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The Academy Awards Year 1978 was held at Los Angeles, California, USA on April 11 1983

BEST PICTURE 1983 WINNER

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GANDHI (1982)

Director : Richard Attenborough
Writer : John Briley (written by)
Genre : Biography | Drama | History
Main Cast : Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud

Plot : It was Richard Attenborough’s lifelong dream to bring the life story of Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi to the screen. When it finally reached fruition in 1982, the 188-minute, Oscar-winning Gandhi was one of the most exhaustively thorough biopics ever made. The film begins in the early part of the 20th century, when Mohandas K. Gandhi (Ben Kingsley), a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of “passive resistance,” endeavoring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed. In the horrendous “slaughter” sequence, more extras appear on screen than in any previous historical epic. The supporting cast includes Candice Bergen as photographer Margaret Bourke-White, Athol Fugard as General Smuts, John Gielgud as Lord Irwin, John Mills as the viceroy, Martin Sheen as Walker, Trevor Howard as Judge Broomfield, and, in a tiny part as a street bully, star-to-be Daniel Day-Lewis. Gandhi won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Director. —Allmovie

 

 

 

OTHER NOMINEES

E.T. : EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982)

Director : Steven Spielberg
Writer : Melissa Mathison (written by)
Genre : Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Main Cast : Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote, Robert MacNaughton

Plot : Elliot is your normal boy, until one day, when he meets a little lost alien. Elliot decides to keep the alien, in which he gives the name E.T. Elliot works with E.T. in trying to find him a way to get back home. Elliot must make the difficult sacrifice. Whether to help his new friend or to lose him? Whatever the decision is, Elliot must keep him hidden, as someone else is out to look for him. —IMDb

 

 

 

THE VERDICT (1982)

Director : Sidney Lumet
Writer : Barry Reed (based upon the novel by), David Mamet (screenplay)
Genre : Drama
Main Cast : Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden, James Mason

Plot : Frank Galvin is a down-on-his luck lawyer, reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing. Former associate Mickey Morrissey reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit that he himself served to Galvin on a silver platter: all parties willing to settle out of court. Blundering his way through the preliminaries, he suddenly realizes that perhaps after all the case should go to court: to punish the guilty, to get a decent settlement for his clients, and to restore his standing as a lawyer. —IMDb

 

 

 

MISSING (1982)

Director : Costa-Gavras
Writer : Costa-Gavras (writer), Thomas Hauser (book) et al.
Genre : Drama | History | Mystery | Thriller
Main Cast : Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, John Shea

Plot : Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman, this is the story of an American father of conservative background who comes to a South American country to search for his missing son, a journalist. Ed joins with his daughter-in-law Beth, who like her husband is politically polarized from the father, in prying through the bureaucracy and dangerous political intrigue in search of their son and husband. Little by little, the father comes to realize that his own beloved government is not telling him the truth. —IMDb

 

 

 

TOOTSIE (1982)

Director : Sydney Pollack
Writer : Don McGuire (story) and Larry Gelbart (story) et al.
Genre : Comedy | Drama | Romance
Main Cast : Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman

Plot : Michael Dorsey is an unemployed actor with an impossible reputation. In order to find work and fund his friend’s play he dresses as a woman, Dorothy Michaels, and lands the part in a daytime drama. Dorsey loses himself in this woman role and essentially becomes Dorothy Michaels, captivating women all around the city and inspiring them to break free from the control of men and become more like Dorsey’s initial identity. This newfound role, however, lands Dorsey in a hot spot between a female friend/’lover,’ a female co-star he falls in love with, that co-star’s father who falls in love with him, and a male co-star who yearns for his affection. —IMDb

 

 

 

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM WINNER 1979

VOLVER A EMPEZAR (1982)

Also Known As : Starting Over
Country : Spain
Director : José Luis Garci
Writer : José Luis Garci (screenplay), José Luis Garci (story) et al.
Genre : Drama
Main Cast : Antonio Ferrandis, Encarna Paso, José Bódalo, Agustín González

Plot : Antonio Albajara is a successful poet and teacher in the Berkeley University that returns to Gijón (Principality of Asturias, north to Spain). He travels there looking for everything that he left behind in his youth when he turned a well-known poet and writer in Mexico and USA, winning the Nobel prize with time. In Gijón he meets again with his past in Roxiu, an old friend (both played in the Sporting of Gijón’s soccer team years ago) and Elena, his great-love of past times. Through his memory, his friends and Elena, Antonio starts an unforgettable journey by everyone. —IMDb

 

 

 

 

OTHER NOMINEES

ALSINO Y EL CÓNDOR (1982)

Also Known As : Alsino And The Condor
Country : Nicaragua
Director : Miguel Littin
Writer : Isidora Aguirre (writer), Miguel Littin (writer) et al.
Genre : Drama | War
Main Cast : Dean Stockwell, Alan Esquivel, Carmen Bunster, Alejandro Parodi

Plot : Alsino, 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. —IMDb

 

CHASTNAYA ZHIZN (1982)

Also Known As : Private Life
Country : Soviet Union
Director : Yuli Raizman
Writer : Anatoli Grebnev (writer), Yuli Raizman (writer)
Genre : Drama
Main Cast : Mikhail Ulyanov, Iya Savvina, Irina Gubanova, Tatyana Dogileva

Plot : Mikhail Ulyanov is the Bergmanesque protagonist of the Russian Private Life. A government-appointed factory executive, Ulyanov is reduced to quivering confusion when he is dismissed. Recovering from this blow, he decides to review and realign his life. In so doing, he discovers that there’s plenty left in the world to make life worth living. Private Life was nominated for the “best foreign picture” Academy Award in 1983. —Allmovie

 

 

 

COUP DE TORCHON (1982)

Also Known As : Clean Slate
Country : France
Director : Bertrand Tavernier
Writer : Jean Aurenche (writer), Bertrand Tavernier (writer) et al.
Genre : Drama
Main Cast : Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Stéphane Audran

Plot : 1938, in a French african colony. Lucien Cordier is the cop of this village, populated with blacks and a few whites (usually racialist and lustful). He is a washout, everyone (including his wife Huguette) humiliates him. He never arrests anyone and looks at elsewhere when a dirty trick occurs. But one day, he turns into a machiavellian exterminating angel. —IMDb

 

 

 

INGENJÖR ANDRÉES LUFTÄRD (1982)

Also Known As : The Flight Of The Eagle
Country : Sweden
Director : Jan Troell
Writer : Georg Oddner (writer), Ian Rakoff (writer) et al.
Genre : Adventure | Biography | Drama
Main Cast : Max von Sydow, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Göran Stangertz, Eva von Hanno

Plot : The Swedish 19th century engineer S. A. Andrée sets out to become the first man on the north pole. His idea is to launch a polar expedition using a hydrogen balloon, together with two friends. The balloon, “The Eagle”, takes off from Svalbard in 1897, but the three men are not heard of again. —IMDb