54th Academy Awards

The 54th Academy Awards were presented March 29, 1982 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Johnny Carson.

Chariots of Fire was the surprise winner (with a leading 12 nominations Reds had been expected to win) of the Best Picture Oscar. It was the first time in 13 years that a British film won the Academy's top honor. Next year's winner, Gandhi, was also a British production.

Henry Fonda won his only competitive Oscar this year, as Best Actor for On Golden Pond. At 76 years of age, Fonda became the oldest winner in the Best Actor category in Academy history. The only other nomination he received in his career was Best Actor for his performance in The Grapes of Wrath 41 years ago - a record gap between acting nominations. His co-star, Katharine Hepburn, won her fourth Best Actress award that year, beating her own record for most amount of Best Actress wins by any actress.

This year's nominations also marked for the very first time that three different films were nominated for the "Top Five" Academy Awards: Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay. The three films were On Golden Pond, Atlantic City and Reds. However, none of them won the Best Picture prize, losing to Chariots of Fire. This also marked the first year that the award for Best Makeup was presented; the winner was Rick Baker for his work on An American Werewolf in London.

This was the last year until the 2005 Oscars where all five Best picture nominations were also nominated for Best Director.

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.^[1]

Honorary Academy Award

• Barbara Stanwyck

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

• Danny Kaye

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

• Albert R. Broccoli

Gordon E. Sawyer Award

• Joseph B. Walker

Special Achievement Academy Award

• Ben Burtt and Richard L. Anderson for Raiders of the Lost Ark

Presenters

• Karen Allen and Howard Rollins (Presenters: Best Art Direction)
• Ursula Andress and Harry Hamlin (Presenters: Best Film Editing)
• Christopher Atkins and Kristy McNichol (Presenters: Best Sound)
• Dan Aykroyd (Presenter: Best Visual Effects)
• Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss (Presenters: Documentary Awards)
• Carol Burnett and Joel Grey (Presenters: Best Supporting Actor)
• Chevy Chase and Rachel Ward (Presenters: Best Cinematography)
• Morgan Fairchild and Robert Hays (Presenters: Best Costume Design)
• Kim Hunter and Vincent Price (Presenters: Best Makeup)
• William Hurt and Kathleen Turner (Presenters: Best Original Score)
• Timothy Hutton (Presenter: Best Supporting Actress)
• Jerzy Kosinski (Presenter: Writing Awards)
• Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau (Presenters: Best Director)
• Bette Midler (Presenter: Best Original Song)
• Roger Moore (Presenter: Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award)
• Ornella Muti and Jack Valenti (Presenters: Best Foreign Language Film)
• Gregory Peck (Presenter: Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award)
• Sissy Spacek (Presenter: Best Actor)
• John Travolta (Presenter: Honorary Award to Barbara Stanwyck)
• Jon Voight (Presenter: Best Actress)
• Paul Williams and Debra Winger (Presenter: Short Subjects Awards)
• Loretta Young (Presenter: Best Picture)

Performers

• Liberace performed all the nominated music for Best Original Score
• Debbie Allen and Gregory Hines ("Medley: Lullaby of Broadway/The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money)/You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me/You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby/I Found a Million Dollar Baby (in a Five and Ten Cent Store)/She's a Latin from Manhattan/I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi (I Like You Very Much)/Chattanooga Choo Choo/On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe/You'll Never Know/I'll String Along with You/Shuffle Off to Buffalo/Lulu's Back in Town/Jeepers Creepers/Nagasaki/There Will Never Be Another You/Forty-Second Street")
• Christopher Cross ("Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" from Arthur)
• Sheena Easton ("For Your Eyes Only" from For Your Eyes Only)
• Lionel Richie and Diana Ross ("Endless Love" from Endless Love)
• John Schneider ("One More Hour" from Ragtime)

Multiple nominations and awards

See also

• Academy Award
• Academy Honorary Award
• 54th Academy Awards nominees and winners
• 39th Golden Globe Awards
• 2nd Golden Raspberry Awards
• 1981 in film
• List of Academy Awards ceremonies
• Submissions for the 54th Academy Award for Best Foreign Film
• 24th Grammy Awards
• 33rd Primetime Emmy Awards
• 34th Primetime Emmy Awards
• 35th British Academy Film Awards
• 36th Tony Awards
• Governors Awards

References

Notes

• "The Official Academy Awards Database". awardsdatabase.oscars.org. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/BasicSearchInput.jsp. Retrieved September 9, 2009. 

External links

• Blast from the Past: The Oscars of 1982, a January 2007 Entertainment Weekly article looking back at the 54th Academy Awards ceremony.