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The nominations for Best Picture in the Academy Awards for 1982 were as follows: "Gandhi," "Tootsie," "Missing," "The Verdict," and "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial." The award went to Richard Attenborough's "Gandhi," a film that, like "A Bridge Too Far" and other large-scale Attenborough projects, appeared to last twice as long as the historical events it described. The irony is that if the Academy really wanted a lesson in love, or a plea for cross-cultural harmony -- the stuff of Oscar triumph, and everything for which "Gandhi" had so earnestly striven -- then it was right there, under the noses of the voters. They were right to want the uplift, the kick of a bursting ...