| Best Picture |
Best Director |
- Platoon
- Children of a Lesser God
- Hannah and Her Sisters
- The Mission
- A Room with a View
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- Oliver Stone – Platoon
- Woody Allen – Hannah and Her Sisters
- James Ivory – A Room with a View
- Roland Joffe – The Mission
- David Lynch – Blue Velvet
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| Best Actor |
Best Actress |
- Paul Newman – The Color of Money
- Dexter Gordon – Round Midnight
- William Hurt – Children of a Lesser God
- Bob Hoskins – Mona Lisa
- James Woods – Salvador
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- Marlee Matlin – Children of a Lesser God
- Sigourney Weaver – Aliens
- Sissy Spacek – Crimes of the Heart
- Jane Fonda – The Morning After
- Kathleen Turner – Peggy Sue Got Married
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| Best Supporting Actor |
Best Supporting Actress |
- Michael Caine – Hannah and Her Sisters
- Tom Berenger – Platoon
- Willem Dafoe – Platoon
- Denholm Elliot – A Room with a View
- Dennis Hopper – Hoosiers
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- Dianne Wiest – Hannah and Her Sisters
- Tess Harper – Crimes of the Heart
- Piper Laurie – Children of a Lesser God
- Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio – The Color of Money
- Maggie Smith – A Room with a View
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| Best Original Screenplay |
Best Adapted Screenplay |
- Hannah and Her Sisters – Woody Allen
- Crocodile Dundee – Screenplay by Paul Hogan, Ken Shadie and John Cornell; Story by Paul Hogan
- My Beautiful Laundrette – Hanif Kureishi
- Platoon – Oliver Stone
- Salvador – Oliver Stone and Rick Boyle
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- A Room with a View – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- Children of a Lesser God – Hesper Anderson and Mark Medoff
- The Color of Money – Richard Price
- Crimes of the Heart – Beth Henley
- Stand by Me – Raynold Gideon and Bruce A. Evans
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| Best Foreign Language Film |
- The Assault (Netherlands)
- Betty Blue (France)
- The Decline of the American Empire (Canada)
- My Sweet Little Village (Czechoslovakia)
- 38 (Austria)
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| Best Documentary Feature |
Best Documentary Short |
- Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got – Brigitte Berman
- Down and Out in America – Joseph Feury and Milton Justice
- Chile: Hasta Cuando? – David Bradbury
- Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer – Kirk Simon and Amram Nowak
- Witness to Apartheid – Sharon I. Sopher
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- Women – for America, for the World – Vivienne Verdon-Roe
- Debonair Dancers – Alison Nigh-Strelich
- The Masters of Disaster – Sonya Friedman
- Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse – Thomas L. Neff and Madeline Bell
- Sam – Aaron D. Weisblatt
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| Best Live Action Short |
Best Animated Short |
- Precious Images – Chuck Workman
- Exit – Stefano Reali and Pino Quartullo
- Love Struck – Fredda Weiss
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- A Greek Tragedy – Linda Van Tulden and Willem Thijssen
- The Frog, the Dog and the Devil – Bob Stenhouse
- Luxo Jr. – John Lasseter and William Reeves
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| Best Original Score |
Best Original Song |
- Round Midnight – Herbie Hancock
- Aliens – James Horner
- Hoosiers – Jerry Goldsmith
- The Mission – Ennio Morricone
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home – Leonard Rosenman
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- "Take My Breath Away" from Top Gun – Music and Lyric by Giorgio Moroder and Tom Whitlock
- "Glory of Love" from The Karate Kid Part II – Music by Peter Cetera and David Foster; Lyric by Peter Cetera and Diane Nini
- "Life in a Looking Glass" from That's Life – Music by Henry Mancini; Lyric by Leslie Bricusse
- "Mean Green Mother from Outer Space" from Little Shop of Horrors – Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Howard Ashman
- "Somewhere Out There" from An American Tail – Music by James Horner and Barry Mann; Lyric by Cynthia Weil
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| Best Sound Mixing |
Best Sound Editing |
- Platoon – John Wilkinson, Richard Rogers, Simon Kaye and Charles Grenzbach
- Aliens – Graham V. Hartstone, Nicolas Le Messurier, Michael A. Carter and Roy Charman
- Heartbreak Ridge – Les Fresholtz, Dick Alexander, Vern Poore and Bill Nelson
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home – Terry Porter, David J. Hudson, Mel Metcalfe and Gene Cantamessa
- Top Gun – Donald O. Mitchell, Kevin O'Connell, Rick Kline and William B. Kaplan
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- Aliens – Don Sharpe
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home – Mark Mangini
- Top Gun – Cecelia Hall and George Watters II
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| Best Art Direction |
Best Cinematography |
- A Room with a View – Art Direction: Gianni Quaranta and Brian Ackland-Snow; Set Decoration: Brian Savegar and Elio Altramura
- Aliens – Art Direction: Peter Lamont; Set Decoration: Crispian Sallis
- The Color of Money – Art Direction: Boris Leven; Set Decoration: Karen O'Hara
- Hannah and Her Sisters – Art Direction: Stuart Wurtzel; Set Decoration: Carol Joffe
- The Mission – Art Direction: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Jack Stephens
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- The Mission – Chris Menges
- Peggy Sue Got Married – Jordan Cronenweth
- Platoon – Robert Richardson
- A Room with a View – Tony Pierce-Roberts
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home – Don Peterman
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| Best Makeup |
Best Costume Design |
- The Fly – Chris Walas and Stephan Dupuis
- The Clan of the Cave Bear – Michael George Westmore and Michèle Burke
- Legend – Rob Bottin and Peter Robb-King
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- A Room with a View – Jenny Beavan and John Bright
- The Mission - Enrico Sabbatini
- Otello - Anna Anni, Maurizio Millenotti
- Peggy Sue Got Married - Theadora Van Runkle
- Pirates - Anthony Powell
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| Best Film Editing |
Best Visual Effects |
- Platoon – Claire Simpson
- Aliens - Ray Lovejoy
- Hannah and Her Sisters - Susan Morse
- The Mission - Jim Clark
- Top Gun - Billy Weber
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- Aliens – Robert Skotak, Stan Winston, John Richardson and Suzanne M. Benson
- Little Shop of Horrors – Lyle Conway, Bran Ferren and Martin Gutteridge
- Poltergeist II: The Other Side – Richard Edlund, John Bruno, Garry Waller and William Neil
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