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

Best Actor
Amadeus	Amadeus	The Killing Fields	Starman	Under the Volcano
Tom Hulce	F. Murray Abraham	Sam Waterston	Jeff Bridges	Albert Finney

Best Actress
The Bostonians	Country	A Passage to India	Places in the Heart	The River
Vanessa Redgrave	Jessica Lange	Judy Davis	Sally Field	Sissy Spacek

Best Supporting Actor
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes	The Karate Kid	The Killing Fields	Places in the Heart	A Soldier's Story
Ralph Richardson	Pat Morita	Haing S. Ngor	John Malkovich	Adolph Caesar

Best Supporting Actress
The Natural	A Passage to India	Places in the Heart	The Pope of Greenwich Village	Swing Shift
Glenn Close	Peggy Ashcroft, Angela Lansbury	Lindsay Crouse	Geraldine Page	Christine Lahti

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

Best Original Screenplay
Beverly Hills Cop	Broadway Danny Rose	El Norte	Places in the Heart	Splash
Daniel Petrie Jr., Danilo Bach	Woody Allen	Gregory Nava, Anna Thomas	Robert Benton	Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, Bruce Jay Friedman, Brian Grazer

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

Best Cinematography
Amadeus	The Killing Fields	The Natural	A Passage to India	The River
Miroslav Ondrícek	Chris Menges	Caleb Deschanel	Ernest Day	Vilmos Zsigmond

Best Art Direction
Amadeus	The Cotton Club	The Natural	A Passage to India	2010
Patrizia von Brandenstein, Karel Cerný	Richard Sylbert, George Gaines	Mel Bourne, Angelo P. Graham, Bruce Weintraub	John Box, Hugh Scaife	Albert Brenner, Rick Simpson

Best Costume Design
Amadeus	The Bostonians	A Passage to India	Places in the Heart	2010
Theodor Pistek	Jenny Beavan, John Bright	Judy Moorcroft	Ann Roth	Patricia Norris

Best Sound
Amadeus	Dune	A Passage to India	The River	2010
Mark Berger, Thomas Scott, Todd Boekelheide, Christopher Newman	Bill Varney, Steve Maslow, Kevin O'Connell, Nelson Stoll	Graham V. Hartstone, Nicolas Le Messurier, Michael A. Carter, John W. Mitchell	Nick Alphin, Robert Thirlwell, Richard Portman, David M. Ronne	Michael J. Kohut, Aaron Rochin, Carlos DeLarios, Gene S. Cantamessa

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

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

Best Makeup
Amadeus	Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes	2010
Paul LeBlanc, Dick Smith	Rick Baker, Paul Engelen	Michael Westmore

Best Original Song
Against All Odds	Footloose	Footloose	Ghostbusters	The Woman in Red
Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)	Let's Hear It for the Boy	Footloose	Ghostbusters	I Just Called to Say I Love You

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

Best Original Song Score
The Muppets Take Manhattan	Purple Rain	Songwriter
Jeff Moss	Prince	Kris Kristofferson