Best movies of 1982 that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer,
Directors : Ridley Scott,

A blade runner must pursue and try to terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.

Actors : JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Heather O'Rourke, Beatrice Straight,

A family's home is haunted by a host of ghosts.

Actors : Dustin Hoffman, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, Jessica Lange,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

Michael Dorsey, an unsuccessful actor, disguises himself as a woman in order to get a role on a trashy hospital soap.

Actors : David Warner, Cindy Morgan, Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner,
Directors : Steven Lisberger,

A computer hacker is abducted into the digital world and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Frank McRae, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole,
Directors : Walter Hill,

A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.

Actors : Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon,
Directors : Barry Levinson,

A group of college-age buddies struggle with their imminent passage into adulthood in 1959 Baltimore.

Actors : Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin, Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

After spending time with his new neighbors, an aspiring writer realizes they are harboring deep secrets that will forever change him.

Actors : Peter Coyote, Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Dee Wallace,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home world.

Actors : Max von Sydow, Sandahl Bergman, Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Earl Jones,
Directors : John Milius,

A barbarian warrior sets off to avenge his parents and his tribe whom were slain by an evil sorcerer and his henchmen when he was a boy.

Actors : Malcolm McDowell, John Heard, Nastassja Kinski, Annette O'Toole,
Directors : Paul Schrader,

A young woman's sexual awakening brings horror when she discovers her urges transform her into a monstrous black leopard.

Actors : Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Ben Kingsley,
Directors : Richard Attenborough,

Gandhi's character is fully explained as a man of nonviolence. Through his patience, he is able to drive the British out of the subcontinent. And the stubborn nature of Jinnah and his commitment towards Pakistan is portrayed.

Actors : Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Aileen Quinn, Ann Reinking,
Directors : John Huston,

A young orphan girl's adventures in finding a family that will take her.

Actors : David Keith, Robert Loggia, Debra Winger, Richard Gere,
Directors : Taylor Hackford,

A young man must complete his work at a Navy Flight school to become an aviator, with the help of a tough gunnery sergeant and his new girlfriend.

Actors : Carl Weathers, Burt Young, Talia Shire, Sylvester Stallone,
Directors : Sylvester Stallone,

After winning the ultimate title and being the world champion, Rocky falls into a hole and finds himself picked up by a former enemy.

Actors : James Mason, Charlotte Rampling, Paul Newman, Jack Warden,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

A lawyer sees the chance to salvage his career and self-respect by taking a medical malpractice case to trial rather than settling.

Actors : Julie Andrews, Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren, James Garner,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.

Actors : Robin Williams, John Lithgow, Mary Beth Hurt, Glenn Close,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto turns her into a cultural icon.

Actors : Michael Keaton, Shelley Long, Gina Hecht, Henry Winkler,
Directors : Ron Howard,

A morgue attendant is talked into running a brothel at his workplace after a deceased pimp is sent there. However, the pimp's killers don't look too kindly on this new 'business', nor does the morgue's owner.

Actors : Mark Linn-Baker, Joseph Bologna, Peter O'Toole, Jessica Harper,
Directors : Richard Benjamin,

A dissolute matinee idol is slated to appear on a live TV variety show.

Actors : Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange, Bart Burns, Kim Stanley,
Directors : Graeme Clifford,

The story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.