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The Academy Awards Year 1978 was held at Los Angeles, California, USA on March 29 1982

BEST PICTURE 1982 WINNER

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CHARIOTS OF FIRE (1981)

Director : Hugh Hudson
Writer : Colin Welland (original screenplay by)
Genre : Drama | History | Sport
Main Cast : Nicholas Farrell, Nigel Havers, Ian Charleson

Plot : The story, told in flashback, of two young British sprinters competing for fame in the 1924 Olympics. Eric, a devout Scottish missionary runs because he knows it must please God. Harold, the son of a newly rich Jew runs to prove his place in Cambridge society. In a warmup 100 meter race, Eric defeats Harold, who hires a pro trainer to prepare him. Eric, whose qualifying heat is scheduled for a Sunday, refuses to run despite pressure from the Olympic committee. A compromise is reached when a nobleman allows Eric to compete in his 400 meter slot. Eric and Harold win their respective races and go on to achieve fame as missionary and businessman/athletic advocate, respectively.

 

 

 

OTHER NOMINEES

ON GOLDEN POND (1981)

Director : Mark Rydell
Writer : Ernest Thompson (play and screenplay)
Genre : Drama
Main Cast : Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda, Doug McKeon

Plot : The loons are back again on Golden Pond and so are Norman Thayer, a retired professor, and Ethel who have had a summer cottage there since early in their marriage. This summer their daughter Chelsea — whom they haven’t seen for years — feels she must be there for Norman’s birthday. She and her fiance are on their way to Europe the next day but will be back in a couple of weeks to pick up the fiance’s son. When she returns Chelsea is married and her stepson has the relationship with her father that she always wanted. Will father and daughter be able to communicate at last?

 

 

 

ATLANTIC CITY (1980)

Director : Louis Malle
Writer : John Guare (written by)
Genre : Crime | Drama | Romance
Main Cast : Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Michel Piccoli, Kate Reid

Plot : Longtime low-level mobster Lou (Burt Lancaster) is fading and past his prime — much like the decaying city in which he lives. He meets and falls for a sexy casino employee named Sally (Susan Sarandon), who needs his help, and Lou surprises himself by rising to the occasion. Director Louis Malle’s richly textured, atmospheric drama was nominated for multiple Oscars and earned numerous critics’ awards.

 

 

 

RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981)

Director : Stephen Spielberg
Writer : Lawrence Kasdan (screenplay), George Lucas (story) et al.
Genre : Action | Adventure
Main Cast : Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, Ronald Lacey

Plot : The year is 1936. A professor who studies archeology named Indiana Jones is venturing in the jungles in South America searching for a golden statue. Unfortunately, he sets off a deadly trap doing so, miraculously, he escapes. Then, Jones hears from a museum curator named Marcus Brody about a biblical artifact called The Ark of the Covenant, which can hold the key to humanly existence. Jones has to venture to vast places such as Nepal and Egypt to find this artifact. However, he will have to fight his enemy Renee Belloq and a band of Nazis in order to reach it.

 

 

 

REDS (1981)

Director : Warren Beatty
Writer : Warren Beatty (written by), Trevor Griffiths (written by) et al.
Genre : Biography | Drama | History | Romance
Main Cast : Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann, Jerzy Kosinski

Plot : This movie tells the true story of John Reed, a radical American journalist around the time of World War I. He soon meets Louise Bryant, a respectable married woman, who dumps her husband for Reed and becomes an important feminist and radical in her own right. After involvement with labor and political disputes in the US, they go to Russia in time for the October Revolution in 1917, when the Communists siezed power. Inspired, they return to the US, hoping to lead a similar revolution. A particularly fascinating aspect of the movie is the inclusion of interviews with “witnesses”, the real-life surviving participants in the events of the movie.

 

 

 

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM WINNER 1979

MEPHISTO (1981)

Also Known As : Mefisto
Country : Hungary
Director : István Szabó
Writer : Péter Dobai (writer), Klaus Mann (novel) et al.
Genre : Drama | War
Main Cast : Klaus Maria Brandauer, Krystyna Janda, Ildikó Bánsági, Rolf Hoppe

Plot : A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and friends flee or are ground under by the Nazi terror, the popularity of his character supercedes his own existence until he finds that his best performance is keeping up appearances for his Nazi patrons.

 

 

 

 

OTHER NOMINEES

CZLOWIEK Z ZELAZA (1981)

Also Known As : Man Of Iron
Country : Poland
Director : Andrzej Wajda
Writer : Aleksander Scibor-Rylski (scenario)
Genre : Drama | History
Main Cast : Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda, Marian Opania, Irena Byrska

Plot : A worker becomes a “man of iron” forged by experience, a son comes to terms with his father, a couple fall in love, a reporter searches for courage, and a nation undergoes historic change. In Warsaw in 1980, the Party sends Winkel, a weak, alcoholic TV hack, to Gdansk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers, particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an articulate worker whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests. Posing as sympathetic, Winkel interviews people who know Tomczyk, including his detained wife, Agnieszka. Their narrations become flashbacks using actual news footage of 1968 and 1970 protests and of the later birth of free unions and Solidarity.

 

DAS BOOT IST VOLL (1981)

Also Known As : The Boat Is Full
Country : Switzerland
Director : Markus Imhoof
Writer : Alfred A. Haesler (book), Markus Imhoof (writer) et al.
Genre : Drama | War
Main Cast : Tina Engel, Hans Diehl, Martin Walz, Curt Bois

Plot : Confronting a little-discussed aspect of World War II, this Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Film tells the story of a band of German refugees who steal into “neutral” Switzerland to escape Nazi rule. A woman gives them shelter, despite the fact that her country has closed its borders, claiming it can’t provide refuge to Jews and political dissidents. Now, however, her secret is out, and she faces a moral quandary in Markus Imhoof’s powerful film.

 

 

DORO NO KAWA (1981)

Also Known As : Muddy River
Country : Japan
Director : Kôhei Oguri
Writer : Teru Miyamoto (novel), Takako Shigemori (writer)
Genre : Drama
Main Cast : Takahiro Tamura, Mariko Kaga, Nobutaka Asahara, Makiko Shibata

Plot : Two boys, whose parents ply their trade by the mouth of a muddy river in Osaka, become close friends. The two families’ “businesses” are in fact dining and prostitution. When Nobou, the restauranteur’s son, loses his pocket money during the Tenjin Festival, Kiichi, the prostitute’s boy, invites him home, and he learns the truth.

 

 

 

TRE FRATELLI (1981)

Also Known As : Three Brothers
Country : Italy
Director : Francesco Rosi
Writer : Tonino Guerra (story) & Francesco Rosi (story) et al.
Genre : Drama
Main Cast : Philippe Noiret, Michele Placido, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Andréa Ferréol

Plot : When the matriarch of an Italian family dies, the husband brings his three boys, each of whom are facing difficult personal problems, back to their farmhouse. Raffaele (Philippe Noiret) is a judge who fears being executed over the politically unsettling case over which he is presiding. Rocco (Vittorio Mezzogiorno) is quite religious and dreams of helping troubled teenagers. Nicola (Michele Placido) is a worker involved in a labor dispute as well as a failed marriage. Each of the men grieves in his own way, while also wrestling with the other emotional issues that are pressing on them.