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Major categories

Best Picture

• Amadeus
  • The Killing Fields
  • A Passage to India
  • Places in the Heart
  • A Soldier's Story

Best Director

• Milos Forman – Amadeus
  • Woody Allen – Broadway Danny Rose
  • Robert Benton – Places in the Heart
  • Roland Joffe – The Killing Fields
  • David Lean – A Passage to India

Best Actor in a Leading Role

• F. Murray Abraham – Amadeus as Antonio Salieri
  • Jeff Bridges – Starman as Starman
  • Albert Finney – Under the Volcano as Geoffrey Firmin
  • Tom Hulce – Amadeus as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Sam Waterston – The Killing Fields as Sydney Schanberg

Best Actress in a Leading Role

• Sally Field – Places in the Heart as Edna Spalding
  • Judy Davis – A Passage to India as Adela Quested
  • Jessica Lange – Country as Jewell Ivy
  • Vanessa Redgrave – The Bostonians as Olive Chancellor
  • Sissy Spacek – The River as Mae Garvey

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Haing S. Ngor – The Killing Fields as Dith Pran
  • Adolph Caesar – A Soldier's Story as Sergeant Waters
  • John Malkovich – Places in the Heart as Mr. Will
  • Noriyuki Pat Morita – The Karate Kid as Mr. Kesuke Miyagi
  • Ralph Richardson – Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes as The Sixth Earl of Greystoke (posthumous nomination)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Peggy Ashcroft – A Passage to India as Mrs. Moore
  • Glenn Close – The Natural as Iris Gaines
  • Lindsay Crouse – Places in the Heart as Margaret Lomax
  • Christine Lahti – Swing Shift as Hazel
  • Geraldine Page – The Pope of Greenwich Village as Mrs. Ritter

Best Screenplay – Original

• Places in the Heart – Robert Benton
  • Beverly Hills Cop – Danilo Bach and Daniel Petrie, Jr.
  • Broadway Danny Rose – Woody Allen
  • The North – Gregory Nava and Anna Thomas
  • Splash – Brian Grazer, Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel and Bruce Jay Friedman

Best Screenplay – Adapted

• Amadeus – Peter Shaffer
  • Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes – Michael Austin and Robert Towne
  • The Killing Fields – Bruce Robinson
  • A Passage to India – David Lean
  • A Soldier's Story – Charles Fuller

Best Foreign Language Film

• Dangerous Moves (La diagonale du fou) • Switzerland
  • Beyond the Walls (Me'Ahorei Hasoragim) • Israel
  • Camila • Argentina
  • Double Feature (Sesión continua) • Spain
  • Wartime Romance (Voenno-polevoy roman) • USSR

Other categories

Best Cinematography

• The Killing Fields - Chris Menges
  • Amadeus - Miroslav Ondricek
  • The Natural - Caleb Deschanel
  • A Passage to India - Ernest Day
  • The River - Vilmos Zsigmond

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration

• Amadeus - Karel Cerny and Patrizia von Brandstein
  • 2010 - Albert Brenner and Rick Simpson
  • The Cotton Club - Richard Sylbert , George Gaines and Les Bloom
  • The Natural - Angelo Graham , Mel Bourne , James J. Murakami, Speed Hopkins, and Bruch Weintraub
  • A Passage to India - John Box , Leslie Tomkins and Hugh Scaife

Best Costume Design

• Amadeus - Theodor Pistek
  • 2010 - Patricia Norris
  • The Bostonians - Jenny Beavan and John Bright
  • A Passage to India - Judy Moorcroft
  • Places in the Heart - Ann Roth

Best Sound

• Amadeus - Mark Berger , Thomas Scott , Todd Boekelheide and Christopher Newman
  • 2010 - Michael J. Kohut , Aaron Rochin , Carlos De Larios and Gene S. Cantamessa
  • A Passage to India - Graham V. Hartstone , Nicolas Le Messurier , Michael A. Carter and John Mitchell
  • The River - Nick Alphin , Robert Thirwell , Richard Portman and David Ronne

Best Film Editing

• The Killing Fields - Jim Clark
  • Amadeus - Nena Danevic and Michael Chandler
  • The Cotton Club - Barry Malkin and Robert Q. Lovett
  • A Passage to India - David Lean
  • Romancing the Stone - Donn Cambern and Frank Morriss

Best Effects, Visual Effects

• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - Dennis Muren , Michael J. McAlister , Lorne Peterson and George Gibbs
  • 2010 - Richard Edlund , Neil Krepela , George Jenson and Mark Stetson
  • Ghostbusters - Richard Edlund , John Bruno , Mark Vargo and Chuck Gasper

Best Makeup

• Amadeus - Dick Smith and Paul LeBlanc
  • Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes - Rick Baker and Paul Engelen

Best Music, Original Song

• The Woman in Red - Stevie Wonder for the song I Just Called to Say I Love You
  • Against All Odds - Phil Collins for the song Take a Look at Me Now
  • Footloose - Kenny Loggins and Dean Pitchford for the song Footloose
  • Footloose - Dean Pitchford and Tom Snow for the song Let's Hear It for the Boy
  • Ghostbusters - Ray Parker, Jr. for the song Ghostbusters

Best Music, Original Song Score

• Purple Rain - Prince
  • The Muppets Take Manhattan - Jeff Moss
  • Songwriter - Kris Kristofferson

Best Music, Original Score

• A Passage to India - Maurice Jarre
  • Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - John Williams
  • The Natural - Randy Newman
  • The River - John Williams
  • Under the Volcano - Alex North

Best Short Film, Animated

• Charade
  • Doctor De Soto
  • Paradise

Best Short Film, Live Action

• Up
  • The Painted Door
  • Tales of Meeting and Parting

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

• The Stone Carvers
  • The Children of Soong Ching Ling
  • Code Gray: Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing
  • The Garden of Eden
  • Recollections of Pavlovsk

Best Documentary, Features

• The Times of Harvey Milk
  • High Schools
  • In the Name of the People
  • Marlene
  • Streetwise