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The Academy Awards Year 1978 was held at Los Angeles, California, USA on April 9 1984

BEST PICTURE 1984 WINNER

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TERMS OF ENDEARMENT (1983)

Director : James L. Brooks
Writer : Larry McMurtry (based on the novel by), James L. Brooks (screenplay)
Genre : Romance | Comedy | Drama
Main Cast : Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito

Plot : Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma’s marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on living and find joy. Aurora’s interludes with Garrett Breedlove, retired astronaut and next door neighbor are quite striking. In the end, different people show their love in very different ways. —IMDb

 

 

 

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TENDER MERCIES (1983)

Director : Bruce Beresford
Writer : Horton Foote (written by)
Genre : Drama | Music
Main Cast : Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, Betty Buckley, Wilford Brimley

Plot : Mac Sledge (Robert Duvall), a once-famous country western singer, wakes up broke, alone and hung over in a tiny Texas motel run by widowed Rosa Lee (Tess Harper). Having nowhere else to go, Sledge takes a job at the motel, and through the kindness and faith of Rosa he changes his self-destructive ways. He marries Rosa (after he’s baptized at her urging) and becomes a father/pal to her son (Allan Hubbard). Given an opportunity to make a comeback, Sledge considers leaving his new family behind, but after a reunion with his own unhappy daughter (Ellen Barkin), he vows never again to ruin anyone else’s life. A simple story simply told, Tender Mercies is a warm, persuasive tale of redemption, with Robert Duvall giving one of his finest performances. Also appearing is Betty Buckley as Duvall’s ex-wife, a Dolly Parton-type country star, and Wilford Brimley as Duvall’s former manager. —Allmovie

 

THE BIG CHILL (1983)

Director : Lawrence Kasdan
Writer : Lawrence Kasdan (written by) & Barbara Benedek (written by)
Genre : Comedy | Drama
Main Cast : Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt

Plot : A group of friends who attended the University of Michigan together in the 1960′s convene for the funeral of one from their group, Alex, who committed suicide. The group, each now in their thirties, have kept in touch over the years, but have drifted somewhat apart as their respective lives changed. Their individual ideals have also changed from their socially conscious and radical days in college, to where they mostly now live outwardly comfortable and financially lucrative lives. With Alex’s young and socially naive girlfriend, Chloe, added to the mix, the friends spend the weekend together at married couple Harold and Sarah’s house in South Carolina following the funeral. Especially in light of Alex’s suicide, the friends discuss their lives and collective relationships with each other, then and now. —IMDb

 

 

 

THE DRESSER (1983)

Director : Peter Yates
Writer : Ronald Harwood (screenplay)
Genre : Drama
Main Cast : Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Edward Fox, Zena Walker

Plot : In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand – the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London blitz. The pathos of his backstage efforts rival the pathos in the story of Lear and the Fool that is being presented on-stage, as the situation comes to a crisis. —IMDb

 

 

 

THE RIGHT STUFF (1983)

Director : Philip Kaufman
Writer : Tom Wolfe (book), Philip Kaufman (screenplay)
Genre : Adventure | Drama | History
Main Cast : Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid

Plot : The first seven Mercury astronauts: we go behind the prepackaged, unblemished saints we knew through the media to find imperfect human beings who were actually even more heroic. The astronauts are heroes, no doubt about it. As space pioneer Chuck Yaeger bitterly points out, these men all knew the risks they were taking as they rode their primitive capsules into space. They knew they were powered by rockets that could explode them into the tiniest of atoms. There were the fierce fires of re-entry that could reduce them to cinders, as well as the possibility of no re-entry, leaving them to perish miserably in their orbits. Yet these men eagerly took those risks. They were made of the right stuff. —IMDb

 

 

 

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM WINNER 1984

FANNY OCH ALEXANDER (1982)

Also Known As : Fanny And Alexander
Country : Sweden
Director : Ingmar Bergman
Writer : Ingmar Bergman (written by)
Genre : Drama | Fantasy | Mystery
Main Cast : Pernilla Allwin, Bertil Guve, Börje Ahlstedt, Allan Edwall

Plot : The title characters are children in the exuberant and colorful Ekdahl household in a Swedish town early in the twentieth century. Their parents, Oscar and Emilie, are the director and the leading lady of the local theatre company. Oscar’s mother and brother are its chief patrons. After Oscar’s early death, his widow marries the bishop and moves with her children to his austere and forbidding chancery. The children are immediately miserable. The film dramatizes and resolves those conflicts. A sub-plot features Isak, a local Jewish merchant who is the grandmother’s lover and whose odd household becomes the children’s refuge. —IMDb

 

 

 

 

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CARMEN (1983)

Also Known As : Carmen
Country : Spain
Director : Carlos Saura
Writer : Prosper Mérimée (novel), Carlos Saura (scenario)
Genre : Drama | Music | Musical | Romance
Main Cast : Antonio Gades, Laura del Sol, Paco de Lucía, Marisol

Plot : While rehearing Carmen of Bizet, the middle-aged choreographer Antonio brings the sexy Carmen to perform the lead role. Antonio falls in love for Carmen, who is an independent and seductive woman incapable to accept a possessive love. When Carmen has an affair with another dancer, Antonio is consumed by his jealousy like D. José in the original opera, entwining fiction with reality. —IMDb

 

 

 

ENTRE NOUS (1983)

Also Known As : At First Sight
Country : France
Director : Diane Kurys
Writer : Diane Kurys (scenario and dialogue), Diane Kurys (adaptation) et al.
Genre : Biography | Drama | War
Main Cast : Miou-Miou, Isabelle Huppert, Guy Marchand, Jean-Pierre Bacri

Plot : In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor, gets pregnant, and marries him. Lena and Madeleine meet at their children’s school in Lyon in 1952 and the intensity of their relationship strains both their marriages to the breaking point. —IMDb

 

 

 

JÓB LÁZADÁSA (1983)

Also Known As : Revolt Of Job
Country : Hungary
Director : Imre Gyöngyössy, Barna Kabay
Writer : Imre Gyöngyössy (writer), Katalin Gyöngyössy (writer)
Genre : Drama
Main Cast : Hédi Temessy, Ferenc Zenthe, Gábor Fehér, Heinrich Starhemberg

Plot : Originally titled Jób Lázadása, the German-Hungarian The Revolt of Job is set in Nazi-occupied Eastern Hungary in 1943. Like his Biblical namesake, the elderly Job (Ferenc Zenthe) has had his strength and patience sorely tested. None of the children borne by Job’s wife Roza (Hedi Temesay) have survived to adulthood. In a last-ditch effort to preserve his name, Job unofficially adopts a 7-year-old boy (Gabor Fehrer). It takes a while for the boy and his new “parents” to get used to each other, but eventually a strong, solid bond is formed. But while the bond cannot be broken spiritually, it can be severed physically: Job and his wife are Jewish, thus it is only a matter of time before the Nazis cart them off to death camps. Just before bidding farewell to his foster son, Job advises the boy to keep his faith alive by searching for the true Messiah. Director Imre Gyongyossy deftly tells his tale from a child’s-eye point of view–even when dealing in the frankest of sexual matters. —Allmovie

 

 

 

LE BAL (1983)

Also Known As : Ballando Ballando (Italy)
Country : Algeria
Director : Ettore Scola
Writer : Jean-Claude Penchenat (idea), Ruggero Maccari (screenplay) et al.
Genre : History | Musical
Main Cast : Étienne Guichard, Régis Bouquet, Francesco De Rosa, Arnault LeCarpentier

Plot : A unique look at the history of 20th century France as illustrated in popular culture, Le Bal is set in a Parisian dance hall and features no narrative, no dialogue, and no continuous characters. The film moves from one dance number to the next, as the music reflects the political and cultural tenor of the times, from the Popular Front of 1936 to the German Occupation of World War II, on to the breezy openness of the post-war era and the open rebellion and turmoil of May 1968, and finally closing in the early 1980s. A troupe of dancers portrays all the film’s characters, with make-up and costume changes (as well as appropriate period music) indicating the different time periods. Directed by Ettore Scola, Le Bal was based on a stage production that was a great success in Europe. —Allmovie