The 60th Academy Awards (1987): Nominees and Winners

NOMINATIONS

AWARDS

  • 9
  • 7
  • 6
  • 6
  • 6
  • 5
  • 4
  • 3
  • The Last Emperor
  • Broadcast News
  • Empire of the Sun
  • Fatal Attraction
  • Moonstruck
  • Hope and Glory
  • The Untouchables
  • Cry Freedom
  • 9
  • 3
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • The Last Emperor
  • Moonstruck
  • Babette's Feast
  • Dirty Dancing
  • Harry and the Hendersons
  • Innerspace
  • The Man Who Planted Trees
  • Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall
  • The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table
  • The Untouchables
  • Wall Street
  • Young at Heart
  • NOMINATION/WIN TALLY LEGEND
  • Best Picture winner
  • Best Picture nominee
  • Nominations are listed for all films receiving 3 or more

PICTURE (Best Picture)

  • Broadcast News - James L. Brooks
  • Fatal Attraction - Stanley R. Jaffe, Sherry Lansing
  • Hope and Glory - John Boorman
  • The Last Emperor - Jeremy Thomas
  • Moonstruck - Patrick Palmer, Norman Jewison

DIRECTING

  • Fatal Attraction - Adrian Lyne
  • Hope and Glory - John Boorman
  • The Last Emperor - Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Moonstruck - Norman Jewison
  • My Life As a Dog - Lasse Hallstrm

ACTOR (Actor in a Leading Role)

  • Michael Douglas - Wall Street
  • William Hurt - Broadcast News
  • Marcello Mastroianni - Dark Eyes
  • Jack Nicholson - Ironweed
  • Robin Williams - Good Morning, Vietnam

ACTRESS (Actress in a Leading Role)

  • Cher - Moonstruck
  • Glenn Close - Fatal Attraction
  • Holly Hunter - Broadcast News
  • Sally Kirkland - Anna
  • Meryl Streep - Ironweed

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Actor in a Supporting Role)

  • Sean Connery - The Untouchables
  • Albert Brooks - Broadcast News
  • Morgan Freeman - Street Smart
  • Vincent Gardenia - Moonstruck
  • Denzel Washington - Cry Freedom

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Actress in a Supporting Role)

  • Norma Aleandro - Gaby - A True Story
  • Anne Archer - Fatal Attraction
  • Olympia Dukakis - Moonstruck
  • Anne Ramsey - Throw Momma from the Train
  • Ann Sothern - The Whales of August

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)

  • Au Revoir Les Enfants (Goodbye, Children) - Louis Malle
  • Broadcast News - James L. Brooks
  • Hope and Glory - John Boorman
  • Moonstruck - John Patrick Shanley
  • Radio Days - Woody Allen

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium)

  • The Dead - Tony Huston
  • Fatal Attraction - James Dearden
  • Full Metal Jacket - Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, Gustav Hasford
  • The Last Emperor - Mark Peploe, Bernardo Bertolucci
  • My Life As a Dog - Lasse Hallstrm, Reidar Jnsson, Brasse Brnnstrm, Per Berglund

ORIGINAL SONG

  • "Cry Freedom" - Cry Freedom - Music, Lyric by George Fenton, Jonas Gwangwa
  • "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" - Dirty Dancing - Music by Franke Previte, John DeNicola, Donald Markowitz; Lyric by Franke Previte
  • "Nothing's Gonna STop Us Now" - Mannequin - Music, Lyric by Albert Hammond, Diane Warren
  • "Shakedown" - Beverly Hills Cop II - Music by Harold Faltermeyer, Keith Forsey; Lyric by Harold Faltermeyer, Keith Forsey, Bob Seger
  • "Storybook Love" - The Princess Bride - Music, Lyric by Willy DeVille

ORIGINAL SCORE

  • Cry Freedom - George Fenton, Jonas Gwangwa
  • Empire of the Sun - John Williams
  • The Last Emperor - Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Byrne, Cong Su
  • The Untouchables - Ennio Morricone
  • The Witches of Eastwick - John Williams

FILM EDITING

  • Broadcast News - Richard Marks
  • Empire of the Sun - Michael Kahn
  • Fatal Attraction - Michael Kahn, Peter E. Berger
  • The Last Emperor - Gabriella Cristiani
  • RoboCop - Frank J. Urioste

CINEMATOGRAPHY

  • Broadcast News - Michael Ballhaus
  • Empire of the Sun - Allen Daviau
  • Hope and Glory - Philippe Rousselot
  • The Last Emperor - Vittorio Storaro
  • Matewan - Haskell Wexler

ART DIRECTION

  • Empire of the Sun - Art Direction: Norman Reynolds; Set Decoration: Harry Cordwell
  • Hope and Glory - Art Direction: Anthony Pratt; Set Decoration: Joan Woollard
  • The Last Emperor - Art Direction: Ferdinando Scarfiotti; Set Decoration: Bruno Cesari, Osvaldo Desideri
  • Radio Days - Art Direction: Santo Loquasto; Set Decoration: Carol Joffe, Les Bloom, George DeTitta Jr.
  • The Untouchables - Art Direction: Patrizia Von Brandenstein, William A. Elliott; Set Decoration: Hal Gausman

COSTUME DESIGN

  • The Dead - Dorothy Jeakins
  • Empire of the Sun - Bob Ringwood
  • The Last Emperor - James Acheson
  • Maurice - Jenny Beavan, John Bright
  • The Untouchables - Marilyn Vance-Straker

MAKEUP

  • Happy New Year - Bob Laden
  • Harry and the Hendersons - Rick Baker

SOUND

  • Empire of the Sun - Robert Knudson, Don Digirolamo, John Boyd, Tony Dawe
  • The Last Emperor - Bill Rowe, Ivan Sharrock
  • Lethal Weapon - Les Fresholtz, Dick Alexander, Vern Poore, Bill Nelson
  • RoboCop - Michael J. Kohut, Carlos de Larios, Aaron Rochin, Robert Wald
  • The Witches of Eastwick - Wayne Artman, Tom Beckert, Tom Dahl, Art Rochester

SOUND EFFECTS EDITING (Special Achievement Award)

  • RoboCop - Stephen Flick, John Pospisil

VISUAL EFFECTS

  • Innerspace - Dennis Muren, William George, Harley Jessup, Kenneth Smith
  • Predator - Joel Hynek, Robert M. Greenberg, Richard Greenberg, Stan Winston

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

  • Au Revoir Les Enfants (Goodbye, Children) - France
  • Babette's Feast - Denmark
  • Course Completed - Spain
  • The Family - Italy
  • Pathfinder - Norway

DOCUMENTARY (Feature)

  • Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years/Bridge to Freedom 1965 - Callie Crossley, James A. DeVinney
  • Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima - John Junkerman, John W. Dower
  • Radio Bikini - Robert Stone
  • A Stitch for Time - Barbara Herbich, Cyril Christo
  • The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table - Aviva Slesin

DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject)

  • Frances Steloff: Memoirs of a Bookseller - Deborah Dickson
  • In the Wee Wee Hours... - Dr. Frank Daniel, Izak Ben-Meir
  • Language Says It All - Megan Williams
  • Silver into Gold - Lynn Mueller
  • Young at Heart - Sue Marx, Pamela Conn

SHORT FILM (Animated)

  • George and Rosemary - Eunice Macaulay
  • The Man Who Planted Trees - Frdric Back
  • Your Face - Bill Plympton

SHORT FILM (Live Action)

  • Making Waves - Ann Wingate
  • Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall - Jonathan Sanger, Jana Sue Memel
  • Shoeshine - Robert A. Katz

IRVING G. THALBERG MEMORIAL AWARD

  • Billy Wilder

GORDON E. SAWYER AWARD

  • Fred Hynes

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE I (Academy Award of Merit)

  • To BERNHARD KHL and WERNER BLOCK and to the OSRAM GmbH RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT for the invention and the continuing improvement of the OSRAM HMI light source for motion picture photography. [Lighting]

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE II (Plaque)

  • To FRITZ GABRIEL BAUER for the invention and development of the improved features of the Moviecam Camera System. [Camera]
  • To MONTAGE GROUP, LTD. for the development, and to RONALD C. BARKER and CHESTER L. SCHULER for the invention, of the Montage Picture Processor electronic film editing system. [Editorial]
  • To EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY for the development of Eastman Color High Speed Daylight Negative Film 5297/7297. [Film]
  • To EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY for the development of Eastman Color High Speed SA Negative Film 5295 for blue-screen traveling matte photography. [Film]
  • To COLIN F. MOSSMAN and RANK FILM LABORATORIES' DEVELOPMENT GROUP for creating a fully-automated, film handling system for improving productivity of high speed film processing. [Laboratory]
  • To the CARL ZEISS COMPANY for the design and development of a series of super-speed lenses for motion picture photography. [Lenses and Filters]
  • To WILLI BURTH and KINOTONE CORPORATION for the invention and development of the Non-rewind Platter System for motion picture presentations. [Projection]
  • To ZORAN PERISIC of Courier Films Ltd. for the Zoptic dual-zoom front projection system for visual effects photography. [Special Photographic]

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE III (Certificate)

  • To DAN C. NORRIS and TIM COOK of Norris Film Products for the development of a single-frame exposure system for motion picture photography. [Camera]
  • To IOAN ALLEN of Dolby Laboratories, Inc., for the Cat. 43 playback-only noise reduction unit and its practical application to motion picture sound recordings. [Sound]
  • To JAN JACOBSEN for the application of a dual screen, front projection system to motion picture special effects photography. [Special Photographic]
  • To JOHN EPPOLITO, WALLY GENTLEMAN, WILLIAM MESA, LES PAUL ROBLEY and GEOFFREY H. WILLIAMSON for refinements to a dual screen, front projection, image-compositing system. [Special Photographic]
  • To TADEUZ KRZANOWSKI of Industrial Light and Magic, Inc., for the development of a Wire Rig Model Support Mechanism used to control the movements of miniatures in special effects. [Stage Operations]
  • To THAINE MORRIS and DAVID PIER for the development of DSC Spark Devices for motion picture special effects. [Stage Operations]