56TH ACADEMY AWARDS
April 9, 1984
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Hosted by Johnny Carson
BEST PICTURE
| “The Big Chill” |
| “The Dresser” |
| “The Right Stuff” |
| “Tender Mercies” |
| “Terms of Endearment” |
DIRECTOR
| Bruce Beresford – “Tender Mercies” |
| Ingmar Bergman – “Fanny and Alexander” |
| James L. Brooks – “Terms of Endearment” |
| Mike Nichols – “Silkwood” |
| Peter Yates – “The Dresser” |
ACTOR
| Michael Caine – “Educating Rita” |
| Tom Conti – “Reuben, Reuben” |
| Tom Courtenay – “The Dresser” |
| Robert Duvall – “Tender Mercies” |
| Albert Finney – “The Dresser” |
ACTRESS
| Jane Alexander – “Testament” |
| Shirley MacLaine – “Terms of Endearment” |
| Meryl Streep – “Silkwood” |
| Julie Walters – “Educating Rita” |
| Debra Winger – “Terms of Endearment” |
SUPPORTING ACTOR
| Charles Durning – “To Be or Not to Be” |
| John Lithgow – “Terms of Endearment” |
| Jack Nicholson – “Terms of Endearment” |
| Sam Shepard – “The Right Stuff” |
| Rip Torn – “Cross Creek” |
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
| Cher – “Silkwood” |
| Glenn Close – “The Big Chill” |
| Linda Hunt – “The Year of Living Dangerously” |
| Amy Irving – “Yentl” |
| Alfre Woodard – “Cross Creek” |
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
| “Betrayal” – Harold Pinter |
| “The Dresser” – Ronald Harwood |
| “Educating Rita” – Willy Russell |
| “Reuben, Reuben” – Julius J. Epstein |
| “Terms of Endearment” – James L. Brooks |
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
| “The Big Chill” – Lawrence Kasdan and Barbara Benedek |
| “Fanny and Alexander” – Ingmar Bergman |
| “Silkwood” – Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen |
| “Tender Mercies” – Horton Foote |
| “WarGames” – Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes |
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FEATURE
| “The Ball” (Algeria) |
| “Carmen” (Spain) |
| “Entre Nous” (France) |
| “Fanny and Alexander” (Sweden) |
| “Job’s Revolt” (Hungary) |
DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)
| “Children of Darkness” |
| “First Contact” |
| “He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin” |
| “The Profession of Arms” |
| “Seeing Red” |
DOCUMENTARY
(SHORT SUBJECT)
| “Flamenco at 5:15” |
| “In the Nuclear Shadow: What Can the Children Tell Us?” |
| “Sewing Woman” |
| “Spaces: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph” |
| “You Are Free Ihr Zent Frei” |
ANIMATED SHORT
| “Mickey’s Christmas Carol” |
| “Sound of Sunshine – Sound of Rain” |
| “Sundae in New York” |
LIVE ACTION SHORT
| “Boys and Girls” |
| “Goodie-Two-Shoes” |
| “Overnight Sensation” |
ART DIRECTION
| “Fanny and Alexander” – Anna Asp and Susanne Lingheim |
| “Return of the Jedi” – Norman Reynolds, Fred Hole and James Schoppe, and Michael Ford |
| “The Right Stuff” – Geoffrey Kirkland, Richard J. Lawrence, W. Stewart Campbell, Peter Romero, Pat Pending, and George R. Nelson |
| “Terms of Endearment” – Polly Platt, Harold Michelson, Tom Pedigo, and Anthony Mondell |
| “Yentl” – Roy Walker, Leslie Tomkins, and Tessa Davies |
CINEMATOGRAPHY
| “Fanny and Alexander” – Sven Nykvist |
| “Flashdance” – Don Peterman |
| “The Right Stuff” – Caleb Deschanel |
| “WarGames” – William A. Fraker |
| “Zelig” – Gordon Willis |
COSTUME DESIGN
| “Cross Creek” – Joe I. Tompkins |
| “Fanny and Alexander” – Marik Vos-Lundh |
| “Heart Like a Wheel” – William Ware Theiss |
| “The Return of Martin Guerre” – Anne-Marie Marchand |
| “Zelig” – Santo Loquasto |
FILM EDITING
| “Blue Thunder” – Frank Morriss and Edward Abroms |
| “Flashdance” – Bud Smith and Walt Mulconery |
| “The Right Stuff” – Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Stephen A. Rotter, Douglas Stewart and Tom Rolf |
| “Silkwood” – Sam O’Steen |
| “Terms of Endearment” – Richard Marks |
ORIGINAL SCORE
| “Cross Creek” – Leonard Rosenman |
| “Return of the Jedi” – John Williams |
| “The Right Stuff” – Bill Conti |
| “Terms of Endearment” – Michael Gore |
| “Under Fire” – Jerry Goldsmith |
ORIGINAL SONG SCORE OR ADAPTATION SCORE
| “The Sting II” – Lalo Schifrin |
| “Trading Places” – Elmer Bernstein |
| “Yentl” – Michel Legrand, Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman |
ORIGINAL SONG
| “Flashdance… What a Feeling” from “Flashdance” – Giorgio Moroder, Keith Forsey, and Irene Cara |
| “Maniac” from “Flashdance” – Michael Sembello and Dennis Matkosky |
| “Over You” from “Tender Mercies” – Austin Roberts and Bobby Hart |
| “Papa, Can You Hear Me?” from “Yentl” – Michel Legrand, Alan Bergman, and Marilyn Bergman |
| “The Way He Makes Me Feel” from “Yentl” – Michel Legrand, Alan Bergman, and Marilyn Bergman |
SOUND EDITING
| “Return of the Jedi” |
| “The Right Stuff” |
SOUND MIXING
| “Never Cry Wolf” |
| “Return of the Jedi” |
| “The Right Stuff” |
| “Terms of Endearment” |
| “WarGames” |
VISUAL EFFECTS
| “Return Of The Jedi” (Special Achievement) |
- “Betrayal”
- “The Big Chill”
- “Blue Thunder”
- “Cross Creek”
- “The Dresser”
- “Educating Rita”
- “Fanny and Alexander”
- “Flashdance”
- “Heart Like a Wheel”
- “Never Cry Wolf”
- “The Return of Martin Guerre”
- “Return of the Jedi”
- “Reuben, Reuben”
- “The Right Stuff”
- “Silkwood”
- “The Sting II”
- “Tender Mercies”
- “Terms of Endearment”
- “Testament”
- “To Be or Not to Be”
- “Trading Places”
- “Under Fire”
- “WarGames”
- “The Year of Living Dangerously”
- “Yentl”
- “Zelig”
FOREIGN
- “The Ball” (Algeria)
- “Carmen” (Spain)
- “Entre Nous” (France)
- “Job’s Revolt” (Hungary)
DOCUMENTARY
- “Children of Darkness”
- “First Contact”
- “He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin”
- “The Profession of Arms”
- “Seeing Red”
SHORT FILMS
- “Boys and Girls”
- “Flamenco at 5:15”
- “Goodie-Two-Shoes”
- “In the Nuclear Shadow: What Can the Children Tell Us?”
- “Mickey’s Christmas Carol”
- “Overnight Sensation”
- “Sewing Woman”
- “Sound of Sunshine – Sound of Rain”
- “Spaces: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph”
- “Sundae in New York”
- “You Are Free Ihr Zent Frei”
