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54th Academy Awards
Date Monday, March 29, 1982
Site Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles
Host Johnny Carson
Producer Howard W. Koch, Melvin Frank
Director Marty Pasetta
Highlights
Best Picture Chariots of Fire
Most nominations On Golden Pond (10)
TV in the United States
Network ABC
Duration 3 hours, 24 minutes
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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 (Reds was the favored nominee) of the Best Picture Oscar this year. 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, making it the most amount of Best Actress wins by any actress.

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Results

Award Winner Nominee(s)
Best Actor in a Leading Role Henry FondaOn Golden Pond
Best Actor in a Supporting Role John GielgudArthur
Best Actress in a Leading Role Katharine HepburnOn Golden Pond
Best Actress in a Supporting Role Maureen StapletonReds
Best Art Direction Raiders of the Lost Ark – Art Direction: Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley; Set Decoration: Michael Ford
Best Cinematography RedsVittorio Storaro
Best Costume Design Chariots of FireMilena Canonero
Best Director Warren BeattyReds
Best Documentary (Feature) Genocide – Arnold Schwartzman and Rabbi Marvin Hier, Producers
  • Against Wind and Tide: A Cuban Odyssey – Suzanne Bauman, Paul Neshamkin and Jim Burroughs, Producers
  • Brooklyn BridgeKen Burns, Producer
  • Eight Minutes to Midnight: A Portrait of Dr. Helen Caldicott – Mary Benjamin, Susanne Simpson and Boyd Estus, Producers
  • El Salvador: Another Vietnam – Glenn Silber and Tete Vasconcellos, Producers
Best Documentary (Short Subject) "Close Harmony" – Nigel Noble, Producer
Best Film Editing Raiders of the Lost ArkMichael Kahn
Best Foreign Language Film Mephisto – Hungary
Best Makeup Rick BakerAn American Werewolf in London
Best Music (Original Score) Chariots of FireVangelis
Best Music (Original Song) "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" from Arthur – Music and Lyric by Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager, Christopher Cross and Peter Allen
Best Picture Chariots of FireDavid Puttnam, Producer
Best Short Film (Animated) "Crac" – Frédéric Back, Producer
Best Short Film (Dramatic Live Action) "Violet" – Paul Kemp and Shelley Levinson, Producers
  • "Couples and Robbers" – Christine Oestreicher, Producer
  • "First Winter" – John N. Smith, Producer
Best Sound Raiders of the Lost Ark – Bill Varney, Steve Maslow, Gregg Landaker, Roy Charman
  • On Golden Pond – Richard Portman, David Ronne
  • Outland – John K. Wilkinson, Robert W. Glass, Jr., Robert M. Thirlwell, Robin Gregory
  • Pennies from Heaven – Michael J. Kohut, Jay M. Harding, Richard Tyler, Al Overton
  • Reds – Dick Vorisek, Tom Fleischman, Simon Kaye
Best Visual Effects Raiders of the Lost ArkRichard Edlund, Kit West, Bruce Nicholson, Joe Johnston
Best Writing (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) On Golden PondErnest Thompson
Best Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) Chariots of FireColin Welland

Out of competition

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