Winner

Oliver Stone

Born on the Fourth of July

Nominated

Rob Reiner

When Harry Met Sally...

Peter Weir

Dead Poets Society

Edward Zwick

Glory

Spike Lee

Do the Right Thing

Winner

Cinema Paradiso

Nominated

Story of Women

Zivot sa stricem

Jesus of Montreal

Camille Claudel

Winner

Lonesome Dove

Nominated

Roe vs. Wade

My Name Is Bill W.

I Know My First Name Is Steven

Small Sacrifices

Winner

Driving Miss Daisy

Nominated

The War of the Roses

The Little Mermaid

Shirley Valentine

When Harry Met Sally...

Winner

Born on the Fourth of July

Nominated

Dead Poets Society

Do the Right Thing

Glory

Crimes and Misdemeanors

Winner

The Little Mermaid

Alan Menken

Nominated

The Fabulous Baker Boys

Dave Grusin

Casualties of War

Ennio Morricone

Glory

James Horner

Born on the Fourth of July

John Williams

Nominated

Parenthood

Randy Newman

The Little Mermaid

Alan Menken

Howard Ashman

Shirley Valentine

Marvin Hamlisch

Alan Bergman

Marilyn Bergman

Chances Are

Tom Snow

Dean Pitchford

Winner

Robert Duvall

Lonesome Dove

Nominated

John Gielgud

War and Remembrance

Lane Smith

The Final Days

Ben Kingsley

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story

James Woods

My Name Is Bill W.

Winner

Morgan Freeman

Driving Miss Daisy

Nominated

Michael Douglas

The War of the Roses

Billy Crystal

When Harry Met Sally...

Steve Martin

Parenthood

Jack Nicholson

Batman

Winner

Tom Cruise

Born on the Fourth of July

Nominated

Al Pacino

Sea of Love

Daniel Day-Lewis

My Left Foot

Robin Williams

Dead Poets Society

Jack Lemmon

Dad

Winner

Denzel Washington

Glory

Nominated

Marlon Brando

A Dry White Season

Sean Connery

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Danny Aiello

Do the Right Thing

Bruce Willis

In Country

Ed Harris

Jacknife

Winner

Dean Stockwell

Quantum Leap

Nominated

Tommy Lee Jones

Lonesome Dove

Chris Burke

Life Goes On

Larry Drake

L.A. Law

Michael Tucker

L.A. Law

Winner

Ted Danson

Cheers

Nominated

Judd Hirsch

Dear John

Richard Mulligan

Empty Nest

Fred Savage

The Wonder Years

John Goodman

Roseanne

Winner

Ken Wahl

Wiseguy

Nominated

Corbin Bernsen

L.A. Law

Carroll O'Connor

In the Heat of the Night

Ken Olin

Thirtysomething

Harry Hamlin

L.A. Law

Winner

Christine Lahti

No Place Like Home

Nominated

Farrah Fawcett

Small Sacrifices

Holly Hunter

Roe vs. Wade

Jane Seymour

War and Remembrance

Loretta Young

Lady in the Corner

Winner

Jessica Tandy

Driving Miss Daisy

Nominated

Pauline Collins

Shirley Valentine

Meryl Streep

She-Devil

Kathleen Turner

The War of the Roses

Meg Ryan

When Harry Met Sally...

Winner

Michelle Pfeiffer

The Fabulous Baker Boys

Nominated

Sally Field

Steel Magnolias

Jessica Lange

Music Box

Andie MacDowell

Sex, Lies, and Videotape

Liv Ullmann

The Rose Garden

Winner

Julia Roberts

Steel Magnolias

Nominated

Bridget Fonda

Scandal

Brenda Fricker

My Left Foot

Laura San Giacomo

Sex, Lies, and Videotape

Dianne Wiest

Parenthood

Winner

Amy Madigan

Roe vs. Wade

Nominated

Anjelica Huston

Lonesome Dove

Rhea Perlman

Cheers

Susan Ruttan

L.A. Law

Julie Sommars

Matlock

Winner

Jamie Lee Curtis

Anything But Love

Nominated

Stephanie Beacham

Sister Kate

Kirstie Alley

Cheers

Tracey Ullman

The Tracey Ullman Show

Candice Bergen

Murphy Brown

Winner

Angela Lansbury

Murder, She Wrote

Nominated

Dana Delany

China Beach

Susan Dey

L.A. Law

Mel Harris

Thirtysomething

Jill Eikenberry

L.A. Law

Winner

Born on the Fourth of July

Oliver Stone

Ron Kovic

Nominated

Dead Poets Society

Tom Schulman

Do the Right Thing

Spike Lee

When Harry Met Sally...

Nora Ephron

Sex, Lies, and Videotape

Steven Soderbergh

Glory

Kevin Jarre

Winner

Murphy Brown

Nominated

The Wonder Years

The Golden Girls

Empty Nest

Cheers

Designing Women

Winner

China Beach

Nominated

Wiseguy

Murder, She Wrote

In the Heat of the Night

L.A. Law

Thirtysomething