Throwback Muriels: 1982

Sunday, July 17, 2011

1982

Picture:
Blade Runner
Stalker
The Thing
Lola
The Road Warrior
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Tootsie
The Verdict
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
Das Boot

Director:
Ridley Scott, Blade Runner
Andrei Tarkovsky, Stalker
John Carpenter, The Thing
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Lola
George Miller, The Road Warrior

Male Lead:
Dustin Hoffman, Tootsie
Peter O’Toole, My Favorite Year
Armin Mueller-Stahl, Lola
Bob Hoskins, The Long Good Friday
Henry Thomas, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

Female Lead:
Julie Andrews, Victor/Victoria
Rosel Zech, Veronika Voss
Diane Keaton, Shoot the Moon
Beatrice Romand, A Good Marriage
Barbara Sukowa, Lola

Male Supporting:
Rutger Hauer, Blade Runner
Raul Julia, One From the Heart
Robert Preston, Victor/Victoria
Ricardo Montalban, Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
John Lithgow, The World According to Garp

Female Supporting:
Glenn Close, The World According to Garp
Lesley Ann Warren, Victor/Victoria
Jessica Lange, Tootsie
Nastassja Kinski, One From the Heart
Thuy An Luu, Diva

Screenplay:
Tootsie
Blade Runner
A Good Marriage
The Verdict
The Thing

Ensemble:
Das Boot
Tootsie
The Thing
Victor/Victoria
Diner

Cinematography:
Lola (Schwarzenberger)
One From the Heart (Storaro/Garcia)
Blade Runner (Cronenweth)
Das Boot (Vacano)
Pink Floyd: The Wall (Biziou)

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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.