BSFC Winners: 1980s

1989 (NA)

Best Picture – Crimes and Misdemeanors
Best Actor – Daniel Day-Lewis for My Left Foot
Best Actress – Jessica Tandy for Driving Miss Daisy
Best Supporting Actor – Danny Aiello for Do the Right Thing
Best Supporting Actresst – Brenda Fricker for My Left Foo
Best Director – Woody Allen for Crimes and Misdemeanor
Best Screenplay – Woody Allen for Crimes and Misdemeanor
Best Cinematography – Michael Ballhaus for The Fabulous Baker Boys
Best Documentary Let’s – Get Lost
Best Foreign Language Film – Story of Women

Special Award: Brattle Theater, on its 100th anniversary, “for maintaining the tradition of revival film programming in the Boston area and for its commitment to quality prints and projection” (the Globe’s language, not necessarily the BSFC’s)

Special Award: The Coolidge Corner Theater Foundation and Friends in Support of the Somerville Theater, “for their efforts to preserve historic theaters as sites for alternative film programming” (ditto) Best Discovery or Rediscovery: The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle (Temple), The Dybbuk (Waszynski), Coonskin (Bakshi), restored Lawrence of Arabia (Lean), Carnival of Souls (Hervey) Best Film Series: The West Rides Again (Museum of Fine Arts), The Films of Carl Theodor Dreyer (MFA), The Boston Jewish Film Festival (MFA), The Films of Anna Magnani (MFA), and The Films of John Cassavetes (Harvard Film Archive)

1988 (NA)

Best Picture – Bull Durham
Best Actress – Melanie Griffith for Working Girl
Best Actor – Daniel Day-Lewis for The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Best Supporting Actor – Dean Stockwell for Married to the Mob
Best Supporting Actress – Joan Cusack for Married to the Mob ( and Stars and Bars, and Working Girl)
Best Director – Stephen Frears for Dangerous Liasons
Best Screenplay – Ron Shelton for Bull Durham
Best Cinematography – Sven Nykvist for The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Best Foreign Language Film – Salaam Bombay!
Best Documentary – The Thin Blue Line

Special Award – Liane Brandon, Boston independent filmmaker (How to Prevent a Nuclear War, et al.)

Special Award: Richard Williams, animation director on Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Best Discovery or Rediscovery: The Manchurian Candidate (Frankenheimer), Frankenweenie (Burton), Lacombe, Lucien (Malle), The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart (Johnson), Blood Feast (Lewis) Best Film Series: Hollywood B.C./Before the Code (Brattle), The Hollywood Musical: A Tribute to Irving Berlin (Boston Public Library), Dennis Hopper: From Method to Madness (ICA), Re:Vision Film Festival (Brattle, ICA, HFA, and Boston Film/Video Foundation)

1987 (January 10th 1988)

Best Film – Hope and Glory
Best Actor – Albert Brooks (I) for Broadcast News
Best Actress – Holly Hunter for Broadcast News
Best Supporting Actor – R. Lee Ermey for Full Metal Jacket
Best Supporting Actress – Kathy Baker (I) for Street Smart
Best Director – Stanley Kubrick for Full Metal Jacket
Best Screenplay – James L. Brooks for Broadcast News
Best Cinematography – Vittorio Storaro for The Last Emperor
Best Documentary – Marlene
Best Foreign Language Film – Mitt liv som hund

1986 (January 11th 1987)

Best Film – Blue Velvet
Best Actor – Bob Hoskins for Mona Lisa
Best Actress – Chloe Webb for Sid and Nancy
Best Supporting Actor – Tie: Dennis Hopper for Blue Velvet and Ray Liotta for Something Wild
Best Supporting Actress – Dianne Wiest for Hannah and Her Sisters
Best Director – Tie: David Lynch (I) for Blue Velvet and Oliver Stone (I) for Platoon
Best Screenplay – Woody Allen for Hannah and Her Sisters
Best Cinematography Blue Velvet – Frederick Elmes
Best Documentary – Mother Teresa
Best Foreign Language Film – 37°2 le matin

1985 (January 26th 1986)

Best Film – Ran
Best Actor – Jack Nicholson for Prizzi’s Honor
Best Actress – Geraldine Page for The Trip to Bountiful
Best Supporting Actor – Ian Holm for Wetherby (also Brazil, Dance with a Stranger and Dreamchild)
Best Supporting Actress- Anjelica Huston for Prizzi’s Honor
Best Director – John Huston (I) for Prizzi’s Honor
Best Screenplay – Woody Allen for The Purple Rose of Cairo
Best Cinematography – Takao Saitô (I) and Masaharu Ueda for Ran
Best Documentary – Shoah
Best English Language Film – Prizzi’s Honor

Special Commendation – Orson Welles Cinema, Cambridge. For making available to the public controversial films that might otherwise not have been shown in the Boston area, such as ‘Je vous salue, Marie’ (1985) and the Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. Jean-Luc Godard’s “Je vous salue, Marie” was removed from the Sack Theatres schedule last fall after protestors objected to its present-day treatment of the Nativity story. Scheduling difficulties were cited as the reason the Gay and Lesbian Film Festival was dropped from the Nickelodeon lineup. Brazil, Norman Garwood. For achievement in production design, recognizing its nightmarish depiction of a disintegrating totalitarian city.

1984 (January 20th 1985)

Best Film – The Killing Fields
Best Actor – Haing S. Ngor for The Killing Fields
Best Actress – Judy Davis for A Passage to India
Best Supporting Actor – John Malkovich (and Places in the Heart) for The Killing Fields
Best Supporting Actress – Peggy Ashcroft for A Passage to India
Best Director – Bertrand Tavernier for Un dimanche à la campagne
Best Screenplay Repo Man – Alex Cox (I)
Best Cinematography – Chris Menges for The Killing Fields
Best Documentary – The Times of Harvey Milk
Best Foreign Language Film – Un dimanche à la campagne

Special Commendation to George Mansour – The “Repo Man Award” to the film booker for the Nickelodeon Cinema, for repossessing Repo Man from consignment to television.

1983 (January 29th 1984)

Best Film – La Notte di San Lorenzo
Best Actor – Eric Roberts (I) for Star 80
Best Actress – Rosanna Arquette for Baby It’s You
Best Supporting Actor – Jack Nicholson for Terms of Endearment
Best Supporting Actress – Linda Hunt for The Year of Living Dangerously
Best Director – Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani for La Notte di San Lorenzo
Best Screenplay – Eric Rohmer for Pauline à la plage
Best Cinematography – Hiro Narita for Never Cry Wolf
Best Documentary – Say Amen, Somebody
Best American Film – Terms of Endearment

1982 (February 6th 1983)

Best Film – E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Best Actor – Dustin Hoffman for Tootsie
Best Actress – Meryl Streep for Sophie’s Choice
Best Supporting Actor – Mickey Rourke for Diner
Best Supporting Actress – Jessica Lange for Tootsie
Best Director- Steven Spielberg (I) for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Best Screenplay – Barry Levinson (I) for Diner
Best Cinematography – Allen Daviau for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Best Documentary – The Atomic Cafe ‘
Best Foreign Language Film – Tre fratelli

1981 (January 29th 1982)

Best Film – Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco
Best Actor – Burt Lancaster for Atlantic City
Best Actress – Marília Pêra for Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco
Best Supporting Actor – Jack Nicholson for Reds
Best Supporting Actress – Mona Washbourne for Stevie
Best Director – Steven Spielberg (I) for Raiders of the Lost Ark
Best Screenplay – Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory for My Dinner with Andre –
Best Cinematography – Gordon Willis for Pennies from Heaven
Best Documentary – Diaries
Best Foreign Language Film – Tie: Beau-père and Taxi zum Klo Best Independent Film Gal Young ‘Un
Best American Film – My Dinner with Andre

1980 (March 22nd 1981)

Best Film – Raging Bull
Best Actor – Robert De Niro for Raging Bull
Best Actress – Gena Rowlands for Gloria
Best Supporting Actor – Jason Robards for Melvin and Howard
Best Supporting Actress- Mary Steenburgen for Melvin and Howard
Best Director – Roman Polanski for Tess
Best Screenplay – Bo Goldman for Melvin and Howard
Best Cinematography – Michael Chapman (I) for Raging Bull
Best Documentary – Charleen or How Long Has This Been Going On?
Best Foreign Language Film – Dernier métro, Le
Best Independent Film – Return of the Secaucus 7
Best American Film – Melvin and Howard