Winner

John Huston

Prizzi's Honor

Nominated

Sydney Pollack

Out of Africa

Peter Weir

Witness

Steven Spielberg

The Color Purple

Richard Attenborough

A Chorus Line

Winner

The Official Story

Nominated

Colonel Redl

A Year of the Quiet Sun

Ran

When Father Was Away on Business

Winner

The Jewel in the Crown

Nominated

Amos

Do You Remember Love

An Early Frost

Death of a Salesman

Winner

Prizzi's Honor

Nominated

The Purple Rose of Cairo

Back to the Future

A Chorus Line

Cocoon

Winner

Out of Africa

Nominated

The Color Purple

Kiss of the Spider Woman

Witness

Runaway Train

Winner

Out of Africa

John Barry

Nominated

The Color Purple

Quincy Jones

White Nights

Michel Colombier

Witness

Maurice Jarre

Year of the Dragon

David Mansfield

Winner

White Nights

Lionel Richie

Nominated

Back to the Future

Johnny Colla

Chris Hayes

Huey Lewis

The Last Dragon

Diane Warren

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

Terry Britten

Graham Lyle

A View to a Kill

John Barry

Duran Duran

Winner

Dustin Hoffman

Death of a Salesman

Nominated

Peter Strauss

Kane & Abel

Kirk Douglas

Amos

Richard Chamberlain

Wallenberg: A Hero's Story

Richard Crenna

The Rape of Richard Beck

Winner

Jack Nicholson

Prizzi's Honor

Nominated

Michael J. Fox

Back to the Future

Jeff Daniels

The Purple Rose of Cairo

James Garner

Murphy's Romance

Griffin Dunne

After Hours

Winner

Jon Voight

Runaway Train

Nominated

William Hurt

Kiss of the Spider Woman

Harrison Ford

Witness

Gene Hackman

Twice in a Lifetime

Raul Julia

Kiss of the Spider Woman

Winner

Klaus Maria Brandauer

Out of Africa

Nominated

Eric Stoltz

Mask

Joel Grey

Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins

John Lone

Year of the Dragon

Eric Roberts

Runaway Train

Winner

Edward James Olmos

Miami Vice

Nominated

David Carradine

North and South, Book I

John James

Dynasty

Bruce Weitz

Hill Street Blues

Pat Morita

Amos

John Malkovich

Death of a Salesman

Ed Begley Jr.

St. Elsewhere

Richard Farnsworth

Chase

Winner

Bill Cosby

The Cosby Show

Nominated

Michael J. Fox

Family Ties

Tony Danza

Who's the Boss?

Bruce Willis

Moonlighting

Bob Newhart

Newhart

Winner

Don Johnson

Miami Vice

Nominated

Tom Selleck

Magnum, P.I.

John Forsythe

Dynasty

Philip Michael Thomas

Miami Vice

Daniel J. Travanti

Hill Street Blues

Winner

Liza Minnelli

A Time to Live

Nominated

Gena Rowlands

An Early Frost

Marlo Thomas

Consenting Adult

Joanne Woodward

Do You Remember Love

Peggy Ashcroft

The Jewel in the Crown

Winner

Kathleen Turner

Prizzi's Honor

Nominated

Mia Farrow

The Purple Rose of Cairo

Rosanna Arquette

Desperately Seeking Susan

Glenn Close

Maxie

Sally Field

Murphy's Romance

Winner

Whoopi Goldberg

The Color Purple

Nominated

Meryl Streep

Out of Africa

Cher

Mask

Anne Bancroft

Agnes of God

Geraldine Page

The Trip to Bountiful

Winner

Meg Tilly

Agnes of God

Nominated

Sonia Braga

Kiss of the Spider Woman

Anjelica Huston

Prizzi's Honor

Oprah Winfrey

The Color Purple

Kelly McGillis

Witness

Amy Madigan

Twice in a Lifetime

Winner

Sylvia Sidney

An Early Frost

Nominated

Lesley-Anne Down

North and South, Book I

Katherine Helmond

Who's the Boss?

Kate Reid

Death of a Salesman

Inga Swenson

Benson

Winner

Estelle Getty

The Golden Girls

Nominated

Rue McClanahan

The Golden Girls

Betty White

The Golden Girls

Bea Arthur

The Golden Girls

Winner

Sharon Gless

Cagney & Lacey

Nominated

Tyne Daly

Cagney & Lacey

Angela Lansbury

Murder, She Wrote

Linda Evans

Dynasty

Joan Collins

Dynasty

Winner

The Purple Rose of Cairo

Woody Allen

Nominated

Out of Africa

Kurt Luedtke

Prizzi's Honor

Janet Roach

Richard Condon

Back to the Future

Bob Gale

Robert Zemeckis

Witness

William Kelley

Earl W. Wallace

Winner

The Golden Girls

Nominated

Kate & Allie

Family Ties

The Cosby Show

Moonlighting

Winner

Murder, She Wrote

Nominated

Dynasty

Cagney & Lacey

St. Elsewhere

Miami Vice