The 1983 Retro Hollmann Awards

Took a lot to get all my thoughts and other elements organized - plus I forgot my charger at work for a few days - but now we're back on.

As mentioned, 61 films were watched during this Retro tribute to 1983. And many of them had elements worth reading - so many, in fact, that a good half of those films screened are nominees here.

I had hoped to do this in three parts, but due to time running out...all 18 categories will be announced within this single post. Beginning with two that were not in play at that year's Oscars, Best Ensemble and Best Makeup.

Best Ensemble

The Big Chill

Wallis "Wally" Nicita, casting director

2. Fanny and Alexander; 3. Flashdance; 4. A Christmas Story; 5. Streamers

The cast of The Big Chill really feels like a solid group of friends with 20 years of history together. Likewise, Fanny and Alexander feels like a genuine family unit, Flashdance feels like a makeshift family, A Christmas Story feels like a family in a small town, and Streamers...Streamers is just great, man.

Best Makeup

City of the Living Dead

Franco Rufini, makeup artist/special effects makeup

Luciano Vito, hair stylist

2. The Hunger 3. The Evil Dead 4. Fanny and Alexander 5. Krull

Krull boasts a wizened seer, dirty vagabonds, and an actual cyclops. Fanny and Alexander is my hat-tip to those difficult hairstyles of the early 20th-century, and the pale sweat of mortal illness. The remaining honorees are of the horror genre: the gallons of blood and rotting Deadites of The Evil Dead, the mummified corpses, sickly Susan Sarandon, and glamour queen beauty of Catherine Deneuve in The Hunger. But above all the rest? City of the Living Dead, with its decayed corpses, disembowelments, guts spewed out the mouth, brains ripped from skulls. Great fun.

For the remaining 16 awards, run past the jump.