56th Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1984)
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- Date of Ceremony: Monday, April 9, 1984
- For films released in: 1983
Here is a complete list of nominations for the 56th Annual Academy Awards.
And the nominees are:
Best Picture
- The Big Chill
Michael Shamberg [Producer] - The Dresser
Peter Yates [Producer] - The Right Stuff
Irwin Winkler [Producer] and Robert Chartoff [Producer] - Tender Mercies
Philip S. Hobel [Producer] - Terms of Endearment
James L. Brooks [Producer]
Best Directing
- The Dresser
Peter Yates - Fanny & Alexander
Ingmar Bergman - Silkwood
Mike Nichols - Tender Mercies
Bruce Beresford - Terms of Endearment
James L. Brooks
Best Actor in a Leading Role
- The Dresser
Tom Courtenay - The Dresser
Albert Finney - Educating Rita
Michael Caine - Reuben, Reuben
Tom Conti - Tender Mercies
Robert Duvall
Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Educating Rita
Julie Walters - Silkwood
Meryl Streep - Terms of Endearment
Shirley MacLaine - Terms of Endearment
Debra Winger - Testament
Jane Alexander
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- Cross Creek
Rip Torn - The Right Stuff
Sam Shepard - Terms of Endearment
John Lithgow - Terms of Endearment
Jack Nicholson - To Be or Not to Be
Charles Durning
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- The Big Chill
Glenn Close - Cross Creek
Alfre Woodard - Silkwood
Cher - The Year of Living Dangerously
Linda Hunt - Yentl
Amy Irving
Best Foreign Language Film
- Carmen
- Entre Nous
- Fanny & Alexander
- Job's Revolt
- Le Bal
Best Art Direction
- Fanny & Alexander
Anna Asp - Return of the Jedi
Norman Reynolds [Art Direction], Fred Hole [Art Direction], James Schoppe [Art Direction] and Michael Ford [Set Decoration] - The Right Stuff
Geoffrey Kirkland [Art Direction], Richard J. Lawrence [Art Direction], W. Stewart Campbell [Art Direction], Peter Romero [Art Direction], Pat Pending [Set Decoration] and George R. Nelson [Set Decoration] - Terms of Endearment
Polly Platt [Art Direction], Harold Michelson [Art Direction], Tom Pedigo [Set Decoration] and Anthony Mondello [Set Decoration] - Yentl
Roy Walker [Art Direction], Leslie Tomkins [Art Direction] and Tessa Davies [Set Decoration]
Best Cinematography
- Fanny & Alexander
Sven Nykvist - Flashdance
Don Peterman - The Right Stuff
Caleb Deschanel - WarGames
William A. Fraker - Zelig
Gordon Willis
Best Costume Design
- Cross Creek
Joe I. Tompkins - Fanny & Alexander
Marik Vos - Heart Like a Wheel
William Ware Theiss - The Return of Martin Guerre
Anne-Marie Marchand - Zelig
Santo Loquasto
Best Documentary (Feature)
- Children of Darkness
Richard Kotuk and Ara Chekmayan - First Contact
Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson - He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin'
Emile Ardolino - The Profession of Arms
Michael Bryans and Tina Viljoen - Seeing Red
James Klein and Julia Reichert
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
- Flamenco at 5:15
Cynthia Scott and Adam Symansky - In the Nuclear Shadow: What Can the Children Tell Us?
Vivienne Verdon-Roe and Eric Thiermann - Sewing Woman
Arthur Dong - Spaces: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph
Robert Eisenhardt - You Are Free (Ihr Zent Frei)
Dea Brokman and Ilene Landis
Best 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
Best Music (Original Score)
- Cross Creek
Leonard Roseman - Return of the Jedi
John Williams - The Right Stuff
Bill Conti - Terms of Endearment
Michael Gore - Under Fire
Jerry Goldsmith
Best Music (Original Song Score or Adaptation Score)
- The Sting II
Lalo Schifrin [Adaptation Score by] - Trading Places
Elmer Bernstein [Adaptation Score by] - Yentl
Michael Legrand [Song Score by], Alan Bergman [Song Score by] and Marilyn Bergman [Song Score by]
Best Music (Original Song)
- Flashdance "Flashdance...What a Feeling"
Giorgio Moroder [Music by], Keith Forsey [Lyric by] and Irene Cara [Lyric by] - Flashdance "Maniac"
Michael Sembello [Music and Lyric by] and Dennis Matkosky [Music and Lyric by] - Tender Mercies "Over You"
Austin Roberts [Music and Lyric by] and Bobby Hart [Music and Lyric by] - Yentl "Papa, Can You Hear Me?"
Michel Legrand [Music by], Alan Bergman [Lyric by] and Marilyn Bergman [Lyric by] - Yentl "The Way He Makes Me Feel"
Michel Legrand [Music by], Alan Bergman [Lyric by] and Marilyn Bergman [Lyric by]
Best Short Film (Animated)
- Mickey's Christmas Carol
Burny Mattinson - Sound of Sunshine - Sound of Rain
Eda Godel Hallinan - Sundae in New York
Jimmy Picker
Best Short Film (Live Action)
- Boys and Girls
Janice L. Platt - Goodie-Two-Shoes
Ian Emes - Overnight Sensation
Jon N. Bloom
Best Sound
- Never Cry Wolf
Alan R. Spelt, Todd Boekelheide, Randy Thom and David Parker - Return of the Jedi
Ben Burtt, Gary Summers, Randy Thom and Tony Dawe - The Right Stuff
Mark Berger, Tom Scott, Randy Thom and David R. B. MacMillan - Terms of Endearment
Donald O. Mitchell, Rick Kline, Kevin O'Connell and Jim Alexander - WarGames
Michael J. Kohut, Carlos de Larios, Aaron Rochin and Willie D. Burton
Best Sound Effects Editing
- Return of the Jedi
Ben Burtt - The Right Stuff
Jay Boekelheide
Best Writing (Screenplay - based on material from another medium)
- Betrayal
Harold Pinter - The Dresser
Ronald Harwood - Educating Rita
Willy Russell - Reuben, Reuben
Julius J. Epstein - Terms of Endearment
James L. Brooks
Best Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)
- The Big Chill
Lawrence Kasdan and Barbara Benedek - Fanny & Alexander
Ingmar Bergman - Silkwood
Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen - Tender Mercies
Horton Foote - WarGames
Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes