1982 Alternate Oscars

Best Picture of 1982

★ Blade Runner

Diner

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

ƒ Fanny and Alexander

✔ Gandhi

Sophie's Choice

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

The Thing

Tootsie

Victor/Victoria

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Best Actor of 1982

Harrison Ford (Blade Runner)

★ Dustin Hoffman (Tootsie)

✔ Ben Kingsley (Gandhi)

Paul Newman (The Verdict)

Kurt Russell (The Thing)

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Best Actress of 1982

Julie Andrews (Victor/Victoria)

Jessica Lange (Frances)

★ ✔ Meryl Streep (Sophie's Choice)

Debra Winger (An Officer and a Gentleman and Cannery Row)

Rosel Zech (Veronika Voss)

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Best Director of 1982

✔ Richard Attenborough (Gandhi)

Ingmar Bergman (Fanny and Alexander)

Barry Levinson (Diner)

★ Ridley Scott (Blade Runner)

Steven Spielberg (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1982

Charles Durning (Tootsie and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas)

✔ Louis Gossett, Jr. (An Officer and a Gentleman)

★ Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner)

Sean Penn (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)

Robert Preston (Victor/Victoria)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1982

Ellen Barkin (Diner)

Teri Garr (Tootsie)

✔ Jessica Lange (Tootsie)

Heather O'Rourke (Poltergeist)

★ Lesley Ann Warren (Victor/Victoria)

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Special Award

Hampton Fancher and David Webb Peoples, from the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (Blade Runner) (adapted screenplay)

Vangelis (Blade Runner) (score)

Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse (Victor/Victoria) (song score)

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My choices are noted with a ★. A tie is indicated with a ✪. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best foreign-language picture winners are noted with an ƒ.

A great year for science fiction ...

Postscript I'm home from the hospital, four days earlier than expected. The surgery was a complete success, and the recovery so far has, according to my surgeon, "obliterated the benchmark." Apparently my heretofore unknown superpower is fighting cancer.

My new stomach and I are still getting to know each other but so far so good. It looks like I'll be around to chat movies with you for a long, long time. Thanks so much to everyone for their good thoughts. — Mythical Monkey