| Best Picture |
| The Big Chill |
The Dresser |
The Right Stuff |
Tender Mercies |
Terms of Endearment |
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Best Actor |
| The Dresser |
The Dresser |
Educating Rita |
Reuben, Reuben |
Tender Mercies |
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| Albert Finney |
Tom Courtenay |
Michael Caine |
Tom Conti |
Robert Duvall |
Best Actress |
| Educating Rita |
Silkwood |
Terms of Endearment |
Terms of Endearment |
Testament |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Glenn Close |
Alfre Woodard |
Cher |
Linda Hunt |
Amy Irving |
Best Director |
| The Dresser |
Fanny & Alexander |
Silkwood |
Tender Mercies |
Terms of Endearment |
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| Peter Yates |
Ingmar Bergman |
Mike Nichols |
Bruce Beresford |
James L. Brooks |
Best Original Screenplay |
| The Big Chill |
Fanny & Alexander |
Silkwood |
Tender Mercies |
WarGames |
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| 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 |
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| Harold Pinter |
Ronald Harwood |
Willy Russell |
Julius J. Epstein |
James L. Brooks |
Best Cinematography |
| Fanny & Alexander |
Flashdance |
The Right Stuff |
WarGames |
Zelig |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Ben Burtt |
Jay Boekelheide |
Best Original Song |
| Flashdance |
Flashdance |
Tender Mercies |
Yentl |
Yentl |
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| 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 |
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| Leonard Rosenman |
John Williams |
Bill Conti |
Michael Gore |
Jerry Goldsmith |
Best Adaptation Score |
| The Sting II |
Trading Places |
Yentl |
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| Lalo Schifrin |
Elmer Bernstein |
Michel Legrand, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman |
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