Winner

Clint Eastwood

Bird

Nominated

Barry Levinson

Rain Man

Sidney Lumet

Running on Empty

Fred Schepisi

A Cry in the Dark

Alan Parker

Mississippi Burning

Mike Nichols

Working Girl

Winner

Pelle the Conqueror

Nominated

Babette's Feast

Hanussen

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Salaam Bombay!

Winner

War and Remembrance

Nominated

The Murder of Mary Phagan

The Tenth Man

Hemingway

Jack the Ripper

Winner

Working Girl

Nominated

Big

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

A Fish Called Wanda

Midnight Run

Winner

Rain Man

Nominated

Gorillas in the Mist

Running on Empty

The Accidental Tourist

A Cry in the Dark

Mississippi Burning

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Winner

Gorillas in the Mist

Maurice Jarre

Nominated

The Accidental Tourist

John Williams

The Milagro Beanfield War

Dave Grusin

The Last Temptation of Christ

Peter Gabriel

Madame Sousatzka

Gerald Gouriet

Winner

Buster

Lamont Dozier

Phil Collins

Nominated

Cocktail

Scott McKenzie

Mike Love

Terry Melcher

John Phillips

Twins

Bull Durham

Gordon Jenkins

Johnny Mercer

Oliver & Company

Dan Hartman

Charlie Midnight

Winner

Michael Caine

Jack the Ripper

Nominated

Anthony Hopkins

The Tenth Man

Jack Lemmon

The Murder of Mary Phagan

Richard Chamberlain

The Bourne Identity

Winner

Tom Hanks

Big

Nominated

Bob Hoskins

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

John Cleese

A Fish Called Wanda

Robert De Niro

Midnight Run

Michael Caine

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Winner

Dustin Hoffman

Rain Man

Nominated

Gene Hackman

Mississippi Burning

Forest Whitaker

Bird

Tom Hulce

Dominick and Eugene

Edward James Olmos

Stand and Deliver

Winner

Martin Landau

Tucker: The Man and His Dream

Nominated

Alec Guinness

Little Dorrit

River Phoenix

Running on Empty

Lou Diamond Phillips

Stand and Deliver

Neil Patrick Harris

Clara's Heart

Raul Julia

Moon Over Parador

Winner

John Gielgud

War and Remembrance

Nominated

Larry Drake

L.A. Law

Kirk Cameron

Growing Pains

Derek Jacobi

The Tenth Man

Armand Assante

Jack the Ripper

Edward James Olmos

Miami Vice

Winner

Michael J. Fox

Family Ties

Nominated

Ted Danson

Cheers

Tony Danza

Who's the Boss?

John Goodman

Roseanne

Winner

Ron Perlman

Beauty and the Beast

Nominated

Carroll O'Connor

In the Heat of the Night

Ken Wahl

Wiseguy

Corbin Bernsen

L.A. Law

Harry Hamlin

L.A. Law

Winner

Ann Jillian

The Ann Jillian Story

Nominated

JoBeth Williams

Baby M

Vanessa Redgrave

A Man for All Seasons

Jane Seymour

The Woman He Loved

Winner

Melanie Griffith

Working Girl

Nominated

Susan Sarandon

Bull Durham

Michelle Pfeiffer

Married to the Mob

Amy Irving

Crossing Delancey

Jamie Lee Curtis

A Fish Called Wanda

Winner

Jodie Foster

The Accused

Nominated

Meryl Streep

A Cry in the Dark

Christine Lahti

Running on Empty

Winner

Sigourney Weaver

Working Girl

Nominated

Lena Olin

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Barbara Hershey

The Last Temptation of Christ

Sonia Braga

Moon Over Parador

Diane Venora

Bird

Winner

Katherine Helmond

Who's the Boss?

Nominated

Jackée Harry

227

Rhea Perlman

Cheers

Susan Ruttan

L.A. Law

Swoosie Kurtz

Baja Oklahoma

Winner

Candice Bergen

Murphy Brown

Nominated

Betty White

The Golden Girls

Tracey Ullman

The Tracey Ullman Show

Roseanne Barr

Roseanne

Bea Arthur

The Golden Girls

Winner

Jill Eikenberry

L.A. Law

Nominated

Linda Hamilton

Beauty and the Beast

Susan Dey

L.A. Law

Angela Lansbury

Murder, She Wrote

Sharon Gless

Cagney & Lacey

Winner

Running on Empty

Naomi Foner

Nominated

Mississippi Burning

Chris Gerolmo

A Cry in the Dark

Robert Caswell

Fred Schepisi

Rain Man

Ron Bass

Barry Morrow

Working Girl

Kevin Wade

Winner

The Wonder Years

Nominated

Murphy Brown

Roseanne

Cheers

The Golden Girls

Winner

Thirtysomething

Nominated

L.A. Law

Murder, She Wrote

Wiseguy

Beauty and the Beast