Best Picture
Children of a Lesser God	Hannah and Her Sisters	The Mission	Platoon	A Room With a View

Best Actor
Children of a Lesser God	The Color of Money	Mona Lisa	'Round Midnight	Salvador
William Hurt	Paul Newman	Bob Hoskins	Dexter Gordon	James Woods

Best Actress
Aliens	Children of a Lesser God	Crimes of the Heart	The Morning After	Peggy Sue Got Married
Sigourney Weaver	Marlee Matlin	Sissy Spacek	Jane Fonda	Kathleen Turner

Best Supporting Actor
Hannah and Her Sisters	Hoosiers	Platoon	Platoon	A Room With a View
Michael Caine	Dennis Hopper	Willem Dafoe	Tom Berenger	Denholm Elliott

Best Supporting Actress
Children of a Lesser God	The Color of Money	Crimes of the Heart	Hannah and Her Sisters	A Room With a View
Piper Laurie	Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio	Tess Harper	Dianne Wiest	Maggie Smith

Best Director
Blue Velvet	Hannah and Her Sisters	The Mission	Platoon	A Room With a View
David Lynch	Woody Allen	Roland Joffé	Oliver Stone	James Ivory

Best Original Screenplay
Crocodile Dundee	Hannah and Her Sisters	My Beautiful Laundrette	Platoon	Salvador
Paul Hogan, Ken Shadie, John Cornell	Woody Allen	Hanif Kureishi	Oliver Stone	Oliver Stone, Rick Boyle

Best Adapted Screenplay
Children of a Lesser God	The Color of Money	Crimes of the Heart	A Room With a View	Stand by Me
Hesper Anderson, Mark Medoff	Richard Price	Beth Henley	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	Raynold Gideon, Bruce A. Evans

Best Cinematography
The Mission	Peggy Sue Got Married	Platoon	A Room With a View	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Chris Menges	Jordan Cronenweth	Robert Richardson	Tony Pierce-Roberts	Donald Peterman

Best Art Direction
Aliens	The Color of Money	Hannah and Her Sisters	The Mission	A Room With a View
Peter Lamont, Crispian Sallis	Boris Leven, Karen O'Hara	Stuart Wurtzel, Carol Joffe	Stuart Craig, Jack Stephens	Gianni Quaranta, Brian Ackland-Snow, Brian Savegar, Elio Altramura

Best Costume Design
The Mission	Otello	Peggy Sue Got Married	Pirates	A Room With a View
Enrico Sabbatini	Anna Anni, Maurizio Millenotti	Theadora Van Runkle	Anthony Powell	Jenny Beavan, John Bright

Best Sound
Aliens	Heartbreak Ridge	Platoon	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home	Top Gun
Graham V. Hartstone, Nicolas Le Messurier, Michael A. Carter, Roy Charman	Les Fresholtz, Rick Alexander, Vern Poore, Bill Nelson	John Wilkinson, Richard D. Rogers, Charles Grenzbach, Simon Kaye	Terry Porter, David J. Hudson, Mel Metcalfe, Gene S. Cantamessa	Donald O. Mitchell, Kevin O'Connell, Rick Kline, William B. Kaplan

Best Editing
Aliens	Hannah and Her Sisters	The Mission	Platoon	Top Gun
Ray Lovejoy	Susan E. Morse	Jim Clark	Claire Simpson	Billy Weber, Chris Lebenzon

Best Sound Editing
Aliens	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home	Top Gun
Don Sharpe	Mark A. Mangini	Cecelia Hall, George Watters II

Best Visual Effects
Aliens	Little Shop of Horrors	Poltergeist II: The Other Side
Robert Skotak, Stan Winston, John Richardson, Suzanne M. Benson	Lyle Conway, Bran Ferren, Martin Gutteridge	Richard Edlund, John Bruno, Gary Waller, Bill Neil

Best Makeup
The Clan of the Cave Bear	The Fly	Legend
Michael Westmore, Michèle Burke	Chris Walas, Stephan Dupuis	Rob Bottin, Peter Robb-King

Best Original Song
An American Tail	The Karate Kid Part II	Little Shop of Horrors	That's Life!	Top Gun
Somewhere Out There	Glory of Love	Mean Green Mother from Outer Space	Life in a Looking Glass	Take My Breath Away

Best Original Score
Aliens	Hoosiers	The Mission	'Round Midnight	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
James Horner	Jerry Goldsmith	Ennio Morricone	Herbie Hancock	Leonard Rosenman