Winner

William Hurt

Kiss of the Spider Woman

Nominated

Harrison Ford

Witness

James Garner

Murphy's Romance

Jon Voight

Runaway Train

Jack Nicholson

Prizzi's Honor

Winner

Don Ameche

Cocoon

Nominated

William Hickey

Prizzi's Honor

Klaus Maria Brandauer

Out of Africa

Eric Roberts

Runaway Train

Robert Loggia

Jagged Edge

Winner

Geraldine Page

The Trip to Bountiful

Nominated

Whoopi Goldberg

The Color Purple

Jessica Lange

Sweet Dreams

Anne Bancroft

Agnes of God

Meryl Streep

Out of Africa

Winner

Anjelica Huston

Prizzi's Honor

Nominated

Amy Madigan

Twice in a Lifetime

Meg Tilly

Agnes of God

Oprah Winfrey

The Color Purple

Margaret Avery

The Color Purple

Winner

Out of Africa

Stephen B. Grimes

Josie MacAvin

Nominated

Brazil

Norman Garwood

Maggie Gray

The Color Purple

J. Michael Riva

Bo Welch

Linda DeScenna

Witness

Stan Jolley

John H. Anderson

Ran

Yoshirô Muraki

Shinobu Muraki

Winner

Out of Africa

David Watkin

Nominated

Ran

Takao Saitô

Shôji Ueda

Asakazu Nakai

The Color Purple

Allen Daviau

Witness

John Seale

Murphy's Romance

William A. Fraker

Winner

Ran

Emi Wada

Nominated

The Color Purple

Aggie Guerard Rodgers

Prizzi's Honor

Donfeld

The Journey of Natty Gann

Albert Wolsky

Out of Africa

Milena Canonero

Winner

Sydney Pollack

Out of Africa

Nominated

Akira Kurosawa

Ran

Hector Babenco

Kiss of the Spider Woman

John Huston

Prizzi's Honor

Peter Weir

Witness

Winner

Broken Rainbow

Maria Florio

Victoria Mudd

Nominated

The Mothers of the Plaza of Mayo

Susana Blaustein Muñoz

Lourdes Portillo

Soldiers in Hiding

Japhet Asher

The Statue of Liberty

Ken Burns

Buddy Squires

Unfinished Business

Steven Okazaki

Winner

Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements

David Goodman

Nominated

Making Overtures: The Story of a Community Orchestra

Barbara Willis Sweete

Keats and His Nightingale: A Blind Date

Michael Crowley

Jim Wolpaw

The Wizard of the Strings

Alan Edelstein

The Courage to Care

Robert H. Gardner

Winner

Back to the Future

Charles L. Campbell

Robert R. Rutledge

Nominated

Ladyhawke

Robert G. Henderson

Alan Robert Murray

Rambo: First Blood Part II

Fred J. Brown

Winner

Cocoon

Ken Ralston

Ralph McQuarrie

Scott Farrar

David Berry

Nominated

Young Sherlock Holmes

Dennis Muren

Kit West

John Ellis

David Allen

Return to Oz

Will Vinton

Ian Wingrove

Zoran Perisic

Michael Lloyd

Winner

Witness

Thom Noble

Nominated

Out of Africa

Fredric Steinkamp

William Steinkamp

Pembroke J. Herring

Sheldon Kahn

Prizzi's Honor

Rudi Fehr

Kaja Fehr

Runaway Train

Henry Richardson

A Chorus Line

John Bloom

Winner

The Official Story

Nominated

Angry Harvest

When Father Was Away on Business

Colonel Redl

Three Men and a Cradle

Winner

Mask

Michael Westmore

Zoltan Elek

Nominated

The Color Purple

Ken Chase

Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins

Carl Fullerton

Winner

Out of Africa

John Barry

Nominated

Agnes of God

Georges Delerue

Witness

Maurice Jarre

The Color Purple

Quincy Jones

Jeremy Lubbock

Rod Temperton

Caiphus Semenya

Andraé Crouch

Chris Boardman

Jorge Calandrelli

Joel Rosenbaum

Fred Steiner

Jack Hayes

Jerry Hey

Randy Kerber

Silverado

Bruce Broughton

Winner

White Nights

Lionel Richie

Nominated

Back to the Future

Chris Hayes

Johnny Colla

Huey Lewis

A Chorus Line

Marvin Hamlisch

Ed Kleban

The Color Purple

Quincy Jones

Rod Temperton

Lionel Richie

Winner

Out of Africa

Sydney Pollack

Nominated

Kiss of the Spider Woman

David Weisman

Prizzi's Honor

John Foreman

The Color Purple

Steven Spielberg

Kathleen Kennedy

Frank Marshall

Quincy Jones

Witness

Edward S. Feldman

Winner

Anna & Bella

Cilia van Dijk

Nominated

Second Class Mail

Alison Snowden

The Big Snit

Richard Condie

Michael J.F. Scott

Winner

Molly's Pilgrim

Jeffrey D. Brown

Nominated

Graffiti

Rainbow War

Bob Rogers

Winner

Out of Africa

Chris Jenkins

Gary Alexander

Larry Stensvold

Peter Handford

Nominated

Silverado

Donald O. Mitchell

Rick Kline

Kevin O'Connell

David M. Ronne

Back to the Future

Bill Varney

B. Tennyson Sebastian II

Robert Thirlwell

William B. Kaplan

A Chorus Line

Donald O. Mitchell

Michael Minkler

Gerry Humphreys

Christopher Newman

Ladyhawke

Les Fresholtz

Rick Alexander

Vern Poore

Bud Alper

Winner

Out of Africa

Kurt Luedtke

Nominated

The Color Purple

Menno Meyjes

The Trip to Bountiful

Horton Foote

Kiss of the Spider Woman

Leonard Schrader

Prizzi's Honor

Richard Condon

Janet Roach

Winner

Witness

Earl W. Wallace

William Kelley

Pamela Wallace

Nominated

Back to the Future

Robert Zemeckis

Bob Gale

Brazil

Terry Gilliam

Tom Stoppard

Charles McKeown

The Purple Rose of Cairo

Woody Allen

The Official Story

Luis Puenzo

Aída Bortnik