Winner

Oliver Stone

Platoon

Nominated

Woody Allen

Hannah and Her Sisters

Roland Joffé

The Mission

Rob Reiner

Stand by Me

James Ivory

A Room with a View

Winner

The Assault

Nominated

Ginger & Fred

Otello

Three Men and a Cradle

Betty Blue

Winner

Promise

Nominated

Christmas Eve

Nobody's Child

Peter the Great

Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna

Unnatural Causes

Winner

Hannah and Her Sisters

Nominated

Little Shop of Horrors

Peggy Sue Got Married

Crimes of the Heart

Down and Out in Beverly Hills

Crocodile Dundee

Winner

Platoon

Nominated

Children of a Lesser God

The Mission

Mona Lisa

A Room with a View

Stand by Me

Winner

The Mission

Ennio Morricone

Nominated

'Round Midnight

Herbie Hancock

The Mosquito Coast

Maurice Jarre

Little Shop of Horrors

Miles Goodman

Top Gun

Harold Faltermeyer

Winner

Top Gun

Giorgio Moroder

Tom Whitlock

Nominated

Running Scared

Rod Temperton

Tough Guys

Burt Bacharach

Carole Bayer Sager

Kenny Rogers

An American Tail

James Horner

Barry Mann

Cynthia Weil

The Karate Kid Part II

David Foster

Peter Cetera

That's Life!

Henry Mancini

Leslie Bricusse

Winner

James Woods

Promise

Nominated

John Ritter

Unnatural Causes

Jan Niklas

Peter the Great

James Garner

Promise

Mark Harmon

The Deliberate Stranger

Winner

Paul Hogan

Crocodile Dundee

Nominated

Danny DeVito

Ruthless People

Jack Lemmon

That's Life!

Matthew Broderick

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Jeff Daniels

Something Wild

Winner

Bob Hoskins

Mona Lisa

Nominated

William Hurt

Children of a Lesser God

Paul Newman

The Color of Money

Harrison Ford

The Mosquito Coast

Jeremy Irons

The Mission

Dexter Gordon

'Round Midnight

Winner

Tom Berenger

Platoon

Nominated

Ray Liotta

Something Wild

Dennis Hopper

Blue Velvet

Michael Caine

Hannah and Her Sisters

Winner

Jan Niklas

Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna

Nominated

Tom Conti

Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story

John Hillerman

Magnum, P.I.

Ron Leibman

Christmas Eve

Trevor Howard

Christmas Eve

Winner

Bruce Willis

Moonlighting

Nominated

Tony Danza

Who's the Boss?

Michael J. Fox

Family Ties

Bill Cosby

The Cosby Show

Ted Danson

Cheers

Winner

Edward Woodward

The Equalizer

Nominated

Tom Selleck

Magnum, P.I.

William Devane

Knots Landing

Don Johnson

Miami Vice

John Forsythe

Dynasty

Winner

Loretta Young

Christmas Eve

Nominated

Vanessa Redgrave

Second Serve

Amy Irving

Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna

Farrah Fawcett

Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story

Marlo Thomas

Nobody's Child

Winner

Sissy Spacek

Crimes of the Heart

Nominated

Bette Midler

Down and Out in Beverly Hills

Julie Andrews

That's Life!

Melanie Griffith

Something Wild

Kathleen Turner

Peggy Sue Got Married

Winner

Marlee Matlin

Children of a Lesser God

Nominated

Sigourney Weaver

Aliens

Farrah Fawcett

Extremities

Julie Andrews

Duet for One

Anne Bancroft

'night, Mother

Winner

Maggie Smith

A Room with a View

Nominated

Linda Kozlowski

Crocodile Dundee

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

The Color of Money

Cathy Tyson

Mona Lisa

Dianne Wiest

Hannah and Her Sisters

Winner

Olivia de Havilland

Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna

Nominated

Rhea Perlman

Cheers

Justine Bateman

Family Ties

Geraldine Page

Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story

Lilli Palmer

Peter the Great

Piper Laurie

Promise

Winner

Cybill Shepherd

Moonlighting

Nominated

Rue McClanahan

The Golden Girls

Betty White

The Golden Girls

Estelle Getty

The Golden Girls

Bea Arthur

The Golden Girls

Winner

Angela Lansbury

Murder, She Wrote

Nominated

Joan Collins

Dynasty

Tyne Daly

Cagney & Lacey

Sharon Gless

Cagney & Lacey

Connie Sellecca

Hotel

Winner

The Mission

Robert Bolt

Nominated

Blue Velvet

David Lynch

Platoon

Oliver Stone

Hannah and Her Sisters

Woody Allen

Mona Lisa

Neil Jordan

David Leland

Winner

The Golden Girls

Nominated

The Cosby Show

Moonlighting

Cheers

Family Ties

Winner

L.A. Law

Nominated

Cagney & Lacey

St. Elsewhere

Miami Vice

Dynasty

Murder, She Wrote