The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

Academy Awards, USA 1981

Winner Oscar	Best Sound Bill Varney Steve Maslow Gregg Landaker Peter Sutton
Winner Special Achievement Award	Brian Johnson Richard Edlund Dennis Muren Bruce Nicholson For visual effects (statuette).
Nominee Oscar	Best Art Direction-Set Decoration Norman Reynolds Leslie Dilley Harry Lange Alan Tomkins Michael Ford
	Best Music, Original Score John Williams

Twentieth Century-Fox Film
Directed by Irvin Kershner
My rating: 3.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Blu-ray, Harmy's Despecialized Edition)

The Rebels who destroyed the Death Star in the first Star Wars film have been driven into hiding on a remote ice planet. The Empire has sent probes in search of them, one of which lands near their base. Luke gets trapped outside at night and attacked by a snow creature, but survives with the help of Han. Their location exposed, the base is attacked by the Empire and must be abandoned. Meanwhile Luke, following the ghostly advice of Obi-Wan Kenobi, travels to a swampy planet in search of a Jedi master named Yoda, who turns out to be anything but what he expected. His training is interrupted when Han and Leia are captured by Darth Vader. Luke goes to rescue them, confronts Vader and learns some vital new information about his family tree, setting up the third film in the series. Highly entertaining pulp has lost some of the freshness of the original film, sidetracked by a strained romance between Han and Leia, and an equally melodramatic turn in the story of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader. The cliffhanger ending, apparently an ode to the serials from which it takes inspiration, required a 3-year wait for resolution for those of us that saw it in the original theatrical release!