Mr. Cellophane

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Sunday, August 04, 2024

"And hosting for the eighth time...Vincent Price!"

Hey, it could('ve) happen(ed).

Well, the original post was so well-received (...), I decided to give it a go for the previous decade. Here are my nominees for the Horror Oscars of the 1980s.

Best Picture
Little Shop of Horrors
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Poltergeist
The Shining 
The Thing


Best Actor
Jeff Goldblum, The Fly
Rutger Hauer, The Hitcher
Terry O'Quinn, The Stepfather
George C. Scott, The Changeling
James Woods, Videodrome

Best Actress
Geena Davis, The Fly
Shelley Duvall, The Shining
Ellen Greene, Little Shop of Horrors
Winona Ryder, Beetlejuice
Dee Wallace, Cujo

Best Supporting Actor
Scatman Crothers, The Shining
Robert Englund, A Nightmare on Elm Street
Michael Keaton, Beetlejuice
Leslie Nielsen, Creepshow
Bill Paxton, Near Dark

Best Supporting Actress
Adrienne Barbeau, The Fog
Veronica Cartwright, The Witches of Eastwick
Zelda Rubinstein, Poltergeist
Jill Schoelen, The Stepfather
Sylvia Sidney, Beetlejuice

Best Director
John Carpenter, The Fog
Wes Craven, A Nightmare on Elm Street
Frank Oz, Little Shop of Horrors
Sam Raimi, The Evil Dead
John Schlesinger, The Believers

Best Original Screenplay
Beetlejuice, screenplay by Michael McDowell and Warren Skaaren, story by Michael McDowell and Larry Wilson
A Nightmare on Elm Street, written by Wes Craven
Night of the Comet, written by Thom Eberhardt
Poltergeist, screenplay by Steven Spielberg and Michael Grais & Mark Victor, story by Steven Spielberg
The Stepfather, screenplay by Donald E. Westlake, story by Brian Garfield, Carolyn Lefcourt & Donald E. Westlake

Best Adapted Screenplay
The Believers, screenplay by Mark Frost, based on the novel "The Religion" by Nicholas Conde
The Blob, screenplay by Frank Darabont & Chuck Russell, based on the story by Irving H. Millgate and the 1958 screenplay by Kay Linaker and Theodore Simonson
The Fly, screenplay by Charles Edward Pogue and David Cronenberg, based on the novel by George Langelaan
Re-Animator, screenplay by Dennis Paoli, William J. Norris & Stuart Gordon, based on the novel "Herbert West - Re-Animator" by H.P. Lovecraft
The Thing, screenplay by Bill Lancaster, based on the novella "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell, Jr. 

Best Cinematography
The Believers, Robby Muller
Curtains, Robert Paynter
The Fog, Dean Cundey
The Funhouse, Andrew Laszlo
The Shining, John Alcott

Best Editing
Creepshow, Pasquale Buba, Paul Hirsch, George A. Romero and Michael Spolan
The Howling, Joe Dante and Mark Goldblatt
Poltergeist, Michael Kahn
The Shining, Ray Lovejoy
The Thing, Todd C. Ramsay

Best Production Design
Beetlejuice
The Funhouse
Leviathan 
The Shining
The Witches of Eastwick


Best Costume Design
Beetlejuice, Aggie Guerard Rodgers
Fright Night, Robert Fletcher
Little Shop of Horrors, Marit Allen
The Lost Boys, Susan Becker
Warlock, Louise Frogley

Best Original Score
The Final Conflict, Jerry Goldsmith
Hellraiser, Christopher Young
The House on Sorority Row, Richard Band
The Howling, Pino Donaggio
The Kindred, David Newman

Best Original Song
"The Ballad of Harry Warden", My Bloody Valentine, music and lyrics by Paul Zaza
"Dream Warriors", A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, music and lyrics by George Lynch and Jeff Pilson
"Fright Night", Fright Night, music and lyrics by Joe Lamont
"Killer Klowns from Outer Space", Killer Klowns from Outer Space, music and lyrics by Leonard Phillips
"These Are the Best Times (of Our Lives)", Killer Party, music and lyrics by Alan Brackett and Scott Shelly

Best Sound
An American Werewolf in London 
The Believers
Christine
Prince of Darkness
Wolfen 


Best Visual Effects
The Blob
The Gate
Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II
Night of the Creeps 
The Thing 

Best Make-Up
Dead Heat
The Evil Dead
Fright Night
Hellraiser
A Nightmare on Elm Street 

Best International Feature
Anguish (Spain)
Bad Taste (New Zealand)
The Changeling (Canada)
Opera (Italy)
Road Games (Australia)

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