* The Best of The Alan Parsons Project ( 1983 )

Parton continued to make inroads on the pop charts as well with a re-recorded version of " I Will Always Love You " from the feature film The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ( 1982 ) scraping the Top 50 that year and her duet with Kenny Rogers, " Islands in the Stream " ( written by the Bee Gees and produced by Barry Gibb ), spent two weeks at number one in 1983.

He subsequently appeared in Rumble Fish ( 1983 ) and The Osterman Weekend ( 1983 ), and received critical recognition for his work in Blue Velvet and Hoosiers, with the latter film garnering him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

* The 1983 Annual World's Best SF ( 1983 )

* 1983 – Nominee, Best Actor in a Supporting Role for The King of Comedy, British Academy Film Awards

* The Best Rapper on the Scene ( 1983, Mercury )

Personal Best in 1982, and Lianna in 1983 treat the lesbian relationships more sympathetically and show lesbian sex scenes, though in neither film are the relationships happy ones.

The group won the 1983 Grammy Award for Best New Artist, and have sold over 30 million albums worldwide.

Men at Work won a Grammy Award, winning Best New Artist for 1983 ahead of Asia, Jennifer Holliday, The Human League and Stray Cats.

Ryuichi Sakamoto has won a number of awards for his work as a film composer, beginning with his score for Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence ( 1983 ) winning him the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music.

In 2008, King's book On Writing was ranked 21st on Entertainment Weekly list of " The New Classics: The 100 Best Reads from 1983 to 2008 ".

Smith also appeared in a number of films, often as himself ; The Candidate ( 1972 ),, The President's Plane Is Missing ( 1973, a made-for-television production of the Robert J. Serling novel of the same name ), Nashville ( 1975 ), Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( 1977 ), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ( 1982 ), the " The Odd Candidate " ( 1974 ) episode of the television series The Odd Couple ( playing himself ), the " Kill Oscar " episode ( 1977 ) of The Bionic Woman ( playing himself anchoring an ABC newscast ), and both V ( 1983 ) and the subsequent 1984 television series.

Among Besson's awards are the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film Critics Prize, Fantasporto Audience Jury Award-Special Mention, Best Director, and Best Film, for Le Dernier Combat in 1983 ; The Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Silver Ribbon-Best Director-Foreign Film, for La Femme Nikita, 1990 ; the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film, Nil by Mouth, 1997 ; and the Best Director Cesar Award, for The Fifth Element, 1997.

A recipient of BAFTA, Golden Globe, Emmy and Screen Actors Guild Awards, Finney has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor four times, for Tom Jones ( 1963 ), Murder on the Orient Express ( 1974 ), The Dresser ( 1983 ), and Under the Volcano ( 1984 ); and was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Erin Brockovich ( 2000 ).

She got her start in supporting roles in The World According to Garp ( 1982 ), The Big Chill ( 1983 ), and The Natural ( 1984 ), which all earned her nominations for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

* Nebula Best Short Story nominee ( 1983 ): Cryptic

Friday was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1982, and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1983.

* Woodfill, Gabriel, " A Preacher of the Gospel ," Marriage Bonds of Shelby County-1792-1800, Kentucky Marriage Records: From the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Baltimore 1983, p. 693.

In 1991, another category restructure resulted in the soul gospel categories being divided into awards for Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album and Best Traditional Gospel Album ( previously known as Best Soul Gospel Performance, Contemporary and Best Soul Gospel Performance, Traditional from 1978 to 1983 ), both of which lasted until the 53rd Grammy Awards in 2011.

In 1982 Green was presented the award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Traditional for The Lord Will Make a Way, followed by awards for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Contemporary and Best Soul Gospel Performance, Traditional in 1983 for Higher Plane and Precious Lord, respectively.

The Grammy Award for Best Gospel Performance, Traditional was awarded from 1978 to 1983.

The Grammy Award for Best Gospel Performance, Contemporary was awarded from 1978 to 1983.

A similar award, the Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Traditional was awarded from 1978 to 1983.

The Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Contemporary was awarded from 1978 to 1983.

The Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, Traditional was awarded from 1978 to 1983.

When the Swedish historian Per Beskow was preparing an English edition of Strange Tales about Jesus 1983, cast doubt on the Gospel, Morton Smith responded by threatening to sue the English language publisher, Fortress Press of Philadelphia, " for a million dollars " causing Fortress to amend the offending paragraph.

* 1983: Best Gospel Performance-Duo / Group for Keep The Flame Burning ( with Phil Driscoll )

* Story and Promise: A Brief Theology of the Gospel about Jesus ( 1983 )

When several readers wrote letters of protest to Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine about its 1983 publication of Bishop's novella " The Gospel According to Gamaliel Crucis ," Isaac Asimov himself wrote an editorial defending the work and the editor's decision to publish it.

*" The Gospel According to Gamaliel Crucis " ( 1983 ) ( Nebula Award nominee )

From early 1983, they had commenced operations on the Barking to Gospel Oak line at first running in three-car then finally two-car formations from November 1983 with just the two power cars.

Mitchell originally began his ministry under the affiliation of the Church of the Foursquare Gospel and continued this affiliation until 1983.

The content of the gospel had been unknown until a Coptic Gospel of Judas turned up on the antiquities " grey market ," in Geneva in May 1983, when it was found among a mixed group of Greek and Coptic manuscripts offered to Stephen Emmel, a Yale Ph. D. candidate commissioned by Southern Methodist University to inspect the manuscripts.

* A Time for Judas ( 1983 ), a novel by Morley Callaghan where plot is extremely similar to the content revealed in the Gospel of Judas

In 1983, the Five Blind Boys of Alabama began appearing collectively as Oedipus in the musical theater production " The Gospel at Colonus ".

* 1983 Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal-" The Closer You Get ..."

" Sexual Healing " won Gaye his first two Grammy Awards including Best Male Vocal Performance, in February 1983, and also won Gaye an American Music Award in the soul / R & B category.

Among the performance art most discussed in the art-world of this decade were a performance by Linda Montano and Tehching Hsieh between July 1983 and July 1984, Art / Life: One Year Performance ( Rope Piece ), and Karen Finley ’ s I'm an Ass Man 1987.

* 1983 — Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female, What's New

* 1983 — Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical or Comedy, Linda Ronstadt in The Pirates of Penzance

The album track " Mariachi Suite " won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance, and stands as their last Grammy Award to date ( the other two Grammy Awards were in the category of Best Mexican-American Performance in 1983 and 1989 for the song Anselma and the album La Pistola y El Corazon ).

* Grammy Award: " You Should Hear How She Talks About You " ( 1983 ) ( Best Female Pop Vocal Performance )

" The researchers, from the University of Toronto and the London School of Economics, analyzed data from the U. S. Highway Performance and Monitoring System for 1983, 1993 and 2003, as well as information on population, employment, geography, transit, and political factors.

She won the 1983 Academy Award for Best Song ( Oscar ), 1984 Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, 1984 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, and American Music Awards for Best R & B Female Artist and Best Pop Single of the Year.

She won an unprecedented four consecutive Grammy Awards for Best Female Rock Performance from 1980 to 1983 for her second LP, Crimes of Passion, and the songs " Fire and Ice ", " Shadows of the Night ", and " Love Is a Battlefield ".

The song would also net Benatar her fourth consecutive Grammy Award for " Best Female Rock Vocal Performance " of 1983.

In 1984 he won a Golden Globe award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV for: The Thorn Birds ( 1983 ).

* 1983: Mirage a Trois-nominated for " Best Jazz Fusion Performance " Grammy award ( 1984 )

Performance was improved with the introduction of a five-speed manual transmission in 1983.

* In 1983 it was awarded as Best Orchestral Performance