41st Golden Globe Awards

41st Golden Globe Awards
Date	January 28, 1984
Site	Beverly Hilton Hotel Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California
Hosted by	John Forsythe Julie Walters
Highlights
Best Film: Drama	Terms of Endearment
Best Film: Musical or Comedy	Yentl
Best Drama Series	Dynasty
Best Musical or Comedy Series	Fame
Most awards	(4) Terms of Endearment
Most nominations	(6) Terms of Endearment Yentl
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The 41st Golden Globe Awards , honoring the best in film and television for 1983, were held on January 28, 1984.

Winners and nominees

Tom Courtenay — Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama co-winner

Robert Duvall — Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama co-winner

Shirley MacLaine — Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama winner

Michael Caine — Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical winner

Julie Walters — Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical winner

Jack Nicholson — Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture, winner

Cher — Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture, winner

Barbra Streisand — Best Director, winner

John Forsythe — Best Actor in a Television Series, Drama winner

Jane Wyman — Best Actress in a Television Series, Drama winner

John Ritter — Best Actor in a Television Series, Comedy or Musical winner

Joanna Cassidy — Best Actress in a Television Series, Comedy or Musical winner

Richard Chamberlain — Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film, winner

Ann-Margret — Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film, winner

Richard Kiley — Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television winner

Barbara Stanwyck — Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television winner

Film

Best Motion Picture
Drama	Comedy or Musical
Terms of Endearment Reuben, Reuben The Right Stuff Silkwood Tender Mercies	Yentl The Big Chill Flashdance Trading Places Zelig
Best Performance in a Motion Picture – Drama
Actor	Actress
Tom Courtenay – The Dresser as Norman Robert Duvall – Tender Mercies as Mac Sledge Tom Conti – Reuben, Reuben as Gowan McGland Richard Farnsworth – The Grey Fox as Bill Miner / George Edwards Albert Finney – The Dresser as Sir Al Pacino – Scarface as Tony Montana Eric Roberts – Star 80 as Paul Snider	Shirley MacLaine – Terms of Endearment as Aurora Greenway Jane Alexander – Testament as Carol Wetherly Bonnie Bedelia – Heart Like a Wheel as Shirley Muldowney Meryl Streep – Silkwood as Karen Silkwood Debra Winger – Terms of Endearment as Emma Greenway-Horton
Best Performance in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Actor	Actress
Michael Caine – Educating Rita as Prof. Frank Bryant Woody Allen – Zelig as Leonard Zelig Tom Cruise – Risky Business as Joel Goodson Eddie Murphy – Trading Places as Billy Ray Valentine Mandy Patinkin – Yentl as Avigdor	Julie Walters – Educating Rita as Susan "Rita" White Anne Bancroft – To Be or Not to Be as Anna Bronski Jennifer Beals – Flashdance as Alexandra "Alex" Owens Linda Ronstadt – The Pirates of Penzance as Mabel Stanley Barbra Streisand – Yentl as Yentl Mendel
Best Supporting Performance in a Motion Picture – Drama, Comedy or Musical
Supporting Actor	Supporting Actress
Jack Nicholson – Terms of Endearment as Garrett Breedlove Steven Bauer – Scarface as Manny Ribera Charles Durning – To Be or Not to Be as S.S. Colonel Erhardt Gene Hackman – Under Fire as Alex Grazier Kurt Russell – Silkwood as Drew Stephens	Cher – Silkwood as Dolly Pelliker Barbara Carrera – Never Say Never Again as Fatima Blush Tess Harper – Tender Mercies as Rosa Lee Linda Hunt – The Year of Living Dangerously as Billy Kwan Joanna Pacuła – Gorky Park as Irina Asanova
Other
Best Director	Best Screenplay
Barbra Streisand – Yentl Bruce Beresford – Tender Mercies Ingmar Bergman – Fanny and Alexander James L. Brooks – Terms of Endearment Mike Nichols – Silkwood Peter Yates – The Dresser	Terms of Endearment – James L. Brooks The Big Chill – Barbara Benedek and Lawrence Kasdan The Dresser – Ronald Harwood Educating Rita – Willy Russell Reuben, Reuben – Julius J. Epstein
Best Original Score	Best Original Song
Flashdance – Giorgio Moroder Rumble Fish – Stewart Copeland Scarface – Giorgio Moroder Under Fire – Jerry Goldsmith Yentl – Alan and Marilyn Bergman and Michel Legrand	"Flashdance... What a Feeling" (Giorgio Moroder, Keith Forsey, Irene Cara) – Flashdance "Far from Over" (Frank Stallone, Vince DiCola) – Staying Alive "Maniac" (Michael Sembello, Dennis Matkosky) – Flashdance "Over You" (Austin Roberts, Bobby Hart) – Tender Mercies "The Way He Makes Me Feel" (Michel Legrand, Alan and Marilyn Bergman) – Yentl
Best Foreign Film
Fanny and Alexander (Sweden) Carmen (Spain) The Dresser (England) Educating Rita (England) The Grey Fox (Canada)

The following films received multiple nominations:

Nomination	Title
6	Terms of Endearment
	Yentl
5	The Dresser
	Flashdance
	Silkwood
4	Educating Rita
	Tender Mercies
3	Reuben, Reuben
	Scarface
2	The Big Chill
	The Grey Fox
	Zelig

The following films received multiple wins:

Wins	Title
4	Terms of Endearment
2	Educating Rita
	Flashdance
	Yentl

Television

Best Television Series
Drama	Musical or Comedy
Dynasty Cagney & Lacey Dallas Hart to Hart Hill Street Blues	Fame Buffalo Bill Cheers Newhart Taxi
Best Performance in a Television Series – Drama
Actor	Actress
John Forsythe - Dynasty as Blake Carrington James Brolin - Hotel as Peter McDermott Tom Selleck - Magnum, P.I. as Thomas Magnum III Daniel J. Travanti - Hill Street Blues as Capt. Francis "Frank" Furillo Robert Wagner - Hart to Hart as Jonathan Hart	Jane Wyman - Falcon Crest as Angela Channing Joan Collins - Dynasty as Alexis Colby Tyne Daly - Cagney & Lacey as Mary Beth Lacey Linda Evans - Dynasty as Krystle Carrington Stefanie Powers - Hart to Hart as Jennifer Hart
Best Performance in a Television Series – Comedy or Musical
Actor	Actress
John Ritter - Three's Company as Jack Tripper Dabney Coleman - Buffalo Bill as "Buffalo" Bill Bittinger Ted Danson - Cheers as Sam Malone Robert Guillaume - Benson as Benson DuBois Bob Newhart - Newhart as Dick Loudon	Joanna Cassidy - Buffalo Bill as Joanna "Jo-Jo" White Debbie Allen - Fame as Lydia Grant Madeline Kahn - Oh Madeline as Madeline Wayne Shelley Long - Cheers as Diane Chambers Isabel Sanford - The Jeffersons as Louise Jefferson
Best Performance in a Miniseries or Television Film
Actor	Actress
Richard Chamberlain - The Thorn Birds as Ralph de Bricassart Robert Blake - Blood Feud as James R. Hoffa Louis Gossett Jr. - Sadat as Anwar al-Sadat Martin Sheen - Kennedy as John F. Kennedy Peter Strauss - Heart of Steel as Emory	Ann-Margret - Who Will Love My Children? as Lucile Fray Susan Blakely - Will There Really Be a Morning? as Frances Farmer Blair Brown - Kennedy as Jacqueline Kennedy Gena Rowlands - Thursday's Child as Victoria Alden Rachel Ward - The Thorn Birds as Meggie Cleary
Best Supporting Performance in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film
Supporting Actor	Supporting Actress
Richard Kiley - The Thorn Birds as Paddy Cleary Bryan Brown - The Thorn Birds as Luke O'Neill John Houseman - The Winds of War as Aaron Jastrow Perry King - The Hasty Heart as Yank Rob Lowe - Thursday's Child as Sam Alden Jan-Michael Vincent - The Winds of War as Byron "Briny" Henry	Barbara Stanwyck - The Thorn Birds as Mary Carson Polly Holliday - The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story as Aunt Minerva Angela Lansbury - The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story as Amanda Fenwick Piper Laurie - The Thorn Birds as Anne Mueller Jean Simmons - The Thorn Birds as Fee Cleary Victoria Tennant - The Winds of War as Pamela Tudsburry
Best Miniseries or Television Film
The Thorn Birds Kennedy The Winds of War Heart of Steel Who Will Love My Children?

The following programs received multiple nominations:

Nominations	Title
8	The Thorn Birds
4	Dynasty
	The Winds of War
3	Cheers
	Hart to Hart
	Kennedy
2	Buffalo Bill
	Cagney & Lacey
	Fame
	The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story
	Heart of Steel
	Hill Street Blues
	Newhart
	Thursday's Child
	Who Will Love My Children?

The following programs received multiple wins:

Wins	Title
4	The Thorn Birds
2	Dynasty

Ceremony

Presenters

• Maud Adams
• Edward Asner
• Christopher Atkins
• Anne Baxter
• Jeff Bridges
• Susan Clark
• Mike Connors
• William Devane
• Teri Garr
• Melissa Gilbert
• Louis Gossett, Jr.
• Gene Hackman
• Mariel Hemingway
• Alex Karras
• Cheryl Ladd
• Lorenzo Lamas
• Diane Lane
• Heather Locklear
• Gina Lollobrigida
• Shelley Long
• Donna Mills
• Michael Pare
• Cliff Robertson
• Mark Rydell
• Telly Savalas
• George Segal
• Connie Sellecca
• Steve Shagan
• William Shatner
• Jill St. John
• Robert Wagner
• Dee Wallace
• Lesley Ann Warren
• Richard Widmark

Cecil B. DeMille Award

Paul Newman

See also

• 56th Academy Awards
• 4th Golden Raspberry Awards
• 35th Primetime Emmy Awards
• 36th Primetime Emmy Awards
• 37th British Academy Film Awards
• 38th Tony Awards
• 1983 in film
• 1983 in American television

References

• IMdb 1984 Golden Globe Awards