One of the greatest movies of all time. Kids today will NEVER have the privilege of witnessing a movie made in the modern era that is so amazing, so filled with every possible emotion that makes you feel so satisfied and emotionally drained afterward.
My favorite film of all-time. Everything you want in a picture - comedy, drama, sex, romance. Brilliant score by Michael Gore and Shirley MacLaine in what I consider the best leading actress performance of all time. Nicholson's finest hour. I love this film!!!
Terms of Endearment, one of the best films to take the top Oscar. As much as I like Shirley Maclaine, Debra Winger broke my heart in this movie. She should have one the Best Actress Oscar. Thank you National Board of Review for giving her the Best Actress award that year. We all know that Shirley was due, so not completely disappointed.
I love this movie very much! In my opinion, Debra Winger, Shirley MacLaine, and Jack Nicholson were both amazing in their roles. The scene when Debra passed away made me cry out loud (she deserved the Oscar instead of Shirley). This movie has everything: comedy, drama, marriage, children, friendship, illness...I'm so glad because you finally post this video; this movie is one my favorites, it deserves the 5 Oscars it won! Greetings.
yeah! real professionalism! And look at her affected expression!!! anyway she should have won the Oscar instead Shirley!I mean I love Shirley and I think that she is an amazing actress, but in this film Debra gave us a genial performance!!!!!
Personally, I would’ve given Debra Winger Best Supporting Actress because I always thought that Shirley MacLaine was in the film more than Debra. This, Amadeus and Platoon are the best pictures of the 80s
I just watched this brilliant film, and I've seen all the other best picture nominees for 1983 as well. "Terms of Endearment" blew them away hands down. The performances were outstanding. Too bad they couldnt have given an award to Debra Winger as well. She was phenominal. A great film that ran the emotions from grand slapstick to deepest heartbreak. None of the other films of 1983 were even close!
I love this movie.Its very touching an this is an example of real movies.Showing love to there live ones regardless of what they think they should an shouldn't do.it shows even through death they stood strong by there side
I think that both Debra and Shirley deserved it. I think that the Academy mucked up in1969 when it gave oscars to Streisand and Hepburn (it was clearly Barbra's Oscar) but 1984 was the first time that it should've been a tie for Best Actress. Debra Winger has a scene in which she tells her mother goodbye as her family leaves Texas. Debra tells her mum "I'm gonna miss you mama" and it is a moment of acting genius. She speaks volumes w/ her eyes alone ( like that wordless deathbed scene)
Hey, Spielberg and Amy Irving sitting next to Brooks. Given that Temple of Doom was in post-production at this point (two months from release), Spielberg's on-set affair with Kate Capshaw was already in the books. A crumbling marriage in the works and we didn't realize it. (not that we had to)
that year the acedemy didnt wanted to see that the best movie was not american. the oscar was for FANNY AND ALEXANDER made by the best director alive; IGMAR BERGMAN.
I wish A Christmas Story got a nomination for Best Picture. To me, its not just one of the best Christmas films, it's also one of the best films of 1983 and a nostalgic throwback to those who grew up in the mid 30s & early 40s.
debra gave her all in the movie and what she got in return was a fucking dagger in the heart by maclaine . I don't give a shit if he she was difficult or was a bitch. it was her award. They could have at least given a fucking tie. kudos to Brooks for acknowledging her. no disrespect to maclaine but she has debras award
Dude, when she's reduced to playing Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan in TV films, it ain't happening. She aged in a tired and burnt out looking sort of way, unfortunately. If she had some elderly spunk like Ruth Gordon, Katherine Hepburn, and other actresses over the years had, then maybe...
She won't get it anytime soon. But it all comes down to this, both Honorary Oscars were given to Disney's Angela Bassett and Carol Littleton in 2024. They're been associated with the company since September 14, 1985.
One thing about 'Terms' Oscar night that always bothers me... it is a novel by the great Larry McMurtry and he is there in every scene and every plot point. Not a mention ever.
For me this list should have been: Terms of Endearment The Big Chill The Dresser The Right Stuff Tender Mercies Fanny and Alexander Educating Rita Silkwood WarGames Return of the Jedi
I don’t really find Return of the Jedi best picture worthy though as Empire Strikes Back. It’s a good movie, but even if I extended the nominees for Best Picture of 1983 from 5 to 10, I wouldn’t put Return of the Jedi on the list.
Here's A better idea. Replace Return of the Jedi, with A Christmas Story. That's actually one of the best films of 1983 worthy of being nominated for Best Picture and has become a true holiday classic.
David Brooks giving a special thank you to Debra Winger says so much. Shirley McLaine was wonderful in the film, but showed her true colors by smearing Debra through the Oscar campaign and then giving her the backhanded compliment of her ‘turbulent brilliance’. A very ungracious comment to make in such a public arena.
1212matt I don’t disagree. But Shirley’s “big moments” were so obvious: the lunch date with Jack, screaming at the nurse, hugging Jack at the airport. Brooks handed those scenes to Shirley and they were pure Oscar gold, guaranteeing her a win. Debra’s performance was more nuanced-you need to scratch below the surface and look harder to find the gems in her performance, made more challenging because the character of Emma doesn’t really have a backstory. Does that make sense? The deathbed scene in that moment just before Emma slips away...Debra looks at Shirley and does something so incredible with her eyes, telegraphing “I love you and goodbye” without uttering a word of dialogue. Debra’s acting was just incredible.
5:06 How in the world could the show's director know that James L. Brooks was a second away from mentioning Debra Winger?? This is real professionalism
Wonder why he didn't mention the rest of the cast (Maclaine, Nicholson, Daniels) since it is the actors and their performances that made that film worth watching.
Don't forget that this was James L Brooks' THIRD win of the night (he won Adapted Screenplay and Directing earlier that evening). He already acknowledged them in his earlier speeches (especially his Adapted Screenplay one).
When Frank is listing off the nominees, everything except the names of the films themselves is prerecorded. You can tell at 2:28 when his mouth doesn't move after his voice starts going; also, shortly after that, there's a weird tape glitch. They try to conceal it on the telecast by moving back to show the audience looking at the screen.
I've been watching these old academy award announcements for best picture going back to the late 60s. I was struck by the high quality of films and the seemingly more interesting (and less outwardly vain) people who made them, particularly in the 1970s. It's apparent, however, that the decline of quality began in the early 1980s: Ordinary People, Chariots of Fire, Terms of Endearment. They're all good movies in their own ways, but they don't hold a candle to the winners in years recently preceding them. The five nominees from 1977 alone (well, maybe 4 of the 5) eclipse the best 4 best picture winners from the 80s and onward. The few post-70s best picture winners that favorably compare to my mind are Amadeus, Platoon, The Last Emperor, and Unforgiven. Maybe Gladiator, but definitely nothing in the past 18 years since. These days we get "message films," mainly on race but sometimes gender, that are about as subtle as a sledgehammer to the face.
You are completely wrong. There have been unbelievably amazing films to come out since then but the Academy just fails to recognize them. Back to the Future, Raging Bull, Pulp Fiction, The Shawshank Redemption, Mullholland Drive, Blade Runner, Goodfellas, LOTR trilogy, The Dark Knight, Inception, The Matrix, Schindler's List, Memento, The Social Network, & more.
That's rich coming from someone who watches a video only to criticise great, legendary director Frank Capra. I actually feel sorry for you because the way you're acting you will never amount to anything. Certainly never to Frank Capra's level
1978 was Newsfront, directed by Phillip Noyce who went on to make Dead Calm as well as several American features beginning with Blind Fury. 1980 was the Oscar winning Coal Miner's Daughter which was directed by Sir Michael Apted in his American feature for Universal. Released in theaters on Friday, August 8. The Oscar nominated Altered States was Sir Ken Russell's first American big budget hit film for Warner Bros. Pictures and the Oscar nominated Breaker Morant which was co-written and directed by Bruce Beresford for New World/Quartet. Both were released on Friday, December 26 with excellent results. According to the NY Times, several world class filmmakers were finally coming to America and they are Sir Alan Parker, Sir Hugh Hudson, Adrian Lyne, Sir Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Sir Michael Apted, John Irvin, Bruce Beresford, Sir Ken Russell, Phillip Noyce, Sir Tony Richardson, Richard Franklin, Stephen Hopkins, Sidney J. Furie, Joe Dante, Jonathan Kaplan, Andrew Davis, George Miller, Dean Parisot, Mick Jackson, Jon Amiel, Stuart Baird, Gillian Armstrong, Jan DeBont, Cameron Crowe, Jean Sagal, Peter Weir, Fred Schepisi, Darrell Roodt, Martin Brest, Amy Heckerling, Martha Coolidge, David Cronenberg, Peter Medak, Ted Kotcheff, Thomas Carter, Donald Petrie, Luis Mandoki, Paul Verhoeven, Wolfgang Petersen, Costa-Gavras, Christine Lahti, Peter Weller, Jeff Goldblum, Griffin Dunne, Dame Susan Seidelman, Roger Donaldson, Geoff Murphy, Randa Haines, Beeban Kidron, Kathryn Bigelow, Greta Ludwig, Barbara Kopple among others to start making all new projects for both studios and indies worldwide between February 15, 1981 and today. All thanks to first-timer Laura McKenzie, Los Angeles, California with Molly Haskell Sarris, New York City, New York and Keith Connolly, Melbourne, Australia.
It's things like this that probably ruined Debra's chances for an award: *"But sometimes Winger's behavior went beyond difficult. On the set of Terms Of Endearment, Winger is rumored to have not only farted in MacLaine's face but also licked her on the leg while she was shooting a bedroom scene with Jack Nicholson".*
Right Stuff. Return of the Jedi isn’t really Best Picture worthy as Empire Strikes Back. Also, The Right Stuff has been preserved in the National Film Registry since 2013 while Return of the Jedi has yet to be preserved as Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back. Update: Last year Return of the Jedi was finally selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. But considering The Right Stuff was selected 8 years before Return of the Jedi, that film is viewed as the Best Picture of 1983.
Saw this movie broadcast on "The Movie Channel" earlier today. They hacked out _everything_ that could _maybe_ be construed as even _mildly_ offensive - as well as things that, although important to the story line, couldn't _possibly_ bat an eye. People that hadn't seen the movie were probably goin', " yeah - -_this_ won best picture???" Rant over. sigh
Hah! The comments by the guys are so telling. "The right stuff"?? Really? The dialog was monotonous and predictable. Some of the of the actors looked like they were reading right off of cue cards. The US gangsters and space program had been done to death and I love how Terms of Endearment spat in the face of it all by portraying Nicholson as the has been astronaut, clinging to that 1 claim to fame just to get laid.
It´s a brilliant movie. One of my favorites in all times. You can see and feel everything in this movie comes from the bottom of heart.
mine too
Back when the best picture awards were given to masterpieces.
One of the greatest movies of all time. Kids today will NEVER have the privilege of witnessing a movie made in the modern era that is so amazing, so filled with every possible emotion that makes you feel so satisfied and emotionally drained afterward.
Fantastic movie... Timeless and captivating. Brilliant acting, brilliant emotions
A wonderful presentation by Frank Capra! Of the choices that year, Terms of Endearment was the "Best Picture".
This is one of the greatest movies ever made
YES IT IS. saw the film in 1983. Not a dry eye in the audience
Terms of Endearment richly deserved the Best Picture Oscar of 1984!
What an extraordinary movie. And look at the contenders. We won't see this caliber in film making again.
My favorite film of all-time. Everything you want in a picture - comedy, drama, sex, romance. Brilliant score by Michael Gore and Shirley MacLaine in what I consider the best leading actress performance of all time. Nicholson's finest hour. I love this film!!!
Should’ve been a tie Shirley & Debra!!
Its director Jame L. Brooks is a legend in TV and had a decent career directing movies as well.
Yeah It was always a favorite of mine. I just watched it again and it is so brilliant❤❤❤❤
This movie is the worst
Frank Capra, what a Legend
Terms of Endearment, one of the best films to take the top Oscar. As much as I like Shirley Maclaine, Debra Winger broke my heart in this movie. She should have one the Best Actress Oscar. Thank you National Board of Review for giving her the Best Actress award that year. We all know that Shirley was due, so not completely disappointed.
Capra not only mentions the films, he describes them and gives the production company names.
I love this movie very much! In my opinion, Debra Winger, Shirley MacLaine, and Jack Nicholson were both amazing in their roles. The scene when Debra passed away made me cry out loud (she deserved the Oscar instead of Shirley). This movie has everything: comedy, drama, marriage, children, friendship, illness...I'm so glad because you finally post this video; this movie is one my favorites, it deserves the 5 Oscars it won!
Greetings.
Jeff Daniels too
yeah! real professionalism! And look at her affected expression!!! anyway she should have won the Oscar instead Shirley!I mean I love Shirley and I think that she is an amazing actress, but in this film Debra gave us a genial performance!!!!!
cristi86na she should've won
Personally, I would’ve given Debra Winger Best Supporting Actress because I always thought that Shirley MacLaine was in the film more than Debra. This, Amadeus and Platoon are the best pictures of the 80s
I just watched it again after many years.....masterpiece ❤❤ you gp through a full range of emotions from beginning to end.
I just watched this brilliant film, and I've seen all the other best picture nominees for 1983 as well. "Terms of Endearment" blew them away hands down. The performances were outstanding. Too bad they couldnt have given an award to Debra Winger as well. She was phenominal. A great film that ran the emotions from grand slapstick to deepest heartbreak. None of the other films of 1983 were even close!
Rick Picciuolo man she stole the show with that performance
Rick Picciuolo she should have won. it kills me that debra winger will ptobably die oscar less. her eyes here are heartbreaking
Frank Capra is a genius. Have a bit of respect. He's smarter than James L Brooks will ever be. I would say without Capra, there would be no Brooks.
Oh please
emotionally captivating Terms of Endearment
I love this movie.Its very touching an this is an example of real movies.Showing love to there live ones regardless of what they think they should an shouldn't do.it shows even through death they stood strong by there side
I saw it recently. I still cry with this golden gem
Love that movie, glad it won Best Picture
Amazing loving movie. ♥️
Well deserved
AWESOME movie....AWESOME cast....AWESOME decade
Oh wow Spielberg was with Amy Irving in those days, this WAS a long time ago.
I think that both Debra and Shirley deserved it. I think that the Academy mucked up in1969 when it gave oscars to Streisand and Hepburn (it was clearly Barbra's Oscar) but 1984 was the first time that it should've been a tie for Best Actress.
Debra Winger has a scene in which she tells her mother goodbye as her family leaves Texas. Debra tells her mum "I'm gonna miss you mama" and it is a moment of acting genius. She speaks volumes w/ her eyes alone ( like that wordless deathbed scene)
Hey, Spielberg and Amy Irving sitting next to Brooks. Given that Temple of Doom was in post-production at this point (two months from release), Spielberg's on-set affair with Kate Capshaw was already in the books. A crumbling marriage in the works and we didn't realize it. (not that we had to)
Spielberg and Irving didn't marry until the following year.
Who cares?
That's Naomi Judd's favorite quote from 1998 and I agree.
What a great movie
that year the acedemy didnt wanted to see that the best movie was not american. the oscar was for FANNY AND ALEXANDER made by the best director alive; IGMAR BERGMAN.
such a great movie. Most deserving.
I wish A Christmas Story got a nomination for Best Picture. To me, its not just one of the best Christmas films, it's also one of the best films of 1983 and a nostalgic throwback to those who grew up in the mid 30s & early 40s.
I loved this movie and the sequel was great too! And Shirley McLaine was amazing in both!!!
They were all winners
A movie wrapped in humanity.
debra gave her all in the movie and what she got in return was a fucking dagger in the heart by maclaine . I don't give a shit if he she was difficult or was a bitch. it was her award. They could have at least given a fucking tie. kudos to Brooks for acknowledging her. no disrespect to maclaine but she has debras award
MacLaine was jealous of Debra, period.
Good year for movies!
"The Right Stuff" was hands down the Best Film of 1983.
Wrong
Right
Return Of The Jedi.
Yes, although Terms was good too. I would've voted for Right Stuff though.
That was A Christmas Story.
Amazing quality video!
Some part of me wants winger to win best actress 2024 40 years after this legendary performance
What are you talking about???
Dude, when she's reduced to playing Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan in TV films, it ain't happening. She aged in a tired and burnt out looking sort of way, unfortunately. If she had some elderly spunk like Ruth Gordon, Katherine Hepburn, and other actresses over the years had, then maybe...
She won't get it anytime soon. But it all comes down to this, both Honorary Oscars were given to
Disney's Angela Bassett and Carol Littleton in 2024. They're been associated with the company since
September 14, 1985.
Incredible movie!
One thing about 'Terms' Oscar night that always bothers me... it is a novel by the great Larry McMurtry and he is there in every scene and every plot point. Not a mention ever.
Larry was a genius.
@@dabearcub Aurora, the astronaut ALL of them sprung whole from his rich imagination.
For me this list should have been:
Terms of Endearment
The Big Chill
The Dresser
The Right Stuff
Tender Mercies
Fanny and Alexander
Educating Rita
Silkwood
WarGames
Return of the Jedi
WarGames? Really? Sorry, not even close.
There were only 5 slots.
I'd fit The King of Comedy, Scarface and The Outsiders into this list.
I don’t really find Return of the Jedi best picture worthy though as Empire Strikes Back. It’s a good movie, but even if I extended the nominees for Best Picture of 1983 from 5 to 10, I wouldn’t put Return of the Jedi on the list.
Here's A better idea. Replace Return of the Jedi, with A Christmas Story. That's actually one of the best films of 1983 worthy of being nominated for Best Picture and has become a true holiday classic.
Steven Spielberg and Amy Irving sitting next to Brooks!
David Brooks giving a special thank you to Debra Winger says so much. Shirley McLaine was wonderful in the film, but showed her true colors by smearing Debra through the Oscar campaign and then giving her the backhanded compliment of her ‘turbulent brilliance’. A very ungracious comment to make in such a public arena.
pam0626 one of the injustices at the oscar
Shirley MacLaine and Jack Nicholson made that movie wouldn't have been a success without them
Imperious Aurora to the end😏
1212matt I don’t disagree. But Shirley’s “big moments” were so obvious: the lunch date with Jack, screaming at the nurse, hugging Jack at the airport. Brooks handed those scenes to Shirley and they were pure Oscar gold, guaranteeing her a win. Debra’s performance was more nuanced-you need to scratch below the surface and look harder to find the gems in her performance, made more challenging because the character of Emma doesn’t really have a backstory. Does that make sense? The deathbed scene in that moment just before Emma slips away...Debra looks at Shirley and does something so incredible with her eyes, telegraphing “I love you and goodbye” without uttering a word of dialogue. Debra’s acting was just incredible.
I guess james knew who deserved that award
Terms of endearment was the best picture in 1984.
wish 'Scarface' was nominated for best picture at at the 56th Annual Academy Awards® in 1984 honoring the best movies of 1983
@anamariaaninha that's just a foreign film that can't be nominated
This movie has one of the saddest movie deaths
3:37 - 4:05.
Frank's beating around the bush.
LOL.
5:06 How in the world could the show's director know that James L. Brooks was a second away from mentioning Debra Winger?? This is real professionalism
People don't realize that it's the same year that release Scarface and it's got no nomination whatsoever that's such a joke.
Wonder why he didn't mention the rest of the cast (Maclaine, Nicholson, Daniels) since it is the actors and their performances that made that film worth watching.
For sure 'cause MacLaine and Nicholson WON. It´s a tribute to Winger, the other leading actresses that didn´t win.
Don't forget that this was James L Brooks' THIRD win of the night (he won Adapted Screenplay and Directing earlier that evening). He already acknowledged them in his earlier speeches (especially his Adapted Screenplay one).
When Frank is listing off the nominees, everything except the names of the films themselves is prerecorded. You can tell at 2:28 when his mouth doesn't move after his voice starts going; also, shortly after that, there's a weird tape glitch. They try to conceal it on the telecast by moving back to show the audience looking at the screen.
He can't help himself. What he says so much is true.
I've been watching these old academy award announcements for best picture going back to the late 60s. I was struck by the high quality of films and the seemingly more interesting (and less outwardly vain) people who made them, particularly in the 1970s. It's apparent, however, that the decline of quality began in the early 1980s: Ordinary People, Chariots of Fire, Terms of Endearment. They're all good movies in their own ways, but they don't hold a candle to the winners in years recently preceding them. The five nominees from 1977 alone (well, maybe 4 of the 5) eclipse the best 4 best picture winners from the 80s and onward. The few post-70s best picture winners that favorably compare to my mind are Amadeus, Platoon, The Last Emperor, and Unforgiven. Maybe Gladiator, but definitely nothing in the past 18 years since.
These days we get "message films," mainly on race but sometimes gender, that are about as subtle as a sledgehammer to the face.
RIP, America🥀
You are completely wrong. There have been unbelievably amazing films to come out since then but the Academy just fails to recognize them. Back to the Future, Raging Bull, Pulp Fiction, The Shawshank Redemption, Mullholland Drive, Blade Runner, Goodfellas, LOTR trilogy, The Dark Knight, Inception, The Matrix, Schindler's List, Memento, The Social Network, & more.
Oh my! Your cinematic intelligence level is now transparent for everyone.
He died of a heart attack seven years later at 94 years old.
How do you fell now?
Awfully sad it is now.
It's unbelievable that Fanny and Alexander and Scarface weren't nominated for best picture
Hehe that Mr Capra is a master jejeje...i love his moments
That's rich coming from someone who watches a video only to criticise great, legendary director Frank Capra. I actually feel sorry for you because the way you're acting you will never amount to anything. Certainly never to Frank Capra's level
Oh and I think I was the only person in Australia to see Tender mercies. Bruce Beresford is a freak. If you haven't seen Newsfront, you should.
1978 was Newsfront, directed by Phillip Noyce who went on to make Dead Calm as well as several
American features beginning with Blind Fury. 1980 was the Oscar winning Coal Miner's Daughter
which was directed by Sir Michael Apted in his American feature for Universal. Released in theaters on Friday, August 8. The Oscar nominated Altered States was Sir Ken Russell's first
American big budget hit film for Warner Bros. Pictures and the Oscar nominated Breaker Morant
which was co-written and directed by Bruce Beresford for New World/Quartet. Both were released
on Friday, December 26 with excellent results. According to the NY Times, several world class
filmmakers were finally coming to America and they are Sir Alan Parker, Sir Hugh Hudson,
Adrian Lyne, Sir Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Sir Michael Apted, John Irvin, Bruce Beresford,
Sir Ken Russell, Phillip Noyce, Sir Tony Richardson, Richard Franklin, Stephen Hopkins,
Sidney J. Furie, Joe Dante, Jonathan Kaplan, Andrew Davis, George Miller, Dean Parisot,
Mick Jackson, Jon Amiel, Stuart Baird, Gillian Armstrong, Jan DeBont, Cameron Crowe,
Jean Sagal, Peter Weir, Fred Schepisi, Darrell Roodt, Martin Brest, Amy Heckerling,
Martha Coolidge, David Cronenberg, Peter Medak, Ted Kotcheff, Thomas Carter,
Donald Petrie, Luis Mandoki, Paul Verhoeven, Wolfgang Petersen, Costa-Gavras,
Christine Lahti, Peter Weller, Jeff Goldblum, Griffin Dunne, Dame Susan Seidelman,
Roger Donaldson, Geoff Murphy, Randa Haines, Beeban Kidron, Kathryn Bigelow,
Greta Ludwig, Barbara Kopple among others to start making all new projects for both
studios and indies worldwide between February 15, 1981 and today. All thanks to
first-timer Laura McKenzie, Los Angeles, California with Molly Haskell Sarris, New York City,
New York and Keith Connolly, Melbourne, Australia.
Wow, Frank Capra....
i can’t believe Jaws 3-D didn’t win best picture. The best Jaws of the series.
HA!
I'm surprised you guys haven't posted Brooks's directing win for this movie...or Forman's director win the following year...
No need to get defensive.
No need to boast.
We ALL know you spend your days flipping burgers as an occupation...
It's things like this that probably ruined Debra's chances for an award:
*"But sometimes Winger's behavior went beyond difficult. On the set of Terms Of Endearment, Winger is rumored to have not only farted in MacLaine's face but also licked her on the leg while she was shooting a bedroom scene with Jack Nicholson".*
5:06
Scarface not even nominated.
The Dresser all the f_cking way...
The right stuff should have won
A Capraesque video.
Was Capra inebriated or just playing?
the creator of THE SIMPSONS
MrGabeanator producer not creator - that would Matt Groening
Co-developer
What does Frank Capra mean when he says, 'this is not going to be very hot'
No idea.
James Brooks directing Shirley MacLaine
and Debra Winger in the Linda Blair role in a brilliant and very satirical remake of
‘The Exorcist’...🐓🐓😁
Duh!!!
Right Stuff or Return of the Jedi should have won.
Right Stuff. Return of the Jedi isn’t really Best Picture worthy as Empire Strikes Back. Also, The Right Stuff has been preserved in the National Film Registry since 2013 while Return of the Jedi has yet to be preserved as Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back.
Update: Last year Return of the Jedi was finally selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. But considering The Right Stuff was selected 8 years before Return of the Jedi, that film is viewed as the Best Picture of 1983.
what does frank capra mean by, 'this isn't going to be too hot'
Tender Mercies is light years better than Terms of Endearment - the story and acting
That presenter was up past his bedtime.
Seems like everybody agrees with me so...
What a lame year for movies. The best was 'The dresser' but not for much. All very average films. 1983 was really a miserable year in film.
Most men hate Terms of Endearment and think The Right Stuff should have won the award..
No Scarface?
I've always had the opinion that "The Right Stuff" should have won it.
Best movie of this year is... Scarface
Saw this movie broadcast on "The Movie Channel" earlier today. They hacked out _everything_ that could _maybe_ be construed as even _mildly_ offensive - as well as things that, although important to the story line, couldn't _possibly_ bat an eye. People that hadn't seen the movie were probably goin', " yeah - -_this_ won best picture???"
Rant over. sigh
what AWFUL spelling.
Heartfelt presentation...
Capra!!!
Sorry, i ment to say feel. But you spelled awful wrong.
*Who* is the presenter? Yikes!
he should've won aa razzie for that presentation, all the respect of the world for frank, but really... it was lame and boring
I've never even heard of that movie.
Terms of Endearment is a wonderful film, but I think Right Stuff should've won.
Hah! The comments by the guys are so telling. "The right stuff"?? Really? The dialog was monotonous and predictable. Some of the of the actors looked like they were reading right off of cue cards. The US gangsters and space program had been done to death and I love how Terms of Endearment spat in the face of it all by portraying Nicholson as the has been astronaut, clinging to that 1 claim to fame just to get laid.
Not a very good speech. Where was the mention of Jack Nicholson and Shirley Maclaine?
I really dislike this sentimental, dated film. I would have voted for The Right Stuff
Terms of endearment es un coñazo de película e inferior.
Terrible Movie
This movie is way overrated i can't stand this movie!
Scarface
Each nominated movie was worse than the other. Terms of Endearment is certainly one of the lousiest movies ever.
Why because it's a film about two women? Sexist ass!
What a weird assumption.
One of the worst films to ever win best picture. A pile of crappy schmaltz.