Academy Awards 1984 Nominations

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Best Picture	Best Director
Best Actor in a Leading Role	Best Actress in a Leading Role
Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen	Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
Best Foreign Language Film	Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary Short	Best Live Action Short Film
Best Animated Short Film	Best Original Score
Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score	Best Original Song
Best Sound Effects Editing	Best Sound
Best Art Direction	Best Cinematography
Best Costume Design	Best Film Editing

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Best Picture

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

Best Director

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

Best Actor in a Leading Role

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

Best Actress in a Leading Role

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

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

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

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

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

Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

• Fanny and Alexander
• Silkwood
• Tender Mercies
• The Big Chill
• WarGames

Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium

• Betrayal
• Educating Rita
• Reuben, Reuben
• Terms of Endearment
• The Dresser

Best Foreign Language Film

• Carmen (Spain)
• Entre Nous (France)
• Fanny and Alexander (Sweden)
• Le bal (Algeria)
• The Revolt of Job (Hungary)

Best Documentary Feature

• Children of Darkness
• First Contact
• He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin'
• Seeing Red
• The Profession of Arms

Best Documentary Short

• Flamenco at 5:15
• Ihr zent frei
• In the Nuclear Shadow: What Can the Children Tell Us?
• Sewing Woman
• Spaces: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph

Best Live Action Short Film

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

Best Animated Short Film

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

Best Original Score

• Cross Creek
• Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
• Terms of Endearment
• The Right Stuff
• Under Fire

Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score

• The Sting II
• Trading Places
• Yentl

Best Original Song

• Flashdance ("Maniac")
• Flashdance ("Flashdance...What a Feeling")
• Tender Mercies ("Over You")
• Yentl ("Papa, Can You Hear Me?")
• Yentl ("The Way He Makes Me Feel")

Best Sound Effects Editing

• Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
• The Right Stuff

Best Sound

• Never Cry Wolf
• Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
• Terms of Endearment
• The Right Stuff
• WarGames

Best Art Direction

• Fanny and Alexander
• Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
• Terms of Endearment
• The Right Stuff
• Yentl

Best Cinematography

• Fanny and Alexander
• Flashdance
• The Right Stuff
• WarGames
• Zelig

Best Costume Design

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

Best Film Editing

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