And the Winner Still Is Season 3: The 1983 Oscars

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Matt Taylor and our film editor Marisa Carpico are finally back for a third season of their Oscar retrospective podcast, And the Winner Still Is….

They break down the Best Picture nominees and discuss the major categories like Director and the Actresses. As well as a few of their own personal snubs and under-appreciated films from each year.

This episode, they discuss the 1983 Oscars, including one of their favorite Best Picture winners, Terms of Endearment. Elsewhere in the episode, they ponder over the Boomer ennui of The Big Chill, marvel at Meryl Streep and Cher’s performances in Silkwood and demand justice for Yentl.

The other nominees for Picture that year were The Big Chill, The Dresser, The Right Stuff and Tender Mercies.

For the other major categories, the nominees for the 1983 Oscars were:

Best Director:

Lewis Milestone – All Quiet on the Western Front
Clarence Brown – Romance
Clarence Brown – Anna Christie
Ernst Lubitsch – The Love Parade
King Vidor – Hallelujah
Robert Z. Leonard – The Divorcee

Best Actor:

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

Best Supporting Actor:

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

Best Actress:

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

Best Supporting Actress:

Linda Hunt – The Year of Living Dangerously
Alfre Woodard – Cross Creek
Amy Irving – Yentl
Cher – Silkwood
Glenn Close – The Big Chill

Listen to the previous episode here.