Best movies of 1983 that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Danny DeVito, Jack Nicholson,
Directors : James L. Brooks,

Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her daughter's family problems.

Actors : Sunny Johnson, Jennifer Beals, Michael Nouri, Lilia Skala,
Directors : Adrian Lyne,

A Pittsburgh woman with two jobs as a welder and an exotic dancer wants to get into ballet school.

Actors : Cher, Kurt Russell, Meryl Streep, Craig T. Nelson,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

A worker at a plutonium processing plant is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing worker safety violations at the plant.

Actors : Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Sam Shepard, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Philip Kaufman,

The story of the original Mercury 7 astronauts and their macho, seat-of-the-pants approach to the space program.

Actors : Amy Irving, Barbra Streisand, Mandy Patinkin, Nehemiah Persoff,
Directors : Barbra Streisand,

A Jewish girl disguises herself as a boy to enter religious training.

Actors : Betty Buckley, Wilford Brimley, Tess Harper, Robert Duvall,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

A broken-down, middle-aged country singer gets a new wife, reaches out to his long-lost daughter, and tries to put his troubled life back together.