59th Academy Awards

59th Academy Awards
Date	Monday, March 30, 1987
Site	Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles
Host	Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn, Paul Hogan
Producer	Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
Director	Marty Pasetta
Highlights
Best Picture	Platoon
Most awards	Platoon (4)
Most nominations	Platoon and A Room with a View (8)
TV in the United States
Network	ABC
Duration	3 hours, 19 minutes
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The 59th Academy Awards were presented March 30, 1987 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn, and Paul Hogan.

This ceremony was notable for being the last in 23 years to have multiple hosts, until the 82nd Academy Awards were hosted by Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin.

Also in this year Hannah and Her Sisters won both Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress, remaining as the last film to won both supporting acting categories until 2011 when The Fighter achieved this. The film also won Best Writing - Original Screenplay.

An interesting thing to note is that Best Actress winner Marlee Matlin became the first (and only as of 2011) deaf Oscar winner.

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Best Picture	Best Director
Platoon Children of a Lesser God Hannah and Her Sisters The Mission A Room with a View	Oliver Stone – Platoon Woody Allen – Hannah and Her Sisters James Ivory – A Room with a View Roland Joffe – The Mission David Lynch – Blue Velvet
Best Actor	Best Actress
Paul Newman – The Color of Money Dexter Gordon – Round Midnight William Hurt – Children of a Lesser God Bob Hoskins – Mona Lisa James Woods – Salvador	Marlee Matlin – Children of a Lesser God Sigourney Weaver – Aliens Sissy Spacek – Crimes of the Heart Jane Fonda – The Morning After Kathleen Turner – Peggy Sue Got Married
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Michael Caine – Hannah and Her Sisters Tom Berenger – Platoon Willem Dafoe – Platoon Denholm Elliot – A Room with a View Dennis Hopper – Hoosiers	Dianne Wiest – Hannah and Her Sisters Tess Harper – Crimes of the Heart Piper Laurie – Children of a Lesser God Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio – The Color of Money Maggie Smith – A Room with a View
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
Hannah and Her Sisters – Woody Allen Crocodile Dundee – Screenplay by Paul Hogan, Ken Shadie and John Cornell; Story by Paul Hogan My Beautiful Laundrette – Hanif Kureishi Platoon – Oliver Stone Salvador – Oliver Stone and Rick Boyle	A Room with a View – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Children of a Lesser God – Hesper Anderson and Mark Medoff The Color of Money – Richard Price Crimes of the Heart – Beth Henley Stand by Me – Raynold Gideon and Bruce A. Evans
Best Foreign Language Film
The Assault (Netherlands) Betty Blue (France) The Decline of the American Empire (Canada) My Sweet Little Village (Czechoslovakia) 38 (Austria)
Best Documentary Feature	Best Documentary Short
Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got – Brigitte Berman Down and Out in America – Joseph Feury and Milton Justice Chile: Hasta Cuando? – David Bradbury Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer – Kirk Simon and Amram Nowak Witness to Apartheid – Sharon I. Sopher	Women – for America, for the World – Vivienne Verdon-Roe Debonair Dancers – Alison Nigh-Strelich The Masters of Disaster – Sonya Friedman Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse – Thomas L. Neff and Madeline Bell Sam – Aaron D. Weisblatt
Best Live Action Short	Best Animated Short
Precious Images – Chuck Workman Exit – Stefano Reali and Pino Quartullo Love Struck – Fredda Weiss	A Greek Tragedy – Linda Van Tulden and Willem Thijssen The Frog, the Dog and the Devil – Bob Stenhouse Luxo Jr. – John Lasseter and William Reeves
Best Original Score	Best Original Song
Round Midnight – Herbie Hancock Aliens – James Horner Hoosiers – Jerry Goldsmith The Mission – Ennio Morricone Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home – Leonard Rosenman	"Take My Breath Away" from Top Gun – Music and Lyric by Giorgio Moroder and Tom Whitlock "Glory of Love" from The Karate Kid Part II – Music by Peter Cetera and David Foster; Lyric by Peter Cetera and Diane Nini "Life in a Looking Glass" from That's Life – Music by Henry Mancini; Lyric by Leslie Bricusse "Mean Green Mother from Outer Space" from Little Shop of Horrors – Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Howard Ashman "Somewhere Out There" from An American Tail – Music by James Horner and Barry Mann; Lyric by Cynthia Weil
Best Sound Mixing	Best Sound Editing
Platoon – John Wilkinson, Richard Rogers, Simon Kaye and Charles Grenzbach Aliens – Graham V. Hartstone, Nicolas Le Messurier, Michael A. Carter and Roy Charman Heartbreak Ridge – Les Fresholtz, Dick Alexander, Vern Poore and Bill Nelson Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home – Terry Porter, David J. Hudson, Mel Metcalfe and Gene Cantamessa Top Gun – Donald O. Mitchell, Kevin O'Connell, Rick Kline and William B. Kaplan	Aliens – Don Sharpe Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home – Mark Mangini Top Gun – Cecelia Hall and George Watters II
Best Art Direction	Best Cinematography
A Room with a View – Art Direction: Gianni Quaranta and Brian Ackland-Snow; Set Decoration: Brian Savegar and Elio Altramura Aliens – Art Direction: Peter Lamont; Set Decoration: Crispian Sallis The Color of Money – Art Direction: Boris Leven; Set Decoration: Karen O'Hara Hannah and Her Sisters – Art Direction: Stuart Wurtzel; Set Decoration: Carol Joffe The Mission – Art Direction: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Jack Stephens	The Mission – Chris Menges Peggy Sue Got Married – Jordan Cronenweth Platoon – Robert Richardson A Room with a View – Tony Pierce-Roberts Star Trek IV – Don Peterman
Best Makeup	Best Costume Design
The Fly – Chris Walas and Stephan Dupuis The Clan of the Cave Bear – Michael George Westmore and Michèle Burke Legend – Rob Bottin and Peter Robb-King	A Room with a View – Jenny Beavan and John Bright The Mission - Enrico Sabbatini Otello - Anna Anni, Maurizio Millenotti Peggy Sue Got Married - Theadora Van Runkle Pirates - Anthony Powell
Best Film Editing	Best Visual Effects
Platoon – Claire Simpson Aliens - Ray Lovejoy Hannah and Her Sisters - Susan Morse The Mission - Jim Clark Top Gun - Billy Weber	Aliens – Robert Skotak, Stan Winston, John Richardson and Suzanne M. Benson Little Shop of Horrors – Lyle Conway, Bran Ferren and Martin Gutteridge Poltergeist II: The Other Side – Richard Edlund, John Bruno, Garry Waller and William Neil

Honorary Academy Awards

• Ralph Bellamy
• E.M. (Al) Lewis

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

• Steven Spielberg

Notable events

The Academy Awards show was broadcast on the ABC network at the same time as CBS network broadcast of the 1987 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament championship game between Indiana and Syracuse. Chevy Chase quipped later in the evening, "Is the game over yet?" The show would subsequently be scheduled around the tournament broadcast by moving it later in April for two years. The ceremony attracted 39.72 millions of viewers.

Presenters

• Don Ameche and Anjelica Huston (Presenters: Best Supporting Actress)
• Lauren Bacall (Presenter: Best Costume Design)
• Helena Bonham Carter and Matthew Broderick (Presenter: Best Documentary Short Subject)
• Sônia Braga and Michael Douglas (Presenters: Best Live Action Short Film)
• Jeff Bridges and Sigourney Weaver (Presenter: Best Supporting Actor)
• Rodney Dangerfield (Presenter: Best Makeup)
• Bette Davis (Presenter: Best Actor)
• Richard Dreyfuss (Presenter: Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to Steven Spielberg)
• Tom Hanks and Bugs Bunny (Presenter: Best Animated Short Film)
• Dustin Hoffman (Presenter: Best Picture)
• William Hurt (Presenter: Best Actress)
• Jennifer Jones (Presenter: Best Cinematography)
• Shirley MacLaine (Presenter: Writing Awards)
• Karl Malden (Presenter: Honorary Award to Ralph Bellamy)
• Bette Midler (Presenter: Best Original Score)
• Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner (Presenter: Best Visual Effects)
• Bernadette Peters (Presenter: Best Original Song)
• Anthony Quinn (Presenter: Best Foreign Language Film)
• Christopher Reeve and Isabella Rossellini (Presenter: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration)
• Molly Ringwald (Presenter: Best Film Editing)
• Elizabeth Taylor (Presenter: Best Director)
• Oprah Winfrey (Presenter: Best Documentary Feature)

Performers

• Tony Bennett ("Life in a Looking Glass" from That's Life!)
• Peter Cetera ("Glory of Love" from The Karate Kid, Part II)
• Natalie Cole and James Ingram ("Somewhere Out There" from An American Tail)
• Dom DeLuise, Pat Morita, and Telly Savalas ("Fugue for Tinhorns")
• Melba Moore and Lou Rawls ("Take My Breath Away" from Top Gun)
• Levi Stubbs ("Mean Green Mother from Outer Space" from Little Shop of Horrors)

Multiple nominations and awards

These films had multiple nominations:

• 8 nominations: Platoon, A Room with a View
• 7 nominations: Aliens, Hannah and her Sisters, The Mission
• 5 nominations: Children of a Lesser God
• 4 nominations: The Color of Money, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Top Gun
• 3 nominations: Crimes of the Heart, Peggy Sue Got Married
• 2 nominations: Hoosiers, Little Shop of Horrors, Round Midnight, Salvador

The following films received multiple awards.

• 4 wins: Platoon
• 3 wins: Hannah and her Sisters, A Room with a View
• 2 wins: Aliens

See also

• Academy Award
• Academy Honorary Award
• 59th Academy Awards nominees and winners
• 44th Golden Globe Awards
• 7th Golden Raspberry Awards
• 1986 in film
• List of Academy Awards ceremonies
• Submissions for the 59th Academy Award for Best Foreign Film
• 29th Grammy Awards
• 38th Primetime Emmy Awards
• 39th Primetime Emmy Awards
• 40th British Academy Film Awards
• 41st Tony Awards
• Governors Awards

References

• "The Official Academy Awards Database". awardsdatabase.oscars.org. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/BasicSearchInput.jsp. Retrieved September 9, 2009.