The Right Stuff and Yentl Win Music Awards: 1984 Oscars 

YENTL has an absolutely breathtaking score. A great backdrop for a masterpiece of a film. Streisand should have won for Best Director that year. Apart from being such a beautiful film, it was the first major production by a woman. Nonetheless, the film still stands the test of time.

I am so glad I saw this, the Bergmans and Michel Legrand winning for Yentl, what a great score and movie!!!

All of the Best Original Score Nominees of 1983 have won at least 1 Oscar: Bill Conti: The Right Stuff Michael Gore: Fame Jerry Goldsmith: The Omen John Williams: Fiddler on the Roof, Jaws, Star Wars, E.T. the Extra Terrestrial, and Schindler's List

I guess we know why Barbra did not attend the Oscars that year & who could possibly blame her? (She'd been snubbed in the Directors category for her first foray into directing a major film). But there's a back story. Miss Streisand had caused a great uproar in the Hollywood community when she arrived( in her twenties) to star in William Wylers' film Funny Girl. Although she went on to win the oscar for her performance, the Hollywood community never forgave or got over the meteoric rise to superstardom & the reputation (deserved or not) for being aggressive, pushy, aloof, demanding, narcissistic etc. And they developed a bias and a preconception about her that they have NEVER to this day been able to let go of. This is why Barbra has been "punished" for the crime of audacity from the very beginning. It's also the reason why they can't give her the recognition she so richly deserves.

Well, Bill Conti finally got an Oscar for scoring The Right Stuff in 1984. So god bless you, Bill.

Alan Bergman Marilyn Bergman Michel Legrand Three genius, three legends. And working with Streisand, the genius, the legend, the one, the greatest of all, in "Yentl", her Masterpiece. They don make 'em like that anymore...

The one Oscar surprise (though Gene knew) is my favorite.

Nice to see a fellow paisan win! Well deserved Maestro! Bravo!

Neil Diamond presented the evergreen Oscar to Barbra, and now Yentl to her collaborators.

Rest In Peace Marilyn.

Babs and ET's dad attended the YENTEL premiere in Hollywood at that Cinerama dome theater. Steven was snuck in through a side entrance. The relationship was brief.

"Yentl" was (to me) a GREAT film. I went to see it when it come out at the Cinerama Dome because of Amy Irving yet came away thinking EVERYONE'S performance was great. Bought the soundtrack at once.

The Right Stuff and Yentl has great music score.

I think 'Under Fire' was the best score that year, but I won't argue with Bill Conti winning, because his work (in only a month and with contradictory instructions from Kaufman and the producers) was highly effective in the film. Williams 'Jedi' is not up to his work on 'Empire', although it's obviously still a terrific score.

I liked the movie well enough (key word: liked) - but the score was another story. A reviewer in Time magazine wrote, "It is the most romantic, coherent and sophisticated original movie score since Gigi a quarter century ago." Forty years on, I think that statement still stands. It's a perfect storm of musical, lyrical and vocal excellence.

3:01 THE RIGHT STUFF THEME!!!!

Carson was on fire that year - it’s really the template for all Oscar hosts since.

Yentl was a pleasant surprise! :D

The Bergman’s were true blue. Their friendship expanded beyond music.

Bill conti...should have won for Rocky !!!

"Would someone please vacuum this stage RIGHT NOW?!!!?" 2:23

i have mixed views about a lot of Alan and Marilyn Bergman's lyrics, but I think they did a incredible job of Yentl. It was a stellar effort by Legrand as well, who already had a formidable reputation with the superb musicals Les Parapluies de Cherbourg and Demimoselles de Rochefort. The movie was a success - and that was surely down to Streisand; but I don't think the music and songs are as well known as they should be. It was an extraordinary work. A labour of love as Marilyn said, but apparently labour being the operative word. In reality it seemed to have exhausted Legrand and we never really heard much of him after Yentl.

I would have voted indeed for Jerry Goldsmith's UNDER FIRE. Conti used a lot of his music from THE WHITE DAWN in RIGHT STUFF. They disqualified Nino Rota for doing that in THE GODFATHER and thus it wasn't eligible in 1972.

The best original score of the year (in my opinion) was "Under fire" by Jerry Goldsmith

For many years I thought "The Right Stuff" was a poor choice for the Original Score that year because of the overuse of existing material. But, it's grown on me and the original music he wrote is pretty good. (Not as good as any minute of music in "Return of the Jedi")

Best director...Barbra Streisand for Yentl!

All of the Best Song or Adaptation Score Nominees of 1983 except for Lalo Schifrin have won at least 1 Oscar: Alan Bergman: The Thomas Crown Affair, The Way We Were, and Yentl Marilyn Bergman: The Thomas Crown Affair, The Way We Were, and Yentl Michel Legrand: The Thomas Crown Affair, Summer of '42, and Yentl Elmer Bernstein: Thoroughly Modern Millie

Amazing Steven Spielberg and Amy Irving at this Oscar ceremony when he use to date Barbra Streisand around the time of Yentel's film release.

A friend of mine wrote the screenplay for under fire. His name is clay frohman

Bill Conti wins, essentially, for Holst's The Planets and the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto. It's mostly not his fault, as the director demanded music as close as possible to his temp tracks. But it should never even have been nominated.

Michelle LeGrand was all ready a legend by this time.

I’m fine with The Right Stuff winning Best Score. Return of the Jedi’s score, while good (except for Yub Nub), it wasn’t John Williams’ best score he did for the series. The scores for the original Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and even the Prequel Trilogy are still his best scores he did for the Saga.

Trading Places was robbed! that was a great score and movie

Where was she?...

Barbra deserved an Oscar for best director That's unfair you should be ashamed for not nominated her

I thought Bill Conti was William Fichtner!

Jerry Goldsmith should've won

This was so wrong. Jerry Goldsmith should have won. Under Fire is one of his best scores.

Return of the Jedi and Under Fire > The Right Stuff.