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From 1982 I have not seen:

 

Interrogation

Lonely Hearts

Melanie

The Missionary

Moonlighting

One from the Heart

Personal Best

Privates On Parade

The Return of Martin Guerre

Veronika Voss

 

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Lonely Hearts by Paul Cox is certainly worth a look for Wendy Hughes (1952-2014) alone.  This is a Mike Leigh-type film that is character driven.  Hughes as we know was regarded as one of Australia's greatest actresses.

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Privates on Parade is a very funny look at a troupe of military entertainers stationed in Malaysia.  Most of these men at arms are gay.  Denis Quilley (1927-2003) plays the leader.  John Cleese has a smart part.  I saw a revival of the stage play in 2012 that featured Simon Russell Beale.

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Here are the films from 1982 that were mentioned that I have not seen as yet. 

 

Airplane II The Sequel with William Shatner

Annie with Carol Burnett, Tim Curry and Aileen Quinn

Best Friends with Goldie Hawn

Grease 2 with Michelle Pfeiffer

If You Could See What I Hear with R.H. Thompson

Jinxed! with Bette Midler

Kiss Me Goodbye with Sally Field

La Nuit de Varennes/That Night In Varennes with Hanna Schygulla, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean-Louis Barrault and Laura Betti

Split Image with James Woods

Tenebre with Anthony Franciosca

That Championship Season with Bruce Dern

 

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I've seen these. It's been 30 years since I saw Best Friends or Jinxed! so I don't recall much. Airplane 2 and Grease 2 are fairly self explanatory. I've discussed Tenebrae already, and I wrote a review of That Championship Season in the "I Just Watched" thread last year (I wasn't a fan). I also wrote a review more recently for That Night in Varennes, which I did like, and would recommend. Enough has been said about Annie, as well.

 

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Kiss Me Goodbye is the American remake of the Brazilian hit Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands. Sally Field stars as a widow who is about to remarry, this time to Jeff Bridges, when the ghost of her first husband (James Caan) shows up to throw a monkeywrench into the works. Paul Dooley and Claire Trevor are also in it. Caan quit making movies for years after this. I thought it was mildly pleasant and inoffensive. 

 

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If You Could See What I Hear is a biopic on blind musician Tom Sullivan. Sullivan himself was making frequent appearances on TV during this time period, so he was a fairly well-known figure. Marc Singer stars, taking a break from his usual genre fare, such as The Beastmaster released this same year and for which he is most remembered.

 

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Split Image stars Michael O'Keefe as a young man who gets "brainwashed" into a cult led by Peter Fonda. The kid's parents, played by Brian Dennehy and Elizabeth Ashley, hire James Woods to "de-program" their son. Woods is volatile and intense, as usual. This movie is largely forgotten now, although it's worth a look.

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Lonely Hearts by Paul Cox is certainly worth a look for Wendy Hughes (1952-2014) alone.  This is a Mike Leigh-type film that is character driven.  Hughes as we know was regarded as one of Australia's greatest actresses.

In Moonlighting, Jeremy Irons plays the foreman of an illegal crew of Polish workers who have been hired to gut and renovate a flat in London.  irons is an absolute rotter who takes advantage and double deals his own men who live, sleep and work in the flat.  It is played very straight which only adds to the very dark humour.

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Privates on Parade is a very funny look at a troupe of military entertainers stationed in Malaysia.  Most of these men at arms are gay.  Denis Quilley (1927-2003) plays the leader.  John Cleese has a smart part.  I saw a revival of the stage play in 2012 that featured Simon Russell Beale.

 

I had seen the WONDERFUL original musical, with Denis Quilley and Nigel Hawthorne. The movie is certainly not as good -- they not only changed some plot details for the worse, but John Cleese is awful in the Hawthorne role -- he ruins the film for me. But Quilley is brilliant, on stage and screen. I wanted to see Simon, whom I've worked with, in the revival, but the timing was bad.

 

"You dare to speak to an officer like that again, and I'll scream the place down!"

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I had seen the WONDERFUL original musical, with Denis Quilley and Nigel Hawthorne. The movie is certainly not as good -- they not only changed some plot details for the worse, but John Cleese is awful in the Hawthorne role -- he ruins the film for me. But Quilley is brilliant, on stage and screen. I wanted to see Simon, whom I've worked with, in the revival, but the timing was bad.

 

"You dare to speak to an officer like that again, and I'll scream the place down!"

 

Yes, Privates is not a great film by any means but Quilley is marvellous.  Nicola Pagett is pretty good too.

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Best Supporting Actor of 1982

 

2.  RAUL JULIA (Kalibanos), Tempest

 

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I would like to pay a small tribute to the late Raul Julia (1940-1994) a truly wonderful actor who was my number two choice for supporting actor of 1982 with his role as Kalibanos in Paul Mazursky's Tempest.  Julia is a comic delight as the wild man living in a cave on the Greek island that John Cassevetes has decided to retreat to with his young daughter (Molly Ringwald) and new girlfriend (Susan Sarandon).  Sure Julia is from San Juan playing a Greek peasant but it works.  It is my favourite Julia performance.  Tempest was flop when it came out but I would say it is worth catching.

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Leading vs. Supporting Categories in 1983 …

IMO Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger and Jeff Daniels are all leads in Terms of Endearment.

Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay are both leads in The Dresser.

Wojciech Pszoniak and Gerard Depardieu are both leads in Danton.

Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid and Scott Glenn are all leads in The Right Stuff.  Sam Shepard is supporting.

Tess Harper is the leading actress in Tender Mercies.

 

My choice for impersonation of a Juvenile is…

RALPH MACCHIO (Johnny Cade), The Outsiders*

I was going to pick Ralph Macchio for the Juvenile acting award but only just discovered that he was already 22.

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It’s time for 1983.  We will be on 1983 for one week so plenty of time for everyone to respond.

 

Here are Oscar’s choices for 1983.  Winners in bold. 

 

Best Actor

 

Robert Duvall, Tender Mercies*

Michael Caine, Educating Rita

Tom Conti, Reuben, Reuben

Tom Courtenay, The Dresser

Albert Finney, The Dresser

 

Best Actress

 

Shirley MacLaine, Terms of Endearment*

Jane Alexander, Testament

Meryl Streep, Silkwood

Julie Waters, Educating Rita

Debra Winger, Terms of Endearment

 

Best Supporting Actor

 

Jack Nicholson, Terms of Endearment*

Charles Durning, To Be or Not to Be

John Lithgow, Terms of Endearment

Sam Shepard, The Right Stuff

Rip Torn, Cross Creek

 

Best Supporting Actress

 

Linda Hunt, The Year of Living Dangerously* (82)

Cher, Silkwood

Glenn Close, The Big Chill

Amy Irving, Yentl

Alfre Woodard, Cross Creek

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1983

 

BEST ACTOR

Robert Duvall  Tender Mercies****

Christopher Walken  The Dead Zone

Ed Harris  The Right Stuff

Gerard Depardieu  Danton

Sean Penn  Bad Boys

Tom Conti  Reuben, Reuben

Esai Morales  Bad Boys

Albert Finney  The Dresser

Tom Courtenay  The Dresser

Michael Caine  Educating Rita

Eric Roberts  Star 80

James Woods  Videodrome

Eric Idle  Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

 

BEST ACTRESS

Shirley MacLaine  Terms of Endearment****

Meryl Streep  Silkwood

Jane Alexander  Testament

Debra Winger  Terms of Endearment

Julie Walters  Educating Rita

 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Jack Nicholson  Terms of Endearment****

Sam Shepard  The Right Stuff

Robert Prosky  Christine

Donald Moffatt  The Right Stuff

Clancy Brown  Bad Boys

Rip Torn  Cross Creek

Herbert Lom  The Dead Zone

Jonathan Pryce  Something Wicked This Way Comes

Fred Ward  The Right Stuff

Jurgen Prochnow  The Keep

William Hurt  The Big Chill

Levon Helm  The Right Stuff

Peter Dvorsky  Videodrome

 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Cher  Silkwood****

Kim Stanley  The Right Stuff

Pamela Reed  The Right Stuff

Glenn Close  The Big Chill

Barbara Carrera  Never Say Never Again

Veronica Cartwright  The Right Stuff

 

BEST JUVENILE PERFORMANCE

Peter Billingsley  A Christmas Story****

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Here are my choices of the 84 films I've seen from 1983 for…

 

Best Supporting Actress of 1983

 

1.  ALFRE WOODARD (Beatrice/“Geechee"), Cross Creek

2.  CHER (Dolly Pelliker), Silkwood

3.  JOBETH WILLIAMS (Karen Bowens), The Big Chill

4.  KEIKO KISHI (Tsuruko Makioka), The Makioka Sisters

5.  BETTY BUCKLEY (Dixie Sledge), Tender Mercies

 

6.  VERONICA CARTWRIGHT (Betty Grissom), The Right Stuff

7.  CARROLL BAKER (Mrs. Stratton), Star 80

8.  BARBARA HERSHEY (Glennis Yeager), The Right Stuff

9.  GLENN CLOSE (Sarah Cooper), The Big Chill

10. MEG TILLY (Chloe), The Big Chill

 

and ...

 

MARY KAY PLACE (Meg Jones), The Big Chill

PAMELA REED (Trudy Cooper), The Right Stuff

ELLEN BARKIN (Sue Anne Sledge), Tender Mercies

CHRISTINA HOYOS (Cristina), Carmen

DIANE LANE (Patty), Rumble Fish

MARY JO DESHANEL (Annie Glenn), The Right Stuff

EILEEN ATKINS (Madge), The Dresser

ANIK BELAUBRE (Paula Delbeque, “the Eden cashier”), Confidentially Yours

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Here are my choices of the 84 films I've seen from 1983 for…

 

Best Supporting Actor of 1983

 

1.  JACK NICHOLSON (Garrett Breedlove), Terms of Endearment

2.  JOHN LITHGOW (John Valentine), Twilight Zone: The Movie

3.  BURT LANCASTER (Felix Happer), Local Hero

4.  RIP TORN (Marsh Turner), Cross Creek

5.  FRED WARD (Virgil Ivan “Gus” Grissom), The Right Stuff  

 

6.  RALPH MACCHIO (Johnny Cade), The Outsiders

7.  BRIAN DENNEHY (Rosie Little), Never Cry Wolf

8.  SAM SHEPARD (Chuck Yeager), The Right Stuff

9.  JEFF GOLDBLUM (Michael Gold), The Big Chill

10. WILLIAM HURT (Nick Carlton), The Big Chill

 

and...

 

PETER CAPALDE (Danny Oldsen), Local Hero

TOM BERENGER (Sam Weber), The Big Chill

KEVIN KLINE (Harold Cooper), The Big Chill

MICHAEL ZELNICKER (Doug Alward) , The Terry Fox Story

ROBERT DUVALL (Bill Vigars), The Terry Fox Story

JOHN LITHGOW (Sam Burns), Terms of Endearment

 
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I'm afraid I could not work up any enthusiasm to make a list of 1983 favorites. I liked Heat and Dust; Zelig; Educating Rita; and a few others; and I thought Peter Weller gave an excellent performance in Of Unknown Origin; but those films do not a list make.

 

In the 1979 lists, I neglected to mention John Sayles' The Return of the Secaucus Seven, a film I find vastly superior to 1983's slick The Big Chill.

 

I'm not a fan of writer/director James L. Brooks. Terms of Endearment is the sort of modern Hollywood film (I would call it American Neo-Realism) that I do not like. I think it's fitting that Brooks spent most of his career in television. I have liked a few of his shows -- Rhoda, in particular; but as a whole I find no magic in his work.

 

1984 looks like a much better year.

 

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The New York Film Critics Circle Awards for 1983 were …

 

Best Actor

Robert Duvall, Tender Mercies*

Gerard Depardieu, Danton and The Return of Martin Guerre (82)

 

Best Actress

Shirley MacLaine, Terms of Endearment* 

Debra Winger, Terms of Endearment

Meryl Streep, Silkwood

 

Best Supporting Actor

Jack Nicholson, Terms of Endearment*

Ed Harris, The Right Stuff

John Lithgow, Terms of Endearment and Twilight Zone The Movie

 

Best Supporting Actress

Linda Hunt, The Year of Living Dangerously* (82)

Cher, Silkwood

Dianne Wiest, Independence Day

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PETER CAPALDI (Danny Oldsen), Local Hero

 

 

It's been so long since I've seen Local Hero that I had forgotten Capaldi was in that. I have him among my nominees for a movie over 25 years later than this early performance. Capaldi, besides fronting a punk rock band that featured a teenage Craig Ferguson on drums, also went on to become the most recent Doctor on Doctor Who.

 

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I'm not a fan of writer/director James L. Brooks. Terms of Endearment is the sort of modern Hollywood film (I would call it American Neo-Realism) that I do not like. I think it's fitting that Brooks spent most of his career in television. I have liked a few of his shows -- Rhoda, in particular; but as a whole I find no magic in his work.

 

It has taken me a while, but I have come to terms with Terms. I really like Shirley MacLaine in so much of her work, but really struggle with her here. The hospital scenes with Debra Winger are great and that earned her the Oscar. Yet she is so nasty to her son-in-law played by Jeff Daniels. I guess had he been abusive to Debra, I would understand. Yet he is very soft and martyr-ish. Yes, he is also supposedly unfaithful, yet she doesn't exactly say "no" to John Lithgow either. Maybe that was the point? Jeff's Flap was too weak to be a daddy to the children since he couldn't stand up to feisty women like Jack Nicholson?

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It's been so long since I've seen Local Hero that I had forgotten Capaldi was in that. I have him among my nominees for a movie over 25 years later than this early performance. Capaldi, besides fronting a punk rock band that featured a teenage Craig Ferguson on drums, also went on to become the most recent Doctor on Doctor Who.

 

I first saw Peter Capaldi at the Young Vic, in 1983, playing John Lennon in a play by Willy Russell: John, Paul, George, Ringo... and Bert. My favorite film role of Capaldi's comes five years after 1983.

 

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I seem to agree with both sides about Terms of Endearment. The change of tone doesn't quite work, but on the other hand, this is just how it happens when someone close to you says, out of the blue, "I have cancer."

 

I like both Debra and Shirley, especially Debra, in Terms, but Genevieve Bujold in Choose Me is an equally strong contender. She'll be even more outstanding in Trouble in Mind.

 

Choose Me is probably my favorite film from this year, but the one I've seen the most times is The Big Chill. I usually like "group of friends" movies, including both The Return of the Secaucus Seven and The Big Chill. Is that comparable to liking both snails and oysters? I'm not especially fond of the music in The Big Chill, but otherwise no complaints.

 

SAG Award for Best Cast: The Big Chill

Directors' Guild Award for Best Director: Alan Rudolph, Choose Me

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Yikes, I see that Choose Me is a 1984 film. Sorry for the confusion.

 

Lawrence, Alan Rudolph has directed some stinkers. I'm very fond of Welcome to L.A. (which a lot of people are not) and Choose Me, and if Trouble in Mind doesn't completely work, it has a super performance by Genevieve Bujold. These three films, considered together, absolutely show the work of an auteur, but, of course, there are plenty of authors one doesn't enjoy.

 

Some of Rudolph's projects were made to get by until he could get financing for the movies he really wanted to make. He did not excel under these conditions.

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The Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards for 1983 were …

 

Best Actor

Robert Duvall, Tender Mercies*

Tom Conti, Reuben, Reuben

 

Best Actress

Shirley MacLaine, Terms of Endearment* 

Jane Alexander, Testament

 

Best Supporting Actor

Jack Nicholson, Terms of Endearment*

John Lithgow, Terms of Endearment and Twilight Zone The Movie

 

Best Supporting Actress

Linda Hunt, The Year of Living Dangerously* (82)

Cher, Silkwood

 
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Actor

 

Steve Martin, The Man with Two Brains
Robert De Niro, The King of Comedy
Oleg Yankovsky, Nostalghia
James Woods, Videodrome
Woody Allen, Zelig

Runner-ups:  Omero Antonutti (The South), Ken Ogata (The Ballad of Narayama), Tom Cruise (Risky Business), Nick Nolte (Under Fire), Freddie Jones (And the Ship Sails On), Everett Silas (My Brother's Wedding), Peter Riegert (Local Hero), Robin Williams (The Survivors), Walter Matthau (The Survivors), GArry Cadenet (Sugar Cane Alley), Pierre Jolivet (The Last Battle), Lorenzo Music (Twice Upon a Time), Charles Martin Smith (Never Cry Wolf)

Actress

Jane Alexander, Testament
Sonsoles Aranguen, The South*
Alexandra Stewart, Sans Soleil
Mia Farrow, Zelig
Sumiko Sakamoto, The Ballad of Narayama

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Juvenile performer of the year

Runner-ups:  Kathleen Turner (The Man with Two Brains), Jessie Holms (My Brother's Wedding), Sandrine Bonnaire (A Nos Amours), Shirley MacLaine (Terms of Endearment), Barbara Jefford (And the Ship Sails On), Anne Alvaro (City of Pirates), Isabelle Huppert (Entre Nous), Miou-Miou (Entre Nous), Amanda Langlet (Pauline at the Beach), Darling Legitimus (Sugar Cane Alley), Joanna Cassidy (Under Fire), Renee Soutendijk (The Fourth Man), Sigourney Weaver (The Year of Living Dangerously)

Supporting Actor

Erland Josephson, Nostalghia
Burt Lancaster, Local Hero
Terry Jones, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Gene Hackman, Under Fire
Sam Shepard, The Right Stuff

Runner-ups:  Michael Palin (Monty Python's The Meaning of Life), Ed Harris (The Right Stuff), John Cleese (Monty Python's The Meaning of Life), Fred Ward (The Right Stuff), Graham Chapman (Monty Python's The Meaning of Life), Feodor Atkine (Pauline at the Beach), David Warner (The Man with Two Brains), Ed Harris (Under Fire), Eric Idle (Monty Python's The Meaning of Life), Dennis Lawson (Local Hero), Marshall Efron (Twice Upon a Time), Peter Capaldi (Local Hero), Pascal Greggory (Pauline at the Beach), Tonpei Hidari (The Ballad of Narayama), Jeff Goldblum (The Big Chill), Peter Dvorsky (Videodrome), John Lithgow (Twilight Zone: The Movie), Merv Griffin (The Man with Two Brains),

Supporting Actress

Sissy Spacek, The Man with two Brains
Junko Takada, The Ballad of Narayama
Jennifer Black, Local Hero
Barbara Hershey, The Right Stuff
Sandra Bernhard, The King of Comedy

Runner-ups:  Domiziana Giordano (Nostalghia), Jenny Seagrove (Local Hero), Deborah Harry (Videodrome), Iciar Bollain (The South), Linda Hunt (The Year of Living Dangerously), Arielle Dombaisle (Pauline at the Beach), Aurore Clement (The South), Mary Jo Deschanel (The Right Stuff)

Not seen:  The Dresser, Tender Mercies, Reuben, Reuben, Educating Rita, Cross Creek

 

--------Somewhat odd year, since I actually consider Fanny and Alexander a 1983 film, which means that my winners would actually be Bertil Guve (actor), Erland Josephson (supporting actor), and Gunn Wallgren (supporting actress).

 

--------Although I've seen 79 of the 89 best actor winners, I've seen none of the best actor nominees for this year. 

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Before we leave 1983, I'd like to agree with Bogie for his high praise for Educating Rita, which was his favorite film for this year. The play was written by Willy Russell for Julie Walters, and apparently Rita was based on her. Julie Walters is terrific in the movie and even could be said to overshadow Michael Caine, which is not exactly easy to do. Caine is perhaps not the top choice to play a college professor, although he's a fine actor with exceptional screen presence.

 

Rita is a working class gal, a hairdresser by profession, who takes some college literature courses. She has plenty of brains but no knowledge of the academic world, so that, for instance, it seems natural to her to compare Macbeth to Harold Robbins' Where Love Has Gone. Rita's naivete leads to some fine comic moments, but as the movie progresses, we realize that it isn't really a comedy. Once Rita is educated, she doesn't fit into the world she grew up in. The world she's smart enough to join means an estrangement from the people in her daily life. Educating Rita sticks in the memory.

 

Tender Mercies is on my honor roll of intelligent, believable films about the real South. The director, Bruce Beresford, is Australian, just as Michael Apted, director of another film on that list, the admirable Coal Miner's Daughter, is British. Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, and Betty Buckley all give first-rate performances in Tender Mercies. Sometimes non-Southerners get the impression that the character played by Tess Harper is mentally challenged. No, she isn't. She's sweet, she has a thick Southern accent, she's deeply religious, and she has all of her faculties. It's unfortunate that Tess Harper and Betty Buckley didn't have more big movie roles; Tess Harper did have a nice supporting role in Crimes of the Heart.

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Here are my choices of the 84 films I've seen from 1983 for…

 

Best Actress of 1983

 

1.  SHIRLEY MACLAINE (Aurora Greenway), Terms of Endearment

2.  JULIE WALTERS (Susan White/"Rita"), Educating Rita

3.  MERYL STREEP (Karen Silkwood), Silkwood

4.  DEBRA WINGER (Emma Greenway Horton), Terms of Endearment

5.  YOSHIKO SAKUMA (Sachiko Makioka), The Makioka Sisters

 

6.  MARIEL HEMINGWAY (Dorothy Stratten), Star 80

7.  BONNIE BEDELIA (Shirley Anne "Cha Cha" Muldowney), Heart Like a Wheel

8.  JANE ALEXANDER (Carol Wetherly), Testament

9.  YUKO KOTEGAWA (Taeko Makioka), The Makioka Sisters

10. ROSANNA ARQUETTE (Jill Rosen), Baby It’s You

 

and  ...

 

TESS HARPER (Rosa Lee Sledge), Tender Mercies

RENEE SOUTENDIJK (Christina Halsslag), The Fourth Man

FANNY ARDANT (Barbara Becker), Confidentially Yours

SAYURI YOSHINAGA (Yukiko Makioka), The Makioka Sisters

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Here are my choices of the 84 films I've seen from 1983 for…

 

Best Actor of 1983

 

1.  ALBERT FINNEY ("Sir"), The Dresser

2.  MICHAEL CAINE (Dr. Frank Bryant), Educating Rita

3.  ERIC ROBERTS (Paul Snider), Star 80

4.  TOM COURTENAY (Norman), The Dresser

5.  ROBERT DUVALL (Mac Sledge), Tender Mercies

 

6.  TOM CONTI (Gowan McGland), Reuben, Reuben

7.  WOJCIECH PSZONIAK (Maximillian “Maxime” de Robespierre), Danton

8.  GERARD DEPARDIEU (Georges Danton), Danton

9.  CHARLES MARTIN SMITH (Tyler), Never Cry Wolf

10. ERIC FRYER (Terry Fox), The Terry Fox Story

 

and ...

 

ED HARRIS (Major John “A” Glenn, Jr.), The Right Stuff

MATT DILLON (Rusty James), Rumble Fish

JEREMY IRONS (Jerry), Betrayal

PETER RIEGERT (MacIntyre/"Mac"), Local Hero

BEAU BRIDGES (Conrad "Connie" Kalitta), Heart Like a Wheel

JEFF DANIELS (Flap Horton), Terms of Endearment

DENNIS QUAID (Leroy G. “Gordo” Cooper), The Right Stuff

SCOTT GLENN (Alan B. Shepard, Jr.), The Right Stuff

JEROEN KRABBE (Gerard Reve), The Fourth Man

RON LEIBMAN (Dave Davis), Phar Lap

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1983

 

Winners in BOLD

 

BEST PICTURE

 

The Big Chill

A Christmas Story

Easy Money

Eddie and the Cruisers

Flashdance

Mickey's Christmas Carol

National Lampoon's Vacation

The Outsiders

Risky Business

Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi

Strange Brew

Terms of Endearment

Valley Girl

WarGames

 

BEST ACTOR

 

Peter Billingsley, A Christmas Story

Rodney Dangerfield, Easy Money

Michael Pare, Eddie and the Cruisers

Mickey Mouse, Mickey's Christmas Carol

Chevy Chase, National Lampoon's Vacation

C. Thomas Howell, The Outsiders

Tom Cruise, Risky Business

Mark Hamill, Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi

Rick Moranis, Strange Brew

Dave Thomas, Strange Brew

Nicholas Cage, Valley Girl

Matthew Broderick, WarGames

 

BEST ACTRESS

 

Ellen Barkin, Eddie and the Cruisers

Jennifer Beales, Flashdance

Beverly D'Angelo, National Lampoon's Vacation

Rebecca De Mornay, Risky Business

Carrie Fisher, Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi

Shirley MacLaine, Terms of Endearment

Debra Winger, Terms of Endearment

Deborah Foreman, Valley Girl

 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

 

Jeff Goldblum, The Big Chill

Darren McGavin, A Christmas Story

Santa, A Christmas Story

Anthony Michael Hall, National Lampoon's Vacation

John Candy, National Lampoon's Vacation

Patrick Swayze, The Outsiders

Ralph Macchio, The Outsiders

Billy Dee Williams, Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi

Jabba the Hut, Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi

The Ewoks, Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi

Jack Nicholson, Terms of Endearment

 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

 

Glenn Close, The Big Chill

Melinda Dillon, A Christmas Story

Imogene Coca, National Lampoon's Vacation

Christie Brinkley, National Lampoon's Vacation

Diane Lane, The Outsiders

E.G. Daily, Valley Girl

 

BEST QUOTES

 

"FUUUUUUDGE," Ralphie, A Christmas Story

 

"Randy lay there like a slug.  It was his only defense."  Narrator in A Christmas Story

 

SADDEST MOVIE

 

Hands down, Terms of Endearment

 

MOST TRAGIC MOVIE

 

Twilight Zone: The Movie

 

BEST REASON TO GO ON A DIET

 

Carrie Fisher's gold bikini in Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi

 

BEST SCENE

 

Princess Leia killing Jabba the Hut in Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi

 

BEST SONGS

 

"On the Dark Side." John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band from Eddie and the Cruisers

 

"(Flashdance) What a Feeling!" Irene Cara, Flashdance

 

FUNNIEST SCENE 

 

When Santa pushes Ralphie down the slide with his foot in A Christmas Story. Ho Ho Ho!

 

HOMELIEST BOYFRIEND

 

Nicholas Cage in Valley Girl.  What does Julie see in him? 

 

STRANGEST MOVIE

 

Natalie Wood's last film, Brainstorm.  What was that? 

 

BEST CAST

 

The cast of The Outsiders.  Everyone who is anyone is in that move! 

 

FUNNIEST COSTUME

 

Jennifer Beales' "tuxedo" in Flashdance.  She enters the restaurant looking like she's wearing a tux--only for her date to discover that after the jacket is removed; she's really just wearing a Dickie with a bowtie and cuffs around her wrists.  Her "top" has no sides or back. 

 

BEST BODY

 

I got to give it to Carrie Fisher in Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi. Damn.  You go girl! 

 

SPEEDRACER'S TAKEAWAY FROM "FLASHDANCE"  That's not Jennifer Beales dancing at the end! Come on Jennifer, do your own dancing! The other Jennifer (Grey) did in Dirty Dancing! 

 

Woohoo "my year" is next! 1984! 

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ACTOR:

1. Al Pacino - Scarface

2. Everett Silas - My Brother's Wedding

3. Gérard Depardieu - Danton

4. Jeroen Krabbé - The Fourth Man

5. Alain Souchon - One Deadly Summer

6. François Beukelaers - Brussels by Night

7. Vic Moeremans - De Vlaschaard

8. Jeff Daniels - Terms of Endearment

 

ACTRESS:

1. Shirley MacLaine - Terms of Endearment

2. Isabelle Adjani - One Deadly Summer

3. Debra Winger - Terms of Endearment

4. Amanda Langlet - Pauline at the Beach

5. Renée Soutendijk - The Fourth Man

6. Sandrine Bonnaire - À Nos Amours

7. Jennifer Beals - Flashdance

8. Mia Farrow - Zelig

 

SUPPORTING ACTOR:

1. Jack Nicholson - Terms of Endearment

2. Burt Lancaster - Local Hero

3. Steven Bauer - Scarface

4. Harris Yulin - Scarface

5. Louis Jourdan - Octopussy

6. Michel Galabru - One Deadly Summer

7. Maurice Pialat - À Nos Amours

8. Klaus Maria Brandauer - Never Say Never Again

 

SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

1. Michelle Pfeiffer - Scarface

2. Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio - Scarface

3. Arielle Dombasle - Pauline at the Beach

4. Kim Basinger - Never Say Never Again

5. Gusta Gerritsen - De Vlaschaard

6. Jenny Seagrove - Local Hero

7. Deborah Harry - Videodrome

8. Maud Adams - Octopussy

 

BEST JUVENILE PERFORMANCE: 
1. Amanda Langlet - Pauline at the Beach
2. Sandrine Bonnaire - À Nos Amours
 
BEST EXTRA: John Landis - Trading Places
BEST ANIMAL PERFORMANCE: Cass Ole - The Black Stallion Returns
BIGGEST BATHTUB: Scarface
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: Giorgio Moroder - Scarface
BEST ORIGINAL SONG: Flashdance... What a Feeling! (Irene Cara in Flashdance)
BEST NON-ORIGINAL SONG: Trois petites notes de musique (Yves Montand in One Deadly Summer)
BEST QUOTES: 
1. "Don't call me baby. I'm not your baby." (Scarface)
2. "He can't even do the simple things, like fail locally." (Terms of Endearment)
3. "Say hello to my little friend!" (Scarface)
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