Oscar Rewrite: 1984

 

Best Picture: Amadeus

Best Director: Milos Forman (Amadeus) James Cameron (The Terminator)

Best Actor: F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus) Eddie Murphy (Beverly Hills Cop)

Best Actress: Sally Field (Places in the Heart) Eszter Balint (Stranger Than Paradise)

Best Supporting Actor: Haing Ngor (Killing Fields) Robert Englund (A Nightmare on Elm Street)

Best Supporting Actress: Peggy Ashcroft (Passage to India) Sigourney Weaver (Ghostbusters)

Best Original Screenplay: Places in the Heart   This is Spinal Tap

Best Adapted Screenplay: Amaadeus   The Natural

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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