41st Golden Globe Awards

41st Golden Globe Awards
41st Golden Globe Awards
Date	January 28, 1984
Site	Beverly Hilton Hotel; Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California
Hosted by	John Forsythe; Julie Walters
Highlights
Best Film: Drama	Terms of Endearment
Best Film: Musical or Comedy	Yentl
Best Drama Series	Dynasty
Best Musical or Comedy Series	Fame
Most awards	(4) Terms of Endearment
Most nominations	(6) Terms of Endearment; Yentl
	← 40th; Golden Globes; 42nd →;

The 41st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1983, were held on January 28, 1984.

Winners and nominees

Barbara Stanwyck — Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television winner

Film

Best Motion Picture
Drama	Comedy or Musical
*Terms of Endearment* Reuben, Reuben The Right Stuff Silkwood Tender Mercies	*Yentl* The Big Chill Flashdance Trading Places Zelig
Best Performance in a Motion Picture – Drama
Actor	Actress
*Tom Courtenay – The Dresser* as Norman Robert Duvall – Tender Mercies as Mac Sledge** Tom Conti – Reuben, Reuben as Gowan McGland Richard Farnsworth – The Grey Fox as Bill Miner / George Edwards Albert Finney – The Dresser as Sir Al Pacino – Scarface as Tony Montana Eric Roberts – Star 80 as Paul Snider	*Shirley MacLaine – Terms of Endearment* as Aurora Greenway** Jane Alexander – Testament as Carol Wetherly Bonnie Bedelia – Heart Like a Wheel as Shirley Muldowney Meryl Streep – Silkwood as Karen Silkwood Debra Winger – Terms of Endearment as Emma Greenway-Horton
Best Performance in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Actor	Actress
*Michael Caine – Educating Rita* as Prof. Frank Bryant** Woody Allen – Zelig as Leonard Zelig Tom Cruise – Risky Business as Joel Goodson Eddie Murphy – Trading Places as Billy Ray Valentine Mandy Patinkin – Yentl as Avigdor	*Julie Walters – Educating Rita* as Susan "Rita" White** Anne Bancroft – To Be or Not to Be as Anna Bronski Jennifer Beals – Flashdance as Alexandra "Alex" Owens Linda Ronstadt – The Pirates of Penzance as Mabel Stanley Barbra Streisand – Yentl as Yentl Mendel
Best Supporting Performance in a Motion Picture – Drama, Comedy or Musical
Supporting Actor	Supporting Actress
*Jack Nicholson – Terms of Endearment* as Garrett Breedlove** Steven Bauer – Scarface as Manny Ribera Charles Durning – To Be or Not to Be as S.S. Colonel Erhardt Gene Hackman – Under Fire as Alex Grazier Kurt Russell – Silkwood as Drew Stephens	*Cher – Silkwood* as Dolly Pelliker** Barbara Carrera – Never Say Never Again as Fatima Blush Tess Harper – Tender Mercies as Rosa Lee Linda Hunt – The Year of Living Dangerously as Billy Kwan Joanna Pacuła – Gorky Park as Irina Asanova
Other
Best Director	Best Screenplay
Barbra Streisand – Yentl Bruce Beresford – Tender Mercies Ingmar Bergman – Fanny and Alexander James L. Brooks – Terms of Endearment Mike Nichols – Silkwood Peter Yates – The Dresser	Terms of Endearment – James L. Brooks The Big Chill – Barbara Benedek and Lawrence Kasdan The Dresser – Ronald Harwood Educating Rita – Willy Russell Reuben, Reuben – Julius J. Epstein
Best Original Score	Best Original Song
Flashdance – Giorgio Moroder Rumble Fish – Stewart Copeland Scarface – Giorgio Moroder Under Fire – Jerry Goldsmith Yentl – Alan and Marilyn Bergman and Michel Legrand	"Flashdance... What a Feeling" (Giorgio Moroder, Keith Forsey, Irene Cara) – Flashdance "Far from Over" (Frank Stallone, Vince DiCola) – Staying Alive "Maniac" (Michael Sembello, Dennis Matkosky) – Flashdance "Over You" (Austin Roberts, Bobby Hart) – Tender Mercies "The Way He Makes Me Feel" (Michel Legrand, Alan and Marilyn Bergman) – Yentl
Best Foreign Film
Fanny and Alexander (Sweden) Carmen (Spain) The Dresser (England) Educating Rita (England) The Grey Fox (Canada)

The following films received multiple nominations:

Nomination	Title
6	Terms of Endearment
6	Yentl
5	The Dresser
	Flashdance
	Silkwood
4	Educating Rita
4	Tender Mercies
3	Reuben, Reuben
3	Scarface
2	The Big Chill
	The Grey Fox
	Zelig

The following films received multiple wins:

Wins	Title
4	Terms of Endearment
2	Educating Rita
	Flashdance
	Yentl

Television

Best Television Series
Drama	Musical or Comedy
*Dynasty* Cagney & Lacey Dallas Hart to Hart Hill Street Blues	Fame Buffalo Bill Cheers Newhart Taxi
Best Performance in a Television Series – Drama
Actor	Actress
*John Forsythe - Dynasty* as Blake Carrington** James Brolin - Hotel as Peter McDermott Tom Selleck - Magnum, P.I. as Thomas Magnum III Daniel J. Travanti - Hill Street Blues as Capt. Francis "Frank" Furillo Robert Wagner - Hart to Hart as Jonathan Hart	*Jane Wyman - Falcon Crest* as Angela Channing** Joan Collins - Dynasty as Alexis Colby Tyne Daly - Cagney & Lacey as Mary Beth Lacey Linda Evans - Dynasty as Krystle Carrington Stefanie Powers - Hart to Hart as Jennifer Hart
Best Performance in a Television Series – Comedy or Musical
Actor	Actress
*John Ritter - Three's Company* as Jack Tripper** Dabney Coleman - Buffalo Bill as "Buffalo" Bill Bittinger Ted Danson - Cheers as Sam Malone Robert Guillaume - Benson as Benson DuBois Bob Newhart - Newhart as Dick Loudon	*Joanna Cassidy - Buffalo Bill* as Joanna "Jo-Jo" White** Debbie Allen - Fame as Lydia Grant Madeline Kahn - Oh Madeline as Madeline Wayne Shelley Long - Cheers as Diane Chambers Isabel Sanford - The Jeffersons as Louise Jefferson
Best Performance in a Miniseries or Television Film
Actor	Actress
*Richard Chamberlain - The Thorn Birds* as Ralph de Bricassart** Robert Blake - Blood Feud as James R. Hoffa Louis Gossett Jr. - Sadat as Anwar al-Sadat Martin Sheen - Kennedy as John F. Kennedy Peter Strauss - Heart of Steel as Emory	*Ann-Margret - Who Will Love My Children?* as Lucile Fray** Susan Blakely - Will There Really Be a Morning? as Frances Farmer Blair Brown - Kennedy as Jacqueline Kennedy Gena Rowlands - Thursday's Child as Victoria Alden Rachel Ward - The Thorn Birds as Meggie Cleary
Best Supporting Performance in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film
Supporting Actor	Supporting Actress
*Richard Kiley - The Thorn Birds* as Paddy Cleary** Bryan Brown - The Thorn Birds as Luke O'Neill John Houseman - The Winds of War as Aaron Jastrow Perry King - The Hasty Heart as Yank Rob Lowe - Thursday's Child as Sam Alden Jan-Michael Vincent - The Winds of War as Byron "Briny" Henry	*Barbara Stanwyck - The Thorn Birds* as Mary Carson** Polly Holliday - The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story as Aunt Minerva Angela Lansbury - The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story as Amanda Fenwick Piper Laurie - The Thorn Birds as Anne Mueller Jean Simmons - The Thorn Birds as Fee Cleary Victoria Tennant - The Winds of War as Pamela Tudsburry
Best Miniseries or Television Film
*The Thorn Birds* Kennedy The Winds of War Heart of Steel Who Will Love My Children?

The following programs received multiple nominations:

Nominations	Title
8	The Thorn Birds
4	Dynasty
4	The Winds of War
3	Cheers
	Hart to Hart
	Kennedy
2	Buffalo Bill
	Cagney & Lacey
	Fame
	The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story
	Heart of Steel
	Hill Street Blues
	Newhart
	Thursday's Child
	Who Will Love My Children?

The following programs received multiple wins:

Wins	Title
4	The Thorn Birds
2	Dynasty

Ceremony

Presenters

Cecil B. DeMille Award

Paul Newman

References

IMdb 1984 Golden Globe Awards

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