Actress scoops 4 awards

Press, 31 January 1984, Page 11

Actress scoops 4 awards

NZPA-Reuter Los Angeles Shirley MacLaine, voted best dramatic actress, and her latest film, “Terms of Endearment," won four Hollywood Golden Globe awards yesterday, including one for the dramatic film of the year. The British stars, Michael Caine and Julie Walters, were voted the best actor and actress of the year in a comedy film for their performances in “Educating Rita.” The singer, Barbra Steisand, was voted director of the year for “Yentl,” which was chosen the best musical or comedy film of the year, and Robert Duvall and a British actor, Tom Courtenay, tied for the best dramatic actor award for

their peformances in “Tender Mercies" and “The Dresser.” The Golden Globes are awarded each year by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which represents a group of foreign reporters covering the film industry. The awards have in the past proved to be a good indicator to who will win the Hollywood Academy Awards, or Oscars, to be awarded on April 9. The outspoken Miss MacLaine said in accepting her award for “Terms of Endearment," which deals with a mother-daughter relationship: “I did expect this. I sure deserved it.”

Miss MacLaine, aged 49, who played the mother, added: “I just think how old

I looked in the movie." Jack Nicholson, who played a retired astronaut in the film, won the award for best supporting actor and James L. Brooks, who directed the film, won the award for best screenplay. Miss Steisand, who also starred in and produced "Yentl," in which she played a girl who disguised herself as a boy to learn the Talmud, told the star-studded audience when she received the award for best director “I hope this represents a new opportunity for so many talented women. Directing, for me, was a total experience, really the highlight of my professional career.”

Caine said that his Golden Globe was the first award he had won since being

voted the most promising newcomer for his role in “The Ipcress File" in 1965. “I was beginning to think I had let people down," he said. The entertainer, Cher, was voted best supporting actress for her role in "Silkwood.” On the television side of the awards, “The Thorn Birds" won four awards — for best mini-series, best actor in a mini-series, Richard Chamberlain, and best supporting actress and actor, Barbara Stanwyck and Richard Kiley.

Jane Wyman, the former wife of President Ronald Reagan, won the award for best dramatic actress in a television series for her role in “Falcon Crest."