56th Academy Awards (1984)

Best Picture

Terms of Endearment - James L. Brooks
The Big Chill - Michael Shamberg
The Dresser - Peter Yates
The Right Stuff - Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff
Tender Mercies - Phillip S. Hobel

Best Director

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

Best Original Screenplay

Terms of Endearment - James L Brooks
Betrayal - Harold Pinter
The Dresser - Ronald Harwood
Educating Rita - Willy Russell
Reuben, Reuben - Julius J Epstein

Best Adapted Screenplay

Tender Mercies - Horton Foote
The Big Chill - Lawrence Kasdan, Barbara Benedek
Fanny and Alexander - Ingmar Bergman
Silkwood - Nora Ephron, Alice Arlen
WarGames - Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes

Best Actor in a Leading Role

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

Best Actress in a Leading Role

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

Best Supporting Actor

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

Best Supporting Actress

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

Best Art Direction

Fanny and Alexander - Anna Asp, Susanne Lingheim
Return of the Jedi - Norman Reynolds, Fred Hole, James Schoppe, Michael Ford
The Right Stuff - Geoffrey Kirkland, Richard J. Lawrence, W. Stewart Campbell, Peter Romero, Pat Pending, George R. Nelson
Terms of Endearment - Polly Platt, Harold Michelson, Tom Pedigo, Anthony Mondello
Yentl - Roy Walker, Leslie Tomkins, Tessa Davies

Best Cinematography

Fanny and Alexander - Sven Nykvist
Flashdance - Don Peterman
The Right Stuff - Caleb Deschanel
WarGames - William A. Fraker
Zelig - Gordon Willis

Best Original Song

Flashdance - Giorgio Moroder, Keith Forsey, Irene Cara for "Flashdance.. What a Feeling"
Flashdance - Michael Sembello, Dennis Matkosky for "Maniac"
Tender Mercies - Austin Roberts, Bobby Hart for "Over You"
Yentl - Michel Legrand, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman for "Papa, Can You Hear Me?"
Yentl - Michel Legrand, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman for "The Way He Makes Me Feel"

Best Original Score

The Right Stuff - Bill Conti
Cross Creek - Leonard Rosenman
Return of the Jedi - John Williams
Terms of Endearment - Michael Gore
Under Fire - Jerry Goldsmith

Best Sound Mixing

The Right Stuff - Mark Berger, Thomas Scott, Randy Thom, David MacMillan
Never Cry Wolf - Alan R. Splet, Todd Boekelheide, Randy Thom, David Parker
Return of the Jedi - Ben Burtt, Gary Summers, Randy Thom, Tony Dawe
Terms of Endearment - Donald O. Mitchell, Rick Kline, Kevin O'Connell, Jim Alexander
WarGames - Michael J. Kohut, Carlos de Larios, Aaron Rochin, Willie D. Burton

Best Sound Editing

The Right Stuff - Jay Boekelheide
Return of the Jedi - Ben Burtt

Best Costume Design

Fanny and Alexander - Marik Vos-Lundh
Cross Creek - Joe I. Tompkins
Heart Like a Wheel - William Ware Theiss
The Return of Martin Guerre - Anne-Marie Marchand
Zelig - Santo Loquasto

Best Animated Short Film

Sundae in New York - Jimmy Picker
Mickey's Christmas Carol - Burny Mattinson
Sound of Sunshine - Sound of Rain - Eda Godel Hallinan

Best Documentary Feature

He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin - Emile Ardolino
Children of Darkness - Richard KoCtuk, Ara Chekmayan
First Contact - Bob Connolly, Robin Anderson
The Profession of Arms - Michael Bryans, Tina Viljoen
Seeing Red - James Klein, Julia Reichert

Best Documentary Short Subject

Flamenco at 5:15 - Cynthia Scott, Adam Symansky
In the Nuclear Shadow - What Can the Children Tell Us? - Vivienne Verdon-Roe, Eric Thiermann
Sewing Woman - Arthur Dong
Spaces - The Architecture of Paul Rudolph - Robert Eisenhardt
You Are Free Ihr Zent Frei - Dea Brokman, Ilene Landis

Best Foreign Language Film

Fanny and Alexander
Carmen
Entre Nous
Job's Revolt
Le Bal

Academy Honorary Award

Hal Roach for "Recognition of his unparalleled record of distinguished contributions to the motion picture art form"

Best Live Action Short Film

Boys and Girls - Janice L. Platt
Goodie-Two-Shoes - Ian Emes
Overnight Sensation - Jon N. Bloom

Best Film Editing

The Right Stuff - Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Stephen A. Rotter, Douglas Stewart, Tom Rolf
Blue Thunder - Frank Morriss, Edward Abroms
Flashdance - Bud Smith, Walt Mulconery
Silkwood - Sam O'Steen
Terms of Endearment - Richard Marks

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

M. J. Frankovich

Best Original Musical or Comedy Score

Yentl - Michel Legrand, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman
The Sting II - Lalo Schifrin
Trading Places - Elmer Bernstein