Best Picture & Directing
Best Picture
Winner
Platoon
Arnold Kopelson, producer — Oliver Stone's semi-autobiographical Vietnam War film
Acting
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Winner
Paul Newman
The Color of Money — his first Oscar win after seven previous nominations
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Winner
Marlee Matlin
Children of a Lesser God — youngest Best Actress winner at 21; the only deaf performer to win an acting Oscar
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Winner
Michael Caine
Hannah and Her Sisters — was filming Jaws: The Revenge and couldn't attend; accepted in absentia
Writing
Best Original Screenplay
Platoon— Oliver Stone
Salvador— Oliver Stone, Richard Boyle
My Beautiful Laundrette— Hanif Kureishi
Best Adapted Screenplay
Children of a Lesser God— Hesper Anderson, Mark Medoff
Stand by Me— Raynold Gideon, Bruce A. Evans
Craft & Technical
Best Foreign Language Film
'38 — Vienna Before the Fall— Austria
Betty Blue— France
My Sweet Little Village— Czechoslovakia
Best Documentary Feature
Winner
Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got
Brigitte Berman — (tie with Down and Out in America)
Down and Out in America— Lee Grant (co-winner)
Isaac in America— Amram Nowak
Best Original Score
The Mission— Ennio Morricone
Aliens— James Horner
Stand by Me— Jack Nitzsche
Best Original Song
Winner
"Take My Breath Away"
Top Gun — Giorgio Moroder, Tom Whitlock
"Glory of Love"— The Karate Kid Part II
"Mean Green Mother from Outer Space"— Little Shop of Horrors
Best Cinematography
Platoon— Robert Richardson
A Room with a View— Tony Pierce-Roberts
Best Film Editing
Aliens— Ray Lovejoy
Hannah and Her Sisters— Susan E. Morse
Best Art Direction
Winner
A Room with a View
Gianni Quaranta, Brian Ackland-Snow; Brian Savegar, Elio Altramura
Aliens— Peter Lamont
The Color of Money— Boris Leven
Best Costume Design
The Mission— Enrico Sabbatini
Otello— Maurizio Millenotti
Best Makeup
Legend— Rob Bottin, Peter Robb-King
The Clan of the Cave Bear— Michael G. Westmore, Michele Burke
Best Visual Effects
Winner
Aliens
Robert Skotak, Stan Winston, John Richardson, Suzanne Benson
Little Shop of Horrors— Lyle Conway, Bran Ferren, Martin Gutteridge
Poltergeist II: The Other Side— Richard Edlund et al.
Best Sound Mixing
Winner
Platoon
John K. Wilkinson, Richard Rogers, Charles Grenzbach, Simon Kaye
Aliens— Graham V. Hartstone et al.
Top Gun— Donald O. Mitchell et al.
Best Sound Editing
Back to School— Fred J. Brown
Top Gun— Cecelia Hall, George Watters II