59th Academy Awards

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Best Picture	Best Director
Platoon Children of a Lesser God Hannah and Her Sisters The Mission A Room with a View	Oliver Stone – Platoon Woody Allen – Hannah and Her Sisters James Ivory – A Room with a View Roland Joffe – The Mission David Lynch – Blue Velvet
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	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
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	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
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	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
Best Foreign Language Film
The Assault (Netherlands) Betty Blue (France) The Decline of the American Empire (Canada) My Sweet Little Village (Czechoslovakia) 38 (Austria)
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	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
Best Live Action Short	Best Animated Short
Precious Images – Chuck Workman Exit – Stefano Reali and Pino Quartullo Love Struck – Fredda Weiss	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
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	*"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
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	Aliens – Don Sharpe Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home – Mark Mangini Top Gun – Cecelia Hall and George Watters II
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	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
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	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
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	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