1982 (55th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1982 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Best Picture

Gandhi, Indo-British Film Production; Columbia. (UK, India) Richard Attenborough, Producer.

Actor in a Leading Role

Ben Kingsley in Gandhi, Indo-British Film Production; Columbia. (UK, India)

Actress in a Leading Role

Meryl Streep in Sophie’s Choice, ITC Entertainment Presentation of a Pakula-Barish Production; Universal/A.F.D. (UK, USA)

Actor in a Supporting Role

Louis Gossett, Jr. in An Officer and a Gentleman, Lorimar Production in association with Martin Elfand; Paramount.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Jessica Lange in Tootsie, Mirage/Punch Production; Columbia.

Directing

Gandhi, Indo-British Film Production; Columbia. (UK, India) Richard Attenborough.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

Gandhi, Indo-British Film Production; Columbia. (UK, India) Art direction by Stuart Craig and Bob Laing; set decoration by Michael Seirton.

Cinematography

Gandhi, Indo-British Film Production; Columbia. (UK, India) Billy Williams and Ronnie Taylor.

Costume Design

Gandhi, Indo-British Film Production; Columbia. (UK, India) John Mollo and Bhanu Athaiya.

Documentary

(Feature)

Just Another Missing Kid, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. (Canada) John Zaritsky, Producer.

(Short Subject)

If You Love This Planet, National Film Board of Canada. (Canada) Edward Le Lorrain and Terri Nash, Producers.

Film Editing

Gandhi, Indo-British Film Production; Columbia. (UK, India) John Bloom.

Foreign Language Film

Volver a Empezar (“To Begin Again”), Nickel Odeon, S.A. Production. (Spain)

Makeup

Quest for Fire, International Cinema Corporation Production; 20th Century-Fox. (Canada, France) Sarah Monzani and Michèle Burke.

Music

(Original Score)

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Universal Pictures Production; Universal. John Williams.

(Original Song)

Up Where We Belong from An Officer and a Gentleman, Lorimar Production in association with Martin Elfand; Paramount. Music by Jack Nitzsche and Buffy Sainte-Marie; lyric by Will Jennings.

(Original Song Score and Its Adaptation -or- Adaptation Score)

Victor/Victoria, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Production; MGM/UA. (UK, USA) Song score by Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse; adaptation score by Henry Mancini.

Short Films

(Animated)

Tango, Film Polski Production. (Poland) Zbigniew Rybczynski, Producer.

(Live Action)

A Shocking Accident, Flamingo Pictures Ltd. (UK) Christine Oestreicher, Producer.

Sound

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Universal Pictures Production; Universal. Robert Knudson, Robert Glass, Don Digirolamo and Gene Cantamessa.

Sound Effects Editing

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Universal Pictures Production; Universal. Charles L. Campbell and Ben Burtt.

Visual Effects

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Universal Pictures Production; Universal. Carlo Rambaldi, Dennis Muren and Kenneth F. Smith.

Writing

(Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium)

Missing, Universal Pictures/Polygram Pictures Presentation of an Edward Lewis Production; Universal. (USA, Mexico) Costa-Gavras and Donald Stewart.

(Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)

Gandhi, Indo-British Film Production; Columbia. (UK, India) John Briley.

Honorary Award

To Mickey Rooney, in recognition of his 60 years of versatility in a variety of memorable film performances. [ [Statuette]]

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Walter Mirisch

Gordon E. Sawyer Award

John O. Aalberg

Scientific or Technical Award

(Academy Award of Merit)

To August Arnold and Erich Kastner of Arnold & Richter, GmbH, for the concept and engineering of the first operational 35mm, hand-held, spinning mirror reflex, motion picture camera.

(Scientific and Engineering Award)

To Colin F. Mossman and the Research and Development Group of Rank Film Laboratories, London, for the engineering and implementation of a 4,000 meter printing system for motion picture laboratories.

To Sante Zelli and Salvatore Zelli of Elemack Italia S.r.l., Rome, Italy, for the continuing engineering, design and development that has resulted in the Elemack Camera Dolly System for motion picture production.

To Leonard Chapman for the engineering design, development and manufacture of the PeeWee Camera Dolly for motion picture production.

To Dr. Mohammad S. Nozari of Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company for the research and development of the 3M Photogard protective coating for motion picture film.

To Brianne Murphy and Donald Schisler of Mitchell Insert Systems, Incorporated, for the concept, design and manufacture of the MISI Camera Insert Car and Process Trailer.

To Jacobus L. Dimmers for the engineering and manufacture of the Teccon Enterprises’ magnetic transducer for motion picture sound recording and playback.

(Technical Achievement Award)

To Richard W. Deats for the design and manufacture of the “Little Big Crane” for motion picture production.

To Constant Tresfon and Adriaan De Rooy of Egripment, and to Ed Phillips and Carlos De Mattos of Matthews Studio Equipment, Incorporated, for the design and manufacture of the “Tulip Crane” for motion picture production.

To Bran Ferren of Associates and Ferren for the design and development of a computerized lighting effect system for motion picture photography.

To Christie Electric Corporation and LaVezzi Machine Works, Incorporated, for the design and manufacture of the Ultramittent film transport for Christie motion picture projectors.