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Best Picture |
| The Color Purple | Kiss of the Spider Woman | Out of Africa | Prizzi's Honor | Witness |
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Best Actor |
| Kiss of the Spider Woman | Murphy's Romance | Prizzi's Honor | Runaway Train | Witness |
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| 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 |
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| Anne Bancroft | Whoopi Goldberg | Meryl Streep | Jessica Lange | Geraldine Page |
Best Supporting Actor |
| Cocoon | Jagged Edge | Out of Africa | Prizzi's Honor | Runaway Train |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Aggie Guerard Rodgers | Albert Wolsky | Milena Canonero | Donfeld | Emi Wada |
Best Sound |
| Back to the Future | A Chorus Line | Ladyhawke | Out of Africa | Silverado |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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