Best Picture & Directing
Best Picture
Winner
The Last Emperor
Jeremy Thomas, producer — swept all nine nominations; filmed with unprecedented access to the Forbidden City in Beijing
Acting
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Winner
Michael Douglas
Wall Street — as corporate raider Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone's financial satire
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Winner
Cher
Moonstruck — as a widow who falls for her fiancé's younger brother
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Winner
Sean Connery
The Untouchables — as Jim Malone, Eliot Ness's veteran Irish-American cop mentor
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Winner
Olympia Dukakis
Moonstruck — cousin of 1988 presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, she quipped "Okay, Michael, let's go!"
Writing
Best Original Screenplay
Broadcast News— James L. Brooks
Hope and Glory— John Boorman
Radio Days— Woody Allen
Best Adapted Screenplay
Fatal Attraction— James Dearden
My Life as a Dog— Lasse Hallström, Reidar Jönsson et al.
Craft & Technical
Best Foreign Language Film
Au Revoir les Enfants— France
Course Completed— Spain
The Family— Italy
Best Documentary Feature
Winner
The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table
Aviva Slesin
Radio Bikini— Robert Stone
A Year in the Life— Robert Epstein
Best Original Score
Empire of the Sun— John Williams
The Untouchables— Ennio Morricone
Cry Freedom— George Fenton, Jonas Gwangwa
Best Original Song
Winner
"(I've Had) The Time of My Life"
Dirty Dancing — Franke Previte, John DeNicola, Donald Markowitz
"Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"— Mannequin
"Shakedown"— Beverly Hills Cop II
Best Cinematography
Empire of the Sun— Allen Daviau
Broadcast News— Michael Ballhaus
Best Film Editing
Broadcast News— Richard Marks
Fatal Attraction— Michael Kahn, Peter E. Berger
Best Art Direction
Winner
The Last Emperor
Ferdinando Scarfiotti; Bruno Cesari, Osvaldo Desideri
Empire of the Sun— Norman Reynolds
Radio Days— Speed Hopkins
Best Costume Design
Empire of the Sun— Bob Ringwood
The Dead— Dorothy Jeakins
Best Makeup
Happy New Year— Bob Laden
The Witches of Eastwick— Robert Sidell
Best Visual Effects
Winner
Innerspace
Dennis Muren, William George, Harley Jessup, Kenneth Smith
Predator— Joel Hynek et al.
Empire of the Sun— Kit West et al.
Best Sound Mixing
Empire of the Sun— Robert Knudson et al.
RoboCop— Michael J. Kohut et al.
Best Sound Editing
Empire of the Sun— Charles L. Campbell, Louis L. Edemann
Predator— Arnold D. Burrows