Oscar Rewrite: 1983

 

Best Picture: Terms of Endearment      The Right Stuff

Best Director: James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment) David Cronenberg (Videodrome)

Best Actor: Robert Duvall (Tender Mercies) Chevy Chase (National Lampoon’s Vacation)

Best Actress: Shirley MacLaine (Terms of Endearment)

Best Supporting Actor: Jack Nicholson (Terms of Endearment)

Best Supporting Actress: Linda Hunt (Year of Living Dangerously) Michelle Pfeiffer (Scarface)

Best Original Screenplay: Tender Mercies  The Big Chill

Best Adapted Screenplay: Terms of Endearment    A Christmas Story

Jason Fraley

Hailed by The Washington Post for “his savantlike ability to name every Best Picture winner in history," Jason Fraley began at WTOP as Morning Drive Writer in 2008, film critic in 2011 and Entertainment Editor in 2014, providing daily arts coverage on-air and online.

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