Best Picture
The Accidental Tourist	Dangerous Liaisons	Mississippi Burning	Rain Man	Working Girl

Best Actor
Big	Mississippi Burning	Pelle the Conqueror	Rain Man	Stand and Deliver
Tom Hanks	Gene Hackman	Max von Sydow	Dustin Hoffman	Edward James Olmos

Best Actress
The Accused	A Cry in the Dark	Dangerous Liaisons	Gorillas in the Mist	Working Girl
Jodie Foster	Meryl Streep	Glenn Close	Sigourney Weaver	Melanie Griffith

Best Supporting Actor
A Fish Called Wanda	Little Dorrit	Married to the Mob	Running on Empty	Tucker: The Man and His Dream
Kevin Kline	Alec Guinness	Dean Stockwell	River Phoenix	Martin Landau

Best Supporting Actress
The Accidental Tourist	Dangerous Liaisons	Mississippi Burning	Working Girl	Working Girl
Geena Davis	Michelle Pfeiffer	Frances McDormand	Sigourney Weaver	Joan Cusack

Best Director
A Fish Called Wanda	The Last Temptation of Christ	Mississippi Burning	Rain Man	Working Girl
Charles Crichton	Martin Scorsese	Alan Parker	Barry Levinson	Mike Nichols

Best Original Screenplay
Big	Bull Durham	A Fish Called Wanda	Rain Man	Running on Empty
Gary Ross, Anne Spielberg	Ron Shelton	John Cleese, Charles Crichton	Ronald Bass, Barry Morrow	Naomi Foner

Best Adapted Screenplay
The Accidental Tourist	Dangerous Liaisons	Gorillas in the Mist	Little Dorrit	The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Frank Galati, Lawrence Kasdan	Christopher Hampton	Anna Hamilton Phelan, Tab Murphy	Christine Edzard	Jean-Claude Carrière, Philip Kaufman

Best Cinematography
Mississippi Burning	Rain Man	Tequila Sunrise	The Unbearable Lightness of Being	Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Peter Biziou	John Seale	Conrad L. Hall	Sven Nykvist	Dean Cundey

Best Art Direction
Beaches	Dangerous Liaisons	Rain Man	Tucker: The Man and His Dream	Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Albert Brenner, Garrett Lewis	Stuart Craig, Gérard James	Ida Random, Linda DeScenna	Dean Tavoularis, Armin Ganz	Elliot Scott, Peter Howitt

Best Costume Design
Coming to America	Dangerous Liaisons	A Handful of Dust	Sunset	Tucker: The Man and His Dream
Deborah Nadoolman	James Acheson	Jane Robinson	Patricia Norris	Milena Canonero

Best Sound
Bird	Die Hard	Gorillas in the Mist	Mississippi Burning	Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Les Fresholtz, Rick Alexander, Vern Poore, Willie D. Burton	Don J. Bassman, Kevin F. Cleary, Richard Overton, Al Overton Jr.	Andy Nelson, Brian Saunders, Peter Handford	Robert J. Litt, Elliot Tyson, Rick Kline, Danny Michael	Robert Knudson, John Boyd, Don Digirolamo, Tony Dawe

Best Editing
Die Hard	Gorillas in the Mist	Mississippi Burning	Rain Man	Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Frank J. Urioste, John F. Link	Stuart Baird	Gerry Hambling	Stu Linder	Arthur Schmidt

Best Sound Editing
Die Hard	Who Framed Roger Rabbit?	Willow
Stephen Hunter Flick, Richard Shorr	Charles L. Campbell, Louis L. Edemann	Ben Burtt, Richard Hymns

Best Visual Effects
Die Hard	Who Framed Roger Rabbit?	Willow
Richard Edlund, Al Di Sarro, Brent Boates, Thaine Morris	Ken Ralston, Richard Williams, Ed Jones, George Gibbs	Dennis Muren, Michael J. McAlister, Phil Tippett, Christopher Evans

Best Makeup
Beetlejuice	Coming to America	Scrooged
Ve Neill, Steve LaPorte, Robert Short	Rick Baker	Thomas R. Burman, Bari Dreiband-Burman

Best Original Song
Bagdad Café	Buster	Working Girl
Calling You	Two Hearts	Let the River Run

Best Original Score
The Accidental Tourist	Dangerous Liaisons	Gorillas in the Mist	The Milagro Beanfield War	Rain Man
John Williams	George Fenton	Maurice Jarre	Dave Grusin	Hans Zimmer