1983 Alternate Oscars

Best Picture of 1983

The Big Chill

A Christmas Story

Local Hero

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

Return of the Jedi

★ The Right Stuff

Scarface

✔ Terms of Endearment

Trading Places

Zelig

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Best Actor of 1983

Peter Billingsley (A Christmas Story)

Michael Caine (Educating Rita)

✔ Robert Duvall (Tender Mercies)

★ Eddie Murphy (Trading Places)

Al Pacino (Scarface)

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Best Actress of 1983 (Poll Closed)

• Jane Alexander (Testament)  10.53%  (14 votes)  
   
• ✔ Shirley MacLaine (Terms of Endearment)  33.83%  (45 votes)  
   
• Meryl Streep (Silkwood)  9.77%  (13 votes)  
   
• Julie Walters (Educating Rita)  8.27%  (11 votes)  
   
• ★ Debra Winger (Terms of Endearment)  37.59%  (50 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 133

 

Best Director of 1983 (Poll Closed)

• Woody Allen (Zelig)  4.17%  (3 votes)  
   
• ✔ James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment)  30.56%  (22 votes)  
   
• Bob Clark (A Christmas Story)  8.33%  (6 votes)  
   
• Bill Forsyth (Local Hero)  4.17%  (3 votes)  
   
• ★ Philip Kaufman (The Right Stuff)  52.77%  (38 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 72

 

Best Supporting Actor of 1983

Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy (Trading Places)

Jerry Lewis (The King of Comedy)

★ Darren McGavin (A Christmas Story)

✔ Jack Nicholson (Terms of Endearment)

Sam Shepard (The Right Stuff)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1983

Sandra Bernhard (The King of Comedy)

Jamie Lee Curtis (Trading Places)

Rebecca De Mornay (Risky Business)

Melinda Dillon (A Christmas Story)

★ ✔ Linda Hunt (The Year Of Living Dangerously)

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Special Award

Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown & Bob Clark, from the novel In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd (A Christmas Story) (adapted screenplay)

The Leg Lamp (A Christmas Story) (best major award)

Bill Conti (The Right Stuff) (score)

John Barry (High Road to China) (best score to listen to while flying with Island Wings Air Service over the Misty Fjords National Monument in Alaska)

"Every Sperm is Sacred" (Monty Python's The Meaning of Life) music by Andre Jacquemin & Dave Howman; lyrics by Michael Palin & Terry Jones (song)

The Big Chill (best soundtrack)

WarGames (good movie, bad video game)

"It was the Dukes! It was the Dukes!! It was the Dukes!!!" (Trading Places) (who were the worst employers of all time)

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My choices are noted with a ★. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔.

I think I was one of twelve people who actually saw A Christmas Story in a theater back in 1983. But having been a fan of Jean Shepherd for years, there was no way I was going to miss it.

Rumor has it you can see A Christmas Story on cable television sometime around December 24th or 25th, but don't quote me.

By the way, in case you've never seen the 1976 PBS special Phantom of the Open Hearth, based on another of Shepherd's classic story collections Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories: and Other Disasters, here it is complete for your entertainment:



P.S. Am I the only person who sees the movie title Terms of Endearment and immediately thinks of Sterling Archer's "Terms of En-Rampagement"?