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

BEST PICTURE 1986 WINNER

OUT OF AFRICA (1985)

Director : Sydney Pollack
Writer : Karen Blixen, Judith Thurman (book)
Genre : Adventure | Biography | Drama
Main Cast : Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer

Plot : Karen Blixen, a Danish woman, marries a friend for the title of Baroness and they move to Africa and start a coffee plantation. Things unfold when her husband begins cheating on her and is away on business often, so she’s at home alone, working on the farm and bonding with two men she met in her first day in Africa. She eventually falls in love with the one, Denys Finch-Hatton and goes on safari and whatnot with him. Later, she begins to want more from him than the simple friendship/relationship they have and pushes marriage, but Denys still wants his freedom. By the end, she’s gained a much better understanding and respect for the African culture than when she came. IMDb

 

OTHER NOMINEES

THE COLOR PURPLE (1985)

Director : Steven Spielberg
Writer : Alice Walker, Menno Meyjes
Genre : Drama
Main Cast : Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey

Plot : Epic drama of an African-American woman’s struggle to overcome poverty, adversity, and a marriage to brutal husband and eventually find her dignity in a period that spans over forty years from the turn-of-the-century

 

 

 

 

KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN (1985)

Director : Hector Babenco
Writer : Manuel Puig (novel), Leonard Schrader
Genre : Drama
Main Cast : William Hurt, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga

Plot : Luis Molina and Valentin Arregui are cell mates in a South American prison. Luis, a homosexual, is found guilty of immoral behaviour and Valentin is a political prisoner. To escape reality Luis invents romantic movies, while Valentin tries to keep his mind on the situation he’s in. During the time they spend together, the two men come to understand and respect one another. IMDb

 

 

 

 

PRIZZI’S HONOR (1985)

Director : John Huston
Writer : Richard Condon
Genre : Comedy | Crime | Drama
Main Cast : Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, Robert Loggia

Plot : Charley Partanna is a hit-man who works for the Prizzis, one of the richest crime syndicate families in the country. Unbeknownst to Charley,the Prizzis just hired Irene Walker, a free-lance killer, to eliminate someone who double-crossed them. When Irene and Charley fall in love their jobs become complicated. Their jobs become impossible when each is given a contract that neither can go through with. IMDb

 

 

 

WITNESS (1985)

Director : Peter Weir
Writer : William Kelley (story), Pamela Wallace
Genre : Drama | Romance | Thriller
Main Cast : Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Lukas Haas

Plot : Samuel Lap is a young Amish boy who witnesses a murder in Philadelphia while traveling with his mother Rachel. A good cop named John Book must go with them into hiding when the killers come after them. All three retreat to Amish country and Book has to adjust to the new life style, and his feelings for the boy’s mother. Of course the killers are still on their trail. IMDb

 

 

 

 

 

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM WINNER 1986

LA HISTORIA OFICIAL (1985)

Also Known As : The Official History
Country : Argentina
Director : Luis Puenzo
Writer : Aída Bortnik, Luis Puenzo
Genre : Drama | History | Thriller
Main Cast : Norma Aleandro, Héctor Alterio, Chunchuna Villafañe

Plot : Alicia Marnet de Ibáñez is a high school history professor and a well-to-do housewife in Buenos Aires, circa 1983, after the fall of the “junta militar” that had taken over the government since 1976. She has a husband, Roberto, who is a succesful lawyer and a five-year-old adopted daughter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

OTHER NOMINEES

BITTERE ERNTE (1985)

Also Known As : Angry Harvest
Country : West Germany
Director : Agnieszka Holland
Writer : Hermann H. Field, Paul Hengge
Genre : Drama | Romance | War
Main Cast : Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Wojciech Pszoniak

Plot : In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who’s now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cellar. Leon’s a middle-aged Catholic bachelor, tormented by his sexual drive. He doesn’t tell Rosa he’s seen signs her husband is alive, and he begs her to love him. Rosa offers herself to Leon if he’ll help a local Jew in hiding who needs money. Leon pays, and love between Rosa and him does develop, but then Leon’s peasant subservience and his limited empathy lead to tragedy. At the war’s end, a ray of sunshine comes from an unexpected place. IMDb

 

OBERST REDL (1985)

Also Known As : Colonel Redl
Country : Hungary
Director : István Szabó
Writer : Péter Dobai, John Osborne
Genre : Biography | Drama | History
Main Cast : Klaus Maria Brandauer, Hans Christian Blech, Armin Mueller-Stahl

Plot : Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl (Brandauer), an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only to become ensnared in political deception. IMDb

 

 

3 HOMMES ET UN COUFFIN (1985)

Also Known As : Three Men and a Cradle
Country : France
Director : Coline Serreau
Writer : Coline Serreau
Genre : Comedy
Main Cast : Roland Giraud, Michel Boujenah and André Dussollier

Plot : Pierre, Jacques and Michel are three free-living bachelors who share a luxury flat in Paris. Their routine is abruptly disrupted when a baby girl is deposited on their door step. Whilst Pierre, the unwitting father, enjoys a three week holiday in Thailand, his flatmates are left holding the fort, taking turns to look after the baby. To complicate matters, they then receive another strange package – a parcel containing hard drugs.

 

 

OTAC NA SLUZBENOM PUTU (1985)

Also Known As : When Father Was Away On Business
Country : Yugoslavia
Director : Emir Kusturica
Writer : Abdulah Sidran
Genre : Drama
Main Cast : Moreno D’E Bartolli, Miki Manojlovic and Mirjana Karanovic

Plot : Tito’s break-up with Stalin in 1948 marked the beginning of not only confusing, but also very dangerous years for many hard-core Yugoslav communists. A careless remark about the newspaper cartoon is enough for Mesha to join many arrested unfortunates. His family is now forced to cope with the situation and wait for his release from prison. The story is told from the perspective of Malik, his young son who believes the mother’s story about father being “away on business”.