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Original Screenplay winner, with presenters Mel Gibson and Sissy Spacek. James L. Brooks, Shirley MacLaine and Jack Nicholson. Terms of Endearment winners for Directing/Best Picture/Adapted Screenplay, Best Actress, and Supporting Actor. View More Memorable Moments.
The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay adapted from previously established material. The most frequently adapted media are novels, but other adapted narrative formats include stage plays, musicals, short stories, TV series, and other films and film characters.
Feb 9, 2020 · The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is given each year to a script “based on material from another medium.” That other medium being adapted is often a novel ( The Lord of the Rings ), a stage production ( Fences ), or another film ( A Star is Born ).
- Best Picture
- Directing
- Actor in A Leading Role
- Actress in A Leading Role
- Actor in A Supporting Role
- Actress in A Supporting Role
- Writing
- Music
- Film Editing
- Cinematography
Amadeus – Saul Zaentz The Killing Fields – David Puttnam A Passage to India – John Brabourne, Richard Goodwin Places in the Heart – Arlene Donovan A Soldier’s Story– Norman Jewison, Ronald L. Schwary, Patrick Palmer
Amadeus – Milos Forman Broadway Danny Rose – Woody Allen The Killing Fields – Roland Joffé A Passage to India – David Lean Places in the Heart– Robert Benton
F. Murray Abraham – Amadeus Jeff Bridges – Starman Albert Finney – Under the Volcano Tom Hulce – Amadeus Sam Waterston – The Killing Fields
Judy Davis – A Passage to India Sally Field – Places in the Heart Jessica Lange – Country Vanessa Redgrave – The Bostonians Sissy Spacek – The River
Adolph Caesar – A Soldier’s Story John Malkovich – Places in the Heart Noriyuki ‘Pat’ Morita – The Karate Kid Haing S. Ngor – The Killing Fields Ralph Richardson – Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Peggy Ashcroft – A Passage to India Glenn Close – The Natural Lindsay Crouse – Places in the Heart Christine Lahti – Swing Shift Geraldine Page – The Pope of Greenwich Village
Amadeus – Peter Shaffer Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes – P.H. Vazak, Michael Austin The Killing Fields – Bruce Robinson A Passage to India – David Lean A Soldier’s Story– Charles Fuller
“Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)” – Against All Odds – Music, Lyric by Phil Collins “Footloose” – Footloose – Music, Lyric by Kenny Loggins, Dean Pitchford “Ghostbusters” – Ghostbusters – Music, Lyric by Ray Parker, Jr. “I Just Called To Say I Love You” – The Woman in Red – Music, Lyric by Stevie Wonder “Let’s Hear It For The Boy” – Footlo...
Amadeus – Nena Danevic, Michael Chandler The Cotton Club – Barry Malkin, Robert Q. Lovett The Killing Fields – Jim Clark A Passage to India – David Lean Romancing the Stone– Donn Cambern, Frank Morriss
Amadeus – Miroslav Ondricek The Killing Fields – Chris Menges The Natural – Caleb Deschanel A Passage to India – Ernest Day The River– Vilmos Zsigmond
* Writing (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) - Peter Shaffer Actor in a Leading Role - Tom Hulce Cinematography - Miroslav Ondricek
The 56th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 1983 and took place on April 9, 1984, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST.
Writing (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) - Blake Edwards Volver a Empezar ("To Begin Again") 1 WIN , 1 NOMINATION
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