| Best Picture |
Best Director |
- Out of Africa
- The Color Purple
- Kiss of the Spider Woman
- Prizzi's Honor
- Witness
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- Sydney Pollack – Out of Africa
- Hector Babenco – Kiss of the Spider Woman
- John Huston – Prizzi's Honor
- Akira Kurosawa – Ran
- Peter Weir – Witness
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| Best Actor |
Best Actress |
- William Hurt – Kiss of the Spider Woman
- Harrison Ford – Witness
- James Garner – Murphy's Romance
- Jack Nicholson – Prizzi's Honor
- Jon Voight – Runaway Train
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- Geraldine Page – The Trip to Bountiful
- Anne Bancroft – Agnes of God
- Whoopi Goldberg – The Color Purple
- Jessica Lange – Sweet Dreams
- Meryl Streep – Out of Africa
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| Best Supporting Actor |
Best Supporting Actress |
- Don Ameche – Cocoon
- Klaus Maria Brandauer – Out of Africa
- William Hickey – Prizzi's Honor
- Robert Loggia – Jagged Edge
- Eric Roberts – Runaway Train
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- Anjelica Huston – Prizzi's Honor
- Margaret Avery – The Color Purple
- Amy Madigan – Twice in a Lifetime
- Meg Tilly – Agnes of God
- Oprah Winfrey – The Color Purple
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| Best Original Screenplay |
Best Adapted Screenplay |
- Witness – Screenplay by Earl W. Wallace, William Kelley; Story by William Kelley, Pamela Wallace and Earl W. Wallace
- Back to the Future – Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale
- Brazil – Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard and Charles McKeown
- The Official Story – Luis Puenzo and Aída Bortnik
- The Purple Rose of Cairo – Woody Allen
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- Out of Africa – Kurt Luedtke
- The Color Purple – Menno Meyjes
- Kiss of the Spider Woman – Leonard Schrader
- Prizzi's Honor – Richard Condon and Janet Roach
- The Trip to Bountiful – Horton Foote
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| Best Foreign Language Film |
- The Official Story (Argentina)
- Angry Harvest (Federal Republic of Germany)
- Colonel Redl (Hungary)
- Three Men and a Cradle (France)
- When Father Was Away on Business (Yugoslavia)
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| Best Documentary Feature |
Best Documentary Short |
- Broken Rainbow – Maria Florio and Victoria Mudd
- Las Madres: The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo – Susana Muñoz and Lourdes Portillo
- Soldiers in Hiding – Japhet Asher
- The Statue of Liberty – Ken Burns and Buddy Squires
- Unfinished Business – Steven Okazaki
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- Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements – David Goodman
- The Courage to Care – Robert H. Gardner
- Keats and His Nightingale: A Blind Date – Michael Crowley and James Wolpaw
- Making Overtures: The Story of a Community Orchestra – Barbara Willis Sweete
- The Wizard of the Strings – Alan Edelstein
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| Best Live Action Short |
Best Animated Short |
- Molly's Pilgrim – Jeffrey D. Brown and Chris Pelzer
- Graffiti – Dianna Costello
- Rainbow War – Bob Rogers
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- Anna & Bella – Cilia Van Dijk
- The Big Snit – Richard Condie and Michael J. F. Scott
- Second Class Mail – Alison Snowden
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| Best Original Score |
Best Original Song |
- Out of Africa – John Barry
- Agnes of God – Georges Delerue
- The Color Purple – Quincy Jones, Jeremy Lubbock, Rod Temperton, Caiphus Semenya, Andrae Crouch, Chris Boardman, Jorge Calandrelli and Joel Rosenbaum, Fred Steiner, Jack Hayes, Jerry Hey and Randy Kerber
- Silverado – Bruce Broughton
- Witness – Maurice Jarre
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- "Say You, Say Me" from White Nights – Music and Lyric by Lionel Richie
- "Miss Celie's Blues (Sister)" from The Color Purple - Music by Quincy Jones and Rod Temperton; Lyric by Quincy Jones, Rod Temperton and Lionel Richie
- "The Power of Love" from Back to the Future – Music by Chris Hayes and Johnny Colla; Lyric by Huey Lewis
- "Separate Lives" from White Nights – Music and Lyric by Stephen Bishop
- "Surprise, Surprise" from A Chorus Line – Music by Marvin Hamlisch; Lyric by Edward Kleban
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| Best Sound Mixing |
Best Sound Editing |
- Out of Africa – Chris Jenkins, Gary Alexander, Larry Stensvold and Peter Handford
- Back to the Future – Bill Varney, B. Tennyson Sebastian II, Robert Thirlwell and William B. Kaplan
- A Chorus Line – Donald O. Mitchell, Michael Minkler, Gerry Humphreys and Christopher Newman
- Ladyhawke – Les Fresholtz, Dick Alexander, Vern Poore and Bud Alper
- Silverado – Donald O. Mitchell, Rick Kline, Kevin O'Connell and David M. Ronne
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- Back to the Future – Charles L. Campbell and Robert Rutledge
- Ladyhawke – Bob Henderson and Alan Murray
- Rambo: First Blood Part II – Frederick J. Brown
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| Best Art Direction |
Best Cinematography |
- Out of Africa – Art Direction: Stephen Grimes; Set Decoration: Josie MacAvin
- Brazil – Art Direction: Norman Garwood; Set Decoration: Maggie Gray
- The Color Purple – Art Direction: J. Michael Riva and Robert W. Welch; Set Decoration: Linda DeScenna
- Ran –Art Direction: Yoshirō Muraki, Shinobu Muraki
- Witness – Art Direction: Stan Jolley; Set Decoration: John Anderson
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- Out of Africa – David Watkin
- The Color Purple – Allen Daviau
- Murphy's Romance – William A. Fraker
- Ran – Takao Saito, Masaharu Ueda and Asakazu Nakai
- Witness – John Seale
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| Best Makeup |
Best Costume Design |
- Mask – Michael Westmore and Zoltan Elek
- The Color Purple – Ken Chase
- Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins – Carl Fullerton
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- Ran – Emi Wada
- The Color Purple – Aggie Guerard Rodgers
- The Journey of Natty Gann – Albert Wolsky
- Out of Africa – Milena Canonero
- Prizzi's Honor – Donfeld
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| Best Film Editing |
Best Visual Effects |
- Witness – Thom Noble
- A Chorus Line – John Bloom
- Out of Africa – Fredric Steinkamp, William Steinkamp, Pembroke Herring and Sheldon Kahn
- Prizzi's Honor – Rudi Fehr and Kaja Fehr
- Runaway Train – Henry Richardson
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- Cocoon – Ken Ralston, Ralph McQuarrie, Scott Farrar and David Berry
- Return to Oz – Will Vinton, Ian Wingrove, Zoran Perisic and Michael Lloyd
- Young Sherlock Holmes – Dennis Muren, Kit West, John Ellis and David W. Allen
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