Oscar Alert

 

Oscar Nominations: 3

 

Actor: Paul Newman

Supporting Actress: Melinda Dillon

Screenplay (Original): Kurt Luedtke

 

Oscar Awards: None

 

Oscar Context:

 

The winner of the Best Actor Oscar was Henry Fonda for the melodrama “On Golden Pond.”  Maureen Stapleton won the Supporting Actress Oscar for Warren Beatty's epic “Reds.”

 

The Original Screenplay Oscar went to Colin Welland for the British film “Chariots of Fire,” which also won Best Picture.