Throwback Muriels: 1980

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

1980

Picture:
Gates of Heaven
The Shining
The Stunt Man
Raging Bull
Dressed to Kill
Airplane!
The Ninth Configuration
Kagemusha
Bad Timing
Stardust Memories

Director:
Stanley Kubrick, The Shining
Errol Morris, Gates of Heaven
Martin Scorsese, Raging Bull
Richard Rush, The Stunt Man
Brian De Palma, Dressed to Kill

Male Lead:
Robert DeNiro, Raging Bull
John Hurt, The Elephant Man
Peter O’Toole, The Stunt Man
Paul Le Mat, Melvin and Howard
Brad Dourif, Wise Blood

Female Lead:
Sissy Spacek, Coal Miner’s Daughter
Theresa Russell, Bad Timing
Nastassja Kinski, Tess
Gena Rowlands, Gloria
Nancy Allen, Dressed to Kill

Male Supporting:
Scott Wilson, The Ninth Configuration
Keith Gordon, Dressed to Kill
Tommy Lee Jones, Coal Miner’s Daughter
Joe Pesci, Raging Bull
Frank Oz, The Empire Strikes Back

Female Supporting:
Cathy Moriarty, Raging Bull
Mary Steenburgen, Melvin and Howard
Angie Dickinson, Dressed to Kill
Charlotte Rampling, Stardust Memories
Barbara Hershey, The Stunt Man

Screenplay:
The Stunt Man
Raging Bull
The Ninth Configuration
Stardust Memories
The Shining

Ensemble:
Airplane!
Raging Bull
Fame
The Ninth Configuration
Coal Miner’s Daughter

Cinematography:
The Elephant Man (Francis)
Kagemusha (Saito/Ueda)
Tess (Unsworth)
Raging Bull (Chapman)
The Shining (Alcott)

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Administrative Stuff

In keeping with the spirit of the project I started this past winter, I’ve decided to continue formulating lists of retrospective nominees by year. Of course, as we move backwards in time I’d estimate that some years will be pretty lean. Therefore, I fear I will have to stop when I feel I can’t fill out a satisfactory ballot, although this probably won’t happen for a while yet.

As with the present-day Muriels, I based these old-school awards on the film’s NYC commercial release date. Since Mike D’Angelo’s eligibility lists don’t go back past 1998, I used the listed release dates in IMDb for this purpose. And much like the contemporary Muriels, if a movie remains unreleased in Gotham within five years of its international release date, it is ineligible for nominations. Sadly, that means I couldn’t throw any nominations at, say, Play Time, Satantango, the films of Yasujiro Ozu, or (sniff) Jeanne Dielman. So it goes.

Additionally, I reserve the right to allow ties here, especially in the case of movies featuring same-sex co-leads who are equally awesome. Several Bergman films spring to mind here, but there will no doubt be other occurrences as well.

Finally, I’ve decided to limit these lists to a “big nine” (picture, director, 4 acting categories, screenplay, ensemble, and cinematography). Much as I would have loved to include Best Cinematic Moment- probably my favorite Muriels category- here as well, I have a feeling that I’d forget some embarrassingly obvious choices and would prefer to save myself the bother.

As before, I’ll post one of these here per day as long as I’m able. I’ll try to remember to update these as needed, but I make no promises.

By the way, here’s a link to the 1995-2009 throwback Muriels I posted this winter. In time, I’ll probably move them over here, but until then this’ll have to do.