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

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

Best Actress
Agnes of God	The Color Purple	Out of Africa	Sweet Dreams	The Trip To Bountiful
Anne Bancroft	Whoopi Goldberg	Meryl Streep	Jessica Lange	Geraldine Page

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

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

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

Best Original Screenplay
Back to the Future	Brazil	The Official Story	The Purple Rose of Cairo	Witness
Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale	Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard, Charles McKeown	Luis Puenzo, Aída Bortnik	Woody Allen	William Kelley, Pamela Wallace, Earl W. Wallace

Best Adapted Screenplay
The Color Purple	Kiss of the Spider Woman	Out of Africa	Prizzi's Honor	The Trip To Bountiful
Menno Meyjes	Leonard Schrader	Kurt Luedtke	Richard Condon, Janet Roach	Horton Foote

Best Cinematography
The Color Purple	Murphy's Romance	Out of Africa	Ran	Witness
Allen Daviau	William A. Fraker	David Watkin	Takao Saitô, Masaharu Ueda, Asakazu Nakai	John Seale

Best Art Direction
Brazil	The Color Purple	Out of Africa	Ran	Witness
Norman Garwood, Maggie Gray	J. Michael Riva, Bo Welch, Linda DeScenna	Stephen B. Grimes, Josie MacAvin	Yoshirô Muraki, Shinobu Muraki	Stan Jolley, John H. Anderson

Best Costume Design
The Color Purple	The Journey of Natty Gann	Out of Africa	Prizzi's Honor	Ran
Aggie Guerard Rodgers	Albert Wolsky	Milena Canonero	Donfeld	Emi Wada

Best Sound
Back to the Future	A Chorus Line	Ladyhawke	Out of Africa	Silverado
Bill Varney, B. Tennyson Sebastian II, Robert Thirlwell, William B. Kaplan	Donald O. Mitchell, Michael Minkler, Gerry Humphreys, Christopher Newman	Les Fresholtz, Rick Alexander, Vern Poore, Bud Alper	Chris Jenkins, Gary Alexander, Larry Stensvold, Peter Handford	Donald O. Mitchell, Rick Kline, Kevin O'Connell, David M. Ronne

Best Editing
A Chorus Line	Out of Africa	Prizzi's Honor	Runaway Train	Witness
John Bloom	Fredric Steinkamp, William Steinkamp, Pembroke J. Herring, Sheldon Kahn	Rudi Fehr, Kaja Fehr	Henry Richardson	Thom Noble

Best Sound Editing
Back to the Future	Ladyhawke	Rambo: First Blood Part II
Charles L. Campbell, Robert R. Rutledge	Robert G. Henderson, Alan Robert Murray	Fred J. Brown

Best Visual Effects
Cocoon	Return to Oz	Young Sherlock Holmes
Ken Ralston, Ralph McQuarrie, Scott Farrar, David Berry	Will Vinton, Ian Wingrove, Zoran Perisic, Michael Lloyd	Dennis Muren, Kit West, John Ellis, Dave Allen

Best Makeup
The Color Purple	Mask	Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
Ken Chase	Michael Westmore, Zoltan Elek	Carl Fullerton

Best Original Song
Back to the Future	A Chorus Line	The Color Purple	White Nights	White Nights
The Power of Love	Surprise, Surprise	Miss Celie's Blues (Sister)	Separate Lives (Love Theme from White Nights)	Say You, Say Me

Best Original Score
Agnes of God	The Color Purple	Out of Africa	Silverado	Witness
Georges Delerue	Quincy Jones, Jeremy Lubbock, Rod Temperton, Caiphus Semenya, Andraé Crouch, Chris Boardman, Jorge Calandrelli, Joel Rosenbaum, Fred Steiner, Jack Hayes, Jerry Hey, Randy Kerber	John Barry	Bruce Broughton	Maurice Jarre