Winner

Michael Caine

Educating Rita

Nominated

Robert De Niro

The King of Comedy

Winner

Julie Walters

Educating Rita

Nominated

Jessica Lange

Tootsie

Meryl Streep

Sophie's Choice

Phyllis Logan

Another Time, Another Place

Winner

Fanny and Alexander

Sven Nykvist

Nominated

Local Hero

Chris Menges

Zelig

Gordon Willis

Heat and Dust

Walter Lassally

Winner

La Traviata

Piero Tosi

Nominated

Tootsie

Ruth Morley

Heat and Dust

Barbara Lane

Fanny and Alexander

Marik Vos-Lundh

Winner

Local Hero

Bill Forsyth

Nominated

Heat and Dust

James Ivory

Tootsie

Sydney Pollack

The King of Comedy

Martin Scorsese

Winner

Flashdance

Bud S. Smith

Walt Mulconery

Nominated

Local Hero

Michael Bradsell

Zelig

Susan E. Morse

The King of Comedy

Thelma Schoonmaker

Winner

Educating Rita

Lewis Gilbert

Nominated

Heat and Dust

Ismail Merchant

Tootsie

Sydney Pollack

Dick Richards

Local Hero

David Puttnam

Winner

Danton

Margaret Ménégoz

Barbara Pec-Slesicka

Andrzej Wajda

Nominated

Fanny and Alexander

Jörn Donner

Ingmar Bergman

La Traviata

Tarak Ben Ammar

Franco Zeffirelli

Confidentially Yours

Armand Barbault

François Truffaut

Winner

Tootsie

Dorothy J. Pearl

George Masters

C. Romania Ford

Allen Weisinger

Nominated

Heat and Dust

Gordon Kay

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

Phil Tippett

Stuart Freeborn

Zelig

Fern Buchner

John Caglione Jr.

Winner

An Officer and a Gentleman

Jack Nitzsche

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Will Jennings

Nominated

The Meaning of Life

André Jacquemin

Dave Howman

Michael Palin

Terry Jones

Tootsie

Dave Grusin

Alan Bergman

Marilyn Bergman

Flashdance

Giorgio Moroder

Keith Forsey

Irene Cara

Winner

La Traviata

Franco Zeffirelli

Gianni Quaranta

Nominated

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

Norman Reynolds

WarGames

Angelo P. Graham

Heat and Dust

Wilfred Shingleton

Winner

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Nominated

Flashdance

Giorgio Moroder

Local Hero

Mark Knopfler

An Officer and a Gentleman

Jack Nitzsche

Winner

Heat and Dust

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Nominated

Tootsie

Larry Gelbart

Murray Schisgal

Betrayal

Harold Pinter

Educating Rita

Willy Russell

Winner

The King of Comedy

Paul D. Zimmerman

Nominated

Local Hero

Bill Forsyth

Trading Places

Timothy Harris

Herschel Weingrod

Zelig

Woody Allen

Winner

Goodie-Two-Shoes

Ian Emes

Nominated

John Love

John A. Davis

The Crimson Permanent Assurance

Terry Gilliam

Keep Off the Grass

Paul Weiland

Winner

WarGames

Willie D. Burton

Michael J. Kohut

William L. Manger

Nominated

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

Ben Burtt

Tony Dawe

Gary Summers

La Traviata

Cesare D'Amico

Jean-Louis Ducarme

Claude Villand

Federico Savina

Flashdance

James E. Webb

Robert Knudson

Robert Glass

Don Digirolamo

Winner

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

Richard Edlund

Dennis Muren

Ken Ralston

Kit West

Nominated

The Dark Crystal

Roy Field

Brian Smithies

Ian Wingrove

Zelig

Gordon Willis

Joel Hynek

Stuart Robertson

Richard Greenberg

WarGames

Michael L. Fink

Joe Digaetano

Jack Cooperman

Don Hansard

Colin Cantwell

William A. Fraker

Winner

Denholm Elliott

Trading Places

Nominated

Jerry Lewis

The King of Comedy

Burt Lancaster

Local Hero

Bob Hoskins

Beyond the Limit

Winner

Jamie Lee Curtis

Trading Places

Nominated

Teri Garr

Tootsie

Rosemary Harris

The Ploughman's Lunch

Maureen Lipman

Educating Rita

Winner

Another Time, Another Place

Phyllis Logan

Nominated

Heat and Dust

Greta Scacchi

Educating Rita

Julie Walters

Sophie's Choice

Kevin Kline