Winner

Oliver Stone

Platoon

Nominated

Rob Reiner

Stand by Me

Woody Allen

Hannah and Her Sisters

James Ivory

A Room with a View

Roland Joffé

The Mission

Winner

The Assault

Nominated

Three Men and a Cradle

Betty Blue

Ginger & Fred

Otello

Winner

Promise

Nominated

Unnatural Causes

Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna

Nobody's Child

Christmas Eve

Peter the Great

Winner

Hannah and Her Sisters

Nominated

Crimes of the Heart

Little Shop of Horrors

Peggy Sue Got Married

Crocodile Dundee

Down and Out in Beverly Hills

Winner

Platoon

Nominated

Children of a Lesser God

The Mission

Mona Lisa

A Room with a View

Stand by Me

Winner

The Mission

Ennio Morricone

Nominated

'Round Midnight

Herbie Hancock

Little Shop of Horrors

Miles Goodman

Top Gun

Harold Faltermeyer

The Mosquito Coast

Maurice Jarre

Winner

Top Gun

Giorgio Moroder

Tom Whitlock

Nominated

The Karate Kid Part II

David Foster

Peter Cetera

Tough Guys

Burt Bacharach

Carole Bayer Sager

Kenny Rogers

That's Life!

Henry Mancini

Leslie Bricusse

An American Tail

James Horner

Barry Mann

Cynthia Weil

Running Scared

Rod Temperton

Winner

James Woods

Promise

Nominated

Mark Harmon

The Deliberate Stranger

Jan Niklas

Peter the Great

James Garner

Promise

John Ritter

Unnatural Causes

Winner

Paul Hogan

Crocodile Dundee

Nominated

Jeff Daniels

Something Wild

Matthew Broderick

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Danny DeVito

Ruthless People

Jack Lemmon

That's Life!

Winner

Bob Hoskins

Mona Lisa

Nominated

William Hurt

Children of a Lesser God

Dexter Gordon

'Round Midnight

Paul Newman

The Color of Money

Jeremy Irons

The Mission

Harrison Ford

The Mosquito Coast

Winner

Tom Berenger

Platoon

Nominated

Michael Caine

Hannah and Her Sisters

Dennis Hopper

Blue Velvet

Ray Liotta

Something Wild

Winner

Jan Niklas

Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna

Nominated

Trevor Howard

Christmas Eve

Tom Conti

Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story

John Hillerman

Magnum, P.I.

Ron Leibman

Christmas Eve

Winner

Bruce Willis

Moonlighting

Nominated

Bill Cosby

The Cosby Show

Ted Danson

Cheers

Tony Danza

Who's the Boss?

Michael J. Fox

Family Ties

Winner

Edward Woodward

The Equalizer

Nominated

Tom Selleck

Magnum, P.I.

John Forsythe

Dynasty

Don Johnson

Miami Vice

William Devane

Knots Landing

Winner

Loretta Young

Christmas Eve

Nominated

Farrah Fawcett

Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story

Vanessa Redgrave

Second Serve

Marlo Thomas

Nobody's Child

Amy Irving

Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna

Winner

Sissy Spacek

Crimes of the Heart

Nominated

Kathleen Turner

Peggy Sue Got Married

Bette Midler

Down and Out in Beverly Hills

Melanie Griffith

Something Wild

Julie Andrews

That's Life!

Winner

Marlee Matlin

Children of a Lesser God

Nominated

Farrah Fawcett

Extremities

Anne Bancroft

'night, Mother

Sigourney Weaver

Aliens

Julie Andrews

Duet for One

Winner

Maggie Smith

A Room with a View

Nominated

Cathy Tyson

Mona Lisa

Dianne Wiest

Hannah and Her Sisters

Linda Kozlowski

Crocodile Dundee

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

The Color of Money

Winner

Olivia de Havilland

Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna

Nominated

Lilli Palmer

Peter the Great

Justine Bateman

Family Ties

Piper Laurie

Promise

Geraldine Page

Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story

Rhea Perlman

Cheers

Winner

Cybill Shepherd

Moonlighting

Nominated

Bea Arthur

The Golden Girls

Estelle Getty

The Golden Girls

Rue McClanahan

The Golden Girls

Betty White

The Golden Girls

Winner

Angela Lansbury

Murder, She Wrote

Nominated

Joan Collins

Dynasty

Sharon Gless

Cagney & Lacey

Tyne Daly

Cagney & Lacey

Connie Sellecca

Hotel

Winner

The Mission

Robert Bolt

Nominated

Hannah and Her Sisters

Woody Allen

Mona Lisa

Neil Jordan

David Leland

Blue Velvet

David Lynch

Platoon

Oliver Stone

Winner

The Golden Girls

Nominated

Moonlighting

The Cosby Show

Cheers

Family Ties

Winner

L.A. Law

Nominated

Cagney & Lacey

Miami Vice

Dynasty

St. Elsewhere

Murder, She Wrote