Oscar Awards:April 9, 1984

Host:Johnny Carson

Best Picture:

• Big Chill, The - Michael Shamberg
  
• Dresser, The - Peter Yates
  
• Right Stuff, The - Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff
  
• Tender Mercies - Philip Hobel
  
• Terms of Endearment - James L. Brooks
  

Best Actor:

• Michael Caine - Educating Rita
  
• Tom Conti - Reuben, Reuben
  
• Tom Courtenay - Dresser, The
  
• Robert Duvall - Tender Mercies
  
• Albert Finney - Dresser, The
  

Best Actress:

• Jane Alexander - Testament
  
• Shirley MacLaine - Terms of Endearment
  
• Meryl Streep - Silkwood
  
• Julie Walters - Educating Rita
  
• Debra Winger - Terms of Endearment
  

Best Supporting Actor:

• Charles Durning - To Be or Not to Be
  
• John Lithgow - Terms of Endearment
  
• Jack Nicholson - Terms of Endearment
  
• Sam Shepard - Right Stuff, The
  
• Rip Torn - Cross Creek
  

Best Supporting Actress:

• Cher - Silkwood
  
• Glenn Close - Big Chill, The
  
• Linda Hunt - Year of Living Dangerously, The
  
• Amy Irving - Yentl
  
• Alfre Woodard - Cross Creek
  

Best Director:

• Bruce Beresford - Tender Mercies
  
• Ingmar Bergman - Fanny och Alexander
  
• James L. Brooks - Terms of Endearment
  
• Mike Nichols - Silkwood
  
• Peter Yates - Dresser, The
  

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen:

• Big Chill, The - Lawrence Kasdan, Barbara Benedek
  
• Fanny och Alexander - Ingmar Bergman
  
• Silkwood - Nora Ephron, Alice Arlen
  
• Tender Mercies - Horton Foote
  
• WarGames - Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes
  

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium:

• Betrayal - Harold Pinter
  
• Dresser, The - Ronald Harwood
  
• Educating Rita - Willy Russell
  
• Reuben, Reuben - Julius J. Epstein
  
• Terms of Endearment - James L. Brooks
  

Best Cinematography:

• Fanny och Alexander - Sven Nykvist
  
• Flashdance - Donald Peterman
  
• Right Stuff, The - Caleb Deschanel
  
• WarGames - William A. Fraker
  
• Zelig - Gordon Willis
  

Best Music, Song:

• Flashdance - Giorgio Moroder (music), Keith Forsey (lyrics), Irene Cara (lyrics) For the song "Flashdance...What a Feeling".
  
• Flashdance - Michael Sembello, Dennis Matkosky For the song "Maniac".
  
• Tender Mercies - Roberts, Austin (III), Bobby Hart For the song "Over You".
  
• Yentl - Michel Legrand (music), Alan Bergman (lyrics), Marilyn Bergman (lyrics) For the song "Papa, Can You Hear Me?".
  
• Yentl - Michel Legrand (music), Alan Bergman (lyrics), Marilyn Bergman (lyrics) For the song "The Way He Makes Me Feel".
  

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