55th Annual Academy Awards
April 11, 1983

The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles

Your Hosts:
Walter Matthau, Liza Minnelli, Dudley Moore & Richard Pryor

Televised over ABC

Opening number - "It All Comes Down to This":Walter Matthau, Liza Minnelli, Dudley Moore & Richard Pryor
Welcome and opening remarks:Academy President Fay Kanin
Reading of Academy rules:Fast-talker John Moschitta (25 seconds)
Foreign Film:Luise Rainer & Jack Valenti
Supporting Actor:Susan Sarandon & Christopher Reeve
Makeup:Jane Russell & Cornel Wilde
Short Films:Kristy McNichol & Matt Dillon
Scoring Awards:Cher & Placido Domingo
Thalberg Award:Charlton Heston
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award:Charlton Heston
Costume Design:Steve Guttenberg & Ann Reinking
Visual Effects:Elizabeth McGovern & Eddie Murphy
Sound Effects Editing:Jamie Lee Curtis & Carl Weathers
Documentary Awards:JoBeth Williams & David Wolper
Art Direction:Margot Kidder & William Shatner
Cinematography:Nastassja Kinski & Michael Keaton
Honorary Award to Mickey Rooney:Bob Hope
Musical tribute to Irving Berlin:Bernadette Peters & Peter Allen
Sound:Lisa Eilbacher & David Keith
Film Editing:Tom Selleck & Raquel Welch
Song:Olivia Newton-John
Supporting Actress:Sigourney Weaver & Robert Mitchum
Screenplay Awards:Philip Dunne
Director:Billy Wilder
Actress:Sylvester Stallone
Actor:John Travolta
Best Picture:Carol Burnett
"Eye of the Tiger"-- Sandahl Bergman & The Temptations
"How Do You Keep the Music Playing?"-- Patti Austin & James Ingram
"If We Were in Love"-- Melissa Manchester
"It Might Be You"-- Stephen Bishop
"Up Where We Belong"-- Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes
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Ben Kingsley, Best Actor (Gandhi)
Meryl Streep, Best Actress (Sophie's Choice)
Louis Gossett Jr., Best Supporting Actor (An Officer and a Gentleman, w. presenters Christopher Reeve & Susan Sarandon)
Mickey Rooney, Honorary Award
John Williams, Original Score (w. presenters Cher & Placido Domingo)

Henry Mancini, Adapted Score (w. presenter Cher)
Show Producer:Howard W. Koch
Telecast Director for ABC:Marty Pasetta