Throwback Muriels: 1983

Saturday, July 16, 2011

1983

Picture:
Sans Soleil
The Right Stuff
Fanny and Alexander
The King of Comedy
The Night of the Shooting Stars
Local Hero
Zelig
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
Videodrome
The Man With Two Brains

Director:
Chris Marker, Sans Soleil
Philip Kaufman, The Right Stuff
Ingmar Bergman, Fanny and Alexander
Vittorio Taviani and Paolo Taviani, The Night of the Shooting Stars
Martin Scorsese, The King of Comedy

Male Lead:
Robert DeNiro, The King of Comedy
Christopher Walken, The Dead Zone
Al Pacino, Scarface
Peter Riegert, Local Hero
James Woods, Videodrome

Female Lead:
Meryl Streep, Silkwood
Debra Winger, Terms of Endearment
Melinda Dillon, A Christmas Story
Jane Alexander, Testament
Fanny Ardant, Confidentially Yours

Male Supporting:
Erland Josephson, Fanny and Alexander
Sam Shepard, The Right Stuff
Jerry Lewis, The King of Comedy
Rutger Hauer, Eureka
Burt Lancaster, Local Hero

Female Supporting:
Linda Hunt, The Year of Living Dangerously
Brooke Adams, The Dead Zone
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Scarface
Kim Stanley, The Right Stuff
Sandra Bernhard, The King of Comedy

Screenplay:
Fanny and Alexander
The Right Stuff
The King of Comedy
Local Hero
Sans Soleil

Ensemble:
The Right Stuff
Fanny and Alexander
Local Hero
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
The Night of the Shooting Stars

Cinematography:
Fanny and Alexander (Nykvist)
Zelig (Willis)
Videodrome (Suschitzky)
Confidentially Yours (Almendros)
The Right Stuff (Deschanel)

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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.