Top 20 Performances of 1982
by Aunt-Peg | created - 25 Aug 2011 | updated - 08 Apr 2019 | PublicThese are my top 20 performances listed in order for each category (lead actor, lead actress, supporting actor & supporting actress).
1. Jack Lemmon
Actor | The Apartment
Jack Lemmon was born in Newton, Massachusetts, to Mildred Lankford Noel and John Uhler Lemmon, Jr., the president of a doughnut company. His ancestry included Irish (from his paternal grandmother) and English. Jack attended Ward Elementary near his Newton, MA home. At age 9 he was sent to Rivers ...
in Missing (best performance by an actor in a lead role 1982)
2. Norman Kaye
Actor | Bad Boy Bubby
Norman Kaye was born on January 17, 1927 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He was an actor and composer, known for Bad Boy Bubby (1993), Man of Flowers (1983) and Moulin Rouge! (2001). He died on May 29, 2007 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
in Lonely Hearts (2nd choice)
3. Dustin Hoffman
Actor | Tootsie
Dustin Lee Hoffman was born in Los Angeles, California, to Lillian (Gold) and Harry Hoffman, who was a furniture salesman and prop supervisor for Columbia Pictures. He was raised in a Jewish family (from Ukraine, Russia-Poland, and Romania). Hoffman graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1955, ...
in Tootsie (3rd choice)
4. Chris Haywood
Actor | Sleeping Beauty
Chris Haywood was born on July 24, 1948 in Billericay, Essex, England, UK. He is an actor and production manager, known for Sleeping Beauty (2011), Muriel's Wedding (1994) and Quigley Down Under (1990).
in The Clinic (4th choice)
5. Paul Bartel
Actor | Eating Raoul
Paul Bartel was born in Brooklyn in 1938. He decided he wanted to direct animated movies when he was 11 and by 13 had spent a summer working at New York's UPA animation studio. He majored in theater arts at UCLA, and received a Fulbright scholarship to study film direction in Rome, producing a ...
in Eating Raoul (5th choice)
6. Sissy Spacek
Actress | In the Bedroom
As a kid, Sissy Spacek climbed trees, rode horses, swam, and played in the woods. She was born Mary Elizabeth Spacek on December 25, 1949, in Quitman, Texas, to Virginia Frances (Spilman) and Edwin Arnold Spacek, Sr., a county agricultural agent. Her father's family was of Czech and German origin.
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in Missing (best performance by an actress in a lead role 1982)
7. Mariel Hemingway
Actress | Manhattan
Mariel Hemingway was born on November 22, 1961 in Mill Valley, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Manhattan (1979), Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) and The Sex Monster (1999). She was previously married to Stephen Crisman.
in Personal Best (2nd choice)
8. Wendy Hughes
Actress | Return to Eden
Wendy Hughes was an accomplished actress who had won over 13 major awards. She had been called "one of the world's great actresses" with "the beauty and talent to become an international star". Hughes was born in Melbourne and studied at the National Institute of Dramatic Art. She has two children,...
in Lonely Hearts (3rd choice)
9. Meryl Streep
Actress | Out of Africa
Considered by many critics to be the greatest living actress, Meryl Streep has been nominated for the Academy Award an astonishing 21 times, and has won it three times. Meryl was born Mary Louise Streep in 1949 in Summit, New Jersey, to Mary Wolf (Wilkinson), a commercial artist, and Harry William ...
in Sophie's Choice (4th choice)
10. Mary Woronov
Actress | Eating Raoul
Mary Woronov was born on December 8, 1943, at the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida. A surgeon's stepdaughter, she was raised in Brooklyn Heights and attended Cornell University as a sculpting major. After a class trip to Andy Warhol 's Silver Factory, she joined Warhol's entourage and starred ...
in Eating Raoul (5th choice)
11. John Lithgow
Actor | The World According to Garp
If "born to the theater" has meaning in determining a person's life path, then John Lithgow is a prime example of this truth. He was born in Rochester, New York, to Sarah Jane (Price), an actress, and Arthur Washington Lithgow III, who was both a theatrical producer and director. John's father was ...
in The World According to Garp (best performance by an actor in a supporting role 1982)
12. Robert Preston
Actor | The Music Man
American leading man of vast charisma, Robert Preston was the son of a garment worker and a record store clerk and grew up in Los Angeles. He was a trained musician, playing several instruments, and in high school became interested in theatre. He joined the Pasadena Community Playhouse, taking ...
in Victor/Victoria (2nd choice)
13. David Argue
Actor | Gallipoli
David Argue was born on December 26, 1959 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He is an actor and writer, known for Gallipoli (1981), BMX Bandits (1983) and Road Kill (2010).
in Going Down (3rd choice)
14. Marcello Mastroianni
Actor | La dolce vita
Marcello Mastroianni was born in Fontana Liri, Italy in 1924, but soon his family moved to Turin and then Rome. During WW2 he was sent to a German prison camp, but he managed to escape and hide in Venice. He debuted in films as an extra in Marionette (1939), then started working for the Italian ...
in The Night at Varnesse (4th choice)
15. José Ferrer
Actor | The Caine Mutiny
José Ferrer was a Puerto Rican actor and film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for playing the title character in Cyrano de Bergerac (1950). Ferrer was the first Puerto Rican actor to win an Academy Award, and also the first Hispanic actor to win an Academy Award.
In 1912, Ferrer was...
in A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (5th choice)
16. Patrice Donnelly
Actress | Personal Best
Patrice Donnelly was born on April 30, 1950 in San Diego County, California, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Personal Best (1982), American Anthem (1986) and Time Away (2009).
in Personal Best (best performance by an actress in a supporting role 1982)
17. Lesley Ann Warren
Actress | Victor/Victoria
Entrancing, gorgeous Lesley Ann Warren started gearing towards a life in show business right off the bat as a young ballerina who trained at the School of American Ballet at the age of 14. Little did she know that Hollywood stardom would arrive on her doorstep in the form of a "Cinderella" story.
...
in Victor/Victoria (2nd choice)
18. Karen Black
Actress | Five Easy Pieces
Karen entered Northwestern University at 18 and left two years later. She studied under Lee Strasberg in New York and worked in a number of off-Broadway roles. She made a critically acclaimed debut on Broadway in 1965 in "The Playroom". Her first big film role was in You're a Big Boy Now (1966), ...
in Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmie Dean, Jimmie Dean (3rd choice)
19. Glenn Close
Actress | Fatal Attraction
Eight time Academy Award-nominated actress Glenn Close was born and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut. She is the daughter of Elizabeth Mary H. "Bettine" (Moore) and William Taliaferro Close (William Close), a prominent doctor. Both of her parents were from upper-class families.
Glenn was a noted ...
in The World According to Garp (4th choice)
20. Sean Young
Actress | Blade Runner
Mary Sean Young was born on November 20, 1959 in Louisville, Kentucky. She is the daughter of Lee Guthrie (née Mary Lee Kane), an Emmy-nominated producer, screenwriter, public relations executive, and journalist, and Donald Young, Jr., an Emmy award winning television news producer and journalist. ...
in Blade Runner (5th choice)
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