by Allan Fish
Best Picture Coup de Torchon, France & Le Pont du Nord, France (3 votes each, TIE!!!)
Best Director Manoel de Oliveira, Francisca (4 votes)
Best Actor Paul Newman, Absence of Malice (4 votes)
Best Actress Kathleen Turner, Body Heat (7 votes)
Best Supp Actor Jack Nicholson, Reds (5 votes)
Best Supp Actress Helen Mirren, Excalibur & Maurren Stapleton, Reds (4 votes each, TIE!!!)
Best Cinematography Vittorio Storaro, Reds & Vilmos Zsigmond, Blow Out (4 votes each, TIE!!!)
Best Score John Barry, Body Heat (7 votes)
Best Short Crac, Frédéric Back (4 votes)
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onwards…
1982
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Best Picture/Director
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All Night Long (Belgium…Chantal Akerman)
Alsino and the Condor (Nicaragua…Miguel Littin)
L’Ange (France…Patrick Bokanowski)
Angel (Greece…George Katakouzinos)
Another Way (Hungary…Karoly Makk)
Austeria (Poland…Jerzy Kawalerowicz)
La Balance (France…Bob Swaim)
The Barchester Chronicles (UK…David Giles)
Blade Runner: the director’s cut (US (1991)…Ridley Scott)
Boat People (Hong Kong…Ann Hui)
Boys from the Blackstuff (UK…Philip Saville)
Burden of Dreams (US…Les Blank)
Café Flesh (US…Stephen Sayadian)
Cat People (US…Paul Schrader)
Chilly Scenes of Winter (US…Joan Micklin Silver)
La Colmena (Spain…Mario Camus)
Diary for My Children (Hungary…Márta Mészáros)
Dimensions of Dialogue (Czechoslovakia…Jan Svankmajer)
Diner (US…Barry Levinson)
The Draughtsman’s Contract (UK…Peter Greenaway)
Eating Raoul (US…Paul Bartel)
E.T: The Extraterrestrial (US…Steven Spielberg)
An Englishman Abroad (UK…John Schlesinger)
The Executioner’s Song (European theatrical version) (US…Lawrence Schiller)
The Eyes, the Mouth (Italy…Marco Bellocchio)
Fanny and Alexander: Longer Version (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (US…Amy Heckerling)
Field Diary (Israel…Amos Gitai)
Fitzcarraldo (West Germany…Werner Herzog)
Gandhi (UK…Richard Attenborough)
The Girl from Trieste (Italy…Pasquale Festa Campanile)
God Does Not Believe In Us Anymore (Austria…Axel Corti)
The Grey Fox (Canada…Philip Borsos)
Identification of a Woman (Italy…Michelangelo Antonioni)
Interrogation (Poland…Ryszard Bugajski)
Irezumi: Spirit of Tattoo (Japan…Yoichi Takabayashi)
Koyaanisqatsi (US…Godfrey Reggio)
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (UK…Jim Goddard)
Lonely Hearts (Australia…Paul Cox)
Missing (US…Constantin Costa-Gavras)
Moonlighting (UK…Jerzy Skolimowski)
The Mother of Kings (Poland…Janusz Zaorski)
My Favorite Year (US…Richard Benjamin)
The Night of the Shooting Stars (Italy…Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani)
La Nuit de Varennes (France/Italy…Ettore Scola)
One Man’s War (France…Edgardo Cozarinsky)
One From The Heart (US…Francis Ford Coppola)
Onimasa (Japan…Hideo Gosha)
Parsifal (West Germany…Hans-Jürgen Syberberg)
Passion (France…Jean-Luc Godard)
Personal Best (US…Robert Towne)
Poltergeist (US…Tobe Hooper)
Querelle (West Germany…Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
A Question of Silence (Netherlands…Marleen Gorris)
The Rape (Japan…Yoichi Higashi)
2nd November (Albania…Viktor Gijka)
Shoot the Moon (US…Alan Parker)
Smiley’s People (UK…Simon Langton)
Soldier Girls (US…Nick Broomfield, Joan Churchill)
Something in Between (Yugoslavia…Srdjan Karanovic)
Sophie’s Choice (US…Alan J.Pakula)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (US…Nicholas Mayer)
The State of Things (West Germany…Wim Wenders)
Sweet Hours (Spain…Carlos Saura)
Taboo II (US…Kirdy Stevens)
Tenebrae (Italy…Dario Argento)
They Don’t Wear Black Tie (Brazil…Leon Hirszman)
The Thing (US…John Carpenter)
Tootsie (US…Sydney Pollack)
La Traviata (Italy…Franco Zeffirelli)
La Truite (France…Joseph Losey)
Two Portraits (US…Peter Thompson)
The Verdict (US…Sidney Lumet)
Veronika Voss (West Germany…Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Videodrome (Canada…David Cronenberg)
White Dog (US…Samuel Fuller)
The World According to Garp (US…George Roy Hill)
The Year of Living Dangerously (US…Peter Weir)
Yol (Turkey/Switzerland…Serif Gören, Yilmaz Güney)
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Best Actor
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Anthony Andrews The Scarlet Pimpernel TV
David Bowie Baal TV
Michael Caine Deathtrap
Gérard Depardieu Danton
Richard Farnsworth The Grey Fox
Albert Finney Shoot the Moon
Harrison Ford Blade Runner
Alec Guinness Smiley’s People TV
John Heard Chilly Scenes of Winter
Bernard Hill Boys from the Blackstuff TV
Dustin Hoffman Tootsie
Anthony Hopkins The Hunchback of Notre Dame TV
Jeremy Irons Moonlighting
Tommy Lee Jones The Executioner’s Song TV
Ben Kingsley Gandhi
Klaus Kinski Fitzcarraldo
Jack Lemmon Missing
Norman Kaye Lonely Hearts
Michael Moriarty Q – the Winged Serpent
Paul Newman The Verdict
Jack Nicholson The Border
Philippe Noiret L’Etoile de Nord
Peter O’Toole My Favorite Year
Donald Pleasance The Barchester Chronicles TV
Henry Thomas E.T. The Extraterrestrial
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Best Actress
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Julie Andrews Victor/Victoria
Rosanna Arquette Baby, it’s You
Nathalie Baye La Balance
Julie Covington Ascendancy
Zsusza Czinkóczi Diary for My Children
Ewa Froling Fanny and Alexander
Barbara Hershey The Entity
Wendy Hughes Lonely Hearts
Isabelle Huppert La Truite
Mary Beth Hurt Chilly Scenes of Winter
Krystyna Janda Interrogation
Jadwiga Jankowska Another Way
Diane Keaton Shoot the Moon
Jessica Lange Frances
Ornella Muti The Girl from Trieste
Sissy Spacek Missing
Meryl Streep Sophie’s Choice
Rosel Zech Veronika Voss
Debra Winger An Officer and a Gentleman
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Best Supp Actor
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Boerhe Ahlstadt Fanny and Alexander
Alun Armstrong The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby TV
Charles Durning The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Louis Gossett Jnr An Officer and a Gentleman
Rutger Hauer Blade Runner
Nigel Hawthorne The Barchester Chronicles TV
Nigel Hawthorne The Critic TV
Michael Hordern The Missionary
Michael Keaton Night Shift
Josef Kroner Another Way
Jarl Kulle Fanny And Alexander
John Lithgow The World According to Garp
Ian McKellen The Scarlet Pimpernel TV
Jan Malmsjö Fanny and Alexander
James Mason The Verdict
Marcello Mastroianni La Nuit de Varennes
Armin Mueller-Stahl God Does Not Believe In Us Anymore TV
Eddie Murphy 48 HRS
Ronald Pickup Ivanhoe TV
Robert Preston Victor/Victoria
Christopher Reeve Deathtrap
Alan Rickman The Barchester Chronicles TV
Mickey Rourke Diner
Daniel Stern Diner
John Woodvine The Life and Times of Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby TV
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Best Supp Actress
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Rosanna Arquette The Executioner’s Song TV
Ellen Barkin Diner
Karen Black Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
Dyan Cannon Deathtrap
Glenn Close The World According to Garp
Lindsey Crouse The Verdict
Teri Garr Tootsie
Gloria Grahame Chilly Scenes of Winter
Rohini Hattangady Gandhi
Linda Hunt The Year of Living Dangerously
Jessica Lange Tootsie
Geraldine McEwan The Barchester Chronicles TV
Zelda Rubenstein Poltergeist
Simone Signoret L’Etoile du Nord
Kim Stanley Frances
Janet Suzman The Draughtsman’s Contract
Jessica Tandy Best Friends
Gunn Wallgren Fanny and Alexander
Julie Walters Boys from the Blackstuff TV
Leslie-Ann Warren Victor/Victoria
Tuesday Weld Author, Author
Irene Worth Deathtrap
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Best Cinematography
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Nestor Alamendros Sophie’s Choice
Andrezj Bartkowiak The Verdict
Stephen Burum The Escape Artist
Raoul Coutard Passion
Jordan Cronenweth Blade Runner
Allen Daviau E.T. The Extraterrestrial
Carlo di Palma Identification of a Woman
Ennio Guarnieri La Traviata
Thomas Mauch Fitzcarraldo
Sven Nykvist Fanny and Alexander
Xaver Schwarzenberger Veronika Voss
Frank Tidy The Grey Fox
Billy Williams Gandhi
Gordon Willis A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy
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Best Score
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John Barry, Frances
Georges Delarue, The Escape Artist
Phillip Glass, Koyaanisqatsi
Jerry Goldsmith Poltergeist
Marvin Hamlisch, Sophie’s Choice
Johnny Mandel, Deathtrap
Michael Nyman The Draughtsman’s Contract
Peer Raben Veronika Voss
Ravi Shankar, George Fenton Gandhi
Vangelis Blade Runner
Popol Vuh Fitzcarraldo
John Williams, E.T. The Extraterrestrial
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Best Short
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All Summer in a Day (US…Ed Kaplan)
The Children’s Story (US…James Clavell)
Dimensions of Dialogue (Czechoslovakia…Jan Svankmajer)
The Discipline of D.E. (US…Gus Van Sant)
An Exercise in Discipline: Peel (New Zealand…Jane Campion)
The Haircut (US…Tamar Simon Hoffs)
High Fidelity (US…Randy Roberts)
Igor: The Paris Years (UK…Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay)
Malice in Wonderland (US…Vince Collins)
The Snowman (UK…Dianne Jackson, Jimmy T. Murakami)
Vincent (US…Tim Burton)
Zhil-byl-pyos (USSR…E. Nazarov)
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Now, the decade starts to heat up…
BEST PICTURE: FANNY AND ALEXANDER
Top 5: 1. Fanny and Alexander 2. E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial 3. Fitzcarraldo 4. La Traviata 5. Blade Runner
Had it not been for the towering FANNY AND ALEXANDER (my choice for, probably, the BEST film of the decade), this would have been one of the toughest years of the 80’s to choose a final victor as the years round up is replete with titans from almost every genre. First, you have Ridley Scott’s vie for the mantle of greatest Science Fiction film of all time, a movie that gets better and more astounding with every viewing. You also have one of the greatest pieces of filmed music ever produced with LATRAVIATA. If that isn’t massive enough, Herzog scores what is, arguably, his greatest triumph with the exhausting and maddening FITZCARRALDO, a movie that could walk hand-in-hand with Coppola’s APOCALYPSE NOW as one of the best movies on the subject of gradual insanity ever committed to screen.
However, where the field really heated up is from the scurged corner of “entertainment”. I don’t think anyone saw, in the summer of 1982, what was coming when Steven Spielberg released his personal vision of the hurt of his parents divorced with E. T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL. In its own right, it’s a fantasy that soars past the conventions of eye-popping visuals and plotting and emerges one of the most heart-breaking and touching looks at adolescence ever. One of the few films that can reduce me to tears in its finale, E. T. is much more than just a mere “entertainment”. It’s a deeply poignant, precise and moving look at childhood that ranks with the very best films of the genre. Spielberg wouldn’t be this on fire till his masterpiece, SCHINDLERS LIST, a decade later.
But, the prize has got to go to Swedish master-director Ingmar Bergman who may have scored his ultimate triumph with HIS look at his youth in FANNY AND ALEXANDER. Almost like a work of Dicken’s, this multi-character tapestry of heart and desperation wins you over with the kind of rich detail in character and place that only Bergman could muster. The extended cut runs over something like four hours long and, I dare say, it could have run ANOTHER four hours and I’d wouldn’t bitch. Funny, both Spielberg and Bergman would score in the same year for what amounts to, basically, the same human emotion and drama coming from their own youthful memories.
DIRECTOR: Ingmar BERGMAN (Fanny and Alexander)
Runners Up: Steven Spielberg (E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial), Werner Herzog (Fitzcarraldo), Alan J. Pakula (Sophie’s Choice), Ridley Scott (Blade Runner)
LEAD ACTOR: Ben KINGSLEY (Gandhi)
Runners Up: Klaus Kinski (Fitzcarraldo), Henry Thomas (E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial), Richard Farnsworth (The Grey Fox), Tommy Lee Jones (The Executioners Song)
In my mind, there are TWO (2) turns from the decade covering the 80’s that go beyond brilliant performance and see the actor, literally, become the person they are playing. Daniel Day-Lewis’s blistering turn as the physically twisted Christy Brown (severly impaired by Cerebral Paulsey) of MY LEFT FOOT is one.
However, unlike Day-Lewis, who is playing a real-life person unknown to so many (Brown would only become truly discovered, outside his country, AFTER the release of MY LEFT FOOT), Ben Kingsley steps up to the plate and tackles one of the most beloved and iconic figures in world history that has ever walked the planet. As Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Kingsley’s immersive study of the famed pacifist and leader of millions blended with his own insatiable love of peace and humanity combine to present Gandhi as he was. Changing as the character grows physically, mentally and spiritually, Kingsley effortlessly convinces us all that who you are seeing on the screen is the real deal. Working closely with make-up artists (sometimes in the chair for 7 hours a day) and costumers, the turn goes beyond just a conviction of words and heart-felt pleas. For all intensive purposes, what you get with this film is a private and close look at the little man that moved the world. Spry, at times, and never flinching in it’s conviction, this is Kingsley delivering a master-class on great screen acting.
Oscar got this one so right.
Special mention has to go to 9 year-old Henry Thomas, almost in the winners circle, for his wrenching and beautiful turn as an adolescent torn by the confusions of divorce. Quite possibly the GREATEST “little boy” performance in movie history…
LEAD ACTRESS: Meryl STREEP (Sophie’s Choice)
Runners Up: Julie Andrews (Victor/Victoria), Debra Winger (An Officer and a Gentlemen), Rosanna Arquette (The Executioners Song), Sissy Spacek (Missing)
Again, like Kingsley, there are performances, and then there are turns that go beyond the call. As Sophie, the former concentration camp prisoner trying to make a go at peaceful existence in New York City after the war, Streep is a marvel. Learning and, fluently, speaking Polish and German on top of her native English (which, by rights, is deeply affected by her assumed Polish accent-Streep is a master of dialects), the actress submerges herself so completely in the character that it is sometime hard to watch. Shedding a whopping 45 pound to realize the starving victim of the Nazi machine, she exudes a kind of hysterical desperation all the while trying to maintain a personal respectability in the face of demeaning evil. If that wasn’t enough, the final thirty minutes of the film (that includes Sophie’s harrowing “choice”) delivers Streep in a monumental passage of confused horror that stays with you for days afterward and twists the stomach of the viewer into knots. How Streep was able to go back to her own life after making this film only confirms the brilliance of her all-consuming talent. This could be my choice for the BEST performance by a lead actress from the 80’s.
SUPP. ACTOR: Jan MALMSJO (Fanny and Alexander)
Runners Up: James Mason (The Verdict), Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner), David Keith (An Officer and a Gentlemen), John Lithqow (The World According To Garp)
SUPP. ACTRESS: Glenn CLOSE (The World According to Garp)
Runners Up: Drew Barrymore (E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial), Kim Stanley (Frances), Darryl Hannah (Blade Runner), Lindsay Crouse (The Verdict)
PHOTO: Sven NYKVIST (Fanny and Alexander)
Runners Up: Allan Daviau (E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial), Jordan Crenonweth (Blade Runner), Thomas Mauch (Fitzcarraldo), Frank Tidy (The Grey Fox)
I almost had to flip coins and started playing “rocks, paper, scissors” with this category. Crenonweth dazzles with the neon lit backdrops of Los Angeles ravaged by industrialism with his work on the noir-ish BLADE RUNNER and set the standard for futurist vision in Sci-Fi. Frank Tidy takes us back to the past with his almost ink-on-parchment-like visuals for THE GREY FOX. Daviau perfectly balances the colorful hues of a childs world with the smokey mystery of other-worldly knowledge in E. T.
Nykvist take the prize with his lovingly delicate color schemes for FANNY AND ALEXANDER. Going from warm reds and oranges in the opening chapter of the tale, where love and familiarity run rampant, he breathlessly juxtaposes that warmth with cold grays and steel greens when the children fall prey to their new, strict, home. Like realizing Dickens in pictures, this is a perfect example of cinematographer as fine artist.
MUSIC: John WILLIAMS (E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial)
Runners Up: Vangelis (Blade Runner), Ravi Shankar (Gandhi), Marvin Hamlisch (Sophie’s Choice), Jerry Goldsmith (Poltergeist)
Is there no stopping John Williams? After committing to the screen what is, nominally, considered the greatest score ever written for an action film (RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK), here he comes with the soaring strains of love and acceptance for E. T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL. Using simple piano motifs to define the growing bond between Elliot and his little friend from another world, the intimacy of Williams melodious chords swell as the film moves forward and burst into an energetic anthem of inspiring freedom as the two main characters fly past the moon. Some have called this score saccharine sap of the worst kind… However, I defy anyone who is watching this film not to break down into emotional tears as Williams delivers the final 15 minutes of music that accompanies E. T.’s farewell and goodbye to his connective friend. It’s an emotional whirlwind of music that will leave you flattened after the end credits fade.
One of the greatest music compositions ever written for film
P.S.-Allan. Is the listing of TENDER MERCIES for 1982 a mistake? I remember Duvall winning the Oscar for the 1983 calendar year and I was shocked to see the listing of the film here. This is troublesome to me as Duvall would be in serious contention for my top slot in 1983.
ALLAN-Put me down for THE SNOWMAN as BEST SHORT of the year…
Not voting until I watch Veronika Voss tomorrow but I have a question about the Score category. Are we treating Koyaanisqatsi as a 1983 film? It’s fine if we are because then I don’t have to choose between it and the one I’ll vote for this year, which isn’t on the short list either.
Best Picture: Fanny and Alexander
Best Director: Hans-Jurgen Syberberg (Parsifal)
Best Actor: Ben Kingsley (Gandhi)
Best Actress: Teresa Stratas (La Traviata)
Best Supporting Actor: Boerhe Ahlstadt (Fanny and Alexander)
Best Supporting Actress: Gunn Wallgren (Fanny and Alexander)
Best Cinematography: Ennio Guarnieri (La Traviata)
Best Score: John Williams (E.T.)
Short: The Snowman (Diane Jackson)
The 1982 Hall of Fame: Fanny and Alexander, La Traviata, Parsifal, E.T., Diary For My Children, Fitzcarraldo, The Night of the Shooting Stars, Blade Runner, Interrogation, Veronika Voss, Gandhi, The Draughtman’s Contract, Another Way, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn, Videodrome, Tootsie, Querelle, Tenebrae, Diner, The Thing
Yup, gotta agree with you Sammy-boy… One of the most haunting and beautifully lyrical animations of all-time is THE SNOW MAN… I saw it as a short film before they played VICTOR/VICTORIA at the PARK LANE theatre in Palisades Park, along with an old Woody Woodpecker cartoon (I think the Park Lane was one of the last theatres to continue the practice of shorts before the feature before they shut down). It’s a personal favorite of mine and I have never forgotten it…
Sam, good call on Teresa Stratas for best actress. Hers is among my top three performances by an actress for this year.
Thanks R.D. I am delighted to hear that you are in full appreciation of her work here! Ms. Janda’s work in INTERROGATION and your own choice Meryl Streep would round out my top three for this year.
1982 was quite a year for me. I finally knew what I wanted to do: I wanted to immerse myself in film. It was the first year I predicted the top nominees for the Oscars: ET, TOOTSIE, GANDHI, MISSING and THE VERDICT. But so many OTHER movies moved me on top of these titles. And, ultimately, even though it took me a year to see it, Bergman’s opus stole my heart, from top to bottom. What a great year…maybe the last year like this! Great comedy, indie films, off-kilter Hollywood product, UK/Canada/Australia stuff, foreign-language masterworks, and one film–CHILLY SCENES OF WINTER–that still confuses people today. This would be the one film I would insist that the Criterion Collection take a closer look at. I leave it to you to investigate it. As always, many of my titles are capitalized, because they’re not included in Allen’s terrific final lineup.
PICTURE: FANNY AND ALEXANDER, followed by (in descending order): Chilly Scenes of Winter, Blade Runner, Sophie’s Choice, E.T. The Extraterrestrial, Missing, The Verdict, Shoot the Moon, Tootsie, Diner, Burden of Dreams, The Night of the Shooting Stars, Deathtrap, Koyaanisqatsi, The Executioner’s Song, Gandhi, The Grey Fox, The Thing, Lonely Hearts, The Year of Living Dangerously, Videodrome, BEST FRIENDS, FRANCES, THE ESCAPE ARTIST, La Nuit de Varennes, Victor/Victoria, Personal Best, Poltergeist, STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN, THE BORDER, BRIMSTONE AND TREACLE, DEAD MEN DON‘T WEAR PLAID, 48 HRS., The Draughtman’s Contract, THE SECRET OF NIMH, My Favorite Year, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Eating Raoul, SAY AMEN SOMEBODY, COME BACK TO THE FIVE AND DIME JIMMY DEAN JIMMY DEAN, Veronika Voss, MONTY PYTHON LIVE AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL, NIGHT SHIFT, La Truite, CANNERY ROW, THE ATOMIC CAFÉ, THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER, The World According to Garp, Fitzcarraldo, THE RETURN OF MARTIN GUERRE, A MIDSUMMER‘S NIGHT SEX COMEDY, AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN, BABY IT’S YOU. THE ENTITY, Q, BARBAROSA, FIRST BLOOD, One From The Heart, White Dog, EVIL UNDER THE SUN, Cat People, TRON, TIMERIDER, THE DARK CRYSTAL, PINK FLOYD THE WALL, LIQUID SKY, CREEPSHOW, THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS, BASKET CASE
DIRECTOR: Ingmar Bergman, FANNY AND ALEXANDER (2nd: Ridley Scott, Blade Runner, followed by: Sidney Lumet, The Verdict; Joan Micklin Silver, Chilly Scenes of Winter; Steven Spielberg, E.T. The Extraterrestrial; Costa-Gavras, Missing; Alan J. Pakula, Sophie’s Choice; Sydney Pollack, Tootsie)
ACTOR: Paul Newman, THE VERDICT (2nd: Ben Kingsley, Gandhi, folowed by: Dustin Hoffman, Tootsie; John Heard, Chilly Scenes of Winter; Richard Farnsworth, The Grey Fox; Tommy Lee Jones, The Executioner’s Song; Jack Lemmon, Missing; Henry Thomas, E.T. The Extraterrestrial; Albert Finney, Shoot the Moon)
ACTRESS: Meryl Streep, SOPHIE‘S CHOICE (2nd: Diane Keaton, Shoot the Moon, followed by: Barbara Hershey, The Entity; Mary Beth Hurt, Chilly Scenes of Winter; Wendy Hughes, Lonely Hearts; Jessica Lange, Frances; Ewa Froling, Fanny and Alexander, Sissy Spacek, Missing, Isabelle Huppert, La Truite; Debra Winger, An Officer and a Gentleman)
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Jan Malmsjo, FANNY AND ALEXANDER (2nd: Borje Ahlstedt, Fanny and Alexander, followed by: Michael Keaton, Night Shift; Rutger Hauer, Blade Runner; Jarl Kulle, Fanny and Alexander; James Mason, The Verdict; Robert Preston, Victor/Victoria; Mickey Rourke, Diner; John Lithgow, The World According to Garp; Charles Durning, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Gunn Wallgren, FANNY AND ALEXANDER (2nd: Lindsey Crouse, The Verdict, followed by: Linda Hunt, The Year of Living Dangerously; Jessica Tandy, Best Friends; Zelda Rubenstein, Poltergeist; Leslie Ann Warren, Victor/Victoria; Ellen Barkin, Diner; Teri Garr, Tootsie; Gloria Grahame, Chilly Scenes of Winter; Rosanna Arquette, The Executioner’s Song)
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Sven Nykvist, FANNY AND ALEXANDER (2nd: Jordan Cronenweth, Blade Runner, followed by: Nestor Alamendros, Sophie’s Choice; Andrezj Bartkowiak, The Verdict; Frank Tidy, The Grey Fox; Allen Daviau, E.T. The Extraterrestrial; Gordon Willis, A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy; Stephen Burum, The Escape Artist)
ORIGINAL SCORE: Philip Glass, KOYAANISQATSI (2nd: John Williams, E.T. The Extraterrestrial, followed by: John Barry, Frances; Vangelis, Blade Runner; Marvin Hamlisch, Sophie’s Choice; Johnny Mandel, Deathtrap; Jerry Goldsmith, Poltergeist; Ken Lauber, Chilly Scenes of Winter; Georges Delarue, The Escape Artist)
SHORT FILM: VINCENT (Tim Burton) (2nd: Ballet Robotique (Bob Rogers), followed by: The Snowman (Dianne Jackson, Jimmy T. Murakami); The Great Cognito (Will Vinton)
FURTHER:
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Ingmar Bergman, FANNY AND ALEXANDER (2nd: Barry Levinson, Diner, followed by: Larry Gelbart, Murray Schisgal, and Don McGuire, Tootsie; Bo Goldman, Shoot the Moon; Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, Giuliani G. De Negri and Tonino Guerra, The Night of the Shooting Stars, John Briley, Gandhi; Melissa Mathison, E.T. The Extraterrestrial; Barry Levinson and Valerie Curtin, Best Friends; Paul Cox and John Clarke, Lonely Hearts; Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, Night Shift)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Alan J. Pakula, SOPHIE‘S CHOICE (2nd: Joan Micklin Silver, Chilly Scenes of Winter, followed by: Costa-Gavras and Donald Stewart, Missing; Norman Mailer, The Executioner’s Song; Blake Edwards, Victor/Victoria; David Mamet, The Verdict; Jay Presson Allen, Deathtrap; Hampton Fancher and David Webb Peoples, Blade Runner; Cameron Crowe, Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: BURDEN OF DREAMS (Les Blank) (2nd: Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio), followed by Say Amen Somebody (George T. Nierenberg); The Atomic Café (Jayne Loder and Kevin Rafferty)
NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILM: FANNY AND ALEXANDER (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden) (2nd: The Night of the Shooting Stars (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Italy), followed by: La Nuit de Varennes (Ettore Scola (France/Italy); Veronika Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Germany); La Truite (Joseph Losey, France); Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog, Germany)
ART DIRECTION: FANNY AND ALEXANDER, followed by: Blade Runner, Sophie’s Choice, The Dark Crystal, Deathtrap, Cannery Row, Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid, Gandhi, One From The Heart, La Traviata
COSTUME DESIGN: FANNY AND ALEXANDER, followed by: Sophie’s Choice, Evil Under the Sun, Gandhi, Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid, La Traviata. The Draughtman’s Contract, A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy, Victor/Victoria
FILM EDITING: E.T. THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL, Blade Runner, Tootsie, Chilly Scenes of Winter, Gandhi, Sophie’s Choice, The Thing
SOUND: TRON, Blade Runner, E.T. The Extraterrestrial, Missing, Gandhi, The Thing, Pink Floyd The Wall
ORIGINAL SONG: “How Do You Keep The Music Playing” from BEST FRIENDS (music by Michel Legrand, lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman) (2nd: “Putting Out Fire” from Cat People (music by Giorgio Moroder, lyrics by David Bowie), followed by: “Somebody’s Baby” from Fast Times at Ridgemont High (music and lyrics by Jackson Browne); “Love Will Turn You Around” from Six Pack (music and lyrics by Even Stevens, David Malloy, Kenny Rogers and Thom Schuyler); “It Might Be You” from Tootsie (music by Dave Grusin, lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman); “Up Where We Belong” (music by Jack Nitzsche and Buffy Sainte-Marie, lyrics by Will Jennings); “That’s What Friends Are For” from Night Shift (music by Burt Bacharach, lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager); “(The Boys are) Back in Town” from 48 HRS (music and lyrics by Brian O’Neal)
ADAPTATION SCORE/SCORING OF A MUSICAL: VICTOR/VICTORIA (Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse) (2nd: One From the Heart (Tom Waits))
SPECIAL EFFECTS: E.T. THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL (2nd: Blade Runner, followed by: Poltergeist, Tron)
MAKEUP: THE THING (2nd: Gandhi, followed by Blade Runner, Videodrome, Poltergeist)
ANIMATED FEATURE: THE SECRET OF NIMH (Don Bluth)
Picture: Fanny and Alexander
Director: Ingmar Bergman, Fanny and Alexander
Actor: Dustin Hoffman, Tootsie
Actress: Meryl Streep, Sophie’s Choice
Sup. Actor: Jan Malmsjo, Fanny and Alexander
Sup. Actress: Jessica Lange, Tootsie
Cinematography: Sven Nyqvist, Fanny and Alexander
Just added short films. Sorry for delay. A couple very famous ones this week (I think we know how Sam will be voting, haha) plus early appearances by Gus Van Sant and Jane Campion.
Feature: The Verdict
2. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
3. Blade Runner
4. Videodrome
5. Fanny and Alexander
Short: will return at end of week to break tie if necessary
Director: Ridley Scott, Blade Runner
Actor: Dustin Hoffman, Tootsie (Newman would be my runner-up)
Actress: Meryl Streep, Sophie’s Choice
Supp. Actor: Robert McNaughton, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (best performance in the movie, way underrated, the poor guy always gets overlooked even in the making-of specials)
Supp. Actress: Charlotte Rampling, The Verdict
Cinematography: Andrezj Bartkowiak, The Verdict (tough, tough year; Nykvist, Cronenweth, Daviau, and especially Almendros are all very close contenders but I love the subtle, moody aura Bartkowiak creates)
Score: John Williams, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
Editing: The Thing
Screenplay: The Verdict
Forgot all the great fantasy films that came out this year. They don’t really fit in the existing categories, but deserve a mention: the visually stunning Dark Crystal, the surprisingly dark Last Unicorn, and the lush and offbeat Secret of NIMH. Quite a year for this genre.
Never cast my vote for short film. Having finally watched all the eligible films, I’ll finally, meaninglessly, do so, with a tie between innocence and whatever the polar opposite of innocence is:
Short: The Snowman & Malice in Wonderland
Best Picture: Blade Runner (the Final Cut is superior to the Director’s Cut)
Top Five: 1. Blade Runner 2. Fanny And Aexander 3. Fitzcarraldo 4. The Thing 5. Veronika Voss
Best Picture: ET
Best Director: Steven Spielberg- ET
Best Actor: Paul Newman- The Verdict
Best Actress: Meryl Streep- Sophie’s Choice
Best Supporting Actor: James Mason- The Verdict
Best Supporting Actress: Glen Close- The World According to Garp
Best Cinematography: Sven Nyqvist- Fanny and Alexander
MOVIEFAN-I applaud your bravery and the boldness of going with E. T. and Spielberg, respectfully, in the PICTURE and DIRECTOR categories. Some call the film mindless fluff. However, if those who bashed the film would look a little closer they’d see a brilliant examination of adolescent despair and heartbreak. That Spielberg uses his childhood dreams of making contact with little-green-men as the springboard to push us into such an examination borders on brilliance. Many will bitch about this directors career and the choices he has made with some of the films he presents and creates, but E. T. is one of Spielberg’s undisputed masterworks and a film that holds up, both in dash and flash and emotional resonance. It’s a great, GREAT film!
If it wasn’t for FANNY AND ALEXANDER, I’d be there with you championing this film as the very best of 1982.
BRAVO!!!!!
Thanks Dennis. I completely agree with you, especially how its emotionally resonates, I was lucky enough to see it again on the big screen ten years ago and it still made me cry and I still was as emotionally invested. A true masterpiece.
You don’t have to tell me. I have E. T. up there as one of the five or six films that can emotionally wreck a viewer with every viewing. I love the way Spielberg milks the finale at the spaceship, allowing Willaims score to envelope and destroy you, leaving you in a puddle of tears of joy.
The other thing I have to praise the film for is Carlo Rambaldi’s ingenious mechanical special effects that bring the little botonist from a far away planet to life. Never, as you watch the film, are you ever thinking you’re looking at a special effects puppet. E. T. is alive, brimming with emotion through those big, blue, wide and wise eyes and Debra Winger’s vocalization, combined with that of the growlings of an 85 year old woman, cap the effect and make you believe. Rightfully, E. T. is the main character, a real being, and it’s amazing that a special effect delivers a performance that can vie with one of the best of the year. Looking at the world in innocent amazement, he’s a seamless slight-of-hand…
Its a technical marvel and I agree ET felt so real that your able to suspend your disbelief right away and never feel that you are watching special effects, Spielberg combines such technical ability (with special shout out to Carlo Rambaldi), with storytelling, and the emotional impact makes it the greatest directorial achievement of the year for me. Its a shame how he’s often criticised for his choices, I really couldnt see ET directed any better or see any other choices that could have worked the way it did in the movie.
Happy for Manoel de Oliveira’s amended oscar!!
Best Picture: Fanny and Alexander
RU: Blade Runner, Fitzcarraldo, E.T: The Extraterrestrial, Tootsie
Best Director: Ingmar Bergman (Fanny and Alexander)
Best Actor: Ben Kingsley (Gandhi)
Best Actress: Meryl Streep (Sophie’s Choice)
Best Supporting Actor: Boerhe Ahlstadt (Fanny and Alexander)
Best Supporting Actress: Gunn Wallgren (Fanny and Alexander)
Best Cinematography: Jordan Cronenweth (Blade Runner)
Best Score: Vangelis (Blade Runner)
1982
Best Picture: The Thing
Best Director: John Carpenter – The Thing
Best Actor: Dustin Hoffman – Tootsie
Best Supporting Actor: Leslie Nielsen – Creepshow
Best Supporting Actress: Jessica Lange – Tootsie
Best Cinematography: The Thing
Best Score: E.T. the Extraterrestrial
Best Short: Vincent
Top 5 of 1982:
1. The Thing
2. Eating Raoul
3. Tootsie
4. The Atomic Café
5. Creepshow
Best Actress: Mary Woronov – Eating Raoul
Pic – Fanny and Alexander: Longer Version (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)
Dir – Fanny and Alexander: Longer Version (Sweden…Ingmar Bergman)
Actor – Dustin Hoffman Tootsie
Actress – Meryl Streep Sophie’s Choice
Supp Actor – Louis Gossett Jnr An Officer and a Gentleman
Supp Actress – Jessica Lange Tootsie
Score – John Williams, E.T. The Extraterrestrial
Film: ‘The Verdict’ RU: ‘Fanny and Alexander’ & ‘E.T.: The Extraterrestrial’, for me, one of those Spielberg epiphanies
Director: Lumet RU: Bergman & Spielberg
Actor: Paul Newman (The Verdict) RU: Dustin Hoffman (Tootsie, “That’s just alotta, alotta, alotta horseshit!”)
Actress: Meryl Streep (Sophie’s Choice) no competition, really
S. Actor: Mickey Rourke (Diner) RU: Sean Penn (Fast Times at Ridgemont High) — the template for all stoner dudes and slackers hereafter.
S. Actress: Ellen Barkin (Diner) RU: Linda Hunt (The Year of Living Dangerously) and Joanna Cassidy (Blade Runner — one badass replicant)
Photography: Jordan Cronenweth (Blade Runner) RU: Allen Daviau (E.T: The Extraterrestrial)
I know a guy who’s tough but sweet,
He’s so fine he can’t be beat.
I want Gandhi!
I want Gandhi!
~~ Well, I don’t. At least, not this movie.
As sung to the tune of ‘I Want Candy’ by Bow Wow Wowwwwwwwwwwwww.
sorry.
Best Picture: Gandhi
Best Director: Richard Attenborough (Gandhi)
Best Actor: Ben Kingsley (Gandhi)
Best Actress: Meryl Streep (Sophie’s Choice)
Best Supporting Actor: Boerhe Ahlstadt (Fanny and Alexander)
Best Supporting Actress: Linda Hunt (The Year of Living Dangerously)
Best Cinematography: Jordan Cronenweth (Blade Runner)
Score: John Williams (E.T.)
Short: The Snowman
This is the thinnest year for me in a long time – I don’t know if the year is that bad (probably not, since what I have seen is quite strong, with a handful of stone classics), but I have seen astonishingly few films from this year.
PICTURE: Fitzcarraldo
DIRECTOR: Herzog
LEAD ACTOR: Klaus Kinski
LEAD ACTRESS: Susan Berman, Smithereens
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Rutger Hauer, Blade Runner
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Karen Black, Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
SHORT: (I might get around to voting this week… gotta hope, lot of good looking stuff on offer…)
SCORE: Vangelis, Blade Runner
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Thomas Mauch, Fitzcarraldo
Plus bonus picks::
Script: Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Music/Sound: Smithereens, with its Feelies songs – can’t beat that….
The plan was to see Fanny & Alexander this weekend but Netflix didn’t deliver. With that disclaimer established, here we go:
Best Picture: Fitzcarraldo
Best Director: Scott, Blade Runner
Best Actor: Kinski, Fitzcarraldo
Best Actress: Streep, Sophie’s Choice
Supporting Actor: Hauer, Blade Runner (honorable mention: Mako, Conan the Barbarian)
Supporting Actress: Close, World According to Garp
Cinematography: Schwarzenberger, Veronika Voss
Score: Now that Glass is on the short list I have to vote for Koyaanisqatsi, but I also owe a shout-out to an any-other-year winner: Basil Poledouris for Conan the Barbaraian. That score is monumental, but Glass’s is epochal. Add Blade Runner to the mix and ET doesn’t even make the medal podium.
Best Picture – Gandhi
Best Director – Richard Attenborough Gandhi
Best Actor – Ben Kingsley Gandhi
Best Actress – Meryl Streep Sophie’s Choice
Best Supp Actor – Eddie Murphy 48 HRS
Best Supp Actress – Jessica Lange Tootsie
Film: Fanny and Alexander
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Actor: Ben Kingsley
Actress: Meryl Streep (Sophie’s Choice)
Supporting Actor: Boerhe Ahlstadt (Fanny and Alexander)
Supporting Actress: Gunn Wallgren (Fanny and Alexander)
Cinematography: Sven Nykvist (Fanny and Alexander)
Score: John Williams (E.T. the Extra Terrestrial)
Short: Vincent (Tim Burton)
My choices for 1982:
Best Picture: Blade Runner
Best Director: Ridley Scott (Blade Runner) & Ingmar Bergman (Fanny & Alexander)
Best Actor: Klaus Kinski (Fitzcarraldo)
Best Actress: Krystyna Janda (Interrogation)
Best Supporting Actor: Jan Malmsjö (Fanny & Alexander)
Best Supporting Actress: Gunn Wallgren (Fanny & Alexander)
Best Cinematography: Jordan Cronenweth (Blade Runner) & Sven Nykvist (Fanny & Alexander)
Best Score: Vangelis (Blade Runner)
Top 5:
1. Blade Runner
2. Fanny & Alexander
3. Fitzcarraldo
4. Interrogation
5. The Verdict
Runners-Ups: Videodrome, A Good Marriage (Rohmer), E.T.
Best Picture: E.T.
Best Director: Ingmar Bergman (Fanny and Alexander)
Best Actor: Dustin Hoffman (Tootsie)
Best Actress: Meryl Streep (Sophie’s Choice)
Best Supporting Actor: Boerhe Ahlstadt (Fanny and Alexander)
Best Supporting Actress: Linda Hunt (The Year of Living Dangerously)
Best Cinematography: Sven Nykvist (Fanny and Alexander)
Best Score: Vangelis (Blade Runner)
Best Short: Vincent
Best Picture: E.T.
Best Director: Steven Spielberg, E.T.
Best Actor: Peter O’Toole, My Favorite Year
Best Actress: Meryl Streep, Sophie’s Choice
Best Supporting Actor: Robert Preston, Victor/Victoria
Best Supporting Actress: Jessica Lange, Tootsie
Best Cinematography: Sven Nykvist, Fanny and Alexander
Best Score: Basil Poledouris, Conan the Barbarian. Regardless of how one feels about the movie, Poledouris’ score is classic from the opening notes.
Best Short: The Snowman
Indeed Kevin. It is probably Poledouris’s best score. Nice choice!
Perhaps I would be taken more seriously if I learned how to spell. Meryl Streep and Sven Nykvist. My apologies.
Well Kevin, those are typos rather than spelling errors. Ha! I do it all the time my friend! I will now fix em.
Best Film: Blade Runner
Best Director: Ridley Scott (Blade Runner)
Best Actor: Klaus Kinski (Fitzcarraldo)
Best Actress: Meryl Streep (Sophie’s Choice)
Best Supporting Actor: Mickey Rourke (Diner)
Best Supporting Actress: Gunn Wallgren (Fanny & Alexander)
Best Cinematography: Sven Nykvist (Fanny and Alexander)
Best Score: John Williams (ET)
Best Short: The Snowman
Best Film: E. T.
Best Director: Steven Spielberg
Best Actor: Ben Kingsley
Best Actress: Meryl Streep
BEST PICTURE: FANNY AND ALEXANDER and YOL (tie)
BEST DIRECTOR :Ingmar Bergman for FANNY AND ALEXANDER
BEST ACTOR: Jack Lemmon for MISSING
BEST ACTRESS; Meryl Streep for SOPHIE’S CHOICE
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: James Mason for THE VERDICT
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS; Sandy Dennis for COME BACK TO THE FIVE AND DIME, JIMMY DEAN JIMMY DEAN
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY; Sven Nykvist for FANNY AND ALEXANDER and Gordon Willis for A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S SEX COMEDY (tie)
BEST SCORE: Phillip Glass for KOYAANISQATSI
BEST SHORT: THE SNOWMAN.
Wow we go from the worst year of the decade perhaps, to the BEST year of the decade. Any of the top 5 films from this year could win in any other year this decade.
Having to choose between Fanny and Alexander, E.T., Blade Runner, and Fitzcarraldo is almost criminal and all deserve mention. I’m going to spread the love around.
Pic- Fanny and Alexander
Dir- Ridley Scott – Blade Runner
Actor- Klaus Kinski – Fitzcarraldo
Actress- Meryl Streep – Sophie’s Choice
Supp. Actor- Jan Malmsjo – Fanny and Alexander
Supp. Actress- Dee Wallace – E.T.
Score- Williams – E.T.
Cinematography – Jorden Cronenweth – Blade Runner
Top five for 1982:
1. Fanny and Alexander – Ingmar Bergman
2. Passion – Jean-Luc Godard
3. Veronika Voss – Rainer Werner Fassbinder
4. The Good Marriage – Eric Rohmer
5. Fitzcarraldo – Werner Herzog
Best Picture: Fanny and Alexander
Best Director: Ingmar Bergman
Best Actor: Paul Newman – The Verdict
Best Actress: Meryl Streep – Sophie’s Choice
Best supporting actor: Rutger Hauer – Blade Runner
Best supporting actress: Gunn Wallgren – Fanny and Alexander
Best Cinematography: Sven Nykvist – Fanny and Alexander
Best Score: Vangelis – Blade Runner