56th Academy Awards

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Best Picture	Best Director
Terms of Endearment The Big Chill The Dresser The Right Stuff Tender Mercies	James L. Brooks – Terms of Endearment Peter Yates – The Dresser Ingmar Bergman – Fanny and Alexander Mike Nichols – Silkwood Bruce Beresford – Tender Mercies
Best Actor	Best Actress
Robert Duvall – Tender Mercies Michael Caine – Educating Rita Tom Conti – Reuben, Reuben Tom Courtenay – The Dresser Albert Finney – The Dresser	Shirley MacLaine – Terms of Endearment Jane Alexander – Testament Meryl Streep – Silkwood Julie Walters – Educating Rita Debra Winger – Terms of Endearment
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Jack Nicholson – Terms of Endearment Charles Durning – To Be or Not to Be John Lithgow – Terms of Endearment Sam Shepard – The Right Stuff Rip Torn – Cross Creek	Linda Hunt – The Year of Living Dangerously Cher – Silkwood Glenn Close – The Big Chill Amy Irving – Yentl Alfre Woodard – Cross Creek
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
Tender Mercies – Horton Foote The Big Chill – Lawrence Kasdan and Barbara Benedek Fanny and Alexander – Ingmar Bergman Silkwood – Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen WarGames – Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes	Terms of Endearment – James L. Brooks Betrayal – Harold Pinter The Dresser – Ronald Harwood Educating Rita – Willy Russell Reuben, Reuben – Julius J. Epstein
Best Foreign Language Film	Best Film Editing
Fanny and Alexander (Sweden) Carmen (Spain) Entre Nous (France) Job's Revolt (Hungary) The Ball (Algeria)	The Right Stuff – Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Stephen A. Rotter, Douglas Stewart and Tom Rolf Blue Thunder – Frank Morriss and Edward Abroms Flashdance – Bud Smith and Walt Mulconery Silkwood – Sam O'Steen Terms of Endearment – Richard Marks
Best Documentary Feature	Best Documentary Short
He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' – Emile Ardolino Children of Darkness – Richard Kotuk and Ara Chekmayan First Contact – Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson The Profession of Arms – Michael Bryans and Tina Viljoen Seeing Red – James Klein and Julia Reichert	Flamenco at 5:15 – Cynthia Scott and Adam Symansky In the Nuclear Shadow: What Can the Children Tell Us? – Vivienne Verdon-Roe and Eric Thiermann Sewing Woman – Arthur Dong Spaces: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph – Robert Eisenhardt You Are Free Ihr Zent Frei – Dea Brokman and Ilene Landis
Best Live Action Short	Best Animated Short
Boys and Girls – Janice L. Platt Goodie-Two-Shoes – Ian Emes Overnight Sensation – Jon N. Bloom	Sundae in New York – Jimmy Picker Mickey's Christmas Carol – Burny Mattinson Sound of Sunshine - Sound of Rain – Eda Godel Hallinan
Best Original Score	Best Original Song Score or Adaptation Score
The Right Stuff - Bill Conti Cross Creek – Leonard Rosenman Return of the Jedi – John Williams Terms of Endearment – Michael Gore Under Fire – Jerry Goldsmith	Yentl – Song Score by Michel Legrand, Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman The Sting II – Adaptation Score by Lalo Schifrin Trading Places – Adaptation Score by Elmer Bernstein
Best Original Song	Best Costume Design
*"Flashdance... What a Feeling" from Flashdance* – Music and Lyric by Giorgio Moroder, Keith Forsey and Irene Cara** "Maniac" from Flashdance – Music and Lyric by Michael Sembello and Dennis Matkosky "Over You" from Tender Mercies – Music and Lyric by Austin Roberts and Bobby Hart "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" from Yentl – Music by Michel Legrand; Lyric by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman "The Way He Makes Me Feel" from Yentl – Music by Michel Legrand; Lyric by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman	Fanny and Alexander – Marik Vos-Lundh Cross Creek – Joe I. Tompkins Heart Like a Wheel – William Ware Theiss The Return of Martin Guerre – Anne-Marie Marchand Zelig – Santo Loquasto
Best Sound Mixing	Best Sound Editing
The Right Stuff – Mark Berger, Thomas Scott, Randy Thom and David MacMillan Never Cry Wolf – Alan Splet, Todd Boekelheide, Randy Thom and David Parker Return of the Jedi – Ben Burtt, Gary Summers, Randy Thom and Tony Dawe Terms of Endearment – Donald O. Mitchell, Rick Kline, Kevin O'Connell and James R. Alexander WarGames – Michael J. Kohut, Carlos Delarios, Aaron Rochin and Willie D. Burton	The Right Stuff – Jay Boekelheide Return of the Jedi – Ben Burtt
Best Art Direction	Best Cinematography
Fanny and Alexander – Art Direction: Anna Asp; Set Decoration: Susanne Lingheim Return of the Jedi – Art Direction: Norman Reynolds, Fred Hole and James Schoppe; Set Decoration: Michael Ford The Right Stuff – Art Direction: Geoffrey Kirkland, Richard J. Lawrence, W. Stewart Campbell and Peter Romero; Set Decoration: Pat Pending, George R. Nelson Terms of Endearment – Art Direction: Polly Platt and Harold Michelson; Set Decoration: Tom Pedigo and Anthony Mondell Yentl – Art Direction: Roy Walker and Leslie Tomkins; Set Decoration: Tessa Davies	Fanny and Alexander – Sven Nykvist Flashdance – Don Peterman The Right Stuff – Caleb Deschanel WarGames – William A. Fraker Zelig – Gordon Willis

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