1982: Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (dir: Steven Spielberg)

2. Das Boot (dir: Wolfgang Peterson; US Release Date)

3. The Thing (dir: John Carpenter)

4. Stalker (dir: Andrei Tarkovsky; US Release Date)

5. Blade Runner (dir: Ridley Scott)

6. Fitzcarraldo (dir: Werner Herzog)

7. One from the Heart (dir: Francis Ford Coppola)

8. Cat People (dir: Paul Schrader)

9. The Atomic Cafe (dir: Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty and Pierce Rafferty)

10. Night of the Shooting Stars (dir: Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): 48 Hrs. (dir: Walter Hill), Chilly Scenes of Winter (dir: Joan Micklin Silver; re-cut/retitled release), Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (dir: Robert Altman), The Draughtsman's Contract (dir: Peter Greenaway), Fast Times at Ridgemont High (dir: Amy Heckerling), First Blood (dir: Ted Kotcheff), Koyaanisqatsi (dir: Geoffrey Reggio), Liquid Sky (dir: Slava Tsuckerman), The Road Warrior (dir: George Miller; US Release Date), Tenebre (dir: Dario Argento), Tootsie (dir: Sydney Pollack), Trance (dir: Ed Bianchi), The Verdict (dir: Sidney Lumet), Veronika Voss (dir: Rainier Werner Fassbinder), Vice Squad (dir: Gary Sherman), Victor Victoria (dir: Blake Edwards) and White Dog (dir: Samuel Fuller)

Best Film of the Year: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Director: Steven Spielberg Producer: Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg
US Distributor: Universal Pictures

Best Director:
Steven Spielberg, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 
2. Andrei Tarkovsky, Stalker
3. John Carpenter, The Thing
4. Ridley Scott, Blade Runner
5. Wolfgang Peterson, Das Boot

Best Actor:
Klaus Kinski, Fitzcarraldo
2. Paul Newman, The Verdict 
3. Dustin Hoffman, Tootsie
4. John Heard, Chilly Scenes of Winter
5. Harrison Ford, Blade Runner

Best Actress:
Meryl Streep, Sophie's Choice
2. Diane Keaton, Shoot the Moon
3. Julie Andrews, Victor Victoria
4. Nastassja Kinski, Cat People
5. Wilhelmenia Fernandez, Diva

Best Supporting Actor:
Eddie Murphy, 48 Hrs.
2. James Mason, The Verdict
3. Wings Hauser, Vice Squad
4. Michael Keaton, Night Shift
5. Robert Preston, Victor/Victoria

Best Supporting Actress:
Jennifer Jason Leigh, Fast Times at Ridgemont High
2. Mary Beth Hurt, Chilly Scenes of Winter
3. Claudia Cardinale, Fitzcarraldo
4. Rosanna Arquette, The Executioner's Song
5. Lindsay Crouse, The Verdict

Best Original Screenplay:
Night of the Shooting Stars — Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, Giuliani G. De Negri and Tonino Guerra
2. Liquid Sky – Slava Tsukerman, Anne Carlisle, and Nina V. Kerova
3. White Dog – Samuel Fuller, Curtis Hanson, and Romain Gary
4. Veronica Voss – Rainier Werner Fassbinder, Pea Frohlich and Peter Marthesheimer
5. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial – Melissa Mathieson

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Stalker — Arkadiy Strugatskiy, Boris Strugatskiy, and Andrei Tarkovsky
2. Cat People – Alan Ormsby and Paul Schrader
3. Fast Times at Ridgemont High – Cameron Crowe
4. Victor Victoria – Blake Edwards and Hans Hoemburg
5. Blade Runner – David Webb Peoples and Hampton Fancher

Best Cinematography:
Das Boot – Jost Vacano
2. One from the Heart — Ronald Victor Garcia and Vittorio Storaro
3. Cat People — John Bailey
4. Blade Runner — Jordan Cronenweth
5. Stalker — Aleksandr Knyazhinskiy and Georgi Rerberg

Best Original Score:
E.T. the Extra-Terrestiral – John Williams
2. Halloween III: Season of the Witch – John Carpenter and Alan Howarth
3. Blade Runner – Vangelis
4. Koyaanisqatsi – Philip Glass
5. The Slumber Party Massacre – Ralph Jones

Best Film Editing:
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial – Carol Littleton
2. Stalker — Lyudmila Feyginova
3. Blade Runner – Marsha Nakashima and Terry Rawlings
4. First Blood – Joan Chapman
5. The Thing – Todd Ramsay

Best Production Design:
One from the Heart — Dean Tavoularis, Gary Fettis and Leslie McCarthy-Frankenheimer
2. Blade Runner – Lawrence G. Paull, Michael Kaplan and Charles Knode
3. Fitzcarraldo – Ulrich Bergfelder and Henning von Gierke
4. Das Boot — Rolf Zehetbauer and Götz Weidner
5. Stalker — Aleksandr Boym, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Rashit Safiullin

Best Costume Design: 
Blade Runner — Michael Kaplan and Charles Knode
2. Conan the Barbarian — John Bloomfield
3. Liquid Sky — Marina Levikova-Neyman
4. The Draughtsman's Contract – Sue Blane
5. The Road Warrior — Norma Moriceau

Best Visual Effects
The Thing
2. E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial
3. Blade Runner

Best Sound
Das Boot
2. The Thing
3. Stalker

Best Makeup
The Thing
2. Quest for Fire
3. Liquid Sky

Best Documentary Feature: 
Kevin Rafferty, Jayne Loader, and Pierce Rafferty, The Atomic Cafe

Best Animated Feature: 
Martin Rosen, The Plague Dogs

Best Ensemble Cast: 
Victor Victoria

Orson Welles' Best First Feature:
Amy Heckerling, Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Best Ensemble Cast (dir: Blake Edwards; in alphabetical order): Julie Andrews (pictured), Peter Arne, Norman Chancer, James Garner, Alex Karras, Robert Preston (pictured), Johnathon Rhys-Davies, Graham Stark and Lesley Ann Warren

Best First Feature: Jennifer Jason Leigh and Phoebe Cates (pictured) in Amy Heckerling's Fast Times at Ridgemont High

RECAP

W I N S :

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial — 4,
Das Boot — 2, Fast Times at Ridgemont High — 2, The Thing – 2, 48 Hrs. — 1, Atomic Cafe — 1, Blade Runner — 1, Fitzcarraldo — 1, Night of the Shooting Stars — 1, One from the Heart — 1, The Plague Dogs — 1, Sophie’s Choice — 1, Stalker — 1, Victor Victoria —1

M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S :

Blade Runner — 10,
Stalker — 7, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial — 6, The Thing — 6, Cat People — 4, Das Boot — 4, Fitzcarraldo — 4, Victor Victoria — 4, Fast Times at Ridgemont High — 3, Liquid Sky — 3,One from the Heart — 3, The Verdict — 3, Atomic Cafe — 2, Chilly Scenes of Winter — 2, Night of the Shooting Stars — 2,

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