(Co-stars Winger and Lithgow competed against MacLaine and Nicholson.)The other nominations included Best Actress (Debra Winger), Best Supporting Actor (John Lithgow), Best Art Direction, Best Sound, Best Film Editing, and Best Original Score.A few moments later, she returns wearing a white-trimmed dark robe - provocatively open to her waist and bare underneath.Charlie""s suave, high-ranking, racketeering Uncle Giovanni Cappa (Cesare Danova) was the local Mafia boss who was grooming his level-headed, always well-dressed nephew for ""respectable"" and ""honorable"" gang life by having him collect for a protection racket.It was a clear violation of the Decree for the Reasonable Restriction of Underage Sorcery, and he was to be expelled from school.