Oscar Nominations and Winners (1983)

Best Picture

• The Big Chill
• The Dresser
• The Right Stuff
• Tender Mercies
• Terms of Endearment

Best Director

• Peter Yates (The Dresser)
• Ingmar Bergman (Fanny & Alexander)
• Mike Nichols (Silkwood)
• Bruce Beresford (Tender Mercies)
• James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

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

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

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

Best Actress in a Leading Role

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

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Cher (Silkwood)
• Glenn Close (The Big Chill)
• Linda Hunt (The Year of Living Dangerously)
• Amy Irving (Yentl)
• Alfre Woddard (Cross Creek)

Best Adapted Screenplay

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

Best Original Screenplay

• The Big Chill (Lawrence Kasdan)
• Fanny & Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
• Silkwood (Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen)
• Tender Mercies (Horton Foote)
• Wargames (Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes)

Best Foreign Language Film

• Carmen (Spain)
• Entre Nous (France)
• Fanny & Alexander (Sweden)
• Job's Revolt (Hungary)
• Le Bal (Algeria)

Art Direction

• Fanny & Alexander
• Return of the Jedi
• The Right Stuff
• Terms of Endearment
• Yentl

Cinematography

• Fanny & Alexander
• Flashdance
• The Right Stuff
• Wargames
• Zelig

Costume Design

• Cross Creek
• Fanny & Alexander
• Heart Like a Wheel
• The Return of Martin Guerre
• Zelig

Documentary Feature

• Children of Darkness
• First Contact
• He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin'
• The Profession of Arms (War Series Film #3)
• Seeing Red

Documentary Short Subject

• Flamenco at 5:15
• In the Nuclear Shadow: What Can the Children Tell Us?
• Sewing Woman
• Spaces: The Archetecture of Paul Rudolph
• You Are Free (Ihr Zent Frei)

Film Editing

• Blue Thunder
• Flashdance
• The Right Stuff
• Silkwood
• Terms of Endearment

Original Score

• Cross Creek (Leonard Rosenman)
• Return of the Jedi (John Williams)
• The Right Stuff (Bill Conti)
• Terms of Endearment (Michael Gore)
• Under Fire (Jerry Goldsmith)

Adaptation Score

• The Sting II (Lalo Schifrin)
• Trading Places (Elmer Bernstein)
• Yentl (Michel Legrand, Alan and Marilyn Bergman)

Original Song

• "Flashdance...What a Feeling" (Flashdance) Music by Giorgio Moroder. Lyrics by Keith Forsey and Irene Cara.
• "Maniac" (Flashdance) Music and Lyrics by Michael Sembello and Dennis Matkosky.
• "Over You" (Tender Mercies) Music and Lyrics by Austin Roberts and Bobby Hart.
• "Papa, Can You Hear Me" (Yentl) Music by Michel Legrand. Lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman.
• "The Way He Makes Me Feel" (Yentl) Music by Michel Legrand. Lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman.

Animated Short Film

• Mickey's Christmas Carol
• Sound of Sunshine - Sound of Rain
• Sundae in New York

Live Action Short Film

• Boys and Girls
• Goodie-Two-Shoes
• Overnight Sensation

Sound

• Never Cry Wolf
• Return of the Jedi
• The Right Stuff
• Terms of Endearment
• Wargames

Sound Editing

• Return of the Jedi
• The Right Stuff