55th Academy Awards (1982)
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- DirectorRichard AttenboroughStarsBen KingsleyJohn GielgudRohini HattangadiThe life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.Winner - Best Picture
Winner - Best Director for Richard Attenborough
Winner - Best Actor for Ben Kingsley
Winner - Best Original Screenplay for John Briley
Nominated - Best Original Score for Ravi Shankar and George Fenton
Nominated - Best Sound Mixing
Winner - Best Art Direction
Winner - Best Cinematography for Billy Williams and Ronnie Taylor
Nominated - Best Makeup for Tom Smith
Winner - Best Costume Design for John Mollo and Bhanu Athaiya
Winner - Best Film Editing for John Bloom - DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsHenry ThomasDrew BarrymorePeter CoyoteA troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape from Earth and return to his home planet.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Steven Spielberg
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Melissa Mathison
Winner - Best Original Score for John Williams
Winner - Best Sound Mixing
Winner - Best Sound Editing for Charles L. Campbell and Ben Burtt
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Allen Daviau
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Carol Littleton
Winner - Best Visual Effects - DirectorCosta-GavrasStarsJack LemmonSissy SpacekMelanie MayronWhen an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Actor for Jack Lemmon
Nominated - Best Actress for Sissy Spacek
Winner - Best Adapted Screenplay for Costa-Gavras and Donald E. Stewart - DirectorSydney PollackStarsDustin HoffmanJessica LangeTeri GarrMichael Dorsey, an unsuccessful actor, disguises himself as a woman in order to get a role on a trashy hospital soap.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Sydney Pollack
Nominated - Best Actor for Dustin Hoffman
Winner - Best Supporting Actress for Jessica Lange
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Teri Garr
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Larry Gelbart, Murray Schisgal and Don McGuire
Nominated - Best Original Song for "It Might Be You"
Nominated - Best Sound Mixing
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Owen Roizman
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Fredric Steinkamp and William Steinkamp - DirectorSidney LumetStarsPaul NewmanCharlotte RamplingJack WardenAn outcast, alcoholic Boston lawyer sees the chance to salvage his career and self-respect by taking a medical malpractice case to trial rather than settling.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Sidney Lumet
Nominated - Best Actor for Paul Newman
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for James Mason
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for David Mamet - DirectorWolfgang PetersenStarsJürgen ProchnowHerbert GrönemeyerKlaus WennemannA German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.Nominated - Best Director for Wolfgang Petersen
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Wolfgang Petersen
Nominated - Best Sound Mixing
Nominated - Best Sound Editing for Mike Le-Mare
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Jost Vacano
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Hannes Nikel - DirectorRichard BenjaminStarsPeter O'TooleMark Linn-BakerJessica HarperAn aging, dissolute matinee idol is slated to appear on a live TV variety show in 1954, and a young comedy writer is tasked with the thankless job of keeping him ready and sober for the broadcast.Nominated - Best Actor for Peter O'Toole
- DirectorAlan J. PakulaStarsMeryl StreepKevin KlinePeter MacNicolSophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live with Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust.Winner - Best Actress for Meryl Streep
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Alan J. Pakula
Nominated - Best Original Score for Marvin Hamlisch
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Néstor Almendros
Nominated - Best Costume Design for Albert Wolsky - DirectorBlake EdwardsStarsJulie AndrewsJames GarnerRobert PrestonA struggling female soprano in 1934 Paris finally finds work after posing as a female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life when a visiting Chicago gangster finds himself inexplicably attracted to the seemingly male performer.Nominated - Best Actress for Julie Andrews
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Robert Preston
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Lesley Ann Warren
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Blake Edwards
Winner - Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score for Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse
Nominated - Best Art Direction
Nominated - Best Costume Design for Patricia Norris - DirectorGraeme CliffordStarsJessica LangeJonathan BanksBonnie BartlettThe story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.Nominated - Best Actress for Jessica Lange
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Kim Stanley - DirectorTaylor HackfordStarsRichard GereDebra WingerDavid KeithA young man must complete his work at a Navy Officer Candidate School to become an aviator, with the help of a tough Gunnery Sergeant and his new girlfriend.Nominated - Best Actress for Debra Winger
Winner - Best Supporting Actor for Louis Gossett, Jr.
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Douglas Day Stewart
Winner - Best Original Song for "Up Where We Belong"
Nominated - Best Original Score for Jack Nitzsche
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Peter Zinner - DirectorColin HigginsStarsBurt ReynoldsDolly PartonDom DeLuiseA town's Sheriff and regular patron of a historical whorehouse fights to keep it running when a television reporter targets it as the Devil's playhouse.Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Charles Durning
- DirectorGeorge Roy HillStarsRobin WilliamsMary Beth HurtGlenn CloseA struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto turns her into a cultural icon.Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for John Lithgow
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Glenn Close - DirectorBarry LevinsonStarsSteve GuttenbergMickey RourkeKevin BaconA group of college-age buddies struggle with their imminent passage into adulthood in 1959 Baltimore.Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Barry Levinson
- DirectorJosé Luis GarciStarsAntonio FerrandisEncarna PasoJosé BódaloA renowned Spanish writer returns to his natal city after 40 years and embarks on a journey back to his roots, triggering memories of his past.Winner - Best Foreign Language Film (Spain)
- DirectorMiguel LittinStarsDean StockwellAlan EsquivelCarmen BunsterAlsino, a boy of 10 or 12, lives with his grandmother in a remote area of Nicaragua. He's engulfed in the war between rebels and government troops when a US advisor orders the army to open a staging area by the boy's hamlet. Alsino tries to be a child, climbing trees with a girl, looking through his grandfather's trunk of mementos and trying to fly; he goes to town to sell a saddle, has his first drink and is taken to a brothel. But the war surrounds him. The US advisor takes Alsino on a chopper flight, but he's unimpressed. The soldiers' cruelties awake rebel sympathies in Alsino, and after an army assault backfires, the lad is fully baptized into the conflict.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Nicaragua)
- DirectorBertrand TavernierStarsPhilippe NoiretIsabelle HuppertStéphane AudranA pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life - and resorts to drastic means to do so.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (France)
- DirectorJan TroellStarsMax von SydowSverre Anker OusdalGöran StangertzIn 1897 Swedish engineer S. A. Andrée with 2 colleagues prepares to fly over the North Pole in his balloon "Eagle".Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Sweden)
- DirectorYuli RaizmanStarsMikhail UlyanovIya SavvinaIrina GubanovaA man gets fired from his comfortable government job. He reacts as if it's the end of the world; slowly he finds things to live for. Private Life was nominated for the Academy Award in the Foreign Language Feature category.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (U.S.S.R.)
- DirectorSylvester StalloneStarsSylvester StalloneTalia ShireBurt YoungRocky faces the ultimate challenge from a powerful new contender, and must turn to a former rival to help regain his throne as the undisputed fighting champion.Nominated - Best Original Song for "Eye of the Tiger"
- DirectorNorman JewisonStarsBurt ReynoldsGoldie HawnJessica TandyAfter five successful years of living and working together, a couple decide to get married. But what they don't count on is how to survive the honeymoon.Nominated - Best Original Song for "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?"
- DirectorFranklin J. SchaffnerStarsLuciano PavarottiKathryn HarroldEddie AlbertFamous opera singer Giorgio Fini loses his voice during an American tour. He goes to female throat specialist Pamela Taylor and falls in love with her.Nominated - Best Original Song for "If We Were In Love"
- DirectorJohn ZaritskyStarsIan ParkerJim ConwayRaymond HatchOn July 10, 1978, Eric Wilson - a 19-year from Ottawa and student at Tufts University - left home to drive to a summer college course in Colorado. When he went missing four days afterward in Nebraska, his family tried to persuade local and U.S. police that he wasn't simply a runaway and hadn't simply forgotten to call home. The program examines the lengths to which they had to go to find out what happened to Eric, and the byzantine nature of the legal system which seemed less interested in pursuing justice than in avoiding the expenses involved in the investigation and potential trials.Winner - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorSturla GunnarssonStarsJames B. DouglasJanine ManatisAnne ChristisonBiff Wilson worked for the fictional company "Universal Foods" in this Oscar-nominated documentary. He is in his 40s and has been fired. He is shattered, he is losing confidence. Will he find work in a similar position?Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorMichel ChalufourJohn KarolBen Thresher's mill is one of the few water-powered woodworking mills left in the United States. Operating in rural Vermont, he makes water tubs by hand.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorMeg SwitzgableStarsFrank KalerRita KalerTed KordisA New Jersey family discovers their drinking water is contaminated with deadly poisons from a nearby landfill.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorMuriel BalashA profile of famous ballerinas who have danced the role of Giselle.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorTerre NashStarsHelen CaldicottVannevar BushWinston ChurchillAn Australian pediatrician gives a speech on the consequences of a nuclear war.Winner - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorRobert RichterAcademy Award nominee for best documentary short, based on biblical premise, applicable to today's nuclear proliferation: "Do not worship false Gods of Metal."Nominated - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorWerner SchumannStarsDavid DukeJohn D. HowardJerry ThompsonAn overview of hate group Ku Klux Klan and their activities up until early 1980's, attacking minorities in American states. The short documentary interviews members from the group, victims of theirs and a reporter who infiltrated the group for a while.Nominated - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorTerry SandersAt the neonatal I.C.U. of Children's Hospital in Los Angeles, life and death decisions must be made while ethical dilemmas are posed by new technologies.Nominated - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorJohn G. AvildsenStarsRoger BaldwinA documentary about Roger Baldwin, the founder of the ACLU.Nominated - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorJames ScottStarsRupert EverettJenny SeagroveBarbara HicksWhen he was a child, Jerome was told that his father died on a bizarre accident involving a pig that fell from a balcony. He refuses to accept this fact and keeps creating another scenario as replacement to his father's strange death. As a grown up, he's quite perplexed that people get amused whenever they hear this story...until the day he meets someone special who'll help you find a way to cope with this awkward tragedy.Winner - Best Live Action Short
- DirectorBob RogersIn Ballet Robotique, the graceful movements of giant assembly line robots are perfectly synchronized to classical music recorded by London's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. This may be the only industrial film ever to have been nominated in a creative category.Nominated - Best Live Action Short
- DirectorMichael Toshiyuki UnoStarsLynn KuratomiEric ManskerSeth Anthony KrakauerDuring the Vietnam War, soldier Jason is injured and separated from his platoon. Mei, a mysterious young woman, finds him and takes him into her home.Nominated - Best Live Action Short
- DirectorAndrey KonchalovskiyStarsColleen DewhurstJason Edward AlexanderKeith DowdOn a school field trip some boys break a cherry tree and are punished. One of the boys has an overbearing father who believes in hard work and does not see the value in education. The surly father goes to confront the school.Nominated - Best Live Action Short
- DirectorAndrew BirkinStarsSacha PuttnamJudy CampbellLila KayeYoung Conradin keeps a sort of pet, a polecat which is hidden from the unpleasant aunt who is his guardian. He also sends prayers to an imaginary deity, Sredni Vashtar, that he be delivered from the aunt - and his prayers are answered.Nominated - Best Live Action Short
- DirectorZbigniew RybczynskiSubsequent characters appear in a poorly-decorated room, intertwining but never colliding, all possessed by never-ending rituals.Winner - Best Animated Short
- DirectorWill VintonStarsJohn MorrisonTim ConnerBrian BresslerIn clay animation, the impersonator known as The Great Cognito literally transforms into countless faces of famous people.Nominated - Best Animated Short
- DirectorJimmy T. MurakamiDianne JacksonStarsDavid BowieRaymond BriggsMel SmithOn Christmas Eve, a young boy builds a snowman that comes to life and takes him to the North Pole to meet Father Christmas.Nominated - Best Animated Short
- DirectorTobe HooperStarsJoBeth WilliamsHeather O'RourkeCraig T. NelsonA family's home is haunted by a host of demonic ghosts.Nominated - Best Original Score for Jerry Goldsmith
Nominated - Best Sound Editing for Stephen Hunter Flick and Richard Anderson
Nominated - Best Visual Effects - DirectorJohn HustonStarsAileen QuinnAlbert FinneyCarol BurnettA spunky young orphan is taken in by a rich eccentric, much to the chagrin of the cantankerous woman who runs the orphanage.Nominated - Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score for Ralph Burns
Nominated - Best Art Direction - DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsFrederic ForrestTeri GarrRaul JuliaA couple has a fight after living together 5 years in Las Vegas. They go out and celebrate 4th of July, each with a new partner. Breakup?Nominated - Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score for Tom Waits
- DirectorSteven LisbergerStarsJeff BridgesBruce BoxleitnerDavid WarnerA computer hacker is abducted into the digital world and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program.Nominated - Best Sound Mixing
Nominated - Best Costume Design for Elois Jenssen and Rosanna Norton - DirectorRidley ScottStarsHarrison FordRutger HauerSean YoungA blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.Nominated - Best Art Direction
Nominated - Best Visual Effects - DirectorFranco ZeffirelliStarsTeresa StratasPlácido DomingoCornell MacNeilVioletta meets Alfredo and quickly falls for him. After the lovers run away together, they live in bliss for a short time. However, Alfredo's father, Giorgio, starts to interfere, concerned that Violetta's bad reputation will affect the marriage prospects of Alfredo's sister. Violetta reluctantly leaves Alfredo, but his love is so strong that it leads him to actions that have tragic consequences.Nominated - Best Art Direction
Nominated - Best Costume Design for Piero Tosi - DirectorJean-Jacques AnnaudStarsEverett McGillRon PerlmanNicholas KadiThis story takes place in prehistoric time when three tribesmen search for a new fire source.Winner - Best Makeup for Sarah Monzani and Michele Burke