Winners
- Best Film: Betrayal , Terms of Endearment
- Best Foreign Film: Fanny and Alexander
- Best Actor: Tom Conti ( Reuben, Reuben , Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence )
- Best Actress: Shirley MacLaine ( Terms of Endearment )
- Best Supporting Actor: Jack Nicholson ( Terms of Endearment )
- Best Supporting Actress: Linda Hunt ( The Year of Living Dangerously )
- Best Director: James L. Brooks ( Terms of Endearment )
- Career Achievement Award: Gregory Peck
Betrayal is a 1983 film adaptation of Harold Pinter's 1978 play of the same name. With a semi-autobiographical screenplay by Pinter, the film was produced by Sam Spiegel and directed by David Jones. It was critically well received, praised notably by New York Times film critic Vincent Canby and by Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert. Distributed by 20th Century Fox International Classics (USA), it was first screened in movie theaters in New York in February 1983.
Terms of Endearment is a 1983 American comedy-drama film adapted from Larry McMurtry's 1975 novel, directed, written, and produced by James L. Brooks, and starring Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Jeff Daniels, and John Lithgow. The film covers 30 years of the relationship between Aurora Greenway (MacLaine) and her daughter Emma (Winger).
Fanny and Alexander is a 1982 historical period drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. The plot focuses on two siblings and their large family in Uppsala, Sweden during the first decade of the twentieth century. Following the death of the eponymous children's father, their mother remarries a prominent bishop who becomes abusive towards Alexander for his vivid imagination.
