Winner

Milos Forman

Amadeus

Nominated

David Lean

A Passage to India

Francis Ford Coppola

The Cotton Club

Sergio Leone

Once Upon a Time in America

Roland Joffé

The Killing Fields

Winner

A Passage to India

Nominated

A Sunday in the Country

Carmen

Dangerous Moves

Paris, Texas

Winner

Something About Amelia

Nominated

The Dollmaker

Sakharov

A Streetcar Named Desire

The Burning Bed

Winner

Romancing the Stone

Nominated

Splash

Micki + Maude

Beverly Hills Cop

Ghostbusters

Winner

Amadeus

Nominated

The Cotton Club

Places in the Heart

A Soldier's Story

The Killing Fields

Winner

A Passage to India

Maurice Jarre

Nominated

The River

John Williams

The Killing Fields

Mike Oldfield

Starman

Jack Nitzsche

Once Upon a Time in America

Ennio Morricone

Winner

The Woman in Red

Stevie Wonder

Nominated

Against All Odds

Phil Collins

Footloose

Kenny Loggins

Dean Pitchford

Ghostbusters

Ray Parker Jr.

Give My Regards to Broad Street

Paul McCartney

Purple Rain

Prince

Winner

Ted Danson

Something About Amelia

Nominated

Treat Williams

A Streetcar Named Desire

Jason Robards

Sakharov

Sam Neill

Reilly: Ace of Spies

James Garner

Heartsounds

Winner

Dudley Moore

Micki + Maude

Nominated

Bill Murray

Ghostbusters

Steve Martin

All of Me

Robin Williams

Moscow on the Hudson

Eddie Murphy

Beverly Hills Cop

Winner

F. Murray Abraham

Amadeus

Nominated

Sam Waterston

The Killing Fields

Tom Hulce

Amadeus

Jeff Bridges

Starman

Albert Finney

Under the Volcano

Winner

Haing S. Ngor

The Killing Fields

Nominated

Jeffrey Jones

Amadeus

Richard Crenna

The Flamingo Kid

Adolph Caesar

A Soldier's Story

Pat Morita

The Karate Kid

Winner

Paul Le Mat

The Burning Bed

Nominated

Ben Vereen

Ellis Island

Pierce Brosnan

Nancy Astor

John Hillerman

Magnum, P.I.

Bruce Weitz

Hill Street Blues

Winner

Bill Cosby

The Cosby Show

Nominated

Sherman Hemsley

The Jeffersons

Ted Danson

Cheers

Bob Newhart

Newhart

Robert Guillaume

Benson

Winner

Tom Selleck

Magnum, P.I.

Nominated

Larry Hagman

Dallas

Stacy Keach

The New Mike Hammer

Daniel J. Travanti

Hill Street Blues

John Forsythe

Dynasty

James Brolin

Hotel

Winner

Ann-Margret

A Streetcar Named Desire

Nominated

Jane Fonda

The Dollmaker

Glenda Jackson

Sakharov

Farrah Fawcett

The Burning Bed

Glenn Close

Something About Amelia

Winner

Kathleen Turner

Romancing the Stone

Nominated

Lily Tomlin

All of Me

Anne Bancroft

Garbo Talks

Mia Farrow

Broadway Danny Rose

Shelley Long

Irreconcilable Differences

Winner

Sally Field

Places in the Heart

Nominated

Sissy Spacek

The River

Diane Keaton

Mrs. Soffel

Vanessa Redgrave

The Bostonians

Jessica Lange

Country

Winner

Peggy Ashcroft

A Passage to India

Nominated

Kim Basinger

The Natural

Lesley Ann Warren

Songwriter

Drew Barrymore

Irreconcilable Differences

Jacqueline Bisset

Under the Volcano

Melanie Griffith

Body Double

Christine Lahti

Swing Shift

Winner

Faye Dunaway

Ellis Island

Nominated

Selma Diamond

Night Court

Roxana Zal

Something About Amelia

Marla Gibbs

The Jeffersons

Gina Lollobrigida

Falcon Crest

Rhea Perlman

Cheers

Winner

Shelley Long

Cheers

Nominated

Isabel Sanford

The Jeffersons

Debbie Allen

Fame

Susan Clark

Webster

Nell Carter

Gimme a Break!

Jane Curtin

Kate & Allie

Winner

Angela Lansbury

Murder, She Wrote

Nominated

Tyne Daly

Cagney & Lacey

Kate Jackson

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

Joan Collins

Dynasty

Sharon Gless

Cagney & Lacey

Linda Evans

Dynasty

Winner

Amadeus

Peter Shaffer

Nominated

A Passage to India

David Lean

The Killing Fields

Bruce Robinson

A Soldier's Story

Charles Fuller

Places in the Heart

Robert Benton

Winner

The Cosby Show

Nominated

The Jeffersons

Cheers

Kate & Allie

Fame

Winner

Murder, She Wrote

Nominated

St. Elsewhere

Dynasty

Hill Street Blues

Cagney & Lacey