Winner

Clint Eastwood

Bird

Nominated

Alan Parker

Mississippi Burning

Barry Levinson

Rain Man

Mike Nichols

Working Girl

Fred Schepisi

A Cry in the Dark

Sidney Lumet

Running on Empty

Winner

Pelle the Conqueror

Nominated

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Hanussen

Salaam Bombay!

Babette's Feast

Winner

War and Remembrance

Nominated

Jack the Ripper

The Murder of Mary Phagan

The Tenth Man

Hemingway

Winner

Working Girl

Nominated

A Fish Called Wanda

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Big

Midnight Run

Winner

Rain Man

Nominated

Running on Empty

The Accidental Tourist

A Cry in the Dark

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Mississippi Burning

Gorillas in the Mist

Winner

Gorillas in the Mist

Maurice Jarre

Nominated

The Accidental Tourist

John Williams

The Last Temptation of Christ

Peter Gabriel

Madame Sousatzka

Gerald Gouriet

The Milagro Beanfield War

Dave Grusin

Winner

Working Girl

Carly Simon

Nominated

Bull Durham

Gordon Jenkins

Johnny Mercer

Oliver & Company

Dan Hartman

Charlie Midnight

Twins

Cocktail

Scott McKenzie

Mike Love

Terry Melcher

John Phillips

Winner

Stacy Keach

Hemingway

Nominated

Anthony Hopkins

The Tenth Man

Richard Chamberlain

The Bourne Identity

Jack Lemmon

The Murder of Mary Phagan

Winner

Tom Hanks

Big

Nominated

Michael Caine

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Bob Hoskins

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

John Cleese

A Fish Called Wanda

Robert De Niro

Midnight Run

Winner

Dustin Hoffman

Rain Man

Nominated

Tom Hulce

Dominick and Eugene

Gene Hackman

Mississippi Burning

Forest Whitaker

Bird

Edward James Olmos

Stand and Deliver

Winner

Martin Landau

Tucker: The Man and His Dream

Nominated

River Phoenix

Running on Empty

Alec Guinness

Little Dorrit

Neil Patrick Harris

Clara's Heart

Raul Julia

Moon Over Parador

Lou Diamond Phillips

Stand and Deliver

Winner

John Gielgud

War and Remembrance

Nominated

Armand Assante

Jack the Ripper

Larry Drake

L.A. Law

Derek Jacobi

The Tenth Man

Edward James Olmos

Miami Vice

Kirk Cameron

Growing Pains

Winner

Judd Hirsch

Dear John

Nominated

John Goodman

Roseanne

Tony Danza

Who's the Boss?

Ted Danson

Cheers

Winner

Ron Perlman

Beauty and the Beast

Nominated

Ken Wahl

Wiseguy

Harry Hamlin

L.A. Law

Corbin Bernsen

L.A. Law

Carroll O'Connor

In the Heat of the Night

Winner

Ann Jillian

The Ann Jillian Story

Nominated

Jane Seymour

The Woman He Loved

Vanessa Redgrave

A Man for All Seasons

JoBeth Williams

Baby M

Winner

Melanie Griffith

Working Girl

Nominated

Susan Sarandon

Bull Durham

Jamie Lee Curtis

A Fish Called Wanda

Michelle Pfeiffer

Married to the Mob

Amy Irving

Crossing Delancey

Winner

Shirley MacLaine

Madame Sousatzka

Nominated

Meryl Streep

A Cry in the Dark

Christine Lahti

Running on Empty

Winner

Sigourney Weaver

Working Girl

Nominated

Diane Venora

Bird

Lena Olin

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Sonia Braga

Moon Over Parador

Barbara Hershey

The Last Temptation of Christ

Winner

Katherine Helmond

Who's the Boss?

Nominated

Jackée Harry

227

Rhea Perlman

Cheers

Susan Ruttan

L.A. Law

Swoosie Kurtz

Baja Oklahoma

Winner

Candice Bergen

Murphy Brown

Nominated

Bea Arthur

The Golden Girls

Tracey Ullman

The Tracey Ullman Show

Roseanne Barr

Roseanne

Betty White

The Golden Girls

Winner

Jill Eikenberry

L.A. Law

Nominated

Linda Hamilton

Beauty and the Beast

Sharon Gless

Cagney & Lacey

Susan Dey

L.A. Law

Angela Lansbury

Murder, She Wrote

Winner

Running on Empty

Naomi Foner

Nominated

Rain Man

Ronald Bass

Barry Morrow

Working Girl

Kevin Wade

A Cry in the Dark

Robert Caswell

Fred Schepisi

Mississippi Burning

Chris Gerolmo

Winner

The Wonder Years

Nominated

The Golden Girls

Roseanne

Cheers

Murphy Brown

Winner

Thirtysomething

Nominated

L.A. Law

Wiseguy

Murder, She Wrote

Beauty and the Beast