by Allan Fish
Best Picture Fanny and Alexander, Sweden (9 votes)
Best Director Ingmar Bergman, Fanny and Alexander (9 votes)
Best Actor Ben Kingsley, Gandhi (6 votes)
Best Actress Meryl Streep, Sophie’s Choice (18 votes, Gawd help us!)
Best Supp Actor Borje Ahlstadt, Fanny and Alexander & Jan Malmsjö, Fanny and Alexander (5 votes each, TIE)
Best Supp Actress Gunn Wallgren, Fanny and Alexander (7 votes)
Best Cinematography Sven Nykvist, Fanny and Alexander (11 votes)
Best Score John Williams, E.T. The Extraterrestrial (9 votes)
Best Short The Snowman, UK (4 votes)
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1983
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Best Picture/Director
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À Nos Amours (France…Maurice Pialat)
Adynata (US…Leslie Thornton)
Almanac of Fall (Hungary…Béla Tarr)
And the Ship Sails On (Italy…Federico Fellini)
Angst (Austria…Gerald Kargl)
Les années 80 (France…Chantal Akerman)
Another Time, Another Place (UK…Michael Radford)
L’Argent (France…Robert Bresson)
The Art of Love (France…Walerian Borowczyk)
Le Bal (France/Italy…Ettore Scola)
The Ballad of Narayama (Japan…Shohei Imamura)
Beauty and the Beast (Denmark…Nils Malmrus)
La Belle Captive (France…Alain Robbe-Grillet)
The Big Chill (US…Lawrence Kasdan)
Blue Mountains (USSR…Eldar Shengalaya)
Careful, He Might Hear You (Australia…Carl Schultz)
A Christmas Story (US…Bob Clark)
The Cleopatras (UK…John Frankau)
Coup De Foudre (aka Entre Nous) (France…Diane Kurys)
Daniel Takes a Train (Hungary…Pál Sándor)
The Dead Zone (Canada…David Cronenberg)
Deadly Circuit (France…Claude Miller)
The Death of Mario Ricci (Switzerland/France…Claude Goretta)
The Dresser (UK…Peter Yates)
Educating Rita (UK…Lewis Gilbert)
Eureka (UK/US…Nicolas Roeg)
Family Game (Japan…Yoshimitsu Morita)
Fellow Citizen (Iran…Abbas Kiarostami)
First Name: Carmen (France…Jean-Luc Godard)
Forbidden Relations (Hungary…Zsolt Kezdi-Kovacs)
The Fourth Man (Netherlands…Paul Verhoeven)
Friends and Husbands (West Germany…Margarethe von Trotta)
In the White City (France/Switzerland…Alain Tanner)
The Key (Italy…Tinto Brass)
The King of Comedy (US…Martin Scorsese)
Lianna (US…John Sayles)
Liberté, la Nuit (France…Philippe Garrel)
Local Hero (UK…Bill Forsyth)
Love Letters (US…Amy Jones)
Made in Britain (UK…Alan Clarke)
The Makioka Sisters (Japan…Kon Ichikawa)
Man of Flowers (Australia…Paul Cox)
Marlene (West Germany…Maximilian Schell)
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life (UK…Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam)
My Brother’s Wedding (US…Charles Burnett)
The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians (Czechoslovakia…Oldrich Lipsky)
Never Cry Wolf (US…Carroll Ballard)
El Norte (US…Gregory Nava)
Nostalgia (Italy/USSR …Andrei Tarkovsky)
One Deadly Summer (France…Jean Becker)
One Summer (UK…Gordon Flemyng)
The Outsiders (US…Francis Ford Coppola)
Pauline à la Plage (France…Eric Rohmer)
The Ploughman’s Lunch (UK…Richard Eyre)
Return of the Jedi: The Special Edition (US (1997)…Richard Marquand)
The Right Stuff (US…Philip Kaufman)
Risky Business (US…Paul Brickman)
Rue Cases Nègres (France…Euzhan Palcy)
Rumble Fish (US…Francis Ford Coppola)
Ryuji (Japan …Toru Kawashima)
Sans Soleil (France…Chris Marker)
Scarface (US…Brian de Palma)
Silkwood (US…Mike Nichols)
The South (Spain…Victor Erice)
Star 80 (US…Bob Fosse)
The Store (US…Frederick Wiseman)
Tender Mercies (US…Bruce Beresford)
Terms of Endearment (US…James L.Brooks)
Testament (US….Lynne Littman)
The Thorn Birds (US/Australia…Daryl Duke)
Three Crowns of the Sailor (France…Raoul Ruiz)
Trading Places (US…John Landis)
Unknown Chaplin (UK…Kevin Brownlow)
Utu (New Zealand…Geoff Murphy)
Vassa (USSR…Gleb Penfilov)
Videodrome (Canada…David Cronenberg)
Wagner (UK…Tony Palmer)
The Wind (Mali…Souleymane Cissé)
Yentl (US…Barbra Streisand)
Zelig (US…Woody Allen)
Zu Warriors (Hong Kong…Tsui Hark)
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Best Actor
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Michael Caine Educating Rita
Tom Conti Reuben, Reuben
Tom Courteney The Dresser
Robert De Niro The King of Comedy
Robert Duvall Tender Mercies
Albert Finney The Dresser
Norman Kaye Man of Flowers
Jeroen Krabbé The Fourth Man
Ken Ogata The Ballad of Narayama
Laurence Olivier King Lear TV
Al Pacino Scarface
Peter Riegert Local Hero
Eric Roberts Star 80
Tim Roth Made in Britain TV
Christopher Walken The Dead Zone
James Woods Videodrome
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Best Actress
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Isabelle Adjani One Deadly Summer
Jane Alexander Testament
Sandrine Bonnaire À Nos Amours
Jamie Lee Curtis Love Letters
Mariel Hemingway Star 80
Wendy Hughes Careful, He Might Hear You
Isabelle Huppert Coup de Foudre
Keiko Kishi The Makioka Sisters
Phyllis Logan Another Time, Another Place
Shirley MacLaine Terms of Endearment
Miou-Miou Coup de Foudre
Yoshiko Sakuma The Makioka Sisters
Renée Soutendijk The Fourth Man
Meryl Streep Silkwood
Barbra Streisand Yentl
Julie Walters Educating Rita
Debra Winger Terms of Endearment
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Best Supp Actor
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Richard Griffiths The Cleopatras TV
Ed Harris The Right Stuff
Jerry Lewis The King of Comedy
Denis Lawson Local Hero
John Lithgow Terms of Endearment
John Lithgow Twilight Zone: The Movie
Guy Marchand Coup de Foudre
Jack Nicholson Terms of Endearment
Sam Shepard The Right Stuff
Rip Torn Cross Creek
Fred Ward The Right Stuff
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Best Supp Actress
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Sonsores Aranguen The South
Carroll Baker Star 80
Sandra Bernhard The King of Comedy
Christine Boisson Liberté la Nuit
Iciar Bollain The South
Veronica Cartwright The Right Stuff
Cher Silkwood
Glenn Close The Big Chill
Jamie Lee Curtis Trading Places
Suzanne Flon One Deadly Summer
Deborah Harry Videodrome
Amy Irving Yentl
Yuko Kotegawa The Makioka Sisters
Alfre Woodard Cross Creek
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Best Cinematography
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Jose Luis Alcaine The South
Henri Alekan La Belle Captive
Nestor Almendros Pauline à la Plage
John A.Alonzo Scarface
Stephen Burum Rumble Fish
Caleb Deschanel The Right Stuff
Kiyoshi Hasegawa The Makioka Sisters
Giuseppe Lanci Nostalgia
Chris Menges Local Hero
Hiro Narita Never Cry Wolf
Sven Nykvist Star 80
Giuseppe Rotunno And the Ship Sails On
Masao Tochizawa The Ballad of Narayama
Gordon Willis Zelig
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Best Score
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John Barry High Road to China
Bill Conti The Right Stuff
Ray Cook Careful He Might Hear You
Stewart Copeland Rumble Fish
Vladimir Cosma Le Bal
Georges Delarue Silkwood
Jerry Goldsmith Under Fire
Mark Isham Never Cry Wolf
Mark Knopfler Local Hero
Giorgio Moroder Scarface
Shinnosuke Okawa, Toshiyuki Watanabe The Makioka Sisters
Leonard Rosenman Cross Creek
Ryuichi Sakamoto Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence
John Williams Return of the Jedi
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Best Short
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A Ballad About Green Wood (Czechoslovakia…Jiri Barta)
Dimensions of Dialogue (Czechslovakia…Jan Svankmajer)
Down to the Cellar (Czechoslovakia…Jan Svankmajer)
Hansel and Gretel (US…James Frawley)
The Last Leaf (US…David Anspaugh)
Mickey’s Christmas Carol (US…Bunny Mattinson)
The Nightingale (US…Ivan Passer)
Passionless Moments (Australia…Jane Campion, Gerard Lee)
So Is This (Canada…Michael Snow)
A Sundae in New York (US…Jimmy Picker)
Thriller (US…John Landis)
The Vanished World of Gloves (Czechoslovakia…Jiri Barta)
Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore (US…Rick Reinert)
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Writers/Founders
Best Picture: Careful, He Might Hear You
Best Director: Carl Schultz (Careful, He Might Hear You)
Best Actor: Nicholas Gledhill (Careful, He Might Hear You)
Best Actress: Sandrine Bonnaire (A Nos Amour)
Best Supporting Actor: Denis Lawson (Local Hero)
Best Supporting Actress: Yuko Kotegawa (The Makioka Sisters)
Best Cinematography: Kiyoshi Hasegawa (The Makioka Sisters)
Best Score: Ray Cook (Careful, He Might Hear You)
The 1983 Hall of Fame: Careful, He Might Hear You; L’Argent; Testament; The Makioka Sisters; A Nos Amour; Almanac of Fall; Local Hero; Sans Soleil; Ballad of Narayama; Rumble Fish; The Dresser; Tender Mercies
My #1 choice for this year may well be my favorite Australian film of all-time. It’s a wrenching, overpowering custody drama that raised the bar that has not been equaled. Only two other films from Down Under are in it’s league for me: Picnic at Hanging Rock and The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith. I lament that the film has been unexposed despite it’s bevy of Australian awards in the year of it’s release. Any other year, L’Argent, Testament and The Makioka Sisters especially would vie for the top spot.
As far as music goes, I will declare right now that Ray Cook’s devastating and magnificent score is presently my favorite of all-time, and I have ceaselessly promoted it. Two other extraordinary scores rate near the top: James Horner’s sublime, understated work for Testament and Shinosuke Okawa’s gorgeous work on The Makioka Sisters, though it must be said that the latter is indebted to Handel.
Will add short as soon as I examine the field.
Best Short: Thriller
My question here is: how is Tom Courteney a supporting actor to Albert Finney in THE DRESSER. It’s clearly a story about Courteney’s character, truly realizing his place in his limited world. Albert Finney’s Sir, while a booming presence and an equal co-lead, is easily there to make us realize what a tiny, wistful existence Courteney’s Norman has truly lived. Courteney gets more screen time, more lines, and when the movie ends, it’s clear it’s a movie about him. How does that make him a supporting actor?
I was a bit flummoxed by this at first, on account that I looked up the 56th Academy Awards on Wikipedia, which has Finney and Courteney both down as nominees for best supporting? I was surprised at how versatile Yates is as director, associating him more with car chase, genre type films. What an amazing run Finney had at this time, coming back with Under the Volcano soon after.
Best Picture: A Christmas Story (a preposterous choice I know)
Best Director: Fosse : Star 80 (I’ve only seen this once and it was a long time ago, but it is still a fresh bruise)
Best Actor: Duvall : Tender Mercies
Best Actress: Barbra Streisand :Yentl (a sentimental choice, my mom’s favorite)
Best Supporting Actor: Nicholson : Terms (tempted to give it to Sam Shepard)
Best Supporting Actress: Caroll Baker : Star 80 (because she doesn’t get enough credit)
Best Cinematography: Hiro Narita Never Cry Wolf
Best Score: John Williams: Return of the Jedi
Top 5:
1. Christmas Story (for having the longest lasting positive affect)
2. Return of the Jedi
3. Videodrome
4. Star 80
5. The Right Stuff
Not preposterous at all John! My wife and five kids are huge fans of this cult film, and we went out of our way this past August during our trip to Cleveland to visit the house where the movie was filmed. The movie is barrels of fun and it’s a valid choice, methinks. Great to have you aboard for the voting John!
Dean, I am well aware and in complete agreement with what you say here, and have long realized and understood that Courtenay’s performance was a co-lead. I have seen this film multiple times over the years. The vote here was a simple mistake, nothing more. I will change my vote today in that category.
John, in actuality both actors were nominated in the LEAD category, not in the supporting one.
Wow, that was fast. Didn’t get a chance to vote for ’82 short though it looks like my vote wasn’t needed. I’ll return later to record my vote for posterity, not that it matters! And cast my ballot for this, the year of my birth, as well.
I made an unusual error in trying to change the time to a bit earlier Joel. Not intended to post this early at all, but once it posted I added my vote which was already prepared on e mail. Allan had nothing to do with this. It was my error.
Best Picture: Videodrome
Best Director: TIE Robert Bresson for “L’Argent” and Nobuhiko Obayashi for “Girl of Time”
Best Actor: Michael Caine – Educating Rita
Best Actress: Julie Walters – Educating Rita
Best Supporting Actor: Jack Nicholson – Terms of Endearment
Best Supporting Actress: Deborah Harry – Videodrome
Best Cinematography: Girl of Time aka The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (a modern videoclip before they existed)
Best Score: Return of the Jedi
Best Short: The Crimson Permanent Assurance, Terry Gilliam
Top 5:
1. Videodrome
2. Girl of Time
3. L’Argent
4. Crime and Punishment (Aki Kaurismaki)
5. The Meaning of Life
Random Extra Awards:
Best Fight Sequences – ‘A’ gai wak
Best Videoclip – Thriller
Best Special Effects – The Deadly Spawn
Best Surprise Penis Ending – Sleepaway Camp
Overrated by many, but still watchable – Scarface
Best Script – Crime and Punishment, Aki Kaurismaki
I guess that if “Videodrome” is considered 1982 my vote goes to “L’Argent” obviously
Best Picture: The King Of Comedy
Top Five: 1. The King Of Comedy 2. Nostalghia 3. Videodrome 4. L’Argent 5. Sans Soleil
Like Jaime, I’m considering Videodrome for this year. Every source seems to mention 1983.
who wouldn’t? In the best supporting actress there it is, Videodrome.. now why it’s not in the best film lineup, well… that’s just Allan’s decision.
Allan placed it in the 1982 Best Picture/Director list. Scroll down and you will see it.
It’s obviously a point of confusion on Allan’s part.
I didn’t list Deborah Harry, the phantom sabotaging my posts added her. As for my confusion, I’ll let that stand, being as Sam wants you to have carte blanche to do whatever you want.
My position has been stated previously on this matter. I will refrain from stating it again.
I don’t have charte blanche! 😦 Do you think I’m adding those to the lineup? That’s why you put me in all the emails regarding that? 😦
LOL Jaimie! The matter has been resolved, and you were never a suspect. Ha!
The top five pictures of 1983 are easily a few of the 1980s most stellar titles, and the subsequent fifteen titles are also essential viewing. But there is a general drop-off in quality this year, and it’ll be a while before we see anything like 1967-82 again. Still, I treasure my top pick like a precious jewel; I deeply feel that it is my movie, made with love and care just for me. As always, those capitalized titles are the ones that were left off of Allen’s excellent list:
PICTURE: LOCAL HERO, followed by, in descending order: The Right Stuff, The King of Comedy, Star 80, Entre Nous (Coup de Foudre), Zelig, The Dresser, Tender Mercies, The Fourth Man, Silkwood, Terms of Endearment, BETRAYAL, Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, Careful He Might Hear You, Educating Rita, Lianna, Man of Flowers, Risky Business, The Dead Zone, Pauline at the Beach, El Norte, Never Cry Wolf, Nostalgia, Made in Britain, VALLEY GIRL, Trading Places, TESTAMENT, DANIEL, The Ballad of Narayama, Le Bal, WARGAMES, Return of the Jedi, Yentl, Rumble Fish, UNDER FIRE, The Big Chill, THE DAY AFTER, The Outsiders, TWICE UPON A TIME, ALL THE RIGHT MOVES, A Christmas Story, Sans Soliel, Videodrome, CROSS CREEK, THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS, OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN, THE MAN WITH TWO BRAINS, WILD STYLE, SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES, BAD BOYS, STRANGE BEHAVIOR, OCTOPUSSY
DIRECTOR: Bill Forsyth, LOCAL HERO (2nd: Martin Scorsese, The King of Comedy, followed by: Philip Kaufman, The Right Stuff; Bob Fosse, Star 80; Diane Kurys, Entre Nous; Woody Allen, Zelig; Mike Nichols, Silkwood)
ACTOR: Robert Duvall, TENDER MERCIES (2nd: Robert De Niro, The King of Comedy, followed by: Eric Roberts, Star 80; Tom Courteney, The Dresser; Christopher Walken, The Dead Zone; Michael Caine, Educating Rita; Albert Finney, The Dresser)
ACTRESS: Shirley MacLaine, TERMS OF ENDEARMENT (2nd: Julie Walters, Educating Rita, followed by: Meryl Streep, Silkwood; Isabelle Huppert, Entre Nous; Jane Alexander, Testament; Wendy Hughes, Careful He Might Hear You; Mariel Hemingway, Star 80)
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Jack Nicholson, TERMS OF ENDEARMENT (2nd: Guy Marchand, Entre Nous, followed by: John Lithgow, Twilight Zone: The Movie; Jerry Lewis, The King of Comedy; Denis Lawson, Local Hero; Rip Torn, Cross Creek; Fred Ward, The Right Stuff)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Sandra Bernhard, THE KING OF COMEDY (2nd: Amanda Plummer, Daniel, followed by: Tess Harper, Tender Mercies; Cher, Silkwood; Alfre Woodard, Cross Creek; Jamie Lee Curtis, Trading Places; Veronica Cartwright, The Right Stuff)
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Chris Menges, LOCAL HERO (2nd: Caleb Deschanel, The Right Stuff, followed by: Gordon Willis, Zelig; Stephen Burum, Rumble Fish; Hiro Narita, Never Cry Wolf; Don Peterman, Flashdance)
ORIGINAL SCORE: (TIE) Mark Knopfler, LOCAL HERO and Stewart Copeland, RUMBLE FISH (2nd: Bill Conti, The Right Stuff, followed by: Georges Delarue, Silkwood; Ray Cook, Careful He Might Hear You; John Barry, High Road to China; Jerry Goldsmith, Under Fire)
SHORT FILM: THRILLER (John Landis) (2nd: Sundae in New York) (Jimmy Picker) (Note: this is a period that really should be pointed to music videos primarily; this is where the energy towards short films are going in this era)
FURTHER:
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Bill Forsyth, LOCAL HERO (2nd: Paul D. Zimmerman, The King of Comedy, followed by: Horton Foote, Tender Mercies; Woody Allen, Zelig; Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin and Eric Idle, Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life; Michael Jenkins, Careful He Might Hear You)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Diane Kurys and Alain Le Henry, ENTRE NOUS (2nd: Philip Kaufman, The Right Stuff, followed by: Ronald Harwood, The Dresser; Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen, Silkwood; James L. Brooks, Terms of Endearment; Gerard Soeteman, The Fourth Man)
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: SANS SOLEIL (Chris Marker) (2nd: Wild Style (Charlie Ahearn)
NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILM: COUP DE FOUDRE aka ENTRE NOUS (Diane Kurys, France) (2nd: The Fourth Man (Paul Verhoeven, The Netherlands), followed by: Pauline at the Beach (Eric Rohmer, France), Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky, Russia), The Ballad of Narayama (Shohei Imamura, Japan), Le Bal (Ettore Scola, Italy/France/Algeria))
ART DIRECTION: THE RIGHT STUFF, Return of the Jedi, The Dresser, Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, Local Hero, Something Wicked This Way Comes
COSTUME DESIGN: ZELIG, The Dresser, The King of Comedy, Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Hunger
FILM EDITING: THE KING OF COMEDY, The Right Stuff, Silkwood, Star 80, Trading Places, Flashdance,
SOUND: THE RIGHT STUFF, Return of the Jedi, Never Cry Wolf, The King of Comedy, WarGames, The Dresser
ORIGINAL SONG: “Galaxy Song” from MONTY PYTHON’S THE MEANING OF LIFE (music by Eric Idle and John Du Prez, lyrics by Eric Idle) (2nd: “Stay Gold” from The Outsiders (music by Carmine Coppola, lyrics by Stevie Wonder), followed by: “Don’t Box Me In” from Rumble Fish (music and lyrics by Stewart Copeland and Stan Ridgway); “Papa, Can You Hear Me?” from Yentl (music by Michel Legrand, lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman); “I’ve Decided to Leave Here Forever“ from Tender Mercies (music and lyrics by Robert Duvall); “It Hurts to Face Reality” from Tender Mercies (music and lyrics by Lefty Frizzell)
ADAPTATION SCORE/SCORING OF A MUSICAL: YENTL (Michel Legrand, Alan and Marilyn Bergman) (2nd: The Pirates of Penzance (William Elliott))
SPECIAL EFFECTS: RETURN OF THE JEDI, The Right Stuff, Zelig
MAKEUP: VIDEODROME, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, The Dresser
ANIMATED FEATURE: TWICE UPON A TIME (John Korty, Charles Swenson)
Best Picture: L’Argent
(Honorable Mentions: Zelig, Videodrome, Ballad of Narayama, King of Comedy)
Best Director: Bresson
Best Actor: De Niro
Best Actress: Adjani
Supporting Actor: Lewis
(Hon. Mentions: D. Ameche & R. Bellamy, Trading Places)
Supporting Actress: Bernhard
Cinematography: Willis
Score: Moroder
Shorts have been added. Thriller will probably win in a cake(moon?)walk, but make sure to check out the two Faerie Tale Theatre adaptations, probably the best in that series, particularly Ivan Passer’s gorgeous and spooky version of The Nightingale, with Mick Jagger made up the Chinese Emperor.
We had our chance to vote for Videodrome last week. Not sure who’s adding titles to Allan’s list, but this just makes it way too confusing – please remove; it shouldn’t interfere with this week’s results.
Well, this week, Allan has included Debbie Harry in his lineup for Supporting Actress, so does that mean it’s a 1983 release? Doing some research, I can find no Canadian release for it, so I can only assume it was released simultaneously in Canada and the US in early 83. It might have erroneously appeared in last week’s Picture lineup (I haven’t checked), but as far as I can see, it’s an 83 release (which would mean Cronenberg had two movies in the running that year, along with THE DEAD ZONE–a pretty great year for that director).
I didn’t include Debbie Harry, someone added her. This is the problem.
I plan to watch Tender Mercies, which should be arriving on Wednesday, and may modify my ballot accordingly, but for now these will be my picks.
As with all of the 80s, there are just loads of notable movies I haven’t seen so take all of this with a grain of salt.
Feature: Scarface
2. Sans Soleil
3. A Nos Amours
4. Zelig
5. Return of the Jedi
Short:
The NightingaleSkywhalesDirector: Maurice Pialat, A Nos Amours
Actor:
Robert De Niro, The King of ComedyRobert Duvall, Tender MerciesActress: Sandrine Bonnaire, A Nos Amours
Supp. Actor: John Lithgow, Twilight Zone: The Movie
Supp. Actress: Rebecca DeMornay, Risky Business (she should probably be in Lead, but since she isn’t included in either, I’m writing her in here)
Cinematography: Gordon Willis, Zelig – virtuoso work here
Score: Giorgio Moroder, Scarface
Editing: Sans Soleil
Screenplay: Zelig
I would definitely give great consideration to Robert Duvall this year, as he’s unlikely to appear on any other Actor ballot in the future, save for THE APOSTLE in the late 90s. As great is De Niro is in KING OF COMEDY, it’s time to give some consideration to some other actors (I think De Niro might be the most awarded actor in this ongoing project of ours; I think he’s won five awards to date; doesn’t mean he doesn’t deserve it for this year…but in the face of Duvall, who really gives a career-high showing in TENDER MERCIES, I think it’s time to spread the so-called wealth).
By the way, I seriously do not get the love for SCARFACE. But you’re so right about Willis and his astounding work on ZELIG; if it weren’t for the fact that he’d won so many times before, I would have voted for him. But this is really the era where we need to be reaching out to the new masters like Menges and Deschanel, who’ve really contributed something new and very 80s flavored to the artform).
Ok…for the record, changed my vote to Duvall once I saw Tender Mercies & voted for the ethereal Faerie Tale Theatre short though of course I dig Thriller too (even if Joan Collins cackling in green makeup is scarier than any of those zombies, to cite another FTT gem).
NO, my vote is retroactively (after the results have been turned in) changed to Skywhales. So fucking pissed I forgot to include this in the nominees. This is like the third of fourth times I forgot to nominate a film that one of the reasons I wanted to do these short film ballots in the first place. HATE when this happens.
Here’s the great film:
Picture: The Makioka Sisters
Director: Eric Rohmer, Pauline a la Plage
Actor: Tom Courtenay, The Dresser
Actress: Shirley MacLaine, Terms of Endearment
Sup. Actor: Jerry Lewis, The King of Comedy
Sup. Actress: Deborah Winger, Terms of Endearment
Cinematography: Gordon Willis, Zelig
Look, again, third time, someone is adding nominations in that are not my own. This is absolutely inacceptable. If this doesn’t stop I will refuse to continue these weekly posts. THIS IS SABOTAGE.
Straight to it…
BEST PICTURE: CAREFUL, HE MIGHT HEAR YOU
Top 5: 1. Careful, He Might Hear You 2. Entre Nous 3. The King of Comedy 4. The Right Stuff 5. Zelig
DIRECTOR: Phillip KAUFMAN (The Right Stuff)
Runners Up: Diane Kurys (Entre Nous), Woody Allen (Zelig), Bill Forsyth (Local Hero), Martin Scorsese (The King of Comedy)
LEAD ACTOR: Robert DENIRO (The King of Comedy)
Runners Up: Robert Duvall (Tender Mercies), Eric Roberts (Star 80), Micheal Caine (Educating Rita), Albert Finney (The Dresser)
LEAD ACTRESS: Jane ALEXANDER (Testament)
Runners Up: Debra Winger (Terms of Endearment), Shirley MacLaine (Terms of Endearment), Wendy Hughs (Careful, He Might Hear You), Julie Walters (Educating Rita)
SUPP. ACTOR: Jerry LEWIS (The King of Comedy)
Runners Up: Craig T. Nelson (All the Right Moves), Jack Nicholson (Terms of Endearment), Guy Marchand (Entre Nous), Donald Moffat (The Right Stuff)
SUPP. ACTRESS: Linda HUNT (The Year of Living Dangerously)
Runners Up: Tess Harper (Tender Mercies), Cher (Silkwood), Sandra Bernhard (The King of Comedy), Mary Kay Place (The Big Chill)
PHOTO: Gordon WILLIS (Zelig)
MUSIC: Stewart COPELAND (Rumble Fish)
Pic – Scarface (US…Brian de Palma)
Director – Nostalgia (Italy/USSR …Andrei Tarkovsky)
Actor – Christopher Walken The Dead Zone
Actress – Isabelle Adjani One Deadly Summer
Supp Actor – Jack Nicholson Terms of Endearment
Supp Actress – Yuko Kotegawa (The Makioka Sisters)
Short – Mickey’s Christmas Carol (US…Bunny Mattinson) but The Crimson Permanent Assurance is really great!
BEST PICTURE: (I can’t help it – a triple tie) LOCAL HERO, THE KING OF COMEDY and UNDER FIRE
BEST DIRECTOR; Bill Forsyth for LOCAL HERO
BEST ACTOR; Albert Finney for THE DRESSER
BEST ACTRESS; Meryl Streep for SILKWOOD
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Jerry Lewis for THE KING OF COMEDY
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Sandra Bernhard for THE KING OF COMEDY
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Gordon Willis for ZELIG
BEST SCORE: Jerry Goldsmith for UNDER FIRE
BEST SHORT: A SUNDAE IN NEW YORK.
Best Picture: À Nos Amours (Maurice Pialat)
2. The Big Chill
3. Zelig
4. The King of Comedy
5. Sans Soleil
Best Director: Martin Scorsese (The King of Comedy)
Best Actor: Robert De Niro (The King of Comedy)
Best Actress: Sandrine Bonnaire (A Nos Amour)
Best Supporting Actor: Jerry Lewis (The King of Comedy)
Best Supporting Actress: Deborah Harry (Videodrome)
Best Cinematography: Gordon Willis (Zelig)
Best Score: Mark Knopfler (Local Hero)
Important announcement to all voters and readers:
Allan has made it clear to me that while he fully welcomes and will indeed almost surely honor any requests for additions on this ever-popular weekly thread, he would like to be informed of these additions before they are actually managed. Allan feels that he puts so much time putting these nominations week after week, and would just like some courtesy before any are added.
All things considered I think this is a fair enough request.
Plus now we have votes for Videodrome two weeks in a row, messing up totals & results. This is just getting chaotic.
Aye Joel. Would you be able to make a definitive ruling on this. I am so confused myself at this point.
That’s up to Allan, as he counts votes. It’s not as if he withheld it till ’84 and this ’83 voters don’t know better. It was clearly in the running last week:”; I’d say at this point votes for it are redundant.
The whole thing is coming perilously close to being redundant. I set out rules at the start, telling people deadlines to vote by (by 9am Friday morning UK time to allow me time to count the votes) but still votes come in Friday, Saturday and even on occasion after. I said that what I had re years goes. There will be the odd occasion where premieres and previews I have found are not on the IMDb. The IMDb can be updated by anyone and is thus open to be flawed.
However, this taking over of the post and adding nominations willy nilly – John Gordon Sinclair was added as best actor for 1981 for Gregory’s Girl, a 1980 film!!! – makes it look like I have sanctioned these nominations and looks bad on me. It makes me look incompetent. Not to mention the fact that whoever is doing this is going over my head. I have let Sam make this comment this time in the hope it won’t happen again, but should nominations keep being added as of next week, I have told Sam the polling will be discontinued due to sabotage. Sam may say they’re doing this innocently, but when I have commented not to do it for the last two weeks, I cannot believe this to be the case.
As far as votes that may for one reason or another come in late, I will say that I take votes of any kind to be an expression of interest, good will and enthusiasm, and that speaking of “rules” it was established at the very start of the voting many months ago that there was a deadline–and that deadline is Saturday evening at 11:00 P.M. If you look at the weekly votes you will find that better than 95% of the votes are regularly cast well before Wednesday! There are only a very few that show up late, and I assure you in those cases it is not to irk you or to undermine the voting, rather it’s a combination of indecision and being bogged down for one reason or another.
I stated my case above as to the “additions” without notification, so I’ll leave it at that.
Almost all the votes are cast on either Monday or Tuesday.
Exactly.
Yes, they are. But I live five hours ahead of you guys. If people are saying the deadline is 11pm Saturday, then that means I have literally 20 mins, if I stay awake until 4 in the morning, to do the piece, as 11pm Saturday EC time is 4am my time, the time I normally post the piece.
I said at the beginning, get your votes in for Friday to give me plenty of time. Not to do so shows no consideration. Just as posting nominations withour consent shows no consideration. Not much to ask.
The instances of late voting is extremely rare, and I do believe most voters by the regularity of their early balloting are much enthusiastic about the project,
By the way, I was just looking it up and GREGORY’S GIRL is a 1981 film by all accounts all across the internet–from IMDB to Wikipedia and every article about the film states it is 1981; I have the DVD and IT says it’s a 1981 film, which I think would be definitive). I would ask Allan where exactly he got the information that it was a 1980 film? In fact, where does he get ALL his release date information?
That will be your concern when you run your own poll, Mr Treadway. You know, the one minus the quality.
Hmmm…that doesn’t even make any sense. It’s not really a zinger or anything. And it really doesn’t answer the question: What is the source information, anywhere, that GREGORY’S GIRL (as an example) is a 1980 release? Oh…I get it. You’re just plain wrong and you don’t want to admit it. I get it.
Yeah, it wasn’t even funny.
At the start it was stipulated, leave it as I see fit. Now I’m being overruled by all and sundry. Itr seems there’s only one solution. I withdraw from future polls. Frankly, I have had enough of it and all the mosquito attacks.
Also, re Gregory’s Girl, before I retire, as it matters to so many people. I have 12 different film guides in my possession each one of which lists Gregory’s Girl as 1980. I also read that it was first shown pre its general release at the end of 1980 many years ago.
This is backed up by the IMDb you recite as bible, funnily enough. Go here.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082477/awards
GG was only up for consideration because of its general release for 1981, I grant you, but John Gordon Sinclair was nominated for best newcomer for the film in the 1980 awards as well, a year earlier. This was due to the film being seen publicly prior to premiere in 1980.
In the same way as films are often seen at Film Festivals before their general release the following year (Malick’s To the Wonder is one such example 2012 at festivals, 2013 general release). The IMDb backs this up, but this practice has been going on for DECADES. Problem is, there wasn’t an IMDb or an internet back then. The IMDb is updated by the public, anyone can do it. Therefore, until someone puts the details in, the release date will always be the first someone has put in. How many foreign films have ridiculous release dates because the only premier date they have was its premiere in a country far away several years later.
I know that only a few years ago, the IMDb had The Pawnbroker listed as 1965. Until someone correctly added that it appeared at a film festival in the summer of 1964. Likewise, for many years 1943 was the year for Jane Eyre’s release, it was listed as such in the Halliwell Film Guide. Then it started to be listed as 1944 and was on the IMDb as that’s when it was released in the US, but it has a showing in the UK in 1943 – hence Halliwell knowing about it – and thus 1943 is the correct date. This is why the IMDb is NOT infallible; the dates that are on their for individual premieres in various countries are largely accurate, but you cannot be certain they were the actual first dates the films were shown. Anyway, enough.
Film: ‘L’Argent’
Director: Robert Bresson
Actor: Courtenay & Finney (‘The Dresser’)
Actress: Barbra Streisand (‘Yentl’)
S. Actor: Jack Nicholson (‘Terms of Endearment’)
S. Actress: Michelle Pfieffer (‘Scarface’)
Photography: Kiyoshi Hasegawa (‘The Makioka Sisters’)
Screenplay: the Pythons for their black-acid satire, ‘Monty Python’s Meaning of Life’
Gawd help you, Allan Fish, my friend, for preferring Jessica Lange’s Acting 101 hysterics over Streep in the Best Actress, English language cat. Lange probably should have won for ‘Tootsie’ (I stupidly left her name off my ballot last week). Her performance is a beauty, and it’s a confounded miracle she managed to keep a straight face in her scenes with Hoffman.
PICTURE: San Soleil
DIRECTOR: Chris Marker
LEAD ACTOR: Tom Conti, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
LEAD ACTRESS: Sylvia Chang, That Day on the Beach
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Takeshi Kitano, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Sandra Bernhard, The King of Comedy
SHORT: not yet… (Unless I were to arbitrarily abstract Hou Hsiao Hsien’s “Sandwich Man” from the anthology of the same name…)
SCORE: MArk Knopfler, Local Hero
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Kiyoshi Hasegawa, The Makioka Sisters
Plus bonus picks:
Script: Marker again, Sans Soleil
Music/Sound: David Bowie singing Rock of Ages has to get a mention somewhere.
Best Picture: The King of Comedy
Best Director: Martin Scorsese (The King of Comedy)
Best Actor: Robert DeNiro (The King of Comedy)
Best Actress: Jane Alexander (Testament)
Best Supporting Actor: Jerry Lewis (The King of Comedy)
Best Supporting Actress: Deborah Winger (Terms of Endearment)
Best Cinematography: Kiyoshi Hasegawa (The Makioka Sisters)
Best Score: Giorgio Moroder (Scarface)
Best Short: Thriller
Best Picture – The Big Chill
Best Director – Lawrence Kasdan The Big Chill
Best Actor – Robert Duvall Tender Mercies
Best Actress – Jane Alexander Testament
Best Supp Actor – Jack Nicholson Terms of Endearment
Best Supp Actress – Debra Winger Terms of Endearment
Picture: Careful He Might Hear You
Director: Kon Ichikawa (The Makioka Sisters)
Actor: Al Pacino (Scarface)
Actress: Sandrine Bonnaire (A Nos Amours)
Sup. Actor: Tom Courtenay (The Dresser)
Sup. Actress: Michelle Pfeiffer (Scarface)
Cinematography: Masao Tochizawa (The Ballad of Narayama)
Score: Ray Cook (Careful He Might Hear You)
Short: Hansel and Gretel
Best Picture: Testament
Best Director: Lynn Litman (Testament)
Best Actor: Albert Finney (The Dresser)
Best Actress: Jane Alexander (Testament)
Best Supporting Actor: Tom Courtenay (The Dresser)
Best Supporting Actress: Alfre Woodard (Cross Creek)
Best Cinematography: Giuseppe Rotunno (And the Ship Sails On)
Best Score: James Horner (Testament)
Best Short: Thriller
Best Picture: L’Argent
Best Director: Robert Bresson (L’Argent) & Eric Rohmer (Pauline at the Beach)
Best Actor: Om Puri (Ardh Satya)
Best Actress: Amanda Langlet (Pauline at the Beach)
Best Supporting Actor: Sadashiv Amrapurkar (Ardh Satya)
Best Supporting Actress: Debbie Harry (Videodrome)
Best Cinematography: Gordon Willis (Zelig)
Best Score: Giorgio Moroder (Scarface)
Top 5:
1. L’Argent
2. Pauline at the Beach
3. Zelig
4. Ardh Satya (dir. Govind Nihalani)
5. The King of Comedy
Runners-Ups: Videodrome, Scarface
Best Picture: The King of Comedy
Best Director: Martin Scorsese, The King of Comedy
Best Actor: Robert DeNiro, The King of Comedy
Best Actress: Meryl Streep, Silkwood
Best Supporting Actor: Jerry Lewis, The King of Comedy
Best Supporting Actress: Alfre Woodard, Cross Creek
Best Cinematography: Gordon Willis, Zelig
Best Score: Jerry Goldsmith, Under Fire
Pic – L’Argent
Dir- Bresson
Actor – Duvall – Tender Mercies
Actress – Streep – Silkwood
Supp. Actor – Nicholson – Terms of Endearment
Supp. Actress- Winger – Terms of Endearment
Score – Conti – The Right Stuff
Cinematography – Willis – Zelig
Top five for 1983:
1. A nos amours – Maurice Pialat
2. Nostalghia – Andrei Tarkovsky
3. L’argent – Robert Bresson
4. Prenom Carmen – Jean-Luc Godard
5. Pauline at the Beach – Eric Rohmer
Best Picture: A nos amours
Best Director: Maurice Pialat
Best Actor: Al Pacino (Scarface)
Best Actress: Sandrine Bonnaire (A nos amours)
Best supporting actor: Jerry Lewis (The King of Comedy)
Best supporting actress: Sandra Bernhard (The King of Comedy)
Best Cinematography: Giuseppe Lanci (Nostalghia)
Best Score: Giorgio Moroder (Scarface)
Four out of five of the top five are French movies? Hey, it ain’t the 60s anymore…
Hey, what can I say …just picking the best as I see it.
Fair enough!
Best Picture: The King of Comedy
Best Director: Martin Scorsese
Best Actor: Robert Duvall
Best Actress: Shirley MacLaine
Some people on this site need to get. Job!!
Hey, this IS our job!! hahaha!
I’m noticing there have been no more entries since the 20th. This should put THAT matter to rest.
Though, I should say…I don’t know why one would want fewer entries rather than more…
As I have explained, sir mosquito, more times than I care to recall, I don’t mind more entries. What I do mind is people taking it upon themselves to add them without consulting me. Any ridiculous choices look bad on my integrity as it makes it look like I consider them. It’s a shame, there have been some good additions, but the person responsible is doing it deliberately to antagonise and annoy me. It’s become personal. But enough, even if you won’t let it rest, Treadway, I’ve had enough of the whole damn thing.