The Eighties in America - Salem Press (2009)

Entertainment: Academy Awards

A title or name followed by an asterisk (*) indicates the presence of a full-length essay withinThe Eighties in
America.

1980
Best Picture:Ordinar y People
Best Actor: Robert De Niro,Raging Bull
Best Actress: Sissy Spacek,Coal Miner’s Daughter
Best Supporting Actor: Timothy Hutton,Ordinar y
People
Best Supporting Actress: Mary Steenburgen,
Melvin and Howard
Best Director: Robert Redford,Ordinar y People
Best Original Screenplay: Bo Goldman,Melvin and
Howard
Best Adapted Screenplay: Alvin Sargent,Ordinar y
People*
Best Cinematography: Geoffrey Unsworth and
Ghislain Cloquet,Tess

1981
Best Picture:Chariots of Fire
Best Actor: Henry Fonda,On Golden Pond
Best Actress: Katharine Hepburn,On Golden Pond
Best Supporting Actor: John Gielgud,Arthur
Best Supporting Actress: Maureen Stapleton,Reds
Best Director: Warren Beatty,Reds
Best Original Screenplay: Colin Welland,Chariots
of Fire
Best Adapted Screenplay: Ernest Thompson,On
Golden Pond*
Best Cinematography: Vittorio Storaro,Reds

1982
Best Picture:Gandhi
Best Actor: Ben Kingsley,Gandhi
Best Actress: Meryl Streep*,Sophie’s Choice
Best Supporting Actor: Louis Gossett, Jr.,An Officer
and a Gentleman
Best Supporting Actress: Jessica Lange,Tootsie
Best Director: Richard Attenborough,Gandhi
Best Original Screenplay: John Briley,Gandhi
Best Adapted Screenplay: Costa-Gavras and
Donald Stewart,Missing
Best Cinematography: Billy Williams and Ronny
Taylor,Gandhi

1983
Best Picture:Terms of Endearment*
Best Actor: Robert Duvall,Tender Mercies

Best Actress: Shirley MacLaine,Terms of

Endearment*

Best Supporting Actor: Jack Nicholson*,Terms of

Endearment*

Best Supporting Actress: Linda Hunt,The Year of

Living Dangerously

Best Director: James L. Brooks,Terms of

Endearment*

Best Original Screenplay: Horton Foote,Tender

Mercies

Best Adapted Screenplay: James L. Brooks,Terms of

Endearment*

Best Cinematography: Sven Nykvist,Fanny and

Alexander

1984

Best Picture:Amadeus

Best Actor: F. Murray Abraham,Amadeus

Best Actress: Sally Field,Places in the Heart

Best Supporting Actor: Haing S. Ngor,The Killing

Fields

Best Supporting Actress: Peggy Ashcroft,A Passage

to India

Best Director: Milos Forman,Amadeus

Best Original Screenplay: Robert Benton,Places in

the Heart

Best Adapted Screenplay: Peter Shaffer,Amadeus

Best Cinematography: Chris Menges,The Killing

Fields

1985

Best Picture:Out of Africa

Best Actor: William Hurt*,Kiss of the Spider

Woman*

Best Actress: Geraldine Page,The Trip to Bountiful

Best Supporting Actor: Don Ameche,Cocoon

Best Supporting Actress: Anjelica Huston,Prizzi’s

Honor

Best Director: Sydney Pollack,Out of Africa

Best Original Screenplay: Earl W. Wallace, William

Kelley, and Pamela Wallace,Witness

Best Adapted Screenplay: Kurt Luedtke,Out of

Africa

Best Cinematography: David Watkin,Out of Africa