1982
Blade Runner
(1982)
Hampton Fancher (screenplay), David Webb Peoples (screenplay), Philip K. Dick (novel)
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 16 nominations.
In the futuristic year of 2019, Los Angeles have become a dark and depressing metropolis, filled with urban decay. Rick Deckard, an ex-cop, is a "Blade Runner". Blade runners are people assigned to assassinate "replicants". The replicants are androids that look like real human beings. When four replicants committed a bloody mutiny on the Off World colony, Deckard is called out of retirement to track down the androids. As he track the replicants, eliminating them one by one, he soon comes across another replicant, Rachel, who evokes human emotion despite the fact that she's a replicant herself. As Deckard closes in on the leader of the replicant group, his true hatred toward artificial intelligence makes him question about his own identity in this future world including what's human and what's not human.
Fitzcarraldo
(1982)
Werner Herzog
Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 4 wins & 3 nominations.
Fitzcarraldo is an obsessed opera lover who wants to build an opera in the jungle. To accomplish this he first has to make a fortune in the rubber business, and his cunning plan involves hauling an enormous river boat across a small mountain with aid from the local Indians.
Made in Britain
(1982)
David Leland
1 win.
Trevor is a 16 year old, sometimes-violent skinhead with no regard for authority, and would rather spend his time stealing cars than sitting in the detention centre to which he is sent. His social worker, Harry Parker, tries to do his best, but Trevor is only interested when there's something that he can get out of it. The authorities within the centre try to make Trevor conform to the norms of society, but he takes no notice, and would rather speak in a torrent of four-letter words and racial abuse.
Poltergeist
(1982)
Steven Spielberg (screenplay by), Michael Grais (screenplay by), Mark Victor (screenplay by), Steven Spielberg (story by)
Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 4 nominations.
A young family are visited by ghosts in their home. At first the ghosts appear friendly, moving objects around the house to the amusement of everyone, then they turn nasty and start to terrorise the family before they "kidnap" the youngest daughter.
The Thing
(1982)
Bill Lancaster (screenplay), John W. Campbell Jr. (story)
3 nominations.
It's the first week of winter in 1982. An American Research Base is greeted by an alien force, that can assimilate anything it touches. It's up to the members to stay alive, and be sure of who is human, and who has become one of the Things.