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Best Picture
 THE BIG CHILL - Carson Productions Group, Columbia. Produced by Michael Shamberg.
THE DRESSER - Goldcrest/Television Limited/World Film Services, Columbia. Produced by Peter Yates.
THE RIGHT STUFF - Chartoff-Winkler, Ladd Company, Warner Bros. Produced by Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff.
TENDER MERCIES - EMI-Antron Media, Universal/AFD. Produced by Philip S. Hobel.
 TERMS OF ENDEARMENT (Won 5 Awards) - Brooks, Paramount. Produced by James L. Brooks.
Actor
Tom Courtenay in THE DRESSER
Michael Caine in EDUCATING RITA
Tom Conti in REUBEN, REUBEN
Robert Duvall in TENDER MERCIES
Albert Finney in THE DRESSER
Actress
Jane Alexander in TESTAMENT
Shirley MacLaine in TERMS OF ENDEARMENT
Meryl Streep in SILKWOOD
Julie Walters in EDUCATING RITA
Debra Winger in TERMS OF ENDEARMENT
Supporting Actor
Charles Durning in TO BE OR NOT TO BE
John Lithgow in TERMS OF ENDEARMENT
Jack Nicholson in TERMS OF ENDEARMENT
Sam Shepard in THE RIGHT STUFF
Rip Torn in CROSS CREEK
Supporting Actress
Cher in SILKWOOD
Glenn Close in THE BIG CHILL
Linda Hunt in THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY
Amy Irving in YENTL
Alfre Woodard in CROSS CREEK
Director
Peter Yates for THE DRESSER
Ingmar Bergman for FANNY & ALEXANDER
Mike Nichols for SILKWOOD
Bruce Beresford for TENDER MERCIES
James L. Brooks for TERMS OF ENDEARMENT
Writing: Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Lawrence Kasdan & Barbara Benedek - THE BIG CHILL
Ingmar Bergman - FANNY & ALEXANDER
Horton Foote - TENDER MERCIES
Nora Ephron & Alice Arlen - SILKWOOD
Lawrence Lasker & Walter F. Parkes WARGAMES
Writing: Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
Harold Pinter - BETRAYAL
Ronald Harwood - THE DRESSER
Willy Russell - EDUCATING RITA
Julius J. Epstein - REUBEN, REUBEN
James L. Brooks - TERMS OF ENDEARMENT
Foreign Language Film
CARMEN (Spain)
COUP DE FOUDRE (ENTRE NOUS, France)
FANNY OCH ALEXANDER (Sweden)
JÓB LÁZADÁSA (JOB'S REVOLT, Hungary)
LE BAL (Algeria)
Art Direction/Set Decoration
Anna Asp - Art Direction FANNY & ALEXANDER
Norman Reynolds, Fred Hole & James Schoppe - Art Direction, Michael Ford - Set Decoration RETURN OF THE JEDI
Geoffrey Kirkland, Richard J. Lawrence, W. Stewart Campbell
& Peter Romero - Art Direction, Pat Pending & George R. Nelson - Set Decoration THE RIGHT STUFF
Polly Platt & Harold Michelson - Art Direction, Tom Pedigo & Anthony Mondell - Set Direction TERMS OF ENDEARMENT
Roy Walker & Leslie Tomkins - Art Direction, Tessa Davies - Set Decoration YENTL
Cinematography
Sven Nykvist - FANNY & ALEXANDER
Don Peterman FLASHDANCE
Caleb Deschanel - THE RIGHT STUFF
William A. Fraker - WARGAMES
Gordon Willis - ZELIG
Costume Design
Joe I. Tompkins - CROSS CREEK
Marik Vos - FANNY & ALEXANDER
William Ware Theiss - HEART LIKE A WHEEL
Anne-Marie Marchand - LA RETOUR DE MARTIN GUERRE (THE RETURN OF MARTIN GUERRE)
Santo Loquasto - ZELIG
Documentary (Features)
Richard Kotuk & Ara Chekmayan - Producers CHILDREN OF DARKNESS
Bob Connolly & Robin Anderson - Producers FIRST CONTACT
Emile Ardolino - Producer HE MAKES ME FEEL LIKE DANCIN'
Michael Bryans & Tina Viljoen - Producers THE PROFESSION OF ARMS (War Series Film #3)
James Klein & Julia Reichert - Producers SEEING RED: STORIES OF AMERICAN COMMUNISTS
Documentary (Short Subjects)
Cynthia Scott & Adam Symansky - Producers FLAMENCO AT 5:15
Vivienne Verdon & Eric Thiermann - Producers IN THE NUCLEAR SHADOW: WHAT CAN THE CHILDREN TELL US?
Arthur Dong - Producer SEWING WOMAN
Robert Eisenhardt - Producer SPACES: THE ARCHITECTURE OF PAUL RUDOLPH
Dea Brokman & Ilene Landis - Producers YOU ARE FREE
Film Editing
Frank Morriss & Edward Abroms - BLUE THUNDER
Bud Smith & Walt Mulconery - FLASHDANCE
Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Stephen A. Rotter, Douglas Stewart & Tom Rolf - THE RIGHT STUFF
Sam O'Steen - SILKWOOD
Richard Marks - TERMS OF ENDEARMENT
Make-Up
No award given for 1983.
Music: Original Score
Leonard Rosenman - CROSS CREEK
John Williams - RETURN OF THE JEDI
Bill Conti - THE RIGHT STUFF
Michael Gore - TERMS OF ENDEARMENT
Jerry Goldsmith - UNDER FIRE
Music: Original Song Score or Adaptation Score
Lalo Schifrin - Adaptation Score THE STING II
Elmer Bernstein - Adaptation Score TRADING PLACES
Michel Legrand, Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman - Original Song Score YENTL
Music: Song
Giorgio Moroder - Music, Keith Forsey & Irene Cara - Lyric FLASHDANCE "Flashdance ... What a Feeling" 
Michael Sembello & Dennis Matkosky - Music & Lyric FLASHDANCE "Maniac"
Austin Roberts & Bobby Hart - Music & Lyric TENDER MERCIES "Over You"
Michel Legrand - Music, Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman - Lyric YENTL "Papa, Can You Hear Me?"
Michel Legrand - Music, Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman - Lyric YENTL "The Way He Makes Me Feel"
Sound
Alan R. Splet, Todd Boekelheide, Randy Thom & David Parker - NEVER CRY WOLF
Ben Burtt, Gary Summers, Randy Thom & Tony Dawe - RETURN OF THE JEDI
Mark Berger, Tom Scott, Randy Thom & David MacMillan - THE RIGHT STUFF
Donald O. Mitchell, Rick Kline, Kevin O'Connell & Jim Alexander - TERMS OF ENDEARMENT
Michael J. Kohut, Carlos DeLarios, Aaron Rochin & Willie D. Burton - WARGAMES
Sound Effects Editing
Ben Burtt - RETURN OF THE JEDI
Jay Boekelheide - THE RIGHT STUFF
Visual Effects
See Special Achievement Awards
Special Achievement Award
Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Ken Ralston & Phil Tippett - Visual Effects RETURN OF THE JEDI
Short Films (Animated)
Burny Mattinson - Producer MICKEY'S CHRISTMAS CAROL
Eda Godel Hallinan - Producer SOUND OF SUNSHINE - SOUND OF RAIN
James Picker - Producer SUNDAE IN NEW YORK
Short Films (Live Action)
Janice L. Platt - Producer BOYS AND GIRLS
Ian Emes - Producer GOODIE TWO SHOES
Jon N. Bloom - Producer OVERNIGHT SENSATION
Scientific Or Technical Awards
Academy Award Of Merit (Statuette)
Dr. Kurt Larche (Osram GmbH) - For the research and development of xenon short-arc discharge lamps for motion picture projection.
Scientific and Engineering Award (Plaque)
 Jonathan Erland & Roger Dorney (Apogee Incorporated) - For the engineering and development of a reverse bluescreen traveling matte process for special effects photography.
Gerald Turpin (Lightflex International Limited) - For the design, engineering and development of an on-camera device providing contrast control, sourceless fill light and special effects for motion picture photography.
Gunnar P. Michelson - For the engineering and development of an improved, electronic, high-speed, precision light valve for use in motion picture printing machines.
Technical Achievement Award (Citation)
 William G. Krokaugger (Mole-Richardson Company) - For the design and engineering of a portable, 12,000 watt, lighting-control dimmer for use in motion picture production.
Charles L. Watson, Larry L. Langrehr & John H. Steiner - For the development of the BHP (electro-mechanical) fader for use on continuous motion picture contact printers.
Elizabeth D. De La Mare (De La Mare Engineering Inc.) - For the progressive development and continuous research of special effects pyrotechnics originally designed by Glenn W. De La Mare for motion picture production.
Douglas Fries, John Lacey & Michael Sigrist - For the design and engineering of a 35mm reflex conversion camera system for special effects photography.
Jack Cashin (Ultra-Stereo Labs Incorporated) - For the engineering and development of a 4-channel, stereophonic, decoding system for optical motion picture sound track reproduction.
David J. Degenkolb - For the design and development of an automated device used in the silver recovery process in motion picture laboratories.
Honorary and Other Awards
Hal Roach - In recognition of his unparalleled record of distinguished contributions to the motion picture art form. Winner presented a Statuette.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
No award given for 1983.
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
M. J. Frankovich
Gordon E. Sawyer Award
Dr. John G. Frayne - For technical contributions that have brought credit to the motion picture industry.
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FIRSTS
· Best Supporting Actress Linda Hunt is the first person to win for playing someone of the opposite sex.
· Julie Walters nominated for film debut; James L. Brooks wins for his directing debut.
· Bergman's Fanny & Alexander wins 4 Awards, making it the winner of the most Oscars® for a foreign language film to date.
· Woody Allen and Francis Coppola's cinematographer Gordon Willis is finally nominated (Zelig). In a spectacular 7-year spell from 1971 to 1977, seven of the films that he worked on as D.P. accumulated 39 Oscar® nominations with 19 wins. Among these wins were three Best Picture winners (The Godfather, The Godfather, Part II and Annie Hall), and six for acting.
· The Oscar® Show beats its own record, running three hours and forty-two minutes.
RULE CHANGES
· "Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score" becomes "Original Song Score or Adaptation Score."
SINS OF OMISSION
Picture: Yentl
Director: Barbra Streisand - Yentl, Philip Kaufman - The Right Stuff
Foreign Film: And the Ship Sails On (Italy)
ROLE REVERSALS
· Oscar® winners Anne Bancroft and Louise Fletcher were talked to about playing the domineering mother in Terms of Endearment, but 4-time nominee Shirley MacLaine got the part because, in James L. Brooks' words, "In all that time, she was the only one who ever saw it as a comedy."
· Sissy Spacek was originally slated to play the daughter in Terms. And, if Burt Reynolds hadn't had a prior commitment, he would probably have played the ex-astronaut neighbor.
UNMENTIONABLES
· Misjudged by the public as a documentary about the early days of the US manned space program, The Right Stuff thudded at the box office.
· Horton Foote wrote Tender Mercies for his friend Robert Duvall and the film was made for $5 million in 35 days.
· Rejected by the Ladd Co., writers Lawrence Kasdan and Barbara Benedek found financing for The Big Chill at Johnny Carson's production company, which arranged for Columbia to distribute.
· Mariel Hemingway wanted the role of Dorothy Stratten in Bob Fosse's Star 80, but he told her she was deficient in the boob department. So, she went out and got some. Fosse gave her the part, and she did a 10-page spread in Playboy.
· Jennifer Jones had originally bought the film rights to Larry McMurtry's Terms of Endearment as a vehicle for herself. She hired James L. Brooks to craft a screenplay. He envisioned a film without Jennifer Jones in it and persuaded Paramount to buy the film rights from her.
· Mike Nichols came backstage during Cher's appearance on Broadway in Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean and asked her to costar as Meryl Streep's lesbian roommate in Silkwood. Her reaction? "I think at that moment I lost my hearing first, then my vision."
· Having optioned the rights to Isaac Bashevis Singer's short story "Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy" in 1968, Barbra Streisand threw herself into writing, directing, producing and starring in it - as a musical. When Hollywoodites carped that she was becoming too ambitions, Bette Davis reminded her, "It's only the best fruit the birds pick at."
· Bonnie Bedelia and Jane Alexander both had strong starring roles in films that flopped. Bedelia played Shirley Muldowney, America's first female championship drag racer in Heart Like a Wheel, and Alexander portrayed a mother surviving nuclear attack in Testament. The only problem was that nobody wanted to see a movie about drag racing or about nuclear holocaust.
· After the nominations were announced and Streisand's name was not on the list of Picture, Actress or Director nominees, several groups protested against her exclusion by the Academy. Johnny Carson quipped, "Now Barbra Streisand really knows the meaing of The Big Chill."
· "I guess it's me against the limeys," Best Actor nominee Robert Duvall jested with the New York Daily News when he discovered that his fellow nominees were all British.
· The Awards Show telecast got off to a bad start when the opening TV shot of arriving guests was upside down.
· It was half-an-hour into the show before the first Award was presented.
· Best Actor Robert Duvall didn't enjoy to the Governors' Ball. He wanted to come with his friends, but the Academy said there wasn't enough food. So, Duvall joined his companions for some hamburgers over at Johnny Cash's house.
· After the broadcast, the Board of Governors was inundated with phone calls from friends informing them how lousy and long the show was. TV Guide pointed out that the TV ratings dropped this year and chastised the Academy, "Film is a lively art. It does not deserve a deadly awards show."
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