Winner

Milos Forman

Amadeus

Nominated

Roland Joffé

The Killing Fields

Francis Ford Coppola

The Cotton Club

David Lean

A Passage to India

Sergio Leone

Once Upon a Time in America

Winner

A Passage to India

Nominated

Dangerous Moves

Paris, Texas

A Sunday in the Country

Carmen

Winner

Something About Amelia

Nominated

Sakharov

A Streetcar Named Desire

The Dollmaker

The Burning Bed

Winner

Romancing the Stone

Nominated

Ghostbusters

Micki + Maude

Beverly Hills Cop

Splash

Winner

Amadeus

Nominated

The Killing Fields

The Cotton Club

Places in the Heart

A Soldier's Story

Winner

A Passage to India

Maurice Jarre

Nominated

The River

John Williams

Starman

Jack Nitzsche

The Killing Fields

Mike Oldfield

Once Upon a Time in America

Ennio Morricone

Winner

The Woman in Red

Stevie Wonder

Nominated

Footloose

Kenny Loggins

Dean Pitchford

Purple Rain

Prince

Against All Odds

Phil Collins

Ghostbusters

Ray Parker Jr.

Give My Regards to Broad Street

Paul McCartney

Winner

Ted Danson

Something About Amelia

Nominated

James Garner

Heartsounds

Treat Williams

A Streetcar Named Desire

Sam Neill

Reilly: Ace of Spies

Jason Robards

Sakharov

Winner

Dudley Moore

Micki + Maude

Nominated

Bill Murray

Ghostbusters

Robin Williams

Moscow on the Hudson

Steve Martin

All of Me

Eddie Murphy

Beverly Hills Cop

Winner

F. Murray Abraham

Amadeus

Nominated

Jeff Bridges

Starman

Tom Hulce

Amadeus

Albert Finney

Under the Volcano

Sam Waterston

The Killing Fields

Winner

Haing S. Ngor

The Killing Fields

Nominated

Richard Crenna

The Flamingo Kid

Pat Morita

The Karate Kid

Jeffrey Jones

Amadeus

Adolph Caesar

A Soldier's Story

Winner

Paul Le Mat

The Burning Bed

Nominated

Ben Vereen

Ellis Island

John Hillerman

Magnum, P.I.

Bruce Weitz

Hill Street Blues

Pierce Brosnan

Nancy Astor

Winner

Bill Cosby

The Cosby Show

Nominated

Robert Guillaume

Benson

Sherman Hemsley

The Jeffersons

Bob Newhart

Newhart

Ted Danson

Cheers

Winner

Tom Selleck

Magnum, P.I.

Nominated

John Forsythe

Dynasty

Larry Hagman

Dallas

James Brolin

Hotel

Stacy Keach

The New Mike Hammer

Daniel J. Travanti

Hill Street Blues

Winner

Ann-Margret

A Streetcar Named Desire

Nominated

Farrah Fawcett

The Burning Bed

Jane Fonda

The Dollmaker

Glenda Jackson

Sakharov

Glenn Close

Something About Amelia

Winner

Kathleen Turner

Romancing the Stone

Nominated

Lily Tomlin

All of Me

Shelley Long

Irreconcilable Differences

Mia Farrow

Broadway Danny Rose

Anne Bancroft

Garbo Talks

Winner

Sally Field

Places in the Heart

Nominated

Vanessa Redgrave

The Bostonians

Sissy Spacek

The River

Jessica Lange

Country

Diane Keaton

Mrs. Soffel

Winner

Peggy Ashcroft

A Passage to India

Nominated

Jacqueline Bisset

Under the Volcano

Drew Barrymore

Irreconcilable Differences

Kim Basinger

The Natural

Christine Lahti

Swing Shift

Melanie Griffith

Body Double

Lesley Ann Warren

Songwriter

Winner

Faye Dunaway

Ellis Island

Nominated

Rhea Perlman

Cheers

Gina Lollobrigida

Falcon Crest

Roxana Zal

Something About Amelia

Marla Gibbs

The Jeffersons

Selma Diamond

Night Court

Winner

Shelley Long

Cheers

Nominated

Debbie Allen

Fame

Nell Carter

Gimme a Break!

Isabel Sanford

The Jeffersons

Susan Clark

Webster

Jane Curtin

Kate & Allie

Winner

Angela Lansbury

Murder, She Wrote

Nominated

Joan Collins

Dynasty

Linda Evans

Dynasty

Sharon Gless

Cagney & Lacey

Kate Jackson

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

Tyne Daly

Cagney & Lacey

Winner

Amadeus

Peter Shaffer

Nominated

A Passage to India

David Lean

Places in the Heart

Robert Benton

A Soldier's Story

Charles Fuller

The Killing Fields

Bruce Robinson

Winner

The Cosby Show

Nominated

The Jeffersons

Fame

Cheers

Kate & Allie

Winner

Murder, She Wrote

Nominated

Dynasty

St. Elsewhere

Hill Street Blues

Cagney & Lacey