1983: Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. Fanny & Alexander (dir: Ingmar Bergman; US Release Date)

2. Baby It's You (dir: John Sayles)

3. The Right Stuff (dir: Philip Kaufman)

4. Angst (dir: Gerald Kargl)

5. Pauline at the Beach (dir: Eric Rohmer)

6. The Evil Dead (dir: Sam Raimi; US Release Date)

7. Son of the White Mare (dir: Marcell Jankovics; US Release Date)

8. Star 80 (dir: Bob Fosse)

9. Possession (dir: Andrzej Zulawski; US Release Date)

10. The King of Comedy (dir: Martin Scorsese)

Honorable Mention (in alphabetical order): Born in Flames (dir: Lizzie Borden), Danton (dir: Andrzej Wajda), The Dead Zone (dir: David Cronenberg), Entre Nous (dir: Diane Kurys), , L'Argent (dir: Robert Bresson), Local Hero (dir: Bill Forsyth), Puberty Blues (dir: Bruce Beresford; US release date), Rumble Fish (dir: Francis Ford Coppola), Sans Soleil (dir: Chris Marker), Sleepaway Camp (dir: Robert Hiltzik), Terms of Endearment (dir: James L. Brooks), Testament (dir: Lynne Littman), Videodrome (dir: David Conenberg) and Zelig (dir: Woody Allen)

Best Film of the Year: Fanny & Alexander
Director: Ingmar Bergman Producer: Jörn Donner, Daniel Toscan du Plantier
US Distributor: Embassy Pictures

Best Director:
Ingmar Bergman, Fanny & Alexander
2. Sam Raimi, The Evil Dead
3. Gerald Kargl, Angst
4. Philip Kaufman, The Right Stuff
5. Bob Fosse, Star 80

Best Actor:
Eric Roberts, Star 80
2. Robert De Niro, The King of Comedy
3. Christopher Walken, The Dead Zone
4. Erwin Leder, Angst
5. Eddie Murphy, Trading Places

Best Actress:
Rosanna Arquette, Baby It's You
2. Isabelle Adjani, Possession
3. Shirley MacLaine, Terms of Endearment
4. Isabelle Huppert, Entre Nous
5. Debra Winger, Terms of Endearment

Best Supporting Actor:
Fred Ward, The Right Stuff
2. Jack Nicholson, Terms of Endearment
3. Denis Lawson, Local Hero
4. Sam Shepard, The Right Stuff
5. Sam Neill, Possession

Best Supporting Actress:
Sandra Bernhard, The King of Comedy
2. Jamie Lee Curtis, Trading Places
3. Diane Lane, Rumble Fish
4. Cher, Silkwood
5. Candy Clark, Blue Thunder

Best Original Screenplay:
Baby It's You — John Sayles and Amy Robinson
2. The King of Comedy – Paul D. Zimmerman
3. Fanny & Alexander — Ingmar Bergman
4. Pauline at the Beach – Eric Rohmer
5. Zelig — Woody Allen

Best Adapted Screenplay:
The Right Stuff – Philip Kaufman
2. Terms of Endearment — James L. Brooks
3. L'Argent — Robert Bresson
4. Entre Nous — Diane Kurys and Alain Le Henry
5. Testament — John Sacret Young

Best Cinematography:
Angst — Zbigniew Rybczynski
2. Rumble Fish – Stephen H. Burum
3. Fanny & Alexander — Sven Nykvist
4. The Right Stuff — Caleb Deschanel
5. Local Hero — Chris Menges

Best Original Score:
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence — Ryûichi Sakamoto
2. The Right Stuff — Bill Conti
3. Scarface – Giorgio Moroder
4. Local Hero – Mark Knopfler
5. Rumble Fish – Stewart Copeland

Best Film Editing:
The Right Stuff — Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Tom Rolf, Stephen A. Rotter, and Douglas Stewart
2. The Evil Dead — Edna Ruth Paul
3. Videodrome – Ronald Sanders
4. The Hunger — Pamela Power
5. Star 80 — Alan Heim

Best Production Design:
Fanny & Alexander — Anna Asp and Susanne Lingheim
2. Danton – Allan Starski, Jean Caromel, Henri Lacoste, Barbara Nowak and Maria Osiecka-Kuminek
3. The Right Stuff — Geoffrey Kirkland, George R. Nelson and Jim Poytner
4. Videodrome – Carol Spier and Angelo Stea
5. The Outsiders — Dean Tavoularis and Gary Fettis

Best Costume Design:
Fanny & Alexander — Marik Vos
2. Danton — Yvonne Sassinot de Nesle
3. Something Wicked This Way Comes — Ruth Myers
4. Entre Nous — Mic Cheminal
5. Baby It's You — Franne Lee

Best Visual Effects
Zelig
2. Return of the Jedi
3. The Evil Dead

Best Sound
The Right Stuff
2. The King of Comedy
3. Possession

Best Makeup
Possession
2. The Evil Dead
3. Videodrome

Best Documentary Feature:
Chris Marker, Sans Soleil

Best Animated Feature:
Marcell Jankovics, Son of the White Mare

Best Ensemble Cast:
Terms of Endearment

Orson Welles' Best First Feature:
Sam Raimi, The Evil Dead

Best Ensemble Cast (dir: James L. Brooks; in alphabetical order) Tony Bishop, Lisa Hart Carroll (pictured), Jeff Daniels, Danny DeVito, Huckleberry Fox, Betty King, John Lithgow, Shirley MacLaine (pictured), Jack Nicholson, Shane Serwin (pictured), and Debra Winger (pictured)

Best First Feature: Bill Campbell in Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead

RECAP

W I N S :

The Right Stuff — 4,
Fanny and Alexander — 3, Baby It’s You — 2, Angst — 1, The Evil Dead — 1, The King of Comedy — 1, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence — 1, Possession — 1, Sans Soleil —1, Son of the White Mare — 1, Star 80 — 1, Terms of Endearment — 1, Zelig — 1

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

The Right Stuff— 10,
The Evil Dead — 6, Possession — 6, Angst — 5, Fanny and Alexander — 5, The King of Comedy — 5, Terms of Endearment — 5, Baby It’s You — 4, Videodrome — 4, Entre Nous — 3, The Local Hero — 3, Rumble Fish — 3, Star 80 — 3, Danton — 2, Pauline at the Beach — 2, Son of the White Mare — 1, Trading Places — 2, Zelig — 2

the year-end project:
2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1982, 1981, 1980, 1979, 1978, 1977, 1976, 1975, 1974, 1973, 1972, 1971, 1970, 1969, 1968, 1967, 1966, 1965, 1964, 1963, 1962, 1961, 1960, 1959, 1958, 1957, 1956, 1955, 1954, 1953, 1952, 1951, 1950, 1940 - 1949, 1930 - 1939, 1920 - 1929 + Superlatives Index

Best of the Decade:
2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s