Best Picture
The Big Chill	The Dresser	The Right Stuff	Tender Mercies	Terms of Endearment

Best Actor
The Dresser	The Dresser	Educating Rita	Reuben, Reuben	Tender Mercies
Albert Finney	Tom Courtenay	Michael Caine	Tom Conti	Robert Duvall

Best Actress
Educating Rita	Silkwood	Terms of Endearment	Terms of Endearment	Testament
Julie Walters	Meryl Streep	Debra Winger	Shirley MacLaine	Jane Alexander

Best Supporting Actor
Cross Creek	The Right Stuff	Terms of Endearment	Terms of Endearment	To Be Or Not To Be
Rip Torn	Sam Shepard	John Lithgow	Jack Nicholson	Charles Durning

Best Supporting Actress
The Big Chill	Cross Creek	Silkwood	The Year of Living Dangerously	Yentl
Glenn Close	Alfre Woodard	Cher	Linda Hunt	Amy Irving

Best Director
The Dresser	Fanny & Alexander	Silkwood	Tender Mercies	Terms of Endearment
Peter Yates	Ingmar Bergman	Mike Nichols	Bruce Beresford	James L. Brooks

Best Original Screenplay
The Big Chill	Fanny & Alexander	Silkwood	Tender Mercies	WarGames
Lawrence Kasdan, Barbara Benedek	Ingmar Bergman	Nora Ephron, Alice Arlen	Horton Foote	Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes

Best Adapted Screenplay
Betrayal	The Dresser	Educating Rita	Reuben, Reuben	Terms of Endearment
Harold Pinter	Ronald Harwood	Willy Russell	Julius J. Epstein	James L. Brooks

Best Cinematography
Fanny & Alexander	Flashdance	The Right Stuff	WarGames	Zelig
Sven Nykvist	Donald Peterman	Caleb Deschanel	William A. Fraker	Gordon Willis

Best Art Direction
Fanny & Alexander	Return of the Jedi	The Right Stuff	Terms of Endearment	Yentl
Anna Asp, Susanne Lingheim	Norman Reynolds, Fred Hole, James L. Schoppe, Michael Ford	Geoffrey Kirkland, Richard Lawrence, W. Stewart Campbell, Peter R. Romero, Jim Poynter, George R. Nelson	Polly Platt, Tom Pedigo	Roy Walker, Leslie Tomkins, Tessa Davies

Best Costume Design
Cross Creek	Fanny & Alexander	Heart Like a Wheel	The Return of Martin Guerre	Zelig
Joe I. Tompkins	Marik Vos-Lundh	William Ware Theiss	Anne-Marie Marchand	Santo Loquasto

Best Sound
Never Cry Wolf	Return of the Jedi	The Right Stuff	Terms of Endearment	WarGames
Alan Splet, Todd Boekelheide, Randy Thom, David Parker	Ben Burtt, Gary Summers, Randy Thom, Tony Dawe	Mark Berger, Thomas Scott, Randy Thom, David MacMillan	Donald O. Mitchell, Rick Kline, Kevin O'Connell, James R. Alexander	Michael J. Kohut, Carlos DeLarios, Aaron Rochin, Willie D. Burton

Best Editing
Blue Thunder	Flashdance	The Right Stuff	Silkwood	Terms of Endearment
Frank Morriss, Edward M. Abroms	Bud S. Smith, Walt Mulconery	Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Stephen A. Rotter, Douglas Stewart, Tom Rolf	Sam O'Steen	Richard Marks

Best Sound Editing
Return of the Jedi	The Right Stuff
Ben Burtt	Jay Boekelheide

Best Original Song
Flashdance	Flashdance	Tender Mercies	Yentl	Yentl
Maniac	Flashdance...What a Feeling	Over You	The Way He Makes Me Feel	Papa, Can You Hear Me?

Best Original Score
Cross Creek	Return of the Jedi	The Right Stuff	Terms of Endearment	Under Fire
Leonard Rosenman	John Williams	Bill Conti	Michael Gore	Jerry Goldsmith

Best Adaptation Score
The Sting II	Trading Places	Yentl
Lalo Schifrin	Elmer Bernstein	Michel Legrand, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman