Winner

Robert Duvall

Tender Mercies

Nominated

Tom Courtenay

The Dresser

Tom Conti

Reuben, Reuben

Michael Caine

Educating Rita

Albert Finney

The Dresser

Winner

Jack Nicholson

Terms of Endearment

Nominated

John Lithgow

Terms of Endearment

Charles Durning

To Be or Not to Be

Sam Shepard

The Right Stuff

Rip Torn

Cross Creek

Winner

Shirley MacLaine

Terms of Endearment

Nominated

Meryl Streep

Silkwood

Debra Winger

Terms of Endearment

Jane Alexander

Testament

Julie Walters

Educating Rita

Winner

Linda Hunt

The Year of Living Dangerously

Nominated

Cher

Silkwood

Glenn Close

The Big Chill

Amy Irving

Yentl

Alfre Woodard

Cross Creek

Winner

Fanny and Alexander

Anna Asp

Susanne Lingheim

Nominated

The Right Stuff

Geoffrey Kirkland

Richard Lawrence

W. Stewart Campbell

Peter R. Romero

Jim Poynter

George R. Nelson

Terms of Endearment

Polly Platt

Harold Michelson

Tom Pedigo

Anthony Mondell

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

Norman Reynolds

Fred Hole

James L. Schoppe

Michael Ford

Yentl

Roy Walker

Leslie Tomkins

Tessa Davies

Winner

Fanny and Alexander

Sven Nykvist

Nominated

Zelig

Gordon Willis

Flashdance

Donald Peterman

WarGames

William A. Fraker

The Right Stuff

Caleb Deschanel

Winner

Fanny and Alexander

Marik Vos-Lundh

Nominated

Zelig

Santo Loquasto

Cross Creek

Joe I. Tompkins

The Return of Martin Guerre

Anne-Marie Marchand

Heart Like a Wheel

William Ware Theiss

Winner

James L. Brooks

Terms of Endearment

Nominated

Mike Nichols

Silkwood

Peter Yates

The Dresser

Ingmar Bergman

Fanny and Alexander

Bruce Beresford

Tender Mercies

Winner

He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin'

Emile Ardolino

Nominated

Children of Darkness

Richard Kotuk

Ara Chekmayan

The Profession of Arms

Michael Bryans

Tina Viljoen

Seeing Red

Jim Klein

Julia Reichert

First Contact

Bob Connolly

Robin Anderson

Winner

Flamenco at 5:15

Cynthia Scott

Adam Symansky

Nominated

Ihr zent frei

Dea Brokman

Ilene Landis

Sewing Woman

Arthur Dong

Spaces: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph

Bob Eisenhardt

In the Nuclear Shadow: What Can the Children Tell Us?

Vivienne Verdon-Roe

Eric Thiermann

Winner

The Right Stuff

Jay Boekelheide

Nominated

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

Ben Burtt

Winner

The Right Stuff

Glenn Farr

Lisa Fruchtman

Stephen A. Rotter

Douglas Stewart

Tom Rolf

Nominated

Flashdance

Bud S. Smith

Walt Mulconery

Terms of Endearment

Richard Marks

Blue Thunder

Frank Morriss

Edward M. Abroms

Silkwood

Sam O'Steen

Winner

Fanny and Alexander

Nominated

Le Bal

Carmen

Entre Nous

The Revolt of Job

Winner

The Right Stuff

Bill Conti

Nominated

Terms of Endearment

Michael Gore

Under Fire

Jerry Goldsmith

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

John Williams

Cross Creek

Leonard Rosenman

Winner

Flashdance

Giorgio Moroder

Keith Forsey

Irene Cara

Nominated

Yentl

Michel Legrand

Alan Bergman

Marilyn Bergman

Tender Mercies

Austin Roberts

Bobby Hart

Winner

Yentl

Michel Legrand

Alan Bergman

Marilyn Bergman

Nominated

The Sting II

Lalo Schifrin

Trading Places

Elmer Bernstein

Winner

Terms of Endearment

James L. Brooks

Nominated

Tender Mercies

Philip Hobel

The Right Stuff

Irwin Winkler

Robert Chartoff

The Big Chill

Michael Shamberg

The Dresser

Peter Yates

Winner

Sundae in New York

Jimmy Picker

Nominated

Mickey's Christmas Carol

Burny Mattinson

Sound of Sunshine - Sound of Rain

Eda Godel Hallinan

Winner

Boys and Girls

Janice L. Platt

Nominated

Goodie-Two-Shoes

Ian Emes

Overnight Sensation

Jon Bloom

Winner

The Right Stuff

Mark Berger

Thomas Scott

Randy Thom

David Macmillan

Nominated

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

Ben Burtt

Gary Summers

Randy Thom

Tony Dawe

Never Cry Wolf

Alan Splet

Todd Boekelheide

Randy Thom

David Parker

Terms of Endearment

Donald O. Mitchell

Rick Kline

Kevin O'Connell

James R. Alexander

WarGames

Michael J. Kohut

Carlos Delarios

Aaron Rochin

Willie D. Burton

Winner

Terms of Endearment

James L. Brooks

Nominated

Betrayal

Harold Pinter

Educating Rita

Willy Russell

Reuben, Reuben

Julius J. Epstein

The Dresser

Ronald Harwood

Winner

Tender Mercies

Horton Foote

Nominated

Silkwood

Nora Ephron

Alice Arlen

Fanny and Alexander

Ingmar Bergman

The Big Chill

Lawrence Kasdan

Barbara Benedek

WarGames

Lawrence Lasker

Walter F. Parkes