56 Premios de la Academia

Award ceremony presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for achievement in filmmaking in 1983

56 Premios de la Academia
Fecha	9 de abril de 1984
Sitio	Dorothy Chandler Pavilion , Los Ángeles
Alojado por	Johnny Carson
Producido por	Jack Haley Jr.
Dirigido por	Marty Pasetta
Reflejos
Mejor imagen	Condiciones de cariño
Mayoría de premios	Términos de cariño (5)
Mayoría de nominaciones	Términos de cariño (11)
TV en los Estados Unidos
La red	A B C
Duración	3 horas, 42 minutos
Calificaciones	38.0 (calificaciones de Nielsen)
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Los premios 56 de la Academia se entregaron el 9 de abril de 1984 en el Dorothy Chandler Pavilion , Los Ángeles , con Johnny Carson como anfitrión . Esta ceremonia terminó con Sammy Davis Jr. y Liza Minnelli liderando a la multitud en " No hay negocios como el espectáculo " en homenaje a Ethel Merman , quien había muerto un mes y medio antes de la ceremonia. El Premio al Mejor Maquillaje no se otorgó este año. Si bien la ceremonia de este año fue la primera sin la recitación del procedimiento de votación de la Academia al comienzo de la transmisión, se trasladó a los créditos finales, los de la firma contable Price Waterhouse.aún se presentaron quiénes eran los responsables de tabular los resultados y guardar su secreto. ^[1]

Terms of Endearment ganó cinco premios, incluido el de Mejor Película. Otros ganadores fueron Fanny y Alexander y The Right Stuff con cuatro premios, Tender Mercies con dos y Boys and Girls , Flamenco a las 5:15 , Flashdance , He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin ' , Sundae en Nueva York , The Year of Living Dangerously y Yentl con uno.

Premios

Robert Duvall , ganador al mejor actor

Shirley MacLaine , ganadora de Mejor Actriz

Jack Nicholson , ganador del Mejor Actor de Reparto

Linda Hunt , ganadora de la Mejor Actriz de Reparto

Bill Conti , ganador de la mejor partitura original

Michel Legrand , co-ganador de la Mejor Música Original

Giorgio Moroder , co-ganador de Mejor Canción Original

Los ganadores se enumeran primero, resaltados en negrita e indicados con una doble daga ( ). ^{[2] [3]}

Mejor imagen	Mejor director
Términos de cariño - James L. Brooks , productor The Big Chill - Michael Shamberg , productor The Dresser - Peter Yates , productor The Right Stuff - Robert Chartoff e Irwin Winkler , productores Tender Mercies - Philip S. Hobel, productor	James L. Brooks – Terms of Endearment Peter Yates – The Dresser Ingmar Bergman – Fanny and Alexander Mike Nichols – Silkwood Bruce Beresford – Tender Mercies
Best Actor	Best Actress
Robert Duvall – Tender Mercies as Mac Sledge Michael Caine – Educating Rita as Prof. Frank Bryant Tom Conti – Reuben, Reuben as Gowan McGland Tom Courtenay – The Dresser as Norman Albert Finney – The Dresser as Sir	Shirley MacLaine – Terms of Endearment as Aurora Greenway Jane Alexander – Testament as Carol Wetherly Meryl Streep – Silkwood as Karen Silkwood Julie Walters – Educating Rita as Susan "Rita" White Debra Winger – Terms of Endearment as Emma Greenway-Horton
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Jack Nicholson – Terms of Endearment as Garrett Breedlove Charles Durning – To Be or Not to Be as S.S. Colonel Erhardt John Lithgow – Terms of Endearment as Sam Burns Sam Shepard – The Right Stuff as Chuck Yeager Rip Torn – Cross Creek as Marsh Turner	Linda Hunt – The Year of Living Dangerously as Billy Kwan Cher – Silkwood as Dolly Pelliker Glenn Close – The Big Chill as Sarah Cooper Amy Irving – Yentl as Hadass Vishkower Alfre Woodard – Cross Creek as Beatrice "Geechee"
Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen	Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
Tender Mercies – Horton Foote The Big Chill – Lawrence Kasdan and Barbara Benedek Fanny and Alexander – Ingmar Bergman Silkwood – Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen WarGames – Lawrence Lasker and Walter Parkes	Terms of Endearment – James L. Brooks based on the novel by Larry McMurtry Betrayal – Harold Pinter based on his play The Dresser – Ronald Harwood based on his play Educating Rita – Willy Russell based on his play Reuben, Reuben – Julius J. Epstein based on the play Spofford by Herman Shumlin
Best Foreign Language Film	Best Documentary Feature
Fanny and Alexander (Sweden) The Ball (Algeria) Carmen (Spain) Entre Nous (France) The Revolt of Job (Hungary)	He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' – Emile Ardolino Children of Darkness – Richard Kotuk and Ara Chekmayan First Contact – Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson The Profession of Arms – Michael Bryans and Tina Viljoen Seeing Red – James Klein and Julia Reichert
Best Documentary Short Subject	Best Live Action Short Film
Flamenco at 5:15 – Cynthia Scott and Adam Symansky In the Nuclear Shadow: What Can the Children Tell Us? – Vivienne Verdon-Roe and Eric Thiermann Sewing Woman – Arthur Dong Spaces: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph – Robert Eisenhardt You Are Free (Ihr Zent Frei) – Dea Brokman and Ilene Landis	Boys and Girls – Janice L. Platt Goodie-Two-Shoes – Ian Emes Overnight Sensation – Jon N. Bloom
Best Animated Short Film	Best Original Score
Sundae in New York – Jimmy Picker Mickey's Christmas Carol – Burny Mattinson Sound of Sunshine – Sound of Rain – Eda Godel Hallinan	The Right Stuff – Bill Conti Cross Creek – Leonard Rosenman Return of the Jedi – John Williams Terms of Endearment – Michael Gore Under Fire – Jerry Goldsmith
Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score	Best Original Song
Yentl – Song Score by Michel Legrand and Alan and Marilyn Bergman The Sting II – Adaptation Score by Lalo Schifrin Trading Places – Adaptation Score by Elmer Bernstein	"Flashdance... What a Feeling" from Flashdance – Music by Giorgio Moroder; Lyrics by Keith Forsey and Irene Cara "Maniac" from Flashdance – Music and Lyrics by Michael Sembello and Dennis Matkosky "Over You" from Tender Mercies – Music and Lyrics by Austin Roberts and Bobby Hart "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" from Yentl – Music by Michel Legrand; Lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman "The Way He Makes Me Feel" from Yentl – Music by Michel Legrand; Lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman
Best Sound	Best Sound Effects Editing
The Right Stuff – Mark Berger, Tom Scott, Randy Thom and David MacMillan Never Cry Wolf – Alan Splet, Todd Boekelheide, Randy Thom and David Parker Return of the Jedi – Ben Burtt, Gary Summers, Randy Thom and Tony Dawe Terms of Endearment – Donald O. Mitchell, Rick Kline, Kevin O'Connell and James R. Alexander WarGames – Michael J. Kohut, Carlos Delarios, Aaron Rochin and Willie D. Burton	The Right Stuff – Jay Boekelheide Return of the Jedi – Ben Burtt
Best Art Direction	Best Costume Design
Fanny and Alexander – Art Direction and Set Decoration: Anna Asp Return of the Jedi – Art Direction: Norman Reynolds, Fred Hole and James L. Schoppe; Set Decoration: Michael D. Ford The Right Stuff – Art Direction: Geoffrey Kirkland, Richard Lawrence, W. Stewart Campbell and Peter R. Romero; Set Decoration: Jim Poynter and George R. Nelson Terms of Endearment – Art Direction: Polly Platt and Harold Michelson; Set Decoration: Tom Pedigo and Anthony Mondello Yentl – Art Direction: Roy Walker and Leslie Tomkins; Set Decoration: Tessa Davies	Fanny and Alexander – Marik Vos Cross Creek – Joe I. Tompkins Heart Like a Wheel – William Ware Theiss The Return of Martin Guerre – Anne-Marie Marchand Zelig – Santo Loquasto
Best Cinematography	Best Film Editing
Fanny and Alexander – Sven Nykvist Flashdance – Donald Peterman The Right Stuff – Caleb Deschanel WarGames – William A. Fraker Zelig – Gordon Willis	The Right Stuff – Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Tom Rolf, Stephen A. Rotter, and Douglas Stewart Blue Thunder – Frank Morriss and Edward M. Abroms Flashdance – Bud S. Smith and Walt Mulconery Silkwood – Sam O'Steen Terms of Endearment – Richard Marks

Honorary Academy Award

• Hal Roach

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

• M. J. Frankovich

Special Achievement Academy Award

• Return of the Jedi – Richard Edlund, Dennis Muren, Ken Ralston and Phil Tippett for Visual Effects

Nomination announcements

The filmmakers and studio executives were very surprised by the five Academy Award nominations for Tender Mercies, which was released ten months before the nominations were announced and had received little campaigning. Universal Studios had already previously sold the video rights for Tender Mercies based on their lack of confidence in the film following poor test screenings; the studio was therefore unable to redistribute Tender Mercies after the Oscar nominations were announced, and cable companies ran the film on television one week before the Academy Award ceremony.^[4]

Ceremony

When screenwriter Horton Foote won a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for To Kill a Mockingbird, he was not present at the 1963 ceremony to collect it because he did not believe he was going to win and did not attend. As a result, Foote made sure he was present for the ceremony when he was nominated for Tender Mercies; he won that Oscar as well, this time for Best Original Screenplay.^[4]

This was the first awards show in history to use a computer-generated graphic timer clock to notify awardees how much time they had to give their speeches before time was up. The countdown clock was displayed on a large screen TV in front of the stage. It was controlled by the assistant director who had the discretion to activate it or not depending on the importance of the award and, for this show, was programmed for 30 seconds. This has since become a staple element of almost all award shows and is often followed up by the music when the awardee ignores the clock.

Presenters and performers

The following individuals, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers.

Presenters

Name	Role
Hank Simms	Announcer of the 56th Academy Awards
Gene Allen (AMPAS President)	Gave opening remarks welcoming guests to the awards ceremony
Timothy Hutton Mary Tyler Moore	Presenters of the award for Best Supporting Actor
Kevin Bacon Daryl Hannah	Presenters of the award for Best Sound Effects Editing
Jane Alexander Michael Caine	Presenters of the Short Subjects Awards
Joan Collins Arnold Schwarzenegger	Presenters of the Technical Achievement Awards
Robert Wise	Presenter of the award for Best Film Editing
Christie Brinkley Michael Keaton	Presenters of the award for Best Sound
Anthony Franciosa Joanna Pacula	Presenters of the award for Best Cinematography
John Gavin Jack Valenti	Presenters of the award for Best Foreign Language Film
Holly Palance Jack Palance	Presenters of the Documentary Awards
Cheech and Chong	Presenters of the award for Best Visual Effects
Tommy Tune Twiggy	Presenters of the award for Best Costume Design
Ricardo Montalbán Jane Powell	Presenters of the award for Best Art Direction
Jennifer Beals Matthew Broderick	Presenters of the award for Best Original Song
Ray Bolger Gene Kelly	Presenters of the award for Best Original Score
Neil Diamond	Presenter of the award for Best Adapted Score
Dyan Cannon Gene Hackman	Presenters of the award for Best Supporting Actress
Mel Gibson Sissy Spacek	Presenters of the Writing Awards
Frank Sinatra	Presenter of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to M. J. Frankovich
Richard Attenborough	Presenter of the award for Best Director
Jackie Cooper George McFarland	Presenters of the Honorary Award to Hal Roach
Dolly Parton Sylvester Stallone	Presenters of the award for Best Actor
Rock Hudson Liza Minnelli	Presenters of the award for Best Actress
Frank Capra	Presenter of the award for Best Picture

Performers

Name	Role	Performed
Quincy Jones	Musical arranger and conductor	Orchestral
Irene Cara The National Dance Institute	Performers	"Flashdance... What a Feeling" from Flashdance
Herb Alpert Lani Hall	Performers	"Maniac" from Flashdance
Mac Davis	Performer	"Over You" from Tender Mercies
Donna Summer	Performer	"Papa, Can You Hear Me?" from Yentl
Jennifer Holliday	Performer	"The Way He Makes Me Feel" from Yentl
Sammy Davis Jr. Liza Minnelli	Performers	"There's No Business Like Show Business"

Multiple nominations and awards

These films had multiple nominations: 11 nominations: Terms of Endearment 8 nominations: The Right Stuff 6 nominations: Fanny and Alexander 5 nominations: The Dresser, Silkwood, Tender Mercies and Yentl 4 nominations: Cross Creek, Flashdance and Return of the Jedi 3 nominations: The Big Chill, Educating Rita and WarGames 2 nominations: Reuben, Reuben and Zelig

The following films received multiple awards. 5 wins: Terms of Endearment 4 wins: Fanny and Alexander and The Right Stuff 2 wins: Tender Mercies

See also

• 41st Golden Globe Awards
• 4th Golden Raspberry Awards
• 1983 in film
• Submissions for the 56th Academy Award for Best Foreign Film
• 26th Grammy Awards
• 35th Primetime Emmy Awards
• 36th Primetime Emmy Awards
• 37th British Academy Film Awards
• 38th Tony Awards

References

1. The Opening of the Academy Awards: 1984 Oscars on YouTube. Retrieved March 2, 2016.
2. "The 56th Academy Awards (1984) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on 2014-11-11. Retrieved 2011-10-09.
3. "The Official Academy Awards Database". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Select "1983" in the "Award Year(s)" drop-down menu and press "Search".
4. Bruce Beresford, Robert Duvall, Horton Foote, Allan Hubbard, Gary Hertz (director), Tess Harper (2002-04-16). Miracles & Mercies (Documentary). West Hollywood, California: Blue Underground. Archived from the original on 2005-02-06. Retrieved 2008-01-28.

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