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Best Picture

• Out of Africa
  • The Color Purple
  • Kiss of the Spider Woman
  • Prizzi's Honor
  • Witness

Best Director

• Out of Africa - Sydney Pollack
  • Kiss of the Spider Woman - Hector Babenco
  • Prizzi's Honor - John Huston
  • Ran - Akira Kurosawa
  • Witness - Peter Weir

Best Actor

• Kiss of the Spider Woman - William Hurt
  • Murphy's Romance - James Garner
  • Prizzi's Honor - Jack Nicholson
  • Runaway Train - Jon Voight
  • Witness - Harrison Ford

Best Actress

• The Trip to Bountiful - Geraldine Page
  • Agnes of God - Anne Bancroft
  • The Color Purple - Whoopi Goldberg
  • Out of Africa - Meryl Streep
  • Sweet Dreams - Jessica Lange

Best Supporting Actor

• Cocoon - Don Ameche
  • Jagged Edge - Robert Loggia
  • Out of Africa - Klaus Maria Brandauer
  • Prizzi's Honor - William Hickey
  • Runaway Train - Eric Roberts

Best Supporting Actress

• Prizzi's Honor - Anjelica Huston
  • Agnes of God - Meg Tilly
  • The Color Purple - Margaret Avery
  • The Color Purple - Oprah Winfrey
  • Twice in a Lifetime - Amy Madigan

Best Original Screenplay

• Witness - Earl W. Wallace , William Kelley and Pamela Wallace
  • Back to the Future - Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale
  • Brazil - Terry Gilliam , Tom Stoppard and Charles McKeown
  • La Historia oficial - Luis Puenzo and Aida Bortnik
  • The Purple Rose of Cairo - Woody Allen

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Out of Africa - Kurt Luedtke
  • The Color Purple - Menno Meyjes
  • Kiss of the Spider Woman - Leonard Schrader
  • Prizzi's Honor - Richard Condon and Janet Roach
  • The Trip to Bountiful - Horton Foote

Best Cinematography

• Out of Africa

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration

• Out of Africa

Best Costume Design

• Ran

Best Sound

• Out of Africa

Best Film Editing

• Witness

Best Sound Effects Editing

• Back to the Future

Best Visual Effects

• Cocoon

Best Makeup

• Mask

Best Original Song

• White Nights - Say You, Say Me ; Music and Lyrics by Lionel Richie

Best Original Score

• Out of Africa

Best Animated Short Film

• Anna & Bella

Best Live Action Short Film

• Molly's Pilgrim

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

• Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements

Best Documentary, Features

• Broken Rainbow

Best Foreign Language Film

• La Historia oficial - Argentina