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- DirectorRobert RedfordStarsDonald SutherlandMary Tyler MooreJudd HirschThe accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father and the guilt-ridden younger son.Best Film
Winner: Ordinary People
Coal Miner's Daughter
The Elephant Man
Raging Bull
The Stunt Man
Tess - DirectorRichard RushStarsPeter O'TooleSteve RailsbackBarbara HersheyA fugitive stumbles onto a movie set just when they need a new stunt man, takes the job as a way to hide out and falls for the leading lady while facing off with his manipulative director.Best Director
Winner: Robert Redford – Ordinary People
Bruce Beresford – Breaker Morant
David Lynch – The Elephant Man
Martin Scorsese – Raging Bull
Richard Rush – The Stunt Man
Roman Polanski – Tess
Sound: The Empire Strikes Back
Altered States
Coal Miner's Daughter
The Elephant Man
Fame
Raging Bull - DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroCathy MoriartyJoe PesciThe life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.Best Actor
Winner: Robert De Niro – Raging Bull
Robert Duvall – The Great Santini
John Hurt – The Elephant Man
Timothy Hutton – Ordinary People
Jack Lemmon – Tribute
Donald Sutherland – Ordinary People
Cinematography: Raging Bull – Michael Chapman
The Blue Lagoon
Coal Miner's Daughter
The Elephant Man
The Formula
Tess - DirectorMichael AptedStarsSissy SpacekTommy Lee JonesLevon HelmThe fictionalized life of singer Loretta Lynn, a girl who rose from humble beginnings to become a country music star in the 1960s/70s.Best Actress
Winner: Sissy Spacek – Coal Miner's Daughter
Ellen Burstyn – Resurrection
Goldie Hawn – Private Benjamin
Nastassja Kinski – Tess
Mary Tyler Moore – Ordinary People
Gena Rowlands – Gloria
Production: Tess – Pierre Guffroy and Jack Stephens
Coal Miner's Daughter
The Elephant Man
The Empire Strikes Back
Kagemusha
The Shining - DirectorDavid LynchStarsAnthony HopkinsJohn HurtAnne BancroftA Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of kindness, intelligence and sophistication.Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Judd Hirsch – Ordinary People
Anthony Hopkins – The Elephant Man
Michael O'Keefe – The Great Santini
Peter O'Toole – The Stunt Man
Joe Pesci – Raging Bull
Jason Robards – Melvin and Howard
Film Editing: Raging Bull – Thelma Schoonmaker
Coal Miner's Daughter
The Competition
The Elephant Man
Fame
The Stunt Man - DirectorJonathan DemmeStarsPaul Le MatJason RobardsElizabeth CheshireThe story of hard-luck Melvin E. Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Mary Steenburgen – Melvin and Howard
Eileen Brennan – Private Benjamin
Barbara Hershey – The Stunt Man
Eva Le Gallienne – Resurrection
Cathy Moriarty – Raging Bull
Diana Scarwid – Inside Moves
Costume: Tess – Anthony Powell
9 to 5
Coal Miner's Daughter
The Elephant Man
My Brilliant Career
Somewhere in Time - DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsNastassja KinskiPeter FirthLeigh LawsonA strong-willed young peasant girl attracts the affection of two men.Best Screenplay
Original: Melvin and Howard – Bo Goldman
Brubaker
Fame
Mon Oncle D'Amerique
My Bodyguard
Private Benjamin
Adapted: Ordinary People – Alvin Sargent
Breaker Morant
Coal Miner's Daughter
The Elephant Man
Raging Bull
The Stunt Man - DirectorVladimir MenshovStarsVera AlentovaAleksey BatalovIrina MuravyovaThree young provincial women come to Moscow in search of what people in all the capitals of the world are looking for - love, happiness and prosperity. Their destinies develop exactly as the character of each of the girls suggests.Best Foreign Film
Winner: Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (Soviet Union) – Vladimir Menshov
Confidence (Hungary)
Every Man for Himself (Switzerland)
Kagemusha (Japan)
The Last Metro (France)
The Nest (Spain)
Makeup: The Elephant Man
Raging Bull
Tess
Visual Effect: The Empire Strikes Back
Altered States
The Shining - DirectorAlan ParkerStarsEddie BarthIrene CaraLee CurreriA chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.Best Soundtrack
Song: "Fame" Fame – Michael Gore and Dean Pitchford
"Call Me" American Gigolo
"Nine to Five" 9 to 5
"On the Road Again" Honeysuckle Rose
"Out Here on My Own" Fame
"People Alone" The Competition
Score: Fame – Michael Gore
Altered States
Dressed to Kill
The Elephant Man
The Empire Strikes Back
Tess - DirectorWarren BeattyStarsWarren BeattyDiane KeatonEdward HerrmannA radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia, and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.Best Film
Winner: Reds
Atlantic City
Chariots of Fire
On Golden Pond
Ragtime
Raiders of the Lost Ark - DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsHarrison FordKaren AllenPaul FreemanIn 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis can obtain its awesome powers.Best Director
Winner: Warren Beatty – Reds
Louis Malle – Atlantic City
Hugh Hudson – Chariots of Fire
Mark Rydell – On Golden Pond
Milos Forman – Ragtime
Steven Spielberg – Raiders of the Lost Ark
Sound: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Blow Out
On Golden Pond
Outland
Pennies from Heaven
Reds - DirectorMark RydellStarsKatharine HepburnHenry FondaJane FondaNorman is a curmudgeon with an estranged relationship with his daughter Chelsea. At Golden Pond, he and his wife nevertheless agree to care for Billy, the son of Chelsea's new boyfriend, and a most unexpected relationship blooms.Best Actor
Winner: Henry Fonda – On Golden Pond
Warren Beatty – Reds
Harrison Ford – Raiders of the Lost Ark
Burt Lancaster – Atlantic City
Dudley Moore – Arthur
Paul Newman – Absence of Malice
Cinematography: Reds – Vittorio Storaro
Excalibur
The French Lieutenant's Woman
On Golden Pond
Ragtime
Raiders of the Lost Ark - DirectorLouis MalleStarsBurt LancasterSusan SarandonKate ReidIn a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.Best Actress
Winner: Katharine Hepburn – On Golden Pond
Faye Dunaway – Mommie Dearest
Diane Keaton – Reds
Marsha Mason – Only When I Laugh
Susan Sarandon – Atlantic City
Meryl Streep – The French Lieutenant's Woman
Production: Raiders of the Lost Ark – Norman Reynolds and Leslie Dilley
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Heaven's Gate
Pennies from Heaven
Ragtime
Reds - DirectorSteve GordonStarsDudley MooreLiza MinnelliJohn GielgudAlcoholic billionaire playboy Arthur Bach must marry a woman he does not love, or he will be cut off from his $750,000,000 fortune. But when Arthur falls in love with a poor waitress, he must decide if he wants to choose love or money.Best Supporting Actor
Winner: John Gielgud – Arthur
James Coco – Only When I Laugh
Ian Holm – Chariots of Fire
Jack Nicholson – Reds
Howard E. Rollins Jr. – Ragtime
Nicol Williamson – Excalibur
Film Editing: Raiders of the Lost Ark – Michael Kahn
Arthur
Chariots of Fire
The French Lieutenant's Woman
On Golden Pond
Reds - DirectorHerbert RossStarsSteve MartinBernadette PetersJessica HarperDuring the Great Depression, a sheet-music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent schoolteacher.Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Maureen Stapleton – Reds
Karen Allen – Raiders of the Lost Ark
Melinda Dillon – Absence of Malice
Jane Fonda – On Golden Pond
Joan Hackett – Only When I Laugh
Elizabeth McGovern – Ragtime
Costume: Pennies from Heaven – Bob Mackie
Chariots of Fire
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Ragtime
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Reds - DirectorMilos FormanStarsJames CagneyElizabeth McGovernHoward E. Rollins Jr.A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.Best Screenplay
Original: Reds – Warren Beatty and Trevor Griffiths
Absence of Malice
Arthur
Atlantic City
Chariots of Fire
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Adapted: On Golden Pond – Ernest Thompson
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Pennies from Heaven
Pixote
Prince of the City
Ragtime - DirectorHector BabencoStarsFernando Ramos da SilvaJorge JuliãoGilberto MouraThe life of a boy on the streets of Sao Paulo, involved with crimes, prostitution, and drugs.Best Foreign Film
Winner: Pixote (Brazil) – Hector Babenco
The Boat Is Full (Switzerland)
Man of Iron (Poland)
Mephisto (Hungary)
Muddy River (Japan)
Three Brothers (Italy)
Makeup: An American Werewolf in London
Heartbeeps
Mommie Dearest
Visual Effect: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Dragonslayer
Outland - DirectorHugh HudsonStarsBen CrossIan CharlesonNicholas FarrellTwo British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, are driven to win in the 1924 Olympics as they wrestle with issues of pride and conscience.Best Soundtrack
Song: "Best That You Can Do" Arthur – Peter Allen, Burt Bacharach, Christopher Cross and Carole Bayer Sager
"Endless Love" Endless Love
"The First Time It Happens" The Great Muppet Caper
"For Your Eyes Only" For Your Eyes Only
"Hey A Movie!" The Great Muppet Caper
"One More Hour" Ragtime
Score: Chariots of Fire – Vangelis
Body Heat
Dragonslayer
On Golden Pond
Ragtime
Raiders of the Lost Ark - DirectorRichard AttenboroughStarsBen KingsleyJohn GielgudRohini HattangadiThe life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.Best Film
Winner: Gandhi
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Missing
Sophie's Choice
Tootsie
The Verdict - DirectorWolfgang PetersenStarsJürgen ProchnowHerbert GrönemeyerKlaus WennemannA German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.Best Director
Winner: Richard Attenborough – Gandhi
Wolfgang Petersen – Das Boot
Steven Spielberg – E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Costa-Gavras – Missing
Sydney Pollack – Tootsie
Sidney Lumet – The Verdict
Sound: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Blade Runner
Das Boot
Poltergeist
Tootsie
Tron - DirectorCosta-GavrasStarsJack LemmonSissy SpacekMelanie MayronWhen an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him.Best Actor
Winner: Ben Kingsley – Gandhi
Albert Finney – Shoot the Moon
Dustin Hoffman – Tootsie
Jack Lemmon – Missing
Paul Newman – The Verdict
Peter O'Toole – My Favourite Year
Cinematography: Gandhi – Billy Williams and Ronnie Taylor
Blade Runner
Das Boot
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Sophie's Choice
Tootsie - DirectorAlan J. PakulaStarsMeryl StreepKevin KlinePeter MacNicolSophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live with Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust.Best Actress
Winner: Meryl Streep – Sophie's Choice
Julie Andrews – Victor/Victoria
Diane Keaton – Shoot the Moon
Jessica Lange – Frances
Sissy Spacek – Missing
Debra Winger – An Officer and a Gentleman
Production: Blade Runner – Lawrence G. Paull
Annie
Gandhi
Sophie's Choice
Tron
Victor/Victoria - DirectorTaylor HackfordStarsRichard GereDebra WingerDavid KeithA young man must complete his work at a Navy Officer Candidate School to become an aviator, with the help of a tough Gunnery Sergeant and his new girlfriend.Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Louis Gossett Jr. – An Officer and a Gentleman
Charles Durning – Tootsie
Michael Keaton – Night Shift
John Lithgow – The World According to Garp
James Mason – The Verdict
Robert Preston – Victor/Victoria
Film Editing: Gandhi – John Bloom
Das Boot
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
An Officer and a Gentleman
Tootsie
The Verdict - DirectorSydney PollackStarsDustin HoffmanJessica LangeTeri GarrMichael Dorsey, an unsuccessful actor, disguises himself as a woman in order to get a role on a trashy hospital soap.Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Jessica Lange – Tootsie
Glenn Close – The World According to Garp
Teri Garr – Tootsie
Lainie Kazan – My Favorite Year
Kim Stanley – Frances
Lesley Ann Warren – Victor/Victoria
Costume: Gandhi – John Mollo and Bhanu Athaiya
Blade Runner
Conan the Barbarian
Sophie's Choice
Tron
Victor/Victoria - DirectorSidney LumetStarsPaul NewmanCharlotte RamplingJack WardenAn outcast, alcoholic Boston lawyer sees the chance to salvage his career and self-respect by taking a medical malpractice case to trial rather than settling.Best Screenplay
Original: Tootsie – Larry Gelbart, Don McGuire, Murray Schisgal and Barry Levinson
Diner
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Gandhi
An Officer and a Gentleman
My Favorite Year
Adapted: The Verdict – David Mamet
Das Boot
Missing
Sophie's Choice
Victor/Victoria
The World According to Garp - DirectorWerner HerzogStarsKlaus KinskiClaudia CardinaleJosé LewgoyThe story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.Best Foreign Film
Winner: Fitzcarraldo (West Germany) – Werner Herzog
Alsino and the Condor (Nicaragua)
Begin the Beguine (Spain)
Clean Slate (France)
The Night of the Shooting Stars (Italy)
Yol (Switzerland)
Makeup: Quest for Fire
Gandhi
The Thing
Visual Effect: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Blade Runner
Poltergeist - DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsHenry ThomasDrew BarrymorePeter CoyoteA troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape from Earth and return to his home planet.Best Soundtrack
Song: "Up Where We Belong" An Officer and a Gentleman – Jack Nitzsche, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Will Jennings
"Eye of the Tiger" Rocky III
"How Do You Keep the Music Playing?" Best Friends
"If We Were In Love" Yes, Giorgio
"It Might Be You" Tootsie
"Somebody's Baby" Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Score: E.T. the Extra-Terrestiral – John Williams
Blade Runner
Gandhi
An Officer and a Gentleman
Poltergeist
Sophie's Choice - DirectorJames L. BrooksStarsShirley MacLaineDebra WingerJack NicholsonFollows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her daughter's family problems.Best Film
Winner: Terms of Endearment
The Big Chill
The Dresser
The Right Stuff
Silkwood
Tender Mercies - DirectorPeter YatesStarsAlbert FinneyTom CourtenayEdward FoxPersonal assistant Norman struggles to get deteriorating veteran actor Sir through a difficult performance of King Lear.Best Director
Winner: James L. Brooks – Terms of Endearment
Peter Yates – The Dresser
Ingmar Bergman – Fanny and Alexander
Philip Kaufman – The Right Stuff
Mike Nichols – Silkwood
Bruce Beresford – Tender Mercies
Sound: The Right Stuff
Never Cry Wolf
Return of the Jedi
Terms of Endearment
Under Fire
WarGames - DirectorBruce BeresfordStarsRobert DuvallTess HarperBetty BuckleyA broken-down, middle-aged country singer gets a new wife, reaches out to his long-lost daughter, and tries to put his troubled life back together.Best Actor
Winner: Robert Duvall – Tender Mercies
Michael Caine – Educating Rita
Tom Conti – Reuben, Reuben
Tom Courtenay – The Dresser
Albert Finney – The Dresser
Eric Roberts – Star 80
Cinematography: Flashdance – Don Peterman
Fanny and Alexander
The Right Stuff
Silkwood
WarGames
Zelig - DirectorMike NicholsStarsMeryl StreepKurt RussellCherA worker at a plutonium processing plant is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing worker safety violations at the plant.Best Actress
Winner: Shirley MacLaine – Terms of Endearment
Jane Alexander – Testament
Bonnie Bedelia – Heart Like a Wheel
Meryl Streep – Silkwood
Julie Walters – Educating Rita
Debra Winger – Terms of Endearment
Production: The Right Stuff – Geoffrey Kirkland
The Dresser
Fanny and Alexander
Return of the Jedi
Terms of Endearment
Yentl - DirectorPhilip KaufmanStarsSam ShepardScott GlennEd HarrisThe U.S. space program's development from the breaking of the sound barrier to selection of the Mercury 7 astronauts, from a group of test pilots with a more seat-of-the-pants approach than the program's more cautious engineers preferred.Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Jack Nicholson – Terms of Endearment
Jeff Daniels – Terms of Endearment
Ed Harris – The Right Stuff
Sam Shepard – The Right Stuff
Rip Torn – Cross Creek
Fred Ward – The Right Stuff
Film Editing: The Right Stuff – Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Tom Rolf, Stephen A. Rotter and Douglas Stewart
Blue Thunder
Flashdance
Return of the Jedi
Silkwood
Terms of Endearment - DirectorPeter WeirStarsMel GibsonSigourney WeaverLinda HuntA young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno with the help of a diminutive photographer.Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Linda Hunt – The Year of Living Dangerously
Cher – Silkwood
Glenn Close – The Big Chill
Tess Harper – Tender Mercies
Amy Irving – Yentl
Alfre Woodard – Cross Creek
Costume: Heart Like a Wheel – William Ware Theiss
Cross Creek
Fanny and Alexander
The Right Stuff
Yentl
Zelig - DirectorLawrence KasdanStarsTom BerengerGlenn CloseJeff GoldblumA group of seven former college friends gather for a weekend reunion at a South Carolina vacation home after the funeral of another of their college friends.Best Screenplay
Original: The Big Chill – Lawrence Kasdan and Barbara Benedek
Fanny and Alexander
Silkwood
Tender Mercies
Trading Places
WarGames
Adapted: Terms of Endearment – James L. Brooks
The Dresser
Educating Rita
Reuben, Reuben
The Right Stuff
Testament - DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsBertil GuvePernilla AllwinKristina AdolphsonTwo young Swedish children in the 1900s experience the many comedies and tragedies of their lively and affectionate theatrical family, the Ekdahls.Best Foreign Film
Winner: Fanny and Alexander (Sweden) – Ingmar Bergman
The 4th Man (Netherlands)
Le Bal (Algeria)
Carmen (Spain)
Entre Nous (France)
The Revolt of Job (Hungary)
Makeup: Videodrome
Fanny and Alexander
Return of the Jedi
Visual Effect: Return of the Jedi
The Evil Dead
Zelig - DirectorAdrian LyneStarsJennifer BealsMichael NouriLilia SkalaAn 18-year-old female amateur dancer who performs nightly at a dancing bar, and works as a welder during the day, dreams of joining the Pittsburgh ballet school.Best Soundtrack
Song: "Flashdance... What a Feeling" Flashdance – Giorgio Moroder, Keith Forsey and Irene Cara
"All the Right Moves" All the Right Moves
"Maniac" Flashdance
"Over You" Tender Mercies
"Papa, Can You Hear Me?" Yentl
"The Way He Makes Me Feel" Yentl
Score: The Right Stuff — Bill Conti
Never Cry Wolf
Return of the Jedi
Terms of Endearment
Under Fire
Yentl - DirectorMilos FormanStarsF. Murray AbrahamTom HulceElizabeth BerridgeThe life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was deeply jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.Best Film
Winner: Amadeus
Broadway Danny Rose
The Killing Fields
A Passage to India
Places in the Heart
A Soldier's Story - DirectorWoody AllenStarsWoody AllenMia FarrowNick Apollo ForteIn his attempts to reconcile a lounge singer with his mistress, a hapless talent agent is mistaken as her lover by a jealous gangster.Best Director
Winner: Milos Forman – Amadeus
Woody Allen – Broadway Danny Rose
Roland Joffe – The Killing Fields
Sergio Leone – Once Upon a Time in America
David Lean – A Passage to India
Robert Benton – Places in the Heart
Sound: Amadeus
2010: The Year We Make Contact
Dune
The Killing Fields
A Passage to India
The River - DirectorNorman JewisonStarsHoward E. Rollins Jr.Adolph CaesarArt EvansAn African-American officer investigates a murder in a racially charged situation in World War II.Best Actor
Winner: F. Murray Abraham – Amadeus
Jeff Bridges – Starman
Albert Finney – Under the Volcano
Tom Hulce – Amadeus
Steve Martin – All of Me
Sam Waterston – The Killing Fields
Cinematography: The Killing Fields – Chris Menges
Amadeus
The Natural
A Passage to India
Paris, Texas
The River - DirectorRobert BentonStarsSally FieldLindsay CrouseEd HarrisIn central Texas in the 1930s, a widow with two small children tries to save her small 40-acre farm with the help of a blind boarder and an itinerant black handyman.Best Actress
Winner: Sally Field – Places in the Heart
Judy Davis – A Passage to India
Mia Farrow – Broadway Danny Rose
Jessica Lange – Country
Sissy Spacek – The River
Kathleen Turner – Romancing the Stone
Production: Amadeus – Patrizia von Brandenstein
2010: The Year We Make Contact
The Cotton Club
The Natural
Once Upon a Time in America
A Passage to India - DirectorRoland JofféStarsSam WaterstonHaing S. NgorJohn MalkovichA journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Haing S. Ngor – The Killing Fields
Adolph Caesar – A Soldier's Story
John Candy – Splash
Jeffrey Jones – Amadeus
John Malkovich – Places in the Heart
Pat Morita – The Karate Kid
Film Editing: The Killing Fields – Jim Clark
Amadeus
The Cotton Club
Ghostbusters
A Passage to India
Romancing the Stone - DirectorDavid LeanStarsJudy DavisVictor BanerjeePeggy AshcroftCultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Peggy Ashcroft – A Passage to India
Elizabeth Berridge – Amadeus
Glenn Close – The Natural
Lindsay Crouse – Places in the Heart
Christine Lahti – Swing Shift
Geraldine Page – The Pope of Greenwich Village
Costume: Amadeus – Theodor Pistek
2010: The Year We Make Contact
The Bostonians
Dune
A Passage to India
Places in the Heart - DirectorRon HowardStarsTom HanksDaryl HannahEugene LevyA young man is reunited with a mermaid he briefly encountered as a boy and falls in love with her without knowing her secret.Best Screenplay
Original: Places in the Heart – Robert Benton
Beverly Hills Cop
Broadway Danny Rose
Romancing the Stone
Splash
This Is Spinal Tap
Adapted: Amadeus – Peter Shaffer
The Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
The Killing Fields
The Natural
A Passage to India
A Soldier's Story - DirectorRichard DemboStarsMichel PiccoliAlexandre ArbattLiv UllmannDuring the Cold War, the World Chess Championship clashed complete opposites - personal and political.Best Foreign Film
Winner: Dangerous Moves (Switzerland) – Richard Dembo
Beyond the Walls (Israel)
Camila (Argentina)
Double Feature (Spain)
So Long, Stooge (France)
Wartime Romance (Soviet Union)
Makeup: Amadeus
2010: The Year We Make Contact
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Visual Effect: Ghostbusters
2010: The Year We Make Contact
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - DirectorGene WilderStarsGene WilderKelly LeBrockCharles GrodinOn his way to work, Teddy spots Charlotte, an incredibly beautiful Woman in Red. He really wants to meet her, but what would his wife say?Best Soundtrack
Song: "I Just Called to Say I Love You" The Woman in Red – Stevie Wonder
"Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" Against All Odds
"Footloose" Footloose
"Ghostbusters" Ghostbusters
"Let's Hear It for the Boy" Footloose
"When Doves Cry" Purple Rain
Score: Purple Rain – Prince
The Natural
Paris, Texas
A Passage to India
The River
Under the Volcano - DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsDanny GloverWhoopi GoldbergOprah WinfreyA tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry.Best Film
Winner: The Color Purple
Back to the Future
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Out of Africa
Prizzi's Honor
Witness - DirectorRobert ZemeckisStarsMichael J. FoxChristopher LloydLea ThompsonMarty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.Best Director
Winner: Steven Spielberg – The Color Purple
Hector Babenco – Kiss of the Spider Woman
Sidney Pollack – Out of Africa
John Huston – Prizzi's Honor
Akira Kurosawa – Ran
Peter Weir – Witness
Sound: Back to the Future
A Chorus Line
Ladyhawke
Out of Africa
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Silverado - DirectorHector BabencoStarsWilliam HurtRaul JuliaSonia BragaA gay man and a political prisoner are together in a prison. The gay man narrates the stories of two fake movies and his own life.Best Actor
Winner: William Hurt – Kiss of the Spider Woman
Harrison Ford – Witness
James Garner – Murphy's Romance
Raul Julia – Kiss of the Spider Woman
Jack Nicholson – Prizzi's Honor
Jon Voight – Runaway Train
Cinematography: Out of Africa – David Watkin
Back to the Future
The Color Purple
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Ran
Witness - DirectorSydney PollackStarsMeryl StreepRobert RedfordKlaus Maria BrandauerIn 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.Best Actress
Winner: Whoopi Goldberg – The Color Purple
Cher – Mask
Jessica Lange – Sweet Dreams
Geraldine Page – The Trip to Bountiful
Meryl Streep – Out of Africa
Kathleen Turner – Prizzi's Honor
Production: Brazil – Norman Garwood
The Color Purple
Out of Africa
Ran
Silverado
Witness - DirectorRon HowardStarsDon AmecheWilford BrimleyHume CronynWhen a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor.Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Don Ameche – Cocoon
Klaus Maria Brandauer – Out of Africa
Jack Gilford – Cocoon
William Hickey – Prizzi's Honor
Robert Loggia – Jagged Edge
Eric Roberts – Runaway Train
Film Editing: Witness – Thom Noble
Back to the Future
A Chorus Line
Out of Africa
Prizzi's Honor
Runaway Train - DirectorJohn HustonStarsJack NicholsonKathleen TurnerRobert LoggiaTwo professional assassins fall in love.Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Anjelica Huston – Prizzi's Honor
Margaret Avery – The Color Purple
Sonia Braga – Kiss of the Spider Woman
Amy Madigan – Twice in a Lifetime
Meg Tilly – Agnes of God
Oprah Winfrey – The Color Purple
Costume: Out of Africa – Milena Canonero
Back to the Future
The Color Purple
Prizzi's Honor
Ran
Silverado - DirectorPeter WeirStarsHarrison FordKelly McGillisLukas HaasWhile protecting an Amish boy - who is the sole witness to a brutal murder - and his mother, a detective is forced to seek refuge within their community when his own life is threatened.Best Screenplay
Original: Witness – William Kelley, Pamela Wallace and Earl W. Wallace
Back to the Future
Brazil
The Breakfast Club
Cocoon
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Adapted: The Color Purple – Menno Meyjes
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Out of Africa
Prizzi's Honor
Ran
The Trip to Bountiful - DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsMoreno De BartoliPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicMirjana KaranovicA family is deeply affected by the father's extramarital affairs and the turbulent consequences of the Tito-Stalin split.Best Foreign Film
Winner: When Father Was Away on Business (Yugoslavia) – Emir Kusturica
Angry Harvest (West Germany)
Colonel Redl (Hungary)
Come and See (Soviet Union)
The Official Story (Argentina)
Three Men and a Cradle (France)
Makeup: Mask
Brazil
The Color Purple
Visual Effect: Back to the Future
Return to Oz
Young Sherlock Holmes - DirectorTaylor HackfordStarsMikhail BaryshnikovGregory HinesJerzy SkolimowskiA Russian American ballet dancer's airplane is forced to land in USSR, where he's "repatriated". He stays with an American man married to a Russian. Will the American help him flee USSR?Best Soundtrack
Song: "Say You, Say Me" White Nights – Lionel Richie
"Don't You (Forget About Me)" The Breakfast Club
"Miss Celie's Blues (Sister)" The Color Purple
"The Power of Love" Back to the Future
"Separate Lives" White Nights
"Surprise Surprise" A Chorus Line
Score: The Color Purple – Quincy Jones
Agnes of God
Back to the Future
Out of Africa
Silverado
Witness - DirectorOliver StoneStarsCharlie SheenTom BerengerWillem DafoeChris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.Best Film
Winner: Platoon
Blue Velvet
Children of a Lesser God
Hannah and Her Sisters
The Mission
A Room with a View - DirectorDavid LynchStarsIsabella RosselliniKyle MacLachlanDennis HopperThe discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.Best Director
Winner: Oliver Stone – Platoon
David Lynch – Blue Velvet
Woody Allen – Hannah and Her Sisters
Roland Joffe – The Mission
Neil Jordan – Mona Lisa
James Ivory – A Room with a View
Sound: Platoon
Aliens
Heartbreak Ridge
The Mission
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Top Gun - DirectorNeil JordanStarsBob HoskinsCathy TysonMichael CaineA man recently released from prison manages to get a job driving a call girl from customer to customer.Best Actor
Winner: Bob Hoskins – Mona Lisa
Dexter Gordon – Round Midnight
Gene Hackman – Hoosiers
William Hurt – Children of a Lesser God
Paul Newman – The Color of Money
James Woods – Salvador
Cinematography: The Mission – Chris Menges
Blue Velvet
Peggy Sue Got Married
Platoon
A Room with a View
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home - DirectorRanda HainesStarsWilliam HurtMarlee MatlinPiper LaurieA new speech teacher at a school for the deaf falls in love with the janitor, a deaf woman speechless by choice.Best Actress
Winner: Marlee Matlin – Children of a Lesser God
Jane Fonda – The Morning After
Melanie Griffith – Something Wild
Sissy Spacek – Crimes of the Heart
Kathleen Turner – Peggy Sue Got Married
Sigourney Weaver – Aliens
Production: Aliens – Peter Lamont
Blue Velvet
The Color of Money
Hannah and Her Sisters
The Mission
A Room with a View - DirectorRoland JofféStarsRobert De NiroJeremy IronsRay McAnallyEighteenth-century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Michael Caine – Hannah and Her Sisters
Tom Berenger – Platoon
Willem Dafoe – Platoon
Denholm Elliott – A Room with a View
Dennis Hopper – Blue Velvet
River Phoenix – Stand by Me
Film Editing: Platoon – Claire Simpson
Aliens
Blue Velvet
Hannah and Her Sisters
The Mission
Top Gun - DirectorWoody AllenStarsMia FarrowDianne WiestMichael CaineBetween two Thanksgivings two years apart, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Dianne Wiest – Hannah and Her Sisters
Laura Dern – Blue Velvet
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio – The Color of Money
Isabella Rossellini – Blue Velvet
Maggie Smith – A Room with a View
Cathy Tyson – Mona Lisa
Costume: A Room with a View – Jenny Beavan and John Bright
Hannah and Her Sisters
Legend
The Mission
Peggy Sue Got Married
Pirates - DirectorJames IvoryStarsMaggie SmithHelena Bonham CarterDenholm ElliottLucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter) shares a brief romance with George Emerson in Florence. Yet as she tries to move on with her life and look for marriage elsewhere, can she truly forget the events of that summer?Best Screenplay
Original: Hannah and Her Sisters – Woody Allen
Blue Velvet
Crocodile Dundee
My Beautiful Laundrette
Platoon
Salvador
Adapted: A Room with a View – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Children of a Lesser God
The Color of Money
Crimes of the Heart
Little Shop of Horrors
Stand by Me - DirectorFons RademakersStarsDerek de LintMarc van UchelenMonique van de VenA Dutch doctor, haunted by grueling childhood memories of World War II, struggles to find peace as he spends his life looking for answers about the tragic night that shaped him.Best Foreign Film
Winner: The Assault (Netherlands) – Fons Rademakers
'38 - Vienna Before the Fall (Austria)
Betty Blue (France)
The Decline of the American Empire (Canada)
The Sacrifice (Sweden)
My Sweet Little Village (Czechoslovakia)
Makeup: The Fly
The Clan of the Cave Bear
Legend
Visual Effect: Aliens
The Fly
Little Shop of Horrors - DirectorTony ScottStarsTom CruiseTim RobbinsKelly McGillisAs students at the United States Navy's elite fighter weapons school compete to be best in the class, one daring young pilot learns a few things from a civilian instructor that are not taught in the classroom.Best Soundtrack
Song: "Take My Breath Away" Top Gun – Giorgio Moroder and Tom Whitlock
"Glory of Love" The Karate Kid Part II
"If You Leave" Pretty in Pink
"Life in a Looking Glass" That's Life!
"Mean Green Mother from Outerspace" Little Shop of Horrors
"Somewhere Out There" An American Tail
Score: The Mission – Ennio Morricone
Aliens
Hoosiers
Platoon
Round Midnight
Top Gun - DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsJohn LoneJoan ChenPeter O'TooleBernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning dramatisation of the life story of China's last emperor, Pu Yi.Best Film
Winner: The Last Emperor
Broadcast News
Fatal Attraction
Hope and Glory
Moonstruck
The Untouchables - DirectorJohn BoormanStarsSarah MilesDavid HaymanSebastian Rice-EdwardsBill, a young boy living on the outskirts of London experiences the exhilaration of World War II. During this period, Bill learns about sex, death, love, hypocrisy, and the faults of adults as he prowls the ruins of bombed houses.Best Director
Winner: Bernardo Bertolucci – The Last Emperor
James L. Brooks – Broadcast News
Adrian Lyne – Fatal Attraction
John Boorman – Hope and Glory
Norman Jewison – Moonstruck
Brian De Palma – The Untouchables
Sound: The Last Emperor
Empire of the Sun
Lethal Weapon
RoboCop
The Untouchables
The Witches of Eastwick - DirectorOliver StoneStarsCharlie SheenMichael DouglasTamara TunieAn impatient young stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless, greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.Best Actor
Winner: Michael Douglas – Wall Street
Nicolas Cage – Moonstruck
William Hurt – Broadcast News
Joe Mantegna – House of Games
Jack Nicholson – Ironweed
Robin Williams – Good Morning, Vietnam
Cinematography: The Last Emperor – Vittorio Storaro
Broadcast News
Empire of the Sun
Hope and Glory
Matewan
The Untouchables - DirectorNorman JewisonStarsCherNicolas CageOlympia DukakisLoretta Castorini, a bookkeeper from Brooklyn, New York, finds herself in a difficult situation when she falls for the brother of the man she has agreed to marry.Best Actress
Winner: Cher – Moonstruck
Glenn Close – Fatal Attraction
Holly Hunter – Broadcast News
Diane Keaton – Baby Boom
Sally Kirkland – Anna
Meryl Streep – Ironweed
Production: The Last Emperor – Ferdinando Scarifotti
Empire of the Sun
Hope and Glory
The Princess Bride
Radio Days
The Untouchables - DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsKevin CostnerSean ConneryRobert De NiroDuring Prohibition, Treasury agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop ruthless Chicago gangster Al Capone, and assembles a small, incorruptible team to help him.Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Sean Connery – The Untouchables
Albert Brooks – Broadcast News
R. Lee Ermey – Full Metal Jacket
Morgan Freeman – Street Smart
Vincent Gardenia – Moonstruck
Denzel Washington – Cry Freedom
Film Editing: The Last Emperor – Gabriella Cristianid
Broadcast News
Empire of the Sun
Fatal Attraction
RoboCop
The Untouchables - DirectorAdrian LyneStarsMichael DouglasGlenn CloseAnne ArcherA married man's one-night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Olympia Dukakis – Moonstruck
Norma Aleandro – Gaby: A True Story
Anne Archer – Fatal Attraction
Joan Cusack – Broadcast News
Anne Ramsey – Throw Momma from the Train
Vanessa Redgrave – Prick Up Your Ears
Costume: The Last Emperor – James Acheson
The Dead
Empire of the Sun
Maurice
The Princess Bride
The Untouchables - DirectorJames L. BrooksStarsWilliam HurtAlbert BrooksHolly HunterTake two rival television reporters: one handsome, one talented, both male. Add one producer, female. Mix well, and watch the sparks fly.Best Screenplay
Original: Broadcast News – James L. Brooks
Hope and Glory
House of Games
Moonstruck
Radio Days
Wall Street
Adapted: The Last Emperor – Mark Peploe and Bernardo Bertolucci
The Dead
Fatal Attraction
Full Metal Jacket
My Life as a Dog
The Untouchables - DirectorGabriel AxelStarsStéphane AudranBodil KjerBirgitte FederspielDuring the late 19th century, a strict religious community in a Danish village takes in a French refugee from the Franco-Prussian War as a servant to the late pastor's daughters.Best Foreign Film
Winner: Babette's Feast (Denmark) – Gabriel Axel
Au revoir les enfants (France)
Course Completed (Spain)
The Family (Italy)
Pathfinder (Norway)
Wings of Desire (West Germany)
Makeup: Harry and the Hendersons
Happy New Year
The Last Emperor
Visual Effect: Predator
Innerspace
The Witches of Eastwick - DirectorEmile ArdolinoStarsPatrick SwayzeJennifer GreyJerry OrbachSpending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle.Best Soundtrack
Song: "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" Dirty Dancing – Franke Previte, John DeNicola and Donald Markowitz
"Cry Freedom" Cry Freedom
"Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" Mannequin
"Restless Heart" The Running Man
"Shakedown" Beverly Hills Cop II
"Storybook Love" The Princess Bride
Score: The Last Emperor – David Byrne, Cong Su and Ryuichi Sakamoto
Cry Freedom
Empire of the Sun
Hope and Glory
The Untouchables
The Witches of Eastwick - DirectorBarry LevinsonStarsDustin HoffmanTom CruiseValeria GolinoAfter a selfish L.A. yuppie learns his estranged father left a fortune to an autistic-savant brother in Ohio that he didn't know existed, he absconds with his brother and sets out across the country, hoping to gain a larger inheritance.Best Film
Winner: Rain Man
The Accidental Tourist
Dangerous Liaisons
A Fish Called Wanda
Mississippi Burning
Working Girl - DirectorSidney LumetStarsRiver PhoenixChristine LahtiJudd HirschThe eldest son of a fugitive family comes of age and wants to live his own life.Best Director
Winner: Barry Levinson – Rain Man
Charles Crichton – A Fish Called Wanda
Martin Scorsese – The Last Temptation of Christ
Alan Parker – Mississippi Burning
Sidney Lumet – Running on Empty
Mike Nichols – Working Girl
Sound: Bird
Die Hard
Gorillas in the Mist
Mississippi Burning
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Willow - DirectorAlan ParkerStarsGene HackmanWillem DafoeFrances McDormandTwo F.B.I. Agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists.Best Actor
Winner: Dustin Hoffman – Rain Man
Gene Hackman – Mississippi Burning
Tom Hanks – Big
Edward James Olmos – Stand and Deliver
River Phoenix – Running on Empty
Max von Sydow – Pelle the Conqueror
Cinematography: Mississippi Burning – Peter Biziou
Dangerous Liaisons
Rain Man
Tequila Sunrise
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Who Framed Roger Rabbit - DirectorJonathan KaplanStarsKelly McGillisJodie FosterBernie CoulsonAfter a young woman suffers a brutal gang rape in a bar one night, a prosecutor assists in bringing the perpetrators to justice, including the ones who encouraged and cheered on the attack.Best Actress
Winner: Jodie Foster – The Accused
Glenn Close – Dangerous Liaisons
Melanie Griffith – Working Girl
Susan Sarandon – Bull Durham
Meryl Streep – A Cry in the Dark
Sigourney Weaver – Gorillas in the Mist
Production: Dangerous Liaisons – Stuart Craig
Beaches
Married to the Mob
Rain Man
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
Who Framed Roger Rabbit - DirectorCharles CrichtonJohn CleeseStarsJohn CleeseJamie Lee CurtisKevin KlineIn London, four very different people team up on a jewel heist, then try to double-cross one another for the loot, complicated by their efforts to fool a very proper barrister.Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Kevin Kline – A Fish Called Wanda
Lou Diamond Phillips – Stand and Deliver
Alec Guinness – Little Dorrit
Martin Landau – Tucker: The Man and His Dream
Tim Robbins – Bull Durham
Dean Stockwell – Married to the Mob
Film Editing: Who Framed Roger Rabbit – Arthur Schmidt
Die Hard
A Fish Called Wanda
Gorillas in the Mist
Mississippi Burning
Rain Man - DirectorStephen FrearsStarsGlenn CloseJohn MalkovichMichelle PfeifferA scheming widow and her manipulative ex-lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman.Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Michelle Pfeiffer – Dangerous Liaisons
Joan Cusack – Working Girl
Geena Davis – The Accidental Tourist
Frances McDormand – Mississippi Burning
Mercedes Ruehl – Married to the Mob
Sigourney Weaver – Working Girl
Costume: Dangerous Liaisons – James Acheson
Coming to America
A Handful of Dust
Married to the Mob
Sunset
Tucker: The Man and His Dream - DirectorLawrence KasdanStarsWilliam HurtKathleen TurnerGeena DavisAn emotionally distant writer of travel guides must carry on with his life after his son is killed and his marriage crumbles.Best Screenplay
Original: Rain Man – Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow
Big
Bull Durham
A Fish Called Wanda
Mississippi Burning
Running on Empty
Adapted: Dangerous Liaisons – Christopher Hampton
The Accidental Tourist
A Cry in the Dark
Gorillas in the Mist
Little Dorrit
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - DirectorBille AugustStarsPelle HvenegaardMax von SydowErik PaaskeWhen his wife dies, Lasse takes his 12-year-old son, Pelle, from their home in Sweden to Denmark in search of a better life.Best Foreign Film
Winner: Pelle the Conqueror (Denmark) – Bille August
Hanussen (Hungary)
The Music Teacher (Belgium)
Salaam Bombay! (India)
A Short Film About Love (Poland)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Spain)
Makeup: Beetlejuice
Coming to America
Scrooged
Visual Effect: Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Die Hard
Willow - DirectorMike NicholsStarsMelanie GriffithHarrison FordSigourney WeaverWhen a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretending she has her boss' job.Best Soundtrack
Song: "Let the River Run" Working Girl – Carly Simon
"Calling You" Bagdad Cafe
"Kokomo" Cocktail
"Twins" Twins
"Two Hearts" Buster
"When a Woman Loves a Man" Bull Durham
Score: Dangerous Liaisons – George Fenton
The Accidental Tourist
Gorillas in the Mist
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Milagro Beanfield War
Rain Man - DirectorSpike LeeStarsDanny AielloOssie DavisRuby DeeOn the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.Best Film
Winner: Do the Right Thing
Born on the Fourth of July
Dead Poets Society
Driving Miss Daisy
Field of Dreams
My Left Foot - DirectorOliver StoneStarsTom CruiseBryan LarkinRaymond J. BarryThe biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country for which he fought.Best Director
Winner: Oliver Stone – Born on the Fourth of July
Woody Allen – Crimes and Misdemeanors
Peter Weir – Dead Poets Society
Spike Lee – Do the Right Thing
Kenneth Branagh – Henry V
Jim Sheridan – My Left Foot
Sound: Born on the Fourth of July
The Abyss
Black Rain
Glory
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Lethal Weapon 2 - DirectorJim SheridanStarsDaniel Day-LewisBrenda FrickerAlison WhelanChristy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.Best Actor
Winner: Daniel Day-Lewis – My Left Foot
Kenneth Branagh – Henry V
Tom Cruise – Born on the Fourth of July
Billy Crystal – When Harry Met Sally...
Morgan Freeman – Driving Miss Daisy
Martin Landau – Crimes and Misdemeanors
Cinematography: Glory – Freddie Francis
The Abyss
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Born on the Fourth of July
Do the Right Thing
The Fabulous Baker Boys - DirectorBruce BeresfordStarsMorgan FreemanJessica TandyDan AykroydAn old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.Best Actress
Winner: Jessica Tandy – Driving Miss Daisy
Pauline Collins – Shirley Valentine
Jessica Lange – Music Box
Andie MacDowell – sex, lies, and videotape
Michelle Pfeiffer – The Fabulous Baker Boys
Meg Ryan – When Harry Met Sally...
Production: Batman – Anton Furst
The Abyss
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Driving Miss Daisy
Glory
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids - DirectorEdward ZwickStarsMatthew BroderickDenzel WashingtonCary ElwesRobert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Denzel Washington – Glory
Danny Aiello – Do the Right Thing
Dan Aykroyd – Driving Miss Daisy
Sean Connery – Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Jack Nicholson – Batman
Robin Williams – Dead Poets Society
Film Editing: Born on the Fourth of July – David Brenner and Joe Hutshing
The Bear
Do the Right Thing
The Fabulous Baker Boys
Glory
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - DirectorPeter WeirStarsRobin WilliamsRobert Sean LeonardEthan HawkeMaverick teacher John Keating returns in 1959 to the prestigious New England boys' boarding school where he was once a star student, using poetry to embolden his pupils to new heights of self-expression.Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Brenda Fricker – My Left Foot
Anjelica Huston – Enemies, A Love Story
Lena Olin – Enemies, A Love Story
Julia Roberts – Steel Magnolias
Laura San Giacomo – sex, lies, and videotape
Dianne Wiest – Parenthood
Costume: Henry V – Phyllis Dalton
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Driving Miss Daisy
Enemies, A Love Story
Harlem Nights
Valmont - DirectorPhil Alden RobinsonStarsKevin CostnerJames Earl JonesRay LiottaIowa farmer Ray Kinsella is inspired by a voice he can't ignore to pursue a dream he can hardly believe. Supported by his wife, Ray begins the quest by turning his ordinary cornfield into a place where dreams can come true.Best Screenplay
Original: Do the Right Thing – Spike Lee
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Dead Poets Society
Heathers
sex, lies, and videotape
When Harry Met Sally...
Adapted: Born on the Fourth of July – Oliver Stone and Ron Kovic
Driving Miss Daisy
Enemies, A Love Story
Field of Dreams
Glory
My Left Foot - DirectorGiuseppe TornatoreStarsPhilippe NoiretEnzo CannavaleAntonella AttiliA filmmaker recalls his childhood when falling in love with the pictures at the cinema of his home village and forms a deep friendship with the cinema's projectionist.Best Foreign Film
Winner: Cinema Paradiso (Italy) – Giuseppe Tornatore
Camille Claudel (France)
A City of Sadness (Taiwan)
Jesus of Montreal (Canada)
Memories of a Marriage (Denmark)
What Happened to Santiago (Puerto Rico)
Makeup: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Batman
Driving Miss Daisy
Visual Effect: The Abyss
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - DirectorRon ClementsJohn MuskerStarsJodi BensonSamuel E. WrightRene AuberjonoisA mermaid princess makes a Faustian bargain in an attempt to become human and win a prince's love.Best Soundtrack
Song: "Part of Your World" The Little Mermaid – Alan Menken and Howard Ashman
"After All" Chances Are
"Fight the Power" Do the Right Thing
"I Love To See You Smile" Parenthood
"Kiss the Girl" The Little Mermaid
"Under the Sea" The Little Mermaid
Score: The Fabulous Baker Boys – Dave Grusin
Born on the Fourth of July
Driving Miss Daisy
Field of Dreams
The Little Mermaid
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade