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy

6. Jo Beth Williams - Poltergeist

7. Bette Midler - Jinxed!

8. Dolly Parton - The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

 

SUPPORTING ACTOR:

1. Jerry Lewis - The King of Comedy

2. Dabney Coleman - Tootsie

3. James Mason - Evil Under the Sun

4. Albert Finney - Annie

5. Féodor Atkine - Le Beau Mariage

6. John Gielgud - Gandhi

7. James Mason - The Verdict

8. José Ferrer - A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy

SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

1. Arielle Dombasle - Le Beau Mariage

2. Sandra Bernhard - The King of Comedy

3. Teri Garr - Tootsie

4. Maggie Smith - Evil Under the Sun

5. Lindsay Crouse - The Verdict

6. Jane Birkin - Evil Under the Sun

7. Annette O'Toole - Cat People

8. Christine Boisson - Identification of a Woman

 

BEST JUVENILE PERFORMANCE: 

1. Aileen Quinn - Annie

2. Drew Barrymore - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

3. Henry Thomas - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

 

BEST EXTRA: 

1. Debra Winger - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

2. Bruce Willis - The Verdict

3. Mary Elizabeth Mastroianni - The King of Comedy

BEST CAMEO: Andy Warhol - Tootsie

BEST ANIMAL PERFORMANCE: Black leopards - Cat People

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: John Williams - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

BEST NON-ORIGINAL SONG: Tomorrow (Aileen Quinn in Annie)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG: 

1. Up Where We Belong (Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes in An Officer and a Gentleman)

2. That's What Friends Are For (Dionne Warwick & Friends in Nightshift)

3. Eye of the Tiger (Al Stewart in Rocky III) 

BEST QUOTE: 

1. "Better to be king for a night than **** for a lifetime." (The King of Comedy)

2. "My plan was to kiss her with every lip on my face." (Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid)

3. "I can be different!" (Tootsie)

[Jlewis]

 

ACTRESS:

1. Nastassja Kinski - Cat People

2. Béatrice Romand - Le Beau Mariage

3. Aileen Quinn - Annie

4. Sissy Spacek - Missing

5. Mia Farrow - A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy

6. Jo Beth Williams - Poltergeist

7. Bette Midler - Jinxed!

8. Dolly Parton - The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

 

 

 

One of the reasons this thread is so much fun to read is that we are all forced to judge the performances rather than the films in question. Yes, we all know the "best" of '82 were films like Tootsie, ET, Gandhi, Moonlighting, Fitzcarraldo, Fanny & Alexander, among others and NOT necessarily Cat People or Annie. Yet any film that is not a "shockomentary" has entertainment value.

 

There has been a lot of praise for The Thing here even though it is seldom considered as good as the 1951 original. The reason is because the performances make it more successful than it is. Likewise, nobody would ever compare this Cat People with the 1942 version, yet I recall reading glowing reviews in vintage 1982 books and magazines about Nastassja being so much more "into" her role than the earlier cast in the more nostalgically loved version.

 

Annie, of course, would never be considered a classic and all of us TCM fans will forever be outraged at the inclusion of a 1936 Greta Garbo classic Camille in a 1933 setting, especially since John Huston should have known better with his own movie history knowledge. (If we need to get nitpicky, I still haven't forgiven Peter Bogdanovich for featuring Fibber McGee's classic radio show closet routine of 1940 in Paper Moon, set at least five years earlier. I'm OK with the song "Baby Face" four years early in Thoroughly Modern Millie, but that musical in a galaxy all its own.)

 

Yet you have admire all of the energy of Aileen Quinn, who wasn't even ten yet when she was filming her scenes in the spring of 1981. The amount of work she does is just as great as Julie Andrews in Victor/Victoria. She does not come off an a studio-produced "child" actress.

[Bogie56]

Best Supporting Actor of 1982

 

and ...

 

DAVID KEITH (Aviation Officer Candidate Sid Worley), An Officer and a Gentleman

KEITH DAVID (Childs), The Thing    

 

 

Say wha ...?

[LawrenceA]

Say wha ...?

 

I spent years trying to keep their names straight. It got easier when David Keith dropped out of sight (all due respect to David Keith, who I enjoyed in many films).

[LawrenceA]

 

ACTOR:

 

8. Anthony Franciosa - Tenebrae

 

 

 

BEST ORIGINAL SONG: 

 

 

Wow! I'm genuinely surprised someone mentioned Tenebrae aka Unsane, Dario Argento's return to the giallo genre after making a string of supernatural movies. Tenebrae also has one of the more over-the-top deaths in movie history, featuring blood-spray like a firehose dousing the set. The victim in said scene was Veronica Lario, who later went on to marry Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi. She was embarrassed at having appeared in such a film, so many prints were edited to remove most or all of her scenes. The full version is now available on disc, though.

 

I don't usually put forth a choice for Best Original Song, but 1982 saw one my faves, David Bowie's "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)".

[Bogie56]

The Boston Society of Film Critics Awards for 1982 were…

 

Best Actor

Dustin Hoffman, Tootsie

 

Best Actress

Meryl Streep, Sophie’s Choice

 

Best Supporting Actor

Mickey Rourke, Diner

 

Best Supporting Actress

Jessica Lange, Tootsie

 

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The National Board of Review Awards for 1982 were…

 

Best Actor

Ben Kingsley, Gandhi

 

Best Actress

Meryl Streep, Sophie’s Choice

 

Best Supporting Actor

Robert Preston, Victor/Victoria

 

Best Supporting Actress

Glenn Close, The World According to Garp

[CoraSmith]

The remake of Cat People is one of my guilty pleasures of the eighties. Nastassja "Kinky" had the necessary feline qualities for the part. There are some illogicalities to the plot, but the dreamlike ancestor sequences, Moroder's synthesizer music and the use of shadows gave it a gloomy and campy atmosphere. One good idea was to put her in a store where they sell stuffed animals. It even has painted animals on the wall.