Winner

Kevin Costner

Dances with Wolves

Nominated

Bernardo Bertolucci

The Sheltering Sky

Barbet Schroeder

Reversal of Fortune

Martin Scorsese

Goodfellas

Francis Ford Coppola

The Godfather Part III

Winner

Cyrano de Bergerac

Nominated

Taxi Blues

Dreams

Requiem for Dominic

The Nasty Girl

Winner

Decoration Day

Nominated

Family of Spies

The Phantom of the Opera

The Kennedys of Massachusetts

Caroline?

Winner

Green Card

Nominated

Ghost

Home Alone

Dick Tracy

Pretty Woman

Winner

Dances with Wolves

Nominated

Reversal of Fortune

The Godfather Part III

Goodfellas

Avalon

Winner

The Sheltering Sky

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Richard Horowitz

Nominated

Havana

Dave Grusin

Avalon

Randy Newman

The Godfather Part III

Carmine Coppola

Dances with Wolves

John Barry

Winner

Young Guns II

Jon Bon Jovi

Nominated

The Godfather Part III

Carmine Coppola

John Bettis

Postcards from the Edge

Shel Silverstein

Dick Tracy

Stephen Sondheim

Winner

James Garner

Decoration Day

Nominated

Steven Bauer

Drug Wars: The Camarena Story

Tom Hulce

Murder in Mississippi

Burt Lancaster

The Phantom of the Opera

Michael Caine

Jekyll and Hyde

Ricky Schroder

The Stranger Within

Winner

Gérard Depardieu

Green Card

Nominated

Patrick Swayze

Ghost

Johnny Depp

Edward Scissorhands

Richard Gere

Pretty Woman

Macaulay Culkin

Home Alone

Winner

Jeremy Irons

Reversal of Fortune

Nominated

Kevin Costner

Dances with Wolves

Al Pacino

The Godfather Part III

Robin Williams

Awakenings

Richard Harris

The Field

Winner

Bruce Davison

Longtime Companion

Nominated

Al Pacino

Dick Tracy

Armand Assante

Q & A

Hector Elizondo

Pretty Woman

Joe Pesci

Goodfellas

Andy Garcia

The Godfather Part III

Winner

Charles Durning

The Kennedys of Massachusetts

Nominated

Barry Miller

Equal Justice

Blair Underwood

L.A. Law

Dean Stockwell

Quantum Leap

Jimmy Smits

L.A. Law

Winner

Ted Danson

Cheers

Nominated

John Goodman

Roseanne

Richard Mulligan

Empty Nest

Fred Savage

The Wonder Years

Burt Reynolds

Evening Shade

Winner

Kyle MacLachlan

Twin Peaks

Nominated

James Earl Jones

Gabriel's Fire

Scott Bakula

Quantum Leap

Carroll O'Connor

In the Heat of the Night

Peter Falk

Columbo

Winner

Barbara Hershey

A Killing in a Small Town

Nominated

Annette O'Toole

The Kennedys of Massachusetts

Suzanne Pleshette

Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean

Lesley Ann Warren

Family of Spies

Stephanie Zimbalist

Caroline?

Winner

Julia Roberts

Pretty Woman

Nominated

Demi Moore

Ghost

Meryl Streep

Postcards from the Edge

Andie MacDowell

Green Card

Mia Farrow

Alice

Winner

Kathy Bates

Misery

Nominated

Anjelica Huston

The Grifters

Joanne Woodward

Mr. & Mrs. Bridge

Michelle Pfeiffer

The Russia House

Susan Sarandon

White Palace

Winner

Whoopi Goldberg

Ghost

Nominated

Winona Ryder

Mermaids

Diane Ladd

Wild at Heart

Mary McDonnell

Dances with Wolves

Shirley MacLaine

Postcards from the Edge

Lorraine Bracco

Goodfellas

Winner

Piper Laurie

Twin Peaks

Nominated

Faith Ford

Murphy Brown

Sherilyn Fenn

Twin Peaks

Park Overall

Empty Nest

Marg Helgenberger

China Beach

Winner

Kirstie Alley

Cheers

Nominated

Candice Bergen

Murphy Brown

Carol Burnett

Carol & Company

Katey Sagal

Married... with Children

Roseanne Barr

Roseanne

Winner

Sharon Gless

The Trials of Rosie O'Neill

Nominated

Susan Dey

L.A. Law

Jill Eikenberry

L.A. Law

Dana Delany

China Beach

Angela Lansbury

Murder, She Wrote

Winner

Dances with Wolves

Michael Blake

Nominated

Avalon

Barry Levinson

The Godfather Part III

Francis Ford Coppola

Mario Puzo

Goodfellas

Nicholas Pileggi

Martin Scorsese

Reversal of Fortune

Nicholas Kazan

Winner

Cheers

Nominated

Married... with Children

Murphy Brown

The Golden Girls

Designing Women

Winner

Twin Peaks

Nominated

China Beach

L.A. Law

Thirtysomething

In the Heat of the Night