Monday, November 5, 2012

The Katie-Bar-The-Door Awards (1980)

Interesting to me, if not to you, is the fact that as we get closer to the present, the more pictures of movie stars there are available on the internet (as you'd expect), but the fewer good ones. Lots of head shots and generically-posed red carpet photos, lots of lousy paparazzi photos of people in sweat pants on their way to the grocery store, and a thousand photos of [fill in the blank] falling drunk out of a limousine. But very few of the gorgeous art-quality photos the studios used to take of everybody from Carole Lombard to the men's room attendant. Pity.

PICTURE (Drama)
winner: Raging Bull (prod. Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler)

PICTURE (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Airplane! (prod. Jon Davidson and Howard W. Koch)

PICTURE (Foreign Language)
winner: Kagemusha (prod. Akira Kurosawa)

ACTOR (Drama)
winner: Robert De Niro (Raging Bull)

ACTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Walter Matthau (Hopscotch)

ACTRESS (Drama)
winner: Ellen Burstyn (Resurrection)

ACTRESS (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Sissy Spacek (Coal Miner's Daughter)

DIRECTOR (Drama)
winner: Martin Scorsese (Raging Bull)

DIRECTOR (Comedy/Musical)
winner: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker (Airplane!)

SUPPORTING ACTOR
winner: Jack Warden (Used Cars)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
winner: Mary Steenburgen (Melvin and Howard)

SCREENPLAY
winner: Jonathan Hardy, David Stevens and Bruce Beresford, from the play by Kenneth Ross (Breaker Morant)

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